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THB CLASS OF 1835. 
 
MEMORIALS 
 
 THE CLASS OF 1835 
 
 HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 
 
 PREPARED 
 
 ©u Bet)alf of tf)e (Klass Secretary, 
 
 CHARLES HORATIO GATES. 
 
 BOSTON : 
 
 DAVID CLAPP & SON. 
 
 1886. 
 
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 PREFACE. 
 
 The Class Secretary having been prevented by 
 onerous and responsible duties in another position 
 from preparing the Memorials of the Class of 1835, 
 the undersigned was requested to undertake the task. 
 
 He has succeeded in obtaining a record, more or 
 less complete, of all but one connected at any time 
 with the Class; and. in doing so has been greatly 
 aided by the kind cooperation of several classmates, 
 and by the courtesy with which his applications for 
 information, in widely scattered locahties, have been 
 responded to; and to all who have thus assisted him 
 he desires hei'e to express his most sincere thanks. 
 
 He trusts that the reading of these Memorials will 
 give as much pleasure to survivors and friends as 
 their preparation has caused to the compiler. 
 
 Charles Horatio Gates. 
 
 Boston, September^ 1886. 
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS 
 
 Page. 
 
 Preface . . . . . . . . . v 
 
 List of Graduates . . . . . . . ix 
 
 Necrology of the same ..... xi 
 
 Memoirs of the Deceased . . . . . 1 
 
 Notices of the Survivors ..... 45 
 
 List of Students some iime in tfie Class, but 
 
 NOT graduated AVITH IT . . . . . 79 
 
 Notices of the above . . . . . .81 
 
 Summary . . . . . . . . 103 
 
GRADUATES 
 
 OF THE CLASS OF 1835. 
 
 Pagk. 
 
 *Abbot, George Jacob 29 
 
 Allen, William Henry 45 
 
 *Appleton, Benjamin Barnard ..... 28 
 
 Appleton, Edward 47 
 
 *Beal, Joseph Sampson . . . . . . . 37 
 
 Bemis, Charles Vose . . . , . .^ . .48 
 
 *Bemis, George 25 
 
 Blake, Harrison Gray Otis 49 
 
 *BoYLSTON, Ward Nicholas 16 
 
 ^Brewer, Thomas Mayo 31 
 
 *Briggs, John Abner 6 
 
 ^Brooks, Eben Smith .14 
 
 ^buckminster, william john 27 
 
 *Cabot, George . . . . . . . . .11 
 
 Carr, John 51 
 
 *CuMMiNS, Francis 10 
 
 *Dennis, Hiram Barrett 8 
 
 * Dorr, Theodore Haskell 22 
 
 Elliot, John Henry 52 
 
 *EusTis, Frederic Augustus 17 
 
 * Fab ENS, Francis Alfred 20 
 
 Frick, William Frederic ...... 53 
 
 Gates, Charles Horatio ...... 51 
 
 Goodridge, James Laavrence 5(; 
 
 Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood ...... 57 
 
 Ingalls, William 59 
 
 * Jones, Daniel ......... 5 
 
THE CLASS OF 1835. 
 
 JoNKS, Frederic . 
 
 King, John Alsop 
 
 Lander, Edward 
 =*Lawrence, Amos Adams . 
 *Leland, Aaron Larkin 
 
 Lyon, Henry 
 *jMussey. John FiTz Henry . 
 *Newell, Charles Starke 
 *Newton, Martin Snow 
 
 Palfray, Charles Waravick 
 
 Parker, Charles Henry 
 *RiCKETSON, Joseph 
 *RiTCiiiE, James 
 
 Robeson, AVilliam Rotch 
 *Rutledge, Thomas Pinckney 
 *Shackford, William Henry 
 
 Shackford, Charles Ciiauncy 
 *Spooner, Allen Crocker 
 
 Stephens, Lemuel 
 
 Storey, Charles William 
 *Tiiorndike, Israel Augustus 
 *Welch, John Hunt . 
 *Weld, Francis Minot . 
 *Wells, Francis Boott 
 
 West, Benjamin Hussey 
 
 White, Naaman Loud 
 *White, Ferdinand Elliot . 
 *WiLLARD, Samuel 
 *WiLLiAMS, Elijah Dwight . 
 *WiNSLOw, Benjamin Davis 
 
 GO 
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 64 
 39 
 13 
 65 
 9 
 24 
 15 
 67 
 68 
 23 
 21 
 69 
 1 
 4 
 69 
 12 
 71 
 72 
 7 
 11 
 38 
 24 
 74 
 76 
 33 
 34 
 4 
 2 
 
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NECROLOGY. 
 
 Thomas Pinckney Rutledge. 
 
 Died on the wreck of the Steamer Pulaski, 14th June, 1838. 
 
 Benjamin Davis Winslow. 
 
 Died at Burlington, N. J., 21st November, 1839. 
 
 William Henry Shackford. 
 
 Died at Exeter, N. H 5th March, 1842. 
 
 Elijah D wight Williams. 
 
 Died at Chelsea, Mass 1842. 
 
 Daniel Jones. 
 
 Died at Nantucket, Mass. 1844. 
 
 John Abner Briggs. 
 
 Died at Newburyport, Mass 184/5. 
 
 Israel Augustus Thorndike. 
 
 Died 1845. 
 
 Hiram Barrett Dennis. 
 
 Died at Concord, Mass 1846. 
 
 John Fitz Henry Mussey. 
 
 Died at Portland, Maine, 14th April, 184(5. 
 
 Francis Cummins. 
 
 Died at Boston 1S^9. 
 
xu THE CLASS OF 1835. 
 
 Gkorge Cabot. 
 
 Died at Boston 17th July, 1850. 
 
 John Hunt AVelch. 
 
 Died at Dorchester, Mass. 9th September, 1852. 
 
 Allen Crocker Spooner. 
 
 Died at Boston, June. 1853. 
 
 A A HON Lakkin L eland. 
 
 Died at Detroit, Mich Hth November, 18.:8. 
 
 Eben Smith Brooks. 
 
 Died at Oxford, Ohio 26th February, 1865. 
 
 Martin Snow Newton. 
 
 Died at Rochester, X. Y 1S68. 
 
 AVard Xicholas Boylston. 
 
 Died at Princeton, Mass 10th February, 1870. 
 
 Frederic Augustus Eustis. 
 
 Died at Beaufort, S, C 19th June, 1871. 
 
 Francis Alfred Fabens. 
 
 Died at Sancellito, Cal 16th June, 1872. 
 
 James Ritchie. 
 
 Died at sea, 1873. 
 
 Theodore Haskell Dorr. 
 
 Died at Lunatic Asylum, Worcester, 13th August, 1876. 
 
 Joseph Ricketson. 
 
 Died at Boston Highlands, loth Xovember, 1876. 
 
 Charles Starke Newell. 
 
 Died December, 1876 
 
NECROLOGY. xiu 
 
 Feancis Boott Wells. 
 
 Died at McLean Asylum, Somerville, Mass. . ^ 1877. 
 
 George Bemis. 
 
 Died at Nice, France, 1878. 
 
 William John Buckminster. 
 
 Died at Maiden, Mass 2d March, 1878. 
 
 Benjamin Barnard Appleton. 
 
 Died at Cambridge, Mass July, 1878. 
 
 George Jacob Abbott. 
 
 Died at Goderich, Out January, 1879. 
 
 Thomas Mayo Bit ewer. 
 
 Died at Boston, 23d January. 1880. 
 
 Ferdinand Elliot White. 
 
 Died at New York, 12th August, 1885. 
 
 Samuel Willard. 
 
 Died at Hingham, Mass 16th September, 1885. 
 
 Joseph Sampson Beal. 
 
 Died at Kingston, Mass 1st October, 1885. 
 
 Francis Minot Weld. 
 
 Died at Jamaica Plain, Mass 4th February, 1886. 
 
 Amos Adams Lawrence. 
 
 Died at Nahant, Mass 22d August, 1886. 
 
I 
 
MEMOIRS OF THE DECEASED. 
 
MEMOIRS OF THE DECEASED. 
 
 THOMAS PINCKNEY RUTLEDGE. 
 
 rpHOMAS PINCKNEY RUTLEDGE, the son of Fred- 
 ^ erick and Harriott P. Rutledge, of Charleston, was born 
 on the 6th March, 1815, in Charleston, S. C, being a member 
 of one of the most distinguished families of the State, and the 
 youngest of a large circle. 
 
 In May, 1825, he was sent to the famous Round Hill School 
 at Northampton, then under the charge of Jos. G. Cogswell 
 and George Bancroft, where he remained nearly seven years, 
 until he joined our class in Harvard University on the 27th 
 May, 1832, at advanced standing. Of his career in college he 
 has left this record in the Class-Book: "From that time (of 
 entering) to the present I have most shamefully neglected 
 every duty connected with the College ; and for the truth of 
 this statement vide monitor's bills, etc. Thus I have never 
 stood very high in the good graces of the College Government. 
 But with my classmates it has been different ; I have been 
 exceedingly popular, and in turn not the less unpopular, but 
 I was never puffed up or elated by the one, nor cast down by 
 the other. I have gained a few friends, and not a few enemies. 
 The kind feelings of the former will probably remain, when the 
 rancor of the latter shall have withered in time ; but whether 
 this be so or not, I must not be discontented, since I have 
 gained more from friendship than I have suffered from ill will." 
 
 Of his subsequent career the following particulars have 
 been kindly furnished by his friend and fellow townsman, 
 George Inglis Crafts (H. U. 1833). 
 1 
 
2 THE CLASS OF 1835. 
 
 ** After graduation he returned to Charleston, went into the 
 r 'ercantile House of Jno. Kirkpatrick & Co., where he remained 
 until his marriage in the winter of 1837. He married Miss 
 1 anny Blake, of Charleston. His wife and himself, with one 
 of his sisters, perished in the shipwreck of the steamer Pulaski 
 in the summer of 1838, with many other Charlestonians who 
 had embarked in her for New York on their summer tour. 
 
 '*So short a time nassed between his return to Charleston 
 and the time of his death, that there is not much more to re- 
 cord than that he worked steadily at the counting-room while 
 he was in it. In the few years of his life in Charleston he 
 became very popular; the same high tone, with his gentle and 
 rittractive manners, which caused his choice as Deputy Marshal 
 of the "Porcellians" at Harvard, hairing justly made him so." 
 
 BENJAMIN DAVIS WINSLOW. 
 
 "DENJAMIN DAVIS WINSLOW was born at Boston on 
 -*-^ the 13th February, 18 15, the son of Benjamin Winslow, 
 merchant, and Abigail Amory Callahan. 
 
 He records in the Class-Book, under date of the 8th May, 
 1835, that about the age of nine or ten he became a member 
 of the family of the Rev. Samuel Ripley, of Waltham, where 
 he was first initiated into the rudiments of the Latin language ; 
 two years after he became a pupil of D. G. Ingraham, Esq., 
 where he remained until August, 1831, when he entered Har- 
 vard ( '' clariini ct vencrabilc nomcii " ) and was regularly gradua- 
 ted in 1835. He was popular with his classmates, and respected 
 for his sterling worth. 
 
 At an early date he gave evidence of the possession of 
 much poetical talent ; and in the Commencement exercises in 
 1835 he delivered a striking and clever poem with the title 
 
BENJAMIN DAVIS WINSLOW. 3 
 
 "Ambition," besides writing a very effective one for the 
 graduating exercises of th-^ Class on Class-day. He also wrote 
 some touching lines as a memorial of a member of the Class, 
 Thomas A. Rich, who died just before completing his college 
 course. 
 
 His intention had always been to become a minister of the 
 Prot, Episcopal Church; and in October, 1835, he became a 
 meniber of the General Theological Seminary in New York, 
 where he devoted himself very assiduously to his studies, and 
 exercised on all around him a most salutary influence. Before 
 completing his course in the Seminary he went to Burlington, 
 N. J., where he became an inmate of the family of Bishop G, 
 W. Doane, and his assistant in the parish of St. Mary's. On 
 the 3d June, 1838, he was ordained Deacon, and on the 15th 
 March, 1839, he received priestly orders from the hands of 
 Bishop Doane. On the 8th November, 1838, he was married 
 to Miss Augusta Catherine Barnes. He died at Burlington 
 on the 2 1st November, 1839, in the twenty-fifth year of his age, 
 to the very great regret of allwho were happy enough to know 
 him. 
 
 The following lines, composed by him very shortly before 
 his death, give a clear idea of the state of his mind, and may 
 well close this record. 
 
 When morninrj sunbeams round me shed 
 
 Their light and influence blest, 
 When flowery paths before me spread, 
 
 And life in smiles is drest; 
 In darkling lines that dim each ray 
 I read : " this too shall pass away." 
 
 When mui-ky clouds o'erhang the sky 
 
 Far down the vale of years, 
 And vainly looks the tearful eye 
 
 Where not a hope appears ; 
 Lo ! characters of glory play 
 Mid shades : " this too shall pass away." 
 
 Blest words that temper pleasure's beam, 
 
 And lighten sorrow's gloom; 
 That early sadden youth's bright dream, 
 
 And cheer the the old man's tomb ; 
 Unto that world be ye my stay — 
 That world which shall not pass away. 
 
THE CLASS OF 1835. 
 
 WILLIAM HEXRY SHACKFORD. 
 
 TT"" ILLIAM HEXRY SHACKFORD was born at Ports- 
 ' ' mouth, X. H., on the 15th January, 18 14. 
 
 There is no record in the Class-Book of his career in Col- 
 lege, but he obtained a ver}' respectable rank in the Classj and 
 was assigned a **part" in the Commencement exercises in 
 1835, when he delivered a Dissertation on the distinctions of 
 rank in the United States. 
 
 Immediately after graduation he was appointed to the Pro- 
 fessorship of English and Mathematics at Exeter Academy, 
 which position he retained until his death on the 5th ^larch, 
 1842. He was successful as a teacher ; but his early death is 
 all that can be recorded of a career that might have been use- 
 ful and honorable, as he was an industrious, sound and able 
 scholar. In 1839 he was married to Maria Parker, daughter 
 of Rev. G. B. Perr\*, of Bradford, Mass. He left one son, 
 William Gardner Shackford, who during the ci\-il war was a 
 Lieutenant in the U. S. Na\y, and is now commanding one of 
 the steamers of the Pacific Mail Line. 
 
 ELIJAH DWIGHT WILLIAMS. 
 
 -JPLIJAH DWIGHT WILLIAMS was born at Deerfield, 
 -*— ^ Mass., on the nth August, 1817. His early education 
 was principally obtained in his native town ; but afterwards 
 he entered the school of O. S. Keith, J. F. Stearns and S. M. 
 Emery, at Xorthfield, ^lass., where he was fitted for College, 
 and became a member of our Class in 1831, when only four- 
 teen years of age. His standing in College was very credi- 
 table, he having had a "part'" assigned tohim in the Commence- 
 
DANIEL JONES. 
 
 ment exercises at graduation in 1835, when he delivered a 
 Dissertation on the Power of Law in Free States ; he was 
 popular also with his classmates. 
 
 After graduation he was for several years the trusted aman- 
 uensis of the historian Prescott ; and while acting in this 
 capacity studied Law, and was admitted to the Massachusetts 
 Bar in 1839, when he became the partner of Mr. O. S. Keith, 
 his former instructor. 
 
 He struggled on for some time, but without much success in 
 his profession. By the advice of his cousin Mr. Henry Wil- 
 liams, who has kindly furnished these particulars, he applied 
 for a mastership in the Winthrop School ; but being unsuccess- 
 ful, went again to his law-office, ''on which," Mr. Williams 
 says, "I am sure he would never have turned his back had 
 he met with the success he deserved, and that his talents and 
 industry justified. During all this time he was a very con- 
 stant guest in my father's family, and we saw a great deal of 
 him, and had a strong affection for him, as well as a very 
 high opinion of his intellectual and moral character." 
 
 He was never married, and died in the spring of 1842, his 
 death ''undoubtedly hastened by the wearisome cares that 
 burdened his life." 
 
 DANIEL JONES. 
 
 "P^ANIEL JONES was born the 4th December, 1813, on 
 -^-^ the island of Nantucket, the son of Daniel and P^liza 
 Jones of that place. He relates in the Class-Book, under 
 date of 31 May, 1835, that his early years were marked by an 
 inordinate love for what he has since discovered to be mis- 
 chief ; if so, his disposition must have altered materially in later 
 years, since his career in College was remarkal)le rather for 
 quietness and steady self-control. 
 
6 THE CLASS OF 1835. 
 
 lie says of his College care'er: "I have held no rank in the 
 University as a scholar; but I have gained knowledge much 
 more valuable than Greek and Latin ; though I would not 
 excuse, but deeply regret, my neglect of the College course 
 of studies,, because I have neglected those things which when 
 I entered the University became ^ny duty. Yet I have not 
 been idle, I have sought moral cultivation. I have formed 
 attachments, too, which in retrospect will give me pleasure, 
 and which, I hope, will be lasting as life. If there are few 
 whom I can call friends, in the holiest sense of that word, 
 there are, I hope, many whose esteem I have gained, and who 
 will wish me, as sincerely as I do them, God speed. 
 
 As to my future intentions I can say nothing. I shall be 
 governed by circumstances over which I have no control. I 
 have sometimes thought of studying Theology ; but the great- 
 ness of the responsibility of a Christian minister, who 
 
 "Negotiates between God and man, 
 
 As God's ambassador, the grand concerns 
 
 Of judgment and of mercy," 
 
 appals me, and in sorrow I ask: ''shall one whose own life 
 is so far from Heaven dare to guide the souls of others there ? " 
 After graduation he returned to Nantucket and entered into 
 business there, and subsequently carried on a commission 
 business in Boston, with moderate success. He died at Nan- 
 tucket in 1844, from the effects of a malarial fever w^hich he 
 contracted during a journey to the West. , He was never 
 married. 
 
 JOHN ABNER BRIGGS. 
 
 "TOHN ABNER BRIGGS made no record of himself on the 
 ^ pages of the Class-Book, and it has been difficult to get 
 any particulars of his early career. His name appears on the 
 
ISRAEL AUGUSTUS THORXDIKE. 7 
 
 College catalogue for the first time in the year 1833-34, his 
 residence Newburyport, and he was regularly graduated in 
 1835. The following details have been communicated by our 
 classmate Charles William Storey, who was his townsman. 
 
 "I knew Briggs as a boy of ten years old, or thereabouts, 
 the orphan grandson of Rev. Mr. Giles, minister of the Second 
 Presbyterian Church in Newburyport, and a pupil of the New- 
 buryport Academy, in which he continued for several years, 
 and was regarded as the brightest boy in the school. I think 
 he went thence to Bowdoin College, and joined our Class from 
 there in our second or third year, with Mussey. He was not, 
 I believe, a very assiduous student, but I saw but little of him. 
 After graduation he studied medicine with Dr. Walker, of 
 Charlestown, in company with Lyon, and received his degree 
 of M.D. in 1838, after which he commenced the practice of 
 his profession at Newburyport. On the 23d May, 1839, tie 
 was married to Louisa N., daughter of Samuel Devens, of 
 Charlestown, with whom he lived at Newburyport until his 
 death in 1845. 
 
 *' I do not know who his father was, but I believe he was a 
 shipmaster; and he had an uncle living in Salem, who was a 
 retired mariner, and left at his death, I believe, a considerable 
 estate to our classmate. 
 
 *' Briggs was of a very jovial disposition, of marked ability, 
 and very respectable attainments." 
 
 ISRAEL AUGUSTUS THORNDIKE. 
 
 TSRAEL AUGUSTUS THORNDIKE was born in Boston 
 -*- the 6th October, 1816, the son of Israel Thorndike, Esq. 
 
 After passing some two years in the school of Mr. William 
 Wells, he went, at the age of nine years and eleven months, to 
 the Round Hill School at Northampton, where he remained 
 
8 THE CLASS OF 183o. 
 
 four years, and then returned to Mr. Wells, with whom he stu- 
 died until his entrance into College in May, 1832. He says 
 in the Class-Book of his career there: "My college life has 
 been a series of time misspent and opportunities neglected; 
 and such being the case I cannot be sorry to leave an institu- 
 tion where I am continually reminded of my negligence. By 
 my classmates I have uniformly been treated with courtesy 
 and kindness, and have always endeavored to show the same 
 towards them. I have formed a few intimacies which I shall 
 be sorry to have broken by separation, and which I shall 
 always look back upon with pleasure." 
 
 After graduation he spent two years in Germany in a mer- 
 cantile house. In 1838 he went to Cuba for the wdnter, and 
 on the 30th December, 1841, he was married, at the Victoria 
 Estate in Cuba, to Frances Maria, daughter of James Macomb, 
 Esq. 
 
 He died in 1845. 
 
 HIRAM BARRETT DENNIS. 
 
 TTIRAM BARRETT DENNIS was born at Concord, 
 -' — *- Mass., in the year 18 16. Of his early life we have not 
 been able to obtain particulars ; but he enterfed Harvard reg- 
 ularly in 1 83 1, and received his degree in 1835. His career in 
 College was not distinguished, though his talents were such 
 as might have ensured distinction if he had chosen to labor 
 for that end. 
 
 Soon after graduation he went to New York, and was for a 
 while connected with the Press of that city as dramatic critic. 
 Subsequently he removed to Nantucket, taking charge of the 
 principal public school of the island, in the management of 
 which he gave very great satisfaction. Later he became the 
 editor of the Nantucket Inquirer, an old, respectable, and 
 
 I 
 
HIRAM BARRETT DENNIS. ^ 
 
 very influential journal, in fact at that period one of the lead- 
 ing newspapers of the State. He displayed so much intelli- 
 gence and tact in his conduct as editor, that a considerable 
 interest in the property of the Inquirer was purchased for 
 him by admiring friends, and he was not long after chosen to 
 represent the town in the Massachusetts House of Represen- 
 tatives. But this honorable distinction proved in the end his 
 ruin. His fondness for gay company, of which his genial 
 character and wit made him always an ornament, rendered the 
 temptations of the city too strong for him. He neglected his 
 duties, abandoned his paper and Nantucket itself, and died, 
 at his father's house in Concord, in 1846, of a broken consti- 
 tution, at the early age of thirty ; deeply regretted by numer- 
 ous friends, who loved his many virtues, while they deplored 
 his constitutional failings. 
 He was never married. 
 
 JOHN FITZ HENRY MUSSEY. 
 
 XOHN FITZ HENRY MUSSEY was born in Portland, 
 ^-^ Me., in 18 16, being the oldest son of John and Mehitable L. 
 Mussey. 
 
 He was fitted for College at Phillips Exeter Academy, and 
 entered Bowdoin College in 183 1. Leaving this in the Junior 
 year he became a member of our Class in the Senior year, 
 and was regularly graduated in 1835, being assigned a "part" 
 in the Commencement exercises, when he wrote a " Political 
 Disquisition" on the subject of Universal Suffrage. 
 
 After graduation he studied Law, and practised his profes- 
 sion in Raymond, Standish, and Bangor, and finally in Portland, 
 where he died the 14th April, 1846. 
 
 The Rev. J. T. G. Nichols, of Saco, who was a fellow student 
 at Phillips Exeter Academy, in 1830, says of him: ''I knew 
 him as a bright scholar of ready wit, quick at repartee, with 
 2 
 
10 THE CLASS OF 1S35. 
 
 a little disposition to satirical remark ; of keen, investigating 
 mind, remarkably well read for his years, and of generally 
 good standing. I remember him well as a boy of eleven or 
 twelve years, before he went to Exeter. We were at Portland 
 Academy together as early as 1828-9, where, as also at Exe- 
 ter, he was, though round and portly, of great muscular 
 actiWty. We had many a foot-race and wrestling match 
 together." 
 
 His relative, Mr. John Rand, of Portland, remarks : *' He 
 was a person of marked ability- and extensive information ; and 
 but for his early failing health would have attained distinction." 
 
 He was never married. 
 
 FRANXIS CUMMINS. 
 
 TpRANXIS CUMMINS, son of the Hon. David Cummins, 
 -*- was bom at Salem on the 17th May, 18 16. 
 
 His early years were passed in his native place, where he 
 was fitted for College; and he entered Harvard in 1831 and 
 was regularly graduated in 1835, being assigned a "part " in 
 the Commencement exercises, when he was one of three who 
 held a Conference on three English authors, Maria Edge- 
 worth, Hannah More and Felicia Hemans. 
 
 He left no record in the Class-Book of his College career. 
 From his sister, Mrs. Helen F. Tileston, of ^lUton, we leam 
 that after graduation he studied Law with the Hon. Asahel 
 Huntington, of Salem, and subsequently in the Dane Law 
 School at Cambridge. In 1838 he was admitted to the Bar, 
 and commenced the practice of his profession at Andover, 
 Mass. In the spring or summer of 1841 he opened an office 
 in Springfield, Mass., and in 1845 removed to Boston where he 
 was associated with his father. 
 
 But his health soon failed, and in 1849, ^^ died, after a 
 lingering illness, of paralysis. 
 
JOHN HUNT WELSH. 11 
 
 GEORGE CABOT. 
 
 &EORGE CABOT, the son of Henry Cabot, Esq., and Mrs. 
 Cabot, Jtie Blake, was born in Boston the lOth February, 
 1817. 
 
 He made no record in the Class-Book, but the few particu- 
 lars which follow have been kindly communicated by his 
 relative the Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge. 
 
 ''He went to the Latin School, and was the reunder Leve- 
 rett Gould. His medals bear dates of 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 
 mostly for declamation I believe. He entered College in 
 1 83 1, and graduated with a ''part" in 1835. He entered the 
 office of Franklin Dexter after his graduation, and there stu- 
 died Law. In the spring of 1837 he went abroad with his 
 family. He returned in the Autumn of 1838. In 1840 he 
 again went abroad with. his aunt, Mrs. Kirkland, He staid 
 two years more of the time in Germany, studying. He return- 
 ed in 1842, to take up his professional studies in Boston. He 
 died in Boston 17th February, 1850, of congestion of the lungs." 
 
 JOHN HUNT WELCH. 
 
 JOHN HUNT WELCH was born in Pennington, N. J., in 
 ^ 1815. 
 
 He was fitted for College at the Round Hill School, North- 
 ampton, and entered Harvard regularly in 1831, and was 
 graduated in 1835, having a "part" in the Commencement 
 exercises. 
 
 After graduation he attended the Dane Law School in 
 Caffibridge for a little more than a year, after which he aban- 
 doned Law and established himself in business in Boston, as 
 a member of the firm of Parks, Welch & Co. 
 
 In 1837 he was married to Elizabeth, daughter of John W. 
 Trull, Esq. He died at Dorchester, 9th September, 1852. 
 
12 THE CLASS OF 1835. 
 
 ALLEN CROCKER SPOONER. 
 
 A LLEN CROCKER SPOONER was born in Plymouth, 
 -^^^ Mass., 9th March, 18 14. He relates of himself in the 
 Class-Book that his father, who was a sea-captain, died in the 
 Indian Ocean when his son was only three years of age, in 
 consequence of which he was transferred to the care of his 
 paternal grandparents; who, "having exhausted their disci- 
 pline upon eleven children of their own, had very little to 
 expend on me, and I was permited to grow up pretty much in 
 my own way." His preparation for College, commenced at 
 home, was ''finished under the inspection of my much respect- 
 ed friend Samuel Townsend, A.M., of Waltham, who then held 
 the responsible position of principal of Plymouth High School." 
 
 He did not hold a very high rank at Harvard in the Class 
 as a scholar, and had no "part" at Commencement ; which, it 
 may safely be said, must have been chiefly owing to lack of 
 application, because his ability was undoubted, and his literary 
 taste of a high order. He was the senior editor of the Col- 
 lege Magazine, "Harvardiana." The following extract from 
 his record on the Class-Book, under date of 8th May, 1835, 
 will be read with interest. 
 
 "My College life has been happy almost 'sans intei^mission, ' 
 and I look forward to its close with dread. Though upon 
 the Faculty books the balance be against me, I do not believe 
 that the University has been without its use to me. There is, 
 perhaps, no situation in which a young man can be thrown, 
 where greater demands are made upon him to think and act 
 for himself : there is certainly none where all his faults and 
 weaknesses must stand so strict a scrutiny, and none where the 
 wholesome language of reproof is more sincerely or more 
 kindly uttered. College is not only the dispenser of classic 
 learning and literary honors, it is the school where knowledge 
 of oneself and of human nature may be acquired, and where 
 character is tested, disciplined, and confirmed, and to it I 
 acknowlcdire the irreatest obliG:ations." 
 
AARON LARKIN LELAND. 13 
 
 After graduation he was, for a year, a tutor in Maryland. 
 In October, 1839, he was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar, 
 and estabUshed himself in Boston for the practice of his pro- 
 fession. 
 
 On ist January, 1840, he was married to Miss Susan L. 
 Harlow, of Plymouth. 
 
 He died in June, 1853. 
 
 Our classmate Charles William Storey, who knew him well, 
 says of him : ''He was a man of very great ability and high 
 promise ; not learned particularly, but extremely well versed in 
 poetic literature, which he read or recited charmingly. He 
 was witty and shrewd to a high degree, and remarkable for 
 that uncommon attribute ''common sense." He occasionally 
 wrote verses, some of which attracted extraordinary attention 
 from the public of Boston, and, T believe, even crossed the 
 ocean. He was in his day as well known and as much respect- 
 ed as any young man of his time in Boston, and promised as 
 great a future. But sickness overtook him early, and the 
 later years of his life were full of sadness." 
 
 AARON LARKIN LELAND. 
 
 A ARON LARKIN LELAND, the son of Joseph R 
 -^-^ Leland, was born in Sherburne, Mass., on the 21st 
 August, 181 3. Fitted for College by Nathan Ball, and Rev. 
 Amos Clark, of Sherburne, he entered Harvard regularly in 
 1 83 1, and received his degree in 1835. After graduation he 
 pursued a course of medical studies in Boston, and spent 
 much time in hospitals, at the Marine Hospital in Chelsea, 
 and in the hospital on Rainsford Island, where he had much 
 of the charge in a season when small-pox was prevalent. 
 
 In July, 1839, he removed to Pontiac, Mich., where he set- 
 tled for the practice of the medical profession; and in 1847 
 
14 THE CLASS OF 1835. 
 
 went to Detroit, where he remained until his death on the 
 14th November, 185S. 
 
 He was married the 17th June, 1856, to Sarah Elizabeth 
 Livermore, of Cambridge, by whom he had a son and daughter, 
 the latter of whom, with her mother, survived him. He was 
 considered a thorough and scientific practitioner, and ranked 
 high among the medical men of his day; while he conciliated 
 the respect and esteem of all who knew him by his pleasant 
 manners and kindness of heart. 
 
 EBEX S^HTH BROOKS. 
 
 THBEN SMITH BROOKS left no record of himself on the 
 -*— ^ Class-Book. From members of his family we get the 
 following particulars. 
 
 He was born in Stow, Mass., on the 7th November, 181 7, 
 and fitted for College at the Stow Academy. He entered 
 Harvard regularly in 1831, and received his degree in 1835. 
 No account is given of his career in College, but he must have 
 held at least a respectable rank as a scholar, for he had a 
 ''part " assigned to him in the Commencement exercises. 
 
 After graduation he went as private tutor to the sons of 
 jMr. Dabney, American consul at Fayal, where he remained 
 two years and a half, and then accompanied the young men to 
 Europe, where he travelled with them two years and six 
 months more. In 1840 he returned to his home in Stow, 
 where he remained a few weeks, after which he removed to 
 Cincinnati, Ohio, where he opened a school in which he fitted 
 boys for College, sending many a one to Harvard. He closed 
 his school in 1862. In 1844 he was married to Mary J. Kel- 
 ler, of Cincinnati, by whom he had one son and three daugh- 
 ters, who all survived him. 
 
 He was for over twentv vears a member of the School 
 
MARTIN SNOW NEWTON. 15 
 
 Board of Education of Cincinnati. He was also made a 
 member of the Sanitary Commission during the civil war ; and 
 while caring for the soldiers his health began to fail. In 1863 
 he removed to Oxford, Ohio ; and as his health continued to fail 
 he went again to Europe in 1864, and returned in November 
 of the same year, and died at Oxford, on the 26th February, 
 1865: his remains lie in the Spring Grove Cemetery, 
 Cincinnati. 
 
 MARTIN SNOW NEWTON. 
 
 ly/TARTIN SNOW NEWTON, in his record on the Class- 
 ~^-^ Book, states that he was born in the flourishing town 
 of Fitchburg on the 13th day of February, 181 5. His oppor- 
 tunities for obtaining a classical education in early life must 
 have been very limited, as he says that for a few months he 
 was sent to the Academy in his native town to learn Latin, 
 and then into the fields to till the soil, or into the workshop 
 to learn practical mechanics. About a year previous to the 
 time of examination for admission into Harvard he was placed 
 under the care of Mr. William Torrey, in the village of 
 Chelmsford, when he began in earnest his preparation for 
 College. In 1831 he presented himself for examination and 
 was rejected. He however continued his studies at Cam- 
 bridge, under the direction of Mr. Giles and Mr. Fames, and 
 was enabled to join the Class in the second term of the Fresh- 
 man year, and was assigned a ''part" in the Commencement 
 exercises when the Class was graduated in 1835. 
 
 He thus speaks of his College career: 
 
 "During my College course I have led a happier life than I 
 ever did before, or ever expect to hereafter. I have experi- 
 enced some trouble, but a great part of it has been perhaps 
 the creation of my own imagination. The pleasant dreams of 
 
16 THE CLASS OF 1S35. 
 
 former years have been in part realized, more so in degree 
 than in kind. I have applied myself closely, and for the most 
 part faithfully, to the studies of the Class, from the time of my 
 entrance into College to the present. This conduct may have 
 been sneered at by some as foolish, and I might perhaps have 
 glided along with more ease had I taken a different course. 
 But my judgment has approved it, and as yet I know of no 
 reason to change my opinion. If others think differently, then 
 so it must be. I wait with confidence for after years to decide 
 the question." 
 
 After graduation he taught school for a while at Templeton, 
 whence he went to New York ; here he studied Law, and 
 subsequently established himself in practice at Rochester, N. 
 Y., where he died in 1868 ; being, at the date of his decease. 
 District Attorney of Monroe County, X. Y. 
 
 WARD NICHOLAS BOYLSTOX. 
 
 TT7ARD NICHOLAS BOYLSTONsaysof himself on the 
 ' ' pages of the Class-Book : "I was born in Princeton, 
 Mass., A.D. 181 5, August loth, on the top of a high hill, and 
 consequently of high birth, in a house formerly occupied as a 
 wind mill, where, from the loftiness of my situation and 
 vicinity to Heaven I held a higher standing than it has been 
 my good fortune since to attain. At the age of ten I was 
 placed at the Lancaster Academy, and after sundry unsuc- 
 cessful attempts had been made by my preceptor to instruct 
 me in the dead languages, I turned my back upon that semi- 
 nary and proceeded to Leicester. " Here he was fitted for 
 Har\-ard, which he entered regularly in 183 1, and received 
 his degree in 1835. 
 
 The following account of his subsequent career has been 
 kindlv furnished bv his brother in law, Dr. C. W. Parsons, of 
 
FREDERIC AUGUSTUS EUSTIS. 17 
 
 Providence, R. I. : ^'W. N. Boylston, after graduating stu- 
 died medicine with Dr. Shattuck, and took his degree of 
 M.D. at Harvard, I think in 1838.* He practised awhile in 
 Boston, and had an appointment on the Boston Dispensary. 
 In 1843 his grandmother, widow of W. N. Boylston, died, and 
 he soon came into possession of a property including several 
 hundred acres of land in Princeton, Mass. He took up his 
 abode there, and lived the life of a gentleman farmer, actively 
 interested in the management of his estate, but keeping up 
 pleasant relations with society in neighboring cities. Like 
 his grandfather, whose name he inherited, he was a wise 
 and generous benefactor of the town. He was never married. 
 
 In all domestic relations he was affectionate and kind 
 After a sickness of a few years, he died at Princeton, loth 
 February, 1870, aged 54." 
 
 A classmate who visited Princeton in 1876, writes thus : 
 *'The grave of Nick Boylston is in sight of my window, about 
 a hundred yards off, in the Boylston private lot. Nick left a 
 good name here; all speak of his kindness." 
 
 He did not distinguish himself in College as a scholar ; but 
 was popular for his unfailing good humor, and a wit which 
 bordered on eccentricity. 
 
 FREDERIC AUGUSTUS EUSTIS. 
 
 TpREDERIC AUGUSTUS EUSTIS was born at New- 
 -*- port, R. I., on the 12th June, 18 16, the son of General 
 Eustis, of the U. S. Army, a nephew of William Eustis, for- 
 merly Governor of Massachusetts. At the time of graduation 
 he made no record in the Class-Book ; but about a year later, 
 in June, 1836, he expressed himself very fully on the subject 
 of his College career, and as to the duties and obligations 
 which he considered to attach thereto. He was fitted for 
 
 *The College Catalogue gives 1S39 ^^ the date of this. — C. //. 6'. 
 3 
 
18 THE CLASS OF 1835. 
 
 College at Lancaster, Mass., in a school kept, as he says, "by 
 a series of graduates fresh from Cambridge, with all the 
 imperfections of inexperience on their heads. Unfortunately, 
 too, like a true mathematical infinite series, each one was 
 inferior to his predecessor. Consequently I have no deeply 
 cherished sentiments of respect for my pedagogues." 
 
 Of his College career he says : " With my College life com- 
 menced also my intellectual education. I came here fully con- 
 vinced of my own ignorance, and resolved to employ, to the best 
 of my abilities, the adv^antages which I might here enjoy. From 
 the moment that I signed obedience to the College laws, I 
 have considered myself under a moral obligation to obey 
 those laws ; consequently I have never countenanced disorder 
 or rebellion. As a member of this Colle^re I have felt 
 responsible for its character and reputation, and though I 
 may occasionally have been wanting in that esprit de corps 
 so called, which demands unanimity of opinion on every sub- 
 ject, I am satisfied that no one has been more gratified than 
 myself at every thing which has conduced to the honor of 
 
 my Class Self improvement has been the 
 
 height of my ambition, and though I have sustained a high 
 rank, nothing but the gratification of my father has induced 
 me to accept an exhibition or Commencement 'part.'" 
 
 After graduation Mr. Eustis studied for the ministry, and 
 after preaching for some years in a private or quasi family 
 church in Philadelphia, and among the Unitarian churches of 
 Boston and vicinity, with great acceptance, he settled himself 
 as a teacher and practical farmer and horticulturist at Milton, 
 having meanwhile married the only daughter of the Rev. 
 William Ellery Channing, by whom he had four children that 
 survived him. Upon the decease of his father's second wife, 
 his own mother having died when he was very young, the 
 bequest of a portion of her property, coupled with his interest 
 in the welfare of her slaves, devolved upon him the care of 
 some Sea Island plantations; and it was in the oversight and 
 administration of these plantations, which for the last few years 
 had occupied his attention, that he ultimately lost his life. 
 
FREDERIC AUGUSTUS EUSTIS. 19 
 
 He died 19th June, 1871. Upon that occasion our classmate 
 George Bemis wrote a very beautiful and touching article, 
 which was published in the Boston Daily Advertiser, from 
 which we make such extracts as space will permit. *'Born a 
 gentleman, gifted with some of the most attractive attributes 
 of mind and body, wit, grace and personal gentility, educated 
 with the conscientiousness of a Christian scholar, and disci- 
 plined with the self-denial of a soldier, he early learnt the les- 
 son of discerning and choosing the truly good and the 
 usefully beautiful. Talent, tact, social distinction and favor, 
 intellectual graces and accomplishments, were all subordinated 
 in his life and conversation to the serious and higher uses of 
 existence. From the most benighted colored laborer of the 
 southern plantation up to the most cultivated and saintly of 
 the Christian ministry, such for instance as his celebrated father 
 in law Dr. William E. Channing, by whom he was held in the 
 highest appreciation and regard, he educated himself to sym- 
 pathize with every thing human, and to stand by every thing 
 humanly real. Nothing in the nature of a sham could pass 
 
 the ordeal of his keen and scrutinizing realism 
 
 The wit and bcl esprit of his circle, the favorite with high and 
 low among all who touched upon his sphere, he was ready at 
 any time to quit the salons of elegance and refinement for 
 the abodes of vice and poverty, the cell of the prisoner's con- 
 finement or the savage rudeness of the slave's plantation life. 
 
 To his College classmates, if none others, this 
 
 brief notice of his life and death will touch a chord of sym- 
 pathetic regard and regret. Who can think of him as the wit, 
 the merry maker, the Harvard Washington orderly and driller, 
 the football player of the Delta, the elegant scholar, the fin- 
 ished gentleman of his Class, and not thank Heaven for his 
 association, and the joy of having known him." 
 
 Some years subsequently to the death of Mr. Eustis, his 
 widow, who still survives him, bestowed upon the Boston 
 Public Library her father's theological books, precious 
 memorials of one of the greatest of American moralists and 
 thinkers. 
 
20 THE CLASS OF 1835. 
 
 FRANCIS ALFRED FABENS. 
 
 FRANCIS ALFRED FABENS was born in Salem, 
 Mass., on the loth July, 1814, the son of Captain Ben- 
 jamin and Hannah Stone Fabens, and received his early 
 education in the private school of the late Samuel H. Archer, 
 and in the Salem English High School; but he left the latter 
 in 1830, to be fitted for College by the late Henry K. Oliver. 
 He entered Harvard regularly in 1831, and received his degree 
 in 1835; being assigned a ''part" in the exercises on Com- 
 mencement day. His fine abilities, studious habits, generous 
 impulses, ready wit and genial temperament, made him a 
 general favorite. 
 
 Upon leaving College he studied Law in Salem, and at the 
 Dane Law School in Cambridge ; and after admission to the 
 Bar, practised his profession in Reading, in Salem and in Bos- 
 ton. In 1840 he was elected one of the Representatives of 
 Salem to the Massachusetts Legislature. He was for awhile 
 in New York, and left a lucrative business there to espouse 
 the cause of Mrs. Gaines, whom he accompanied to New 
 Orleans ; and it was chiefly through his early instrumentality 
 that her rights were finally established. 
 
 He was afterwards sent by the U. S. Government as Com- 
 missioner to settle the claims resultins: from the bombardment 
 of Greytown; and from that place went, in 1854, to San 
 Francisco, where he became a prominent member of the Bar, 
 and remained up to the period of his sudden death on the 
 i6th June, 1872. Upon the occasion of Mr. Fabens's death 
 the Bar of San Francisco had a meeting, and published some 
 resolutions very eulogistic of his character as a man and his 
 talents as a lawyer. 
 
 He married on the i8th May, 1840, Sarah Field, daughter 
 of Captain Tobias Da\^is, of Salem, who, with two sons and 
 two daughters, survived him. 
 
JAMES RITCHIE. 21 
 
 JAMES RITCHIE. 
 
 "TAMES RITCHIE was born in Canton, Mass., on the I2th 
 ^ May, 1815. When he was seven years old his father, who 
 had been for a number of years pastor of the Unitarian Society 
 in Canton, removed to Needham, and there his son was fitted 
 for College under the direction of his uncle the Rev. Daniel 
 Kimball. He entered Harvard regularly in 183 1, and re- 
 ceived his degree in 1835, having assigned to him a "part" 
 in the Commencement exercises. 
 
 His friends, he states on the pages of the Class-Book, were 
 desirous he should study Divinity, and his own inclination 
 pointed that way; but conscientious scruples seem to have 
 deterred him from carrying out the idea; and soon after 
 graduation he became connected with an uncle in a school at 
 Henrietta, near Rochester, N. Y. In April, 1837, he was 
 married to his cousin Caroline Whitaker, and not long after 
 removed to New Orleans, where he engaged in teaching. 
 
 In 1841 his wife died; and about 1850, he came back to the 
 North, and settled in Roxbury, Mass. Here he was married 
 for the second time, having espoused Mary, daughter of Rev. 
 Daniel Kimball, who had formerly been his preceptor, and 
 for whom he always entertained the most sincere respect and 
 esteem. 
 
 He was for several years the City Missionary in Roxbury, 
 and at a later period was elected Mayor of the City. 
 
 In 1873 he was connected with a Land Company; and in 
 the summer of that year was unfortunately drowned in a 
 small steamer which sank with all on board. 
 
 His widow and a married daughter survive, and are now 
 living in St. Louis, Mo. 
 
22 THE CLASS OF 1S3( 
 
 THEODORE HASKELL DORR. 
 
 n^HEODORE HASKELL DORR was born in Boston 
 -*- the 13th August, 1815. Li his record on the pages of ihe 
 Class-Book, he speaks very feelingly of the advantages he en- 
 joyed ** under the roof of the most affectionate parents, amid 
 a lar^re number of brothers and sisters, and with delio:ht in 
 opportunities for the highest enjoyments of youth. " 
 
 He was a pupil of the Boston Latin School for three years, 
 and afterwards passed three years more at the Brookline 
 Academy under the charge of Lucius V. Hubbard, to whom 
 he pays a high tribute as a ** faithful guardian of the moral 
 and religious principles which it had been my parents' aim to 
 establish within me." In 1830 he applied for admission to 
 College, but failed to pass the examination ; upon which he 
 studied for a year under ]\Ir. D. J. Ingraham of Boston, and 
 in 1 83 1 was regularly admitted to Harvard, and received his 
 degree in 1835, having a "part" assigned to him in the 
 Commencement exercises. 
 
 After graduation Dorr studied Divinity in the Cambridge 
 Theological School until 1838. In the following year he was 
 ordained at Billerica, Mass., and two days afterwards, on the 
 30th May, 1839, "^^'^s married to Nancy Caroline, daughter of 
 Mr. Joseph Richards. He died on the 13th August, 1876. 
 
 His end was very sad. In 1874 he had been taken to the 
 State Lunatic Asylum at Worcester, suffering from insanity, 
 which, it appears, he had inherited ; but, after a residence of 
 some months, seemed so much better that he was discharged. 
 The improvement, however, was only temporary ; for in 
 March, 1876, he was again confined in the Asylum, in a very 
 excited state and full of delusions ; and there seemed to waste 
 away, without any special manifestations of disease, and died 
 in the exhaustion of chronic mania. 
 
JOSEPH mCKETSON. 23 
 
 JOSEPH RICKETSON. 
 
 "TOSEPH RICKETSON was born at New Bedford on the 
 ^ 13th March, 18 15, the son of Joseph and Anna T. 
 Ricketson. 
 
 He made no record on the Class-Book of his College career ; 
 but he was a good classical scholar, and an excellent mathe- 
 matician, and was popular among his classmates for his un- 
 failing good nature and other estimable traits. 
 
 Soon after graduation he entered into mercantile business 
 in New Bedford, in which he continued until within a few years 
 of his death. Upon^the discontinuance of his business he 
 removed to Boston Highlands, where he remained until his 
 decease in 1876. 
 
 He was a man of marked hospitality, and interested in all 
 the benevolent institutions of his native place ; an abolitionist 
 at a time when it required great moral courage to be one ; 
 counting among his personal friends John Dwight, James 
 Freeman Clarke, Wm. Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, 
 Edmond Quincy, and many others of like celebrity ; and 
 having much musical taste and knowledge, his house was for 
 many years the resort of musical amateurs, as well as of noted 
 reformers and workers for freedom, whom a similarity of taste 
 drew around him. At one period he was possessed of afflu- 
 ence, but lost much of his property in later years ; this mis- 
 fortune, however, his cheerful and heroic spirit enabled him 
 to bear with patience and resignation. 
 
 Mr. Ricketson was married on the 2d October, 1843, to 
 Frances Moore Thornton, daughter of Elisha and Rebecca 
 Thornton, by whom he had three children, who, with their 
 mother, survive him. 
 
 He died at Boston Highlands on the 15th November, 1876, 
 but his remains were interred in Oak Grove Cemetery, New 
 Bedford. 
 
24 THE CLASS OF 1SZ5. 
 
 CHARLES STARKE NEWELL. 
 
 r^ HARLES STARKE NEWELL was born in Boston in 
 ^^ August, 1815, the son of Samuel Newell, who was post- 
 master of Cambridge during our College career. He studied 
 for a while at the Boston Latin School, and then entered the 
 English High School His desire was, as he mentions in 
 the Class-Book, to become a pupil of the West Point Militaiy 
 Academy ; but as an appointment was not readily obtained, 
 he determined to enter Harvard; which, after some study 
 under Mr. Henry R. Cleveland, he succeeded in doing, and 
 was admitted in 1830. At the end of the Freshman year he 
 left College, and after an interval of a year entered our Class 
 in the Sophomore year. 
 
 He did not strive for, nor did he attain, distinction in his 
 studies; his principal achievement, as he records himself, 
 being that he was, at the close of the Senior year, elected 
 Commodore of the N: -y C'- o • an honor which Harvard men 
 wiU duly appreciate. 
 
 After graduation he studied Law in the Dane Law School 
 at Cambridge, and in the oflBce of Sprague & Gray, Boston ; 
 was absent one winter at the South on an engineering expe- 
 dition, and was admitted to the Bar of Massachusetts in the 
 Spring of 1841, when he opened an office in Boston for the 
 practice of his profession. He died in December, 1876. 
 
 FRANCIS BOOTT WELLS. 
 
 T7«RANCIS BOOTT WELLS was bom in Boston on the 
 -*- 19th Februar}-, 181 2, the son of William Wells, who was 
 at one time a bookseller, but afterwards established a school 
 in which he had much success. 
 
GEORGE BEMIS. 25 
 
 Our classmate, as he himself records on the Class-Book, 
 was educated by his father, — entered Harvard regularly in 
 1 83 1, and received his degree in due course in 1835 ; being 
 assigned a ''part" in the Commencement exercises. 
 
 His declared intention was to "follow the life of a merchant." 
 In 1838 he made a voyage to Calcutta, which port he had 
 previously visited. 
 
 Unfortunately he lost his reason early in life, and was 
 obliged to become an inmate of the McLean Asylum at 
 Somerville, where he remained until the period of his death, 
 which occurred in 1877. 
 
 GEORGE BEMIS. 
 
 /^ EORGE BEMIS, in his record on the Class-Book, states 
 ^^ that he was born at Watertown 13th October, 1816. He 
 was fitted for College at the school of the Rev. Samuel Ripley, 
 Waltham ; entered our Class in the Sophomore year, and 
 was regularly graduated in 1835, having an English oration 
 assigned to him in the Commencement exercises. He says 
 in the record above referred to: "One of my other great 
 follies has been that I have been a boy in College. This is a 
 folly which even now I would justify in a great degree. I do 
 not doubt that I have frequently offended against the proper 
 decorum of young men of my age. But I cannot prize that 
 manliness which consists merely in an artificial gravity, and a 
 cold, constrained demeanor. In this sense may I never be a 
 man ! Rather I would retain all the boyishness of childhood, 
 than fetter myself with such restraints." 
 
 His career after graduation is best described in the following 
 extract from a Memoir, prepared by our classmate E. Rock- 
 wood Hoar, at the request of the Massachusetts Historical 
 4 
 
26 
 
 THE CULSS OF 1335. 
 
 Sodeftj, of wfaidi Sodetr Mr. Bemis was a member, beqoeatb- 
 ing to it a sam of $i/xxx 
 
 " He stnefied for his prafessiofi at the Dane Liw Sciiool in 
 Cambridge and in 1839 was admitted to the Boston Bar, 
 where his tfaoroi^h legal training his leamii^ acnteness» 
 dil^;ence and fiddity^ soon ga«« him a good position and a 
 profitaMe piacticreL He was engaged in several important 
 cases^ one o€ which was the celebrated one of J. W. Webster 
 for the mmder of Dr. George Fukman, in which he was 
 associated with the Attomer General Clifford for tibe prose- 
 
 *^In 1858^ iFL coas&qptesHX of a severe shock to a ddicate 
 cuuslitution, he was obliged to resort to Eorope; wfaeie lie 
 passed most of die remaining jeais of his life; ^pending his 
 winters in Italj or the Soodi of Francei Bat he continned 
 his studies^ deivodiig hiiiisdf inore particnlafh- to the questions 
 connected with Pol^c Law and the Law of Nations ; and 
 between i864.and 1869 he poUlishedf oar considerable pamph- 
 lets upon sobjects and matters coimected therewitlL He 
 rendered important services to the State Department of the 
 United States, in investigations necessary for pnqnring the 
 settlement of the Alabama riiaim.'s^ 
 
 " He was never married; was veij cJiaritaUe, stron^^ at- 
 tarhed to his classmates and a dntifnl son cf Harvard; to 
 whidi Corpoiation he beqaeathed the som of $5CMX)0^ lor die 
 pnrpose of endowing a Troiessmr^hz^ jf Pz!:!:r cr Iz.eriEitional 
 Law in the Dane Law SchooL 
 
 *^ He iseverheBd^ or desired t - i- 
 
 mmii interested in public aff^_- ___ _. _ -_.-^±- :; is.- 
 hes^ Massachusetts tvpei" 
 
 George Bemis died at Nice. Fnnee. in i^jS; but his 
 remains were broc^ht to tiiis CH>a£].tr%% 2nd were intetred at 
 MoGint Aobum in January, iSjSu 
 
WILLIAM JOHN BUCKMINSTER. 27 
 
 WILLIAM JOHN BUCKMINSTER. 
 
 TTTILLIAM JOHN BUCKMINSTER was born at Vas- 
 ^^ salboro', Me., the 25th January, 18 14; but in 1824 his 
 father removed to Framingham, his native place, where he 
 founded the agricultural journal, the ''Massachusetts Plough- 
 man," of which he was for a long time the publisher and 
 editor. His son says in his record on the Class-Book, that he 
 felt an early inclination for a College education, and meant to 
 have it. But his father, who gave him his first instruction, 
 **not being burdened with this world's gear, discouraged such 
 flights, and in order to tame my views, put me on his farm. 
 Five years before entering College I first went to an Academy, 
 where I studied each winter about five months, from the time 
 work was done in the Fall till planting time in the Spring. 
 I used to think this rather hard, as my companions went to 
 school all the year ; but I now think my father adopted the 
 most judicious plan ; for besides forming a vigorous constitu- 
 tion, I used to study out of revenge, so to speak, and I believe 
 I made greater progress than I should have otherwise done, 
 as I contrived to fit myself for College in spite of all that 
 could be done to prevent it. I cannot say but this might 
 have been a deep laid scheme to make me take to my books ; 
 if so, it succeeded as long as schoolboy days lasted." 
 
 He entered our class in 183 1, and was regularly graduated 
 in 1835, having a "part" assigned in the Commencement 
 exercises. After graduation he taught school in Baltimore 
 until about 1840, when he became connected, as editor, with 
 his father's paper, which connection was continued for about 
 twenty years, during which time he rendered very useful 
 service to the cause of Agriculture and Horticulture. He 
 was a great reader and ripe scholar, with a very retentive 
 memory ; but his modesty was so great that few even of his 
 own townsmen were conscious of his scholarly attainments. 
 He had been a useful member of the School Board and the 
 
28 THE CLASS OF 1S35. 
 
 Board of Health of the town of Maiden, where he resided ; 
 and maintained an active interest in public affairs to the last. 
 His death occurred on the 2d March, 1878. 
 
 BENJAMIN BARNARD APPLETON. 
 
 "DENJAMIN BARNARD APPLETON was bom the 4th 
 -^-^ May, 1 81 5, the son of Benjamin B. Appleton, a merchant 
 of Boston. In the record which he made on the Class-Book 
 he speaks of suffering from almost continual ill health, which 
 prevented him *'from participating in the sports and enjoy- 
 ments which form so large a part of youthful happiness. By 
 degrees I withdrew myself from the society of those who 
 apparently were formed differently from myself, and sought 
 relief from my illness in study and contemplation." 
 
 His early education was in the public schools ; and after a 
 course of five years at the Latin School he entered our Class 
 r^ularly in 1831, and was graduated in 1835, having a "part" 
 assigned to him in the Commencement exercises. After 
 graduation, with an inter\'al of one year when he served as 
 usher in the Latin School, he studied medicine ; and on re- 
 cei\ing his degree of M.D., commenced practice in his native 
 city, where he did much gratuitous work in the Dispensary, 
 and as an assistant of Dr. Smith in the public institutions. 
 But after about ten years, his health being poor, he gave up 
 practice, and went to Italy with his wife (^liss Thompson, of 
 Cambridge). Here he remained many years, forming a very 
 large and pleasant acquaintance with people of note from all 
 countries. Few Americans \-isited Rome or Florence without 
 making the acquaintance of Dr. Appleton ; and man\- of them 
 were indebted to him for acts of courtesy and kindness. He 
 was among the founders of the 28th Congr^ational Church 
 in Boston ; and when Theodore Parker went to Italy to die. 
 
GEORGE JACOB ABBOT. 29 
 
 Dr. Appleton and wife were among the friends who attended 
 his last days. After the death of his wife in Italy he returned 
 to America, but soon revisited Europe. He was married a 
 second time some years later; and about 1875 came home, 
 where he remained until his death in July, 1878, having resided 
 in Cambridge the last two years of his life. 
 
 Dr. Appleton was a man of large and varied information, 
 of rare conversational ability, of singular modesty and of 
 retiring disposition, and made few intimate acquaintances. 
 Those who were so favored, however, fully appreciated his 
 almost feminine tenderness and sympathetic kindness of heart. 
 
 These facts are chiefly taken from an obituary notice, written 
 at the time of his death by one of his classmates. 
 
 GEORGE JACOB ABBOT. 
 
 GEORGE JACOB ABBOT was born in Hampton Falls, 
 N. H., on the 14th July, 1812, the second son, in a family 
 of eleven, of the Rev. Jacob Abbot (H. U. 1792) and Catha- 
 rine daughter of Rev. Ebenezer Thayer (H. U. 1753), of 
 Hampton, N. H. He left no record of his early life on the 
 pages of the Class-Book ; but, through the kindness of his 
 daughter Mrs. Anne T. Morison, and of the Rev. A. A. 
 Livermore, we have been furnished with the following bio- 
 graphical details. 
 
 His boyhood was spent in Hampton Falls, on the farm 
 which his father had, to eke out his very small salary, until 
 the latter removed to Windham, N. H., resigning his parish 
 after a ministry of twenty-eight years. In 1828 Abbot entered 
 Phillips Exeter Academy, in 1832 was admitted to our class 
 in the Sophomore year, and was regularly graduated in 1835, 
 having a ''part " in the Commencement exercises. 
 
30 THE CLASS OF 1835. 
 
 After graduation he taught in the Classical School in 
 Cambridge for a year or two, and then, by request, took charge 
 of the Western Academy for boys in Washington, D. C, to 
 which city he removed, and made it his home for twenty- 
 seven years, from 1837 to 1S64. 
 
 In 1 84 1 he was married to Ann Taylor Oilman, daughter of 
 the Hon. Nicholas Emery of Portland, chief justice of I\Iaine. 
 This was a peculiarly happy and congenial marriage ; and her 
 death in 1861 overshadowed his whole after life. Of their 
 six children four daughters survived them, of whom three are 
 now living. 
 
 His school in Washington was a large and successful one, 
 having as pupils the sons of members of Congress and Oov- 
 ernment officers, as well as of the first families of the city ; 
 but he did not confine to it all his interests and energies. A 
 New England man, going to a Southern city as Washington 
 then was in all its aspects far more than it has been at any 
 time since the war of the Rebellion, he was earnestly im- 
 pressed with the necessity of a good system of public educa- 
 tion there. For years he struggled against much opposition, 
 to arouse an interest in the subject. He became a member 
 of the City Council, and finally succeeded in obtaining from 
 ihe City an appropriation of, it is believed, $200, to establish 
 a primary school. The success of this was soon assured, and 
 the public schools of Washington were gradually and firmly 
 established. In recosrnition of his interest and former services 
 in aid of public education there, one of the largest and finest 
 of the new school buildings was called the Abbot School, 
 which was to him a great gratification. 
 
 In 1850 he gave up his school and entered the Department 
 of State as a clerk in the Consular Bureau. He became 
 private secretary of Daniel Webster, and was adm.itted to a 
 rare degree of intimacy and friendship. He was constantly 
 with him during his last sickness, and present at his death- 
 bed in 1852. He assisted Edward Everett in the compilation 
 of I\Ir. Webster's works, furnishing many reminiscences for his 
 
THOMAS MAYO BREWER. 31 
 
 memoirs. After Mr. Webster's death Abbot returned to the 
 Department of State, remaining twelve years head of the 
 Consular Bureau ; and during this service he compiled the 
 *' Consular Regulations," a manual for the guidance of consular 
 officers, shipowners and shipmasters, said to be the most 
 complete work of the kind ever published. 
 
 During the war his health began to fail ; and in 1864, being 
 offered by Secretary Seward, without solicitation, the choice 
 of any Consulate available, he chose that of Sheffield, England, 
 where he remained till 1870; doing very valuable service in 
 exposing and preventing frauds upon the revenue by the 
 undervaluation of invoices, and incurring thereby the enmity 
 and opposition of English manufacturers. 
 
 He spent the winter of 1870-71 in Italy, and returned to 
 America in 1871 ; and being appointed Professor of Rhetoric 
 and Ecclesiastical History in the Theological School of Mead- 
 ville. Pa., he made that city his home. But in 1876 his health 
 again gave way, and he was obliged to resign his post, and 
 refrain from labor of any kind for nearly a year. 
 
 In 1877 he was appointed U. S. Commercial Agent at 
 Windsor, Ontario, and then at Goderich, Ont., where he re- 
 mained until his death in January, 1879. So deeply had he 
 won the affection and' respect of the people of Goderich during 
 his short residence there, that on the day of his funeral every 
 store in the town was closed. His remains were interred in 
 the Oak Hill Cemetery, Georgetown, D. C, by the side of 
 his wife who had died eighteen years before. 
 
 THOMAS MAYO BREWER. 
 
 rpHOMAS MAYO BREWER was born in Boston the 21st 
 -*- November, 18 14, the son of Thomas Brewer. 
 
 Unfortunately we possess no record of his early life from 
 his own hand. 
 
32 THE CLASS OF 1835. 
 
 In 1 83 1 he entered our Class regularly, and was graduated 
 in 1835, having a "part" assigned to him in the Commence- 
 ment exercises. After graduation he studied medicine with 
 his brother-in-law, Dr. Storer, and in the Harvard Medical 
 School; and, on receiving his degree in 1838, commenced the 
 practice of his profession in Boston and continued it for many 
 years. 
 
 On the 27th May, 1849, ^^^ ^^^^^ married to a daughter of 
 Stephen Coffin, of Damariscotta, Maine, who, with one daugh- 
 ter, survived him. He lost a son at an early age, a loss which 
 cast a shadow over his life that never quite passed away. 
 
 His tastes and inclinations were for literary and political 
 objects, and he soon began to write for the Boston Atlas, one 
 of the leading Whig papers of that period, of which he subse- 
 quently became the editor ; displaying in that capacity marked 
 ability as a writer and close observer. He retained that 
 position until in 1857 the Atlas became merged in the Traveller. 
 Later he took an interest in the publishing firm of Hickling, 
 Swan & Brewer, afterwards known as Brewer & Tileston ; but 
 retired from business in 1875, when he visited Europe, where 
 he remained more than a year, receiving gratifying attention 
 while abroad from many distinguished scientific men. 
 
 In the cause of Popular Education he was very zealous ; 
 much interested in the public schools of Boston, long time a 
 member of the School Committee, where he served until his 
 death. He was a member of the Massachusetts Medical 
 Society, of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the 
 Natural History Society ; and soon after his connection with 
 the latter body, in 1835, he became well known by his valuable 
 contributions, mostly upon his favorite subject of ornithology. 
 Not long after he presented a highly interesting paper on the 
 birds of Massachusetts, giving an account of over forty species 
 not embraced in the State Report of Dr. Hitchcock upon the 
 Geology and Natural History of the State. 
 
 In a notice by Mr. J. A. Allen for the Nuttall Club, it is 
 said: ''Aside from minor contributions to the publications 
 
FERDINAND ELLIOT WHITE. 33 
 
 of the Boston Society of Natural History, and to several of 
 the scientific and literary journals of the day, covering a 
 period of over forty years, he published in 1840 an edition of 
 Wilson's American Ornithology, to v.diich he added as an 
 appendix, a v/ell digested and useful synopsis of the birds 
 known at that time as North American. In 1857 was pub- 
 lished the first part of his North American Oo'ogy, forming 
 part of Vol. IX. of the Smithsonian contributions to knowledge. 
 In 1874 appeared a history of North American birds, devoted 
 to Land birds, under the authorship of S. F. Baird, T. M. 
 Brewer and R. Ridgway, in which the whole biographical part 
 was contributed by Di*. Brewer, evincing the hand of an expert 
 in a work which marks an era in the history of American 
 Ornithology." 
 
 Socially Dr. Brewer was greatly esteemed ; his warm sym- 
 pathy, his loyalty to friends, and to convictions of truth 
 and duty, were marked traits in his character, and his loss to 
 Science is not easily replaced. 
 
 He died in Boston on the 23d January, 1880. 
 
 FERDINAND ELLIOT WHITE. 
 
 nmERDINAND ELLIOT WHITE was born in Boston 
 -^ on the 1 6th December, 18 14, his father being the well 
 known auctioneer on Long wharf, a prominent Mason, and a 
 very worthy man. He left a very brief record on the Class- 
 Book of his College career ; we therefore only state that he 
 entered regularly in 1831, and was graduated with honors in 
 
 1835- 
 
 He declared that his intention was to study Divinity; but 
 after graduation he was for three years engaged as a teacher 
 in Louisville, Ky. In 1838 he came to Cambridge to receive 
 his degree of A.M., and shortly after entered the General 
 
34 THE CLASS OF 1835. 
 
 Theological Seminary in New York to pursue his studies in 
 Divinity. After finishing his course in the Seminary, he was 
 ordained to the Ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church 
 by Bishop Griswold, and served the Parishes of St. George in 
 Milford, Conn., St. Mary in Washington, N. C, and St. Luke 
 in New York City. 
 
 In the movement to the Roman Catholic Church which 
 took place some thirty years ago, he heartily joined, and 
 became a sincere and devoted Roman Catholic. He was for 
 a long period the manager of a first class private school in the 
 State of New York, where he was held in the highest esteem. 
 
 He was tolerant of the opinions of others, genial in conver- 
 sation, with a fund of wit and anecdote, and endeared himself 
 to a large circle of friends and admirers. 
 
 He died in New York city 12th August, 1885, having 
 nearly completed his seventy-first year. 
 
 SAMUEL WILLARD. 
 
 O AMUEL WILLARD states in the Class-Book that he was 
 '^ born at Deerfield, Mass., i8th October, 181 5 ; but as his 
 70th anniversary was celebrated in 1884, the year of his birth 
 must have been 18 14. His father, a graduate of Harvard, 
 was then the Unitarian minister of that town ; but at a later 
 date he removed to Hingham, and there our classmate com- 
 pleted his preparatory studies under the direction of his father, 
 and regularly entered our Class in 183 1. At the close of the 
 second term of the Freshman year he left College, and did 
 not return until the third term of the Junior year, when he re- 
 sumed his studies in the College, and w^as regularly graduated 
 in 1835 5 his desire being, as he says, "to afifix an M.D. to 
 my name." 
 
SAMUEL WILLARD. 35 
 
 The incidents of his subsequent career are well described 
 in the following tribute, from the pen of a nephew, Luther 
 Barker Lincoln. 
 
 "Men's lives may be classed as those of action, and those 
 of influence. Of the latter, by force of fate, was his. What- 
 ever it might have been under ordinary circumstances, it was 
 limited, and remorselessly circumscribed by'the physical mis- 
 fortune which befell him. 
 
 ''Imagine the life of a country boy in the early years of the 
 century ; imagine him as a youth going through Cambridge, 
 convivial, genial and witty ; full of life, of high hopes, culti- 
 vated, jovial and happy ! Imagine him later, when the battle 
 of existence had really begun, eager, busy, and using, alas ! 
 too fully his mental and physical strength ! Imagine him as, 
 one by one, his projects miscarried, his day dreams of pros- 
 perity were chilled, his kindly and merry disposition became 
 galled by contact with the world, and the cloud loomed up before 
 him which was to be the sepulchre of his practical activity ! 
 Imagine the grown and matured man, battling with tied hands 
 the doom of blindness ; the crushed heart, the broken purposes, 
 the final extinguishment of earth's beauty, the impenetrable 
 veil of absolute loss of sight ! 
 
 "But here began the real life of Samuel Willard. Then 
 began the influence which was to emanate from his example. 
 Then it was that inherited strength of character and moral 
 heroism conquered fate, and through suffering so purified 
 the grosser elements of life that he rose superior to mis- 
 fortune, and for more than thirty years shed a true, honest 
 and steadfast light on all around him. Marrying a good and 
 faithful wife, who never wavered in devotion to her afflicted 
 husband, whose eyes became his, whose voice became his, 
 whose strength was freely given to his aid, he lived a just and 
 thoughtful life. Children whom he could not see came to 
 him ; one, the elder, who early appreciated his isolation, and 
 devoted her young life unstintingly to his service, only to be 
 taken away and leave a still deeper void in his heart ; the 
 
30 THE CLASS OF 1835. 
 
 younger, living to soothe and watch over his last hours, and to 
 receive the blessing of his example. As years came on, the 
 partial loss of hearing was another burden, and served to 
 withdraw him still further from his fellow man. And at 
 length, after the allotted three score years and ten, he suffered 
 for months with lingering disease, and passed away. 
 
 "And theinfluenceof his life was this : that whoever, from his 
 childhood to his dying hour, listened to him_, felt happier, warmer 
 hearted, and more kindly. A strong influence it was that 
 kept, for fifty years, the fires of class love, honor and esteem, 
 bright and clear ; a noble influence, that brought within itself 
 the mind of whomsoever it shone upon, making felt the force, 
 candor and mental grasp of his intellect ; a subtle influence, 
 that spread around and about him, making his heart as conscious 
 of any suffering near him as though blessed with sight itself; 
 a loving influence, that made young and old feel drawn to him 
 by threads of deep affection ; an influence always exerted for 
 the right ; a holy influence, as from the purity and beauty of 
 a life without sin ; a great influence, frequently exerted during 
 the years when he was an oft seen but unseeing factor in 
 Western Massachusetts politics ; a literary influence, fre- 
 quently shown in the ability, the generous wit, the brilliant 
 sallies of sarcasm, the genuine bon-mots with which his 
 written articles and conversation sparkled ; an influence for 
 justice : the eminently judicial calmness of his reasoning, the 
 vigorous common sense of his advice, the unsvverving fidelity 
 of his convictions. A partisan without bigotry, a religious 
 man without sectarianism, a scholar without pedantry, a 
 thinker without license, a type of the simple, genuine, God- 
 fearing American gentleman. 
 
 "But the crowning influence of his life was surely that of 
 patience. Patience through the culmination of his great mis- 
 fortune ; patience during the long, dark, lonely hours of middle 
 age; patience under the further visitations of Providence; 
 patience during years of ripe but clouded age ; and finally, 
 patience when, feeling that his hour had come, he bora the 
 
JOSEPH SAMPSON BEAL. 37 
 
 grievous pangs of months of dying clays, and only thought of 
 loved ones to be left behind. Men of action, the Class pro- 
 duced many ; the crown of class martyrdom, and class influence, 
 is surely his. 
 
 It was not his to win renown, nor wealth, nor lead in wars; 
 His was the lot to live and bear no name among the stars; 
 But as a Christian gentleman, and patient liver, he 
 Fulfilled the word, and earned the meed, a Martyr's destiny." 
 
 He was married 6th June, 1848, to Sarah J. Thaxter, of 
 Hingham, who, with one daughter, Susan Barker, survived 
 him. 
 
 He died at Hingham i6th September, 1885. 
 
 ■ JOSEPH SAMPSON BEAL. 
 
 JOSEPH SAMPSON BEAL was born, as he himself 
 ^ mentions in the Class-Book, at Plymouth, Mass., on the 
 7th August, 1 8 14. He was fitted for College by Rev. Samuel 
 Willard and Luther B. Lincoln of Hingham ; entered our Class 
 regularly in 1831, and was graduated in 1835, having, however, 
 been absent from College from the second term of the Fresh- 
 man to the commencement of the Junior year, during which 
 interval he continued his studies with his old teachers. His 
 desire, as- he declares himself, was to study Law; and after 
 graduation he entered his father's office, and in 1838 was 
 admitted to the Bar of Plymouth County, after which he 
 commenced the practice of his profession at Kingston with 
 his father, and continued this for many years. 
 
 He took an active interest in School matters, and was 
 elected a member of the School Committee. During two 
 consecutiv^e terms he was chosen Representative to the 
 General Court, and also served two terms as State Senator 
 from his district. P^rom 1853 to 1855 he was Registrar of 
 Probate. For many years he acted as Auditor of the Old 
 Colony Railroad. 
 
38 THE CLASS OF 1835. 
 
 Intrusted at various times with large sums of money, he 
 was always found to be strictly honest and honorable in all 
 his dealings, exact and methodical in business transactions, 
 and one upon whose friendship every reliance could be placed. 
 
 He died at Kingston on the ist October, 1885, after a 
 limbering illness. 
 
 FRANXIS MIXOT WELD. 
 
 OF the College career of Francis Minot Weld we have 
 no record from his own hand ; we can state that he 
 entered College regularly in 183 1, but left in the third term 
 of the Junior year, receiving his degree in i865. 
 
 He was born in Boston 27th April, 18 14, was a pupil at the 
 Latin School, the English High School, and the Academy of 
 Stephen ^L Weld. 
 
 On leaving Cambridge he went to Xew Orleans, where he 
 established a commercial house, in which he was fairly suc- 
 cessful. After fourteen years absence he returned to Boston, 
 and engaged in business on Central Wharf with Mr. Charles 
 H. Minot, with whom he had been previously associated. 
 
 On the 30th September, 1841, he was married to Elizabeth, 
 daughter of Hon. Benjamin Rodman, of Xew Bedford; five 
 children were the issue of this marriage, of whom are now 
 living two sons and two daughters, as well as his wife. 
 
 About twenty-five years ago he dissolved partnership with 
 Mr. Minot, and became interested in the manufacture of cotton 
 goods, which was thenceforth the main occupation of his life. 
 He employed in this way some 2,000 operatives. He was 
 elected Treasurer of the China, Webster and Pembroke print 
 mills of Suncook, X. H., which position he continued to hold 
 up to the period of his death ; he was also a director in several 
 
AMOS ADAMS LAWRENCE. 39 
 
 important corporations, and was for one year a member of the 
 State Senate. 
 
 He was a lineal descendant of Captain Joseph Weld, the 
 Puritan cajDtain of Roxbury ; and descended, by his mother, 
 from the Minots of Boston ; the last of five well known 
 brothers, Stephen M. Weld, William F. Weld, Dr. Christopher 
 M. Weld, and John Gardner Weld. 
 
 He died on the 4th February, 18S6, at Jamaica Plain, 
 which had been his residence for many years. 
 
 AMOS ADAMS LAWRENCE. 
 
 A MOS ADAMS LAWRENCE was born in Boston the 
 ■^-^ 31st July, 1 8 14, the son of Amos Lawrence, known as a 
 successful and honorable merchant, and eminent for public 
 spirit and philanthropy. His mother, a granddaughter of 
 Rev. Amos Adams, of Roxbury, died while he was a child. 
 
 Two years of his early life were spent in Groton, with his 
 paternal grandparents, of whom he speaks in the Class-Book 
 with great affection and respect. (His grandfather was a 
 soldier of the Revolution, and fought at Bunker Hill.) After 
 this he resided nearly five years in Boston, and was then sent 
 to the school of Israel Putnam, in North Andover, where he 
 was associated with three other members of our Class. " Here 
 I learned Latin and Greek," he says, ''and a great many other 
 things ; the last, however, best." He entered Harvard in 
 1 83 1, and was graduated in 1835, having passed a portion of 
 this time, mostly by his own wish, outside of the College 
 bounds, continuing his studies with the Rev. Jonathan F. 
 Stearns, D.D. (H. U. 1830). 
 
 This retirement he considered was of service to him. He 
 says : " Here left alone, without companions or allurements, 
 
40 THE CLASS OF 1835. 
 
 I bcL^an to reflect in earnest ; and in solitude laid the foun- 
 dation of habits whose possession I shall ever most value ; 
 because they are my only good habits, my only valuable 
 possessions. Removing with my instructor and friend to 
 South Andover, I was brought in contact for the first time 
 with men who, though bigoted in religious tenets, were for 
 the most })art shrewd reasoners and perfectly honest. I 
 adopted their fundamental doctrines, and partially their 
 practice. The happy consequences of this residence I now 
 enjoy, and am aware how important it will prove in directing 
 my future course. The principles I may call them, not the 
 tenets, which I here imbibed, have restrained me, since my 
 return to College, from excess, and have impelled me to strict 
 honesty and honor. Wherein I have failed it has been my 
 own fault ; but for my partial success I thank Heaven." 
 
 After graduation he entered into mercantile and manufac- 
 turing operations for about three years, after which he travelled 
 in Europe for a considerable time with his brother-in-law. Rev. 
 Charles Mason (H. U. 1832). 
 
 Subsequently he formed a copartnership with Robert M. 
 Mason, which continued for many years. They were the 
 agents of several manufacturing corporations ; and he himself 
 purchased the Ipswdch Mills in Massachusetts and the Gil- 
 manton and Ashland Mills in New Hampshire, and adapted 
 them to the production of knit goods, thus becoming the 
 largest individual manufacturer of these goods in the country. 
 
 After Mr. Mason's retirement from business, Mr. Amory 
 A. Lawrence having become an active partner in his father's 
 firm, about 1883 they greatly extended their operations by 
 assuming the Agency of the Pacific Mills in Lawrence, Mass.^ 
 the largest manufacturing establishment of the kind in the 
 country. 
 
 In addition to these and other enterprises, and benevolent 
 societies in which he was concerned (their number was 
 seventy-seven in all), he was active in other ways.' 
 
AMOS ADAMS LAWRENCE. 41 
 
 About 1845 he laid out the town of Appleton, Wis., and 
 established an Academy there which has since become the 
 Lawrence University, and holds a respectable rank among 
 Western institutions of learning. 
 
 In 1856 he joined with Eli Thayer of Worcester, and others, 
 in the movement to occupy Kansas Territory with Free State 
 settlers, and served for a considerable time as Treasurer of the 
 Emigrant Aid Company. His exertions and pecuniary con- 
 tributions on behalf of this object were large and long con- 
 tinued ; and it may with justice be said that the efforts of his 
 associates and himself were quite successful in securing the 
 Kansas settlers against the inroads of the neighboring slave- 
 holders, and in establishing Kansas as a Free State. The 
 citizens of that State testified to the value of his services by 
 naming after him the first capital of their State and the seat 
 of the University. He also gave a considerable sum towards 
 the foundation of free schools in Kansas ; and the Kansas 
 University is one of the gratifying evidences of the value of 
 his exertions in that direction. 
 
 In 1849 hs ^^d his brother, the late W. R. Lawrence, began 
 the settlement of what is now called Longwood, in the town 
 of Brookline ; they made the roads, built the houses and 
 planted the trees ; they also erected a stone church (Church 
 of our Saviour) in memory of their father, which was presented 
 to a parish organization, the seats being free to all. His wife 
 last year completed the endowment of this property by the 
 erection, on the grounds, of a convenient stone rectory ; while 
 her husband conveyed to the parish an estate, the income of 
 which is to be devoted to the necessary repairs of the church 
 edifice and to the poor of the neighborhood. 
 
 In 1850 he removed from Boston and went to reside on his 
 estate at Longwood, and his brother followed him a few years 
 later. 
 
 He was the first Treasurer of the Episcopal Theological 
 School at Cambridge, and erected at his own expense the 
 Hall in which the students reside ; he served for several 
 
-12 THE CLASS OF 1835. 
 
 years as Treasurer of Harvard University, and a member of 
 the Board of Overseers. 
 
 During the civil war he was a staunch upholder of the 
 Government, and contributed largely of his time and means 
 in support of the Union cause. He never sought public offices, 
 though they were more than once offered for his acceptance; 
 but he always felt a lively interest in public affairs ; and 
 ever showed a readiness to help forward every enterprise 
 which would promote the growth of true and enlightened 
 patriotism, or sustain the requirements of religion and benevo- 
 lence. 
 
 Though not brought up an Episcopalian, he became one 
 from conviction in 1S32, while at Andover, and continued 
 an adherent of that branch of the Church of Christ ; he had 
 more than once served as Delegate to Diocesan and General 
 Conventions. 
 
 He did not inherit a strong constitution, but fortified it by 
 care and exercise ; having ridden on horseback for one or two 
 hours a day for over fifty years, and skated until near the age 
 of three score and ten. 
 
 In 1842 he was married to Sarah E., daughter of Hon. 
 William Appleton. Seven children, two sons and five daugh- 
 ters, blessed that union, which he considered the happiest 
 and most important event of his life. Mrs. Lawrence, two 
 sons and four daughters, are now living. The children are 
 all happily married ; and the elder of the sons 'is the active 
 partner in his father's firm, while the younger is an Episcopal 
 clergyman and a professor in the Theological School at 
 Cambridge, Mass. 
 
 He died very suddenly at his summer residence in Xahant 
 on the evening of the 22d August, i885, having shortly 
 before completed his 72d year. 
 
 The Boston Daily Advertiser of the 31st August contained 
 a letter from a resident of Brookline, in which the writer, 
 after alluding to IMr. Lawrence's love of simplicity, his free- 
 dom from ostentation, his disposition to befriend benevolent 
 
AMOS ADAMS LAWRENCE. 43 
 
 and useful undertakings, thus concludes his kindly and 
 appreciative notice : " In Amos A. Lawrence the nation has 
 lost one of its most patriotic citizens^ his town one of its most 
 liberal and public-spirited men, and his family its honored 
 head and loving protector. But kind words can never die, 
 nor a character like his be forgotten ; and his memory will be 
 cherished by a host of loving friends, and be green in the 
 hearts of his townsmen for many a day to come." 
 
NOTICES OF THE SURVIVORS. 
 
NOTICES OF THE SURVIVORS, 
 
 WILLIAM HENRY ALLEN. 
 
 TTTILLIAM HENRY ALLEN was born in New Bedford, 
 
 ' ^ Mass. He left no record on the Class-Book of his 
 
 early life or College career ; we can therefore only state 
 
 that he entered regularly in 183 1, and was graduated in 
 
 1835. 
 
 Of his subsequent career we have interesting details taken 
 from a letter dated Grafton, III, 20th June, 1885, to the Class 
 Secretary, in which he regrets his inability to be present at 
 the fiftieth anniversary of graduation in June, 1885. He states 
 among other things : " Last year I received a letter from our 
 esteemed classmate Lawrence, inquiring if I was the Allen 
 who graduated in 1835. I answered him, and perhaps through 
 modesty, acquired at Cambridge, failed to give any account of 
 myself or family, &c., for which omission he seemed to chide 
 me. It is possible others may feel some interest ; and to 
 enable you to satisfy any inquiries I will briefly state that in 
 1840 I became a citizen of Illinois, married the same year, 
 and a Western wife, who has proved of substantial and true 
 merit. 
 
 "The grandeur of the scenery on the banks of the great 
 Father of Waters, the vast prairies, mountains and native 
 flowers, varieties of game and fish, fixed my destiny; and at 
 this place, at the confluence of the Illinois river, from that 
 time to now, I have continuously resided. In the early days 
 civilization travelled slow into Illinois, but it improved, until 
 now, in my old age, I witness the usual mental entertainments, 
 
46 THE CLASS OF 1835. 
 
 and have ready access to the world by rail, river, telegraph 
 and express. 
 
 ''I have six children, my three daughters married, two 
 residing in this State and one in Nebraska ; my three sons 
 reside here, and are in active business. 
 
 *' My earlier employment here was mostly in real estate. 
 In 1855 I built a flouring mill here, which has been operated 
 successfully in connection with the New England demand, 
 and especially Boston. The same year I developed the value 
 of the Silurian limestone quarries of this place, which have 
 contributed largely to the construction of railroad bridges of 
 the Mississippi valley, and transported stone even to New 
 Orleans. In 1869 I transferred the milling business to my 
 son, and commenced Banking, and have continued in this 
 business. 
 
 ''I flatter myself that I have not lived in vain, and that 
 New England principles and theories have been to some 
 extent inoculated here. I have had a struggle during all this 
 period to avoid political life, for which I early conceived an 
 aversion; nevertheless in i860 I was forced to sit in a Con- 
 stitutional Convention, and in 1873 in the State Senate, of 
 course making no mention of County and local offices. 
 
 " And to my classmates I would desire to again express my 
 regrets that I am unable to participate in the gathering of 
 the living at the interesting fiftieth anniversary. And hoping 
 that you may have a joyous and full gathering,' and that in the 
 providence of God I may yet be permitted to see you, or at 
 least some of you, at some future time, and that prosperity and 
 success in the remainder of life be fully extended to you, 
 I am most truly and faithfully. 
 
 Your friend and classmate '35, 
 
 William H. Allen." 
 
EDWARD APPLETOX. 47 
 
 EDWARD APPLETON. 
 
 TpDWARD APPLETON declares in the Class-Book that 
 -^-^ he was born at Boston, 25th January, 18 16, and that he 
 was fitted for College at the Boston Latin School, ''then 
 under the care of F. P. Leverett, a gentleman whom I expect 
 never to see surpassed in zeal and fidelity as an instructor." 
 He entered College regularly in 1831, and was graduated in 
 1835, having a ''part" at Commencement. His intention 
 was, as he mentions, to become a medical man ; but he says 
 that "after attending one or two dissections, and visiting 
 pauper patients, the medical profession had no further attrac- 
 tions for me." 
 
 In October, 1835, he went to Butternuts, Otsego Co., N. Y., 
 as private tutor for the three children of Mr. Rotch, where 
 he remained a year and a half. Returning to Boston in 1837, 
 he served about a year as Usher in the Latin School, after 
 which he entered the office of James Hayward, to study 
 Civil Engineering. Soon after commencing this study he was 
 offered the Latin tutorship at Harvard, but the new profession 
 was so congenial to his tastes that he was not tempted to 
 abandon it. Under Mr. Hayward he was employed for the 
 next three years in the construction of the Boston and Maine 
 railroad between Haverhill and Dover. 
 
 On the 29th September, 1842, he was married to Frances 
 Anne, daughter of Theodore Atkinson, of Dover, N. H. "She 
 was an excellent wife, and my beloved companion till her death 
 in 1880. We had seven children, of whom four daughters 
 and two sons are living. Both sons and two daughters are 
 married; I have been a grandfather a dozen years and more." 
 
 Soon after his marriage, his railroad work being for the time 
 concluded, he accepted the position of Master of the Beverly 
 Academy, which he retained until January, 1844. Railroad 
 building then began to revive, and he resumed that congenial 
 occupation. Space does not permit a description of the 
 
48 THE CLASS OF 1835. 
 
 various labors in which he became engaged during the years 
 that followed ; we can only mention the names of the roads in 
 the survey or construction of which he had a part : the extension 
 of the Boston and ]\Iaine; the Portland and Kennebec; the 
 Manchester and Lawrence; the Ogdensburg Road ; the Andros- 
 coggin and Kennebec ; the Penobscot and Kennebec ; the 
 South Reading Branch ; the European and N. A.; the Saugus 
 Branch ; the Southern Road, now New York and New Eng- 
 land ; the Somerset Road ; the Lowell and Andover ; a short 
 railroad in the White Mountain region, noticeable as having a 
 grade of 234 feet per mile ; the Venango Road ; the Sheboygan 
 and ^Mississippi. In 1855 he was employed to construct the 
 Cambridge street railroad, the first of the kind built in Boston. 
 
 In 1869 he was appointed for two years on the new Board 
 of Railroad Commissioners of Massachusetts; and since 1880 
 he has been connected with a railroad enterprise in the State 
 of New York, not yet completed. 
 
 In 1846 he purchased a property in Reading, where, except 
 one inter\-al, he has resided with his family. *' ^ly health at 
 this time (June, 1886) is quite good for an old man of 70 
 years ; but except to complete such business as is still in my 
 hands unfinished, I don't care to live much longer. I have 
 fairly earned a competency ; but owing to several heavy losses, 
 I shall leave little behind me. However I have lived comfort- 
 ably, have helped relatives and friends, and have brought up 
 a family of children of whom I have no reason to feel ashamed." 
 
 CHARLES VOSE BEMIS. 
 
 r^ HARLES VOSE BEMIS, son of Charles Bemis and 
 ^-^ Anna Bemis (ne'e Vose), mentions in the Class-Book 
 that he was born in Boston 21st June, 18 16. He says of his 
 early life : " It was thought advisable by those who had the 
 
HARRISON GRAY OTIS BLAKE. 49 
 
 charge of my early education that I should receive instruction 
 from different masters ; and accordingly I was sent to a 
 variety of schools, both private and public. I pursued those 
 studies which are distinguished by the name of "preparatory," 
 under the direction of Dr. Abbot of Phillips Academy, Exeter, 
 and subsequently under that of the Rev. Samuel Ripley, of 
 Waltham ; gentlemen towards whom I entertain feelings of 
 respect and veneration, and for whose uniform urbanity and 
 constant attention to my interest I can never be too grateful." 
 
 He entered Harvard regularly in 183 1, and was graduated 
 in 1835, having a ''part" at Commencement. His tastes 
 inclined him to the medical profession ; and after graduation he 
 entered the Harvard Medical School, from which he received 
 his degree of M.D. in 1839, ^^^1 immediately took up his abode 
 and commenced the practice of his profession in Medford, 
 Mass., where he continues to reside at this time (1886). 
 
 Dr. Bemis was married at Keene, N. H., on the 5th May, 
 1 841, to Elizabeth F., daughter of the Hon. William Henry, 
 of Bellows Falls, Vt., and two daughters, with the mother, 
 are the companions of our classmate in his career of good 
 works. He has been connected for the last twelve years with 
 the Massachusetts General Hospital as one of the Trustees of 
 that extensive and beneficent institution. 
 
 HARRISON GRAY OTIS BLAKE. 
 
 TTARRISON GRAY OTIS BLAKE was born in Wor- 
 -^-'- cestcr, loth April, 18 16, the son of Francis Blake of the 
 same town. He says in the Class-Book that "in childhood I 
 was distinguished for my utter neglect of study, and until the 
 age of 14 was allowed, on all hands, to be the worst scholar 
 in school." How completely his habits were subsequently 
 changed will be seen by the record of his College career. He 
 does not mention by whom he was fitted for College. He 
 7 
 
50 THE CLASS OF 1835. 
 
 entered Harvard regularly in 1831, and was graduate:! in 
 1835, having the Latin Salutatory Oration assigned as his 
 "par:" in the Commencement exercises. His subsequent 
 career is thus described by himself in a letter dated Septem- 
 ber, 1S85 : 
 
 "Immediately after graduation I studied Theology at the 
 Cambridge Divinity School. Finishing my studies there in 
 1838, I preached in various pulpits in 1838 and 1839. In 
 the Fall of 1839 I &^^'^ "P the profession of clergyman, and 
 opened a private school for boys in Charlestown, Mass. I 
 continued to teach school in several places till about 1857, 
 with some interruptions. In Milton I was an assistant teacher 
 in the Academy. .Since I gave up school teaching I have at 
 times taught classes or individual pupils, as I did somewhat 
 before, either in connection \rith my school, or when it was 
 discontinued. 
 
 "I was first married in 1840 to Sarah Chandler, daughter 
 of Col. Samuel Ward, of Boston, previously of Worcester. 
 She died in 1846, leaving two children, Sarah Chandler, born 
 in 1 841, married Mr. A. A. Hamilton, of Boston, and died 
 in 1872, and Harry, born in 1846 and died the same year. I 
 was married a second time in 1852 to Xancy Pope Howe 
 Conant, of Sterling, Mass. She died in 1872, leaving no 
 children. 
 
 " For a few years past I have occupied myself somewhat with 
 editing the MSS. of Henry D. Thoreau, beqdeathed to me 
 by his sister. 
 
 " I hope you will find satisfaction in the work of adding to 
 our Class records ; and wish I might tell you something of 
 more interest about myself. What a different record, and 
 how much more interesting it would be if, instead of these 
 dry facts and incidents, or in addition to them, we could give 
 some honest account of our inward lives ! But that is not to 
 be expected ; we can only guess at that. But what a peculiar 
 interest there is in meeting occasionally, as we do at Com- 
 mencement, some of the boys of 1833 and 1834, disguised as 
 old men, as Holmes so happily puts it." 
 
JOHN CARR. 51 
 
 JOHN CARR. 
 
 nrOHN CARR, of Upperville, Va,, entered our Class in the 
 ^ Sophomore year, and was graduated in 1835. 
 
 It is a matter of regret, that although he has been repeatedly- 
 requested by letter to furnish an account of his early life and 
 career since graduation, it has been impossible to obtain any 
 reply. The few particulars now subjoined are kindly given 
 by our classmate E. R. Hoar. 
 
 John Carr entered College in the Sophomore year, in 1832. 
 He was an orphan, and owned a large plantation, with 
 slaves, for the raising of wheat, cattle, and fruit. He was a 
 fair scholar considering his early opportunities ; had a ''part" 
 in one of the Exhibitions, and at Commencement ; and was a 
 sturdy, upright, independent sort of fellow. He was six feet 
 high, of great endurance, fond, and capable of, long walks, and 
 liking an out-of-door life. As a proof of this it may be men- 
 tioned that, during the Senior year, he and Ricketson walked 
 from Cambridge to New Bedford,. sixty miles, in a single day. 
 
 When we graduated he said his plan in life was to go back 
 to his estate in Virginia, marry a girl "that he knew of" 
 there, and pass his life as a gentleman farmer. 
 
 He was married three times. His only son was killed in 
 the Confederate service : he has married daughters and grand- 
 children. 
 
 He was a member of the Virginia Convention that voted 
 Secession ; opposed it with all his might, told the Convention 
 they were a set of d — d fools ; but, with his erroneous ideas 
 of Constitutional law, and of State Sovereignty, considered 
 that Virginia was actually out of the Union when her secession 
 ordinance was passed. 
 
 His estate was overrun by the armies of both sides during 
 the war many times, his slaves freed, his fences and buildings 
 destroyed or injured, and a large part of his property lost by 
 investments in Confederate securities. 
 
52 THE CLASS OF 1S35. 
 
 He spoke his mind freely in denunciation of both sides as 
 they came alono^ ; of one as invaders of Virginia, and the other 
 as reckless and wanton breakers up of the Union. He was 
 rewarded by being taken prisoner by each side in succession, 
 and was regularly exchanged each way as a prisoner of war. 
 
 He came to Cambridge but twice after graduation ; once 
 on the tenth anniversary, and again on the fiftieth. He is a 
 friendly, frank, bluff but courteous specimen of the old 
 fashioned Virginia gentleman. 
 
 JOHN HEXRY ELLIOT. 
 
 TOHX HEXRY ELLIOT, eldest son of John Elliot and 
 ^ his wife Deborah Elliot (nee Bixby) was born in the pleas- 
 ant village of Keene, X^ H., in the year 1814. He says in 
 the Class-Book : " Owing to real, or supposed, weakness of 
 my physical constitution, I was educated during boyhood 
 more privately, carefully, and perhaps more tenderly than 
 boys usually are. My father designed me at first for the 
 active and health-giving employment of the compting room ; 
 while my more healthful brother, although younger, was to be 
 sent to the University. But this plan being reversed by the 
 long and steady opposition of my brother, in the process of 
 time I was admitted a member of Harvard College. 
 
 ' Oh I thou very celebrated Cambridge College, 
 Thou great repository of knowledge I ' " 
 
 He entered our Class regularly in 183 1, and was graduated 
 in 1835, having a "part" at Commencement. 
 
 As a proof of his popularity with his fellows it may be 
 mentioned that he was elected President of the Harvard 
 Union, the Hasty Pudding Club and the Davy Club, Vice- 
 President of a Class Supper, and associate editor of the college 
 magazine *' Harvardiana." With respect to a profession he 
 
AVILLIAM FREDERIC FRICK. 53 
 
 writes on the same pages : '' My feelings would lead me to 
 the study of Divinity, ray conscience to that of medicine, but 
 my reasoji points to the Law." 
 
 After graduation he studied Law with Hon. Lewis Cham- 
 berlain at Keene, and nominally practised there, in partner- 
 ship with Wheelock (H. U. 1836), from 1840 to 1847. ^"^ 
 1848 he was married to Emily Ann Wheelock, sister of his 
 law partner, and passed the next year in Europe. In 1849 
 he returned home, but in place of resuming his law practice, 
 he occupied himself with the affairs of his father, whom he 
 subsequently succeeded as president of the Cheshire Bank of 
 Keene, which position he has occupied for many years. He 
 has also been on the board of directors of other incorporated 
 companies, and was a member of the Executive Council of 
 New Hampshire from 1865 to 1867. "The taste of public 
 life had the sad effect of destroying his faith in the perpetuity 
 of Republican Institutions. He believed in the Religious 
 Sentiment that leads to Righteousness, but in no doctrine of 
 Theology." 
 
 Our classmate had four children, of whom three survive ; 
 the second, John Wheelock, is a physician in successful 
 practice in Boston. 
 
 WILLIAM FREDERIC FRICK. 
 
 "TTTILLIAM FREDERIC FRICK, of Baltimore, wrote 
 ^^ on a page of the Class-Book : 
 "I was born on the 21st of April in the year eighteen hun- 
 dred and seventeen ; and " : unfortunately the record goes 
 no farther. 
 
 In a letter to the Class Secretary, under date of Baltimore, 
 21 St June, 1885, expressing great regret that a recent family 
 affliction and the state of his own health would prevent him 
 
54 THE CLASS OF 183.5. 
 
 from attending the fiftieth anniversary of the graduates of the 
 Class, he continues : " I beg you to give my greetings to all 
 who may be present ; with the expression of my deep regret 
 that I cannot see them, once again, face to face. It would 
 have been ver}^ pleasant for me to do that, and to exchange 
 with them the stories of fifty years of our lives. 
 
 " As for my own, * I have none to tell,' except that I have 
 had my full and undeserved share of the blessings of this life 
 for which I never cease to give thanks ; that I have been all 
 these years laboriously engaged in my profession, with such 
 measure of success and usefulness as I might reasonably aspire 
 to ; and that I am, at 68 years of age, still jogging on in harness, 
 not having yet been turned out into the field as unfit for work. 
 To you and all I send my most friendly remembrances, and 
 my best wishes for the brief future which is now in store for 
 you. 
 
 It is much to be regretted that we have not been able to 
 obtain from our classmate a more complete record of his suc- 
 cessful career as a lawyer in Baltimore, together with some 
 interesting details as to his family life. 
 
 CHARLES HORATIO GATE-S. 
 
 /CHARLES HORATIO GATES, the eldest son of Horatio 
 ^^ and Clarissa (Adams) Gates, was born in Montreal, 
 Canada, on the 30th August, 18 16. 
 
 At the period of his boyhood the schools in Canada were 
 not remarkable ; and both his parents being natives of New 
 England, it was natural they should avail themselves of the 
 more improved system that prevailed here at that time. Ac- 
 cordingly he was sent in 1826 to the famous Round Hill 
 School, Northampton; where he remained until, in 1831, he 
 was admitted to Harvard University. 
 
CHARLES HORATIO GATES. 5d 
 
 In the spring of 1834 his father died after a very brief 
 ilness ; and in consequence of the res aiigusta donii that 
 unexpectedly followed it was thought best he should leave 
 College ; so that he was not graduated with his Class, but 
 received his degree some years later at the kind solicitation 
 of his classmates. 
 
 In May, 1834, he entered a mercantile house in New York, 
 where he remained until the autumn of 1836, when he re- 
 turned to Montreal. In February, 1840, he entered the 
 Quebec branch of the Bank of Montreal, and remained there 
 seven years. 
 
 At the close of 1849 he removed to Boston, and in the 
 spring of 1851 went to Flamilton, Ontario, where he resided 
 until i860, when he visited Europe. 
 
 After his return to this country, he established himself in 
 1869 at Providence, R. I., as a teacher of modern languages, 
 serving four years as instructor of French in Brown University, 
 and about twelve years in the Providence High School. 
 
 On the 1 2th June, 1839, he was married at Boston to 
 Euphemia, daughter of Edward Schaw, of Kingston, Jamaica. 
 She died at Quebec in 1849; '^'^^ ^^ three children, the issue 
 of this marriage, none survive. 
 
 He was married a second time in March, 1852, to Sarah 
 White, daughter of Benjamin Nason of South Berwick, Maine, 
 who is still living. By her he has had three children, of whom 
 one survives, Euphemia, married to Pienry Sherman Boutell, 
 a lawyer in Chicago. They have one child, a boy born in 1881. 
 
 His College life was uneventful ; and while lamenting, like 
 many others, wasted time and opportunities, he has many 
 pleasant recollections connected with the years passed there. 
 From his classmates he has to acknowledge nothing but 
 kindness ; and from some of them he continues to receive 
 proofs of kindness and friendship to the present day, which 
 shall ever be held in grateful remembrance. To one and all 
 he wishes every happiness here and hereafter. 
 
^^j THE CLASS OF 18:jo. 
 
 JAMES LAWRENCE GOODRIDGE. 
 
 "TAMES LAWRENCE GO 
 ^-^ vers, loth December, 1814, 
 
 rOODRIDGE was born at Dan- 
 the son. of Benjamin Goodridge 
 and Charlotte (Ravel) Goodridge. He was prepared for 
 College first under the direction of Mr. Alfred Greenleaf, of 
 Salem, and subsequently under that of Mr. Theodore Eames, 
 with whom he removed to Brooklyn, N. Y. ; entered regularly 
 in 1831, and was graduated in 1835, having a "part" at 
 C o m m encement. 
 
 After graduation Goodridge entered a commercial house in 
 Boston, with which he remained, first as accountant and book- 
 keeper, and later as partner until 1S65, after which he was 
 for a time engaged in the manufacturing of oil, which, how- 
 ever, did not prove a success. "During this period," he 
 writes, "a friend knowing my aptness in computations, asked 
 me to determine, for his guidance, whether a certain plan of 
 Mutual Life Lisurance, in which he was invited to act as a 
 Trustee, was a feasible one. I had never made any investi- 
 gations in that direction, but was able to demonstrate the 
 inequity of the mode of assessing the different members 
 without any very nice computations. Becoming interested in 
 these investigations, I made a study of some of the authorities 
 on the science of life contingencies. Elizur Wright, then at 
 the head of the Actuaries, having seen some of my original 
 solutions of Life Lisurance problems, expressed surprise at the 
 remarkable accuracy of my computations, and gave me letters 
 of introduction, praising me in the highest terms. Upon the 
 strength of these letters I moved to New York about 1869, 
 where I remained nine years or more, engaged in preparing 
 tables and making valuations for different Life Offices in the 
 United States and Canada. During most of this time I was 
 in the office of Sheppard Romans, and for a time secretary of 
 a small company started by him. Li the autumn of 1878, 
 owing to the depression in the Life Lisurance business, I re- 
 
EBENEZER ROCKWOOD HOAR. 57 
 
 turned to Boston, where I have since lived, doing such work 
 as my experience as an accountant might procure for me, 
 latterly acting as treasurer of two or three small companies 
 not very prosperous nor likely to enrich me. 
 
 "I think I have been on good terms with all my classmates ; 
 and if I have not many very firm friends among them, I am 
 sure I have not the ill will of any of the number." 
 
 Our classmate was married, 20th October, 1839, ^o Mary 
 Frances, daughter of Sylvanus Thomas, of Boston ; she died 
 in 1862, Two sons were the issue of this union, of whom one 
 is now living in Boston, and married. 
 
 EBENEZER ROCKWOOD HOAR. 
 
 TJ^BENEZER ROCKWOOD HOAR, the son of Samuel 
 -^-^ Hoar, a lawyer distinguished for his integrity no less 
 than his talent, was born in Concord, Mass., 22d February, 
 1816. 
 
 He pursued his preparatory studies at the Academy in his 
 native town until 1831, when he entered Harvard, and was 
 graduated in 1835, having an English oration as his "part" 
 at Commencement. Of his College career he thus speaks in 
 the Class-Book : " If every thing, during the last four years, 
 has not been so agreeable as it might have been, the time 
 has, at least, not been passed without improvement. I have 
 each year been more and more satisfied, that for the test and 
 establishment of character, no better place could be selected 
 than Harvard University. Yet my College life has been by 
 no means an unpleasant one. All causes of discomfort have 
 sprung, I am well aware, from myself, and my own mistakes 
 alone. A more united, generous class, better, kinder class- 
 mates, I could not have had. I shall always look back upon 
 the days spent with them as the most valuable, I think the 
 happiest portion of my life. Here, as has been well said, every 
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58 THE CLASS OF 1835. 
 
 one finds his level ; the attachments formed, the impressions 
 received, the intimate acquaintance gained of the tastes, and 
 feelings, and characters of each other, are more just, and 
 stronger than at any other period. I am truly sorry that it is 
 over." 
 
 After graduation our classmate kept school for one year in 
 Pittsburg, Pa. ; after which he commenced the study of Law, 
 and on his admission to the Bar, in 1839, began the practice 
 of his profession at Concord. In 1849 he became Judge of 
 the Court of Common Pleas, and served as such to 1855, when 
 he opened a Law office in Boston. Li 1859 ^^ ^^^^ made 
 Judge of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ; and 
 in 1869 resigned that dignified position to become Attorney 
 General of the United States during the first Presidential term 
 of General Grant, which he resigned the following year. In 
 1 87 1 he was appointed amember of the Joint High Commission 
 for the settlement of the Alabama Claims, by which body 
 the Treaty of Washington was made that year. In 1872 he 
 was chosen a Presidential Elector, and the same year was 
 elected a Representative to Congress, where he served one 
 term. In 1861 he received the honorary degree of LL.D. from 
 Williams College, and in 1868 the same distinction was con- 
 ferred by his Alma Mater. He has been a Fellow of Harvard 
 University, and for many years President of the Board of 
 Overseers of the University ; and for eight years was Presi- 
 dent of the National Conference of the Ameri'can Unitarian 
 Church. 
 
 On the 20th November, 1840, he was married to Caroline, 
 daughter of Hon. Nathan Brooks, of Concord. Two sons and 
 three daughters have been the issue of that union, and all, 
 with their mother, are now living. One of the daughters is 
 married ; both sons have embraced the legal profession, and 
 bid fair to continue and sustain the ancestral reputation. 
 
WILLIAM INGALLS. 59 
 
 WILLIAM INGALLS. 
 
 TTTILLIAM INGALLS, the son of an eminent physician 
 '^ ' of Boston, was born in that city 12th January, 18 13. 
 He mentions that his mother died when he was about 12 
 years old, in consequence of which he was somewhat spoile 
 by the indulgence of his father. 
 
 His preparatory studies were pursued in the Boston Latin 
 School, and several others, until he finally went to the 
 Academy of Israel E. Putnam, North Andover, where he re- 
 mained until 183 1, when he regularly entered Harvard. He, 
 however, voluntarily left College at the end of the Freshman 
 year for various causes ; a step which he himself declares to 
 be one of the great regrets of his life ; he received his degree, 
 however, in 1878. 
 
 Of his subsequent career he thus writes in 1886: ''Hav- 
 ing studied medicine for four years under the direction of 
 my father, and with Dr. Charles Harrison Stedman, who 
 was Surgeon of the United States Marine Hospital at Chel- 
 sea, passing most of my time in that Institution, I gradu- 
 ated from Harvard Medical School in 1836. In 1838 I went 
 to Louisiana, West P'eliciana Parish, came back at the end 
 of the year, and was married 3d December, 1839, to a 
 daughter of Ezra Davis, of Roxbury. We went to the new 
 home soon after the wedding, and I practised my profession 
 there for about eight years, returning to Boston with wife and 
 two sons. In 1848 I was appointed Surgeon of the United 
 States Marine Hospital, and was reformed out by President 
 Pierce. Have never wanted a government place since. I 
 soon settled in Winchester, Mass. In 1862 I went to North 
 Carolina as Surgeon of the 5th Regiment Massachusetts 
 Volunteers, nine months. In October, 1863, I was appointed 
 Surgeon of the 59th Regiment Massachusetts Veteran Volun- 
 teers, and I was in Virginia until the war was over. Since 
 June, 1865, I have been trying to cure everybody in and around 
 
GO THE CLASS OF 1835. 
 
 Boston ; I regret to say that there is quite a large number of 
 the community who have not yet called upon me ; a fact 
 which seems to me strange when I am so ready and willing to 
 receive them : however, they alone are responsible. 
 
 " My most honorable and responsible position was upon the 
 Surgical Staff of the Boston City Hospital, which I held for 
 fourteen years, resigning two years ago." 
 
 FREDERIC JOXES. 
 
 TpREDERIC JOXES was born in Dublin, X. H., on the 
 -^ 20th July, 1 8 13, the son of Capt. John Jones, an officer 
 in the war of 18 12, and his wife Lucy (Lane) Jones. 
 
 In 1 83 1, after preparatory studies at the Xew Ipswich 
 Academy and the Exeter Phillips Academy, he entered Dart- 
 mouth College, where he remained about two years. Think- 
 ing that Harvard offered greater facilities for the study of 
 modern languages, he entered our Class in the Junior year, 
 and was graduated in 1835. He says : "I was probably the 
 last student examined by the celebrated Greek scholar Dr. 
 Popkin. I remember with gratitude especially the teachers 
 of modern languages. Dr. C. Pollen, P. Bachi,'the venerable 
 F. Sales, and Mr. Ticknor the head of the department." 
 
 His inclination was to be a member of the medical pro- 
 fession ; and having attended the lectures of distinguished 
 men, such as the McClellans, Morton, Rush and others in 
 Philadelphia ; those of V. Mott, Paine, and J. W. Draper in 
 New York, he obtained the degree of M.D. from Dartmouth 
 College, and after some changes finally settled down for the 
 practice of his profession in Xew Ipswich, X. H., where, after 
 a period of forty years, he still resides. On the 20th February, 
 18-15, he was married to Caroline Frances, daughter of Dr. 
 
FREDERIC JONES. 61 
 
 Henry Gibson of New Ipswich, by whom he has had two 
 children, a son and a daughter. The son embraced the medical 
 profession, and is now associated in practice with his father. 
 The daughter is an artist by nature, and has produced many 
 fine drawings and paintings ; she and her brother also write 
 for the journals. 
 
 Our classmate states that he has had unexpected success 
 in his professional labors, extending over a very large field, 
 and trusts that he has received *'a wreath of spiritual immor- 
 telles, made of the blessings of the poor and the afflicted." In 
 addition to his medical practice, to which he attended very 
 closely, he has devoted some of his leisure hours to the study 
 of modern languages, science and history, and has translated 
 several important works from the German, most of which have 
 been published. He was once a member of the New Hamp- 
 shire Legislature. 
 
 "The shades of the teachers of old Harvard," he writes, 
 ''often present themselves with very pleasant recollections; 
 and the forms of classmates, in all the joy and beauty of youth, 
 often flit before me, bringing back many agreeable associations, 
 and reminding of the ideals and dreams of life's bright morn- 
 ing Beyond this play ground of Phenomena, Hope 
 
 points to a better and brighter world, illuminated by the 
 Infinite Mind, where Christians place their lovely and beauti- 
 ful Paradise, with all the flowers of Humanity in perpetual 
 bloom, as proclaimed by the glorious Savior. Some presume 
 to call this vision of Paradise only a dream ; but if a dream, 
 it is one of such sublimity, and of such mighty power over 
 the souls of men, that it may well claim a celestial origin." 
 
 The following tribute from a fellow townsman, Kcv. 
 George F. Merriam, pastor of the Congregational Church in 
 New Ipswich, we have much pleasure in adding here : "Dr. 
 Jones has always been an enthusiastic scholar, seeking recre- 
 ation from professional duties in a careful study of modern 
 science, and wide range of reading in the modern languages. 
 While manifesting his interest in public affairs by the acccp- 
 
62 THE CLASS OF 1835. 
 
 tance of several important trusts, he has uniformly concen- 
 trated his attention upon the healing art, in which he has won 
 a wide reputation, both for sure acquaintance with the broad 
 fields of medical culture, and ready skill as a practical physician, 
 " The nuniiber of calls for his services, and the distances from 
 which he has been consulted, have made his life pree.ninently 
 busy. He has made a specialty of difficult cases of chronic 
 disease, and is still honored with the confidence of a large 
 circle of patrons for his delicate sympathy and thorough 
 devotion in their times of need." 
 
 JOHX ALSO? KING. 
 
 TOHX ALSOP KING was born, as he states in the Class- 
 ^ Book, at Jamaica, L. I., about twelve miles from the city 
 of New York, on the 14th July, 18 17. He does not mention 
 where he was prepared for College, which he entered regularly 
 in 1 83 1, and was graduated in 1835. He was a grandson of 
 the celebrated Rufus King, a member of a family that has 
 given many distinguished men to the country. 
 
 The following particulars of his career since graduation are 
 furnished by himself. 
 
 "In January, 1836, I went into the counting-house of E. 
 Stevens Sons, and remained until September, 1837, when I 
 went to Europe with my uncle, James G. King." In Feb- 
 ruary, 1839, he was married to ^lary Colden, only daughter 
 of Philip Rhinelander, by whom he has had several children. 
 After a short experience in a mercantile firm, of which he 
 was a partner, he began to read Law ; but owing to inter- 
 ruptions of various kinds was not admitted to practice until 
 
 1846, when he opened an office in Wall Street, passing the 
 winters in town in a house he had built on a portion of his 
 grandfather's country place, and the summers at Rockaway, 
 
JOHN ALSOP KING. 63 
 
 L. I. In 1854, the taste, of his wife and himself incKning to 
 the country, he bought thirty acres of land on the shores of 
 Long Island Sound, opposite Hart Island, about twenty miles 
 from the city, and built a dwelling, on a beautiful point of 
 land, with excellent soil, and a natural grove of trees, where he 
 has since resided ; carrying on personally and assiduously the 
 various labors of the farm, and actively connected with the 
 agricultural societies of Queen's County, the State, and the 
 United States. 
 
 He has been an interested member of societies devoted to 
 the Educational, Material, Historical and Charitable affairs of 
 his County and State ; delegate to the Conventions of the 
 Protestant Episcopal Church in New York, and thrice a 
 delegate to the General Conventions of that Church. In 
 1873 he was elected to the Senate of New York, and was a 
 zealous advocate of Constitutional amendments which effected 
 reforms in the State Government. In 1881 he was appointed 
 a Commissioner for the State at the Yorktown Centennial. 
 He has made numerous visits to Europe, and passed two 
 successive winters on the Nile. 
 
 At the time of General Grant's first inauguration he went 
 with his family to Washington, and, finding the climate 
 agreeable, they have continued to go there many succeeding 
 seasons. He thus concludes his record : " I have thus, per- 
 haps too much in detail, recounted the duties which have 
 devolved upon me, and my own frequent wanderings in foreign 
 lands during the last fifty years ; and it only remains to ex- 
 press the great pleasure experienced when brought face to 
 face again with so many of old classmates -at our Semi-Cen- 
 tennial in Holworthy in June last (1885). 
 
 "May the declining years of each who now survives be 
 filled with happiness, and with the many blessings which are 
 a precious boon to those who overpass the allotted span of 
 life." 
 
64 THE CLASS OF 1S35. 
 
 EDWARD LANDER. 
 
 "JPOWARD LANDER, in a letter under date of 19th 
 -^-^ August, 1885, furnishes the following particulars of his 
 career: "I was bom in Salem, Mass., in 18 16; fitted for 
 College at the Salera Latin School, and at Mr. Putnam's 
 Academy in North Andover with Lawrence, Ingalls, and 
 West : as you know entered Har\'ard in 1831, not then fifteen, 
 was suspended for three months for scraping in the Chapel at 
 the time of the Class rebellion, the only one of the whole. . . . 
 
 After graduation I studied Law at the Law School, and 
 tocx the degree of LL.B. ; did not do much at practising Law 
 in the East, and in 1841 went to Indiana. There I was prose- 
 cuting attorney for the 5th Judicial Circuit, comprising eight 
 counties, and including Indianapolis the Capital of the State ; 
 serxed some fourteen months in Mexico during the war as 
 captain in the 4th regiment Indiana Volunteers. 
 
 " In 1850 was appointed, by Governor Wright, Judge of the 
 Court of Common Pleas to fill a vacancy, and at the next 
 session of the Legislative Assembly was elected to serxe the 
 usual term. In March, 1853, was appointed by the President 
 of the L'nited States, and confirmed by the Senate, Chief 
 Justice of the Supreme Court of Washington Territory. This 
 office I held over five years, and gave it up intending to 
 practise Law in San Francisco. 
 
 " While settling up my affairs in Washington Territor)', in 
 the spring of 1859, I feU through a hole in the lower deck of 
 a large vessel and received a partial dislocation of the spine. 
 From the effects of this it was several years before I recovered 
 so far as to be able to do much work. I spent two years in 
 Washington Territorj- after I could walk about, and then, in 
 1864, came to Washington City, to attend to the case of the 
 Hudson Bay Company, as their counsel, against the L'nited 
 States before an International Court or Commission created 
 by treaty for the special purpose of deciding upon the value 
 
HENRY LYON. 65 
 
 of the rights and property claimed by that Company in Oregon. 
 This occupied me for five years. 
 
 Since that time I have remained in Washington practising 
 Law. My abihty to do this has at times been interfered with 
 by return of trouble from my injury. Just now, and for two 
 or three years back, I have been better than usual, and hope 
 to continue so until my 69th year is completed. When the 
 three score years and ten are reached, if that length of years 
 is granted to me, I shall be satisfied to retire, if able so to do." 
 
 HENRY LYON. 
 
 TTENRY LYON, second son of Lemuel and Thankful 
 -■ — ■- (Damon) Lyon, was born in that part of Needham now 
 Wellesley, Mass., December 16, 18 14. 
 
 Up to about his twelfth year he attended a district school. 
 In 1826 he was in Havana, Cuba, visiting a maternal uncle, 
 who from that time charged himself with his education and 
 expenses until he was able to provide for himself. On return- 
 ing from Cuba in 1827, he entered the private school of 
 William F. Ward in Newton, and two years later became a 
 pupil of Rev. Daniel Kimball, in Needham, where he was 
 prepared for College, which he entered in 183 1, and was 
 graduated in 1835, having a "part " at Commencement. 
 
 He thus speaks of his College course : " My life in College 
 was a pleasant one. It was not attended with much success 
 as regards studies. Having entered with an indifferent pre- 
 paration, with no adequate idea of what was expected of me, 
 and no friends to consult with who could give me 'points,' it 
 was not strange that I failed to * get the hang of things ; ' and 
 though I was assigned some 'parts,' I was never satisfied that 
 I deserved them, unless by a large credit for 'good intentions.' " 
 9 
 
GO THE CLASS OF 1835. 
 
 After graduation he commenced with much zeal the study 
 of medicine with Dr. \V. J. Walker, of Charlestown ; and, 
 receiving his degree of ]\I.D. in 1838, began the practice of 
 his profession in Charlestown, which continued with fair suc- 
 cess for thirteen years. 
 
 In 185 1, in consequence of business relations which inter- 
 fered with professional duties, he relinquished the latter and 
 devoted himself for several years to business matters ; when 
 these last were concluded, "I made the mistake of not return- 
 ing to my profession." During the civil war he was active in 
 "furthering enlistments, and in giving aid and comfort to 
 those who had left us to engage in the great struggle, and for 
 a time I was special agent of Charlestown to visit Camp and 
 Hospital in behalf of our soldiers. 
 
 ''In August, 1841, I married Caroline ]\Iargaret, daughter 
 of Dr. A. R. Thompson; she died in 1854, leaving me a son 
 and four daughters. My son is now Lt. Commander in the 
 Navy ; my three oldest daughters married naval officers ; 
 my youngest daughter is the wife of Dr. Edward J. Fisher, of 
 Charlestown. I have eleven living grandchildren ; none of 
 my children are without issue. 
 
 "In 1856 I married Elizabeth Thompson, eldest sister of 
 my deceased wife, widow of Dr. J. Stearns Hurd ; she died 
 in 1873, leaving no children. In 1S53 I made a business 
 visit to Cuba, and in 1866 one of pleasure; visiting on the 
 last occasion some parts of Mexico. 
 
 " I have never sought political office ; have often declined 
 to be a candidate when a nomination was equivalent to an 
 election. I served for several years on the Board of School 
 Trustees, and was for one year a Representative in the 
 General Court." 
 
CHARLES WARWICK PALFRAY. 67 
 
 CHARLES WARWICK PALFRAY. 
 
 /CHARLES WARWICK PALFRAY was born in Salem; 
 ^-^ Mass., 20th December, 1813, the son of Warwick and 
 Elizabeth (Rounds) Palfray, and a descendant of Peter Palfray, 
 one of the ''old planters " who came to Salem in 1626 with 
 Roger Conant and a few others. He attended the Salem 
 English High School, but was fitted for College by Henry K. 
 Oliver, in company with Fabens and one or two others, and 
 entered regularly in 183 1, and was graduated in 1835, having 
 a "part" at Commencement. 
 
 After graduation he completed a legal course in the office 
 of the Hon. Leverett Saltonstall in Salem, and at the Dane 
 Law School in Cambridge; and in 1838 received his degree 
 of LL.B., after which he and Fabens were admitted to 
 practise in all the Courts of the Commonwealth. He opened 
 a law office in Salem for a short time, but never practised. 
 His father died a few days before his admission to the Bar ; 
 and the son succeeded him as one of the editors of the Salem 
 Register, with which he has been connected ever since. It 
 is worthy of note that his father entered the office of that 
 journal as a boy, became editor thereof when quite young, and 
 their joint connection with it covers the whole period of its 
 existence, it having been established in the year 1800. 
 
 These facts are furnished by himself, and he says : " The 
 only other facts are that I was a Representative to the General 
 Court from Salem in 1840, 1841, 1864, and 1866; a member 
 of the State Valuation Committee in 1865, Collector of Cus- 
 toms for the district of Salem and Beverly from 1869 to 1873, 
 and a member of the American Association for the Advance- 
 ment of Science since 1872. Fabens was my chum all through 
 College, and we had previously been schoolmates for many 
 years." 
 
68 THE CLASS OF 1S35- 
 
 CHARLES HENRY PARKER. 
 
 CHARLES HENRY PARKER, the son of Samuel D. 
 Parker and Eliza M. Parker (nee Mason) was bom in 
 Boston 2d May, 1816. He passed six years in the Latin 
 School, and from thence entered Harvard in 1831, and was 
 graduated in 1835, haxing a "part " at Commencement. 
 
 He was elected Class Secretarj' at the Class meeting, 3d 
 March, 1835, ^^^ ^^ continued to hold the post to this time. 
 
 After graduation he read Law for three years in the office 
 of his father, who was then District Attorney ; and, being 
 admitted to the Bar in 1838, commenced the practice of his 
 profession in partnership with Thomas B. Pope (H. L". 1834), 
 which lasted until the year 1853. 
 
 In that year our classmate was elected Secretary and 
 Treasurer of the Suffolk Savings Bank, succeeding Samuel 
 H. Walley, Jr. (H. U. 1826), which position he holds to the 
 present da}*. At the time when he entered upon the duties 
 of that office the deposits of the bank were about a million 
 and a half of dollars ; they now amount to nearly twenty 
 millions; which fact sufficientiy proves the prudence and 
 abilitj' with which the affairs of the Institution have been 
 conducted. 
 
 In June, 1853, he was married to Charlotte, daughter of 
 David Greenough; she died in January, 1859, lea\-ing a son 
 and three daughters, one of whom now sur\-ives with the son. 
 
 In January-, 1864, he was married again to Laura Trotter, 
 daughter of John P. and Elizabeth Wolcott Jackson, of New 
 Jersey, by whom he has had four children ; one daughter and 
 two sons of this marriage are now living. 
 
 Our classmate is a member of the Protestant Episcopal 
 Church, as befits a direct descendant of Bishop Parker ; has 
 been for ver\- many years a Warden and Vestr\Tnan of Trinit)- 
 Church, and is Treasurer of the Massachusetts Bible Society 
 and of the Boston Port and Seaman's Aid Society. 
 
CHARLES CHAUNCY SHACKFORD. 69 
 
 WILLIAM ROTCH ROBESON. 
 
 TTTILLIAM ROTCH ROBESON was born 13th July, 
 ^^ 1814, on the banks of the Schuylkill river, six miles 
 from Philadelphia. 
 
 He was for some time an inmate of the Round Hill School 
 at Northampton, but did not complete his preparatory studies 
 there. He entered Harvard regularly in 1831, and was 
 graduated in 1835. 
 
 On the 26th June, 1838, he was married to Anna, daughter 
 of W. R. Rodman, Esq., of New Bedford, and for some time 
 subsequently made his home in that city. One child, a 
 daughter, was born to them, but she died quite young. On 
 leaving New Bedford he resided for awhile at Fall Rivep and 
 Jamaica Plain ; but for the last fourteen years his home has 
 been in Lenox, Mass., while his winters are passed in Boston. 
 
 These meagre details are all that the modesty of our class- 
 mate has allowed him to furnish ; but we may add that he has 
 been engaged in several manufacturing and other corporations, 
 and has employed his abundant means in dispensing a liberal 
 and elegant hospitality, and his leisure in the furtherance of 
 benevolent and charitable enterprises. 
 
 CHARLES CHAUNCY SHACKFORD. 
 
 CHARLES CHAUNCY SHACKFORD states that he 
 was born in Portsmouth, N. H., 26th September, 18 15. 
 His early education was pursued at various schools, and 
 finally at the Exeter Academy under Dr. Abbott, whence he 
 proceeded to Cambridge, entering in 183 1, and being graduated 
 in 1835 with the Valedictory Oration as his "part" at Com- 
 mencement. 
 
70 THE CLASS OF 1S35. 
 
 Of his College career he speaks with much freedom in the 
 Class-Book : *' Whatever alterations have taken place in my 
 character from intercourse and collision with niy classmates," 
 he says, "have been, I hope, on the whole beneficial. So much 
 is certain, that there was great room for improvement. Natu- 
 rally of a disposition inclined to seclusion, and consequently 
 to conceit, I was fortunately thrown among individuals of my 
 class distinguished for iheir intellectual and social qualities, 
 where I learned, in the rough school of experience, that there 
 were others superior to myself, and that a man's own opinion 
 of himself is not the best criterion." He was one of the 
 associate editors of the College magazine " Harvardiana." 
 
 He concludes his record in these words : "As to a pro- 
 fession my inclination pulls one way, my fear of demerit 
 another. I look upon the character of a faithful, conscientious 
 minister with admiration ; and if ever the flesh can be brought 
 into subjection by the spirit, I hope to be able not only to 
 find the way to Heaven myself, but also to point it out to 
 others." 
 
 After graduation he was settled in 1841 as Minister of the 
 Hawes Place Church in Boston, and about this time was married 
 to Charlotte, daughter of John Shackford, of Portsmouth. In 
 1846 he became Minister of the Second Congregational 
 Society, Lynn. In the same year he was married a second 
 time to Martha G, Bartlett. In 1865 he resigned his pastoral 
 charge at Lynn, and established a school for ycKing ladies in 
 Boston. In 1871, being appointed Professor of Rhetoric and 
 General Literature in Cornell University, he closed his school 
 and removed to Ithaca, N. Y., where he now resides (1885) in 
 the discharge of the duties of that professorship. 
 
LEMUEL STEPHENS. 71 
 
 LEMUEL STEPHENS. 
 
 T EMUEL STEPHENS was born in Plymouth, Mass., 22d 
 -^-^ P'^ebriiary, 1814. At the age of twelve or thirteen, he 
 states, he was transferred from a public to a private school, 
 where, under the direction of an injudicious master, he con- 
 tracted habits which later proved an ample source of mortifi- 
 cation. He entered Harvard in 1831, and was graduated in 
 1835 j but a portion of the intervening period was pleasantly 
 and profitably spent at Hingham ; he reentering College in 
 the Junior year. 
 
 He thus speaks of his College course : "The estimations 
 formed of character in College are always extreme. It has 
 been so in my case. Possessed of a temperament not par- 
 ticularly excitable, it has been inferred that my equanimity is 
 unbounded. In conversation, being frequently inclined to 
 object to a statement for the sake of argument, I have been 
 supposed to have no real opinions." 
 
 '' On the whole I am convinced that the time which I have 
 spent here has not been uselessly spent. I have at least 
 learnt much about myself. I have throughout my College 
 course had the good fortune to associate with those whose 
 conversation and opinions are truly valuable. And I now 
 leave the University with the conviction that in the world I 
 can never find more sincere and indulgent friends than I have 
 met with here, and that no portion of my life can be spent 
 more pleasantly than the last four years." 
 
 With respect to a profession after graduation he was un- 
 decided between Divinity and Law. However he embraced 
 neither, but entered upon the business of teaching ; and about 
 1 85 1 became connected with Girard College, Philadelphia, as 
 professor of Chemistry and Natura,l Philosophy. 
 
 The following extract from the Boston Transcript of 31st 
 March, 1886, shows the estimation in which our classmate has 
 been held in the institution where he has so lomr rendered 
 
7i THE CLASS OF IsS^J. 
 
 meritorious ser\-ice : " Professor Lemuel StepbenSy known as 
 one of the ablest chemists in the coontiy, has signified his 
 ' chair of Ch ^" ural Philosc^y 
 
 which he - past thirty-five 
 
 years. Old age and ill health are assigned as the causes.. 
 Whether the professor will be allowed to retire on June ist 
 next, or on June i, iSSj^ will be decided at the meeting of 
 the trustees on the second Wednesday in April. They have 
 already determined that he shall stUI, after his retirement, 
 receive an annual salary in recognition of his long and valuable 
 service in the CoUt^e." 
 
 It is a matter of r^ret that no more complete account of 
 his career since graduation has been obtained from him. 
 although he has been frequently requested to furnish it. 
 
 CHARLES WILLIAM STOREY. 
 
 CHARLES WTLLIAM STOREY was bora in Clare- 
 mont, X. H-, i8th July, 1816; but one year after his 
 birth his parents removed to Xewburypcwrt, Mass., and that 
 town became his home. At the age of 13 he was sent to 
 Exeter Academy, " where," he says, " I was very well fitted 
 for CoCege in every respect but that <^ learning."" 
 
 He made no attempt while at Harvard to obtain Coflege 
 honorsy which with his abilities he might easily have done ; 
 bat a natural indolence, of which he speaks in the Class-Book, 
 interfered with the attainment of such distinctions; and at 
 the close of his course at Harvard he was elected Admiral of 
 the Xavy Club, an honor supposed to be conferred "on the 
 laziest and best fellow in the Class." 
 
 His career after graduation is thus described by himsdf : 
 " After leaving College I staid at home some six months in 
 grievous doubt as to the choice c^ an occupation oat of several 
 
CHARLES WILLIAM STOREY. 73 
 
 more or less repulsive ones which alone offered themselves. 
 Finally I went in January, 1836, to the Harvard Law School, 
 and partly there, and partly in the office of Messrs. C. P. & 
 B. R. Curtis, completed the required three years, and was in 
 January, 1839, admitted to the Bar. From the last of Feb- 
 ruary to the last of December I spent in what was then the 
 Far West, looking at Toledo, Ohio ; Burlington, Iowa ; Mil- 
 •waukee, Wis., and various other places ; and finally settling 
 for six months at Galena, 111., where I did exceedingly little ; 
 and whence I returned satisfied that a person who had any 
 fair chance in Massachusetts would do much better there than 
 in any new country, and enjoy life vastly more; which con- 
 viction remains with me. The place of reporter of debates in 
 the Massachusetts House of Representatives for the Atlas 
 newspaper was then found for me by Spooner and Minns ; and 
 at the close of the session I opened an office at No. 4 Court 
 Street, Boston, with Minns ; who, however, soon came to me 
 and mournfully announced that although we led a very agree^ 
 able life, we were not in the least likely to earn the means of 
 sustaining it unless we separated." 
 
 After separating from Minns he became for a time the 
 Washington correspondent of the "Atlas." 
 
 In 1844 he was elected Clerk of the Massachusetts House 
 of Representatives, and held that office until 185 1. Then 
 resuming his law practice with considerable success, he was 
 appointed, about 1855, Registrar of Insolvency for Suffolk 
 County, and discharged those duties until about 1858, when 
 the office was abolished. 
 
 Soon after this he formed a partnership with the late Hon. 
 John Wilder May, which continued up to about 1870, a con- 
 nection agreeable and prosperous. For a short time he was 
 Clerk of the Superior Criminal Court of Suffolk, and after 
 dissolving his connection therewith gradually retired from 
 business, "and" as he says, "now seldom go into the city 
 from Brookline where I have lived for the last eight years. I 
 am, to borrow a lady's expression, 'young, but infirm,' and so 
 10 
 
74 THE CLASS OF 1835. 
 
 much so in the feet and legs that walking for any distance 
 worth mentioning is disagreeable to me. 
 
 "On the 30th July, 1842, I married Miss Elizabeth Moor- 
 field, formerly of Hingham, who had kept a school for young 
 ladies in Newbur}'port for some time. This was imprudent 
 from an economical point of view, for we were both poor, and 
 my expected earnings were very slender ; but we adopted the 
 lowest scale of living, and have passed very happy lives to- 
 gether. I have a son, Moorfield Storey, who has made me 
 the grandfather of three girls and a boy, and two daughters 
 who still contribute largely to the happiness of our home. 
 
 "In religion I have sounded the depths of Presbyterianism 
 in which I was bred, and various other phases of faith, and 
 landed in rather solid agnosticism ; and in politics have been 
 successively Whig, Republican and Mugwump, which last I 
 find the most satisfactory." 
 
 BENJAMIN HUSSEY WEST. 
 
 TDENJAMIN HUSSEY WEST was born in Nantucket on 
 -■-^ the loth November, 1S14. His early education was 
 obtained in Plainfield, Conn., where he passed two years ; after 
 which he was sent to the school of ^Ir. Putnam, North 
 Andover, already mentioned in these memorials. Here he was 
 fitted for College, which he entered in 1S31, and was gradu- 
 ated in 1835, having a "part " at Commencement, 
 
 At a Class meeting on the 3d March, 1835, held for the 
 purpose of electing Class officers, he was chosen Chaplain, to 
 which he thus refers in the Class-Book : " The Class have 
 chosen me their Chaplain. They may be assured that it will 
 not be the first, and I trust not the last prayer that I shall 
 offer for them. To them all I sincerely wish success and 
 happiness ; and if, at a future time, they shall need the skill 
 
BENJAMIN HUSSEY WEST. 75 
 
 of the physician or surgeon, let them be assured that it will 
 always be affectionately yielded them to the extent of the 
 powers of their sincere friend." 
 
 After graduation he studied medicine, principally under the 
 ** guidance and warm loving friendship of Dr. Winslow Lewis." 
 On receiving his degree he became for a while Resident Physi- 
 cian of the Boston Lying-in Hospital ; then spent some time 
 at Rainsford Island among the small-pox patients. During 
 his sojourn there he made the acquaintance of the lady who 
 subsequently became his wife, Eliza A., daughter of John 
 Minot, master of Quarantine at that Island. The kind 
 sympathy displayed by her to the unfortunate patients is 
 alluded to on the pages of the Class-Book. In 1839 ^^^ mar- 
 riage was celebrated ; and he states '' that the spirit thus 
 indicated has been manifested by her, in all the relations of 
 life, to the present day." 
 
 In 1842 he took up his residence at Neponset, with his 
 father-in-law, and there remained until the autumn of 1843, 
 when he went to Nantucket, where he resided until 1850, in 
 the practice of his profession. He then left for California, via 
 Panama, acting as surgeon on the ship Trescott from Panama. 
 He remained a year in San Francisco, having had, during that 
 time, much, and on the whole successful, experience among 
 cholera patients ; after which he took the position of surgeon 
 on the California, the first American steamer on the Pacific, 
 belonging to the Pacific Mail Steam Ship Company, and made 
 in her four voyages to Panama. In this and another vessel 
 of the same line he continued until July, 1852, when he came 
 home, and began to practise in Boston, which he continued 
 until 1870, when, he says, " my strength gave out, and I moved 
 out to my cottage home here in old Dorchester, situated on 
 land of which my wife's ancestor was the first white pro- 
 prietor, and which, with an interval of a few years, has been 
 in possession of the Minots since their landing in 1630. 
 
 ''In 1855 I had the honor of serving my fellow citizens as 
 member of the Executive Council of Massachusetts for Suffolk 
 district, but declined a re-election. 
 
THE CLASS OF 1S35. 
 
 " My family consists of wife, two sons and three daughters. 
 During my professional career I have striven to benefit ever)' 
 applicant, with little regard to prospect of compensation, or 
 cost to myself ; and if there be any source of peculiar satis- 
 faction, it is that I have done, what in me lay, to revolutionize 
 the old system of medical practice and improve the chances 
 of life by diffusing the knowledge and use of homoeopathy." 
 
 XAAMAX LOUD WHITR 
 
 ^sr^.\AMAX LOUD WHITE, son of Elihu and Sarah 
 -^^ (Loud) White, was bom in Brain tree, Mass., on June 
 2_L:h. 1 8 14; was fitted for College at Amherst and Phillips 
 Aiidover Academy, and entered Harvard in 1831. He was 
 graduated in due course, ha\ing as his " part " at Commence- 
 ment a "Dissertation on the Character of Chief Justice 
 Marshall." In CoU^e he was a member and president of the 
 Hast}- Pudding Club, and also a member of the Har\-ard L"nion 
 and the Institute of '76. He was considered a fine belUs- 
 if tires scfaDlar, and good in the ancient classics, and modem 
 languages and literature, and so far proficient in mathematics 
 as to receive a ** Mathematical part " at one of the public ex- 
 hibitions. In the Junior year he was elected to the Phi Beta 
 Kappa Society. 
 
 After graduation he was engaged for one year as Principal 
 of the Classical Department of the Weld School, Roxbur)-. 
 On leax-ing this he studied Law in the oflBce of Judge Sher- 
 man Leland, and subsequently in those of John. C. Park and 
 Rufus Choate ; was admitted to the Bar of Suffolk County in 
 1839, and opened an office in Braintree, where for thirty 
 years he had a large and lucrative practice, principally in the 
 Counties of Xorfulk and Plvmouth. He then withdrew some- 
 what from active practice, devoting himseff more to the care 
 
NAAMAN LOUD WHITE. 77 
 
 of his own property, and the management of estates in trust 
 for friends. 
 
 '' As a lawyer, in his relations with clients, he may be said 
 to have been more instrumental in leading them to avoid law 
 suits than of hastily entering into them ; so that the volume 
 of litigation within the sphere of his influence was rather 
 diminished than enlarged ; and many a client gratefully re- 
 members that he was rescued from the perilous edge of a suit, 
 which might have proved vexatious and costly, and probably 
 unsatisfactory and unprofitable in the result. 
 
 '' Through life he always sought to avoid the holding of 
 public political office. Soon after he commenced practice in 
 Braintree he was twice elected to represent the town in the 
 Legislature ; after that he steadily refused to have his name 
 used in connection with any political office in State or 
 County ; preferring the quiet and independence of a private 
 citizen. From this should be excepted those various municipal 
 offices which every loyal son of a town feels not at liberty 
 wholly to decline, on the ground that he ought to be willing 
 to bear a share of the burdens in return for benefits received. 
 From time to time he has been called upon to fill most of the 
 more important offices of the town, and has generally 
 responded to the call. He has been particularly interested in 
 its educational institutions and public schools ; has been for 
 more than twenty years on the School Committee, and most 
 of the time Chairman of the Board. At the present time he 
 is president of the 13raintree School Fund Corporation, an en- 
 dowment left by the Will of a public-spirited citizen of the 
 town, the income of which is devoted to the support of its 
 public schools. 
 
 "He is also a director and vice-president of the Weymouth 
 and Braintree Savings Bank, and has been for many years 
 president of the Weymouth and Braintree Mutual Fire 
 Insurance Company. He was also a Trial Justice for the 
 County of Norfolk until that system was changed for the 
 present one of District Courts. When quite young was ap- 
 
78 THE CLASS OF 1835. 
 
 pointed Brigade Major and Inspector of the Massachusetts 
 Militia, which he held for one year, and then resigned. 
 
 " He continues to reside upon his ancestral estate in Brain- 
 tree, fully occupied with its care and improvement, and 
 withdrawn from the practice of his profession, except occa- 
 sional consultations with old clients and friends who still seek 
 the aid of his advice." 
 
STUDENTS FOR SOME TIME IN THE CLASS OF 
 1835, BUT NOT GRADUATED WITH IT. 
 
 *Levi Bigelow. 
 
 *George Edward Channing. 
 
 Frederic William Skinner Coolidge. 
 *George Augustus Gushing. 
 *RiciiARD Henry Dana. 
 *George Whipple Farnum. 
 
 William Augustus Hall. 
 *Charles Frary Harding. 
 *Frederic William Hoffman. 
 *NeMesE Hermoggne Labranche. 
 *George Leeds. 
 *Nati-ianiel Knowles Lombard. 
 
 Nathaniel Collins McLean. 
 
 George Washington Minns. 
 
 Crawford Nightingale. 
 
 Thomas Parsons. 
 *Wellington Peabody. 
 ^Thomas Oliver Prescott. 
 *Francis Warren Preston. 
 *Thomas Allen Rich. 
 * Augustus Kendall Rugg. 
 *James McKinley Snead. 
 *Ebenezer Spalding. 
 ^Joseph True. 
 
 John Williams. 
 
NOTICES OF 
 
 STUDENTS FOR SOME TIME IN THE CLASS 
 BUT NOT GRADUATED WITH IT. 
 
 LEVI BIGELOW. 
 
 X EVI BIGELOW was born 17th May, 18 14, probably at 
 -^-^ Buckingham, Ontario. 
 
 He left no account of his early life in the Class-Book ; and 
 the following particulars, kindly furnished by our classmates 
 C. V. Bemis and John Henry Elliot, are all that is known of 
 him. 
 
 He was a nephew of Dr. Twitchell, of Keene, N. H., and 
 went to live there when a child. He was fitted for College at 
 Leicester Academy, and entered Harvard in 1832, but left 
 during the year on account of illness, and did not return. In 
 1836 he received the degree of M.D. from Dartmouth College ; 
 but the state of his health did not permit him to practise long. 
 He went South, was in Texas for awhile, but getting no better, 
 returned to Keene, and died there of consumption in 1842. 
 
 Elliot says of him : " He was a person of the sweetest 
 temper, and of the most extraordinary scholarship. I loved 
 him, and he died ; but the thought of him always fills my 
 heart with sadness and regret." 
 
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82 THE CLASS OF 1S35. 
 
 GEORGE EDWARD CHAXXIXG. 
 
 r^ EORGE EDWARD CHAXXIXG, the son of Edward 
 ^^^ Channing, was bom in Boston in 1815, and died the 21st 
 July, 1837, of fever, on the coast of Sumatra. 
 
 He entered Harvard in 183 1, and remained till near the 
 close of the Junior year ; being distinguished for his love of 
 English Literature and general reading. His tastes, however, 
 inclined him to a mercantile career; and a favorable oppor- 
 tunity presenting itself, he left College, and, after two vox-ages 
 to the Eskst Indies, was sent at the early age of twenty-one as 
 joint supercargo -of a ship bound to the coast of Sumatra ; a 
 great trust for so young a man, and a dangerous vo}-age from 
 the nature of the coast, and the extreme sickliness of the 
 climate. But the opportunity^ was not to be neglected, and 
 something better than enterprise and adventure, a high sense 
 of what he owed to himself and others, determined him to 
 embrace it. 
 
 WTiile on the coast, by strict temperance, and a careful 
 use of every preventative, he, as well as the Captain, preserxed 
 his health to the last ; until the latter, b\- imprisonment on 
 shore, was seized with fever, and died in a few days. Our 
 classmate was seized with the same fever on the day after the 
 death of the captain, to whom he was much attached, and 
 whom he continually nursed during his fatal illness, and he 
 lived only five days afterwards ; ha\-ing been removed to a 
 private house, where he received ever\- attention and kindness. 
 
 FREDERIC WILLIAM SKIXXER COOLIDGE. 
 
 TT'REDERIC WILLIAM SKIXXER COOLIDGE, son 
 -*-' of Samuel F. and Ann (Sanderson) Coolidge, was bom 
 in Boston 15th April, 18 16. 
 
GEORGE AUGUSTUS GUSHING. 83 
 
 He was prepared for College at Damon's Academy, Byfield, 
 and by Mr. Ingraham in Boston, and entered Harvard regularly 
 in 1 83 1, but left in the third term of the Freshman year. 
 
 After quitting College he engaged in business as an im- 
 porter, and was for a time connected with Harnden's Express. 
 
 In July, 1 849, he was married in New York to Miss Elizabeth 
 A. Brevoort, of that city. Four children were the fruit of that 
 union, of whom two died young ; of the survivors, the oldest, 
 after studying at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., became a 
 graduate of the University of Oxford, and is now one of the 
 Dons of Magdalen College, Oxon ; while the youngest daugh- 
 ter married a son of the Dean of Guernsey, and at present 
 resides in London. 
 
 Mr. Coolidge himself is now a resident of Conway, N. H. 
 
 Those who were intimate with him during his brief College 
 career preserve very pleasant memories of his amiable and 
 gentlemanly character. 
 
 GEORGE AUGUSTUS GUSHING. 
 
 in FORGE AUGUSTUS GUSHING, of Lunenberg, Mass., 
 ^-^ entered Harvard in the third term of our Freshman year, 
 and left in the second term of the Senior year. 
 
 After quitting College he went to Lowell as private tutor 
 in the family of Major Whistler, and studied civil engineering 
 with him, obtaining thus a position on the Western railroad. 
 
 After some years of this work he returned to Cambridge ; 
 studied Law from 1840 to 1843, ^^'^ practised his profession 
 there for several years. He was elected a member of the 
 School Committee. Hoping to improve his health he joined, 
 about 1846, an engineering party bound to Maine, and helped 
 to locate and build the Maine Central Railway. In 1849 ^^^ 
 was married, and remained in Maine until about 1856. 
 
8-4 THE CLASS OF 1835. 
 
 In the spring of 1858 he was appointed to the Croton 
 Department of New York City ; and later became Division 
 Engineer in the Department of Parks, which place he held 
 until February, 1877. 
 
 In 1878 he returned to Lunenberg, where he died iith 
 September, 1880, of a lingering disease. 
 
 RICHARD HEXRY DAXA. 
 
 ■piCHARD HEXRY DAXA, son of the poet and essayist 
 -■-^ Richard Henry Dana, and grandson of the late Chief 
 Justice Dana, was born in Cambridge, ist August, 181 5. 
 
 He entered Harvard in 1831, and continued with our Class 
 until the third term of the Junior year ; when, in consequence 
 of a trouble with his eyes brought on by over devotion to 
 study, he was advised by his physician to suspend all literary 
 labor for a time. He therefore left College, and shipped at 
 Boston as a common sailor on a vessel bound to California 
 via Cape Horn. 
 
 This remedy was admirably adapted to his case ; for while 
 performing all the duties of the station he had assumed, he 
 entirely recovered his health ; and after his return wrote and 
 published a narrative of his experiences and adventures under 
 the title, "Two Years before the Mast," which has universally 
 been considered one of the best and truest pictures of sea-life 
 ever written. He resumed his college studies and was gradu- 
 ated in 1837; but was always pleased, as he expressed it in 
 a note to the Class Secretary, " to be included in the Class 
 
 of 1835." 
 
 After graduation he studied Law at the Dane Law School, 
 and was admitted to the Bar in 1840. 
 
 His career as a jurist and public man was distinguished by 
 qualities of high excellence ; and he was engaged in many 
 
GEORGE WHIPPLE FARNUM. 85 
 
 very important cases. He was a niember of the Massachusetts 
 Constitutional Convention, and one of the founders of the 
 Free Soil Party. In 1861 he was made United States District 
 Attorney for Massachusetts, and served until 1865, when he 
 resigned. 
 
 In 1866 he received the honorary degree of LL.D. from 
 Harvard University. 
 
 In 1876 he was nominated by President Grant Minister to 
 England ; but this nomination not being confirmed by the 
 Senate, he never performed the duties of that office. 
 
 He was an able writer, as well as a learned jurist and 
 statesman ; and frequently contributed important articles to 
 leading magazines on subjects connected with Law, Art, &c. 
 &c. He was a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 
 and one of its most efficient laymen. 
 
 On the 25th August, 1841, he was married to Miss Sarah 
 Watson, of Hartford, Conn.; a son, born of this union, perpet- 
 uates his father's name and profession. 
 
 In 1 88 1 he went to Italy, for the purpose of study and 
 investigation, and died at Rome on the 6th January, 1882. 
 
 GEORGE WHIPPLE FARNUM. 
 
 GEORGE WHIPPLE FARNUM, son of Paul Farnum, 
 was born in Grafton, Mass., 7th April, 18 18, and died at 
 Media, near Philadelphia, in October, 1861. 
 
 The few particulars obtained as to his life have been kindly 
 communicated by his sister, Mrs. H. G. Batterson, and Mr. 
 E. W. Clark, both of Philadelphia. 
 
 He was fitted for College partly by the Rev. Calvin Lincoln, 
 of Fitchburg, Mass. ; attended also the school of Mr. Thayer, 
 in Boston, and entered Harvard in 183 1, but left at the end 
 of the Junior year. 
 
86 THE CLASS OF 1835. 
 
 Some time after tliis he visited Europe, and derived much 
 benefit therefrom ; being, as Mr. Clark says, one of the most 
 generally well informed men he ever met, and a good talker. 
 
 He was for many years in business of various kinds ; first 
 with his father, afterwards as a banker in New Orleans, and 
 later as a commission merchant in Philadelphia ; and in all 
 his business transactions was conscientious and honorable. 
 
 About the period of the breaking out of the civil war he 
 retired from active business ; and having previously purchased 
 a property at Media, retired there, and lived in a very quiet 
 way until his death. 
 
 He was never married ; and Mrs. Batterson states that all 
 the other members of her immediate family are dead. 
 
 WILLIAM AUGUSTUS HALL. 
 
 "YTTILLIAM AUGUSTUS HALL, son of John Hancock 
 ^ ^ and Statira (Preble) Hall, was born in Portland, Me., 
 29th October, 181 5. His father, having invented an improved 
 rifle, received from the Federal Government an appointment 
 in charge of the United States Armory at Harper's Ferry, Va., 
 and removed with his family to that place some time between 
 181 5 and 1 8 19. 
 
 Our classmate entered Harvard in 1831, but left during the 
 Freshman year. Subsequently he studied at the University 
 of Virginia, and was admitted to the Bar. In 1840 he accom- 
 panied his family to Huntsville, Mo., where he commenced 
 the practice of his profession. In 1844 he was chosen a 
 Presidential Elector for the State on the Democratic ticket, 
 and cast his vote for James K. Polk. 
 
 In 1847 he was elected Judge of a district comprising six 
 counties, which position he held until 1861. In the winter of 
 
CHARLES FRARY HARDING. 87 
 
 1 860-1861 he was elected member of a Constitutional Conven- 
 tion to decide whether the State should secede, and took an 
 active part against secession. In 1861 he was elected by the 
 Democrats to Congress, and served there until 1865. Then 
 he resumed the practice of Law ; and a few years later re- 
 moved to a farm near Kaseyville, Macon Co., Mo., where he 
 has since continued to reside. 
 
 About 1848 or 1849 he was married to Octavia Sebree of 
 Pensacola, Fla., by whom he has had nine children, six of 
 them now living. 
 
 In a letter to the compiler, dated 8th September, 1885, he 
 writes : "I have a distinct recollection of most of the mem- 
 bers of our Class, and among them yourself. The impressions 
 then made were very pleasant, and will never be effaced." 
 
 CHARLES FRARY HARDING. 
 
 /CHARLES FRARY HARDING was born in Sullivan, 
 ^-^ Madison, Co., N. Y., on the 6th May, 1816; the youngest 
 of a family of fourteen children, being the brother of Chester 
 Harding, the celebrated portrait painter. 
 
 He entered Harvard in 1831 ; and many of those of his 
 Class who now survive remember him as he appeared then, 
 six feet three inches tall, loose-jointed, unformed, red-haired, 
 with the strength of a giant. As an evidence of his strength 
 it is stated by his niece, Mrs. White, of Brookline, that he 
 once, for a wager, lifted an anchor weighing eight hundred 
 pounds. In after life he became a portly, striking looking man, 
 with a figure so well developed as to counter-balance his 
 height. 
 
 Being suspended during the disturbances of 1832 he did not 
 return to College, but embarked as a common sailor on a 
 vessel bound to China, whence he did not return for three 
 
88 THE CLASS OF 1835. 
 
 years, having gained little but some rough experience in the 
 interval. He afterwards obtained command of a vessel on 
 Lake Erie, in which he had some exciting adventures during 
 the Canadian rebellion ; but tiring of the Lakes, he went again 
 to sea, as mate of a China trader, and subsequently com- 
 manded an English vessel engaged in the opium trade. 
 
 About 1855 he returned to Xew England with a handsome 
 sum of money ; was married to Miss Marv^ Bangs, of Spring- 
 field, ^lass., and removed to Lafayette, Ind., where he entered 
 into business. But this resulted disastrouslv, and he went 
 again to China. Meanwhile his wife died, his business was 
 unsuccessful, and he came back impoverished in purse and in 
 energy. For awhile he resided at his early home in Xew 
 York State, living almost the life of a recluse ; and finally 
 moved to California, where he gradually shut himself off from 
 all intercourse with his friends. For many years they have 
 lost all knowledge of him, and this silence on his part has 
 lasted so long that they feel little doubt of his death. 
 
 Most of these particulars have been kindly furnished by his 
 brother S. S. Harding, and his niece Mrs. William O. White, 
 of Brookline. 
 
 FREDERIC WILLL\M HOFFMAN. 
 
 npREDERIC WILLLA.M HOFFMAN was born in Balti- 
 -^ more. His residence at Harvard had barely commenced 
 when a severe attack of pulmonary disease, to which he had 
 previously been subject, obliged him to suspend his studies, 
 and shortly after to dissolve his connection with the Uni- 
 versity, 
 
 In the hope of reestablishing his health he made a voyage 
 with his parents to Europe. But it was of no avail, and he 
 died at Lyons, France, 9th December, 1833. ^ cenotaph 
 has been erected to his memorv at Mount Auburn. 
 
GEORGE LEEDS. 89 
 
 From the shortness of his stay with the Class few had an 
 opportunity of becoming intimate with him ; but those who 
 were so fortunate were enthusiastic in their testimony to the 
 kindness of his feelings and the purity of his heart. If his 
 life had been spared, he would probably have been an ornament 
 to society, and an honor to the Class with which he was for 
 so short a time connected. 
 
 NEMESE HERMOGENE LABRANCHE. 
 
 "VTEMESE HERMOGENE LABRANCHE, of St. Charles 
 --'^^ Parish, La., entered our Class in the third term of the 
 Freshman year, and left College during the last term of the 
 Junior year. 
 
 After his departure as above, we have no record of his 
 subsequent life. He did not continue his relations with the 
 Class ; nor has it been possible to obtain any positive knowl- 
 edge of his later career. Many circumstances have induced 
 the belief that he is no longer living ; but the date and place 
 of his death have not been ascertained. 
 
 Many of the survivors of the Class have pleasant recollec- 
 tions of his amiability and generous disposition. 
 
 GEORGE LEEDS. 
 
 GEORGE LEEDS was born at Dorchester, Mass., 25th 
 October, 18 16, the son of Benjamin B. Leeds, and was 
 fitted for College at Milton Academy. He entered Harvard 
 in 1 83 1, but at the end of the Freshman year removed to 
 Amherst College, where he was graduated in 1835. 
 12^ 
 
^♦U THE CLASS OF 1S35. 
 
 Having studied three years at the Andover Theological 
 Seminary, he became a Minister of the Protestant Episcopal 
 Church, being ordained Deacon in 1839 ^^^ Priest in 1841. 
 
 His first ministerial service was in St. Peter's Church, 
 Salem, where he passed one year as assistant to the Rector. 
 In 1867, after service in other parishes, he became Rector of 
 Grace Church, Baltimore, which post he held up to the period 
 of his death. 
 
 On the 22d June, 1843, ^^ ^^'^s married to Caroline, daugh- 
 ter of John White Treadwell, of Salem, who died in September, 
 185 1 ; and of their three children two daughters survive. 
 
 In 1850 the honorar}- degree of ^I.A. was conferred upon 
 him by Hobart College, and in 1861 that of D.D. by Trinity 
 Collesre. 
 
 His death, which was sudden, occurred in April, 1885 ; and 
 on that occasion the New York Churchman contained an 
 eulogistic notice, from which the following are extracts. "No 
 man, it may safely be said, was ever a more sincere follower 
 of the Master ; no pastor ever tried more faithfully to tread 
 in the footsteps of the Good Shepherd ; no friend was ever 
 more sympathizing in sorrow and affliction than the late 
 Rector of Grace Church. The Church at large has lost one 
 of her brightest ornaments, and the Diocese of Mar)-land a 
 presbyter whose ripe scholarship, dignity, consistent Christian 
 life, goodness and gentleness, she will find it hard to replace, 
 and impossible to surpass." 
 
 Upon the same occasion, at a meeting of the Wardens and 
 Vestry of Grace Church, a minute was ordered to be placed 
 on record expressive of their sense of the great loss they had 
 sustained by the death of their Rector, and asking, "as a 
 privilege, that we may be allowed to provide for the expenses 
 attendincr the burial of one so dear to us." 
 
NATHANIEL COLLINS McLEAN. 91 
 
 NATHANIEL KNOWLES LOMBARD. 
 
 'ISTTATHANIEL KNOWLES LOMBARD, the son of 
 
 -^^ Nathaniel Knowles and Esther Cutter Lombard, was 
 born in Boston, 29th January, 1808, entered Harvard in 1831, 
 but left during the Freshman year. 
 
 Some time after quitting College he went to Europe, a 
 great part of which he travelled over on horseback. Finally 
 he settled in Smyrna, where he remained many years. 
 
 Returning to America, after an absence of some thirty 
 years, he did not engage in any active business, and died at 
 Arlington, Mass., on the 3d April, 1876. He was never 
 married. 
 
 NATHANIEL COLLINS McLEAN. 
 
 "XTATH ANIEL COLLINS McLEAN, son of John McLean, 
 -^^ Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United 
 States, was born 2d February, 1818, and was graduated at 
 Augusta College, Kentucky, in 1834. He then entered our 
 Class, and went through the studies of the Senior year as a 
 resident graduate, after which he passed two years at the 
 Dane Law School. Removing then to Ohio, he commenced 
 the practice of his profession in Cincinnati ; which continued, 
 with a slight intermission on account of failing health, until 
 the breaking out of the civil war. 
 
 At that period he raised a regiment, the 75th Ohio, of 
 which he was the first colonel, and served during the whole 
 war. The regiment took part in the battles of the Shenandoah 
 Valley, Cross Keys, Cedar Mountain, Chancellorsville, Gettys- 
 burg, as well as in the operations in South Carolina and 
 Florida, and was mustered out in August, 1865. Colonel 
 
92 THE CLASS OF 1835. 
 
 McLean was promoted to a Brigadier-Generalship just after 
 the second battle of Bull Run. 
 
 After the war he went to Minnesota and settled there as a 
 farmer; and in June, 1885, he removed to Bellport, Long 
 Island, N. v., where it is his intention to reside for the future. 
 
 GEORGE WASHINGTON MINNS. 
 
 GEORGE WASHINGTON MINNS was born in Boston. 
 He entered Harvard in 1831; but being rusticated in 
 the disturbances of the Freshman year, he entered two years 
 later the Class of 1836 and was graduated with them. 
 
 After graduation he \vent to the Dane Law School ; and 
 receiving his degree of LL.B. in 1841, took a desk in the Law 
 office of Mr. Choate, and commenced the practice of his pro- 
 fession. 
 
 Not succeeding so rapidly as he desired, he departed to 
 California ; and a position being offered to him soon after 
 arrival in the new High School of San Francisco, he accepted 
 it, and has since that time been engaged in teaching. After 
 ten years in that employment he came back to Boston and 
 established a school there. 
 
 About 1880, being invited by the California State Board of 
 Education to resume his former position, he went again to 
 San Francisco, where he has since resided. 
 
 In a letter dated San Francisco, 28th November, 1885, he 
 writes as follows : 
 
 " I have been visited by a very serious calamity, viz., a 
 cataract in each eye. An operation was perfornied on my 
 left eye, and the lens removed. I was nearsighted before, but 
 I am left more nearsighted than ever, so that I cannot dis- 
 tinguish an acquaintance across the street. My right eye is 
 nearly blind ; and with the left on which the operation was 
 
CRAWFORD NIGHTINGALE. 93 
 
 performed, I can read only with great difficulty, and it is very 
 painful to attempt to write. 
 
 ''It is just like the noble Class of 1835 to desire to learn all 
 they can of the history of every one who has ever been con- 
 nected with it. I am sure I should read with great interest 
 every line written by any one who has belonged to the Class. 
 I was glad to see your name at the end of the letter you sent 
 me ; it brought back the good old times. In imagination I 
 stood again before Holworthy, joining the groups before the 
 old doorways. I went into the different rooms, and listened 
 to the animated discussion, the cheerful conversation, the 
 lively repartee. I think it highly probable that I may never 
 see again a single member of the Class ; but I should rejoice 
 to meet you at an annual meeting, to feel the warm grasp of 
 friendship, and to look again into the dear old familiar faces. 
 I should like to unite with you all once more in singing : 
 
 ' Should auld acquaintance be forgot 
 And never brouarht to mind.'" &c." 
 
 CRAWFORD NIGHTINGALE. 
 
 CRAWFORD NIGHTINGALE was born in Providence, 
 R. I., 3d November, 18 16, of a well known Rhode Island 
 family. 
 
 He was graduated at Brown University in 1834, after which 
 he came to Harvard, and as " University student " was con- 
 nected with our Class. In 1835 he entered the Harvard 
 Divinity School, and having completed his theological studies 
 was ordained an ''Evangelist" in 1838. 
 
 He went to Toledo, Ohio, and after three months removed 
 to Chicago, but the Western climate not agreeing with his 
 health he returned to New luigland and preached at several 
 
94 THE CLASS OF 1835. 
 
 stations, finally settling in Chicopee, Mass., for seven years. 
 Here he was married to Mary Hoyt Williams, of Athol, by 
 whom he has had two children, a son and daughter, both 
 married. After leaving Chicopee, on account of failing health, 
 he preached in various towns ; and for the last ten years has 
 been 'Miving quietly in Dorchester, doing occasional service, 
 but not equal to the strain of a settled ministry 
 
 " It is not from choice that I have changed about so much, 
 but it is because I cannot that I am not steadily at work 
 now 
 
 " My great-grandfather, Samuel Nightingale, did graduate 
 at Harvard in 1734. His father provided by will that his son 
 Samuel might proceed to take a degree or degrees at Cam- 
 bridge, if he is so inclined ; but if he do not so incline, then 
 to be put to a good and suitable trade. He chose the College, 
 and went to live at Pomfret, Conn., where his father owned 
 land, thence removed to Providence, where his descendants 
 still live." 
 
 THOMAS PARSONS. 
 
 n~^HE following particulars are furnished 'by himself, in a 
 -L letter dated 31st July, 1885. 
 
 " I have your kind note, and am proud to be acknowledged 
 as of the Class of '35. 
 
 "My Class life was short, as at the time we were sent home 
 on account of the trouble in the second term (Freshman year) 
 I was suffering with my lungs ; and my father was advised to 
 take me into the counting-house and shipping. I was there 
 until I went into business with him, and was interested in 
 ships until 1864. 
 
 *'I was married in 1847, ^^^-^ moved from Boston to Brook- 
 
THOMAS OLIVER PRESCOTT. 95 
 
 line ; took an interest in town affairs, was sixteen years 
 Selectman and School Committee man, and President of the 
 town library ; am Commissioner of Sinking Fund, and was 
 member of the Legislature six years, serving on the Finance 
 Committee ; was appointed on the State Prison Commission 
 by Governor Rice, and am now serving on it ; have held a 
 commission as Justice of the Peace more than thirty years. 
 
 ''I am not now in active business; am President of the 
 Lyman Mills at Holyoke. 
 
 *'I write the above ; and if you should consider me worthy of 
 notice in the Class Record, I assure you nothing could give 
 me more pleasure, as I look back upon my College days and 
 associations with more pleasure than anything that has since 
 been my lot." 
 
 WELLINGTON PEABODY. 
 
 TTTELLINGTON PEABODY was born in Boston. His 
 ' ^ connection with the Class was very short, continuing 
 only one term and a half ; he was the first to leave the Class. 
 After quitting College he studied medicine in Salem, at- 
 tending lectures in Boston, and was licensed to practise in 
 1837; after which he w^ent to New Orleans, and received an 
 appointment as physician in one of the hospitals. But soon he 
 was seized with yellow fever, and died in the summer of 1837. 
 
 THOMAS OLIVER PRESCOTT. 
 
 rpHOMAS OLIVER PRESCOTT, son of Samuel Jackson 
 -*- and Margaret (Hillcr) Prcscott, was ])orn in l^oston 29th 
 May, 1 8 14. 
 
9<) THE CLASS OF 1835. 
 
 Originally he entered the Class of 1833, where, however, he 
 only remained during the Freshman year, trouble with his 
 eyes compelling him to suspend his studies. 
 
 In 1 83 1 he went to Cuba, and returning next year entered 
 our Class, his name appearing in the College catalogue of that 
 year. His stay among us was, however, very short, as in that 
 year he removed to Cincinnati ; where, after teaching and 
 studying Law, he finally became Pastor of the Swedenborgian 
 Church in that city, holding that position until 1847. 
 
 Soon after this he visited Europe, and in 1848 took pastoral 
 charge of the Swedenborgian Society in Glasgow, Scotland. 
 
 In 1849 ^^^ ^'^^^ married to Jessie, daughter of Robert 
 Mackie, Esq., of Glasgow, who died childless in 1854. 
 
 In this year he assumed the name of Hiller, in honor of 
 his mother and her father Major Joseph Hiller, a soldier of 
 the Revolution, appointed by Washington first Collector of 
 Salem, which was then a port of some importance. 
 
 Soon after the death of his wife he removed to England, 
 and took charge of the Swedenborgian Church in London; in 
 1864 he was married a second time, to Emma Stokes, by whom 
 he had three children, who with their mother reside in London. 
 
 He died in London, nth May, 1870. He had all his life 
 been a hard student ; and his last illness was supposed to 
 have been brought on by excess of mental exertion. His last 
 literary work was a translation of the Psalms, left incomplete. 
 
 FRANCIS WARREN PRESTON. 
 
 n^HE following particulars of the life of Francis Warren 
 -*- Preston have been kindly communicated by his sister 
 Mrs. Mary E. Stearns, of Medford. 
 
 He waft born at Norridgewock, Somerset Co., Me., 17th 
 May, 181 5; was fitted for College by Mrs. Samuel Ripley, 
 of Waltham, and entered Harvard in 1831. 
 
THOMAS ALLEN RICH. ii7 
 
 Having been ''rusticated" in the disturbances of 1832, he 
 preferred not to return to College; his active, energetic 
 temperament made a student's life distasteful to him; and his 
 parents, although desirous he should return and complete his 
 College studies, v^isely forebore to insist upon his compliance 
 with their desires. His tastes inclining him to mercantile 
 pursuits, he v^as sent by Robert G. Shaw, of Boston, to 
 represent his interests in the large Spanish house of Arraza- 
 mundi & Co., St. John, Porto Rico. 
 
 Readily acquiring the Spanish language, and obtaining a 
 thorough mercantile training, he formed later a connection 
 with the house of O'Hara & Co., in Arroyo, P. R., and was 
 for many years American consul at that port. 
 
 In 1843, ^^ was married to Emma Verges (nee Lapelleux), 
 the young widow of a Spanish merchant, herself French, an 
 accomplished and noble-hearted woman, the joy and pride of 
 his nineteen years of married life. Of six children born to 
 them three survive, — Felix, American consul at Ponce, P. R., 
 a daughter married and living in Spain, and Gustavo, a 
 merchant in Boston. 
 
 He died in April, 1862, of fever contracted during a short 
 stay at Panama, whither he had gone to secure some claims 
 of a friend unfamiliar with the Spanish language. 
 
 THOMAS ALLEN RICH. 
 
 rpHOMAS ALLEN RICH died at Cohasset on the 24th 
 -^ July, 1835, at the age of 20. - 
 
 This was the second death that had occurred among our 
 classmates ; and it had a feature of particular sadness in the 
 fact that the young man was removed just as he had finished 
 his College course, and was preparing to commence the active 
 duties of life under favorable auspices. 
 13 
 
D8 tup: class of 1835. 
 
 His talents were more than respectable; and during his 
 College course he had, by his industry and application, ob- 
 tained a fair share of honors, while by his sincerity and amia- 
 bility he had gained the affection and respect of those who 
 knew him well. 
 
 A 
 
 AUGUSTUS KENDALL RUGG. 
 
 UGUSTUS KENDALL RUGG was born in Sterling, 
 Mass., on the 17th February, 181 5, the son of Luther 
 Rugg, a well-to-do farmer. He was prepared for College at 
 Leicester Academy, and entered Harvard in 183 1, but left in 
 March, 1832. 
 
 In 1834 he went to Schenectady and was admitted to Union 
 College, from which he was graduated with honors in 1836. 
 Soon after graduation he went to Talbotton, Ga., where he 
 taught an academy for several years. Meanwhile he studied 
 Law, and was admitted to the Bar in 1839. 
 
 In 1841 he removed to Albany, Ga., where he took a promi- 
 nent part in politics as a Democrat. 
 
 He died at Albany 6th August, 1843. 
 
 Upon the occasion of his death a flatteriiig notice of him 
 w^as published in the Albany Courier, from which a few 
 extracts are made : 
 
 "During his short residence here Mr. Rugg, by an upright, 
 correct and honest course, had secured the confidence of the 
 whole community, and acquired universal esteem and respect. 
 As a lawyer he was industrious and attentive ; and with a 
 mind amply stored with general knowledge and legal acquire- 
 ments he possessed a talent well adapted to the profession of 
 which he was both an honor and an ornament. Had he lived 
 to an ordinary age, he would have held an eminent position at 
 the Bar. 
 
JAMES McKINLAY SNEAD. 99 
 
 ''But it is not alone as a professional man that the de'ath of 
 Mr. Riigg will be regretted. Possessing in a high degree 
 those qualifications which made him an agreeable companion 
 in the social circle, united with t'he virtues which endeared 
 him as an associate in our more private hours, the society 
 from which he has been taken, and of which he was an im- 
 portant and useful member, will feel severely his loss. 
 
 ''In his general deportment he was courteous and affable; 
 in his dealings correct, prompt, and honest ; he was strictly 
 moral and intelligent, and on all occasions manifested a lively 
 interest in the happiness of those around him. During his 
 last illness he was attended with kindness by the numerous 
 friends whom his amiability and virtues had drawn around him. 
 His funeral was attended by the largest concourse ever col- 
 lected in this city on such an occasion. Though from a far 
 distant portion of the Union, he was surrounded by those who 
 justly appreciated his virtues and worth. " 
 
 JAMES McKINLAY SNEAD. 
 
 JAMES McKINLAY SNEAD, of Newbern, N. C, entered 
 our Class in the Junior year, and left College during the 
 same year. 
 
 All the information that has been obtained about him is 
 from the Postmaster of Newbern, who states, under date of 
 29th August, 1885, that the family of Snead is nearly extinct 
 at Newbern, there being, of near kin, only a maiden niece 
 surviving. He himself died almost immediately after quitting 
 Harvard, from the effects of a very severe fall. He did not 
 engage in any business, nor study a profession. 
 
 His talents were good, and he is said to have distinguished 
 himself in scholarship in a Southern College ; but in Harvard 
 he did nothing worthy of mention in the way of study, and 
 had become irregular in his habit.s. 
 
100 THE CLASS OF 1835. 
 
 EBENEZER SPALDING. 
 
 THBENEZER SPALDING was born in Brooklyn, Conn., 
 -■— ^ 2ist October, 1816, and was prepared for College at 
 Leicester Academy. 
 
 He entered Harvard in 1831, but left in the second term of 
 the Freshman year, and went to Yale College, from which he 
 was graduated in 1839. 
 
 He studied Law with Mr. Judson, a prominent lawyer of 
 Plainfield, Conn.; and in 1840 removed to Ohio, where, in 
 1 84 1, he was admitted to th-e Bar of Portage County, Ravenna 
 township, and associated himself in the practice of his pro- 
 fession with Hon. Rufus P. Spalding, then of Akron, and 
 now of Cleveland. 
 
 In 1844, he was married to Frances L. Day, of Ravenna, 
 by whom he had five children, of whom four are now living, 
 three sons, and a daughter married and living in St. Louis. 
 
 His widow, who has kindly communicated these particulars, 
 in a letter dated St. Louis, 31st August, 1885, thus writes: 
 
 " While living in Ravenna my husband held several positions 
 of trust in the County; serving as Justice of the Peace, and 
 County Clerk and Auditor, for some seventeen years. In 
 1865 he removed to St. Louis, where he renewed his Law 
 practice, taking an office with a former classmate, Charles C. 
 Whittlesey, of Middletown, Conn. He was in very poor health 
 when we came here, doing very little in the way of Law 
 practice ; and when the cholera came with its fearful ravages 
 the next season, he was among the first to fall a victim, 17th 
 August, 1866. 
 
 "He took deep interest in all his classmates and College 
 life, and often recounted little incidents in connection to me. 
 It affords me great pleasure to be able to contribute this 
 meagre memorial to so laudable an object." 
 
JOSEPH TRUE. 101 
 
 JOSEPH TRUE. 
 
 n^HE following account of the career of Joseph True, is 
 -^ kindly furnished by his nephew, Professor A. C. True of 
 the Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. 
 
 He was probably born about 1812, in Portland, Maine; 
 entered Harvard in 1831, but left in the Junior year; after- 
 wards taught one year at Amenia Seminary, Amenia, N. Y., 
 and later in New York city. 
 
 Subsequently he removed to Ottawa, 111., where his father 
 had gone to reside, and there studied Law, and was admitted 
 to the Bar in 1840, when he commenced to practise his pro- 
 fession, but died in the autumn of the same year. 
 
 Professor True was good enough to forward a letter from 
 B. C. Cook, Esq., of Chicago, addressed to a brother of our 
 classmate, from which some extracts follow: 
 
 ''My acquaintance with your brother began at Ottawa in 
 1839, where we were both Law students. Of course he was 
 then a young rnan, and had no opportunity for distinguishing 
 himself in any way. He was examined for admission to the 
 Bar about May i, 1840, in a class composed of your brother, 
 John M. Carruthers, Mr. Glover and myself. We were all 
 admitted at the same time. He stood a very excellent exami- 
 nation, and passed with credit. 
 
 "He then opened an office for practice in Ottawa, and in 
 the same autumn was taken sick with one of the malarial 
 fevers of the country and died. 
 
 "He was a man of strictly good habits, an industrious 
 student, and exceedingly upright. His history was so short 
 that it leaves very little to be said. That he would have 
 distinguished himself I have no doubt, from his industrious 
 character and scholarly attainments, had he lived longer." 
 
102 THE CLASS OF 1835. 
 
 JOHN WILLIAMS. 
 
 n~^HE following epitome of his career is furnished by himself 
 -*- in a letter dated Middletown, 17th December, 1885 : 
 
 **Born at Deerfield, Mass., 30th August, 1S17; prepared 
 for College at Academies in Deerfield and Xorthfield ; entered 
 Harvard in 1831; in 1833 removed to Trinity College, and 
 was graduated there in 1835. 
 
 *'\Vas Tutor at Trinity from 1837 to 1840; ordained 
 Deacon in Protestant Episcopal Church in 1838; in England 
 and Europe 1 840-1 841 ; became assistant minister at Christ 
 Church, ^liddletown, Conn., 1841-1842; ordained Priest in 
 1 841 ; became Rector of St. George's, Schenectady, N. Y., 
 1 842-1 848; President of Trinity College 1848-185 3; conse- 
 crated Assistant Bishop of Connecticut in 185 1 ; received the 
 degree of D.D. from L^nion, Trinity, Columbia and Yale 
 Colleges, and that of LL.D. from Har^-ard College. 
 
 " His publications are : 
 
 Ancient Hymns of Holy Church, 1847 
 
 Thoughts on the iMiracles, 1848 
 
 Paddock Lectures on the English Reformation, 1881 
 
 Bedell Lectures, 'The World's Witness to Christ,' 1882 
 
 Many sermons, reviews, articles, &c. &c." - 
 
SUMMARY. 
 
 The Class originally consisted of . . . 60 
 
 Entered in advance in Freshman year . 6 
 
 do. Sophomore " . . 9 
 
 do. Junior *♦ . 4 
 
 do. Senior " . . 3 22 
 
 The whole number connected with the Class 82 
 
 At Commencement in 1835 received degrees . 52 
 Degrees conferred subsequently ... 5 
 
 Number of Graduates . . . . . $y^ 
 
 On the fiftienth anniversary of graduation, 24th June, 1886, 
 there were present at Cambridge, twenty-one of the survivors, 
 and letters were read from four others expressing regret at 
 inability to attend, and sympathy with the occasion. 
 
 At the dinner of the Alumni in Memorial Hall on that day 
 the presiding officer called on E. Rockwood Hoar to speak 
 for the Class, when he delivered the following address : 
 
 Mr. President and Brethren, 
 
 It is a graceful custom which has prevailed within the last few 
 years, to call upon the Class which has reached the iiftieth year 
 from its graduation, in recognition of so interesting an event in 
 its history, to say a few words at the Commencement dinner. 
 Not, let me hope, to present us as tiie "' skeleton at the banquet " ; 
 to show these pillars of the State, and this long procession of 
 young and vigorous manhood which follows them, what they are 
 all liable to come to ; but rather for something in the likeness of 
 extreme unction, an opportunity for a last dying speech and con- 
 fession, this once, " and there an end." 
 
104 THE CLASS OF iS.'Jo. 
 
 More tlian half our nuinl)cr "■ have gone over to the majority," 
 atul we are impressively reminded to-day that we meet as " sur- 
 vivors." And yet, how the memories of this ))lace disown the 
 intrusive evidence of wrinkled faces, and thin and whitened locks! 
 The relation of classmates to each other, and to their College, is a 
 very peculiar one. They come together from various sections of 
 the country, from every variety of condition in life. They separate 
 in wide dispersal, to all sorts of occupations, with every degree of 
 success and failure ; but they are bound to each other by ties 
 which it is difficult to define, but which every graduate kiv^ws. 
 When we come together in class-meeting, we are, as Dr. Holmes 
 in his touching veises so often has told, '' the boys" to the end of 
 our days. So much we have gained of the spirit of perpetual 
 youth. 
 
 That was a charming observation of Longfellow in one of his last 
 letters : " My dear Uncle Sam, ' whom tlie gods love die young,' 
 which means that they never grow old though they live to four 
 score and upward." Here, at least, we feel that we are partakers 
 of this best gift of the gods. The College is to us the same, though 
 so much changed. In its exulting and abounding prosperity, with 
 classes four times as large as in our day, its halls and resources 
 multiplied in like propoition, we feel that while men pass away 
 institutions survive, and see in it all the unfolding and develop- 
 ment of the purpose and the principles which from 1636 have 
 made Harvard College the pride of tlie Colony and the State. 
 
 Of those who managed it fifty years ago, all but one, I believe, 
 are gone. The president and fellows, the overseers, and all but 
 one of the officers of instruction in 1S35, have ceased their earthly 
 work. That one we are gratified to see with us to-day. Good, 
 unsuspicious, nearsighted, large-hearted man ! How we used to 
 cheat him at recitation, and how the great service and honored 
 name of Dr. Peabody puts to shame the memory of such boyish 
 misbehavior ! 
 
 At the head of the College was the bearer of that great historic 
 name, Josiah Qiiincy ; who, though he heard no recitation, and 
 gave no course of lectures, was in himself a text-book. It might 
 l)e said of him, as Colonel Barrc said of Lord Chatham, that 
 *' nobody ever entered his closet who did not come out of it a 
 braver man." He did great service to the College ; but none more 
 valuable than the impression which his lofty courage, untiring 
 devotion to duty, and public spirit made upon the sixteen classes 
 which were under his charge. 
 
 The Class of 1S35 ^^'^*^^ *^ hand in a first-rate rebellion. It was 
 made in defence of our inalienable rights, and was conducted with 
 the utmost vigor and activity; and yet, from this point of view, 
 it looks like something of a failure. The fact is that Mr. Qiiincy 
 was on the other side, and did not take to it at all kindly. I 
 
SUMMARY. 105 
 
 think we felt about it, when it was over, and had taken from us 
 some of our best fellows, pretty much what a handsome, bright 
 eyed young fellow expressed to me, whom I met on the Kanawha 
 river, at the close of the late war, making his way home from a 
 military prison in Ohio. I said to him : " Now you are going 
 home to stay, I suppose?" '^ Yes," said he^ " I have had my rights, 
 and don't ever want to have any more of them." 
 
 How we should have compared with the boys of later times 
 if we had had their opportunities and advantages, nobody can tell. 
 We never acquired enough of that disastrous Greek, which has 
 blighted the prospects of the Adams family through so many 
 generations, to do us much harm. (I have noticed, by the way, 
 that they seem to have an inveterate habit of turning up in places 
 of trust and honor in spite of it.) 
 
 We never undertook to beat all our contemporaries at base 
 ball, and the like, and then sighed for new worlds to conquer. But 
 I may modestly suggest that in our Senior year, though there was 
 no Hemmenway Gymnasium, no athletics, no coaching, two of 
 our Class, one of wdiom, a sturdy Virginian, is with us at these 
 tables, and looks as if he would repeat the feat without inconveni- 
 ence, on a summer day walked the sixty miles from Cambridge 
 to New Bedford. 
 
 But if I were to undertake to recount all the deeds of these 
 ancient heroes, I should need to produce the many books of a 
 second Iliad, and your limbs might relax, and deep slumber 
 settle on your brows before the tale was ended. 
 
 We should rather like to hear what the old lady, whom to-day 
 we have come back to look up to and admire, thinks of us. Her 
 smile is sweet, as she sits in stately beauty, and lets the children 
 talk. Is it not possible for eager ears to catch a few words from 
 her lips.'' I think I hear the maternal voice : 
 
 "Well, my sons, I am glad to see you once more. How the 
 years roll by, to be sure ! Who would think it was fifty years 
 since I put you down from my arms, and set you on your own 
 feet! The time seems but short to me, though it has told pretty 
 seriously on you. As I look you over, I am sorry to see how little 
 of what civil gentlemen sometimes are pleased to call my 'im- 
 mortal beauty,' I have been able to transmit. 
 
 "You have not amounted to so much as I hoped you would, 
 not to nearly so much as I think you expected yourselves. Still, 
 I don't complain. I am not ashamed of you. You were a little 
 wild when I was trying so hard to make you good for something. 
 I have a faint recollection of some mischievous pranks. But you 
 have not done anything of the kind lately ; and at your worst I 
 don't believe there was one of you capable of defacing the statue of 
 John Harvard. You have not been specially eminent as a Class. 
 14 
 
10() THE CLASS OF 1835. 
 
 If any of you have rendered conspicuous public service, or helped 
 to make the world better, I am glad of it. But no less dear to me 
 are those of you whose lot has been hardship, disappointment or 
 poverty ; and who have still kept themselves to the end, what I 
 most wish my sons to be, worthy and honorable gentlemen. 
 
 '' I am glad to remember to-day that, as a Class, you have come 
 to see me when you could, have stood by me, and helped me 
 when I needed help, have loved one another, and have loved Har- 
 vard. And now you see that I have all these youngsters to attend 
 to, and it is about your bed time : Good night." 
 
 Ah ! Alma Mater Car{ssi?na^ may the blessing and gratitude 
 of your Class of 1S35 ^^ with you to the end of time ! 
 
 Since the fiftieth anniversary five members of the Class 
 have died, and the number of survivors is now thirty, of whom 
 twenty -three are graduates. 
 
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