i -p^- *^©*. .(gjf 6 ^X^ s^> % T I 1 / \ GV> ss REP 0/? 5 s 1878. I\ H. Whitcomb, Printer, Dartmouth Press, Hanover, N. H. SECRETARY'S ADDRESS. My Dear Classmates: — When I accepted your Secretaryship in 1871, I was not far-sighted enough to get a view of the pleasures and labor, too, connected with the issuing of this report — the pleasure of hearing directly from so many, and the labor of attempting by numerous appeals to hear from the remaining few. In 1871, 1 anticipated the pleasure of hearing annually, at least, from each member of the class; in 1878,1 have realized the disappointment of not hearing, according to anticipation, from thirty out of the thirty-three, except as the appeal by circular the present year has brought replies. I had hoped that under the generalship of my predecessor, you had become so well trained, that you would fall into line and perform all duties incumbent upon you without the use of spurs. As it is 4i never too late to mend," I would urge upon you the desirability of keeping your Secretary inform- ed of any changes in business, in residence, in social life, etc., in fact, of any items which ought to be recorded. If there appears to be lack of fullness in the following individual reports, or if in- accuracies have crept in, you must think of the appeal made above and see to it that corrections are made through the instrumen- tality of personal correspondence with your Secretary before another report is sent out. I have made free use of the letters received, and have allowed classmates to speak to one another when the letters were full and to the point, thinking you would prefer the individual characteristics to my version. Before closing I must inform you of the thriving condition of our class tree which was planted nearly in front of Reed Hall, for it has exceeded the expectations of the most sanguine. If its prosperity typifies that of the class, we may well be content. With hearty good wishes for you all, I am, very sincerely yours, C. F. EMERSON. Hanover, N. H. First Reunion, 1869. Agreeably to vote before graduation, the class held its first reunion in one year, at the Centennial of the College, but the time during the week was so fully occupied by other exercises of interest, that the gatherings of the class were rather infor- mal than otherwise; and, owing to the numbers present in Hanover the difficulty of obtaining dinner individually was so great that it was not thought best to attempt a class dinner. The only formal meeting was a brief one held in the class tent at one o'clock, P. M., on Wednesday, July 21, at which no im- portant -class business was transacted. The members of the class present at this reunion were Anderson, Campbell, Chand- ler, Clark, Condit, Emerson, Hale, Hathaway, Hughes, Lord, Page, Smith, Twombly, White, Wise, C. R, Wise, H. A. and Wood. C..H. CHANDLER, Secretary. Second Reunion, 1871 This meeting was very thinly attended, much to the surprise and regret of those present, for only five made their appear- ance in person — Anderson, Emerson, Hill, Lord and Wise, H. A. Chandler sent in his resignation of .the Secretaryship of the Class, on account of his removal to Yellow Springs, Ohio, hav- ing been called to a Professor's chair in Antioch College ; his resignation was accepted, and Emerson was chosen to fill the vacancy. The subject of class cup next came up for discussion. On counting the votes of the class, it was found that a majority of votes was in favor of giving the cup to Vanderpoel's child ; accordingly a vote was passed to forward the cup by Wise to Smith, who was then in N. Y., to be engraved and presented to Vanderpoel in due form by the members of the class residing in the immediate vicinity of New York City. After listening to the Master's Oration, delivered by Lord, who was appointed by the faculty, (which oration, by the way, was very creditable to the speaker and the class,) the following members received the degree of A. M. in course : Anderson, Chandler, Cochran, Condit, Emerson, Hill, Lord, Smith, Twombly, Wise, C. R. and Wise, H. A. With many regrets arising from meeting so few members of the class, but with best wishes for all, the meeting adjourned to Commencement week 1878. C. F. EMERSON, Secretary. Third Reunion, 1878. Very little can be said of the gathering this time, as only three of the class were present, Emerson, Lord and Smith. It was not thought advisable to attempt to transact any class business ; the only formal meeting held was around the tea table at Prof. Lord's. It is to be hoped that the class will make an effort to redeem itself in the matter of reunions in 1888, when every living member should be present with his whole family. C. F. EMERSON, Secretary. REPORT, Anderson, David Allen, in the autumn of 1868, took charge of the High School in Great Falls, N. H. for one term, and in the following spring was engaged as teacher of the High School in Rochester, N. H., where he remained till the close of 1869. During the first part of 1870 he was engaged in settling the estate of his father, then lately deceased. In the autumn of 1870 he became Principal of Appleton Academy, Mont Vernon, N. H. where he remained two years ; he then taught in Bolton, Mass. for one year; in Sept. 1873 he located in Newton, N. J., as one of the Principals of the Newton Collegiate Institute, remaining four years, when, on account of the depression in business, the school money failed and he sought employment in the public schools in Millstone, N. J. where he is at this date temporarily located. Ayers, Walter Howard, studied Theology three years in Union Theological Seminary, New York City, preaching vaca- tions in Me. and N. H.; he gives the following concise account of his work since ; " Preached four years East, two years in Vt., and two in N. H. ; spent two years in Eclectic Theological Study in Chicago and in travel in Europe, and have been settled pastor one year in the West, over the Congregational church of this city, Hudson, Wis. (Mar. 15, 1878)." Bennett, Francis Marion, went West soon after grad- uation and became master of the St. John's High School in Evansville, Ind. ; the climate disagreeing with him, he gave up his school in the summer of '69 and returned to the East to teach in Alford, Me. In March 1870, he was appointed assistant 8 master of the High School in Portland, Me. In the winter of 1876 he was in a Law office in Boston, but nothing has been heard from him, or of him, since, except that he has gone West again. Blaisdell, Kimball Foster, commenced the Study of Law with David Steele Esq. in Goffstown, N. H. soon after grad- uation; during the year 1869 he went West and canvassed for books in Minnesota and vicinity ; he soon returned to the East to pursue his legal studies, and nothing more was heard of him till the sad intelligence came that he was in the Asylum for the Insane in Concord, N. H. The following facts are from a let- ter received from the officers of the Asylum ; " Mr. B. was ad- mitted here March 12, 1874; his friends had noticed some mental disorder for four years previous to his committal here, although at this time he was pursuing his Law studies at Cam- bridge ; no cause assigned except ' hard study \ This is the first attack. His present condition is not hopeful. His disease is chronic mania, with delusions, passing into dementia ". Blanchard, George Adams, gives, in answer to my cir- cular, such a good account of himself, that I cannot do better than insert it here. " After being graduated in '68, I went to Buffalo, N. Y., and remained there till March 1870, studying law and acting as a Deputy in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of that city. I was admitted, after examina- tion, to practice as Attorney and Counselor in all the courts of the State of New York, in Nov. 1869, at the General Term of the Supreme Court at Buffalo. I returned to California in March 1870, and lived in Placerville, (beginning the practice of Law there,) until Nov. 1871, when I came to Sacramento, as clerk and assistant in the office of Attorney General John L. Love; I had previously, in July 1870, been admitted as Coun- selor in the Supreme Court of this State. From Dec. 1871, to Jan. 1, 1876, I acted as Assistant Attorney General of this State, all this time reading more or less law and becoming fa- miliar with the practice here. From Jan. to May 1876, 1 had an office and practiced law on my own hook in this city ; in May '76 I took as partner Mr. W. C. Van Fleet who is still with me. Jan. 17, 1877, 1 was married in this city to Miss SECRETARY 8 REPORT. 9 Annie Louisa Hatch, daughter of Dr. F. W. Hatch, the present permanent Secretary of the California State board of Health. In Sept. 1877, I was elected Dist. Atty. of Sacramento County on the Republican ticket, which office I now hold. Jan. 8, 1878 my wife presented me with a son, whom we named Frederick Winslow Blanchard. He is now nearly six months old, is strong and well, never having been sick, and sends greeting to his sire's Classmates — super sunt adhuc — the bachelors included. I propose, if able, to give him an old fashioned academic edu- cation without rebate of Latin, Greek or Natural Theology." It is reported by a classmate that he has written a work on the law of Mines and Water Privileges, which has become an au- thority. Bliss, Henry Clay, took charge of the Academy at Bar- ton, Vt., for the Autumn term after graduation, and then com- menced the study of Law in the office of Stevens & Knowlton, Springfield, Mass., where he remained till February 1869, when he removed to Washington, D. C. ; here he obtained a situation in the office of the First Auditor, Treasury Department, and also entered the Law Department of Columbian College and graduated therefrom in June 1870 ; soon after, being admitted to the bar, he commenced the practice of Law, in Washington, and continues to the present, with great success, according to report direct from W. Campbell, Cassius Samuel, was appointed Superintendent of the Public Schools in Hastings, Minn., and entered upon his duties almost immediately upon graduation; he writes: "I struck root as soon as I came here, having lived within 400 ft. of where I am now writing ever since Aug. 30, 1868. My first work was to organize a system of Graded Schools." The thor- oughness and faithfulness of his work may be inferred from the following, written by a Professor in the State University. " By reputation you have in your care and of your making, one of the best High Schools in the State, if not the best." A year or so later the State Superintendent of Schools stated in ad- dressing a teachers institute at St. Paul, that Hastings had the best High School in the State. In July '78, he sought and se- cured a position in the schools of St. Paul, which will be his address for the present. At Hastings, he met a Miss L 10 L. Ashley, a graduate of Mt. Holyoke Seminary, class of '66, a teacher in the schools there, and in the following year she became Mrs. Campbell ; they were married in Nashua, N. H., Aug. 30, 1869, and have at the present time four children ; George A., born Nov. 27, 1870; Arthur F., born Oct. 4, '72 ; Francena L., born Nov. 23, '74, and Percy A., born Aug. 17, '77. Chandler, Charles Henry, was a teacher of the Natural Sciences and Latin at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H. for the first year after graduation, resigning in June 1869, in order to take charge of the Academy at St. Johnsbury, Vt., where he remained two years, when he received the appoint- ment of Professor of Physics and Chemistry in Antioch Col- lege, Yellow Springs, Ohio ; this chair he held six years, from '71-77, when he was transferred to the chair of Mathematics and Physics in the same College, at his own request, which po- sition he now holds. Aug. 17, 1868, he was married to Miss Eliza F. Dwinnell at Fitchburg, Mass. Aug. 29, 1872 a son, Elwyn F., was born in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Clark, Henry Salter, began the study of law in the office of I. W. Smith, Esq., Manchester, N. H., immediately after graduation. In the following January he was commissioned a Justice of the peace. In due time he was admitted to the bar and has been practicing law in Manchester and vicinity since. According to the best information your Secretary can get, he is still in Manchester and doing a good business at his chosen pro- fession. Nearly two years ago your Secretary met him on the cars, when he said he had been married a long time and had a child ; he promised to write giving names, dates, etc., but noth- ing has been heard from him since ; not even three separate appeals by circular and letters have brought information from him, and hence this brief sketch. Cochran, Frederic Gove, returned to his home in St. Louis, Mo., after graduation, and was employed in the house of J. J. Roe & Co., Pork Packers, for several years, and is now of the firm of Bartle & Cochran, successors to J. J. Roe & Co. To the question, " Are you married?" his answer is quite full, and I give it in his own words ; " No, but not from any fault of mine ; I beg leave solemnly to assure you, I have asked thirty- five different ladies to honor me by becoming Mrs. Cochran— secretary's report. 11 quite a number of them twice and some of them three times or more ; most of them have answered ' no? for what reason I am at a loss to guess ; some few have said ' yes,' but with a fickleness peculiar to the sex have changed their minds before the crisis came. Number 35 has said yes and assures me she will never change. I have every confidence in her, the rarest jewel heaven has ever given to earth in womankind, but in the light of past experience it would perhaps be safest not to report ' date of marriage ' till the event has become a fact ac- complished." Condit, Aaron Dayton, went immediately on graduation to Mankato, Minn., where he had already engaged in the drug business and remained there till '72, when he sold out ; about six months after he located in St. Paul in the same business, sold out in '76, and tried Real Estate business for a year and then bought back in his old stand in St. Paul, where he says " I expect to live and die unless some one comes along who wants it more than I do and has heaps of * Gosh poppy'' ". ^He was married to Miss E. A. Lord, (classmate Lord's sister,) Sept. 29, 1869, in Montpelier, Vt. ; they have one child living, a son, Dayton Lord, born Feb. 13, 1876, but have buried twins. Cook, Asa Brown, Jr., went to California with Cushing, but returned after a few months and located in Erie, Penn. ; he was connected with the " Daily Despatch " for four years, and then for four years more was employed in the manufacture and sale of Pulleys and Couplings. For the past year he has been prospecting, but on and after August 1st, 1878, will hail from Petersburg, Va. Business, Real Estate. He married Miss Lydia Willard, (sister of Willard of '67) Dec. 1870 ; they have one child, Willard Beach, born Nov. 1871. Curtis, Erskine Chamberltn, spent the first year after graduation at his home in Mont Vernon, Ohio. In Nov. 1869 he removed with his father to St. Louis, Mo. and there engaged in the manufacture of Stoves, under the firm name of M. & E. C. Curtis, and is still in the same business. He married Miss Sarah B. Pomeroy, June 4, 1873. They have one daughter, Helen Pomeroy, born Dec. 18, 1875. 12 secretary's report. Cusiiing, Edward Abbott, went to California in the au- tumn of '68 with Cook and was engaged in teaching and farm- ing for over four years when he returned to his home in Barns- ton, P. Q., early in 1873. In Oct. 1873, he writes, from his home, " I am now teaching here at home, but shall probably return to California in the spring". Since Feb. 1874 nothing has been heard from, or of, him, by your Secretary. Emerson, Charles Franklin, at graduation was appoint- ed Instructor of Gymnastics in Dartmouth College and also In- structor of Mathematics in the Agricultural College ; in June 1869 he was elected Tutor of Math, in Dart. College, and re- mained so till the Summer of 1872, when he was appointed Associate Professor of Natural Philosophy and Mathematics, which position he held till the summer of 1878, when he was elected Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and Instruc- tor in Astronomy. Jan. 20, 1875, he married Miss Caroline Flagg of No. Chelmsford, Mass. Gale, Eugene Beauharnais, taught the High School in East Randolph, Mass. two terms; he then went to New York City and was engaged in the office of the "Meth- odist" and in other journalistic work; he then went to Wor- cester, Mass., where he acted as an agent of the Traveller's Life Ins. Co. of Hartford, Ct. In the fall of 1870 he returned to N. Y. and entered the Columbia Law School ; he afterwards went to St. Louis, Mo. and was engaged very sucessfully in the practice of law when his health failed ; he returned to his fath- er's in Haverhill, N. H. March 5, 1875 and died of consumption on the 13th of the same month. Hale, Charles Goodwin, taught school in Provincetown, Mass., for a short time, and afterwards in Milbury, Mass. In the summer of '69 he entered the employment of Wilcox & Gibbs in New York City and after a short time was employed in a broker's office. He spent a few years travelling through the Middle, Western and Southern States as an Agent, but is now married and settled in Chicago, doing a good business, according to general report, though your Secretary has not heard a word directly from him for four or five years. secretary's report. 13 Hathaway, Fernando Cortez, took charge of the Acad- emy in Hardwick, Vt., the Autumn after graduation and at the same time read law with his brother ; the following year he became the principal of the " People's Academy and Morrisville Graded School," at Morrisville, Vt., where he continued as a most successful teacher till his death, from consumption, July 6, 1873. During a part of this time he was on the "State Board of Education." Feb. 27, 1869, he married Hattie Jane Woodbury, in Montpelier, Vt. Hill, Benjamin Mead, became Principal of the High School in Hopkinton, Mass., in Sept. '68, and continued two years, when he took charge of the Academy and High School in Stockbridge, Mass., where he is still located, doing good ser- vice in the great cause of education. July 1st, 1873, he married Miss Janet N. McKenzie of Westfield, Mass. ; they have one child, Robert Bertram, born April 15, 1874. He writes, " We are perfectly well and prosperous, and enjoying life greatly." Howe, Charles Marion, writes, " The first two years af- ter graduation were spent in Theological study in Auburn Seminary, at Auburn, N. Y. The third year was spent in simi- lar study at the " Theological Seminary of the North- West," at Chicago, 111., from which I graduated. About two months after, or July 1, 1871, I accepted a call to the Presbyterian church of Eldora, Hardin Co., Iowa, was ordained and installed in Nov. following, and have since continued as now, settled Pastor of this charge. I was married June 15, 1870 to Miss Mary O. Dennis, a graduate of Iowa State Normal School. We have two children, — both boys — Lucias E., born May 8, 1871, and Charles B., born July 24, 1877. Hughes, James Alexander Dupee, writes : " After leav- ing College, I studied Theology in the General Theological Seminary, New York City ; was ordained Deacon in St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 4, 1870, served as Missionary in the West until June 1872, when I assumed temporary charge of St. James Church, Woodstock, Vt. Oct. 1, 1873, I went to Philadelphia, com- pleted my studies in Theology, was ordained Priest at St # 14 secretary's report. Andrews Church, Philadelphia. I served as Assistant Minister in St. Andrews Church and Grace Church, and on Dec. 1, 1877, became Rector of Trinity Church, Carbondale, Pa., where I now reside." Lord, John King, taught for one year after graduation in Appleton Academy, New Ipswich, N. H., when he was elected Tutor of Latin in Dartmouth College ; he remained as Tutor till the summer of 1872, when he was appointed Associate Pro- fessor of Latin and Rhetoric, which position he still holds. Jan. 20, 1873, he married Miss Emma F. Pomeroy of Detroit, Mich. ; they have two sons, John King, Jr., born May 17, 1874, and Frederic P., born Dec. 28, 1876. Noyes, Raymond, writes such a pleasing and characteristic letter that I cannot resist the temptation to let him speak for himself, as he was wont, when here and with the boys of '68. " You ask for ' a full account of myself since graduation ' ; well, I ought not to be ashamed as most I have done has been write. But though I have figured extensively in many important trans- actions, and have been engaged in matters of interest with many men of note, still it is a serious job to produce a readable sketch with my dull pen — and I've not the wit to sharpen it. I see my mistake, but alas, too late — I should have had a Boswell, — but I will try to give you the bottom facts without embellish- ment. After graduation I came directly home — spent a few weeks in bidding a final farewell to school-life — closed all my school-books and on the first day of Sept. 1868, opened another set — viz : books of accounts, (this is not intended as a slur on the school-books). I engaged myself for one year as book- keeper for a then prominent shoe manufacturer ; this was an entirely new departure for me — I knew nothing about business forms or customs, but I applied myself to the task — I worked harder and learned more than in any previous year of my life — I was busy and of course happy — I put in some variations as I kept my Day Book mostly by night, and my Cash Book with credit. As I said before, I was engaged for the period of one year, but (see the difference between business and books) this period did not indicate a full stop — I did not stop till I had secretary's report. 15 nearly counted four. After I had been with my employer about two years, he withdrew entirely from the shoe business, and invested largely in Real Estate which put me in a new position again. I laid aside my pen, put on my overalls and cowhide boots and worked side by side with the Negro and Irishman — this gave me a chance to improve myself in the Irish language, and to book up in plantation lore. I became practically ac- quainted with the uses and abuses of shovels and picks, ham- mers and saws, wheelbarrows and grindstones — I had an oppor- tunity to study architecture both analytically and synthetically — being required to assist in demolishing old and building up new structures. I have even carried a hod, but never became so proficient as to enable me to look without envy upon a man who could handle one gracefully upon a ladder; my boss used often to remark as he sent me to help the carpenter clap-board a house or shingle a shed, that he wanted me to complete my education. In June 1872, he detailed me for a few weeks to assist the Cashier of the Essex National Bank of this city and I staid there till Sept. 1876 — over four years ; I was never regularly hired, but slipped from my former job into this one by a sort of dissolving view ; I didn't agree with the Cashier very well — he was an old sea captain and inclined to be overbearing and un- reasonable. I stood it very well for the first (Freshman) year, but after that I am sorry to say, we quarrelled occasionally, and as I am telling it, he of course came out second best. It finally became monotonous, however, and in Sept. 1876, I seceded, and 'few and short were the prayers that I said, as I left him alone in his glory.' In about ten days I struck a temporary job at book-keeping in a hat factory and remained there four months. The next permanent position was the one which I now occupy, in the employ of the city, c Clerk of Overseers, Secretary of Assessors and Collector of Taxes' ; though not a literary man, I feel almost like a man of letters. When I last saw you I had just mastered the two first letters of our alpha- bet with a chance to add another at the end of three years. I wasn't ambitious for this however — I never was much of an A. M. bird anyhow, but worked more after tea. I never thought of it before, but 4 seems a sort of key to my life, — at the age of 4 I went to the Primary School — after 4 years I entered the 16 secretary's report. Grammar School — about 4 more I entered the High School where the regular course was 4 years, though I was there 5, being more than 10, I suppose I carried one — then I entered a 4 years College course and put on Spectacles which made me a 4-eyed man and endowed me with 4-sight — I was with my first employer about 4 years — in Bank about 4 years — Hat factory 4 months, and I think it is 4-ordained that I should hold my present position about 4 years. You see that I have taken time by the 4-lock and had a 4-taste of everything so far ; when the President of the U. S. has his term limited to 4 years I shall be the candidate; when it will be I cannot fore-te\\. This I believe ends my account from a business point of view — you see I have not made my mark yet, in fact my occu- pation has made it almost necessary that I should write my name instead. As a domestic animal I have proved a success. I was married Aug. 25, 1872 to Laura E. Stockbridge of this city, and commenced housekeeping immediately. June 16, 1873, 1 received my first dividend on my matrimonial investment amounting to about 8 pounds (avoirdupois). I have received from the same source two more payments of like kind. My first child (those words mean a great deal, but you don't probably understand it) was a girl, and we named her Eva Josephine ; she was born June 16, 1873, and is now a good healthy child of 5 years. Child No. 2 was a boy — short, chubby and fat, like his father — he was born March 25, 1875, and was named Irving. His chief pecu- liarity seems to be an appetite that never falters or grows weary ; he seems, as it were, to have been born with a wooden spoon in his mouth and is the personification of the long E of the Greeks. If I hadn't been stupid as well as rusty on my Latin I should have given him a classical name, to wit : Tem- p US — (j. e . edax rerum.) My third child is a girl, born Aug. 5, 1877 — name Florence Louisa. # * * I owe you an apology for not sending this before — but I shall not pay you — I have no excuse — I am bankrupt without assets — I can only plead guilty and hang. The only explanation (and that still needs a sub-explanation) is my constitutional hatred for putting my thoughts, feelings and ideas (?) upon paper. Prof. Sanborn (my regards and best wishes to him, for I always felt most kindly and respectful towards him personally, 17 though he was ex-officio my tormentor) Prof. Sanborn, I say, will doubtless remember this defect in my nature. I have a theory like this ; most people during childhood go through a series of petty sicknesses — mumps, measles, whooping-cough, etc., known as children's diseases. I place among these one not generally so classified, the botanical name of which is " Cacoe- thes Scribendi." I, having escaped this in childhood, do not now like to expose myself, as I fear it would go hard with me — in fact, if I should have a severe attack, it would most likely prove fatal, if not to me, to some one else. * Yours as of yore, Raymond Noyes, Haverhill, Mass., June 9, 1878." I regret that I am unable to insert his "picture," well- known to the class, (issued in 1867) a copy of which accom- panied his letter. Page, John Ward, acted as Travelling Agent for a Whole- sale Grocery house in Boston for the first 16 months after grad- uation ; in Dec. 1869 he entered into partnership with O. H. Roberts, and under the firm name of J. W. Page & Co. carried on the wholesale and retail grocery business in Montpelier, Vt. In the autumn of 1873 he became clerk in the State Treasurer's office where he is still employed. Sept. 21, 1874 he was married to Miss Jennie F. Higgins of Boston, Vt. Ranney, Ambrose Loomis, taught in the public Schools of New York City for the first year after graduation and was for four years afterward Professor of Math, in the Evening High School of the City, carrying on his Medical Studies at the same time, so that in 1870 he graduated from the University Medical College ; in Mar. 1870 he was awarded a gold medal for the best " Surgical Preparation ". After taking his degree in medicine, he was appointed to first position in Belle vue Hospital on com- petitive examination; retiring from the Hospital in 1872, he gave his attention for a year to the fitting of Medical Students for prize examinations and for the Army and Navy. In 1873, he was appointed Lecturer on diseases of Kidney and Bladder in the University Medical College, N. Y., and in 1876, he was ap- pointed Lecturer on Surgery in the same Institution, which po- 18 sition he still holds. In 1874 he married Miss Louise Wright of N. Y., but in the following year he buried his wife and child in the same grave. In 1876 he married Miss Marie Celle of 1ST. Y. June 6, 1878 he became the happy father of a nice boy. In his letter he says, " I hardly know how to begin an account of my life since '68, with its trials, sorrows and suc- cesses. * * * * I have few idle hours to look back on since life's struggles real- ly began at the hour of our parting. Many tender recollections centre about that time with me, many longings to meet the old faces, many regrets that those happy days have passed and that care and trouble are no longer absent. # * My residence now is 156 Madison Avenue, where I keep a long latch string and an open house for class of '68". Small, Elmer, entered immediately upon the study of Medicine to which he had already given some attention, and graduated from the Medical School of Me., in July 1870. In Sept. of the same year he opened an office in Manchester, N. H. In Dec. 1870 he removed to Melrose, Iowa. On Jan. 1st, 1872 he commenced practice in Belfast, Me., where he is now permanently located, holding the appointment of " Port Sur- geon in the U. S. Marine Hospital Service." Dec. 23, 1869, he married Caroline F. Cobb, of Augusta, Me. Smith, Edwin Everett, attended three courses of lectures in the Dartmouth Medical School, during the last of which he was " Demonstrator of Anatomy." During the winter of 1869- 70 he attended the medical course at Ann Arbor, Mich., and in spring of '71 attended a course at Long Island College Hospital, graduated there in June of that year, and received the appoint- ment of Resident Surgeon. In July '72 he went into private practice in Brooklyn ; in July '73 he took the position of Resi- dent Surgeon of the Emigrant Hospital on Ward's Island ; in June '74 he went to Utica, N. Y. as 4th Assistant in N. Y. State Lunatic Asylum; July 13th '76, he entered upon the duties as 1st Assistant in the " State Asylum for the Insane at Morristown New Jersey," where he is still located. January 16, '78, he married Frances Janette Lord of N. Y. City. secretary's report. 19 Twombly, John Herbert, writes : " After graduation I studied medicine at Dover, N. H., and attended lectures at Harvard Medical School until Feb. 1872, at which time I re- ceived my degree ; the next seven months was assistant to Dr. Jasper H. York, of Dover, N. H. ; was in private practice in Brooklyn, N". Y. from Oct. 1872 to Jan. 1874, when I received an appointment as Asst. Physician at King's Co. Lunatic Asylum, Flatbush, N. Y. In Aug. 1874, this position was given up and in Nov. I received the position of Acting Asst. Physician at the Asylum for the Insane, Kalamazoo, Mich. Since that time my connection here has been in the main pleasant, but for the past six months symptoms of gradual breaking down of ray physical health has led me to decide upon my resignation which will take place early in July. My present fear is that I shall have to give up the practice of medicine, as the interference with health in both general and hospital practice is so great, unless a marked change is effected by the enforced rest during the rest of the summer." The Congregationalist of July 17, 1878, contains the fol- lowing notice under the head of marriages. In Milton, N. H., 11th inst., J. Herbert Twombly, M. D., to Miss Frances W. Plummer, daughter of E. W. Plummer, Esq., of M. Vanderpoel, George Burritt, was married Oct. 14, 1868, to Miss Maria Louise Ely, and sailed for Europe the same day, returning in Aug. 1869. He then went into the Hide and Leather business on Gold St., N.Y.,where he remained for several years, but is now in the City Mayor's office. It will be remem- bered that his first child received the class cup by vote of the class. I insert his own words about his children. " Our first child, the class child, was born July 31, 1870, Julia Louise Van- derpoel, and died Dec. 28, 1874, of Diphtheria; that was an awful blow, although we know she is better off infinitely. Our second child, Catherine Ann Vanderpoel was born June 10, 1872, and died Aug. 18, 1872. The only child we now have is Ambrose Ely Vanderpoel who was born Aug. 9, 1875, and who is a whole house-full of fun, and health, and happiness in himself, although only 2 1-2 years old." White, Carlos, it will be remembered, opened a bookstore in Hanover in company with J. B. Parker of '69, during the 20 summer of 1868, but in the Autumn of 1869 he retired from the business, though still residing in flanover, and in the fol- lowing year wrote and had published a book entitled " Ecce Femina." In the winter of 1871 he went to California and is still there ; he is now Proprietor of the Pacific Newspaper Publishing Co., in San Francisco. (Office 525 and 527 Market St.) April 29, 1869, he married Miss Martha E. Richardson of Oakland, California, and on May 12, 1870 a son, Arthur White, was born, for whom his father claimed the class cup, but the majority of the class decided otherwise, as at that time the father had not received his degree from the College. In Jan. 1877, he received a divorce from his wife, in the Cal. courts. Wise, Colin Reed, taught school for several months after graduation in Dividing Creek, N. J. In March 1869 he accepted the position of Asst. Engineer on the Hackensack & N. Y. Ex- tension R. R., remaining till Feb. 1870, when he accepted a sim- ilar position on the Northern Pacific R. R. in Minnesota. In the latter part of the same year he returned to N. Y. and be- came Resident Engineer of the New Jersey and New York Railway ; in 1873, on the death of the Chief Engineer, he was elected his successor and remained so till the road was completed in 1875. He then joined the corps of Engineers of the Erie Railway, and after two years of hard labor there, was appointed Chief Engineer of the Bullion Belt R. R. Co., and also of the Franklin & Berringer City R. R. Co. He is now Asst. Engineer on the New York Elevated R. R., which is building on the third and ninth Avenues. June 15, 1875, he married Miss Serina Sherwood of Spring Valley, N. Y. They have one child, a daughter, Corinne, born Dec. 12, 1876. Wise, Henry Andrew, writes : " Immediately after my graduation I went to Jersey City where I studied a couple of years with the distinguished Civil Engineer, the late S. S. Post. I went thence to Vineland in 1870 and read Blackstone for six months. My taste for Civil Engineering led me back to Jersey City where I spent about two years in the City Engineer's office. In Jan. 1872, I went to Paterson, N. J. as Asst. Engineer of the Watson Bridge Works. In June 1875, 1 came West locating secretary's report. 21 at Kansas City, Mo. and opening an office as Civil Engineer. In 1876 I came to Leavenworth, Kansas, having been appointed Chief Engineer of the Missouri Valley Bridge Co., which posi- tion I now hold." Wood, Franklin Parker, taught in Kimball Union Acad- emy, Meriden, N. H. during the Autumn of 1868, and then entered Union Theological Seminary, New York City, and re- mained two years. From May 1st to Sept. 1st 1870, he was acting pastor of the Congregational Church in Newbury, Vt. ; he then entered Andover Theological Seminary, completed his studies and graduated in June 1871 ; he then went to Acton, Mass., was ordained July 24, 1871, and installed as pas- tor there Oct. 10, 1872, where he now remains. Oct. 11, 1871 he married Miss Abby Olivia Drew of Waterbury, Yt. ; they have two children, a son, Oliver Drew, born Dec. 23, 1872, and a daughter, Jessie Parker, born Dec. 18, 1875. SUMMARY Whole number, 33 Now living, 31 Married, 23 Children, 30 OCCUPATIONS AS INTENDED IN 1868. Law, 8 Business, 8 Ministry, 5 Medicine, 4 Uncertain, 4 Teaching, 3 Civil Engineering, 1 OCCUPATIONS AS REALIZED IN 1878. Teaching, 8 Law, 6 Business, 6 Ministry, 4 Medicine, 4 Clerking, 3 Civil Engineering, 2