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1873-1874 Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University OBITUARY RECORD OP GRADUATES OF TALE COLLEGE Deceased during the academical year ending in June, 1874, including the record of a few who died a short time previous, hitherto unreported. [PRESENTED AT THE MEETING OF THE ALUMNI, JUNE 24th, 1874.] [No, 4 of the Second Printed Series, and &o 33 of the whole Eecord OBITUARY RECORD OP GRADUATES OF YALE COLLEGE Deceased during the academical year ending June, 1874, includ- ing the record of a few who died previously, hitherto unreported. [PRESENTED AT THE MEETING OF THE ALUMNI, JUNE 25,1874 ] [No 4 of the Second Printed Series, and No 33 of the whole Record ] ACADEMICAL DEPARTMENT. 1805. GARDINER SPRING was the third child and second son of Rev. Dr. Samuel Spring (Coll. of N. J. 1*771) of Newburyport, Mass., where he was born, Feb. 24, 1785. His mother was Hannah, the daughter of Rev. Dr. Samuel Hopkins (Y. C. 1749), of Hadley, Mass. He entered college in 1800. but on the failure of his health at the end of the first year, withdrew for a time, and then entered the next class. He remained in New Haven after graduation, studying law with Judge Daggett, and supporting himself by private teach" ing. Subsequently he passed fifteen months in the Bermudas, where he established a school, and continued his legal studies. Meantime he was married, May 25, 1806, to Susan, daughter of Capt. Hanover Barney, of New Haven. He again returned to New Haven, was admitted to the bar in Dec, 1808, and began practice. In September, 1809, he listened to a powerful sermon by Rev. Dr. John M. Mason, of New York, in the College Chapel, on the duty of preaching the gospel; and urged by an irresistible con- viction , immediately closed his office, hastened to the Theological Seminary just opened at Andover, and applied himself to prepa- ration for his new calling. Early in the following summer he received a unanimous invitation to the pastorate of the Old Brick Presbyterian Church in Beekman street (since removed to Murray 118 Hill), N. Y. City, where he was ordained on the 8th of August, 1810. With this church, although frequently called to posts of honor and responsibility elsewhere—among others to the presi- dencies of Hamilton and Dartmouth Colleges—he remained until his death, which occurred in N. Y. City, Aug. 18, 1873. During the last twelve years, successive colleagues were associated with him in the pastoral office. Dr. Spring published more than a score of volumes, chiefly in the line of his pulpit ministrations, several of which attained a wide circulation. His latest work, entitled " Personal Reminiscences," appeared in 1866. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Hamilton College in 1819, and that of Doctor of Laws trom Lafayette College in 1853. He was twice married, and out- lived eight of his fifteen children. His second wife died but a few days before him. 1807. JAMES FOWLER, eldest child of Samuel Fowler (Y. C. 1768) and Jemima (Lyman) Fowler, was born in Westfield, Mass., in 1788, and died in the same town, October 18, 1873, aged 85. He was the last survivor of his class. He studied law at the Litchfield (Conn.) Law School, but mainly followed agricultural pursuits in his native town. From 1820 to 1830 he was successively a member of both houses of the State Legislature. He was also one of the Governor's council, and filled a number of local offices He was especially interested in educa- tion, and was from 1826 to 1838 one of the trustees of Amherst College. He married, first, Feb. 9, 1820, Lucy L., daughter of Major T, J. Douglas, who died July 16, 1840. He married, secondly, Oct. 6, 1841, Charlotte, daughter of Capt. Silas Whitney. He leaves one son, a graduate of this college in 1839, and one daughter. 1809. PHILO JUDSON, the second son of Philo and Emma (Minor) Judson, was born in Woodbury, Conn., Jan. 14, 1782, and died in Rocky Hill, Conn., March 12, 1874, aged 92 years. He studied theology for about two years with Rev. Charles Backus, D.D , of Somers, Conn., and was ordained Sept. 11, 1811, pastor of the First Church in Ashford, Conn., where he continued until March, 1833. He was installed over the Congregational 119 Church in Hanover Society, in Lisbon, Conn., June 6, 1833, and dismissed in July, 1834. He was settled over the church in Willi- mantic, Conn., in December, 1834, and remained until March, 1839. He afterwards supplied the church in North Stonragton, Conn., from April, 1841, to April, 1845 ; and in 1846-7, for a little more than a year, preached in Middle Haddatn, Conn Afterwards he established himself in Rocky Hill, and for eight or nine years con- tinued to preach as opportunity offered. The remaining portion of his life was spent in retirement on his farm. His first marriage was to Currence, daughter of David Curtiss, of Woodbury. After her death, he married, March 15, 1866, Mrs. Aulemia Barnard, of Hartford, Conn., who survives him. 1810. ELI AS HUBBAED ELY, son of Elihu and Anne Ely, was born in Old Lyme, Conn., June 26, 1790. After his graduation he studied law in the city of New York, where he was admitted to the bar in 1814. He immediately entered on the practice of his profession in that city, and was thus continuously and successfully employed until 1864, a period of half a century, when he retired from active pursuits. He died at Portland, Me., Feb. 8, 1874, in the 84th year of his age. Mr. Ely married, Nov. 5,1832, Eliza, daughter of Henry Nichols, of East Had dam, Conn., and had four children, two sons and two slaughters. AMMI LIWSLEY, was born March 12, 1789, in North Branford, then a part of Branford, Conn. He was the son of Rufus and Abigail Linsley, the sixth child in a family of nine children. The same year he graduated, he began the study of theology with the Rev. Mr. Pinneo of Milford, and in the fall of 1811 removed to Washington in this State, and prose- cuted his studies with the Rev. Ebenezer Porter, When Dr. Porter was invited to a professorship at Andover in 1812, Mr. Linsley went to reside in the spring of that year with the Rev. Bennet Tyler, in South Britain, and continued his studies with him until October, when he was licensed to preach. After preach- ing in several churches in New York and Conn., he was ordained and installed pastor, July 19, 1815, of the Congregational Church in East Hartland, Conn., where he remained until ill health and inadequate support compelled him to resign his pastorate, in 1835. 120 He continued to preach in the winter of 1836 and 1837 in Wolcott, Conn. For two years and a half (1837 to 1839), he supplied the Church in Prospect, Conn. Still preaching occa- sionally, and teaching school, he resided from 1839 to 1842 at North Haven, Conn., and devoted himself to the education of his children. In 1855 he removed to New Haven, but returned again to North Haven in 1857, where he remained until his death, which occurred in that town, December 21, 1873, at the age of 84 years. He was married, Aug. 23, 1815, to Abigail Minor, of Milford, who died in North Haven, Feb. 20, 1868. They had four chil- dren, two sons who graduated at this college in 1843, and two daughters. One of the sons and the two daughters are now living. 1813. SHERMAN CONVERSE was born in Thompson, Conn., April 17, 1790. Soon after graduating he settled in New Haven, and became proprietor and editor of the Connecticut Journal, and the head of the largest publishing house in New England. He published, among other works, the Christian Spectator, Silliman's Journal, and Swift's Digest; and in 1828 Noah Webster's American Dictionary, the first quarto edition m two large volumes, from the original manuscript, and under the supervision of the author. This last was a woik oi great magnitude, requiring a heavy outlay of means and labor, and making a notable event in the history of the American press. Mr Converse removed to the city of New York in 1828, and was for several years actively engaged in business of various kinds, both in this country and in Canada. About the year 1850 he became crippled by a severe attack of rheumatism, which made him an invalid for the rest of his life, and for ten years before his death he never left his room. Besides suffering from disease, he was sorely tried by grave financial embarrassments, but he bore all his trials with the patience and resignation of a true Christian. He was married, in 1820, to Ann Huntington Perkins, daughter of Samuel Perkins (Y. C, 1785), of Wmdham, Conn., who, with an infant child, died in the summer of 1821. In 1824 he married Eliza, daughter of the Rev. Samuel Nott, D.D., of Franklin, Conn. She died in 1845, leaving one son, a graduate of this college, in 1850. 121 Since the spring of 1863, Mr. Converse has resided with his son in Boston Highlands, Mass. He died, Dec. 10, 1873, after an illness of three days. 1814. DAVID SHKLTON EDWABDS, son of Hezekiah and Martha Ed- wards, was born in Tnunbull, Conn., June, 22, 1794, and died at his homestead, on Chestnut Hill, in Trumbull, near Bridgeport, March 18,1874. He studied medicine at thi& College, receiving his diploma in 1817, and entered the TJ.
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