Trinity College Trinity College Digital Repository Trinity College Bulletin Trinity serial publications (1868 - present) 1918 Trinity College Bulletin, 1916 - 1918 Necrology Trinity College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/bulletin Recommended Citation Trinity College, "Trinity College Bulletin, 1916 - 1918 Necrology" (1918). Trinity College Bulletin. Book 66. http://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/bulletin/66 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Trinity serial publications (1868 - present) at Trinity College Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Trinity College Bulletin by an authorized administrator of Trinity College Digital Repository. VOLUME XV NEW SERIES NUMBER 3 IDriuittt O!nlltgt iullrtiu NECROLOGY 1916- 1918 HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT July, 1918 TRINITY COLLEGE BULLETIN Issued quarterly by the College. Entered January 12, 1904, at Hartford, Conn., as second class matter, under the Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. The Bulletin includes in its issues: the College Catalogue, Reports of the President, Treasurer, and Librarian; Announcements and Circulars of Information. NECROLOGY MEN Who Died During the Years . 1916-1918 ' . Hartford, Connecticut July, 1918 PREFATORY NOTE Among the manifold services to the College ren­ dered so freely and so ably by the late Rev. Dr. Samuel Hart of the Class of 1866, was the keeping of the necrology of the Alumni Association. One of the features at the Annual Meeting of the Alumni for many years was the .reading of these brief obituaries by the beloved Dr. Hart. At the two meetings since Dr. Hart's death, no necrological record has been presented. To supply this omission, and to put in permanent form, into the possession of all interested, the records of the graduates and former students of the College, it is planned- to devote each year a number of the Bulletin to brief accounts of those of the Alumni who have died within the year. This pamphlet is the first issue of what it is hoped will be a worthy, if inadequate, record of the careers of the sons of the College. The data here presented has been collected through the prompt and persistent efforts of the Treasurer of the College, who makes it his concern to secure and preserve as full a record as possible of the activities of Trinity men. Arthur Adams. OBITUARY RECORD. Walter Alves Towles Class of 1846. \iValter Alvc Towles was born on the family estate "Elmwood", ncar Bender on, Henderson County, Kentucky, February 7, 1825. He wa the son of J udgc Thomas and Elizabeth (Alves) Towles. Hi father was a Federal Judge in Illinois while it was still a Territory; later he was a tobacco grower at "Elmwood" in Henderson County. Elizabeth Alves was born in Chapel Hill, Iorth Carolina. Mr. Towle received his preparation for College at the Episcopal High chool in Alexandria, Virginia. He entered Kenyon College, but in September, 1844, came to Trinity. At Trinity he was a member of the Parthenon Society and of the I. K. A. Fraternity. He left coll ege in June, 1845, without taking his degree. February 12, 1854, at Henderson, Kentucky, he married usan Daniel Anderson, daughter of John Daniel Anderson, a farmer and banker of Bender on, and his wife Tabitha Cheatham Marshall. There were ten children, five of whom urvive him: Elizabeth Alves; usan Starling; Walter Alves, Jr., educated at the State College, Lexington, Kentucky; Lillia; and Therret, of New York, educated at the College of Pharmacy, Philadelphia. Mr. Towles li ved the quiet life of a country gentleman, and wa very highly estcemc<;l in his community. He was a regular communicant of St. Paul's Church all his long life. A local newspaper says of him: "He was great in hi sim­ plicity, in his love for his fellowmen and his fear of God, in his uprightness and hi devotion to his family and friends. He wa a tacit preacher of righteousness and justice, a lover of truth and freedom." He died at the age of ninety-three after an illness of four day March 4, 19I7, and wa buried in Fernwood Cemetery. At the age of ninety, his daughter wrote of him that he was still trong, his countcnal}c rud ly, his black hair just be­ ginning to turn gray, his memory and intellect as keen as ever. He wa indeed a fine type of Southern gentleman. 4 TRINITY COLLEGE. Horace Baldwin Hitchings Cia s of 1854. The Reverend Horace Baldwin Hitching , D.D., was born at Malden, Ma sachusetts, January 31, 1830. He was the son of James Hitchings, a farmer of Malden, and his wife Eunice More Mcintosh. Dr. Hitchings did not marry. He was prepared for college at Middleborough, Mas ., and by his half-brother, the Rev. James L. Scott, of the Cia s of 1843, while he was Rector of the Church in Marbledale and Washington, Conn. A son of the Rev. James L. Scott, Horace Brown Scott, M. D., was graduated in the Class of 1878. Dr. Hitchings was a m mber of the Athenaeum Society and of the Delta Psi Fraternity during hi . tudent days at Trinity. He was graduated with the degree of B. A. in 1854; received the degree of M. A. in 1857; and the degree of D. D. in 1904. He was alway loyal to the College, and wa generou in his gifts. In 1905 he was one of the alumni who e gifts made possible the fitting up of the Trinity College Union. The Ivy for 1916 is dedicated to these men, and contains a portrait of Dr. Hitchings. Dr. Hitchings bequeathed $4,000 to the College to found a Scholar hip for the benefit of young men studying for the ministry of the Episcopal Church. On graduation from college, Dr. Hitchings entered the Berkeley Divinity School, from which institution he was graduated in 1857. He was ordained Deacon by Bishop \ Villiams in that year, and was raised to the Prie thood the following year. For six years, he was Rector of St. Stephen' Church, East Haddam, Conn. He wa Rector of t. John's in the vVilderness, Denver, Colorado, for seven year . After extended travel abroad, Dr. Hitchings bought a ranch of more than 3000 acres in El Paso County, Colora lo, on which he lived for two years. He then accepted a call to St. John' Church, Bangor, Maine, but finding the climate too severe, accepted an invitation to become an Assi tant Minister of Trinity Church in ew York City. In 1882 he resigned his place in Trinity Church, and traveled extensively in Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America, but spending a part of the time on his Colorado ranch. At the time of his death, April 13, 1917, he resided with a nephew J. Alvin cott, of Misha>vaka, Indiana. He was buried in the grounds of the Cathedral Church of t. John, Denver, of which Pari h he was Rector Emeritu , by pecial grant of the City Council. OBIT ARY RECORD. 5 George Abishai Woodward Class of 1855· General George Abishai Woodward was born at Wilkes­ Barre, Pennsylvania, February 14, 1835. His father George \Vashington Woodward, was an eminent lawyer and Chief Justice of Pennsylvania; his mother was Sarah Elizabeth Trott. General Woodward was prepared for college at Bolmar's Academy, 'vV st Chester, Pa., 'vVilkes-Barre Academy, and \Vyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pennsylvania, and entered Trinity College in the fall of 1851 with the Class of 1855· He was a member of the Athenaeum Society, of which he served as President, and of the I. K. A. Fraternity. He received a Junior Exhibition and a Commencement Appointment, and was al o a President of his class. He was graduated with the degree of B. A. in 1855, and in 1895 received the M. A. degree from the College. After his graduation, he retui·ned to his native town, and accepted a temporary appointment as a teacher in Wyoming eminary. In ovember, 1855, he went to Milwaukee, 'vVis­ con in, to study law; he was admitted to the Bar in 1856. In 1858 he was elected City Attorney, the only civil office he ever held or sought. In 1859 he moved to Philadelphia, and practised Law there till 1861. At the beginning of the Civil War, he raised a company of volunteers, and was commis ioned Captain of Company A, 2nd Regiment, Pennsylvania Reserves, May 27, 1861. He erved with thi command in the Army of the Potomac during the campaigns of 1861, 1862, and 1863. He was wounded in the right foot and left leg and was taken prisoner at the battle of Glendale, Virginia, June 30, 1862, and was confined in Libby Pri on. He commanded his regiment at the Battle of Gettys­ burg in July 1863, and was brevetted Colonel for gallant and meritorious conduct in that battle March 2, 1867. He was commissioned Major, April 2, 1862; Lieutenant Colonel, Feb­ ruary 20, 1863; Major, Veteran Reserve Corps, August 24, 1863; Lieutenant Colonel, September 25, 1863; Colonel, De­ cember 4, 1863. He was mu tered out July 20, 1866, and was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the Forty-fifth Regiment of Infantry in the Regular Army July 28, 1866. He was trans­ ferred to the Fourteenth Infantry March 15, 186<); was made Colonel of the Fifteenth Infantry January IO, 1876; and was retired March 20, 1879, on account of disability resulting from wounds. He was made a Brigadier General on the Retired 6 TRINITY COLLEGE. List April 23, 1904. While in service in the Regular Army, he served in Kentucky, Tennessee, Dakota, 'vVyoming, N e­ braska, and Utah.