Trinity College Bulletin, 1939-1940 (Necrology)
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Trinity College Trinity College Digital Repository Trinity College Bulletins and Catalogues (1824 - Trinity Publications (Newspapers, Yearbooks, present) Catalogs, etc.) 7-1-1940 Trinity College Bulletin, 1939-1940 (Necrology) Trinity College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/bulletin Recommended Citation Trinity College, "Trinity College Bulletin, 1939-1940 (Necrology)" (1940). Trinity College Bulletins and Catalogues (1824 - present). 124. https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/bulletin/124 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Trinity Publications (Newspapers, Yearbooks, Catalogs, etc.) at Trinity College Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Trinity College Bulletins and Catalogues (1824 - present) by an authorized administrator of Trinity College Digital Repository. VOLUME XXXVII NEW SERIES NUMBER 3 Wrhtity <tTnllrgr' iullrtiu NECROLOGY laartfnrb, C!tntttttdirut July, 1940 UJrittity C!tnllrgr iSullrtitt Issued quarterly by the College. Entered January 12, 1904, at Hartford, Coon., as second class mail matter under the Act of Congress of July 16, 1894. Accepted for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, A ct of October 3, 1917 authorized March 3, 1919. The Bulletin includes in its issues: the College Catalogue; the Necrology; Reports of the President, Treasurer, and Librarian; Announcements and Circulars of Information. NECROLOGY · TRINITY MEN Whose deaths were reported during the year 1939-1940 Hartford, Connecticut July, 1940 PREFATORY NOTE. This Obituary Record is the twentieth issued, the plan of devoting the July issue of the Bulletin to this use having been adopted in 1918. The data here pre sented have been collected through the persistent efforts of the Treasurer's Office, who makes it his concern to secure and preserve as full a record as possible of the activities of Trinity men as well as anything else having value for the history of the College. Readers who find it in their power to correct errors or to contribute further information will confer a great favor if they will at once communicate with the Treas urers Office. Material corrections and additions will be incorporated in the next issue of the Necrology. Attention is particularly called to those alumni for whose biographies we have only meagre data. It is hoped that relatives and friends may be able to supply additional information, so that an adequate record may be preserved. ARTHUR ADAMS. I ,, OBITUARY RECORD Edmund Noah Joyner Class of 1872 Edmund Noah Joyner was born July 26, 1847, in Pitt County, North Carolina, a son of Noah Joyner, a physician and farmer, of Pitt County, whose wife was Emilie Adelaide Williams. He served in the Confederate Army during the War between the States and was wounded at Fort Fisher. He was prepared for college at the Davis School at Louisburg, and the Horner School at Oxford, and entered Trinity College in 1868 with the Class of 1872. He, however, remained only one year because of trouble with his eyes resulting from his wound. He read theology under the supervision of the local clergy and was ordained Deacon, September 12, 1873, in Grace Church, Morganton, North Carolina, by Bishop Thomas Atkinson, and was ordained Priest in 1877 by the same Bishop. From 1873 to 1879, he served the Church of the Ascension, at Hickory, and Trinity Church, Statesville, North Carolina, and St. Bartholomew's Church, Pitts boro, North Carolina. From 1879 to 1883 he was in charge of the Church of Our Savior, Rock Hill, and of ·the Church of the Good Shepherd, Yorkville, South Carolina, and from 1889 to 1892 he was Assistant Missionary at Columbia, South Carolina, and from· 1892 to 1905, was Arch-deacon. In 1905, he was Rector of Holy Cross Church, Tryon, North Carolina. From 1905 to 1911, he was General Missionary of the Missionary District of Asheville, North Carolina. In 1911, he was in charge of St. James Parish, Lenoir, North Caro lina, and of its Missions. He did valuable work among the colored people in South Carolina and among the mountain whites in North Carolina. He published pamphlets entitled "The Disregarded Call", 1886 and "The Ministry of Resurrection", 1903; and was Editor of the Church Messenger in 1887, published in Charlotte, North Carolina. He wrote much for periodicals and published poems in them. 6 TRINITY COLLEGE He married, first, January 3, 1871, Mary Elizabeth Winfield of Chocowinity, North Carolina, and secondly, January 10, 1912, Elizabeth Dwight Andrews, a daughter of Thomas A. Andrews, a farmer of Abbeville County, South Carolina, whose wife was Emilie C. Bryan. She survives him. By the first wife, he had a son, Edmund Noah, born in April, 1877, and a daughter, Mary Winifield, born in 1880. By the second wife, he had a son, Archibald Andrews, born July 30, 1913, who graduated from Lenoir-Rhyne College in 1934. The Rev. Mr. Joyner died October 10, 1939, in Hendersonville, North Carolina, and is buried in Calvary Church Yard, Fletcher, North Carolina. John Henry King Burgwin Class of 1877 John Henry King Burgwin was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 19, 1856, a son of Hill Burgwin and Mary Phillips, a daughter of Asher and Sarah (Ormsby) Phillips. Hill Burgwin came from North Carolina to Pittsburgh about 1850. He was educated at the University of North Carolina and was a distinguished lawyer. He was prepared for college at the Episcopal Classical Academy in Pittsburgh, and entered Trinity College with the Class of 1877. He was a member of the Beta Beta Chapter of Psi Upsilon, and won distinction as a scholar. He won the Geometry Prize in his Freshman year and the Tuttle Prize in his Senior year. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his Junior year. He was an editor of the Tablet. He was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1877, and received an appointment to speak at Commencement. George Collinson Burgwin of the class of 1872, and Augustus Phillips Burgwin of the class of 1882 were brothers. Hill Burgwin, 1906, Hasell Hill Burgwin, 1911, Howard James Burgwin, 1913, and George Collinson Burgwin, Jr., 1914, were nephews; Pierce Butler Carlisle Burgwin, 1941, and James O'Hara Denny, 1943, grand-nephews. Mr. Burgwin spent his active business life as a railroad engineer. From 1881 to 1883, he was with the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad in Michigan; from 1883 to 1885, with the South Penn. Railroad; and from 1886 to 1894, with the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad. From 1894 to his retirement a few years ago, he was in business as a Civil Engineer in Pittsburgh. OBITUARY RECORD 7 He was a communicant of the Episcopal Church of the Ascension in Pitt burgh and wa a Democrat. October 22, 1902, in the Chapel of the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, he married Ruth Leeds Kerr, daughter of Jame Bozman Kerr, a lawyer of Wahington, D. C., whose wife wa Lucy Hamilton teven . he died in Provincetown, l\1a achu etts, in July 1938. A daughter, Uary Phillips Burgwin was born Augu t 16, 1903. She married, fir t, June 14, 1924, Charles Burbank Crockett, and econdly, Allen R. Brown, who recently gave to the Library of Trinity Colkge his large and valuable collection of the works of ·William rri Mr. Burgwin died in Pitt burgh, December 3, 1939. He is buried in Truro Cemetery, Cape Cod, Massachusett . Henry Townsend Scudder Clas of 1879 The Rev. Henry Town end Scudder, who received the degree of l\1.A. in 18i9, honoris causa, was born September 7, 1854, a son of Henry Joel Scudder, a graduate of Trinity College in the Class of 1846, who e wife wa Loui a Henrietta Davies. Townsend Scudder of the Cla of 1854 wa an uncle, and Charles Davies Scudder, '75, Edward Mansfield Scudder, '77, Heywood Scudder, '91, and Willard cudder, '89, were brother . He wa graduated from Columbia U niver ity in 1874, and from Berkeley Divinity School in 1877. He wa ordained Deacon in 1877 and Priest in 1878 by Bi hop John Williams of Connecticut. He was Rector of t. Peter' Church, Plymouth, Connecticut; of St. Peter's, Ori kany, N. Y.; of t. John's Church, Whitesboro, N. Y.; of the Church of the Good Shepherd and Holy Cross Church, Utica, N. Y.; of Grace Church, Brooklyn, . Y., from 1882 to 1888; of St. Stephen' Church, Brooklyn, from 1890 to 1908; and of Christ Church, Tarrytown, N. Y. from 1908 to 1911, when he became Rector Emeritu . June ,.. , 1889, in Brooklyn, N . Y. he married Margaret Mott vVeek , a daughter of Jacob M. vVeeks, a merchant of Glen Cove, L. I., . Y., who e wife .wa Henrietta Frost. The children were: Edna Hewlett, born April 28, 1890, married October 10, 1916, Archibald Kennedy Coles; Henry Holloway, born September 24, 1895, Yale '17, who married Caroline O'Gorman, June 17, 1922; TRINITY COLLEGE and Dorothy Weeks, born March 31, 1899, married John Alden Thayer, August 17, 1917. The Rev. Mr. Scudder died July 13, 1937, in Essex, Connecticut, and is buried in St. Paul's Cemetery, Glen Cove, Long Island. Arthur Woodruff Cowles Class of 1881 Arthur Woodruff Cowles was born in Hartford, Connecticut, July 5, 1860, a son of Alfred Cowles, born in Farmington, April 6, 1826, whose wife was Harriet Hill, born in Willington, Connecticut in 1832. The father was a bookkeeper in Hartford. Mr. Cowles was prepared at the Hartford Public High School and entered Trinity College with the Class of 1881. He, however, remained in College onlY; one year. He · received the B.B.L. degree from the National University in Washington, D.C. in 1902, and the M.P.L. degree in 1908 from George Washington University, Washington, D.C.