OBITUARY RECORD OF GRADUATES OF TALE COLLEGE DECEASED DURING THE AOADEMIOAL YEAR ENDING Iff JULY 1870. [Presented at the Meeting of the Alumni, July 20, 1870.] [No 11 of the printed Series, and No. 29 of the whole Record] OBITUARY RECORD OP GRADUATES OF YALE COLLEGE Deceased during the academical year ending m July, 1870. [Presented at the Meeting of ike Alumn^ July 20tf&, 1870.] [No 11 of the printed Series, and No 29 of the whole Record ] 1802, JOHN KEEP, the last survivor of his class, was born, 20 April, 1781, in Longmeadow, then a precinct of Springfield, Mass. Of a family of nine children he was the seventh. For a year after he was graduated he taught a school in Bethlehem, Conn., reading theology at the same time with the pastor, Rev. Dr. Azel Backus. He continued his theological course for another year with Rev. Asahel Hooker, of Goshen, Conn., and was licensed by Litchfield North Association, 11 June, 1805. The next Sunday he preached in the Congrega- tional Church in Blandford, Mass., and immediately received an invitation to settle, which he accepted Here he remained for 16 years. In May, 1821, he removed to the Congregational Church in Homer, N. Y., and was installed November 7. In 1833 he resigned in consequence of disaffection caused by his sympathy with the "new measures" of revivalists. For the following year he preached in the Presbyterian Church in Cleveland, O, and then organized the First Congregational Church in Ohio City, (now Cleveland, West Side,) and became its pastor. l In 1834, Father Keep (as he now began to be, called) was elected a Trustee of the Oberlin Institute. While resident m Homer, he had been trustee of Auburn Theol. Seminary, and of Hamilton College. Soon after his election as trustee of Oberlin, he gave, as President of the Board, the casting vote which admitted colored pupils to that institution, and has shaped its remarkable history. In June, 1836, he resigned his charge to accept a financial agency for Oberlin College, but the reverses of 1837 caused his return to pastoral work, as supply in 338 Wooster, O., and in Lockport and Albion, N. Y. Then, in view of the pressing needs of Oberlin, he took part in an 18 months' mission to England, and secured $30,000. He resumed preaching in Mansfield, 0., during 1841; then in Hartford, 0., for over four years; then in Arcade, N. Y., and Litchfield, O. In 1860, he removed to Oberhn, and aided in raising an endowment of $100,000 for the College. His after life was spent in Oberhn, where his only son resides, and he died there, of old age, 11 Febr., 1870. His wife Lydia, daughter of Admo Hale, of Goshen, Conn., whom he married in June, 1806, died in 1865. The address at his funeral, by President Fairchild, has been published. Father Keep was the last survivor of the company of minis- ters who in 1810 organized the American Board of Commis- sioners for Foreign Missions. 18O6. ALFRED HENNEN was born in Elkridge, Md., 17 Oct., 1786. His father, Dr. James Hennen, removed at an early age from Ireland to the United States, and located himself in Nashville, Tenn., in 1795. In 1801 his son was placed with Dr, Eogers of Newport, K I, to pursue classical studies, and in 1803 he was entered Sophomore in Yale College. He resided in College for two years after graduation, as Berkeley scholar, studying law also with Judge Chauncey In 1808 he returned to Nashville, but removed in a few months to New Orleans, where he was admitted to the bar, 1 May, 1809 He practiced in the courts of that city until his death, interrupted only by a two years* residence within the Confederate lines during the war. When Louisiana was in- vaded in 1814, he enlisted in the cavalry company which formed Gen Jackson's life guard. His earnest and conscien- tious pursuit of his profession, with his rare zeal for knowledge, entitled him at the close of life to be called the Nestor of the New Orleans bar. He was one of the original members of the 1st Presbyterian Church in New Orleans, and a Euling Elder from 1828 till his death. He died in New Orleans, after ten days* illness, 19 Jan., 1870, m his 84th year. A Discourse, upon occasion of his death, by Eev. B. M Palmer, D.D., has been published. Mr. Hennen married, in Aug., 1809, Miss Anna Maria Nich- olson, who bore him three children; two died in infancy, and the third lived to enter his father's profession in New Orleans. After the death of his first wife in 1818, Mr. Hennen was married, m May, 1819, to Miss Ann Maria Davison. Mrs. Hennen survives her husband, after a union of more than fifty years, with eight of her twelve children. $39 1809. HENRY MATSON WAITE, the eldest child of Remick and Susannah (Matson) Waite, was born in Lyme, Conn., 9 Eebr., 1787, and died in the same town, 14 Dec, 1869. He entered College at the beginning of Sophomore year, from Bacon Academy, Colchester, Conn. Early in 1810, he commenced the study of law with Hon. Matthew Griswold and Ex-Gov. Roger Gnswold, of Lyme. He was admitted to the bar in Dec, 1812, and pursued the practice of his profession thereafter in his native town. In 1815, he was a representative in the lower branch of the State Legislature, and after that was repeatedly re-elected; in 1832 and 1833 he was a member of the State Senate. In 1834, he was elected an Associate Judge of the Superior Court and Supreme Court of Errors, and twenty years later, Chief Justice. In Febr., 1857, haying reached the constitutional limit for judicial office, he retired to private life. The degree of Doctor of Laws was con- ferred upon him by Yale College in 1855. Judge Waite married, 23 Jan., 1816, Maria, daughter of Col. Richard E. Selden, of Lyme. She died soon after the fiftieth anniversary of their wedding day. Of their eight children (seven sons and one daughter), three graduated at Yale College. A sketch of the life of Judge Waite, with a portrait, was published in the New England Historical and Genealogical Reg- ister for April, 1870. 1811. DAVID MEAUBEC MITCHELL died in Waltham, Mass., at the house of his son-in law, Rev. E. E. Strong, 27 Nov., 1869, aged 81£ years. He was the second child of Hon. Ammi R. Mitchell, M.D., of North Yarmouth, Maine, and was born in that town, 9 May, 1788. He studied theology at Andover, graduating in 1814, and after laboring for a year or more in the service of the Maine Missionary Society, he accepted a call from the Congregational Church in Waldoboro1, Me. Here he was ordained, 19 June, 1816, and remained until Sept. 1841, when, after the loss of several children by consumption, he felt obliged to seek a change of climate. After residing for three years in Andover, Mass., he went to Portland, Me,, as City Missionary, and re- mained for five years. Then, in 1851, he undertook a similar work, in connection with the Eliot Church, in Roxbury, Mass., where he labored until February, 1860. His later life was spent with his children in South Natick and Waltham, Mass. 340 BRYAN KERBY STEVENS, the son of Gen. Ebenezer Stevens, a Revolutionary officer of artillery, and of his wife Lucretia Ledyard, aunt of the well-known traveler, was born in New York City, 20 Apr., 1792, and died m Astoria, L. I, 15 Feb. 1870. His brothers, Samuel, Dr. Alexander H., and John A., graduated at this College in 1804, 1807, and 1813. Mr. Stevens passed an uneventful life, as a merchant in New York City, beloved and respected by all who knew him. He married Frances, daughter of the late Hon. Albert Gal- latin. She is still living, as are also their seven children, of whom two have graduated at this College, in 1854 and 1858. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS TALLMADGE was born in Litchfield, Conn., 29 Aug., 1792. His father was Col. Benjamin Tall- madge (Y. C. 1773), of Kevolutionary celebrity, and his mother a daughter of Gen William Floyd, a delegate from N Y. to the Continental Congress, and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Graduating at the age of 19, he studied at the Litchfield law school, then under the charge of Judge Tapping Reeve. On 14 July, 1812, he was appointed Adjutant of the 7th Kegiment of Conn. Militia, and removing soon after to N. Y. City, he served as Captain of a Company of cavalry upon Long Island, for the defence of the city during the war with Great Britain. He was admitted an attorney of the Supreme Court of the state, 3 Nov., 1814, appointed Ensign in the 142d Kegiment of Infan- try, 4 March, 1817, Brigade Quartermaster of the 3d Brigade of Infantry m April, 1818, Brigade Judge-Advocate of the 3d Bngade on June 22, 1818, and Captain in the 142d Infantry, 27 March, 1819 He entered early into political life, and for over half a century was closely identified with the prosperity and public improve- ments of the city of New York. In 1834 he was elected Assist- ant Alderman, in 1837 State Senator, and from 1841 to 1846 and 1848 to 1851 was Recorder of the city. He was elected to Congress from the 5th district m N Y. City in 1846. In 1857 he was appointed Superintendent of the newly-organized Metro- politan Police, and was elected Clerk of the Court of Appeals in 1862, retiring from public life at the expiration of his term in 1865.