General Catalogue of the Divinity School of Harvard University: 1898 9781617193484, 1617193488

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General Catalogue of the Divinity School of Harvard University

General Catalogue of the Divinity School of Harvard University

1898

Compiled by Harvard University

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ISBN 978-1-61719-348-4 Reprinted from the 1898 Cambridge, Massachusetts edition.

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PREFACE.

T N 1836 Professor J . G. Palfrey published a small pamphlet, entitled " Divinity School of the University of Cambridge," which contained memoranda of the history of the School, and a list of students who had been connected with it. It was evidently printed with the intention of soliciting as well as imparting information, but no later edition was published. Dr. Palfrey's own copy of this chronicle, in which he made many corrections and additions, has recently been given to the College Library, and has been used in the preparation of the present catalogue. In 1844 there was published a " Catalogue of the Alumni of the Divinity School of the University in Cambridge " which was prepared by Rev. J . L. Sibley. Unlike the pamphlet of Professor Palfrey this catalogue claimed to include only those who were alumni of the School, but it gave a short account of each, including the place of birth, the places and dates of ordination and of installations, and the place and date of death. In the early years there was no formal graduation from the School, and there was evidently some difficulty experienced as to what names should be included and what years should be given as those of graduation. " I n the earlier classes, the names of the students are placed under the year in which, as far as we can ascertain, they received approbation for the pulpit." It was not till 1851 that the triennial catalogue of the University included graduates of the Divinity School. When these graduates were included the list of them was taken directly from the catalogue of 1844 so far as it went. The present catalogue is the result of action taken at the annual meeting of the Association of the Alumni in 1889, when a committee consisting of Rev. J . H. Allen, D.D., Rev. E. J . Young, D.D., and Rev. H . F. Jenks, was appointed to prepare a catalogue of the School. The work on this catalogue was begun by this committee

iv and continued for a number of years, until in the latter part of 1895 it was transferred to the Librarian of the School. The plan of the catalogue has been to include all persons who were ever properly students of the School. It is probable, however, that some names which ought to be included have been omitted. It is possible, but not probable, that some names have been included improperly. The matriculation book of the School was not begun until the year 1831; and apparently it has never been carefully kept until within a very few years. The annual catalogues of the University do not mention Divinity students as such until the year 1819-20. Previous to that year they were included in the list of Resident Graduates. But as the catalogue was usually issued in the early part of the year names of students who entered after the publication of the catalogue for that year would not appear. The following is a list of persons whose names are given in the early catalogues as Resident Graduates, and about whom further evidence is lacking that they were Divinity students. It is possible that some of these names should have been included in this catalogue. The year under which any of these names is put is that of the close of the last academic year in which it is given in the annual catalogue. The names of those known to have been ordained ministers are in italics. 1812 Edward W . Andrews. 1813 Simeon Putnam. Hilliard. 1814 Timothy Jonathan M. Wainwright. Nathaniel Whitman. 1815 John Bichardson. Boyle. 1816 Isaac John Dunkin. Samuel Hale. John Ware. 1817 Jonathan Freeman Dana. James Howard. Jonas Underwood. 1818 Dudley Atkins. David Lee Child. Caleb Cushing. Samuel Luther Dana. George Dawson. Charles M. Dustin. Allston Gibbes. Ezra Hunt.

1818 Wyllys Lyman. James W . Mason. Isaac Osgood. John Proctor. Oliver Sheafe. 1819 Seth Alden. John Barrett. Warren Goddartl. Benjamin E . Hallet. George D. Hill. Henry Augustus Middleton. Oliver William, Bourn Peabody. Sylvanus Plympton. John W . Proctor. Richard Bay. Edward Sawyer. Samuel Edmund Sewall. Mucius S. Spark. George A. Tufts. William B. Peirce Washburn.

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In the annual Catalogues from 1819-20 to 1829-30, inclusive, many "Candidates for the Ministry" were given with the list of theological students. All but three of these were previously students of theology and are included in this catalogue. The three who, though given in the annual catalogues, are not included are: Edmund Quincy Sewall,1 John Parker Boyd Storer,2 John Adams Williams.8 The old account books of the Steward have in many respects been the most satisfactory authority in regard to what names should be included. But prior to 1831 the names of Divinity students were not separated from those of other students, and in many cases there are certainly great omissions. The first charge for tuition to Divinity students was in 1831. The differentiation of the Divinity School from the College was very gradual, and it is difficult to fix upon a satisfactory date as that of the beginning of the Divinity School. Professor Palfrey in a note at the beginning of his pamphlet already referred to speaks of the School as having then (Aug. 10, 1836) existed for twenty-five years, dating this beginning as the autumn of 1811, when " D r . Ware, Hollis Professor, began a course of exercises with the resident Students in Divinity." In the catalogue of 1844 Mr. Sibley gives the first class as that of 1817 and fixes upon this year " f o r the beginning of the catalogue, because in that year public exercises, or the public reading of dissertations, somewhat similar to the present Annual Visitation, first took place." It is because this catalogue was followed that the year 1817 appears as the first year of the Divinity School in the quinquennial catalogue. It was not till 1819 that the Faculty of Theology of the University was organized. In the present catalogue it has seemed best to follow the quinquennial catalogue in the list of graduates and in the years of their 1

I. Marblehead, Oct. 1, 1796. A.B., 1815; A.M., 1818. Ord. Barnstable, Dec. 22, 1819-1822; Amherst, N. H., Jan. 26, 1825-about 1827; Scituate, Dec. 21, 1831-1848. Res. Cohasset. d. Cohasset, Sept. 15, 1866. 2 b. Portland, Me., Nov. 6, 1793. A.B., Bowdoin Coll., Me., 1812; A.M., Bowdoin Coll., 1815; A.M. (ad eundum) 1817. Ord. Walpole, Nov. 15, 1826Apr. 15, 1839; Syracuse, N. Y., June 20, 1839-Mar. 17, 1844. d. Syracuse, N. Y., Mar. 17, 1844. 3 b. Koxbury, July 28, 1800. A.B. 1820; A.M. 1823. Ord. East Bridgewater, Oct. 18, 1826-Aug. 4, 1828. d. East Bridgewater, Mar. 15, 1872.

vi graduation. But the list of students goes back to the year 1811-12 as in Professor Palfrey's pamphlet. Grateful recognition is made of the help which has been rendered in this work by former students, by numerous parish clerks and other custodians of records, and by many other individuals who have taken great and unexpected pains in obtaining accurate information. In this catalogue there are many evident omissions and there must be also many hidden errors. Any information that will make later editions of it more complete or more accurate will be gratefully received, if sent to R O B E K T S. M O H I S O N , Librarian of the Divinity School.

HARVARD

UNIVERSITY,

September,

1898.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

Names of graduates are printed in capitals and given under the year of graduation. Names of students who did not graduate are given after the graduates of each year. The names are given under the year of the close of the academic year in which they left the school; e.g., the name of a student leaving in December 1896, would appear under 1897. This date is determined as far as possible by the accounts in the Bursar's books; but in a few cases it is arbitrary, and in many cases in the early years, chiefly prior to 1831, it is liable to be incorrect. An asterisk is placed before the name of a person known to have died. After the name is given the number of years during which the student was connected with the School, as shown by the Bursar's books. This source of information is, however, so untrustworthy for this purpose in the earlier years, that these numbers are omitted for students who entered the School prior to 1831 * Fractions of a year are given in decimals, the divisions of the year being at different periods quarters, thirds or halves. In the case of a graduate it may occur that a portion of the time he was in the School was after the year under which his name is given. On the same line with the name is given the fact of graduation, or the degree received for work done while the student was registered in the Divinity School. The date of graduation, or of the degree of S.T.B., is the year under which the name appears. All degrees are of Harvard University, unless the contrary is stated. A year given in parenthesis after a degree, denotes that the degree was conferred out of course in this year. All colleges and other institutions of learning, and all towns, are in Massachusetts unless the contrary is stated, but if the state of an institution is once mentioned, it is not repeated in the same paragraph; and the name of the state is omitted in the imprints of books referred to. For the names of states and provinces of Canada customary abbreviations are used. The names of towns are not abbreviated. Institutions of learning which have changed their names are designated by their present names. The name of a town, unless the contrary is stated, denotes a pastorate. The dates of the beginning and close of a pastorate, or other office, are separated by a short dash ( - ) . If this dash is followed by a punctuation mark it denotes that the office continues to the present time. If the date of an ordination is followed by a short dash it denotes that the ordination was also an installation and the beginning of a pastorate at the place mentioned. A long dash ( ) denotes an unknown date. It is probable that in some instances instead of the date of the actual beginning of a pastorate there has been given the date of the call, or that of its acceptance, or that of the installation; and in like manner instead

viii of the date of the close of a pastorate the date given may be that of the letter of resignation, or of the meeting which took action upon this. When there is more than one church of a given denomination in a given place the name of the church is stated. Churches which have changed their names are designated by the names held at the time mentioned. The name of the denomination once given, applies to all pastorates that follow for that individual, unless another denomination is mentioned, in which case, this latter applies to the following pastorates. But for the names prior to 1882 the denomination is assumed to be Unitarian Congregational, unless the contrary is stated. In some cases the names of denominations which are strictly correct only in the United States, are applied to the corresponding denominations in other countries. The folloiving b

. . CHR. . . . . . . . . Coll. . . . . . . . d . Disc . DUTCH REF. . . FREE BAPT. . . Grad . LUTH . METH. EPIS. . . METH. PKOT. . N E W CH. . . . .

BAPT

abbreviations

are used: —

Born. Baptist. Christian Connection. College. Died. Disciples. Dutch Reformed. Free Baptist. Graduate. Lutheran. Methodist Episcopal. Methodist Protestant. New Church.

Ord PRESB.

. . .

PKOT. EPIS. REF. EPIS. .

Res Sem T R . CONG. . U N . BRETH. U N . CONG. . U N . PRESB. UNIV

Univ W E S. M E T H .

. Presbyterian. . Protestant Episcopal. . Reformed Episcopal. . . . . . . . .

Seminary. Trinitarian Congregational. United Brethren. Unitarian Congregational. United Presbyterian. Universalist. University. Wesleyan Methodist.

CATALOGUE. •

1812. *Edward Everett. b. Dorchester, April 11, 1794. A.B. 1811; A.M. 1814; Ph.D., Gottingen Univ., Germany, 1817; LL.D., Yale Univ., Conn., 1833; LL.D. 1835; LL.D., Dublin Univ., Ireland, 1842; LL.D., Cambridge Univ., England, 1842 ; LL.D., Dartmouth Coll., N. H., 1849 ; D.C.L., Oxford Univ., England, 1843. Or