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Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations. Arrived at college, when he rose in Harvard Hall, for the regular exercise in declamation, he found himself placed — and White's diary notes the fact — between a portrait of his great-grandfather, John Adams, on the one side, and a portrait of his grandfather, John Quincy Adams, on the other.

After receiving instruction in the private school of Francis Phelps, in Phillips Place, opposite King's Chapel, since built over, he entered the Boston Latin School, then in Bedford Street, in , where he pursued the regular five-year course under Messrs. Dixwell, master, and Gardner, sub-master, and entered college as Freshman in Taking his degree in July, , he lost no time in applying himself to professional studies, and, on the ist of August following, was entered as student in the office of Messrs.

The firm was dissolved in the following April, when Lemuel Shaw, Jr. His whole legal education 15 Harvard Class of was obtained while a student in that office, and he never availed himself of the advantage of a law school — an unusual course for a young man to whom all opportunities were open, but which there is no reason to suppose he ever regretted. Ad- mitted to the Bar in , he immediately began practice with success in Suffolk and Norfolk Counties.

It is doubtful, how- ever, whether purely professional distinction ever had much attraction for him; active citizenship was rather his ideal, combined with the pursuits of a landed proprietor. He very early took charge of the family estate at Mt. Wollaston, Quincy, the improvement and cultivation of which became one of his main objects in life.

It contained within its limits the famous " Merrymount," celebrated in Massachusetts his- tory for the disorders and revelries of Thomas Morton, and had been acquired by President John Quincy Adams, partly by descent from his maternal ancestors, the Quincys, who traced their ownership back to a grant made in to Ed- mund Quincy — the first in New England of the name — and partly by purchase. On the 29th of April, , Mr. Adams married Fanny C, daughter of the then late George C.

Crowninshield, of the Salem and Boston family of that name, son of Benjamin W. Crowninshield, Secretary of the Navy under Madison and Monroe, and member of Congress from to 1. Adams's mother was Harriet, daughter of David Sears, of Boston. Having established himself on what has been described as one of the finest model farms in Massachusetts, containing nearly five hundred acres, Mr. Adams commenced the career of a public-spirited townsman of Quincy. He served on the School Committee, as Trial Justice, and again, several years later, in , as chairman of the School Committee; and, in the last-mentioned capacity, was largely instrumental in an important reformation widely discussed as " The Quincy System.

In recording his son's marriage in his diary, the Hon. Charles Francis Adams wrote: Adams's prepossessions were in favor of the cause of the North. His grandfather had combated Southern ideas in Congress with vigorous pertinacity, and his father had been candidate for Vice-President in the Free Soil movement of During the four years to inclusive, Mr.

Adams was on the military staff of Governor Andrew, and in was elected as a Republican to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, a delegate from the Sixth Norfolk District, then, and during his subsequent terms of service, coterminous with the town of Quincy. The events of the year gave a new direction to Mr. Adams's political views, and threw him into new political associations. In February of that year the question of the reconstruction of the Confederate States was dividing the Republican party, and, with quite clearly defined constitutional views, he sided strongly with Secretary Seward in support of the policy which President Lincoln was believed to have favored.

Undeterred by President Johnson's indiscreet leadership, he supported him on principle, then and there breaking with the Republican Party. In the election of the following autumn he was de- feated as a Representative from Quincy upon the issue of so-called " Carpet Bag Reconstruction. Failing election as Gov- ernor, he again represented Quincy in the Legislature of He now became more prominent in national politics, and his views attracted wide attention.

He was invited by the State Democratic Committee of South Carolina and by General Wade Hampton, to come to the South in order that he might learn the attitude of the Southern people and make a report of his experiences upon his return to Massachusetts. In acknowledging the invita- tion, he stated bluntly that if he should go South he should say some very unwelcome things. He told them frankly 17 Harvard Class of that the attitude of the North was largely inspired by dis- trust, which was based in part upon the unwise legislation of the Southern States, and by what were known as the " Black Codes " and " Vagrant Laws," but the committee prevailed upon him to go, and his visit gave him the oppor- tunity to deliver two speeches, one in Columbia on October 10, and the other in Charleston four days later.

Lincoln in favor of the vigorous prosecution of the War," and as " one who hailed with gratitude the abolition of slavery. He urged his hearers to accept cheerfully the results of the War, and to cultivate friendly relations with the negroes. In the Presidential election of he supported Seymour against Grant. He continued to be nominated as Democratic candidate for Governor of Massachusetts for the years to 1 87 1 inclusive, and, in the meantime, sat for Quincy in the Legislature of , and afterwards in that of Before this, his last political office, events had brought his name into national prominence by his acceptance of the nomi- nation as Vice-President of the United States in connection with that of Charles O'Conor as President, made at a con- vention of so-called " straight-out Democrats " on Septem- ber 2, This was in opposition to the work of the regu- lar party convention that adopted the nomination of Horace Greeley, made originally by the Liberal Republicans, the party of Carl Schurz and B.

Besides this distinc- tion, Messrs. The general party dislocation of did not apparently affect Mr. Adams's standing amongst Democrats of his own State, for in the 18 Harvard Class of following year he received the regular party nomination for Lieutenant-Governor, made jointly with that of William Gas- ton for Governor, but they failed of election. In April, , he suffered a very severe blow in the death of two children, victims of diphtheria, who died and were buried on successive days — a blow from which he never fully recovered.

The election of Mr. Adams as Fellow of Harvard College in was something in regard to which he said he was at a loss to know how it came about, adding modestly that he did what little he could to justify the unmerited honor. Of his services President Eliot writes as follows: He entered into the work of the Board with keen interest, was punctual at the numerous meetings, and always ready to state his views with clearness and decision.

Entirely practical, he was of great assistance to the Treasurer, for he was at the time the best qualified member of the Finance Committee and the most accessible. Moreover, he was ready to take responsibility, and to approve or disapprove with de- cision financial proposals. His judgment in such matters was excellent, and when he had made up his mind — of course in consultation with the Treasurer — he was immovable.

Adams would not consent to it. He never refused any work for the University, but, on the contrary, was always ready and zealous. After the lamentable death of two of his chil- dren by diphtheria, Mr. Adams resigned several of his posi- tions of trust, and seemed to mean to withdraw himself from society and from business engagements.

Accordingly, when the Corporation had decided that they wanted him as a member, and I went to some of his friends to ask them what they thought of the choice, and how he would take the pro- posal, all but one of them discouraged me with the statement 19 Harvard Class of that he would certainly decline. Nevertheless, I went to his office, described the work of a member of the Corporation as accurately as I could, and asked him to take the proposal into consideration.

The movement of to make Benjamin F. Butler Gov- ernor of Massachusetts forced Mr. Adams into another seced- ing minority, and he was chosen candidate for the Governor- ship by a small faction known as the Faneuil Hall Democrats. He was now withdrawing from public life and occupying himself with business affairs almost exclusively.

He received the nomination for Representative for the Second Congres- sional District, in , but declined to serve. More than once he was talked of as a suitable member of the cabinet of President Cleveland, but without any encouragement on his part. Of his later years his brother, Charles Francis Adams, says: Between the time of his marriage and , his sum- mers were passed in Quincy, chiefly on his place at Mt. Wol- laston, where he built a house in His winters between 1 86 1 and were passed in Boston.

Subsequent to he lived at Quincy all the year round until about the year , after which he again had a house in Boston Commonwealth Avenue where he passed his winters. In he became a member of the Glades Club at North Scituate, and during the remaining years of his life some ten 20 Harvard Class of or twelve weeks in the summer were regularly passed with his family there. He was fond of the water, and, at one period, sailed much. It afforded him a variety in life, before lacking. My brother's single trip to Europe, visiting Italy, Paris, and London, covered about three months, from the middle of January to the middle of April, Adams returned from Europe suffering from an at- tack of malaria, and his health continued poor during the summer.

In the month of August he sustained a slight attack of apoplexy from which he rallied. A second attack proved fatal, and he died at half-past five on the morning of August 14, At his decease, Mr.

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Adams's family consisted of his widow — three sons, George Caspar, since deceased, of the Class of ; Charles Francis, of the Class of , Treasurer of Harvard College; Arthur, of the Class of , and one daughter, Abigail. Of the children deceased, the son John Quincy died on April 12, , in his fifteenth year; the daughter Fanny on April nth of the same year at the age of two years and eight months. Adams was singularly handsome; a ruddy complexion, a thick head of auburn hair which yielded early to the hereditary decorous baldness of the family, and a well- built figure gave an impression of great health and vigor.

The family removed to Boston in the autumn of He entered the English High School in , and remained throughout the regular course of three years. The year from the summer of to that of he passed at Andover, Massachusetts, studying modern languages. With Peirce he was awarded the Bowdoin Prize for dissertations. At this time his father had entered the dry-goods commission business and desired Ammidown to join him.

The connection continued until i, during which time Ammidown was engaged in business, travelling in various parts of the Union. Louis, At this time he was active in founding the short-lived Har- vard Club, which had rooms in Tremont Street, and had among its members Robert C. Adams, and George S. The commercial crisis and panic of left little hope of any immediate success to be made in the dry-goods trade, and Ammidown availed himself of the period of recovery to visit Europe. He sailed on December 16 for Liverpool, and hastened through England to Paris, where he employed ten weeks in the study of French in a French family, and in sight-seeing.

Proceeding by sea from Marseilles to Naples, after seeing all that was interesting in that vicinity, Ammidown turned northward and travelled with American friends by Vettura as far as Florence, taking in Rome by the way; through Venice, Trieste, Vienna, Prague, reaching Dresden, where he found lodging in the family of the Hofrath, Director Dittmarsch, a government official in charge of all the theatres in the city, by whom he was introduced to the most eminent actors and actresses of 22 Harvard Class of Germany, meeting them at dinners and picnics.

While at Dresden, most opportunely, Ammidown received an invitation from the distinguished naturalist. Gould, to make a trip with him through Switzerland. This resulted most satisfactorily, the doctor being cordially re- ceived by scientific men wherever they went. After spend- ing some time travelling in England and Scotland, Ammidown arrived at Boston in September, , and found the panic of apparently forgotten and active business going on, and he resumed his business of travelling.

In the fall of i and in the midst of the excitement over the presidential election of that year he opened an office in New York. Russell Ammidown, of Southbridge, and made a second tour in Europe. The great panic in changed the aspect of affairs, and it became necessary to struggle night and day with financial difficulties, but when came he was substantially free from debt and prepared to prosecute business with new en- ergy. The results, however, were not very satisfactory until , when a period of three years of extraordinary success ensued.

As chairman of that committee he made several reports on national questions which were printed for distribution in 23 Harvard Class of Congress and throughout the country; the most important of these related to President Arthur's proposed Spanish treaty and to the Chinese Exclusion Act. During all the time of his residence in New York Ammidown was engaged in vari- ous manufacturing enterprises, in woolen, cotton, silk, and jute fabrics ; was a member of the National Society of Wool Manufacturers, and often called on to testify before com- mittees of Congress in discussions on the tariff question.

His first contribution to the press which attracted attention was an article in the " New York Tribune," in , entitled " National Illiteracy. His re- port in , as chairman of the Committee of Foreign Com- merce of the Chamber of Commerce, opposing the ratifica- tion of the Spanish treaty, secured the approval of a large majority and prevented President Arthur from urging its confirmation. In December, , his report in opposition to the proposed Chinese Exclusion Act is credited with hav- ing had the effect to delay its passage for two years. He was chosen a presidential elector in In he had an active part in formulating and securing the enactment of the McKinley Tariff.

Ammidown publicly opposed Mr. Blaine's scheme for reciprocity as it was at first introduced, and led Mr. Blaine to modify it essentially. He was obliged to decline an appointment by President Harrison as one of nine National Commissioners to the Columbian Exposition. During the spring of Ammidown was encouraged to undertake a speculation in wool involving the investment of more than a million dollars, in which the results of forty years of business activity disappeared.

This was based largely on the expectation of an increased duty on wool. While in Paris in May, 1 89 1, his attention was attracted by a glowing description of the country about Puget Sound.

A visit led to a perma- nent residence at Seattle and to an interest in various enter- prises and the Presidency of the Seattle Power Company, which subsequently sold its property to the city of Seattle. In response to your frequent requests for memoranda of the events of my life for the Class Book, I will try to put down some which may possibly be of interest to the class. My parents were Wm. Turell and Fannie Mackay nee Reynolds Andrews. My father graduated at Harvard in the Class of , and was Treasurer of the College from to I began my education, when I was two years old, at a small infant school in Central Court; went next to a school kept by Miss Whitney under the First Church in Chauncy Place, and later to the preparatory department of the Chauncy Hall School, and after that to public schools in East Street and Mason Street, entering the Boston Latin School in and Harvard College in During my Freshman year I roomed and boarded, at five dollars per week, on Brattle Street, in the house next above the famous blacksmith-shop, where " the Village Smithy stands.

Hurd had rooms in the same house. I took my meals during the rest of my college course at Mrs. Auburn Street, with several classmates and others, price three dollars per week, and roomed with Briggs in Stoughton, Hollis, and Holworthy. I was absent from college during most of the second term of my Senior year, having a serious trouble with my eyes, but graduated with the class without any final examination: In October, , I went abroad and was absent until 'August, I spent the first winter in a French family in Passy near Paris, a suburb where Dr.

In the spring of I went to England and, besides spend- ing much time in London, made quite an extensive tour through England and Scotland, visiting the chief cathedral cities and most picturesque and rural counties of that beauti- ful country. Public stage-coaches were then still in use, and I made many interesting journeys by coach, and listened with interest to the tales of the famous old story-telling drivers. In the autumn of I travelled quite extensively and slowly through Belgium, Holland, and Germany and went to Rome for the winter.

Travelling abroad was not so common then as now, and the American Colony in Rome was small, but very " select " and social. With a few agreeable young men I spent many days in sight-seeing, and we usually met and dined together at the restaurant Lepre, where we made the ac- quaintance of many of the Roman artists. The American sculptor Crawford was then in Rome and doing his best work. He was easily the head of the American Colony.

In March I made a short visit to Naples and, returning, joined a family party on a six-day journey to Florence by vetturino, and later to Venice in the same way. Of the party was Miss Sarah H. Addoms of New York, whom I married in the following December. I spent the next ten years in and near Boston, at first in the crockery business, and, not caring for that, I bought a hundred- acre farm in West Roxbury, which I named the " Home 26 Harvard Class of Farm.

This was a most interesting part of my life, and although I gave up farming in , the knowledge of agricultural matters which I then acquired has added greatly to the pleasure and interest of my life, especially when travelling. From that time I never ceased to want a farm again. In the year I abandoned farming, went to Europe and made Paris my home until — I had three children who required educational opportunities which the farm could not afford. So I went into the banking and commission business in Paris.

My life in Paris, where I was not trying to kill time, as so many Americans do, was very interesting. My days were spent as by business men at home, with an occa- sional holiday for sight-seeing and country excursions. A daily ride or drive in the Bois, the best theatres in the world, the galleries and the street sights, were a never-ending source of interest and pleasure.

Housekeeping was easy, and my children had all the educational advantages which Paris afforded, but, in my opinion, they are not equal to those in this country. My summers were spent at St. Germain, quite near to Paris. The French Empire was then at the height of its glory. In the year , the year of the Great Exposition, Paris was visited by all the crowned heads of Europe, and they were entertained with all the splendor of which Paris was capable.

I was visiting in this country with my family when the Franco-Prussian War broke out and remained here until the Prussians entered Paris, when I hastened to return to my business and my Paris home. But on reaching Queenstown we heard of the breaking out of the Commune. Consequently we remained in and near London until the Commune was crushed by the government troops.

Meanwhile I made a visit to Paris on business, the events of which may be of interest. All of us who have been abroad remember the excitement at- tending the arrival of the Calais train at the depot of the Chemin de Fer du Nord in Paris — the large and small omni- buses meeting the usually large number of passengers. My 27 Harvard Class of arrival witnessed a different scene.

I and one other were the only passengers. It did not take long to pass my trunk through the douane, and I entered the only omnibus at the station, and the driver placed my trunk inside as a precaution, so as not to attract attention as we passed through the almost deserted streets to the Hotel Chatham. No difficulty in get- ting a room — there were half a dozen guests in all — at the hotel.

I had the breakfast room to myself, and when I went to the usually crowded restaurant on the boulevard and corner of the Place de I'Opera, for my dejeuner a la fourchette, I was almost the only guest there. Paris was indeed lonely; the boulevards were deserted ; most of the shops from the Made- laine to the Rue de la Paix, and thence through the Place Vendome to the Rue de Rivoli, were closed and placarded with " A Louer " on every window pane, and all the glass was pasted over with broad strips of paper to prevent breaking when the column in the Place Vendome should fall.

It was still standing, but cut away on the up-street side towards the Rue de la Paix as one cuts trees in the forest to fell them ; and when I returned to Paris some weeks later the column was prostrate, lying on heaps of straw, which had been placed there to break the fall, and not a pane of glass was broken, as they might have been without the paper strips. The day on which I reached Paris had been set apart as a day of armistice to enable the non-combatants of Neuilly, who had been seeking shelter from the shells of Mt.

Valerien in the cellars of the houses destroyed in the town, to come into Paris. Neuilly had been the battlefield of many combats; the walls of the houses, peppered by the Minie rifle balls, showed how desperate the fighting had been. The Avenue de la Grande Armee, which was in the direct line of fire from Mt. Valerien, showed the effects of the terrible bombarding from that fort — the central pathway was strewn with broken trees and lamp- posts, and the houses on both sides were shattered by the shells, and in the courtyards of some of the houses broken shells had been made into great piles by the occupants during the periods of cessation of firing — but that day the poor refugees from Neuilly strolled slowly along, bringing with 28 Harvard Class of them the few small remains of their household goods which they had been able to rescue from their ruined homes.

The following day the bombardment began again, and the booming of the exploding shells was heard through the streets of Paris. The streets were deserted, but occasionally one heard the sound of drum and fife, and soon would appear a file of the Com- mune soldiery, marching and being drilled for defence.

They were a sorry-looking, desperate crowd, and one could not help feeling nervous lest one should himself be forced into the ranks. I had a great feeling of relief when, a few days later, having finished my business, I had left Paris on the train and passed St. Denis and was once more protected by the wearer of the Prussian helmet.

I had come from London to consult a lawyer on important business, and found that he was at his country place a few miles south of Paris. Horses were scarce in Paris — they had all been eaten during the siege ; so I started to walk. My route lay through the Barriere d'Enfer. But I was not per- mitted to pass. My American passport would not avail. I must get a passport from the Commune. So to the police headquarters I went, and was addressed by a man in shabby dress sitting at the desk with, " Eh bien, Citoyen!

So my sortie and entree being provided, I left Paris through the Barriere d'Enfer, the same guarded strongly by soldiers and almost impassable chevaux de frise beyond the gates. I had about five miles to walk, along a straight road, between forts on either side, both belching forth shells into Paris.

Before I left I was told that on foot I would be safe, but I did not feel very sure of it, and was right glad when I reached Paris again alive after transacting my business. My next visit to Paris was by the first train which left Lon- don after the Commune was crushed and the city taken by the government troops.

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I arrived early on Sunday morning, and spent several days driving about the city, seeing the fearful 29 Harvard Class of destruction by the petroleuses; the barricades had not been removed, and many were the signs of the desperate fighting which had taken place behind them. By degrees the city took on its former aspect to a certain extent, but Paris has never again been the Paris of the Empire.

We Republicans really enjoyed the pageant of the Empire. I reestablished my business in Paris at No. The War had temporarily made business in Paris unprofitable. Since that time my life in this country has had no incidents especially worth recording. It has been varied, however. I have occupied several business positions.

I spent seven years in New York, and one year in Norfolk, Virginia, erecting a plant for creosoting timber, which was destroyed by fire soon after it went into operation. Find- ing life in that occupation uninteresting, I gave it up, and since then, while having sufficient interests to keep me in touch with the business world, I have mostly led a life of leisure, getting more out of life than would have been possible had I remained active in affairs. My wife died in , and I have since made my home with my two daughters on Beacon Street. We have for many years spent the summers in the country in hired houses, at Beverly ; Milton ; Ridgefield, Connecticut ; and Cornish, New Hampshire, where I am summering at pres- ent, in one of the most beautiful parts of New England.

Very few, I think, of my classmates have had such a varied life as I have, and perhaps it has left with me as many interest- ing experiences to think about, and probably more, than had my life been wholly spent in one kind of profession or business. Your classmate Edward Reynolds Andrews. At the last annual dinner of the Class of , it was decided to publish the memoranda of the lives of those members who had passed away, which Secretary Shaw had gathered from the members themselves and from other sources, so that we and the families of those who are gone might know the story of their lives during the long period of some sixty-four years since we entered Harvard in It is contemplated that we who are left should bring our records up to date.

We are no longer young, but most of us are still actively engaged in some useful occupation. One of the pleasant events in our class his- tory since graduating was a dinner given, October 2, , at Taft's famous tavern at Point Shirley, to our classmate Eliot, in celebration of the twentieth year of his inauguration as President of Harvard College. Twenty-seven members of the class were present, and only five of these are now living. I was at that time much interested in photography, and I took a picture of the other twenty-six. I also compiled the Class- Album containing portraits of most of the members of the class, taken at the time of graduation and again about forty years later.

This Album Crocker generously gave to each member of the class. Portrait-photography was introduced about , and we were the first class to make use of it. These portraits were called crystallotypes and present the reverse side of the face. Since my return to this country to live, I have made two trips to Europe.

In I spent a few months travelling through France and England, and, in , yielding to a great desire to see Rome again after an absence of fifty years, I sailed in November, with my two daughters, on the S. After a few days there, we reached Rome, where we spent the winter, followed by a trip to Southern Italy and Sicily in the spring. Later we went on to Florence, where I was very ill with pneumonia, in conse- quence of which we spent the summer quietly in the Tyrol, followed by a second winter in Rome. In the year I joined the Massachusetts Agricultural Club, which was founded in by several business men of 31 Harvard Class of Boston who were interested in agriculture and horticulture.

In its early days the club met every Saturday for a noon- dinner at Colonel Crocket's stage house in Bromfield Street. This was a hostelry much frequented by countrymen, but it disappeared many years ago, and a Methodist church now oc- cupies its site. The club is still active, but meets only on the first Saturday of each month, and at Young's Hotel.

The dinner of March I, 1 9 13, was the th since its birth in Our classmate Clark was its Secretary and induced me to join, and through the conversations of the dinner-table I became interested again in farming. After my return from Europe in I purchased a large farm in Putney, Vermont, and am devoting my energies to carrying it on as far as I can in the latest scientific methods. I have a fine herd of Guernsey cattle and a flock of Horned Dorset sheep. It is a dairy farm, and my aim is to make choice table-butter, which is mainly supplied to clubs in Boston.

In raising pure-bred animals and in striving to make two blades of grass grow where one grew before, I am passing in the company of my daughters a tranquil life. All this I am finding, now at the age of eighty-one, a most interesting and absorbing occupation. When very young, his parents removed to Charlestown, Massachusetts, where he began his preparatory education. He entered the Boston Latin School in , and at the end of a short course of three years entered Harvard as Freshman in He had a very exceptional faculty for acquiring languages.

On graduating, in , he adopted the profession of teacher, which he followed as sub-master until the year , first at the Lynn High School, and afterwards, during the years , , and i, at the Salem High School. The 32 Harvard Class of resolutions passed at his decease by the Salem High School Association, and the speeches made on that occasion by the principal of the school and others, testified to the high regard in which he was held, not only for his great and varied ac- quirements as a scholar, but also for the spirit of kindliness, forbearance, and Christian manliness which marked his char- acter at all times.

He kept up his studies, however, trans- lating much, especially from the Northern languages. His last work, pursued during his sickness, was from the Greek, " The Antigone of Sophocles. Bartlet was Senior Warden of St. Peter's Church, Salem, and the resolutions of the Wardens and Vestry at his decease characterized him as " a Christian, humble and devout ; a churchman, clear in his convictions and consistent in his practice; a prudent counsellor; a scholar of ripe and varied attainments; a generous friend; a large-hearted man; an officer whose place we cannot fill; a man whom in his life we trusted and esteemed, and one whom, even in the unseen world, we would fain follow with respect and honor.

Sickness and straitened means weighed heavily on Bennett's early years ; in his own language, " in the in- tervals of tolerable health his hand was given to labor and Harvard Class of his head to study," mathematics having a special attraction for him. A violent fever in nearly proved fatal to him. It was not until that systematic instruction began, when he entered Lawrence Academy at Groton, then under the Rev.

James Means, to whom, and to his other teachers, he felt under great obligations. Fourteen weeks in the winter of were devoted to teaching a district school. He entered Harvard as Freshman in The first two years in college passed very smoothly. At the end of the Sopho- more year a fancy seized him to pass a year at Yale, where he was admitted to the Junior class on examination, and where he formed many close attachments. Returning to Harvard in accordance with a previous understanding with President Sparks, he there passed his Senior year.

He gradu- ated with high rank, having for his Commencement part a dissertation on " Public Spirit in India. In September, , he entered the Har- vard Law School. After an interruption in he re- commenced his studies in that institution in September of that year and took his degree of LL.

In the meantime his studies were not limited to that of the law. He had begun writing for the religious press, and was the author of an article in the " Bibliotheca Sacra " for July, , on " Aliens in Israel. After practising law for about three years in Boston, having an office with Lyman Mason, Esq. Here he became an active and public-spirited townsman, keep- ing up at the same time a remarkable amount of literary work and contributing to the " Congregationalist " and other papers. It is said that he could read fourteen or fifteen languages, among them Sanscrit, Norse, and Anglo-Saxon.

Several of his translations from the German and other lan- 34 Harvard Class of guages have been published and have met with a favorable reception. During the whole of this period he was secretary of the Board and an active member of several important committees. On March 6, , he was elected a member of the S-chool Committee of Groton, and served in that capacity for eight years, and was the author of several annual reports, extracts from which were fre- quently incorporated in the report of the State Board of Education.

For many years he was a member of the Groton Musical Society. In he was appointed by Gov- ernor Washburn Judge of the First District Court of Northern Middlesex, then just established at Ayer — a position which he held until his death, but his tenure of office was not des- tined to be of long duration. The ill-health from which he had suffered from his earliest youth developed into consump- tion, and for the last year of his life he could speak only in a whisper. He continued, however, to perform his judicial duties until the week preceding his death.

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By the advice of his physician he had gone to reside at Ayer two months before that event, which occurred on January 23, His widow, a son, James Torrey, born May 30, 1 87 1, and a daughter, Beatrice Ethel, bom September 22, , survived him. He was pre- pared for college at the Boston Latin School, entering in , and became a member of the Freshman class at Har- vard in On leaving college he went abroad with a view of continuing his academic studies, and began a course S5 Harvard Class of of philosophy at Heidelberg, but soon changed to the study of law, of which Mittermaier was then the distinguished professor.

He was also for some time at Berlin, where he enjoyed the friendship of the eminent jurist Gneist, and per- fected himself in the German language. He received his degree of J. He took his degree of LL. From to he lived in Boston, engaged in the practice of the law. Hav- ing married the daughter of the distinguished General John A. Dix of New York, he took up his residence in that city, and entered on a successful practice as a patent lawyer.

In he formed a partnership with Charles M. Keller which lasted till the latter's death in October, , when he took as a junior partner Edward G. Blake enjoyed a very high professional reputation, and eulogistic tributes were paid to his memory. A general knowledge of the principles of law and the proper mode of weighing facts, obtained from a thorough legal education, is absolutely neces- sary to the practice of the Patent Law, as it is to any other 36 Harvard Class of branch of the law, and when to this qualification is added an aptitude for mechanical questions and for the law of patents and a genial disposition and a courteous bearing toward his brethren at the bar and toward the court, and a high tone of character — all of which qualities Mr.

Blake possessed in an eminent degree — you have, according to my observation and from my standpoint of view, a model lawyer in patent cases, a lawyer always serviceable to his clients and always serviceable to the court. His body was found floating in the North River, near the end of West 40th Street, in the forenoon of Monday, February 21, 1 88 1. He had left his partner's house at about half-past eleven on the previous evening, and had but a short distance to go to reach his own.

There were no indications of rob- bery or violence of any kind. His watch and money were intact. No motive for suicide could be suspected. The most plausible explanation of the case is to be found in his habit of taking long walks, in pursuance of a system of exercise prescribed in order to reduce his flesh. This sometimes led him to out-of-the-way places, and, amongst others, according to the account of a friend, he had found the river at night, with its lights, interesting. It seems probable that he acci- dentally fell in, early on the morning of the 21st, as his watch had stopped at 1.

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He left a widow, who died in , and four children, — Catherine Morgan, born February 19, ; unmarried January, , and living in England. Morgan Dix, born January 29, ; married a Canadian; practising medicine in Kent. Elizabeth Morgan, born January 13, ; unmarried, January, Soon after leaving college he spent about a year in India, and on returning to Boston engaged in the Calcutta business, in which he showed ability and sound judgment.

He joined the Independent Corps of Cadets, becoming a valuable mem- ber, and as Lieutenant did useful work at the outbreak of the War in drilling Harvard men at the Cambridge Arsenal. He was offered the commission of Lieutenant-Colonel in one of the Massachusetts regiments, which a severe hemorrhage compelled him to refuse. He was never well afterwards, and went to Europe for his health in the summer of He spent the winter of at Rome, and was in Paris in the following summer, where his classmate Clark saw him.

Al- though far gone in consumption, he had bright views of his future, but returned to Boston in October, and died unmar- ried on the 24th of that month. His early years were passed in Weston, Massachusetts. On his father's side he was descended from Walter Briggs, who in was of Briggs Harbor, Scituate, and on his mother's side from the Brewsters and from George Morton, a member, in 2, of Robinson's congregation at Leyden, who came to Plymouth in in the " Ann. He had a great love of books, much refinement of taste, and a serious disposition, and his Commencement part, a disquisition, " Thomas-a-Kempis," S8 Harvard Class of seemed extremely well suited to him.

On leaving college he immediately began the study of medicine at the Harvard Medical School, and took his degree of M. In the summer of that year he made a voyage to England as Sur- geon of the ship " Jeremiah Thompson " belonging to the Trains of Boston, and had an opportunity of visiting Lon- don, which he was well prepared to enjoy.

Continuing the practice of medicine in Boston under discouraging circum- stances, he was not sorry at the end of the year to take the position of Surgeon on the brig " Newsboy," sailing from Norfolk to the Azores, in the hope that change of scene and occupation would give him fresh energy to encounter the difficulties of a young practitioner.

The return voyage began on the 6th, but a severe storm disabled the ship, a sailor's leg was broken, and the captain put back to Fayal, thereby giving Briggs an op- portunity to see more of the island and its society, as well as to render some professional services to which he was called. Sailing again on February 23, he reached Norfolk on March 21 after a rough passage. In the year the death of his father broke up the family home at Boston and ended his practice there.

This enforced change in his life's plan was not entirely satisfactory nor wholly irksome, but at the end of the school year of he decided to offer his services to the cause of the Union, and on August 12, , was commissioned Assistant Surgeon in the 24th Regi- ment of Massachusetts Volunteers, of which Thomas G. Hospital work kept him very busy, but nothing eventful hap- pened until December, when an expedition the object of which was the interruption of railroad connection at Goldsboro, at the crossing of two roads from Savannah northward and 59 Harvard Class of from Wilmington westward, was organized by Major-Gen- eral John G.

Foster, commanding the Department of North Carolina. Briggs was detailed, at the last moment before start- ing, to the 27th Massachusetts, forming part of Colonel Horace C.

The first camp, which was reached late at night, presented a very striking sight, with its many fires and swarming thousands of men. Pitch-pine trees were set on fire if rom root to summit, making pillars of flame. As the force advanced, they caught up with the wounded of the regiments that had preceded them. A barnlike meeting-house, near which the fight at Kinston had taken place, had been made a depot for the wounded, who lay on the floor in their agonies, and presented perhaps the most shocking sight of the expedition. The 27th Regiment was not fairly engaged until the 17th at Goldsboro, where Briggs was initiated into field duties and performed an operation while lying on the ground in the midst of a battery in action.

The position of Goldsboro was too favorable for the massing of the enemy for defence when the point of attack became known to them, and after twisting the rails for a short distance it was judged best to retreat. In the next month, January, , the regi- ment was ordered to South Carolina, and went into camp at St. Being left entirely unmolested by the Confederates in this position, about six weeks were spent quietly here, with opportunities of excursions to Beaufort and elsewhere, and of studying the negro question at first hand.

At the end of March the order came to move northward in aid of the operations before Charleston, and the regiment was stationed on Seabrook Island near the north shore of Edisto Inlet until the July following, when the command, excepting the invalids and four companies of the 24th who were left in charge of Dr. Briggs, was ordered to James Island in the immediate vicinity of Charleston.

The subsequent evacuation of Seabrook Island, the getting off of more than one hun- dred patients in expectation of immediate attack during a cannonade, and the sole charge on Morris Island of the regiment with a sick-list of between two and three hundred, 40 Harvard Class of gave the final blow to Dr. Briggs's already failing health, and resulted in a severe attack of dysentery in August. He was taken to the hospital at Beaufort, South Carolina, and, while there, was cheered by the news of the capture of Forts Wagner and Gregg. Towards the end of September he re- turned to his regiment on Morris Island, and found that the sick-list of the 24th had become so fearfully large as to call for immediate removal to St.

Early in October he was at St. Augustine, and for a time was Post Surgeon and on duty at Fort Marion, the old castle of San Marco, and a great improvement in the health of the men took place. The regiment spent the winter at St. Augustine and at Jacksonville. In the meantime Briggs was commis- sioned Surgeon of the 54th Massachusetts negro regiment Colonel Shaw's , then commanded by Colonel Hallowell, his commission being dated November 24, , but he was not mustered out of the 24th until April 26, In May he began service as Surgeon of the 54th on Morris Island.

It was a period of comparative inactivity, except for an unsuccessful attack on the enemy's lines on James Island under General Schimmelpfennig, of whom Briggs gave his impressions as follows: In the late James Island expedition I had occasion to carry some document to him.

He sat in a large chair on the raised floor of a house whose walls had been pulled down, leaving the roof supported by the framework. He has a crook in his shoulders, and as he sat there, a puny man, with a pale absorbed face, he looked strangely like a Richard III. At the end of November Briggs was with the eight com- panies of the 54th that were sent to Hilton Head to form part of the " Coast Division," consisting of five thousand men under General Hatch, with orders to cooperate with General Sherman in his march to the sea.

On the 29th they started up the Broad River, and on the 30th were repulsed 41 Harvard Class of at a point on the Gainesville Road, in an engagement known as the Battle of Honey Hill, by a much smaller force strongly intrenched. Briggs had a day of the severest work as field surgeon in a hospital installed in Eutaw Church. A retreat was made to the landing, but on December i lines were again advanced, and finally, on January 15, , the regiment met the 17th Corps of Sherman's army at Pocotaligo.

The troops to which Briggs was attached remained near Pocotaligo until Charleston was evacuated by Hardee, and then on February 27 proceeded to occupy that city. The object of two years' struggle by sea and by land for the possession of this impor- tant place was at last secured, and garrison life, with a roof over one's head — free communication with the North, bring- ing letters, friends, and abundant supplies — made it a de- lightful spot.

Two weeks at Savannah were full of novelty and interest. A severe skirmish at Boykin's Mills near that place is the last battle inscribed in Briggs's military record. Just as the regiment was marching past the plantation of General Wade Hampton, April 19, , news was received of the surrender of Lee. On the regiment's return to Charleston Briggs was on duty at the citadel, and on August 20, , was mustered out. Major Emilio's reminiscences of Dr. He says of Dr. He was devoted to the sick in hospitals, and obtained high rank as a Surgeon for operations in camp and on the field.

In the '80s, the Officers' Association of the 54th Regi- ment requested from the surviving officers sketches of their lives. The original writings were unfortunately destroyed in the first Chelsea fire, together with the books and records of the Association. These sketches had before passed through my hands as the historian of the corps. From them I ex- tracted the main facts, and entered such in a book under the names of the several officers.

I gladly give you what there is under Dr. After considering the possibilities of other Western cities for building up a practice, Briggs settled at St. Louis in , and met with a favorable reception. The remainder of Dr. Briggs's life was spent in profes- sional activity, relieved by summer vacations at Evequeton- sing. Once again only he bore arms, in the St. He contributed to medical periodicals; delivered lectures on physiology and diseases of children, as professor at the St.

Louis; on continued ser- vice at the House of the Good Shepherd, and delegate to various national and diocesan Episcopal conventions. His health had given cause for alarm for some time, when he became a patient at the Massachusetts General Hospital at Boston, and, after a severe surgical operation, he died there on June 17, Briggs, died at Santa Barbara, California, in her sixty-sixth year, November 23, He organized at Harvard, in his Junior year, with Dr. Whitton, of Yale '53, the first intercollegiate contest in this country — the first boat-race between Harvard and Yale, which was rowed on Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire, August 3, The victorious Harvard crew was composed of Curtis, T.

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