St. Clair County, Illinois - Chapter 15, 1928

Chapter 15

1^ covered the years iS-jS to 1863. The catalogue of 1859 shows his faculty to have consisted of Risdon M. Moore, Mathematics and Astronomy, Rev. Franklin O. Blair, Natural Science, Albert A.Scott, A. M., Ancient Languages, Hon. Augustus C. French, LL. D., Lecturer on Law, Rev. Oliver V. Jones, A. M., Adjunct Professor of Mathematics and English Literature, Samuel H. Deneen, A. M., Adjunct Professor of Ancient Languages and Literature. R. M. Moore was Fiscal Agent and S. H. Deneen, Librarian. That year there were one hundred and seventy-two students enrolled in all departments. The list included two future college presidents, McKendree H. Chamberlin and John E. Earp, as well as several other names that were destined to come to prominence. The Law Department was just in the process of formation. There was a law lecturer announced, and a course of study, but no students. They were to come the next fall. The course of study of the whole institution was classified under nine departments as follows: L Moral and Intellectual Philosophy. IL Mathematics and Astronomy. in. Natural Science. IV. Greek Language and Literature. V. Latin Language and Literature. VI. Belles Lettres and Enghsh Literature. VII. Hebrew and Biblical Literature. VIII. Modern Language - French and German. IX. Law. The course of study for the Freshman and Sophomore years was made up entirely of Latin, Greek and Mathematics. In the second term, for the sake of variety, they would study Greek, Latin and Mathematics; and in the third term, they secured still greater variety by studying Mathematics, Greek and Liitm. In the Junior and Senior years, they continued their classic studies, but also devoted some time to Science and Philosophy; but there were certainly no fads or frills in the course. Candidates for admission to the Freshman class had to be able to pass an examination in all the studies of the two year preparatory course, and be not less than fourteen years of age. Also in all cases, satisfactory testimonials of good moral character must be furnished. All fees had to be paid in advance. No student was to be admitted to classes until he showed a receipt from the fiscal agent. Tuition per term in the Preparatory Department was seven dollars; college, eight dollars; Hebrew, French or German, two dollars extra; room rent, ten to twelve dollars a year; board, two dollars to two and a half per week; washing, sixty cents a dozen, and wood, two dollars a cord. There was also a statement that many students board themselves at a cost of seventy-five cents to a dollar a week. A daily record of merits and demerits was kept for each student, and the same was furnished to parents or guardians, if they so desired. If any student accumulated twenty or more demerits during a single term, he was subject to suspension or expulsion at the discretion of the faculty. 'No student was entitled to absent himself from class or from the city without the consent of the president. Now It seems appropriate to give brief sketches of certain members of the faculty who have not been sketched before, tho some will be reserved for later treatment. REV. NELSON E. COBLEIGH D. D. Nelson Ebenezer Cobleigh was born at Littleton, New Hampshire, November 24, 1814, and died at Atlanta, Georgia, February i, 1874. His early years were spent in poverty, and It was by hard effort and perseverence that he secured an education. He was graduated from the Wesleyan University in 1843, and the same year taught in the high school at Middletown. He joined the New England Conference in 1844, and was engaged in pastoral work until 1853, when he was elected to the Chair of Ancient Languages in McKendree College. He held the position for only one year, and at the same time served as pastor of the Lebanon Methodist Church. The next year he was called to a similar position in Lawrence College, Wisconsin. He continued in this position until 1858, when he was called back to Mc Kendree to be president and professor of Mental and Moral Science. The record of the college Board of Trustees would seem to indicate that Dr. Akers had preferred to return to the pastorate in 1857, and Dr. Blair of Ohio was elected president, but declined. Prof. Werter R. Davis was the acting president. At commencement, i8';7, some of the students presented a petition to the Joint Board, requesting them to elect Dr. Cobleigh president. Doubtless some of them remembered him as professor and pastor when he was there a few years before. So late in the fall, they elected Dr. Cobleigh and he took charge early in 1858. He continued in the posi- tion for five years. In a historical sketch which he re.id at the Educational Convention of 1868, Dr. Allyn says that the institution made more substantial progress in certain lines during his administration than it had under any of his predecessors. His son, Nelson Simmons Cobleigh, was graduated from McKendree in the class of 1862. The next year, the father accepted a call to become editor of Zion's Herald, which was the Methodist church paper for that part of the country, and published at Boston. So when the family moved to Boston, young Cobleigh took graduate work in Harvard. Dr. Cobleigh spent four years with Zion's Herald and then returned to the educational field as president of the Tennessee Wesleyan at Athens, Tennessee. After five years in this post, he was elected editor of the Methodist Advocate at Atlanta, Georgia, in 1872. This was a difficult position to fill, as editor of a journal of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the very heart of the Southern Methodist country. At that time, so soon after the Civil War, the estrangement between the North and South churches was at its height. He did his work with boldness and vigor, yet with such tact and an evident spirit of fairness as to win the respect and esteem of those opposed to him and the cause he represented. So that after his death, those who were his most pronounced antagonists paid willing honors to his memory. He achieved honorable success m every field of labor to which he was called. One of his biographers says of him, "He was an acceptable pastor, earnest and logical as a preacher, a teacher of great and varied abilities, an editor of tact and discrimination, and a man of magnetic and forceful personality."

Dr. Cobleigh's second son, Edward Augustus, was enrolled as a student in McKendree during his last year there. Later he became a physician and surgeon, and founder of the Chattanooga Medical College, of which he was president for fifteen years. At the time of his death m 1904, it had four hundred students. He was also instrumental m the founding of Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga, and was one of Its managers. The only daughter in the Cobleigh family, Theda, married Rev. Frank A. Peake, a Presbyterian minister. He has also been a college teacher and Chautauqua lecturer. Mrs. Theda Cobleigh Peake has also had a career as a college teacher in the field of languages and of education.

The record of the Board for the June meeting in i860 contains a resolution passed on motion of Dr. Cobleigh, then president, "That we tender to the ladies and people of Lebanon our hearty thanks for the bell and clock, which by their efforts and contributions have been placed in the tower of the new college chapel." This means that some time prior to that date the people of the community thru the influence of the ladies as leaders of the enterprise, the people of Lebanon had furnished the money necessary to place these two pieces of useful equipment in the chapel, in which no doubt they all had a strong community pride. We have no information as to the maker of the clock, but it is a ponderous machine with weights hung on wire ropes, which descend through wooden tubes from the clock tower to the ground. One of these weights weighs eight hundred pounds. To wind the clock means to lift these weights a distance of fifty feet or more. It is accomplished by the operator turning a windlass with a crank large enough to use both hands. The clock has four faces showing on the outside of the tower in the four cardinal directions, with long wooden hands to point the hours. But these hive long ago gotten out of repair to the extent that the hands no longer function. But the clock is still kept wound. This needs to be done but once a week, and Its loud strokes, made by a hammer striking against the bell, can be heard over the greater part of the city, by day or night, so that it serves as a sort of community regulator to many of the citizens, and certain of the college classes are dismissed at its signal instead of the ringing of the bell.

The bell has a more specific and more romantic history, which some may regard as traditional or even mythical, but It is embodied in a record left by Rev. Thomas A. Eaton, D. D., who was a graduate of McKendree and spent his life as a member of the Southern Illinois Conference. He says the bell was brought to St. Louis some time in the fifties by some Santa Fe traders who found it in a deserted church somewhere in New Mexico. It is supposed to have been a Roman Catholic Indian Mission Church. Dates and names molded in the bell showed that it was cast in Spam m the eighth century, and recast in the fourteenth. Both of these castings occurred before the discovery of America. The date that It was brought to Florida, some time m the sixteenth century, was carved upon it. After the traders brought it to St. Louis, It was recast again in that city, and shortly after was taken to the Illinois State Fair, held at Centralia in the fall of i8'i8. It was there placed on exhibition and offered for sale. During the days of the fair, visitors kept it almost constantly tolling to test the quality of its tones. After the fair, it was purchased by President Cobleigh and Professor R. M. Moore, who brought it to Lebanon and caused it to be placed in the tower of the new college chapel. Since that time, it has done constant service for every conceivable sort of college gathering, except on a few occasions when it was left tongueless by the depredations of certain ill-advised young students, whose feet were more active than their heads, and who preferred to climb to the belfry by night rather than to the commencement platform on graduation day. In fact, the clapper is no part of the original bell, since it has been replaced frequently through the mechanical skill of some local blacksmith. For many years, an extra bell clapper was a necessary part of the college equipment, but in recent years McKendree students have found more dignified ways of amusing themselves than by the silly trick of stealing the college bell clapper. This old bell has called the students and the public to three score and ten annual commencements. It has often rung the old year out and the new one in. Once It rang continuously all night long when the students were celebrating the achievement of President Chamberlin in securing the first hundred thousand dollars of endowment for the college. Thousands of students have obeyed its call to class, and doubtless many other thousands will hear and heed its mellow tones in the years which Ue in the future. PROF. F. O. BLAIR Franklin Otis Blair was born in Blandford, Massachusetts, November 30, 1822. He entered the Wesleyan Academy at Wilbraham, Massachusetts, in 1842. After completing his preparatory course there, he entered the Wesleyan University at Middletown, in 1844, and graduated from that institution in 1848. In the same year, he began teaching matics at the Providence Conference Seminary at East Greenwich, Rhode Island. In 1850, he became principal of the Springfield Wesleyan Seminary at Springfield, Vermont. He joined the Vermont Conference in 1852, and took charge of Woodstock Grammar School at Woodstock, Vermont, in 1855. The next year he was elected Adjunct Professor of Mental and Moral Science and Principal of the Female Collegiate Institute in Lawrence University at Appleton, Wisconsin. He transferred to the Wisconsin Conference in 1857. In 1858, he transferred to the Southern Illinois Conference and became Professor of Natural Science in McKendree College. He continued in this position until 1871. From 1872 till 1888, he was Agent for the American Bible Society. He was married August 7, 185J, to Miss Electa Ann Adams at Luzerne, New York. Of their two children, the daughter died in childhood. The son, Erwin Otis, grew up in Lebanon, was educated in McKendree, and went west, where in after

There is a house still standing adjoining McKendree's campus which Professor Blair built as a home for his family during their sojourn in Lebanon. After the death of Mrs. Blair in 1888, he made his home with his son in Colorado, where he lived for eight years until his death, October 14, 1896. He made an honorable place for himself in the history of Mc- Kendree, and when he went west he left his library to the college.

PROF. S. W. WILLIAMS* Samuel W. Williams was born in Chilicothe. Ohio, December 2, 1827. His father was of Welsh-Irish descent, and his mother of German, though both were native Americans. In jhis 'infancy, his parents moved to Cincinnati where he was brought up. He was prepared for college in Woodward High School, and then entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, and graduated from that institution in the class of 1848. The same year he began teaching in Worthington Female Seminary. The next year he taught in Baldwin Institute in Berea, Ohio. In 1851, he became a tutor in the Ohio Wesleyan. After a few years of service there, he became Professor of Ancient Languages in McKendree in 1857. He entered the employ of the Methodist Book Concern in 1859 as Book Editor and Assistant Editor of the Ladies' Repository .He was the sole editor of books practically all the time for more than forty years. Bishop Moore said of him, "Dr. Williams has read more manuscripts than any man in Methodism." He has been a frequent contributor to Methodist periodicals and is author of a book, "Pictures of Early Methodism in Ohio," a volume of three hundred and twenty pages, published in 1909. Early in the year 1892, when the editorial chair of the Central Christian Advocate at St. Louis became vacant by the death of Dr. Fry, Dr. Williams was sent to take charge of the paper until the General Conference, which was to meet in May of that year, could elect a new editor. Dr. Jesse Bowman Young was chosen editor and also commencement orator at McKendree's commencement that year, June 16. Dr. Williams came with him. It was thirtythree years after he had completed his term of service at McKendree and doubtless a third of a century had seen many changes. Probably there was no one either in the faculty or *EciiroT'.5 .\nte - Dr. Willuims died Fehritary. 1938.

student body with whom he had been associated m his teaching at McKendree, but possibly a few of the same Bo.ird members were there. He also delivered an address m the afternoon of commencement day and presented to the college a picture of Bishop McKendree, which has hung in the chapel for thirty-five years. After he was relieved from duty on the Central Advocate, he returned to St. Louis and resumed his former post at the Book Concern. In 1912, when he was eighty-five years old, he retired from active work. He is spending the evening of life at his home m Wyoming, Ohio, where he is still an omnivorous reader. His wife was Laura L. Evans. Of their three children, one died in infancy. The others are Berthold Alexander and Laura Elizabeth. He received the degrees of A. B. and A. M. from the Ohio Wesleyan and LL. D. from McKendree. He reached his hundredth year December 2, 1927. He received his first degree eighty years ago. The Literary Digest recently called him the "oldest college graduate in America." He was born before McKendree was founded and has talked with men who attended the funeral of George Washington. In his home is a library of five thousand volumes, which includes what is supposed to be the most complete collection of books on Methodism to be found in the United States. At his death, this collection will go to his Alma Mater, the Ohio Wesleyan University. Following are some reminiscences of his life at McKendree which he wrote by request for this history.

When I entered McKendree College as a member of the faculty in 1857, there were already five teachers and about one hundred and thirty students. My department was the Ancient Languages. James G. Blair of Ohio was the presidentelect, and It was understood that he would accept the position offered to him. He finally declined to come, but meanwhile Werter R. Davis acted as president. Dr. Davis was the Professor of Natural Science, including Physiology and Hygiene. He was ready and alert in his department to perform the experiments required for illustration, and he handled his apparatus and materials as a master. He was a skillful manipulator of chemicals, and as chemistry is a part of the science of medicine, a medical college m Cincinnati conferred upon him, without his previous knowledge or intimation to that effect, the degree of Doctor of Medicine.

I do not think that he was much of a reader of miscellaneous literature, but he managed to pick up a great deal of information, and he never was at loss for an apt incident or fact to illustrate his talks. In the pulpit he was listened to with pleasure and profit, and as a minister of the gospel, he was always in demand. There is an appreciative sketch of him in the Methodist Review and m the volume entitled "The Pastor-Preacher," published by the Methodist Book Concern and written by his son-in-law. Bishop William A. Quayle.

Professor Davis, and others of the faculty, thought that on the declination of Dr. Blair, he should himself have been elected president of the college; but there was a strong prejudice against him on the part of the resident trustees and the executive committee, and he was passed by. I think he was disappointed in not being elected. It is not my purpose to rehearse "The Sorrows of Werter." as Goethe did. but he certainly had cause to expect such a promotion. The trustees had adopted a rule that in the choice of a president the active members of the faculty should be consulted and their preferences ascertained; but when Dr. Blair finally decHned to come, they or their executive committee, without one hint as to his successor or declaration of their intention to elect any one else, offered the presidency to Nelson E. Cobleigh.

Dr. Cobleigh had formerly been a professor m McKendree, and though he knew Lebanon well, he came about Christmas to look over the ground and examine the condition of affairs. Having satisfied himself as to the state and prospects of the college, he accepted the position, and in the Spring of 1858, he assumed charge. There was, however, no cordiality or confidence between him and the leading members of the faculty - not so much on account of the person as the secret mode of his election - and at the end of the year, some of them left the institution. In this action, the trustees were peremptory and suspicious; the faculty were hasty and inconsiderate. But perhaps it all turned out for the best; and both parties learned that all wisdom did not reside solely with them.

Shortly afterward Professor Davis became the president of the Baker University at Baldwin, Kansas; and during the Civil War, he served as Colonel of one of the Kansas regiments. He was always considerate of the men under his command, and as occasion required, he acted as chaplain. As for myself, at the close of the college year, I returned to my home in Cincinnati.

President Cobleigh was an eloquent speaker, and his sermons and addresses were pertinent and instructive. As a teacher, he was stimulating. His scholarship was good and he was acquainted with literature. He kept himself abreast with the thought of the age; and when he became editor of "Zion's Herald," and subsequently of the "Methodist Ad-

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Facsimile of commencem; vocate" at Chattanooga, he exhibited his talents better than he did in the class room or in the presidential chair of the college. He was a good administrator, but both he and his successor, Robert AUyn, were hampered by lack of funds. There was very little endowment and very little income. And the fees for tuition and incidental expenses were very small. It was almost impossible to pay the salaries of the instructors, and indeed some of them were never wholly paid. Risdon M. Moore, the professor of Mathematics, was a patient and persevering instructor within the range of the text books used in his classes. He did not pursue his studies outside of them; and even if he had done so, he had no pupils who might wish to extend their researches in Astronomy and fluxions. The professor preferred an active out-door life; and when he became a Colonel in the war between the states, he made a gallant and successful officer, and received the commendation of his superiors in command and of the general government.

Thomas H. Mudge was a member of a large and well known New England family which gave so many of its sons to the church and the ministry. He received a good education at the Wesleyan University, and turned his attention especially to the study of the Scriptures in their original tongues. He was also well-versed in the literature of the ancient classics and modern authors. He was named for one of his uncles, Thomas Hicks, who resided in the East - New Jersey, I believe. His uncle became partially insane, and as there was no hospital for persons in such condition, he was placed in the county jail for safe keeping. Tho he was not treated as a common prisoner, but was allowed the liberty of the precincts, and on one occasion when his keepers were not watching, he took advantage of the opportunity to escape. After roaming about for a number of days, without recapture, he returned of his own accord to the prison, carrying a few fagots that he had cut with his jack knife in the woods, and exclaimed as he gave himself up:

When our work in the class room was finished for the day, Professor Mudge and I often rambled thru the woods and over the fields about Lebanon. We both liked flowers, and he sometimes gathered bunches of them to adorn his sitting or dining room table. We once found a pretty blue flower which neither of us knew, but in consulting our books of botany, we identified it as a species of oxalis. The common sorrel we well knew, but this was a variety we had never before seen. I afterwards found it growing on one ot the hills north of Cincinnati, but in only a single spot. We once came across a patch of paw paw bushes. The professor had never seen a paw paw tree in New England, and he inquired of me what it was. I told him and said that it bore a fruit which was the delight of boys, and that as this was the season for paw paws, we might probably find some. On entering the clump, we discovered an abundance of the fruit, large and well ripened. Picking up one, I broke it open and began to eat. "What!" exclaimed he, "are they good to eat?" "Try one", I answered, and so he did. It was a new experience, but he relished it greatly, and so long as we could find them in the woods, he used them freely. His wife and children, a son and a daughter, likewise became fond of them. Later in the season, besides hickory and hazel nuts, we got wild grapes, two varieties, and persimmons. These latter were good until Christmas, and when I went home on a visit during our Christmas recess, I took a little box of them with me.

After leaving McKendree, Professor Mudge began collecting materials for a Commentary on the Pentateuch. In his leisure from pastoral and professional duties, he wrote expositions of many passages in it. If he had lived to finish his task, it would have been his opus magnum. He went to considerable expense in procuring from abroad works which he thought would be helpful to him m his undertaking, most of them in foreign languages.

Samuel H. Deneen was my helper in the department of Latin and Greek. He was an earnest and diligent worker and allowed no lagging in his classes. No slipshod pupil escaped his attention. He was a reader of general literature as well as of the ancient classics, and acquainted with poetry. He owned a good library and was fond of books.

Oliver V. Jones had charge of the academic department, and was faithful and untiring as an instructor. He was not a reader of many books, and cared little for general literature ; but he liked to run thru the magazines and papers that came to the college, and talk about what was going on in the world. He kept his eyes open, and was a good judge of men and manners. This frame of mind was of service to him when he subsequently became editor of a political paper. Many of his evenings were spent in society. He was always tidy in personal appearance, and used to shave himself every day, Sundays excepted, though he did not follow the example of Bishop Hamline who performed this operation twice on Saturday - m the morning and late in the evening, so as not to break the Sabbath.

Samuel H. Deneen, Oliver V. Jones and myself were then unmarried. There were two churches in Lebanon, the Baptist and the Methodist. Of course we always attended the latter. It was a facetious saying in town that the Methodist girls attended the church not so much for the sake of the sermons as on account of "The Sams and the hims."

The Rev. Thomas F. Houts was the pastor stationed in Lebanon during my time at McKendree. He had been educated as a lawyer; but God had touched his heart, and obey ing the call of the Divine Spirit, he entered the ministry. His sermons were generally interesting and he was a fluent talker. His style was wordy and sophomoric. Take a specimen, on the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah.

"The site of these ancient cities is now a stagnant and fetid lake. No trees deck its borders or relieve its shores with their verdure. No white pebbles line its bed, and the waves surge not against its bleak and desolate rocks. There they frown on that dark, still, dead sea, bearing witness to all time of God's everlasting and implacable displeasure of sin."

But this is not more than half as grandiloquent as some of his sentences. Mr. Houts was, however, a student of divinity, and in process of time he came to entertain doubts concerning the "resurrection of the body." He adopted, perhaps with some modifications. Professor George Bush's the ory. This would have been innocent enough if he had kept his opinions to himself, but he began to preach them. I think he also published a small treatise on the subject, but it did not attract much attention from scholars, as being rather raw and rambling. But his theories subjected him to the notice of his conference. The minutes will probably show its action.

Upon the whole, McKendree was a good school, both for the teachers and the taught. They equally learned lessons which would have been difficult to learn elsewhere. If "History IS Philosophy-teaching by example," history was there enacted.

Stith Otwell Bonner

Stith Otwell Bonner was born at Staunton, Illinois, July 7, 183,7. His parents were of Scotch-Irish descent. His grandfather, Henry Bonner, came from Virginia with his family and settled near Edwardsville in 181 4. His father was John Bonner, and his mother, Polly Davidson Randle, was the daughter of an itinerant Methodist preacher. Mr. Bonner entered McKendree College in i8')5, and graduated in 1858, with the degree of B. S. He was a member of the Philosophian Literary Society. He was married in 1861, to Julia A. Ballard, a grand-daughter of Washington C. Ballard, one of the early pioneers of Illinois. She died in 1867. In 1870,

Jonathan and Frances Bascom, of St. Louis. By the first marriage, there was one daughter, now deceased. By the second marriage, a son and a daughter, LeRoy B. Bonner, now of St. Louis, and Mrs. Fannie Bonner Price, who long resided with her father at Edwardsville, Illinois. Since graduation, Mr. Bonner has followed various vocations, chiefly farming and horticulture. In 1888, he was elected Coroner of Madison County, and held the office for a term of four years. After that he engaged in real estate and personal property auctioneering at Edwardsville. He was a member of the Methodist Church and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He died in Jacksonville, Florida, January 7, 1925. JOHN WF^LEY BROCK John Wesley Brock was born in Jersey County, Illinois, May 16, i8j6. He was the son of T. F. and Lucinda (Slaten) ter of Georgia. He entered McKendree m 1855, and graduated in the scientific course in 1858, receiving the degree of B. S. His was the first class to graduate in the present chapel building. He was a member of the Philosophian Literary Society. After graduation, he taught school for some time. In 1861, he enlisted in the Union army, being a member of the 27th regiment of Illinois Infantry, m which he served till the close of the war. After the war, he was engaged in various lines of business. He lived for a time in Five Oaks, Florida, and later in Denver, Colorado, where his death occurred in 1893. He was married in October, 1866, to Miss Maria Parshley, of Ohio. Their two sons both died in infancy. Their daughter, Georgia, grew to womanhood. THOMAS ESSEX Thomas Essex was born m St. Louis, December 15, 1837. He was educated in a private school in St. Louis, the high school at Arcadia, Missouri, and at McKendree College, where he received the degree of A. B. in 1858. He was a member of the Platonian Literary Society. He attended a law school in Cincinnati and received the degree of LL. B. in 1 86 1. He then settled in Ironton, Missouri, where he lived for fifteen years. He practiced law, taught school and edited the "Iron County Register." In 1867, he was elected to the Missouri State Senate, and in 1870, was reelected and served as president pro tem of that body. In 1875, he moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, and the following year was appointed Land Commissioner for the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad. In 1881, he was also made Tax Commissioner for the Missouri Pacific Railway in Arkansas. In 1892, he retired from active life and spent his declining years m St. Louis. In 1866, he was married to Adeline V. Hypes, a daughter of Benjamin Hypes, of Lebanon. Their daughter, Carrie, became the wife of Professor Emory B. Lease, of the University of Cincinnati. Mr. Essex died July

Daniel Kerr

DANIEL KERR Danier Kerr was born in Scotland, June 18, 1837. He came to America with his parents m 1841 and located on a farm in Liberty Prairie, Madison County, Illinois. In 1848-49, he was a student in ShurtlefF College. In 1855, he entered McKendree and graduated in the class of 1858. He was a member of Philo. After receiving his bachelor's degree, he entered the Law Department of McKendree, which was then newly organized, and completed the law course in 1861. The following year he was admitted to the bar. In 1862, he enlisted in the 117th Illinois Volunteers, which was known as the McKendree Regiment. He entered the service as a private, but was mustered out in i86'i as a First Lieutenant.

After the w.ir he began the practice of law in Alton. In 1866, he moved to Edwardsville, from which place he was elected to the Legislature m 1868. In 1869, he moved to Grundy Center, Iowa, and was elected to the Iowa Legislature m 1883. In 1884, he was a presidential elector, and in 1886, was elected to Congress. He was reelected the following term. After his career in Congress, Mr. Kerr retired from politics as well as from the practice of law and spent his later years on a farm in Iowa. He was accustomed to spend the winters m California. After leaving the law, he spent some years in another field as editor of the "New Century," and later of the "Argos." He died only a few years ago.

Joseph William Van Cleve John Van Cleve

Joseph William Van Cleve was born at Mt. Vernon, Jefferson County, Illinois, Feb. 20, 1837. He entered Mc- Kendree as a student in the fall of 1854 and graduated in 1858, receiving the degree of B. S. He was a member of the Platonian Literary Society. He taught school in St. Jacob, Bethalto, Hillsboro, and Alton, in the last named place, for eight successive years. In 1870, he was admitted on trial in the Southern Illinois Conference, and in 1875, was received in full connection. He served the following charges : Equality and Shawneetown, Jonesboro and Anna, Ashley, Jerseyville, Greenville, Olney, and Gillespie. In 1885, he was transferred to the Southern California Conference, where he spent the remainder of his life. He served several years as presiding elder. He was married March 5, 1859, to Miss Fanny Ransom Holmes. Their three children were William Holmes, Fanny Ransom, and Mary Evans. Some time after his wife's death, he was married a second time, June 30, 1872, to Miss Belle Zora Gird. Of this union, there was born one son, Ray Gird. Mr. Van Cleve's death occurred late in the century. JOHN VAN CLEVE

John Van Cleve was born m Shrewsbury, New Jersey, May 28, 1804. His parents moved to Ohio in 1815. He was converted in 1822 and joined the "Old Stone Church" in Cincinnati. He was licensed to preach in 1825, and joined the Illinois Conference in 1828. In 185 1, he was transferred to the Missouri Conference and preached one year in St. Louis. He was then transferred to the Southern Illinois Con' ference, where he labored till the end of his life. He served as presiding elder in the Alton and Lebanon districts, and was four times elected as delegate to the General Conference. He was also a member of the General Missionary Committee, and his last illness occurred while he was in New York City attending the meeting of the Committee. He died at St. Luke's Hospital in 1875. McKendree honored him with the degree of Doctor of Divinity in

The Class Of 1859

This was the second class to graduate under Dr. Cobleigh's administration. Of course their training was mostly received under the former president. One member of the class is still living at this writing, and is now the oldest living graduate of the college. There was also in the class a future president of McKendree, McKendree Hypes Chamberlin, whose life history will appear in connection with the account of his administration as president. Some account of each of the others is given here.

Rev. Lemuel Cramp

Lemuel Cramp was born at Bunker Hill, Illinois, April 6, 1838. He entered McKendree in 1856 and graduated in 1859, receiving the degree of B. S. In 1898, he received from his Alma Mater an honorary master's degree. He was a member of the Philosophian Society. After graduation, he taught for some years in the public schools at Troy, St. Jacob and Macon. In 1879, he joined the Southern Illinois Conference and spent the best years of his long life in the service of the church. During his ministry, he served some of the important charges of the conference, among them Lebanon and East St. Louis. He was married September 27, i860, to Miss Susanna Reed, of Lebanon. They had four children who are all married. Three of them were students in McKendree. Mrs. Cramp died November 30, 1896. Five years later he was married to Mrs. Mary L. Wiley of Brighton, Illinois. That city has been their home since his retirement in 191 3. Mr. Cramp is now the oldest living graduate of McKendree. He will have completed his ninetieth year if still living by the time McKendree has finished her Centennial celebration . At the session of the Southern Illinois Conference held at the college in 1927, Brother Cramp was awarded the Confe rence Cane which is supposed to belong to the oldest member of the conference.

Madison M. Goodner

MADISON M. GOODNER Madison Monroe Goodner was born near N.ishville, Illinois, June 21, 1842. He was a son of Salem and Elizabeth (Cherry) Goodner. He entered McKendree in 1856 and graduated in i8';9, receiving the degree of A. B., and three years later, A. M. He was a member of the Platonian Literary Society. He graduated from the law department of the University of Cincinnati in 1861, receiving the degree of LL. B. He practiced law many years in Nashville, was master in chancery of Washington County for several terms, having been appointed by Judge Silas L. Bryan, was mayor of Nashville for three terms, and county judge of Washington County from 1872 to 1876. He was a Republican in politics. He was married in 1863, to Miss Marietta Cone, of Nashville. Two of their children are now living. Dr. Ralph A. Goodner, now practicing the medical profession in Nashville, and Mrs. Genevieve Allen, of Chicago. Judge Goodner died at Nashville, March 16, 1888. CHARLES M. HANDSAKER Charles M. Handsaker was born at Broughton, Derbyshire, England, September 29, 1836. He came to this country in early life and showed an ambition to secure an education. He entered McKendree in 1855 and joined the Platonian Society. He graduated in the class of 1859, receiving the degree of A. B. He was employed for some years as a civil engineer for the Wabash railroad. His death occurred at Mt. Vernon, Illinois, October 7, 1878. WILLIAM HARTZELL William Hartzell was born in Stark County, Ohio, February 20, 1837. He was of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. He came to Illinois very early in life and in 1855, became a student in McKendree College, from which institution he graduated in 1859, receiving the degree of A. B., and later, A. M. He was a member of the Platonian Literary Society. Until 1862, he was engaged in mercantile business at Evansville and Ches. ter; he then began the study of law, and was admitted to the bar in 1864. He located at Chester for the practice of law. In 1874, he was elected to the forty- fourth Congress of the United States, and two years later was reelected to the fortyfifth. In 1897, he was elected Judge of the Circuit Court. He was married March i, 1866, to Miss Mary Isabella Holmes, of Chester. To them were born two children - Joseph H., now of Kansas City, and Mabel A., now Mrs. J. M. Randolph, of Chester. He was a member of the Masonic Fraternity. He died August 14, 1903.

Dr. Joseph Keeney

he received the degree of A. B. He then took a medical course and came west to engage in the practice of medicine. He was located in Lebanon for some years and in 1859, received the degree of A. M. from McKendree College. He married Miss Helen Finley, whose father was for a time professor of Greek in McKendree, and for several years its president. They had one son, who afterwards became a surgeon in the United States Navy. At the opening of the Civil War, Dr. Keeney enlisted in the army and was present in the battle of Shiloh. He contracted a disease which com' pelled his retirement from the service and caused his death July 7, 1862, at his home in Lebanon. He lies buried in College Hill Cemetery. A memorial window in his honor has been placed in the present Methodist church of Lebanon.

Monroe J. Miller

MONROE J. MILLER Monroe Joshua Miller was born near Salisbury, North Carolina, September 19, 1830. He was a son of Theobald and Elizabeth (Knupp) Miller, the former of German and the latter of Norwegian ancestry. When he was only a small child, his mother died, and a few years later his father, with his second wife and all his family, came west and settled m Southern Illinois. In early life, he determined to secure an education, though well aware that it depended upon his own efforts. After getting what training he could from the public schools, he worked in a printing office, assisted the editor, and got what practical experience he could. In 1853, he first entered McKendree, remaining one year only. He then secured a position in a newspaper office at Berlin, Wisconsin, and the next year attended school at Lawrence University, where Dr. Cobleigh was then president. When that able educator became president of Mc Kendree, Mr. Miller returned there and graduated under Dr. Cobleigh's presidency in 1859, receiving the degree of A. B. and later, A. M. He was a member of the Platonian Literary Society. He was three times president of that society and four times editor of the "Plato Gem". He was licensed to preach by the Lebanon Quarterly Conference, but for a time engaged in newspaper work, and in August, 1862, he enlisted in the 117th regiment of Illinois Volunteers, where he served his country faithfully for three years, and where he contracted the disease of tuberculosis, of which he died March 18, 1866. He was married July 28, 1863, to Miss Mary Virlinda Wright, of Lebanon. To them was born one daughter, Mary Elizabeth, now Mrs. Walter H. Offill, of St. Louis. There are also five grand-children all grown and all living in St. Louis.

John S. Nicholson was born at Oldham, England, Feb. 13, 1832. His parents were Samuel and Mary Nicholson who, of course, were natives of England. He came to America in early life and entered McKendree in 1854. He graduated in 1859 with the degree of A. B., and afterward received that of A. M. He was a member of the Philosophian Society. He was married in i860 to Miss Jemima Harris. Some years after her death, he was married to Miss Jane Buck, in 1875. He left two sons, C. B. Nicholson and E. E. Nicholson. When he was only a boy, he worked in the printing office, so after finishing his college work, he naturally went into the newspaper business. In time, he became the editor and proprietor of the "Central Illinoisan," at Beardstown, Illinois, which in 1892 was consolidated with the Daily Star, which since that time has been a daily and weekly paper. He continued to be editor and publisher of this paper until the time of his death m April, 191 1. He was an active member of the Methodist Church, of which he was a trustee for thirty years. He also served as steward and was several times chosen as lay delegate to the conference. He held the office of Postmaster from 1904 till the time of his death. He served as presidential elector, was frequently a member of the state convention and has served on the Republican State Committee. THE CLASS OF 1860 JOHN M. CHAMBERLIN

John McLean Chamberlin was born in Lebanon, Illinois, January 20, 1837. His parents were David and Susan Chamberlin, who were both native Americans. The father was a local preacher in the Methodist Church and one of the founders of McKendree College. He entered McKendree as a student in the fall of 1855 and graduated in i860, receiving the degree of A. B. Later he received the degree of A. M. He was a member of the Platonian Literary Society. He was married November 9, 1869, to Maggie E. Royse. To them were born four sons - Willis W., John M., Jr., C. Earl, 'and E. Clinton. They were all educated at Mc- Kendree College, and all graduated except one. Mr. Chamberlin spent the greater portion of his active life in the mercantile world, being for many years a member'of one of the leading business firms of Lebanon, Illinois, engaged in general merchandise. He was a memberof the Masonic Order, and of the Methodist Church. He was for many years an active worker in the Sunday School, and a very efficient Sunday School Superintendent. He was for more than fifty years a trustee of McKendree. He was at one time president of the board, and served for many years as a member of the executive committee.

He was for twenty-two years treasurer of the college, and for a long period one of the commissioners of the endowment fund. He also served the interests of his home city for some years as president of the board of education, and as a member of the city council. He died in Lebanon .it the home of his son, C. E. Chamberhn, June ij, 1919.

John H. Eckert

JOHN H. ECKERT John Hardin Eckert was born near Waterloo, Monroe County, Illinois, August 13, 1838, and died June 3, 1899, at Arkansas City, Kansas. He was a son of John and Arah (Williams) Eckert, who were both Americans, though the former was of German descent. He became a student in McKendree in 1856 and graduated in June, i860, receiving the degree of B. S. Later he took a law course and received from McKendree the degree of LL. B., in 1877. He was a member of the Platonian Literary Society. He was married November 29, 1861, to Frances Henryetta Sager. Their three children were lona May, Harry, and Fannie Arah. Mr. Eckert engaged in the mercantile business for some years after his graduation. Before, and for some years after, his admission to the bar he was postmaster of Lebanon under Republican administration. In politics, he was an ardent Republican all his life. In 1884, he moved to Arkansas City, Kansas, and entered upon the practice of law. A short time after, he became city attorney of Arkansas City and later filled other offices which were within the gift of the people. He also took an active interest in newspaper work. In 1893, he moved to a farm in Kay County, Oklahoma, where his last years were spent in a quiet but useful life in the country. He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. While not a member of any religious denomination, he was a close sympathizer with the Methodists. He was a devoted student of the Bible and a constant reader of religious literature. He was interested in every good work and was always anxious to promote the welfare of his fellow men. He was held in highest esteem by all his friends and acquaintances.

William H. Hypes

WILLIAM H. HYPES William Henry Hypes was born at Lebanon, Illinois, November 17, 1839, and died in his native city April 31, 1887. He was a son of Benjamin and Caroline (Murray) Hypes. His father was a native of Virginia, of German and English ancestry, and his mother was born in Baltimore, Maryland, of Scotch-Irish parentage. He took the classical course in McKendree and graduated in i86o, receiving the degree of A. B., and A. M. in 1863. He was a member of the Platonian Literary Society. He was engaged in mercantile business for a number of years. In 1874, he was appointed United States Revenue Collector for the thirteenth district and held this position for eight years. He was married December 20, 1877, to Miss Emehne L. Allyn, daughter of Dr. Robert Allyn, who was formerly president of McKendree, but at the time of his daughter's marriage, president of the Southern Illinois Normal at Carbondale. Of this marriage was born one daughter, Cornelia Allyn Hypes, who IS now the wife of Charles B. Whittlesey, a lawyer of New London, Connecticut. Mr. Hypes resided in Lebanon during his entire lifetime, and was a staunch and loyal friend of McKendree to the day of his death. He was a worthy son of his father, who was one of McKendree's earliest and best friends.

Capt. Joseph Tabor Parker

Joseph Tabor Parker was born September 22, 1838, in St. Louis, Missouri. When quite young he attended a German school where he learned to read and speak that language fluently. Then his father moved with his family to the city of New Orleans. Here he attended an academy for some time. At this place, his father died and the family moved to New Albany, Indiana. From here, they moved to Lebanon, Ilhnois, in 1854, and in the fall of that year, young Joseph became a student in McKendree. He graduated in i860, receiving the degree of B. S. He was a member of the Philosophian Literary Society. He was a skillful musician, and composed several pieces of music which were published. He also wrote several poems which were set to music. He wrote numerous articles for various literary periodicals, and in addition to his other accomplishments, he had a taste for art and excelled in drawing. In recognition of his attainments in literature and the fine arts, he was elected an honorary member of the Belles Lettres Society of the Illinois Conference Female Seminary. In May, 1861, he became a soldier in the Union army, and as a member of Colonel F. P. Blair's regiment, was present at the capture of Camp Jackson. In August, 1862, he enlisted in the 117th Illinois regiment under Col. Moore. June 8, 1863, he was commissioned as a captain in Col. Kappner's regiment of heavy artillery (colored), raised at Memphis, Tennessee. He died at Memphis, October 17, 1863, of typhoid fever.

Col. Ebenezer Topping

Ebenezer Hibbard Topping was born in Athens, County, Ohio, December 19, 1830. In 1841, he came with his parents to Perry County, Illinois. In 1850, he went to California, where he was engaged for several years in mining. Returning in 1856, he became a student in McKendree, and graduated in i860, receiving the degree of A. B., and later that of A. M. In 1862, he enhsted m the United States army and was made captain of a company in the iioth regiment of Ilhnois Volunteers. Later he was promoted to be lieutenant-colonel, and in 1863, was placed m command of the regiment. His command entered the field at Louisville, Kentucky m 1862, and participated m the marches and battles of the army of the Cumberland m its campaigns through Kentucky and Tennessee. He was with Sherman at Atlanta on the famous "March to the Sea." He was mustered out at Washington after the grand review, June 8, 1865. He was married in 1863, to a daughter of J. R. Watkins. After the war, he settled on a farm in Kansas. In 1869, he was elected to the Kansas Legislature, and in 1870, became a member of the State Senate, and was re-elected the next year. In 1877, he was appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, Hon. Carl Schurz, to appraise Cherokee lands in the Indian Territory. While in McKendree, he was a member of the Platonian Literary Society. His death occurred late in the century.

The Class Of 1S61 Rev. James F. Corrington

THE CLASS OF 1S61 REV. JAMES F. CORRINGTON James Fletcher Cornngton was born at Greenfield, Illinois, February 21, 1840, and died at Chautauqua, Jersey County, Illinois, September 5, 1907. He was a son of Rev. James B. Corrington and Rhoda B. Larimore, who were both natives of Kentucky. He graduated from McKendree in the class of 1861, receiving the degree of A. B. Later he received the following degrees from the same institution: A. M. in 1864, D. D. in 1896, and Ph. D. in 1890. He was a member of the Philosophian Literary Society. He was married July 3, 1867, to Miss Juliet A. Hamlin, of Salem, Illinois. Their only daughter is now Mrs. Joanna Corrington Leverett. He was a soldier in the Civil War, enlisting m 1862, in the 122nd Illinois Volunteers, as a private. He afterward served as quartermaster, and still later was promoted to the rank of captain. After the war, he engaged in mercantile business for a year in Alton, Illinois. He then became professor in the Military Academy at Lexington, Missouri. Then after serving as principal of the Lexington High School for a time, he was elected County Superintendent of Schools, and held this position four years. Then in 1873, he entered the ministry and became a member of the St. Louis Conference of the M. E. Church. He was a member of the Masonic Order, and of the Grand Army of the Republic, being connected with the Ransom Post of St. Louis. During his ministerial career, he was pastor of the following charges in the

St. Louis Conference: Dresden, Independence, and Butler, two years each; in the city of St. Louis, he was pastor of St. Luke's twice and of Bowman twice, and of Tower Grove church; he was presiding elder of the St. Louis District from 1885 to 1889, and secretary of the Twentieth Century Fund, 1900 to 1902. After th.it, he took a supernumerary relation and retired from active work.

William P. Haisley Lucius Marcus Olden

WILLIAM P. HAISLEY William Penn Haisley was born in Wayne County, Indiana, December 21, 1831, and died in the year 1906. His parents were Quakers who lived in North Carolina until just prior to his birth, they moved west, stopping in Indiana for a few years where they could be associated with more of the Society of Friends than in their former home. Some years later they moved into the vicinity of Jacksonville, lUinois, where his boyhood was spent. He graduated from McKendree in the class of 1861. He then took a law course at Harvard University and received the degree of LL. B. from that institution. While m McKendree, he was a member of the Philosophian Literary Society. He was an intelligent and persistent traveller, and spent ten years of his life in travelling for the purpose of securing information. In 1868, he visited Florida, and being pleased with the country, eventually settled there, making his home at Ocala. In 1877, he was elected Superintendent of Public Instruction for the state of Florida. In 1878, he was married to Miss Julia Simmons of Lewes, Delaware, who, as his widow, still survives. LUCIUS MARCUS OLDEN Lucius Marcus Olden was born at Montpelier, Vermont, March 4, 1832. While he was a small boy, his parents came west and located at Alton, Illinois. He entered Mc- Kendree at the same time with his older brother William, m March, 1852, but did not pursue the course regularly. He finished the law course, receiving the degree of LL. B. in 1861, and the classical course in 1863, when he received the degree of A. B., and later, A. M. He was a member of the Philosophian Literary Society. For some years after graduation, he taught school and practiced law. He then travelled extensively through the west, finally stopping at Prescott, Arizona. Here for many years, he engaged m mining, fighting Indians, and leading the life of a typical frontiersman. His death occurred February 2, 1905, when he fell over a precipice while going down a mountain from his mill, and was instantly killed. He was never married.

William W. Lemmon Major William P. Olden

i86i, receiving the degrees of B. S. and LL. B. He was a member of the Platonian Literary Society. He stood at the head of his class, receiving the first honors. Immediately after his graduation, he enlisted in the United States army as sergeant major of the Eighteenth regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry. After serving in this capacity only a short time, he died August 7, 1861. He was a young man of great promise, and evidently had a successful career before him which was cut off by his early death. MAJOR WILLIAM P. OLDEN William Pomeroy Olden was born in Montpelier, Vermont, January 5, 1831. He first entered McKendree in 1852, but owing to interruptions in his course he did not graduate till 1861, when he finished both the law and the classical courses, and received the degrees of A. B. and LL. B., both at the same time. He was a member of the first law class which graduated fromMcKendree. He was a member of the Platonian Literary Society. After his graduation, he WILLIAM OLDEN taught school one year at

Samuel Baldwin Riley

Moro, Illinois, and in the summer of 1 862, he raised a company of soldiers of which he was chosen captain, and which became Company D of the 117th Illinois Volunteers, of which Professor R. M. Moore was colonel. Benjamin F. Olden, a younger brother of William P. was lieutenant of the same company. Before the close of the war. Captain Olden became major of the regiment. After the war, he began the practice of law in Springfield, Illinois, where he spent the remainder of his life. Aside from his law business, he was the author of a number of inventions, on which he secured patents. He was married January 5, 1872, to Mary Q. Staley. Their children are William Q., born in 1873, Mary E., born in 1875, and Ulysses S., born in 1879. His death occurred March 3, 1904. SAMUEL BALDWIN RILEY Samuel Baldwin Riley received the degree of LL. B. as a member of the class of 1861. We have no recent information concerning him.

The Class Of 1862 Capt. Henry A. Castle

THE CLASS OF 1862 CAPT. HENRY A. CASTLE Henry Anson Castle was born at Columbus, Adams County, Illinois, August 22, 1841. His parents, Timothy

Henery Castle

H. and Julia (Boyd) Castle, were natives of Vermont. His four great-grandfathers were soldiers in the Revolutionary War. After attending the public schools, he entered Quincy College in 1859, pursuing the classical course, but in 1861, he transferred toMcKendree,changed to the scientific course, and graduated in the class of 1862, receiving the degree of B. S. Three years later, he received the degree of

M. S., and in 1882, the honorary degree of Master of Arts. He was a member of the Platonian Literary Society and editor of the "Plato Gem." He has frequently been invited to deliver addresses before various organizations in the college, on commencement and other occasions. In 1912, five members of this class were still living. Castle, Marshall, Young, Harris and Cobleigh. The first three mentioned attended the commencement exercises in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of their graduation. In August, 1862, Mr. Castle entered the Union army as a private, and at the close of the war, was mustered out as captain of a company m the i J7th Illinois Volunteers. After the war, he studied law, and practiced that profession in Illinois and Minnesota. In St. Paul, he engaged in editorial work, and afterward became owner of the "St. Paul Dispatch," one of the leading papers of that city. He served the public as a member of the Legislature of Minnesota, postmaster of St. Paul, and auditor of the Post Office Department at Washington, D. C. He has written for many of the leading magazines, among them the North American Review, Harpers, Saturday Evening Post, World's Work, McClure's and Collier's Weekly. He is author of "The Army Mule and Other Sketches." He was married April 18, 1865, to Miss Margaret W. Jaquess, of Quincy. To them were born three sons and four daughters. The oldest son, Charles W., is now a captain in the U. S. A. The other sons died after reaching manhood. Of the daughters, Margaret married Captain E. R. Stone, of the U. S. A. Anna married Fred C. Christy, of Phoenix, Arizona, while Helen S. and Mary J. resided with their father in St. Paul until his de.ith August 16, 1916.

Nelson S. Cobleigh

son E. Cobleigh, D. D., LL. D., a native of New Hampshire, and Charlotte M. (Simmons) Cobleigh, a native of Massachusetts. He entered McKendree in 1858 and graduated as valedictorian of the class in 1862, receiving the degree of A. B., and in 1865 the degree of A. M. He was a member of the Platonian Literary Society. At the time of his graduation, his father, the Rev. Doctor Cobleigh, was president of McKendree. He took a University course in Harvard in 1863-64. He received the degree of Master of Arts from Yale in 1865, and the same degree from the Wesleyan University in 1866. He graduated from the Dio Lewis Normal Institute of Physical Education in 1864. He was married to Miss Martha A. Rice in Boston, June 29, 1869. Of their five children, only one son and one daughter, Rice and Nellie S., are still living. After entering upon his career of newspaper work, Mr. Cobleigh held the following positions: Reporter for the Boston Daily Advocate and Bos' ton Traveller, Assistant Editor of Zion's Herald, Boston- City Editor of the Cleveland Daily Leader, City Editor and Associate Editor of the Cleveland Plamdealer. He was on the staff of the New York World from 1890, to his death and was Foreign Editor of this paper since 1893. He spent the year 1867 chiefly in travel and study in Europe. For two years he was a member of the City Council of the city of Cleveland, and served as Vice-President of that body. He was an honorary member of the Cleveland Light Artillery. He was also a member of each of the following learned societies and fraternal orders: American Institute of Instruction, National Geographical Society, Order of Elks, Eclectic Fraternity, Wesleyan University Chapter, and the Ohio Society of New York. He died at his home in White Plains, New York, March 4, 1927.

Joseph Harris

JOSEPH HARRIS Joseph Harris was born in Truro, Cornwall, England, December 25, 1830, and died at Los Angeles, California, December 15, 1912. He came to America at the age of nine with his parents, who settled in Kentucky, but soon after moved to Cass County, Illinois, where he grew to manhood. He studied law for a time in Springfield, but abandoned it to enter the ministry, and joined the Illinois Conference in 1859. He then entered McKendree and graduated in 1862, with the degree of A. B., and in 1865 received the degree of A. M. He preached a number of years in the Southern Illinois Conference, and from 1879 to 1886, occupied the chair of Mathematics in McKendree College. After two years in the supernumerary relation, he transferred to the St. Louis Conference. Among the charges he served in this conference were Trinity and St. Luke's, and his last work was assistant pastor of Union Church, all in the city of St. Louis. In 1896, he took the superannuate relation and for the last fifteen years of his life he and Mrs. Harris made their home with their daughter and son-in-law. Rev. and Mrs. Arthur Page Sharp, in Massachusetts. They were enjoying an extended visit in Los Angeles, when he was called to his final reward. He was one of the five members of his class who lived to see the fiftieth anniversary of their graduation, though he was unable to attend the reunion in r9i2. JOHN S. FITZGERRELL

John Stanton Fitsgerrell was born in Jefferson County, lUinois, March i, 1841. He was a son of James J. and Martha Ann (Martin) Fitzgerrell, who were both of Irish ancestry. He became a student in McKendree in the fall of 1858, and graduated in 1862, receiving at the same time the two degrees, B. S. and LL. B. He was a member of the Philosophian Literary Society. He was married November

25, 1862, to Miss Mary C. Moore, a daughter of Capt. Jonathan and Ehzabeth Moore, of St. Clair County, Illinois. To them was born one son, John Stanton Fitzgerrell, Jr., who was educated in McKendree, and who, after a career in the practice of law in Bowling Green, Missouri, died in the early part of this century, due to heart failure.

Soon after his graduation, Mr. Fitzgerrell entered upon the practice of law at Benton, Illinois, in partnership with F. M. Youngblood, later known as Judge Youngblood. His promising career was cut short by his death August 11, 1863. He was a member of the Methodist Church. His widow moved to Lebanon where she might educate her son at McKendree, and still resides in this city (1928).

John N. Gwin

JOHN N. GWIN John Newton Gwin was born in Crawford County, lUinois, February 26, 1837. He became a student in Asbury University (now De Pauw), but later came to McKendree, in 1857. In 1861, he left his studies and entered the United States army as a volunteer soldier. After serving five months he was discharged on account of sickness. As soon as he was able, he resumed his college work, and graduated in the class of 1862, receiving the degree of A. B., and later.

John Fitzgerrell Boone Griffin

that of A. M. He was a member of the Philosophian Literary Society. He studied law in the Cincinnati Law School, and received the degree of LL. B. from that institution in 1866. He made the practice of law his vocation. He died at Hot Springs, Arkansas, October jo, 1895. BOONE GRIFFIN

Boone Griffin was born near Belleville, Illinois, July 27, 1842. He was a son of Joseph and Sally Ann (Collins) Griffin, who were both natives of New York State. He entered McKendree in the late fifties and had completed the greater part of his college course before the beginning of the Civil War. In 1861, he, with some of his fellow students, went to Jefferson Barracks and enlisted in a Missouri Regiment for ninety days. When this period of service was ended, he decided to return to college. He was a member of the graduating class of 1862, but in the spring of that year, his health failed completely and he died at his home near Belleville, May 4, 1862. When the Board of Trustees assembled a month later, as a fitting memorial, it was voted that he should be honored with the degree of Bachelor of Science, and that his name should stand in the list of alumni of Mc Kendree College.

Dr. James H Lowe

James Henry Lowe was born near Summerfield, St. Clair County, Illinois, November 30, 1841, and died at his home in Kewanee, Illinois, April 20, iSgj. He was the oldest often children, and the first of these to pass from e.irth. While only a boy, he entered McKendree and graduated with the class of 1862, receiving the degree of B. S. He was a member of the Platonian Literary Society. He studied law, but later he entered the Chicago Medical College of the city of Chicago, from which he received the degree of M. D. in 1873. He at once began the practice of medicine at Brimfield, Illinois, where he was married January 14, 1874, to Miss Augusta Sutton, who with four children, survived him. In 1882, he moved from Brimfield to Kewanee, where he practiced his profession successfully until the time of his death. He became a Christian at the early age of nine years, and was an earnest and faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. At the time of his death, he had been for several years president of the Board of Trustees of his church. An extract from his obituary says, "He will be greatly missed in the homes of Kewanee, where he ministered to the physical needs; in the church, where he was so faithful; and in the temperance cause, where he was such a zealous worker. His life was full of useful work; his influence always right."

Dr. James Edwin Marshall

DR. JAMES EDWIN MARSHALL James Edwin Marshall was born near FayetteviUe, St. Clair County, Illinois, May 22, 1842. His father, Edward B. Marshall, was born in Dorchester County, Maryland, in 1814, and his mother, Harriet (Barker) Marshall, in Randolph County, Illinois, in 1821. He entered McKendree in January, 1858 and graduated in June, 1862, receiving the degree of A. B. June 19, 1862, and five years later, in 1867, the A. M. degree. He was a member of the Platonian Literary Society. He studied in the St. Louis Medical College and received the degree of M. D. in March, 1864. He practiced medicine and conducted a drug store at Centralia, 111. until i88j, when he became cashier of a banking firm and continued in this position until 1900, when the business was merged with a State bank. He was also for twelve years treasurer of the Centralia Building and Loan Association. He also served as president of the Board of Education in the same city. In 1900, he moved to Chicago, and in 1905 to Evanston, where he died in 1926. For seven years he served as director in a wholesale grocery company in Evanston. He was married November 11, 1869, to Miss Catherine McKnight at Centralia. Their children are Miss Zella Marshall, Mrs. Roy H. Goddard, and Mrs. Claude R. Ailing, all born at Centralia and now residents of Evanston and Chicago. Dr. Marshall saw service in the Civil War in a hospital on the Mississippi River, and for a time was assistant surgeon in the tenth Missouri Cavalry. He is a member of Centralia Lodge No. 201, A. F. &? A. M., and for twenty-one years served as recorder, two years as eminent Commander, and treasurer for five years of the Cyrene Commandery, No. 23 Knight Templars. He attended the triennial encampment of Knight Templars at Baltimore in 1871, and at Denver in 1892. He has been a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen for about thirty years. He is a member of the First Methodist Church at Evanston. He is a Republican in politics, has voted for president twelve times, and ten times for the candidate elected. He has voted twelve times for governor of Illinois, and helped to elect eleven governors. He was present in two National Republican Conventions in Chicago, m the years 1904 and 1908. He attended three World's Fairs - in Philadelphia, Chicago and St. Louis. He was one of the three members of his class who attended the reunion in 191 2 on the 50th anniversary of their graduation. DANIEL WHITTENBURG PHILLIPS Daniel Whittenburg Phillips was born in Washington County, Illinois, August 15, 18 j8. He was the youngest of the nine children of John and Sally (Whittenburg) Phillips, whocame from East Tennessee to Illinois in the same year that it became a state and settled in what was afterward known as the Beaucoup neighborhood, in 1818. He was reared in a religious home, converted at sixteen, became a student in McKendree College at eighteen, and graduated in the class of 1862, with the degree of A. B. Three years later he received the degree of A. M., and in 1883, was honored with the degree of D. D. He entered the ministry as a local preacher and in that capacity did much preaching, and served as supply pastor in several charges. He joined the Southern Illinois Conference in 1868 and was a member of this body until transferred to the Southwest Kansas Conference in 1884, where his membership remained until his death in Winfield, Kansas, September 2, 191 1. In the former conference, he was pastor at Mound City, Nashville, Mt. Vernon and Jerseyville. For two years he was president of the Illinois Agricultural College, located at Irvington. For four years, 1879-83, he was president of McKendree College, his own alma mater. During his incumbency, a long standing debt of $7500 was paid, improvements made on the buildings, and the departments of Music, Business and Elocution were organized. In Kansas, he was pastor at Arkansas City, Wichita, Eldorado and Medicine Lodge. He was one of the founders of the Southwestern College at Winfield, Kansas. He served for ten years as the president of its Board of Trustees, and for one year was vice-president and professor in the college. After his retirement from active work in 1900, he spent the closing years of his life at Winfield, in close touch with this college, where his son. Prof. J. F. Phillips, is a member of the faculty. Dr. Phillips was first married m 1863, to Mary Ann Curlee, who died five years later, leaving one daughter, Eva May, now Mrs. Snyder, of St. Louis. In 1869, he was married to Susan E. Vasey, of Richview, Illinois, who now survives him. To them were born five sons, William L., George A., John F., Walter E., and Robert E. These are all now living except the second, who died in childhood.

William Wallis

William Wallis was born in Parsington, King's County, Ireland, June 5, 1836. His father's ancestors went to Ireland from England in the army of William the Third and fought m the battle of Boyne. His mother's ancestors went to Ireland with Cromwell's army and settled there. He was therefore of Puritan blood. He came to America with his parents in 1839. His father died a year later. He was reared on a farm, joined the Methodist Church at fifteen, learned the tanner's trade, taught school, and thus earned the money to go to college. He entered McKendree in 1856 and graduated in 1862 with the degree of A. B. Three years later, he received the degree of A. M., and in 1900, that of D. D. He was a member of the Philosophian Literary Society. August 13, 1862, he enlisted in Company C, 117th Illinois Volunteers. He was elected Second Lieutenant, afterward promoted to first lieutenant, and then to assistant adjutant. He was mustered out of the service in August, 1865, and the following October, was admitted on trial to the Southern Illinois Conference. His appointments were as follows: 1865, Mascoutah; 1866, professor in Southern lUinois Female College at Salem; 1867-68, East St. Louis; 1869-70, Collinsville; 1871-73, Brighton; 1874, EdwardsviUe; 1875, Piasa and Fidelity; 1876-77, Effingham; 1878-79, Centralia; 1880, Olney; 1881-82, Carlyle; 1883-84, Ashley and Richview; 1885-90, presiding elder Mt. Vernon District; 1891-92, Carbondale; 1893-98, presiding elder Olney District; 1899, Effingham. Failing health compelled him to retire from active work, and he moved with his family to Lebanon. His death occurred March 15, 1901. He was buried in College Hill Cemetery. He was married September 8, 1868, to Miss Eva Hain, of Salem, Illinois. Their five children are William, Mary, Marshall, Robert and Edward. They all received a college education, and the last two are graduates of Mc- Kendree. Dr. Wallis was for many years a trustee of Mc- Kendree College, and was a delegate to the General Conference of 1896.

Peachy Taliafero Wilson

Peachy Taliafero Wilson was born in Christian County, Kentucky, October 26, 1832. In 1833, he came with his parents to Adams County, Illinois. He became a student in McKendree in February, 1856. After several years at

McKendree, he went to Garrett Biblical Institute and graduated there in 1861. The next year he finished the course at McKendree and received the degree of A. B. He was a member of the Platonian Literary Society. In the fall of 1862, he sailed for India as a missionary, under the direction of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was married at Calcutta, November iq, 186:,, to Miss Mary J. Whitcomb. To them were born five children. While Mr. Wilson was home on a furlough with his family m 1874, his wife died m Adams County, Illinois. He was married twice afterward, the third wife surviving him. His death occurred at Sitapur, India, February 13, 1898. He gave thirty-hve years of faithful service to the cause of Christianity as a Methodist Missionary.

William Albion Young

WILLIAM ALBION YOUNG William Albion Young was born in Montgomery Coun' ty, Illinois, August 20, 1836. His parents, William and Jane Young, were both native Americans. He entered McKendree as a student in April, i8';7, and graduated with the B. S. degree in 1862. He was a member of the Platonian Lit erary Society. During the Civil War, he was quartermaster of the first regiment of Illinois Cavalry. During the years 1864-66, he was sheriff of Montgomery County. He served twelve years as a member of the State Board of Agriculture. He was for many years engaged in farming and fruit growing at his home at Butler, lUinois. He was a member of the Lutheran Church, and of the Royal Arch Chapter of the Masonic Order. He was one of the three surviving members of the class of 1862 who attended a reunion at McKendree in 1912 in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of their graduation. He was married m 1866, to Mary E. Ware. She died in 1870, leaving two sons, who both became physicians, Anthony, of St. Louis, and William Albion, Jr., of Springfield, 111. In 1871, Mr. Young was married again, to Sarah Muenscher, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio. She died in 1898, leaving four children : Cornelia, who became a Red Cross worker in Russia, Frederica and Eunice, both of Chicago, and Charles, who was killed in a railroad accident after he was grown. In August, 1899, Mr. Young was married a third time, to Mrs. Emma J. Whiting, of Kansas City, who survived him. One who knew him well, said this of him, "He was a man of exceptional abihty, a deep reader and thinker, and a born leader. He would have stood high in almost any field of endeavor, but he loved the trees and flowers and fruits on his farm so much that he was content to spend his life caring for them. His country home was one of the most deHghtful spots in all the region." He died April 3, 1922.

John Elam was born m Fayette County, Illinois, February 22, 1839. He was a son of Rev. William and Mary Elam, the father being a minister of the Dunkard Church and a native of Virginia, while his mother came from Tennessee. He entered McKendree in 1861 and became a member of the Platonian Literary Society. He graduated from the law department in 1863, receiving the degree of LL. B. He began the practice of law in Vandalia and soon became the partner of Judge Tevis Greathouse, and continued in this partnership until his death, which occurred August 22, 1875. He left a wife, a son, William, and a daughter. Fern. The son was drowned in the Kaskaskia River in 1901.

William Henry Krome William Christian

William Henry Krome was born July i, 1841. He graduated from McKendree m the class of 1863, receiving the degree of A. B. He was a member of Plato. Later he took a law course in the University of Michigan and received the degree of LL. B. He began the practice of his profession in the city of Edwardsville, where he spent the remainder of his life. He has served as mayor of his home city and as a member of the Illinois State Senate. In 1890, he was elected county judge of Madison County. In 1894, he was a lecturer in the McKeiv dree Law School. In addition to his different lines of legal work, he was for a large part of his life engaged in the banking business. For many years he was president of the Bank of Edwardsville. His death occurred March 7, 1917. WILLIAM CHRISTIAN

William Christian, of Tamaroa, graduated in this class, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Laws. We have no record of his subsequent career.