Jubilee Memorial of Shurtleff College

1827.
JUBILEE
MEMORIAL
OF
Shurtleff College.
1877
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V."
JUBILEE MEMORIAL
OF
SIURTLEFF COLLEGE,
UPPER ALTON,
ILL.
Consisting
I.
of
Three Volumes
in
One:
II.
III.
THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL AND GENERAL CATALOGUE. THE JUBILEE ANNIVERSARY, WITH ADDRESS AND POEM. THE CENTENNIAL-JUBILEE MEMORIAL ROLL- BOOK.
ALTON, ILL.: DAILY TELEGRAPH 8TBAM PRINT.

1877.
This Building was erected
at
Rock
Spring, Illinois, under direction of ELD.
JOHN M. PECK,
in 1827,
and destroyed by
fire in
1862.
ROCK SPRING SEMINARY,

''The
first
ILLINOIS,
Institution of Learning, above the grade of a common, primary School, established in the West." "In 1831, the School closed with the view of its removal to Upper Alton, as the commencement of a College,
and opened again, in 1832, under th<- name of Alton Seminary," (now Shurtleff College.) John M. Peck, D. D.
<
*.
SEMI-CENTENNIAL
AND
GENERAL CATALOGUE
OF THE
OFFICERS AND STUDENTS

OF
FOR
/ 50 YEARs-1827-^
1
EMBRACING THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF THE COLLEGE, FROM ITS BEGINNING IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ROCK SPRING SEMINARY IN 1827, AND INCLUDING ALTON SEMINARY,
ORGANIZED IN 1832, ALTON COLLEGE, CHARTERED IN 1835, AND SHURTLEFF COLLEGE, SO NAMED IN 1836.
UPPER ALTON, ILL

1877.
HISTORICAL SKETCH.
SHURTLEFF COLLEGE had
Its
known as Rock Spring Seminary,
origin in a "Theological and High School" established in 1827, under the labors of Rev.
John M. Peck, D. D., and through the help of contributions received from a few friends in New York and New England. In THE BAPTIST MEMORIAL for 1842, Vol. 1, page 205, Dr. Peck says "In 1827 the Rock Spring TheRock Spring is a country situation, 18 ological High School was opened. miles East of St. Louis, and on the great stage road to Vincennes and Louisville. The Seminary commenced with 25 students of both sexes, which number was increased in a few weeks to 100. At that period no school for
:
In boarders, under Protestant direction, existed in Illinois or Missouri. 1831 the school closed with the view of its removal to Upper Alton, as the commencement of a College. The Institution opened again in 1832, under
the
name
of Alton Seminary."
Dr. B. F. Edwards, now resident in Kirkwood, Mo.,- the sole survivor of the Rock Spring Board, a member of the Alton Seminary Board, and chairman of the meeting in which this new organization (rendered necessary
"Rock Spring Seminary was by the change of location) was effected, says removed to Upper Alton and there continued as Alton Seminary, and it was definitely understood because of a previous agreement to remove that this was to be done when the new location at Upper Alton was decided upon, and the new organization there was formed." This statement of facts occurring in the early history of this College, and which at last definitely fixed its present location, is confirmed by abundant materials found in the published works and letters of Dr. Peck still extant; in a memorial volume inscribed to Dr. Peck and prepared by Hon. John Reynolds, Ex-Governor of Illinois, and in the opinions of many other living witnesses whose testimony might be added to that already given, In pursuance of the plan of removal there was an early transfer of the movable property of Rock Spring Seminary to Alton Seminary, consisting, as we are told, of "some $300 or $400 worth of property," embracing, among other things, the library of the Rock Spring Seminary, most of which is still in the possession of the College. One teacher also, John Russell LL. D., who was Principal at Rock Spring after the first year, followed the school to its new location, and was appointed to the position of Principal also in
:
SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.
Alton Seminary, during a temporary absence in the interests of the school, of Rev. Hubbel Loomis, Principal de facto.
The deep interest in the educational affairs of the West felt at that time by Eastern Baptists is strikingly exemplified by the fact that while this subject of removal was being agitated, Rev. Jonathan Going. D.D., of MassaHe carefully examined chusetts, was sent as a Special Adviser, to Illinois. the field and gave his voice and influence in favor of the new location, which was also heartily accepted by the Western friends of the enterprise.
The new
effected at
organization rendered necessary
Upper Alton, June
4th, 1832,
Board of Trustees of Alton Seminary." Its take into consideration the establishment of a Seminary as the foundation of a College." The school was put in operation and Rev. Hubbel Loomis
by this change of location was under the name of the "The object was declared to be "to
was
elected Principal, to whose wise plans and efficient labors, is, undoubtedly, to be attributed much of what Shurtleff College has since become.
The next chapter

by
in this history, prepared for use in another connection
"Of the seven original Trustees," i. e. composing the new Board, "five were members of Baptist churches, and all agreed that a prominent object of the Association was
:
Prof. Washington Leverett, LL. D., and based of the new Board, is here inserted in his words
upon the
official
records
and ever should be the elevation of the Christian Ministry in general learning and theology in the Valley of the Mississippi, and that always at least twothirds of the Trustees should be
members of good standing
in the Baptist
Communion.
"In March, 1833, the State Legislature granted a charter incorporating the who were named as 'The Trustees of Alton College of Illinois.' To prevent any complication of 'Church and State' it is supposed and to exclude all sectarian ascendency, this charter provided that no 'partiseven gentlemen
Institution.'
cular religious faith should be required of those who become Trustees of the Nor could any 'Professor of Theology ever be employed as a
teacher at said College, nor any Theological Department be connected therewith or in any manner attached thereto,' without rendering the act granting the charter 'null and forever void.' The charter was not accepted. Nor
were
efforts to forward the object of the Association thereby retarded. In January, 1835, measures were adopted to raise $25,000 for 'the immediate wants as well as the permanency and prosperity of the Alton Seminary,'
viz: $10,000 for buildings, $7,500 a fund for salaries of professors, and $7,500 a fund to aid beneficiary theoldgical students. The self-constituted
Trustees proceeded to lay
off streets,
town
lots
and a college campus, and
appointed and commissioned itinerant agents to solicit funds and enlist the co-operation of friends of advanced education in several of the Eastern, Middle and Western States. *"
"In February, 1835, a new charter was granted,

sufficiently liberal,
hi
its
general features
but retaining the offensive proviso with reference to a Theological Department. However, this charter was accepted. Without dissolving then* mutual covenant the seven subscribers to.'the original compact, with other elected
members, became a
distinct
Board of 'Trustees of
SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.
Alton College of
to the
The Association now conditionally surrendered Illinois.' corporation its entire property 'reserving fifty acres of the land for the education of the ministry of the gospel, and also such donations as
new
have been made for this special object.' In accepting the property surrendered, the College Board placed on their records a resolution, 'That it is understood in good faith that the principles of the original compact of the said gentlemen herewith recorded, be preserved by this incorporation in-
may
violate, so far as said
compact
is
compatible with the charter of this incor-
poration.'
it is
feature of the compact thus specially guarded was, 'That and shall ever continue to be & prominent object to aid in the education
The
of
young men of genuine piety designed for the Gospel ministry in this section of the Valley 'of the Mississippi.'
"The original Association now assumed for its name, 'The Trustees of Alton Theological Seminary.' The two Boards, thus composed mostly of identical members, co-operated harmoniously in advancing their cherished The Trustees of the Seminary appointed their Professor of enterprise. Theology, and the Trustees of the College appointed their Professors, and their teachers of the Preparatory Department, and students in both Institutions pursued their preparatory studies hi the same classes and boarded together at the
common
refectory.
"In January, 1836, the charter of the College was amended by changing the name of the Board to 'The Trustees of Shurtleff College of Alton, Illinois.' This change was in consideration of the then very liberal donation of
$10,000, to the
endowment of the
College,
by Benjamin
Shurtleff,
M. D., of
Boston, Mass.
pealed
"In February, 1841, the offensive provisos of the college charter were reby the Legislature, and the Trustees were authorized to organize 'additional departments for the study of any or all of the liberal professions.' Soon after this a schedule was made of all the property belonging to the Seminary and held by its Board in trust for Theological purposes, and in the
following July, its Trustees, at their annual meeting, closed the records of its history as follows
:
'Whereas, by an amendment of the charter of Shurtleff College granting the right, the Board of Trustees of that Institution has established a Theological
tion,
"
Department which supercedes the necessity of a separate organiza-
'Therefore resolved unanimously, that all the property of this Institution herewith be transferred to the Theological Department of Shurtleff College. " Resolved That this Board be dissolved, and all its books and papers be transferred to the Trustees of Shurtlefi College for its Theological Depart'
"
ment.
"
the foregoing it appears that Theological instruction has been a prominent idea in the plans of its friends from the very Inception of the Institution.
From
The original school at Rock Spring was called a Theological In consequence of the pra iso originally belonging to the charter of the College, first granted in 1833, 'preventing the existence of a TheologiSchool.
cal
Department, a separate Association was formed,
known
as
"The Trus-
SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.
tees of Alton Theological Seminary." Under the auspices of this body, Rev. Lewis Colby was elected Principal of the Theological Seminary, and served acceptably in this capacity during the years 1835-6 and 1836-7. When the
amended by striking out the offensive proviso alluded Department was at once established, in which Alton Seminary wag merged. Special arrangements were made for carrying on Theological instruction, which has been maintained, although with varyCollege charter was
to above, a Theological
ing success, until the present time.
Under
its
ing efficient
present organization the Theological Department is accomplishwork and is in the enjoyment of brighter prospects than for
many
and
its
it is
years previous. Its funds are sufficiently ample for present purposes, not anticipated that any emergencies will arise which will justify
obstacles, both legal
suspension. In fact, as this sketch well demonstrates, there are insuperable and moral, to the abandonment of the sacred trust which
the Fathers have imposed upon us. On the contrary, it is hoped and expected that the future will see not only permanency, but growth and advancement in this special Department.
eighty-eight,
1836 to 1841 the average number of students in attendance was and of instructors four. During this period Rev. Prof. Washington Leverett, LL.D., being the senior officer, acted as President of the In 1840 Rev. Adiel Sherwood, D. D., was elected to the PresidenCollege. cy, which position he filled until 1846. During his Presidency Professors
ciated with
From
Zenas B. Newman, Washington Leverett and Warren Leverett, were assohim in instruction. During the years 1847 1849 Dr. Washing-
ett,
ton Leverett was again acting President of the College, and Warren LeverErastus Adkins, Justus Bulkley and William Cunningham were instruc-
In 1850 Rev. N. Wood, D. D., accepted the Presidency, which he held for five years. Rev. S. Y. McMasters, LL. D., succeeded him in 1855, as President pro tempore, and the next year Rev. Daniel Read, LL. D.,
tors.
became President and served 14 years. After an interval of nearly three which the duties pertaining to the Presidency were performed by Professors Bulkley and Fairman, Rev. A. A. Kendrick, D. D., present incumbent, entered upon his duties. The names of the additional Professors and Instructors are given in the table following this sketch.
years, during
It is a fact worthy of mention that the instruction furnished by the institution has been of a high order from the very outset. Indeed, so wisely was the curriculum of studies projected, that no radical changes hi the various courses pursued, have been called for to meet the demands which modern
views upon education have made.

its
The
Institution has been brought
up
to
present position by building carefully upon the foundations originally laid, increased facilities ot instruction having been acquired, and better work having been done, but with little modification of the ideas upon which the College was at the first projected. The advanced course of insisted
study
upon
as a prerequisite to a degree goes far to account for the comparatively
limited
ion of the
number of graduates, particularly when the general and public opinWest during this period, concerning liberal education, is taken into the account. The good which this College has the accomplished,
through
SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.
educational facilities which it has furnished, must therefore be sought for in great measure outside of its list of graduates, in the training, more or less
complete, which over Three Thousand young men and not a few young women, have received within its walls. The average number of students in attendance during the last twenty years has been about one hundred and twenty, of whom nearly one-fourth have been ministerial students. Just
how many, in all, have entered known to be several hundred.
the ministry,
we cannot
tell,
but the number is
During the late war between the States, a very large number of students enlisted in the service of the country at least 140 of previous students and those connected with the College at the time, were in this service, in the
year 1864, so that the school was, for a little while, virtually suspended. Several of these students rose to great distinction as soldiers, becoming
Majors, Colonels, Brigadier Generals, and two rising to the rank of Major General. But the students of this College have distinguished themselves and honored
their
Alma
and statesmen, teachers and
Mater, not only by their patriotism and bravery, but as jurists, editors, as well as by ranking among the first of
the Christian ministers of the land. Two, who were formerly students in this College, are now representing a single city in our National Congress, and Btill more honorable than this, is the fact that four of the graduates of
Shurtleff College are foreign lands.
now
missionaries of the Cross
among
the heathen in
As the school has maintained its original idea, by establishing and sustaining a Theological Department, so it has again opened its doors to pupils of both sexes, in harmony with the more advanced ideas of the present age.
full classical course of this College,
Ladies have been graduated, during the last few years, from the by the side of young men, and won first honors in competition with them.
Notwithstanding
this Institution
had
its
beginning
when
the country
was
yet in its infancy only a few years after Illinois became a State, and while most of the people of the West were yet poor, and the Baptist denomination especially, on which the College was mainly dependent, was feeble still,
has grown, if not with equal rapidity, nevertheless, somewhat in proporwith the growth of the country and of the denomination, and to-day not including any Centennial or Jubilee contributions has a valuable property, consisting of its buildings and grounds worth at least $50,000; trust
it
tion,
funds and invested endowments of several chairs, over $75,000, which last are all free from liabilities and incumbrance; and then additional outside properties and claims for at least $25,000 more, making a total of at least $150,000, besides Libraries, Apparatus and Furniture, in present possession of the College. And, still, valuable as its accumulations for the past half century have been, they were far from sufficient for the proper support of
the Institution.
The year 1876, the Centennial of the Nation, was an important one in the As the result of the inadequate endowments, and history of this College. in spite of all possible economy in administration, on the part of a faithful Board of Trustees, the year came in with a large debt standing against the
8
College,
SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.
and very small and insufficient provisions for its payment. Theremost of the other of our denominational schools of the land were moving to effort and seeking relief, this College also started an effort to raise at least $100,000 a sum sufficient, not only to pay all debts, but to so
fore, while
increase the endowments of the College as to prevent a recurrence of debt, and render the College hereafter more efficient and independent. Rev. G. J. Johnson, D. D., was secured as Financial Agent, and Dr. Bulkley, of the College, consented to co-operate with him. As the result of their labors, and the assistance rendered by others, above $75,000 in all were secured a part however, being conditional upon securing the whole of the proposed
$100,000.
And now the glad Jubilee year of the College has come, and it has been resolved that the effort for the balance of the $100,000 desired shall not be
suspended or relaxed, but, on the contrary, pressed forward with renewed vigor, and, not only the $25,000 balance be raised, but, if possible, $25,000
may not perhaps do better, than to adopt the earnest words of the General Agent of the College, who, having served it through the Centennial year, is still prosecuting the
work and consents
year, and
more, as a special Jubilee Offering. In closing our brief sketch, we
to serve, at least through a portion of this Jubilee again appeals to the friends of the College thus: " Ought not such a College, enjoying the pre-eminence of being the oldest Institution of Learning in the Mississippi Valley, and, in fact, in
now
the West in a territory embracing fully three-fourths of the area of our American Union; a College that has already done the good this has, and is so favorably situated to do the good this is, and now celebrating its Jubilee year, to be liberally provided for by its friends? What possibly could we do that was becoming and do less for it than, as a JUBILEE OFFERING,
all
THOUSAND DOLLARS in its behalf, including what may be necessary to complete fully the Centennial effort, so far advanced, to raise " $100,000 ? Let it be done.
to raise FIFTY
OFFICERS
OF
GOVERNMENT AND INSTRUCTION.

In the following
lists
of Trustees and Teachers, the blank spaces, under
the head of RETIRED, indicate those

to be deceased are denoted
who
are
*.
still
in service.
Those known
by an
asterisk
TRUSTEES.
-O-
ROCK SPRING SEMINARY.

APPOINTED.
TRUSTEES.
RETIRED.
10
SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.
ALTON AND SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.

APPOINTED.
1835
TRUSTEES.
*Rev. Hubbell Loomis. A. M. (Prest. ion. Cyrus Edwards, LL. D
1886.)
Enoch Long, Esq *Hon.Geo. Smith Wm. Manning, Jr., Esq
Benj. P.Edwards, M. D *Stephen Griggs, Esq., (Secretary) *Bev. Johu M. Peck, D. D *Geo. Haskell. M. D
1836 1837
*Hon. Alfred W. Cavarly John Tillson, Esq Rev. Lewis Colby, A.
*Rev. Dwight Ives, D. D....
1F89 1840 1841 1842 1842 1845
1846 1847
1849
Wilson Jewell, M. D *Rev. Ebenezer Rodgers *Elias Hibbard, Esq *Hon. Samuel G. Bailey *Mark Pierson, Esq *Rev. Jonathan Men-lam Rev. Adiel Sherwood, D. D., Ex-officio DavidS. Dodge *Moses G. Atwood, (Sec. 1845.) Rev. Adiel Sherwood, D. D "Orleans M. Adams Rev. Washington Leverett, LL. D., Ex-officio James M. Leonard, Esq *Rev. Isaac D. Newell, A.M., (agent)
*Rev. Jeremy F. Tolman *Rev. Robert F.Ellis
J&$7 1866 1840 1852 1843 1846 1844 1858 1839 1855 1843 1838 1839 1887 1854
"
'
1850 1851
James Dun lap Hon. Edward G. Miner Samuel Howard

Col.
Willis Willard Rev. Wilfred Ferrell Rev. Henry G. Weston, D. D Rev. Thos. C. Teasdale, D. D *Elijah Gove, Esq *Rev. Elisha Tucker, D. D. Rev.G.W. Riley Harmon G. Reynolds
.
1845 1852 1842 1845 1848 1862 1852 1855 1^49 1848 1850 1852 1854 1856 1852 1856 1856 1855 1856 1853 1874 1854 1855 1856
1852
".
David Pierson, Esq Daniel D. Ryrie, Esq Rev. JohnN. Tolman, A. Hon. Lyman Trumbull, LL. *Ebenezer Marsh, sen
1853
1854
1855
*Richard Emerson Maj.Geo. W. Long Rev. Justus Bulkley, D. D *Hon. Peter G. Camden *Hon. Wm. M. McPherson *Hon. David J. Baker, A. *Rev. Alvin Bailey Rev. J. A. Smith, D. D. Rev. S. F. Holt, A. Rev. Wm. Sym, A. *Rev. A. J. Joslyn Rev.S. G. Miner *E. C. Blankenship Rev. G W. Pendleton Rev. Thomas Powell Rev. R. R. Coon *Hiram N. Kendall
1854 1886 1877 1867 1860 1866 1861

1854 1856 1856
M M
. .
James
Kev.
1856
J.
S. Kimball C. Burroughs, D. I)
1865 1856 1866 1863 1876 1856
Esq Hon. John M. Palmer, LL. Hon. Levi Browning

*Prof.
D. J. Hancock,
Warren Leverett, A. Rev.D. L.Phillips Rev. Daniel Read. LL. D., Ex-offltio Alexander B. Morean, Esq
1868 1859 1859 1857 1872 1869 1862
SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.
APPOINTED.
1857
11
TRUSTEES
Rev. D. P. French
*Uapt.
"
1858
John
*John R. Woods, Esq *W. W. Watson, Esq
John Trible, L. Blair, Esq
LL. B
1863
"
1860
1861
Lawson, Eq Withers, Esq Hon. Mason Bray man J. O. Pierce, Esq Ion. James F. Pennington. rlevi Galusha Anderson, D. D E. D. Jones, Esq
*Z. B.
3on. Nathan Cole
W.P
1867 1867 1870 1870 1862 1865 1864
John
1862 1863
Rev. Robert Boyd, D.

E. Hayner,
1873 1867
1868 1866 1869 1870
Rsq C. M. Pomeroy, Esq Joseph Burnap, Esq Samuel C. Davis. Eeq Thomas Pratt, Esq Richard Flagg, Esq
1864 1865
1886
'
Rev. L. C. Carr H. H. Cobb, Esq Geo. K. Hopkins, Esq
1869 1868 1867 1874 1871 1872 1874 1876
Norman Stanley, Esq *Herman C Cole. Esq

Rev. Isaac N. Hill Bartlett H. Mills Thomas Hobson. Esq Hon. Willard C. Flagg, A.
1867 1867
Hon.
T.
Beekman
1838 1869
Joseph Burton A. M. Gregory, Esq Rev. Melvin Jameson, A. Hon. Cyrus Edwards, LL. D
M
D
18~2 1870 1869

1.870
"
1870
John Kenower, Esq, Daniel R. Stelle, Esq Washington Leverett. LL. D *Rev. Nathaniel M. Wood, D.
Rev. S. A. Kingsbury, D. D Charles F. Mills, Esq James Newman, A. Rev. J. M. Stifler, D. D Rev. M. D. Sevan, A. B Everett W. Pattison, Esq., A. Rev. N.Butler, D. D Charles B. Day, Esq Rev. Henry C. Hazen
1871
"
1871
1871 1872 1873 1871
M
1874
Edward
F. J.
1872
1872
"
"
1873
C. Lemen, M. D Comstock, Esq Ebenezer Marsh, Jr.,Ph.D Rev. A. A. Kendrick, D. D., Ex-offlcio M. M. Manning, Esq Rev. D T. Morrill Rev. G. J. Johnson, D. D., (Agent) E. B. Starkweather, Esq
1874
1873
G.
"
1874
' '
W. Ingalls, Esq M.C.Cooley, Esq Hon. D. B. Gillham A.T.Hawley, Esq C. C. Campbell. Esq Ralph Reynolds, Esq
C.
1874 1875 1876
W.
Leverett Esq., A.
Henry Miner, Esq

T. P. Yerkes,
M. D Isaac Snedeker, Esq
TEACHERS.
ROCK SPRING SEMINARY.
APPOINTED.
1827 1828
|
I
PRINCIPAL.
*Rev. Joshua Bradley, A. M.
*John Russell, LL.
1828 1831
APPOINTED.
1827
PROFESSOKS.
*Rev. John M. Peck, D. D., Theology. *John Messenger, Mathematics, etc. *Dr. Ebenezer Marsh, English Branches.
RETIRED.
18S1 1831 1830
1830
ALTON SEMINARY.
APPOINTED.
1832
I
PRINCIPAL.
*Rev. Hubbel Loomis, A. M.
1835
APPOINTED.
1834
|
PROFESSOR.
*John Russell, LL. D.
1834
ALTON AND SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.

APPOINTED.
1836
PRESIDENTS.
SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.
APPOINTED.
1836
1841
13
RETIRED.
1853 1844
PROFESSORS.
Rev. Washington Leverett, LL. D., Mathematics and Natural Philosophy *Rev. Zenas B. Newman, A. M., Oratory, Rhetoric
1841 1841
and Belles Letters *Rev. Warren Leverett, A. guages and Literature
M., Latin
and Greek Lan'1853
1817
1850 1853
1853
Rev. Adiel Sherwood, D. D., Mental and Moral Science and Christian Theology Rev. Erastus Adkins, D. D., Oratory, Rhetoric and
Belles Lettres
1845
1856
1855 1855
*Rev. Norman N. Wood, D. D., Mental and Moral Science and Christian Theology Rev. Justus Bulkley, D. D., Mathematics and Natural
Philosophy Orlando L. Castle, A. M., Oratory, Rhetoric and

Belles Letters
1853
1855 1855
Rev. Erastus Adkins, D. D., Latin and Greek Languages Rev. Washington Leverett, LL. D., Mathematics and Natural Philosophy Oscar Howes. A. M., Latin and Greek Languages and
Literature
1855
1868 1873 1863 1870 1868
1856
1863
1865
Ebenezer Marsh, jr., Ph. D., Chemistry, Geology and Mineralogy Rev. Edward C. Mitchell, D. D.. Biblical Studies and Sacred Rhetoric ,
*Rev, Warren Leverett, A. M., Associate Professor of
1868 1871
1874
1875
Rev. James M. Stifler, D. D., Biblical Literature and Interpretation Ashmore, A. M., Latin and Greek Languages Rev. Thomas M. Stewart, A. M., Mathematics and Natural Philosophy Rev. J. C. C. Clarke, A. M.. Latin and Greek Languages and Biblical Interpretation Charles Fairman, LL. D., Mathematics and Natural
Ancient Languages Rev. Justus Bulkley, D. D., Church History and Church Polity *Rev. Robert E. Pattison, D. D., Systematic Theology, and History of Doctrines Charles Fairman, LL. D,, Mathematics and Natural Philosophy *Rev. N. M. ;Wood, D. D., Systematic Theology and History of Doctrines
1869 1872 1873 1874 1875
Wm.
History, Chemistry
and Geology
TUTORS.
APPOINTED.
ia<55
RETIRE D.
1836 1*40 1839 1841 1849 1850 1853 1&54
1&55 1838 1839 1846 1849 185J 3853

>.->!
1855 1866 1867
1870 1873 1875 ]S7K 1876
Reid, A. B Lucius M. Castle, A. B John D. Hodge, A. M., M.
William Cunningham, A. M Phillip P. Brown, jr., A. M.f James R. Kay, P. B Rev.-Elihu J. Palmer William A. Castle Edward A. Haight, A. M.t John D. Hodge, A. M M. D *Lewis C. Donaldson, A. B George B. Dodge, A. M.t Rev. Thomas M. Stewart, A.
,
*Rev. Hubbell Loomis, A. *Rev. Zenas B. Newman, A. M.f Rev. Samuel R. Allard *Rev. Warren Leverett, A, M.f Rev. Justus Bulkley, A.
'.
...
m
:
>5
1856 1869 1870 1873

1874 1876
Edwin W.
tPrincipal of
Academic and Preparatory Departments.
STUDENTS.
of both Theological, and Collegiate classes Those of theological graduates appear under the head THEOLOGICAL; followed by such as left without completing the course. The letters prefixed, S. M. J., denote the class, Senior, Middle, or Junior, These of Collegiate Graduates, in the of which they were then members. Classical and Scientific courses, appear under the head COLLEGIATE, and are
The names of regular are given in CAPITALS.
members
followed by such as left without completing either course. The letters A. B- C. D., denote the class, Senior, Junior, Sophomore or Freshman, of the classical course, and the figures 1, 2, 3, denote the class of the First, Second or Third year of the Scientific course of which they severally were
then members.
are the
Following these, in double columns and hi small type, all others, including IEEEGULABS, i. e., those who pursued a select or partial course of collegiate studies, and those who constituted
names of
the Academic and preparatory classes. The date of the name in the Catalogue indicates the last year of the student's attendance. The original residences are omitted the present being
given so far as ascertained. No Catalgues of Rock Spring Seminary, or of Alton Seminary were ever hence only published, nor can any full record of the students be found partial lists are here given, and, probably, as many omitted as given.
;
Students
known
to be deceased are
marked by an
asterisk.*
ROCK SPRING SEMINARY1827-31.

NAMES AND RESIDENCES.
Jesse Applegate.
NAMES AND EESIDENCES.

Abner M.
Cole.
*John Armstrong.
"Oliver Cole.
Fanny Atwater, (Skidmore.) Geo. S. W. Bergen, Baltimore, Md.
*Monroe Cole. *Abner Crozier.

*Charles Darrow.
Ann
Bergen. Ida Bergen, (Skidmore) Chillicothe. John Beach. Joseph Beedle, Sparta. Hannah Bayne.
*Lemuel Darrow. *Isham Day. *Augusta Earnst, (Wilcox.)

Hon. Ninlan W. Edwards, Springfield. Benf. S. Edwards, Esq., Sprfngneld. William Engle.
Joseph Engle. Belle Pasi, Oregon. Ann Engle, (Vickers,) Oregon.
'Hiram Bridges.
K. A. Buckner.
Margaret Eads.
Lucinda Camp. William Casey. Abner B. Cole, Turner Station, Oregon.
SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.
Joseph Everett.
Jerre Foss. Charles Gee.
15

Elvira Gorin. Benjamin Roe. Charlotte L. Rose. *Rev. William D. Ross. Charlotte E. Ross, (Scott) worth, Ks. Eliza Ross.
John
P. Gillham.
Shadrach Gijlham.
Charles S. Gutherle. Mary Halstead, (Case,) Carlyle,
Leaven-
*Kev.
Samuel Hathaway. John Hathaway.
John
Gorham Holmes.
Russell. Jr. *Phillip Rutherford.
William Hopkins. John Hopkins. Jordon Howard, Carrollton.
Lewis W. Scanland, Normal.
Maron
Scarritt.
Abigail Scarritt.
Asa Hutchingson.
Josiah Isabell. Alfred Isabell. Marilla Isabell.
*Benjamin Scott. Willlam Scott.

Whitefleld Scott.
James Lemen. Sarah Lemen. James C. Leonard.
Wil|iam Isabell. Ninian E. Journey. Robert M. Kelley. Cynthia Lawrence.
Elizabeth Leonard.
Levina Long. *John Mace. Catharine Mace. (Stites,)Wichita, Kan. Alton Martin.
Harriett Martin. N. Martin. *Minerva O. Messinger. *Parmelia A. Messenger. Harriet Morton. Hon. Jas. L. D. Morrison, St. Louis, Mo. M. Mullikin. Elizabeth Ogle, (Butler,) Chicago. John Peach, Lebanon. Eliza A. Peach, (Patterson,) O'Fallon. Samuel Peach, Waterloo. *William Pope. Augustus F. Post, New York, N. Y. *Harvey J. Peck. *Byder Peck. Hannah Peck, (Smith) Fairbanks, lo. Mary A. Peck, (Smith,) O'Fallou. *Ornan Pierson. Clarinda Pierson, (Collins) Jersey ville. Caroline Quigley. Wm. H. Rider, Jacksonville. Smith Rider.
Wlnfleld Scott. *Margaret Scott, (Stites.) George Shackford. Solomon Sharp. James M. Smith. Rev. James B. Smith. Henry Smith. Densil Smith. Delzel Smith. Delver Smith. *Rev. Elihu Springer. Rev. George Stacy. Beni. Stevenson, Edwardsville.
William Henry Stuart, Belleville. Lucy Taylor, (Amos,) St. Rose. Charles S. Thomas. Charles W. Thomas. *Jacob Thomas. William S. Thomas, Belleville. Col. John Thomas, Belleville. James Thomas, Lebanon.
Charles Thilm.
*
John
William Tosier. William Town. William Townsend. Sarah Webber. Sarah Wesley. Prof. William Whitney, Granville, O. *William Westfleld. Walter Westfleld. Rebecca Westfleld, (Beedle,) R. Prairie.
B. S. Todd, Springfield.
Mary A. Westfleld, John C. Wilson.
(Salter,) O'Fallon.
Ann
Yearsley, (Ruddick,) Decatur.
ALTON SEMINARY.
1832-4.
Joshua Allen. William Badger. Emily Brown. Elizabeth Ann Brown. Matilda Brown. Hon. Samuel Buckmaster, Alton.

Enoch Moore.
Walter Moore. William Moore.
Elizabeth
Mary
J.
Newman. Newman, [Abbott.]

D,, Spring-
Nashley G. Nofflnger.
Virgil Noble.
field.
*Herman
Frederick Chapman.
C. Cole.
Hon. John M. Palmer, LL.
John Cook.
Stevenson Cook.
Miles Cowan. Jane Cowan. Rachel Cowan. *Solomon Davis. Porter Diamond. Eliza Diamond. Elizabeth J. Diamond. Ellis Dunmore.
Rev. Elihu J. Palmer, Carbondale. Richard Pembroke. Sarah Ann Rodgers, [Badley.J Upper Alton.
*Isaac Scarritt. James R. Sharp.
Ammi Greene.
Ellen Haskell.
John Wesley Somers. *Don Alonzo Spaulding. William Starr.

Lucia Starr.
Mary A. Staunton.
Charles Street.
Schuyler Hull, Greenville.
Jackson Iverse.
Anna Kidder,
Henry
Joan Tichnell.
Cassandra Tichnell.
Delilah Tichnell.
(Hibbard.)
Kistler.
*Lucla Long, (Randall.) Robert P. Lamb.
Thomas Waddington.
John Walker.
Daniel Walker. Frederick Warnack. Betsy Warnack.
.
Caroline Loom is, (Newman,) U. Alton. John Calvin Loomis. Michael A. Lowe, Upper Alton.
Richard,Lowe, Paris Mason. Catharine Manning. C. H. Perry Maxcy.

Patrick McClaln. Thomas McColley.
"
James W. Watkins. Wilson Weeks.

Jeremiah Wilcox.
Hampton
Miller.
Isaac F. Mills.
Samuel J. Mills. Joshua Moore.
Anna Moore. Hester Moore.
Anna Wilder. Joseph Wood. William R. Wright, Upper Alton. Daniel Wright. Ann Wright, [Moore.] Mary Wright, [Stuart,] St. Louis, Mo. Susan Wright, [Simmerwell.] Jesse Wright.
ALTON COLLEGE.
1835-6.
William Adams. John Adams, San Jose,
Isaac Baird.

Joseph Lester. Mary Lowe, (Lamothe,) LaMotte.Mo. William Marsh. Lydia Pease. 'Harvey Peck. Rev. William J. Pritchard. Lewis Reynolds. *Phoebe Rice. *John Rice. Sarah Rider.
Cal.
Sophia Bostwick. Jacob Bowman.
John Bruner. Edward Carman.
Dan Wetherall
Mary Davis.
Glory
Ann
Caswell.
Collet,
Upper Alton.
Sophia Davis, (Allard.)
Martha Davis, (Clark,) Houston, Texas. John Farwell. Gladden Farwell.

Nathaniel P. Gillham.
Amelia Riley.
James Godfrey, Godfrey. Eliza C- Higham. Susan Higham. John Lamb. John Boyd Lathy, Upper Alton.
Rebecca Riley (Drennan,> Roodhouse. Rev. Prof. George Roberts. Jane Smith. (Stout) Upper Alton. *Sarah M. Smith, (Keith.) Jackson Taylor. Julia E. Wendell, (Mabee.)
Geo.
W. Whitesides. Leonidas Whitesides.
N. B. The headings, THEOLOGICAL and COLLEGIATE will be omitted, as the Degrees conferred upon the graduates sufficiently indicate the Department from which they were severally graduated.
The first five names marked t, under head of Shurtleff College following, were connected with Alton Theological Seminary. (See Historical Sketch.) That but one name appears under 1858-9, is explained in the fact that, in the change back from the Calendar to School year, but a part of a real year is
represented.
SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.
1836-7.
REV. SAMUEL BAKER, D. D.,f Russellville, Ky. REV. NOAH FLOOD, A. M.f REV. JAMES M. FROST, A. M.f [j] REV. WILLIAM M. FROST.t [j] REV. JAMtiS B. OLCOTT.f Cincinnati, Ohio,
Edwin Arnold.
John
Lewis O. Buckley. Wesley Campbell. John 8. Ca vender.
R. Dabhs.
I.
Moore.
Thomas Bond G. W. Bowler,
C. Bernard.
Quincy.
William Norman. Solomon Norman.
Collinsville.
Needham
Olive.
Rev. John C. F. Pinckard. Rev. Patrick Pinckard. James Reding.

Fielding Rice.
Enoch Dodson.
Mortimer Dorsey. Joshua Gooch.
Erastus Greene.
Edward Hempstead. C Jewell.

H. Jewell. H. King.
Joel Leach.
Calvin Riley. Joseph Sickle. Rev. James S. Smith. Chester Stamps. Alfred Stearns.
William
C.
C. Tool.
Adam Martin.
Waite. Charles Warren. Rowleigh Williams.
W. Wood.
1837-8.
Robert Baskett. C. H. Bernard. J. Gate wood Bernard. Calvin Boynton.
Charles G. Lincoln.
John Clark
H. Loomis N. N. Nims.
H. Palmier.
1
C. L. Lippincott, Springfield.
C. Clark. Maj. Gen'l J. Cook, Springfield , Nicholas Cornelius. John Estabrook. James Estabrook. Charles Fox.
Rev Cyrus
Calvin
Maj Gen'l. John Pope.
Prom
Sherwood Ray. Rev. John H. Rodgers.
A. P. Frost. Calvin Godfrey.
James Shemuel. Edwin Sidle.
C. Seeley.
A.H.Haley, John Harrington. Rev. Samuel Haskell, D.

Arbor, Mich. A. Hedge. David Hibbard. G. Hibbard.
D.,
Ann
Jacob Holmes.
J.
John Higham.
Jencks.
Joseph Sidle. Judson Somers. Edmund Sweet, Chicago. Rev. John N. Tolman. A. M., Woodstock, N. Y. J. Trabue. *Wm. Ross Walker. Rolla Williams.
J. L.
New
L.
Wood. Wood. Cunningham Woods.
SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.
1838-9.
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19

A.
B., La Cygne, Kansas. John Mooney. Michael Mooney.
REV. CALEB BLOOD,
Milton H. Abbott. Charles Brooks. C. Burge. Alexander Campbell.
John Clark. William Q. Connor.

Daniel Cornelius.
Austin Morrell. J. S Moore. Horace D Munson, Zanesvllle, Ohio. *John Murray.

Josiah Riley.
James Dougherty.
Gordon Evans. Benjamin Finch.
Mitchell Dye.
William Riley.
Philander Slater.
John H. Smith, Upper Alton.

Joseph J. Smith. G. Smith. M. Smith.
(
Joseph Flood, Kearney, Mo. Geo. W. K. Jennings. Leigh R. Kimball. Rev. Charles F. Kirtley. Lewis Kirtley.
Melville M. Manning, St. Louis, Mo.
Rev. William
Italy.
hauncey E.
Staples.
C.
Van
Meter, Rome.
Wm. Wayland Manning.
David Marsh. *William McLoud.
LaFayette Walker. Demosthenes Walker. Cicero Walker.
1839-40.
[d]*ALFRED B. DAVIS. [cj PRuF. SAMUEL A. WILLARD, A.
William H. Bailhache. Leonidas Bales, Springfield. Franklin Beedle. John Chappell. George Clayton, Claytonville, Kas. Abijah W. Corey. John Durno.
Ellis Elwell.
M., M. D.
William Evans.
Harrison Hart.
John H. Healey. John L. Higham.
Henry Hart, Alton. Joseph A. Hay.
Kimball. Henry Kistler, Ottawa. James M. Lawrence. *Rev. Benjamin F. Lemen. Joseph Lemen. *Moses Lemen. Henry Mason. *David Pease. James Shook. John K Simpson. James W. Smith.
Rollin
Isaac D. Stockton.
Andrew
Alexander W. Hope. J. Howard. William T. Hull. Thomas Hunter. Paris D. Johnson, Springfield.
William Summers, Los Angeles, Cal. Samuel Toorner. Fenelon Trabue, Carllnville. Allen Wilkinson. Joseph S. Wood. Lewis Wood.
Nathan Wooldridge.
1840-1.
REV. WILLIAM H. BRIGGS. REV. DAVID STALEY. *REV. JOEL TERRY. *HON. NELSON G. EDWARDS.
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HON. JOSEPH BROWN, St. Louis. GKORGE W. <'ARR, Malone, New York JOHN R liolHiK, Isormal HON WILLIAM B HUNDLEY. \V KBB C. QUIGLKV. M D., Alton. 'JONATHAN F. RICE, M D.
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SHUKTLEFF COLLEGE.
NAMES AND RESIDENCES. NAMES AND RESIDENCES.
Roberts. Morris.
Nelson Adams. Robert Allen. Washington Barnard. Aaron A. Corey.
Thomas W. Morrison.
*Alvin Olcott. *Vine Pease. Rev. Henry G. B. Perry. John A. Ryrie, Alton. Rev, Joseph Spence. James Tully. Daniel H. Walker.
*Hiram Cyrenius. Nimrod M. Dorsey. James Durno.
Ezra S. Evans. Joseph Evans. Andrew T. Hawley, Alton.
Thomas
Henry Watson Webb,

Thaddeus William*. William P. Withers.
Joseph Wood.
Cairo.
B. Lester.
Moses H. Long. *Henry M. Merriam.
1841-2.
REV. HIRAM
A.
GARDINER,
A. B.
EGBERT DODGE, St. Louis, Mo. *PROF. WILLIS G. EDWARDS, M. D. *REV. JOHN M. SCROGIN. *THEODORE HAY, M. D. WILLIAM HENRY HAYDEN, Springfield. RICHARD L. METCALF, M. D., St. Louis, Mo. CHARLES A. MURRAY, Alton. HON. EDWARD Y. RICE. Hillsboro. HENRY P. SHURBURNE, St. Louis, Mo.
William Blair. Francis H. Bostick. Clayborne Cheatham.
John A. Mauzy.
Alfred Mix.
Edwin S. Cox.
Frederick Cowles. Marshall N. Diuguid.
James M. Dobyns. Reuben Gerry. James Johnson Gillham, Madison. Rev. Henry Gordon.
Robert S. Greene. Joseph Handshy. George H. How land. Dixon H. Kennett, St. Louis. Stephen Long, Chicago.
Robert Fulton Morris. Robinson Y. Northern. Harvey V. Owens. Silas E. Owens. William Riley. Henry L. Roach. Edward Shurburne, St. Louis, Mo. David Smith. Martin T. Smith. *John N. Starkweather. Francis Tryon. William H. Wallace. David Wendell, Bird's Point, Mo.
1842-3.
HON. HENRY S. BAKER, A. B., Alton. REV. PROF. HORACE CLARKE, Houston, d] HON. NATHAN COLE, St. Louis, Mo. dj 'BENJAMIN E. EDWARDS. * c] JAMES S. JACKSON. 2] HON. LYNE S. METCALF, St. Louis, Mo. it ANDREW JACKSON SMITH. 1] REV. THOMAS G. SMITH. Bostick. Milton H. Hume.
c] cl
Texas.
Manoah
Alpheus
F.
S.
Thomas
Brayman.
William Crabbe. Carey H. H. Davis. John Dunlap. William Ellston.
E. Breckenridge.
Thomas Moon.
James Johnstone. Robert Lemen.
Elisha D. Giddings. Fielding T. Harrison, Upper Alton.
Winfleld Scott Palmer, Litchfleld. Nathaniel P. Prichett. *Joseph H. Quigley. Rev. Orimel G. Stewart.
SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.
1843-4.
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B.
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"CHARLES P. HAZARD REV. ADDISON D. MADEIRA. *HON. HUGH C MURRAY. WILLIAM B. PRINCE, A. B. LANSING B. MEIZNER.
*REV. JUDSON BENJAMIN, A.
"DeWitt Clinton Adams.

Isaac G. Calkins.
William W. Chapman, Winchester. Hon. Thomas P. Cowan.
James W. Davis. Franklin C. Edwards, Kirkwood, Mo. Rev. William W. Freeman, Carlinville.
*George Greathouse. William Greathouse.
Prof. James Henderson, A. M., Chicago. John S. Hill. Aston Madeira. Orange C Martin
William Peck. *Elra P. Pettinglll.
George Olcott.
John W. Quick, Upper Alton.
1844-5.
ISAAC E. HARDY, M. D., Alton. "OLIVER T. JONES. dj *REV. ANDREW MOFFATT. cf JOSHUA PEERS. Collinsville. 1] "JAMES D. BURNS. 11 "ISAAC LANSING WELLS.
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Edward Trabue,
Jerseyville.
Frederick Wendt, Alton.
1845-6.
AUGUSTUS B. CRAMB. JAMES B. EDMONSON. Tel [C "JAMES H. HIBBARD. [b[ "GEORGE H. SHERWOOD, M. D. REV. CHARLES N. WEST, California.
[d]
"REV. "REV.
11 1] [11
REV.
"BENJAMIN
REUBEN
F.
T. PEAK, TAYLOR.
Bloomfleld, Iowa.
Rev. Cyrus P. Cross. Jefferson Fruit, Edwardsville. William Fruit, Edwardsville. "Horace G. Hibbard.
Franklin Moore, Upper Alton. Marvin T. Moore. Henry M. Peck, Bantas, Cal.
James Peak.
Leonard
J.
"William Kent Lathy. Leven H. Luckett. Jose Douaziano Martinez.
Hiram
D.
Wood.
Rose, Los Angeles, Cal.
"Paul Wright.
1846-7. BAKER, A. M., Consul, Rio Janeiro, S. REV JUSTUS BULKLEY, D. D.. Upper Alton. WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM, A. B. [dl BENJAMIN SHURTLEFF FREEMAN. Boston, Mass.
HON.
EDWARD
L.
A.
[2]
HON. SAMUEL
S.
GILBERT,
Carlinville.
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SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.

William Patterson. Joseph S. Smith. Lewis Souther, St. Louis, Mo. George Spaulding. Richard Squire.
Daniel D. Ames. Samuel Davis.
Thomas Dimmock,
St.
Louis, Mo.
John J. Elliott. C. Columbus Greene,
St.
Louis, Mo.
Erastus V. Johnson. Fountain Jones, M. D. *Joseph H. Kaatz.
Edmund
Keirsey, Taylorville.
*William A. H. Loveland. Geo. S. March.
William G. Stewart. *Willlam G. Taylor. John L. Tolman. *Benjamin Trabue. Joseph H. Trabue.
Silver C.
Wood, Woodburn.
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1847-8. WILLIAM T. KAY. JOHN R. SHANNON, Chester. DANIEL S. DA VIE. HON. ANDREW F. RODGERS, Upper *JOHN MILTON RODGERS, M. D.
Moses Land.
Alton.
P. Boqua. David G. Brooks, M. D. Noyes F. Brown. Noyes B. Chapman Stonington. Schuyler M. Combs. Valentine Cunningham. George B. Davis, Independence, Texas.
,
Hiram
Harvey Lemen.
Ellas McMurtry. John A. M. Miller.
Hiram G. Miller. Geo. W. Miles.
James S. Delaplaine. Benjamin F. Dickson. James R. Elliott. Samuel G. Hill. Charles Humbert. John B. Hundley.
Isaac G. Israel.
Rev. Josiah T. Dickson. William L. Dougherty, M. D. Samuel B. Edwards.
Joshua Miner. David H. Nichols. Rev. William Owen. *Rev. Orlando J. Sherman. Henry S. Spaulding Cape May, Del. Robert Stanley, Upper Alton. William John Stewart. James W. Van Brunt, M. D. Joseph P. Vaughn.
Hiram P. Virgin. Ira P. Warren.
-9REV.
Ira
E. S.
DULIN,
W. Barbee. Edward W. Britton. Benjamin Buck. John R. Crandall.

Madison Darr.
Isaacs. Douthit.
D. D., LL. D., St. Joseph, Mo. Charles M. Parsons.
Onslow Peters. Mortimer Plympton. John M. Randle.
Andrew
Reid.
James Fishback, Jacksonville.

Francis
W. Fox.
Robert John W. Scott. George F. Settlemyers. Soranus A. Shaw.

Charles F. Simmons. Douglas F. Simmons. Timothy Sullivan.
John Freeman. Jeremiah R. Halderman. William P. Hancock, St. Louis.
Hume
Hon. Daniel Kerr, Grundy Centre, George Lebold.

William H. Mann. Ephraim Marsh, Fulton. James F. Mathews.
William
Albert
F.
Harkness, St. Louis. Alvin B. Higham.
lo.
Milton McClure, Carlinville. Charles McDuniels.
Meldrum.
J.
Metcalf.
Adrian Tandy. E. Tandy. Jacob W. Terry, Edwardsville. William B. Terry, Shipman. William O. Torrey, M. D. Charles A. Walker, Carlinville. Samuel Walker. William Walker. EliasD. Wilder. Loring A. Williams. William D. Williams.
James
Antoine E. Morgan. Jesse George W. Palmer, M.
Edward
Willis.
St.
Samuel
D., T. Patterson, Bethalto.
1 1
Hon. John M. Wood son, ask ins Wooldridge.
Louis, Mo.
SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.
1849-50.
NAMES AND EE8IDENOES.
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B.
HON. WILLIAM
LOOMIS.
Carlinville.
Rev. Asahel Brown. Josephus B. Hopps. *Bev. David M. Howell. Justus G. Ketchum.
Samuel A. Murphy. Geo W. Palmier.

Daniel A. Pettinglll. Elijah W. Smith.
John McBeynolds, Upper Alton.
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1850. *WILLIAM L. RODGERS. ISHOM T. GILLHAM. *BYRON L. GREGORY. MATHEW GRIFFIN. BENJAMIN MASON. JOHN R. RITENOUR, Kansas City. Mo.
John R. Kneeland.
Alton.
Isaac K. Leach.
Preston H. Bailhache, M. D., Quincy. Alexander Bettersworth.
Henry W. Buckmaster. John Wallace Collet, Upper Mark Crowd er. Even Cunningham.
Calvin B. Dishon. John C. Dunlap. Albert Estabrook.
William Henry Harrison. George R. Hill.
Albert
W. Moody.
William J. Cunningham. James H. Digby, St. Louis, Mo.
Henry M. Goff. Edwin R. Harkness.
George S. Pomeroy. William A. Rader. *John A. Russell. *William H. Russell. Reuben K. Smith. Marcus L. Tunnell. Thomas R. Wallace.
1851.
*JOHN TRIBLE,
,1
A. M., LL. B.
*< GEORGE M. ATWOOD. JOHN C. BOWMAN. .K JOHN C. CROWDER. bj PRESLEY J. EDWARDS, Hillsboro. J *GEORGE L. GRISWOLD. *GEOBGE R. MILLER. *GEORGE I. NEWELL.
:T
!
J<
REZIN H.
C.
NOEL.
EDWIN J. BEMENT. SAMUEL B. HENDERSON. JOHN R. REACH, St. Louis, Mo. SAMUEL S. PEEBLES. *HENRY C. SPEARS, Tallula.
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SIMON J. STOOKEY. JAMES TRUSCOTT.
William Ash, Rawlings Springs, Wy. T.
James W. Bailey.
Andrew Carlin. Henry S. Carter.

James T *Guy Covell. James Crays.
William Hoit Chamberlain. James Churchill.
Orlando O. Dorsey. Cyrus L. Edwards. Franklin Emerson, Boston, Mass. Francis H. Ferguson.
Thomas
Benjamin F. Greene. William T. Hardy.

Richard B.
Hill.
E. Clifford. Cooper, Edwardsville.
Charles Holliday, Alton. Charles Howard. William F. Johnson.
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SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.
NAMES AND RESIDENCES. NAMES AND RESIDENCES.
Robert N. Rattan.
Richard
Thomas P. Lippincott. Edward P. Lovejoy. JohnH. Metcalf.

Alvin A. Neff, Alton. William P. Olden. Augustine T. Perry, Kane.
,
Abram
S.
Johnson.
L. Lippincott.
Josiah W. Preston, Chicago. Irvin B. Handle, Jr. Upper Alton.
William M. Rice. John P. Savage. John A. Segar. Warren A. Souther, St. Louis, Mo. Samuel W. Stewart. William H. Temple, Alton. John W. Trabue, M. D. Shipman. Charles W. Trumbull. William O. Weisner.
1852.
REV. SAMUEL M. BROWN, A. B, Momence. PROF. EBENEZER MARSH, A. M.. Ph. D., Upper *LIVINGFIELD MORE, A. M., M. D.
R.
Alton.
JAMES
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KAY,
P. B.,
M.
D., Bushnell.
Nil cl
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*EDWARD
REV. GEORGE W. S. BELL, Tallula. GEORGE GILBERT, Carlinville. *JOHN G. POTTS. HON. THOMAS A. SHERWOOD, Jefferson
G.
b]
JOHN C. HARDCASTLE. HORACE J. LOO MIS. MADISON LOWE. GEORGE S. MOSHER. DAVID RANKIN. *REV. WILLIAM ROBERTS.
James H. Atkinson. John W. Bell. John Bostwick, Upper Alton. John C. Carlin. Charles T. Clayton, Upper Alton.
George W. Corey, Kane. Andrew J. Crabb.
EDWARD PIERSON WADE, AARON GILBERT BUTLER. WILLIAM FAY. EDWARD M. FRY.
TURNER.
City,
Mo.
Alton.
Alexander J. Crowder. Eldred G. Davis. John M, Davis.
Jacob Noel. Robinson Y. Northern. Lucius M. Olden. James H. Pulliam. William M. Quigley. David Rankin. Lewis C. Robinson.
Thomas
J.
Severns.
James W. Davis, Alton. Samuel J. Delaplaine, St. Louis, Mo. Edward Dorsey. * James L. Gill.
*Robert M. Goff.
William K. Smith. *Madison Farmer Smith. Hon. George Alton Smith, Alton. James S. Temple. George W. Tuthill.
Albert Wade, Alton.
Henry
Edward
S.
C. Jones.
Webb.
James D. Metcalf. John Mumper.
William H. Lake. Isaac McLaughlin.
William H. Wendell, Upper Alton. Parker J. Whitney. John C. Wilderman. *John Willis.
1853.
GEORGE S. A. B. SPENCER G. KELLENBERGER,Bluffdale. RUSSELL, A. B., *JAMES W. BELL. P. B. SAMUEL A. CHAMBERLAIN, P. B.

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*WILLIAM LEVERETT. JAMES W. LEVBRETT,
A. B., Humburd, Wis.
SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.
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fo]
[bl
[1]
WILLIAM H. CHAMBERLAIN, Bunker Hill. CARRY E. MORE, A. B. REV. CYRUS F.TOLMAN, A. M., Sec. of A. B. M. U., Chicago.
HENRY QUIGLEY.
Joseph Gutzweiller, M. D., Springfledl. Charles C.Lawrence. Robert W. Lemen, Freeburg. Edgar Morris. Orme George Eli W.Pettingill.
Leonard Adams. Samuel Bishop A. M., M. D., Bloomin gton.
Charles Boflnger.
Henry
Catlett.
Christopher Cummings. William H. Duncan. Lewis Button

.
Thomas
Perry
J. Fisher.
Gallaher. Loyal P. Griswold. Oliver B. Ground, Alton.
H. Pettingill. Abel G Randolph, Virden. William J. Robinson. Rev. Reuben H. Weeks, A.M. James M. Wiswell.
Oliver
I8 54
HON. DAVID JEWETT BAKER, A. B Att'y, Cairo REV. ORSON L. BARLER, A. B., riiusdale. GEORGE I. FOSTER, P. B., Jerseyville. CHARLES M. KAY, A B. Spring Cape, Mich. *REV. JOHN EVELARD MOORE, A. B. DANIEL S. ALVORD. JAMES MINER, M. D., Winchester. CALVIN A. PEASE, Beatrice, Neb.
.,
,
WILLIAM M. POTTS, Whitehall. WILLIAM C. CALDWELL. HIR\M M. CURREY. JOHN CURREY. SAMUEL L. JEWETT.
JOSEPH McKINNEY. FREDERIC W METCALF. SAMUEL WESTFALL.
lo.
William F. Ballard, Dubuque, Ralph Ballard, Dubuque, lo.
William
James A.
Ezra
John D. Bond.
Bean-. B. Blaisdell, Alton.
James
S.
*Finley B. Moore. Thomas W. Morrison.

J. Pennifll.
McVay.
William P. Rumbolz.
Elias P. Sanders.
Sanders Burgess. George E. Clayton, Clay ton ville, Kan. Albert Dancke Ezra D. Davison, Groveland. Andy K Demint. Plutarch H. Dorsey, Glllespie. William B. Dorsey, Dorsey Station. William Duff', St. Louis, Mo. James L. Eldred. James A. Glenn, Hillsboro.
M. Shaw. H. Shuey. Benjamin G. Smith. Samuel R. Smith. Milton H. Stowe. William C. Stuart.
Virgil
Philip J. Teasdale, St. Louis, Mo. John W. Teasdale, St. Louis, Mo. Rev. J. K. E. Tschirch.
Simeon B. Harrison. Tavlorville. Edward M. Hopkins, Shelbyville. William Kennedy. Joel T. Kirkman.
Shadrach Vaughn. James K. Whitaker. Haskins T. Wooldridge.
I8 55
REV. PROF. JOHN B. JACKSON, A. M.,D. JOHN FIELD, P. B., Wellsville, Kan.
D., Chicago.
26
SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.
[d]
REV. FRANK ADKINS, A. B., Pella, Iowa. JAMES B. BERNARD. JOEL M. CORIIINGTON. d| JAMES H. McQUIRE. d] JOSEPH M, MILLER. cj OLIVER O. PITCHER. d] JOHN W RANSOM. c] GEORGE D. THOMAS, Belleville. 21 SAMUEL Q,. DEBOW, New York, N. Y. 21 HENRY FR1CK, Jonesboro. 2] MARSHALL W. JOHNSON. 11 M. T. STOOKEY, Belleville. [2j JOHN F. WILCOX, Loami.
dl
cl
Baker Andrews.
S. Blair.
Dubart E. Murphy.
William Boulter, Brighton.

J.
H. Burnett.
Andrew G. Clifford, Alton. Andrew G. Clifford, (2d.) Edward A. Crandall, Barry. John W. Dillman.
W. B.
James Dunn.
Duckells, Carlinville. Charles J,. Dunlap.

Bellville.
Rev. Isaac D. Newell, Clayville, Neb. Lewis M. Peebles, Chesterfield. Judson M. Perry, Kane. Douglass Pope. Nathaniel Pope. Richard P. Rider. DeWitt C. Robbing. Walter S. Robbins.
R. S. Scott.
William
S.
Scott.
Thomas Ford, Carlyle. Norman T. Gassett, Chicago.

J. H. Jones.
David Glenn, Hillsboro. George Hunter, Carlinsville.

Isaiah Larue. D. D. Leach
William Sippy. Robert J. Smith. William Ward.
H. Sharpe.
*George W. Somers. J. R. Ward.

Zacc-heus C. Wilson, F. C. Wooldridge.
Rev. Ezekiel Kinman.
Nokomis.
Samuel
T. Moore.
1856.
HENRY W. BOWERS,
REV. GEORGE A. PEASE, A. B., Beatrice, Neb. NATHANIEL WILSON, A. B., LL. B., Washington, COL. JOHN POPE BAKER, P. B., Springfield. REV. GEORGE P. GUILD. P B., Ahnapee, Wis.
A. B.
D. C.
*WILLIAM RANDOLPH, P. B. *EBENEZER RODGERS, P. B., M.
D.
1] '
VINCENT BROWN. JOHN BUCK MASTER, Alton. RICHARD B DORSEY, Dorsey *

JAMES D. RUSSELL. JAMES M. STOOKEY. VINCENT A. STOOKEY.
BOONE, Chtcago. *WILLIAM W. FOUTCH. WILLIAM B. GILBERT, Att'y, PERRIN L. KAY, Payson. JOSEPH L. WILCOX, Loami. JAMES P. BLANKINSHIP.
S.
SAMUEL
Cairo.
Station.
ll I]
GEORGE TRUSCOTT.
Belleville.
William Carter. Stephen Child. John Dorsey, Dorsey Station. Theodore Dorsey, Dorsey Station. *Ed ward S.Gill.
Edward Breath, Alton. *
George Beeley.
William W.
Gill, Bethalto. Peter Gutzweiller. J. H. Lacy. Joseph F. Leach, North Alton. Willis W. Long.
James W. Lumpkin,
Carlinville.
SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.
B. Murphy. *Samuel Ide Newman. James Padon. *Moore C. F. Randolph.
27

Edward
J.
W.
Scott.
Thomas Rhea.
Richard G. Robinson. Carrollton. E. Sidney Robinson, Omphghent.
A. Stanton. H. Stanton. H. Turpin. Robert L. Webb. Thomas J. Williams.

J.
I8 57 .
PROF. GEORGE B. DODGE, A. M., Upper Alton. REV. HENRY L. FIELD, A. M., Upper Alton. *ZACCHEUS W. HOBBS, A. B. EDWARD C. JAMES, A. M., M. D., Upper Alton. THOMAS M. LONG, A. M., Alton. REV. JOSEPH C. MAPLE, A. M., Cape Girardeau, JOSEPH LEMEN, P. B., Collinsville. ROBERT S. LEMEN, P. B., Collinsville. *JOSEPH F. BAKER. JAMES M. COX. Olathe, Kas. REV. JOHN P. LAWTON, Osceola, Mo. WILLIAM H. D. NOYES, M. D., Pittsfleld. *THuMAS A. SLATER.
1]
'-t
Mo.
WILLIAM WIRT EDWARDS, Upper Alton. DANIEL. R. HARRISON. ALBERT H. HASTINGS, Upper Alton. SAMUEL HILL. EDWARD G. JOHNSON. DAVID S. LINK. JESSE W. LONG. ALLEN McDOW. CAPT. CHARLES H. PHINNEY, Boston, Mass. JOHN H. ROBINSON. THOMAS E. SEXTON. ALBERTES SILSBE. WILLIAM E. WEBB.
TViT
T,"1
JESSET CHEWNING. -\1TTT T A ITfyDTI T
James N. Adams.
Lewis N. Bailey.
Orlando Glore.
Philip Q. Harrison. Charles L. Joesting, Alton.
James Gelder,
Carlinville.
Henry Frank
William T. Brown. William L. Burnett,
Barnes. Att'y, Jacksonville. Bridges, Whitehall.

C.
James Monagan. James D. Moore.
Charles Cooper, Galveston, Texas. Carlos C. Cox. Robert L. Crowder, Los Angeles, Cal.
Adam
James M. Rice. James D. Robards.
Richardson.
William C. Dean. William Dings. Augustus G. Dishon. Thomas Duckels. George C. Emerson. Robert S. Evans, Carrollton.
Charles Roberts. Samuel R. Sanders, Mattoon. Isaac C. Simmons. Samuel J. Smith.
Reuben Wetmore.
1858,
JAMES M. GARETKON, P. B.. Odin. ROBERT B. SMITH, P. B., Alton. [b] JOSEPH F. CORRINGTON.
[d]
REV. PROF. PETER STEENSTRA, A.
B.,
Cambridge, Mass.
GEORGE W.
COX. Virden.
28
SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.
[h] [dl Ibl
"HOUSTON DISHON. *HENRY T. QEEBY. REV. JOHN H. MIZE, Troy, fb] REV. LEWIS P KINMAN. d] *REV. MOSES M. RANDOLPH. [d| NATHANIEL A. WHIPPLE, M.
D.,
Pleasant Gap, Mo.
JOHN W. AMISS. WILLIAM M. ANDERSON. NEWELL H. BROWN, Plainview. CHARLES F. DANDRIDGE.
1]
fl]
1]
1]
'WILLIAM H. CLAYTON. *WILLIAM J. GLENN. ALONZO T. HARLOW, St. Louis, Mo. SIMEON B. HARRISON, Taylorville. WILLIAM W. HAYS. *JAMES HOLDEN: OSCAR M. KAY. STEPHEN B. LITTELL. EDWARD RODGERS, Upper Alton.
OVID SMITH,
Texas, Mo.
Allen. Benjamin F. Allen. Cyrus A, Bailey. William T. Carter. Elias Cockrell. James B. Conway. Edwin F. Earl, Fairbury. Harmon Ether ton. J. F. Fry.
George
W.
Joseph P. Lurtou. Frederick L. Ormsby. John H. Pipkin. William Rodemeyer. Alton. William H. Rodgers.
James Rowe.
Samuel
George
Rinaldo R. Sanders,
Slater.
*William
T. Garretson. John F. C. Glenn, Hillsboro. P. Hancock, St. Louis, William Jordon C. Harris. Byron P. Henderson. Sheaff L. Herr.
Mo,
*Albert W. Ware. Peter G. Weyhrich. James W. Winters.
W. Stocker, Upper Alton. James M. Stout, Auburn. William M. Teague. Nathaniel B. Thompson.
Lewis N. Wise.
Hezekiah Johnson.
Edwin
F. Larkin.
Richard P. Lewis. James L. Long.
Artemus Wiswell. *Benjamin F. Wollam.
1.858-9.
REV.
TRUMAN
S.
LOWE,
A. B., Fidelity,
1859-60.
CYRUS WILLIAM LEVERETT, A. M., Att'y, Upper Alton. WILLIAM WARREN LEVERETT, A.M. REV. JOHN SAWYER, A. B. PROF. JOHN H. WOODS, A. B., Jacksonville. GEORGE J. GILLHAM, P.B., LL. B., Memphis, Tenn. [b] GEORGE W. HILLIARD, Brighton. LCI REV. JOHN KINGDON, A. B., Washington, D. C. [1] REV. WILLIAM E. MOSES.
REV. PRES. THOMAS W. GREENE,
A. M., Vacaville. Cal.
SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.
Rev. Samuel Atwell. Metropolis. Samuel H. Beedle, Ridge Prairie. John H. Boswell. Horace Charles. Peter L. Denby.
29

Samuel B. Orem..Att'y, Clinton, Mo. James L. Penninl.
Thomas
William
R. Denby.
Ellis. well. J. J. Hoxsey,
Thomas Thomas
Ho
Alhambra.
James W. Scott. Benjamin F. Sperce. Ludlow P. Squier, Jerseyville. Aaron Salmon Teasdale, St.
Mo. *Jsmes A. Van Arsdale.
Klias Ptnnington. Richard M. Rice.
Louis,
Joseph E. Jackson. Cyrus Lemen. Henry C. Mauzy. Douglas A. Morean.
James
Albert Wagenseller. F. F. Wallace.
1860-1.
REV. REV.
EDWIN
HARRY
C.
REV. JOHN W. TERRY, A. B., Att'y, Trinidad, HENRY A. WARNE, A. B. GEORGE LEVERETT, P. B Edwardsville. TITUS P. YERKES, P. B., M. D., Upper Alton.
,
Conn.
M. BURNHAM, A. B., Aurora. M. GALLAHER, A. B., LL. D., New Haven,

Col.
Id] *LEWIS P. CLEVELAND. d| REV. JAMES M. COON, A. B., Galva. c] REV. REUBEN W. COON. A. B., Belvidere. REV. FRANCIS M. ELLIS, A. B., D. D., Denver, Col. *JAMES B. NEWMAN. REV. HENRY H. NORTHRUP. REV. ALEXANDER C. RAFFERTY, Westport, Mo. d"| fl] MOSES W. CLENDINEN. CHARLES B. DARROW, O'Fallon. JOHN GELDER. )1 WILLIAM T. GLENN. 11 THORNTON HUGHES. HENRY A. SANGER. JASON L. TERRELL, Morrisonville.
'
11
11
ROBERT H. WHYTE, THOMAS H. "WYCKOFF,
Jerseyville.
^ illiam L. Burnett. Bolivar B. Chandler. Charles B. Cole, Chester. John A. Corey, Jerseyville. Theron Baldwin Corey. William A. Darneille.
Conrad H. Flick, Bethalto. George R. Frost.
Frederick
S.
John W. Bowler.
James M. King. Edwin C. Lawson, Chesterfield. Frank Maxcy, Upper Alton. Samuel N. McReynolds. Hon. James T. A, essick, East St. Louis. Richard W. Montgomery. Samuel W. Peach. James C. Pease. Henry R. Phinney, Alton.
JohnH. Gonterman,
Gilhousen. Princeton.
Thomas
L.
John Sparks.
Reynolds.
Alonso F. Hart. John C. Hart. Benjamin P. Harris, Upper Alton. Charles H. Hastings, Rochester, N. Y. John M. Hobbs. James M. Houck, Woodburn. William W. Jarvis, Troy.
Charles Joesting, Alton.
Niuhaniel Stephens. Hiram A. Stone. Albert Y. Button.

Peter G. Weyrlch. R. Ansley Yerkes, Valley, Kas.
John W. VanHorne. George L. Warnach, Upper Alton.
30
SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.
1861-2.
CYRUS L. COOK, A. B., Att'y. Edwardsville. REV. ALEXANDER J. DELANO, A B. Atlantic, lo. PROF. JOHN D. HODGE, A.M., M. D., Upper Alton. *REV. THOMAS S. MIZE, A. B. REV. ADDISON L. COLE, P. B., Memphis, Tenn. REV. ALBERT C. KEEN, P. B.,Lyocs, lo.
1
ib] [dl
1] ISAAC H. TRABUE. William S. Anderson. John W. Barber. Lewis J. Clawson.Jr., Chicago. Rev. Marshall M. Cooper.
RYNOLD RODGERS. JAMES CRAWFORD WHITEFORD. 2] JOHN H. BOWLER. 1] LUCIAN E. CLEMENT, Nashua, N. H. 1| HENRY E. CORD. 11 JOHN R. COWAN. REV. LEVI FOSD1CK, Pella, lo. CHARLES HENDERSON. CHARLES SMITH. MOORE C. STELLE, Delhi. REV. JOHN W. SWIFT, Mexico, Mo.
Tevi C. Keen. Charles KelleDberger, St. Louis. James P. Kingsley. Stephen H. 1 ong, Chicago.
Frederick Davis.
Henry Davis; Belleville. George A. Debaun. Edward G. Duck ells.

Julius H. Gillham, Princeton. Rev. Riolly F. Gray, Griggsville. Cephas Gregg.
Thomas
Abraham
Griffin.
Wilnor Richmond, Alton. Amos H. Sawyer. L. Smith. George W. Spurd. James C. Whiteford, Chicoga. Joshua Ward. Samuel P. Whiteside.
E. Webster MaCauley,
1862-3.
REV. CHAUNCEY E. BRISTOL, P. B., Chaplain [al *NICHOLAS A. BOYER. [b] GEORGE WASHINGTON COX. Virden.
[a] Ldj
in U. S. A.
REV.
*WILBERFORCE LOVEJOY HURLBUT.

R. R.
WILLIAMS,
Pres. Theological Seminary,
Ram-
[31
I] li
1]
REV. HENRY RIPLEY HICKS, Paw Paw Grove. THOMPSON W. AlcGEE.

Lcvi S. Lamb. *George H. i amothe. Rev. Jonathan M.Lappin, Billings, Mo.
JESSE
apatan, India, Asia. NATHAN A. FRANCIS.

E.
HARRIS.
Kills Atwood, Rus.-ell S. Burls.
Robert M. Craig. Theodore B. Dorsey, Dorsey Station. Daniel E. Dye.

Francis M. Entrekin. Jesse B. Ford.
Jesse P. Griffith. Robert II. llarwood.
William B. Lawson, Chesterfield. William F. Mitchell.
Thomas J. Williams, Upper Isaac Newton Wiswell.
Francis J. Mulberry. Milton G. Ramsay, Woodville. Alton.
SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.
1863-4.
[j]
]
4
i.i
31
NAMES AND KESIDENCES.
REV. HENRY BETHEL DAVIS, B. D. REV. GEORGE EDWIN PRUNK. WALTER SCOTT DINSMORE SMITH,
Pinckneyville.
REV. GEORGE KLINE, A. B., Clinton. Mo. REV. PROF. JOHN PACKER, A. B., Rangoon, Burmah, Asia. REV. HARRISON SAWYER, A. B., Dorchester. *RESTOKES COX S VI ALLEY. A. M. REV. PROF JOHN EATON VERTREES, A .B., Edinboro, Mo.
b] b] b] b| b]
1
i
GEORGE ORLEANS ADAMS, Alton. HENRY P. RODGERS, Marianna, Ark WILLIAM EDWIX SMITH, Att'y, Chicago. PROF. JOSHUA PIKE, Jersey ville. EBEN "WHITNEY.
REV.
1
1
1J -
EUGENE HOtt'ACE LÂHEE\~cliicago'. WHISMAN MAUPIN, Jerseyville. FRANK MERRI WET HER. Shipman. CHARLES FRANCIS MILLS, Springfield. FREDERICK PHILLIPS. THOMAS J. RICHARDSON. M. D., St. Louis, 1JREV. EUGENE G. SAGM. Virden.
I
HARRY BARBER, Upper Alton. WILLIAM HENRY BOWLER, Collinsville. GEORGE RODNEY FERGUSON. JESSE REIDKR FORD, Carlyle. KD WARD GRIMKS. CHARLES D. HOILES, Greenville. CH \RLES IVES. LUTHER OSGOOD KEND ALL Clay ville, New
ISAAC
York.
Mo.
1)
1]
1) 1|
1|
lj
II
WILLIAM E. SCHWEPPE, Alton. JAMES SQUIRE, Godfrey. HARLOW M. STREET. WILLIAM JASPER TURPIN. FRANK MAYFIELD VANCIL. MH.TON DAVID WEAR. ART EMUS W IS WELL, Watterloo.
John H. Anderson. John Anderson. John Edwin Black, Bridgeport. Edward Drew Black.
LaFayette Boyd. George Maine Brown. James William Budd, Alton. Charles Budd.
Don. Carlos McKenzie. Michael Mooney. Lewis Moore, EdwardsviHe. Ed. R. Norton, Cape Town, Africa. Stephen Shelmen Olmsted. William Stewart Parks
Edward
Henry Bullock.
Everett Atherton Clement.

Joel Colby, Zanesville. John Hardcastle Colby. Roger Williams Cressey, Arbor Hill, lo. Franklin Curtis, Convent, La.
Thomas Jefferson Davidson. James Thomas Davis. Frank Willis Edwards, St. Louis, Mo.
Nelson Green Edwards. Rev. Charles Thomas Floyd.
,
George William Dandridge.
Charles Henry Gill, Upper Alton. Henry H. Hays Upper Alton. John Hauck. Addison C Holcomb.
William S. Ramsay. Madison S. Roll. John Sawyer. Gideon Newport Simpson John Wesley Spillman. William Stephen. Alexander S. Stocker, Upper Alton. Lyman P. Stookey, M. D., Belleville. Thomas M. Triplett, M. D., Delavan. Cephas Daniel Vertrees. William Wells, Upper Alton. George R. Whyte. John Lemen Wildermau, Belleville. David Wilkinson. Thomas Irby Williams, Upper Alton. Lewis R. Williams, Kane. Corwin Wilson.
.
Phillips.
Francis M. Johnson. Charles Vernon King.

Pickering Irving
George Andrew Lamothe. Amos T. Lawton.

Little.
Francis Marion Wilson. Judson Wilson. William Martin Winchester. James Able Wood.
Hugh
Wilson.
Joseph Philip Maxcy.
32
SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.
1864-5.
[m] ~m]
m]
j ]
CHAUNCEY E. BRISTOL, P. B., Chaplain inU. S. A. HENRY RIPLEY HICKS, Paw Paw Grove. *REV. JOHN EVELARD MOORE, A. M.
REV. REV. REV. J. S. MOORE, A. M. REV. CALAWAY C. NASH. REV. GEORGE I. YEAGER. REV. MILTON D. BE VAN, A. B., Normal. REV. FRANK BENJAMIN CRESSEY, A. B., Pontiac, Ld] JOHN R. P. MARTIN. [bJ REV. MOSES BEAL SLOAN, Allegheny City, Pa. [2] OLIVER J. FLICK. [3] REV. DANIEL WISE, Whitehall.
Isaac Kay. John H. Knight. Edwin H. Lemen.
[ j ]
[ j ]
Mich.
Samuel Bowman. Henry Martyn Carr, Alton. John Chatham. William Chatham. William John Cook. Charles Edwin Cox. James K. Francis.
Albert Franklin Baird. George Edward Billingsly. Henry Clay Black.
Daniel Patterson Mason. Richard Washington Mason. Lewis Young McAdams, Otterville. James Carroll McBride.
Tiffin McKernan. AsaM. Mills. Thomas Johnson Montgomery. James Cunningham Moore. Freeman Jones Muzzy.
John
Thomas
George Robinson Fultz.

Jefferson Gaskill.
Lewis Oscar Gillham, Alton. Alonzo Byron Glass, Edwardsville. * Joseph Harper. Theodore Hastings, Upper Alton. John Henderson. Washington Wright Herold. Marion L Hoag. John Madison Johnson. William Mitchell Jones.
James Daniel Shaffer. Henry Francis Sherr.

William Ernest
Hugh Sampson.
James Henry Smith. Walter Scott D. Smith, Pinckneyville.

Daniel Edward Sweet.
Silver, Springfield.
William Edward Talley.
1865-6.
REV. ALBERT M. BACON, A. M., B. D., Dundee. REV. ADDISON L. COLE, P. B., B. D., East Minneapolis, Minn. REV. JONATHAN M. LAPPIN, B. D., Billings, Mo. REV. FRANCIS NAYLOR, B. D. REV. ADDISON B. TOMLINSON, B. D., Wyoming. [m] REV. MYRON ROOT, Manchester, Io. REV. HENRY HUDSON BEACH, A. B., West Union, Iowa. WILBUR THEODORE NORTON, A M Editor, Alton. REV. NICHOLAS LINDEN RIGBY, A. B., Winfleld, Kan. REV. JAMES MADISON STIFLER, A. M., D. D., Hamilton, N. Y. REV, WILLIAM HENRY STIFLER, A. M., Cedar Rapids, Io. [b] REV. JEFFERSON H. AUSTERMELL, North Alton. 1] WASHINGTON THEODORE AUSTERMELL, St. Louis, Mo. II WARREN BENHAM BEADLE, Trenton. 1] LINN BKDKLL, Summerfleld. 1) CYRUS SYLVESTER BEGOLE, Ridge Prairie. 1) GEORGE EDWIN BLACK. l; SAMUEL ELDER EVANS, Carlinville.
"
.
SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.
33
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HIGHT. GEORGE W. HILL. Feesburg. WILLIAM D. HODGE. Alton. ALFRED N. HOUGHTON, Boston. Mass. EDWARD C. LEMEN, P. B., M. D., Upper AIDLIA CAMPBELL MoELVAINE. ISAAC TERRELL. LEWIS A. WINTERS. Duquoin.
C. W. Baldwin. Joseph S. Barnhurst.
Alton.
Henry Badley.
*Edward Batchelder. John Batchelder. John Berry. H. E Booth. John Boyer, Virden. Edward Bramble. William Newton Bryson.
William M. Jones. John Koeck, M. D., Chicago. Robert Boyd Leeper.

Charles E. Lewis.
Charles Lowe, Upper Alton.. John Manning. Charles McAdams, M. D. Charles Merrill, Upper Alton. John Gamble Miller.
Thomas H. Burnett. John Franklin Chapman. James B. Clinton. Rev. Frank Minn Coard, Waverly.
H.
J.
Cockrell.
J. Coffin.
Mathew
Charles Coffin. Charles P. Coloneus.
James Moore. Joseph Moore. Orbun T. Moore, Edward R. Norton, Cape Town, Africa. Daniel J. Overholt, Pana. Hon. John Mayo Palmer, Springfield. Charles Lewis Palmer, Dwight.
John
Christian Paul, Bethalto.
J. Penix. Charles Perkins.
Charles Frederick Miner.
Richard T. Condon.
William Cowan. Samuel Oliver Curtiss, Summerfleld. Stephen B. Dannel, Summerfleld.

Rev. Jacob S. Deck. Bethalto.
C. S. Delay.
Charles H. Cooper, Galveston, Texas.
George Dlckson, Upper Alton. Edson Asa Dodge.

Nathaniel S. Drake. William Hart Duff. George W. Edwards. Elias Loomis Edwards, Alton. Frank W. Edwards, Att'y St.Louis.Mo.
Jesse Evans. George Ferre.
Alfred Henry Russell. Charles W. Russell. Norton Johnson Sanders. John William Sanders. Charles W, Sanders.
Henry
S. Pettingill.
Samuel Goodwin
John Lovell Sippy. John F. Sisson, Jerseyville. Henry Sisson, Jerseyville.
L. H. Scanland, Normal. Augustus Schott, M. D., Alton. George D. Shaffer, Upper Alton. Richard R. Shaffer, Upper Alton. W illiam H. Shaffer, Upper Alton.
Foster.
Amos
Hiram N.
Foster.
William Fraser.
Isaac N. Gaskill.
John H. Smith, Upper Alton.

Philip E. Smith. Orville A. Snedeker, A.
Slighton.
Nathaniel Pope Gillh'am.

Rev. William Jesse Grant. John Harden Greene, Kane. Warren Hamlin. John S. Harris, Upper Alton. John T. Hart.
B. F. Goldsby.
M.,
Att'y
Jerseyville. B. Spaulding, M. D., Troy. Johh H. Stahl, Moro. Charles F. Stocker, Upper Alton.
Thomas
Charles Theuor.
Smith Townshend, M.
D. C.
Jesse T. Walton.
D.,
Washinton,
Augustine Head. Edmund Henderson. Edward H. Hendon. Peter M. Hill. Lewis Hord. Alexander McDonald Ir\vin. Frederick M. Johnson. Kichard L. Johnson. Ashby Donelson Jones.
Robert
S. Welch. G. Weldon. Lewis R. Williams. George W. Wilson. James H. Wood. Spencer Wyckoff. Jerseyville. William Edwin Young.
W. W.
1866-7.
REV. ALEXANDER J. DELANO, A. M., B. D., Atlantic, REV. CHARLES T. FLOYD, B. D., Independence, Kas. REV. GEORGE KLINE, A. M., B. D., Clinton, Mo.
lo.
34
SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.
NAMES AND EB8IDENCE8.
REV. PROF. JOHN PACKER,

College,
KEY. JOHN J. WILDEY PLACE, B. D., Winchester. [m] REV- HARRY BARBER, Upper Alton, [s] REV. ARTEMAS WISWELL, Waterloo. REV. JOSEPH Li. MURRAY YOUNG, A. B., Macoinb.
d] d]
cj c|
11 21
A. M., B. D., Pres. Karen Rangoon, Burmah, Asia.
21
1] II
CHARLES EDWIN COX, Hudson. JAMES MILTON DAVISON, Chesterfield. RICHARD HENRY FLAGG, Alton. HOSEA HOWARD, Bloomington. THEODORE ORLANDO BAILEY, Gillespie. WILLIAM BATEMAN LAWSON. JOHN HENRI LOOMIS, Chicago. ROBINSON SMILEY SAWYER. Alton. ROBERT MORRIS STEWART.
Lorin
Harrison Allen. John W. Armstrong.

Ashley. Elijah Charles Avis.
W.
Edward McNama. George McOmber.

Joseph Messick, East St. Louis.
W,
Lewis.
Rene L. Bailiff. John Moore Bartlett, Clayville, Neb. Horace Bernard, Pay son.
George Boggess. Girard.
Jesse K.'Cadwallader, Otterville.
Edward Riley
Otis
O.
Alonzo E.
Robert A. Carter. Delos Allen Chappell. William H. Charles.
Eugene H.
Carr.
Montross, Alton. Joseph T. Ogle. Roderick W. O'Meara. Adolpus H. Parks. William Patton. Thomas H. Phillips, Att'y, Anna.
Charles Manning Policy. James Madison Randolph. William T. Rhea,
Charles Richards
.
W.
Miller. Miller.
William Congdon.
William.
Ambrose Cundall. Archibald Lamont Daniels.

Virden.
Andrew Eagan,
Rev. William K, Dean, Rainbow. Ct. Benjamin F. Draper, Upper Alton.
Robert Richardson N. R. Rodgers. Albert E. Russell.
William Ellis Elwell, Upper Alton. Birl Hamilton Evans. Aaron Lance Fleming.
Stewart Floyd. Peter Garetson, M. D., Macomb.
John F. Sisson. Henry H. Smith. Robert M. Spurgeon.
Daniel L. Stahl, Moro.
Jamee K.
P. Grimes. Frederick O. Hall.
Henry C. Terry, Otterville. Thomas John Turner.

Clark Wetherbee.
Downs Hard castle.
Jacob H. Hungate. William Johnson. Edward R. Judd. Isaac V. Lee
Harvey Widaman, Godfrey. David Wilkinson. George Robert Wilson.

William Adams Young. John J. Young, St. Louis, Mo.
Clarence E. L. Woodruff.
Edward
Levis.
Alausou Lewis.
1867-8.
REV. MILTON D. BEVAN, A. M., B. D., Normal. REV. HENRY L. FIELD, A. M., B. D., Upper Alton. REV. ROBERT GIBSON, B. D., M. D., Alton. REV. RIOLLAY F. GRAY, B. D., Griggsville. REV. HARRISON SAWYER, A. M., B. D., Dorchester. [ 8 ] REV. HOWARD MALCOM DAY. [m] REV. HENRY MARTYN DEAN, Dayton, Ohio. [m] REV. F. M. DsMARANVILLE.
SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.
f 1 ]
]
35
REV. EDWIN NATHAN ELTON, Cordova. REV. FREDERICK HILL, [ml REV. ALBERT OGLE, Seymour, Ind. [in] REV. CARLOS WILCOX, Tonica.
REV. EDWARD KNOWLES CRESSET, A. B, Chicago. REV. JOHN M TITTERINGTON, A. B., Eaton Rapids, Mich. REV. JAMES HERVEY WILDERMAN, A. B., Belleville. OLIN J. CLAWSON. PAXTON MARSHALL DRURY, Cincinnati, O. ALFRED MURRAY FLAQG.
JESSE K. DUBOIS, M. D., Springfield. JOSEPH HAIGH. JOSEPH LEWIS IRWIN. REV. JOSEPH GOFF LEMEN, Lebanon, Mo.
FREDERICK
T.
DUBOIS,
Springfield.
[1]
JOHN LEVERETT, Upper Alton. ALBERT J. LYON. ALBERT SPENCER MERRIAM, Quincy. S. VICTOR PROUDFIT, Att'y, Glenwood, lo. REV. JAMES KNOX READER. REV. THANBYAH, A. B., Rangoon, Burmah.Asia. JOHN C. WHITE, A. B., Att'y, Effingham. GEORGE SPEARS BEEKMAN, Tallula.
ELLIOT BREJiSE GLASS,
Att'y, Edwardsville.
[2J
David S. Beaty, Jerseyville. William Eldred Bell, Upper Alton. Arthur H. Benjamin. Amos E. Benbow, Upper Alton Joseph Bernard, Upper Alton. William Berry. Henry Olney Billings, Atfy, Alton. William A. Bonham, Judsonia, Ark. Horatio J. Bowman, Town Hill. James Buchanan. Dyer Christy.
Heslop H. McCulloch.
Thomas
John Moore. OrbunT. Moore. Isaac Moore, M. D., Portage, Mo, David Morrell, St. Louis, Mo. Charles Smith Morton, St. Louis,
Joseph E. Matter. Corwln A. Overholt. Henry H. Padon. Rev. Adolphus H. Parks. William H. Parks. Everett J. Penning. John H. Perrine.
D. Mllroy.
Ma
Amos
L.
Conklin.
Walter S. Corey, Jerseyville. Rev. George A. Cressey Elkhorn, Wls.

,
Thomas Mel.
Cullimore, Carrollton.
George M. Deck. Mark Dickson, Upper Alton.
Henry S. Pettingill. John O. Pierce.

Rev. Francis E. Pierce. William Pool. Joseph T. Quigley, Alton. Peter J. Randolph, Virden.
Edwin Dorsey.
William F.
Rev. William H. Dorward, Freeport. James H. Dutro, Chicago.

File.
John Redfei M.
George W. Floyd. Stuart Floyd. William F. Ford. Samuel B. Force, Alton. Rev. Richard Garton, Waterloo, lo. Isaac Gillham. Ammon L. Green. Albert Green. George W. Griflln. Kevere C. Gunning. Adolphus Henderson. George W. Hill.
Charles F. Hoisington.
Joseph B. Rich.
Issachar Roberts.
William Rufus Roney, A. B. George B. Sanders. William S. Sawyer. William T. Sawyer. Gideon Scanland. John S. Schwendener. John B. Seward. George D. Shaffer. George H. Shaw.
.
Charles Simmons. Frank W. Smith.
Lewis Hord.
Beal Ives.
Cyrus S. Stahl, Moro. Maurice Starne.
William Jones.
Jacob Kingsbury. James H. Kirby, Jerseyville. Walker Larew.
Frederick Loer, Alton. George Frank Long, North Alton, James W. Masters. Albert McClery.
John B. Stifler. James Voorhies Stryker.

O. D. Taylor. Thomas Terry.
Thomas
Tighe.
Carey Tilbury.
John J. Travis. James P. G. Vissering, Alton.
36
SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.
NAMES AND KE8IDENCES.
Justus B. Willoughby. James W. Wise.
Jesse
Henry B. Volk, Quincy,

George R. Voorhfes. Walter Warder. Charles D. W. Warren.
Wood.
1868-9.
REV. JOHN E. INGHAM, B. D. REV. THOMAS JEFFERSON KEITH,
sam, Asia.
B. D., Gowalpara, As-
REV. NICHOLAS L. RIGBY, P. B., B. D., Winfielcl, Kas. REV. JAMES MADISON STIFLER, A. M., B. D., D.
REV. WILLIAM
Hamilton, N. Y.
D.,
HENRY
STIFLER, A.
M., B. D., Cedar
REV. CYRUS THOMAS, B. D., New Lisbon, Wis. REV. FRANCIS W. TOLMAN, B. D., Dexter, Me. [m] REV. JOHN H. HARTMAN, Amesbury, Mass, [j] REV. GEORGE MAoARDLE. REV. WILLIAM MAXWELL. [j] REV. JAMES HERVEY WILDERMAN, A. M., Belleville. REV. DANIEL HILL DRAKE, A. B., Kurnool, India, Asia. REV. CHARLES ALBERT HOBBS, A. B., Mason City. HENRY EDMUND MILLS. A, M Att'y, St. Louis. Mo. ROBERT JARVIS MITCHELL, A. B., M. D.,Nilwood. WILLARD A. SMITH, A. B., Att'y, Chicago. REV. WILLIAM HENRY STEDMAN, A. B., Urbana.
j]
,
Rapids, Iowa.
T>]
[2]
JOHN CRAWFORD COX. *JAMES F. GULP, JOHN S. GULP, Upper Alton. CAREY E. EMERSON, Alton. GEORGE W. MELTON. EDWIN B. MILLER. REV. PHILANDER S. MOXOM, JOHN D. S. RIGGS, Chicago. LEWIS STOOKEY.Harristown.
Rochester, N, Y.
Lemuel W. Armstrong.
Marshall D. Bedal, O'Fallon. James S. Blanton. Benton Bonnell. James M. Bowers. William S. Burton.
Joseph H. Maxwell. William Maxwell. John C. McAlpine. Daniel McFarland, Att'y John Mitchell. Samuel A. Moore.
Peoria.
Solomon Chatham. Arthur L. Coggeshall, St. Louis, Mo. Harry C. Cole, Chester. Alvin B. Crane. David C. Davis.
Calvin T. Dripps.
Gray, Greenville. Albert R. Jamieson. Willis A. Jarrell, Olney. Rev. Olin M. Johnson. Leonard S. Jones.
C.
Edward Mott.
John Panick. Logan Patten. A. Judson Phillips, Springfield. John Phillips, Springfield. James T. Polk.
Rev. Orson B. Read, Danville, N. Y. 'Archibald L. Read. Isaiah W. Read, Elkhart, Ind. Walter Keid. Fulton Seeley, Alton. Samuel J. Snedeker, Jerseyville.
Eli Edwards. Aug. Cornelius Glass.
Edward
John
*Frank Ketchum. Lewis E. Lemen, M. D., Georgetown,

Colorado. Oliver Main, Chicago.
C. Stout, M. D., Aubnrn. Augustine Sum tier. Ferdinand D. Tharp. James A. Wheeler.
SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.
1869-70.
37
NAMES
A.ND RESIDENCES.
REV. WESLEY ADAM CAIN, B. D., East DesMoines, Iowa. REV. LORIN GEORGE CATCHPOLE, B. D., Waterloo, Wis.REV. OSCAR MONTREVILLE MERRICK, B. D. [jj GEORGE W. BRADFORD. [j] REV. DANIEL HILL DRAKE, A. B., B. D., Kurnool, India,
Asia.
[m]
[j]
i]
j]
REV. STEPHEN K. FUSON, Rockville, Ind. REV. RICHARD GARTON, B. D., Waterloo, Iowa. REV. CHARLES A. HAYDEN, B. D., Cincinnati, O. REV. CHARLES ALBERT HOBBS, A. B., B. D., Mason
City.
REV. ISAAC DENNISON NEWELL, B. D., Clayville, Neb. [j] REV. EDWARD AUGUSTUS STONE, B. D., Hillsdale, Mich, [m] REV. HIRAM DRENNELS WEAVER, Delaware, Iowa, [m] REV. LUCIUS MONTGOMERY WHITING, Manchester,
[m]
[m]
REV. JOSEPH LINDLEY MURRAY YOUNG,

Macomb.
Iowa,
A. B., B. D.,
SMILEY NEWTON CHAMBERS, A. B.. Att.y Vincennes, Ind. IBENEUS D. FOULON,A. B., Att'y St. Louis, Mo. PROF. JOHN ABRAHAM KELLEY. A. M., Vacaville, Cal. COLUMBUS BYRON GULP. THEODORE S. HARLEY. REV. JOHN LOVINGTON JACKSON, A. B., Aurora. CHAR1 ES OLNEY PETERSON. SPENCER HUGH WARE, A. B., Att'y, Eminence, Mo. JAMES MAGNUS RYRIE, Alton.
Harrison Allen. Robert A. Barr. William Ross Burroughs.
Thomas
Moses Asahel Newell.

P. Nisbett, Alton.
Abraham Goodpastor Colson. Prof. Edwin William Craven, William Thomas Cuppy.
Asa Wilbur
Fisher.
Cromwell Casey. Franklin A. Clement, M.
D., Brighton.
A. B.
Roberts Monroe Dry, Piuckneyville.
Joseph Thompson Ogle. Edward H. Panick. Rev, Madison Reed. William Erwin Reed. Thomas Taylor Rhea. Theophilus Abraham Shuff. Isaac A. Smith.
John Andrew Stephens.

Joseph B. Stobbs. Melvin Miles Wamboldt.
Joel Mathis Williams, Isaac D. Wood.
Albert JLucius Harmon. William Henry Wearne.

,
David Newton Longworth, McLean. Archie Millen Alton. Thomas Alexander Morgan. Benton PolkMurphy.
Upper Alton.
Litchfleld.
William
J.
Zimmermann,
REV. HENRY WOOD BRAYTON, A. B., Rome, Mich. REV. THEODORE CORNELIUS COFFEY, A. B., |Appleton, REV. JOHN FLEMING HOWARD. A. B Bunker Hill. CHARLES NEWMAN, A. B. Att'y Alton. REV. CHARLES BROCKWAY ROBERTS, A. B., Waukesha,
, ,
Wis.
Wis.
38
SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.
JOHN LUTHER BEVAN, A. B., Att'y, Atlanta. WILLIAM DEBOLT, Galveston, Ind. *LEWIS CABS DONALDSON, A. B., C. E. PROF. JAMES CORBIN FOLEY, A. B., Batavia, N. Y. REV. CORNELIUS WILLIAM GREGORY, A. B., Bacup, England. GEORGE COLLINS INGHAM, A. B., Att'y, Chicago, d] JOSEPH LEW IRWIN. dj ELDEN HERBERT LOVETT, Lorraine. N. Y. cl DAVID GHEENLEAF PERRINE, Centralia. -1 REV GEORGE WHITEFIELD READ, Peru, Neb. Uj HENRY CLAY REED, Westville, Ind. a] WOLSEY COMBS SIMPSON, A. B., Att'y, Minonk.
c"|
William Davis Blackall. Stephen Long Breckinridge, Alton. Albert Star Burlingham, Patterson, N. J. Rev. Wesley Adam Cain, East Des Moines, Iowa. James William Challacombe. Benjamin Robert Grumpier.
John Moore.
Alfred Bennett McCoy.
Orville Overholt. *Albert Hardin Pritchett.
Gilbert LaFayette Pritchett, M. D.,
Worden
James Edward Dunnegan. Rush English, Kane.
Thomas
den.
Jefferson Garrett, M. D., Til-
William Franklin Gates. Frank Gere. M. D., Moro. Henry William Jutting.
Jerome LaFayette Love, M.

ing, Ks.
Lesley Hacalia Leggett.
Rev. Isaiah Wolfe Read, Elkhart, Ind. Rev. James C. Head, Westville. Ind. Matthew Darr Rhoades. John Collins Robertson. Albert Livingston Shanklin, Virden. John Sims. William Henry Sutton. Thomas Hollis Turner. Frederic Tuscher.
Silas
D.,
Whit-
Noah Theovault Whitney.
Elwood Wharton.
Edward Augustus Mason, Godfrey.
William Hamilton Wilderman.
SOLOMON DRAPER, A. B., Att'y, Niobrara. Neb. REV. JOHN BRECKINRIDGE ENGLISH. A. B., Quincy. GEORGE JOHNSON KENDALL, A B., M. D., Fosterburg. Rev. WILLIAM WHITNEY REGAN, A. B., Farmington. BENJAMIN SETH SAWYER, A. B., Att'y, Alton. REV. WILLIAM SHIELDS ROBERTS, A. B., B. D., Janesville,
Wis.
WILLIAM HENRY BAKER. 'd| GILBERT MARSH CLEAVELAND. 'dj PROF. AVERY CHAMBERS HANCOCK, A. B., Arcola. JrSil.VJ. 1V1UKUAIN lttJft.ijAi"NU, J5..AII y, Jlilglll. ROBERT MORGAN IRELAND, A. B., Att'y, Elgin REV JOSEPH MOUNTAIN, A. B., Brodhead, Wis. *HASSELTINE LAVINIA READ. WILLIAM JUDSON H. ROBERTS, Upper Alton. b HERBERT TAFT ROOT, A. B.
dl
.
Henry Brown Adams. Mary Barler. Louisa A. Barler. William Walker Bell. Thomas Harrison Bowman.
Ameda
Berthold Cole, St. Louis, Mo. Oliver Garrison Cole, Salem, Oregon. John Robert Connover, Tallula.
James
Wm.Henry Ferguson, M. D., Brighton. John Marion Gates. William Edward Hall, Chicago. Eelle Hattie Harris, Upper Alton. Henry William Harting,Paducah,Ky.
Ada
S,
Hermon.
Fletcher Hicks.
John Frank Dannel. John Louis
Wm. Henry
Davis.
Elble. Alton.
Jacob Farnsworth, ElPaso.
John William Holaway. Henry Adolph Homeyer, Chicago. Minnie C. Homeyer, (Davis), Alton. Garrett Johnson Hopper, Bunker Hill. Rev. Simeon Hussey, B. D., Pana.
SHUETLEFF COLLEGE.
John Joshua Noble. Benton Eugene Ogle*Harlon Page Read. William Henry Reed. Frances E. Root, Edwardsville. Louisa Elmira Regan. James Michael Sell.
Charles Edward Snell. Milton Slack. Elizabeth Stanley. Albert O. Terry, Att'y, St. Louis, Mo.
T.
39

Frellnghuysen Terry, Jerseyville. Caroline Walke, Upper Alton. OteliaL. Walker, (Ratliff,) Princeton,
Ky. DeWitt
Thomas Francis Williams. *Robert Graham Williams.

Larkin Madison Williams. Samuel Henry Wilson. Frank Ernest Wright.
C. D. Whitcomb, Beloit, Wis. Alice Whittlesey, Highland.
SARAH ELLEN BULKLEY. (Roberts,) A. B., Waukesha, Wis. JOHN GUELBARHON OULSON, A. B,, Upper Alton. REV, PR0F. THOMAS MEFFORD STEWART, A. M.. B. D.,
Vacaville, Cal.
d] d] "
[d
WILLIAM BADLEY, Upper Alton, LINUS THRALL CASTLE. Alton. CARROL HERBERT COGGESHALL, Newton Centre, Mass. PETE BOSTWICK DAVIS. REV. JAMES BARTLETT EDMONSON, Bloomfleld, lo. CHARLES E. FAIRMAN.Jr., A. B., M. D., Upper Alton. GEORGE WASHINGTON GUNNISON. Erie, Pa. THEODORE ADOLPHUS LEMEN.A. B., Denver, Col. REV. JOHN GABRIEL MANGE. OSCAR LEVERETTft'Ii'D Bloomfleld, lo. PEAK, T A 1S.TTMPTJ LEANDER O rpTJ A S. THACKER.
TJ"
Lelia E. Albro, (Diddle), Bethalto.
James William Hardin.

Julia Hewitt (Rodger's,) Upper Alton.
John
Amos Augustus Anderson.

William G. Andrews. *Henry Spauldlng Barler.
C.
B.
Wilber Amsden.
George Houghton. George Wilmur Howes. William Rufus Huff.
Louisa F. Bishop, (Oulson.),

Alton.
Benjamin Hirst Bean. Ten Brock Beekman. Tallula. Benjamin Best, St. Louis, Mo.
Upper
John J. Keeler. William Coleman Marlow. Andrew Jackson McBride.

Peter Meyer. Emma Elizabeth Patterson, Bethalto. Phillip Henry Paul. Albert Stockton Peak. Harmon Penning, Godfrey. William J. Roberts. Frank Orlando Sebastian.
William Henry Bradt. Josephus Justus Brown, Upper Alton. Charles Patterson Buck. Luther Madison Gates.
Oliver Morris Conklin. Charles Fremont Dannel. William Henry Davis. James R. Davis. James Dooling, Upper Alton. William. Dooling, Upper Alton. Samuel Ferdinand Douglass.
Thompson Maple Sheaff. Eberle Kost Shelton. Andrew Ward Shelton, M. D. George W. Silver, Bunker Hill.
Olive Lecca Slafter.
John James Downey.
Wesley David Sparks, Alton.
Frederick C. Drape, St. Louis, Mo. Jefferson Creed Duncan. *William Douglass Ely. Rodney Marcellus Ferguson.
George William Fisher.
Amaziah Melancthon Stark. Rev. Henry W. Tate, B. D., Newton Centre, Mass. John Orlen Thomas, Judsonia, Ark.
Kdwjird
George Hull Squier.
John Henry Greer, Woodburu. James Jefferson Hamilton.
Wilber Graham. William Russell Greene, Woodburn. Robert Warren Greene, Woodburn.
Ephraim Comton Gibberson.
Mary Kmeline Underwood. Rev. Henry J. Wertz. Warren Nelson Wilson. Frank Samuel Worcester. Frank Worden, M. D. North Alton.
,
Lyman Underwood.
40
SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.
1873-4.
NAMES AND EESIDENOE8.
THEODORE CORNELIUS COFFEY, A. B., B. D., ApWis. REV. JOHN FLEMING HOWARD, A. B., B. D., Bunker Hill. REV. CHARLES BROCKWAY ROBERTS, A. B., B. D.,
REV.
pleton,
Waukesha, Wis.
REV. SAMUEL DOUGLASS BADGER, A. B., B. D., Chicago. JAMES THOMAS COVEL, A. B.. B. D., Centre. REV, JOHN W. PRIMM, A. B., B. D., Newton Centre, Mass.
FRANK BARRY, St. Louis. Mo. ALEXANDER BEVAN, A. B., West Medway, HENRY THOMPSON BURNAP, Upper Alton. d] REV. JOHN CARTER, Sandoval. d] EDWARD EVJERETT_ COLE, Chester. LITTLE BERRY FORD. EMMA MARIA GRAY. Upper Alton.
d] c]
c]
Mass.
d]
d]
[c]
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SIMPSON, N. Y. JUDSON B. THOMAS, A. B., Atlanta.

Mary Etta Kirby,
JENNIE AMELIA GREER. Woodburn. KATIE E. S. JOSLYN, Virden. ADONIRAM JUDSON PLOWMAN, Virden. REV. ANSEL HOWARD POST. BEL. G. RICHMOND, Moro. ARTHUR JUDSON SCROGIN, Lexington.
A. B., Rochester,
Richard Barler, Hinsdale. John R Bonney, Flora Rowland Bonney, Flora. Edward R. Bonney, Flora. Emma E. Buckland, St. Louis, Mo.
James F. Amos. Edward Atkins, Upper Alton. *Henry S. Barler.
John Jackson Kinley.

Florence M. Lamothe, Lamothe, Mo. Clara Lapp, Upper Alton. Mary Louisa Limberg, Godfrey. Lillie Matthews, (Nisbett), Alton.'
(Read), Jerseyville.
Thomas Maxwell.
Nellie Duncan Burton, Upper Alton. Carrie Campbell, Medora.
Adoniram
J. Cole,
Minneapolis, Minn.
Evansville,
John E Cooper.
Katie Crane, (Lathrop),
\Vis.
Atison Comer.
James A. Curry. Benjamin G. Drape, St. Louis, Mo. Bell M. Depry, Upper Alton. William H. Enos, M. D., Jerseyville.
Phil. S. Erwin.
Jonathan T. McCullom, Flora. Katie McRynolds, Upper Alton. E. Morgan. James I. Morton, St. Louis, Mo. George Nevlin, Upper Alton. George W. Peters. Alford B. Penniman, Woodburn.
Catherine Maxwell. William F. McCall, Brighton.
Wm.
Ida May Prewitt, (Prichett), Worden. Flora May Pritchett, Fidelity.

Lillie
Frank Corey Finity, Kane.

CassiusH. Francis.
Eugene M, Gardiner, Kane.
James G. Evans Greer. Woodburn. Mary Ground, Upper Alton. Amy Hamilton, Whitehall. John B. Hammond.
Lovell D. Harrison, Marble Rock, lo. William Wilkes Harris. Albert Heminover, Marble Rock, lo. Henry A. Herwig. Mattie Himrod, Lockport. Mollie Himrod, Lockport. Anna Louisa Homeyer, Chicago. Harry A. Homeyer, Alton. May Howes, Hamilton, N. Y.
Zachary Taylor Gaines.
John Rohacek. John Adams Ryrie, Alton.
Albert W. Reed. Faiinie S. Roberts, Upper Alton.
Mary
Pritchett, Fidelity.
Charles E. Sawyer, Alton. Ernest Schweppe, Alton. \ Austin H. Scrogin, Lexington. Milton Slack.
Alba Stacey.
Ernest Steen.
Otto Ulrlch, Alton. Hattie M. Vallette, St. Louis, Mo. Frederick P. Vallette, St. Louis, Mo. Julia E. Van Hoosor, Nokomis. Nannie \Varuack, (Castle), Alton.
H. M. Tlbbetts. Lulu Topping, Alton.
Benson Hume.
Jesse
W. Hurst. Roxana Hurst. Edward Burnhard
Horace \Vhittlosey, Highland. Helen H. Winthrop, St. Louis, Mo.
Ephraim Buchanan Wood,
Joesting, Alton.
S. Boston, Mass. Fayette D. Wood, Upper Alton.
SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.'
1874-5.
41
NAMES AND KESIDENOE8.
REV.
JOHN BRECKENRIDGE ENGLISH, A. B., B. D., REV. WILLIAM SHIELDS ROBERTS, A. B., B. D., JanesQuincy.
[ j ]
REV. THOMAS E. ROOT, Versailles. ELIJAH TAYLOR CASSEL, A. B., Nebraska City, Neb. ROBERT ALLEN HAIGHT, A. B Alton. LEMUEL JEFFERSON HANCOCK, A. B., Lltchfleld. EDWIN SENIOR HOWELL, A. B., Brighton. REV. CHARLES R. LATHROP, A. B., Evansville, Wis. REV. GEORGE CARTER PECK. A. B., Newton Centre, Mass. EDWARD WINFIELD REID, A. B., M. D., Bethalto. ROBERTTEMPLETONSTILLWELL, A.B., Att'y.St. Louis, Mo. MARY ELIDA. BARRETT, (ENGLISH), P. B., Quincy.
,
ville,
Wis.
JOHN CHARLES BOWMAN, Whitehall. THOMAS ALBERT BRUNK, Auburn. WILLIAM KEATING. d] THOMAS N. JOHNSON, Edwardsville. d| JOHN CULBERTSON KEITH. Edwardsport, Ind. dl GEORGE HASKELL MIZE, Troy, [dj FRANK MORTON, St. Louis, Mo. [b] CLARENCE SPAULDING SARGENT, New Haven,
c] cj
C! II]
[1]
Ct.
JOHN. FLETCHER
ARTHUR
G.
PEARSON,
Chicago. TATE, Winterset, Iowa.
Ira Alward, St. Louis, Mo.
Madison Bagby. Augustus Condoii Barter, Chicago. David Barnett. Charles Bell, Upper Alton. R^v. James Jackson Bristow. John Brown, Upper Alton.
Susan E. Jones, Denver, Col. Charles H. Kirby, Jerseyvllle. Charles A. Lamothe, Lamothe, Mo. Mary G McClure. George A. McMillen, Alton William Mehagan, St. Louis, Mo.
.
.
A. Carr,
Philip E. Michaels. Dollle J. O'Hara Moore,

Lizzie Olcott,
James K- Cheseldine, Winchester. Charles Edwin Clayton, Chatham. Carol Herbert Coggeshall, Newton
Centre, Mass.
William Palmer. David P. Pritchett, Fidelity.

Nettie L. Proudnt, Virden.
Upper Alton. Upper Alton.
Henry Cook, Upper Alton. Mary E. Covel. Springfield, Ohio. Nora Cowan, Virden.
A.
William M. Rhoads. W. Rhoads.
C. G.
Richards, Jerseyville.
Edward II. Davis. Hiram S. Dean, Upper Alton. Edward C. Denny, Piasa. Mary Elble, Alton.
Mattie Crane, Virden. Isaac F. Davis, Longmont, Col.
Blanche Russell, Upper Alton. Erne Ryrie, Alton.
EmmaSchott, Upper Alton. Frank Sergent, Upper Al'on

J
Mundy J). French, Brighton. Nathan M. Garland, Godfrey. Hattie Lillian Gray, Upper Alton. George M. Gray, 1'pper Alton. Robert W. Greene. Kane.
John
Greene, Piasa. George H. Greene. Hattie Greene, Kane.
J.
W. L. Slefkes, Roanoke. Richard Simmons, Greenfield. Calvin Snyder.

Frederick S. Stock.
James M. Stubbert. Robert Sturgeon Woodburn. Murray B. Trabue, Jerseyville. Robert Underwood.
,
Thomas
Otto Walter, Alton.
Emile
L. Guillette,
"Charles E. Hall, Latham. Carrie Nutt Harris. Charles E. Haydon, Shelbyville. Otelia Hoppe. Upper Alton. Alfred J. Howell, Brighton. IdaM Hull, Barry. Albert G Hurd, Jerseyvllle. >I;iry K. Jones, Denver. Col.
Lamothe, Mo.
A. W. Wehmier. Charles S. Wheeling. W. Douglass White.
E.
Watkins, Lamothe, Mo.
George B. White.
Elery B. Widaman, Virden. George Williams, Upper Alton. Mattie J. Witt George Worden, Upper Alton.
42
'SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.
1875-6.
REV. SIMEON HUSSEY, B. D., Pana. [j] REV. DANIEL SECKMAN, Xenia. FRANCES NEWELL, BULKLEY, A.B.,Mt. Carroll. LUCIUS MARSH CASTLE, A. B., Upper Alton. REV. WILLIAM JACKSON CRAWFORD, A. B., Nilwood. ELISHA ENGLISH, A. B., Springfield. J. OTIS HUMPHREY, A. B., Auburn. HIRAM NELSON KENDALL. A. B.. Upper Alton. RUTH CATHERINE MILLS, A. B., Mt Carroll. CHARLES NEWTON, A. B., Jefferson City, Mo. JOHN W. RENNICK, A. B., Farmington, Mo. MARY JANE RENNICK, (BEID) A. B.. Bethalto. JOHN EMERSON ROBERTS, A. B., Upper Alton. ELISHA EDWARD TYSON. A. B., Irvfngton. MILES JOHN HUFFMAN, P. B., Medora. GERTRUDE MELISSA ROWE, P. B., Sacramento, Cal. [d] THERESA L. CHAPMAN, Upper Alton. \d\ JOHN J. COON, Pana. [d] ANNA M. COON, Pana. lei REV. DAVID H. FIELDING, Garnett, Kansas. [b] DANIEL READ KENDALL, Upper Alton. [dj MAY ROSAMOND KENDALL, Upper Alton. |cj JOSEPH E. MORROW, Indianapolis, Ind. [d] MANFORD JAMES RICKS, Bloomington.
lc]
MARY
[bl
[I] ill LI]
WILLIAM W. WHITE. GEORGE T. DAVIS, Alton. SARAH HOOD, Bunker Hill. JAY FRANK SHEARMAN, Columbus,
Anna
Isaac
E.
ROBERTS. Upper Alton.
Julia Armour, (Huffman) Medora. Lilian E. Armstrong. Alton. Glenn P. Badeau, Hillsboro, Anna B. Bishop, Godfrey. A. G. Brueggeman Alton. Samuel D. Buckmaster, Upper Alton.
,
Ks. Ferdinand Morse. Olive P. Murdough, Belleflour.
Washington L Parker, Champaign. Walter B. Pendleton, Godfrey.

Albert
Nantkis, (Keuch), Betbalto.
Matthew Chance.
Ezekiel Chance. Albert A. Chapman, Winchester. Grace Cole, Upper Alton. Joel B Compton. Virden. Louise Cooley, Upper Alton. Lucius A. Cummins, Hamilton, Alfred C. Cunningham. Solon M. Delaney, Flora.
W. Powell, Pella, Iowa. Eva M. Randolph, Piasa.
W.
Reid. Bethalto.
Su-an Rhoads, Piasa.

Nettie Rising. Upper Alton. Mary C. Rood. Godfrey. Wm. J. Russell, Iron Mountain, Mo.
George H. Schaper. Charles Willard Sparks, Alton.

Belle
Rev. George G. Dougherty, Ewing. Louis W. Drape, St. Louis, Mo. Drew. Joseph B. Elble, Alton. J. D. Erwin. Fernando E. Ferguson, Godfrey, W. F. Forman, Bloomington. John P. Hardwick, Winchester. Charles W. Harris, Goodland, Ind. George B. Harris, Goodland, Ind. Samuel A. Harrison, Upper Alton. Henry Hessenower. William R. Hewitt.
Jessie
Edward F Deterding, Alton.
Snow
Jessie Dannel,
Kemper.
Fannie Squier, Alton. Hattie Squier, Alton. Heber M. Squire, Godfrey.
William Henry
Elihu T Stout. Auburn.
Stallings.
Nancy L
John
C.
Stratton. Charles W. Sutton. Indianapolis, Ind. Maria L. Tindall, Upper Alton.
Tolman.
XJharles
Frank Waegoner, Godfrey. Henry F. Wagner. Charles C. Walker, Upper Alton.
Vallette. St. Louis,
Mo.
John Heinrich, Bethalto. William S. Hood Bunker Hill. George F. Hulbert, Upper Alton. Fannie Lora Hulbert, Upper Alton.
Flora Mathews, Alton. George S. Meenach. Sarah E. Mitchell. G. E. Moberly, Duquoin. George L. Moore.
Paul Walter, Alton. Walter L. Waples, Alton. Carrie A Whittlesey Highland. Ellsha Whittlesey, Highland. J;itnes F. Whitworth. LaFayette Whitworth. William Winkelmann, Belleville. Warren Eugene Wise. Emily Wood, Albert Lee. Arma.R. Young, Upper Alton.
SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.
43
1876-7.
PRESENT ATTENDANCE.
[s]
[j]
j]
]
]
SAMUEL ELLICOTT TYSON, Irvington. WILLIAM R. ANDERECK, Sandoval. JOHN CARTER, Potoka. REV. WILLIAM JACKSON CRAWFORD, REV. TIMOTHY S- DODGE, Upper Alton.
A. B., Nilwood.
j]
"i}
]
j]
i]
[j]
JOHN EMERSON ROBERTS, A. B., Upper Alton. ELISHA EDWARD TYSON, A. B., Irvington. REV. GARDNER S. TUCKER, Webster, Mo.
OSCAR EUGENE BADGER, Fort Madison, lo. BELL ENGLISH, Springfield. LINDSEY ENGLISH, Springfield. FRANCIS MARION MITCHELL, Gillespie. a FRANCIS WAYLAND PARSONS, Griggsville. a] JOHN JOSEPH PITTS, McLean. [b] JOSIAH ANDREW ARMOUR, Shipman. [b] ABRAELLA C. HUDSON, Alton. bl FRANCIS WARNER PARKER, Upper Alton. [b] EDWARD CADLE HHOADS, Plainview.
a) al a] a|
|
ELISHA ENGLISH, A. B., Springfield. REV. W. SANFORD GEE, Mt. Vernon. FRANCIS WAYLAND PARSONS, Grisrgsville.
[b]
10
[a]
re
|OJ re] [cj [c] [0] ~
EBENEZER BADLEY, Upper Alton. WILLIAM H. BEEBY, Piasa. THOMAS S BOVELL, Arcola. EMMA CECILIA BULKLEY, Upper Alton. GEORGE CAMPBELL, Delavan. WILTON S. COLLAWN, Bowling Green, Va. ALBERT N. DRAPER, Upper Alton. WILLIS L. FAIRMAN. Upper Alton. GEORGE T. JOHNSON, Alton. ISABELLA J. LOWIS, Piasa. AMOS F MARSHALL, Eureka. IRA E. MARSHALL, Eureka. ELLEN L. MUHLEMANN, Woodburn.
SOPHIA MINNIE WAGE, Virdpn. TIMMIE AUSTIN STANLEY, Upper
EBENEZER CHARLES SAGE, Virdeu. ELLIS AUSTIN, Red Oak, Ind. Ter.
cj JAMES F. WELLS, Fairbury. [dl JOHN FRANK BAKER, Bloomington. |d] JOHN W. BLAIR, Alton. [,i| HERBERT H. BRANCH, Springfield. Id] JUSTUS L. BULKLEY, Upper Alton. Idj CHARLES BULL, Gillespie. fdi THOMAS M. COFFEY, Griggsville. [dl GRACE E. FAIRMAN, Upper Alton. [d JOHN J. HUSTON, La Grange, Mo. [d] FRANK IVAN MERCHANT, Cedar Falls, [dl JOHN L. PEARSON, Godfrey.
I
HELEN
Alton.
G. STK.LLE, Upper Alton.
Iowa.
Susie F. Brown, St. Louis, Mo. Charles W. Connor, Alton. Elizabeth G. Elwell, Upper Alton. Laetitia M. Field, Washington, D. C.
G. Lansing Merrill, Upper Alton. Alice P. Rising, Upper Alton. Charles G. Rlchey, Winchester. Oren V. Stookey, Freeburg.
44
SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.

Ter.
John M. Adair, Fort Gibson, Ind. Henry S. Baker, Jr., Alton. Frank B. Black, Canton.
Albert Jewett Kendrick, Upper Alton Lida H. Kendall, Edwardsville.
Elijah H. Bettis, Oswego, Kansas. Clara M. Bulkley, Upper Alton. Ella A. Bulkley, Upper Alton. William H. Cartwrighl. Upper Alton. Celestina P. Chapman, Upper Alton. John F. Cox, Bethalto. Cora V. Cole, Upper Alton.
McOollom, Scottviile. Charles H. McKee, Cnrisman. John T. Miller, Upper Alton. David T. Merrill, Jr., Upper Alton.
J.
William
Benjamin W. Garr, Sutton, Neb.
George E. Dye, Elkhart City.
Nannie A. Gillhain, Upper Alton. Fannie F. Gillham, Wanda. Willard L. Gillham. Upper Alton, Abraham Lincoln Hoblit, Atlanta. John J. Herman, Alton. El wood S. Jones, Pawnee.
S. J. Gee, St. Francisville.
.JfimieS. Morrill, Upper Alton. Gilbert G. Palmer, Medora. Solomon Parsons, Griggsville. Henry Pollard, Upper' Alton. John W. Place. Winchester. Frank D. Rood, Godfrey. ThomaK J Sanford, Morrissoiiville. Charles E. Schenck, Paris. Sam. Stephen A. Douglas Stahl, Moro. Josie Stanley, Upper Alton.
Louie C. Warren, Lyndonville, N. Y. Stubaren D. Wham, Salem.
Thomas S.
Walter Apperson, Bourbon.
William B. Butler, Carlyle. Bertha Bulkley, Upper Alton. Edward G. Clarke, Upper Alton. Frank J. Douthitt, Curdsville Ky. Frank J. Ehrler, Upper Alton. William A. Foster, Tonica. Frank Hewit, Upper Alton. Moses H. Hart. Vancil's Point. Joseph W. Hoblit, Atlanta.
1
Barber, Upper Alton. Otto Barth, Brighton. TalbottF. Brunk, Springfield.
Leonard O. Vaughan, Van Horn, Mo.

Georare F. Kirsch, Alton.
Daniel M. Kittinger, Upper Alton. Walter W. Lemen, Freeburg. Francisca Leigh, Suffolk, Va. George E. Marsh, Upper Alton. Henry A. Marsh, Upper Alton. Edward Maupin, Alton. Samuel Beaman Nott; Jerseyville. Thomas M. Robinson. Greenflld. John Rodgers, Upper Alton. Rev. Henry Schultz, Fosterburg. Isaac C. Woolery, Sciota.
Allen Archie Ashlock, Alton.

Barnett, Jkiwardsville. Beckmeyer, Upper Alton. John Boals, Alton. Charlotte E. Burton, Upper Alton. James B. Camp. Staunton. Henry M. Cartwright, Upper Alton.
Edward
Lewis
C.
James
George M. Cameron. Carrollton. Wm. Cain, Medora. Jane M. Dunn, Belleville. Minnie A. Dunn, Belleville. Samuel E. Earp, Alton. Joseph B. Bible, Alton. Joseph .S. Forrest, Scullyvillc, Iml.
Ter.
Joel L. .Michael, Salem. Hsirlan P. McCoy, Georgetown, Col. William Miedel, Aiton. Paris Hampton Montgomery, Bethalto. Edward S. Morse, Alton. Horace E. Roberts, Upper Alton. Edwin E. Reed, Newbern. Elmer Rutledge, North Alton.
George C. Lemen, Freeburg. William Lewis, Springfield. Franklin McKee, Chrisman.
Austin L. Hanes, Fyxville. John Hildebrand, Upper Alton. Edward M. Hodge, Upper Alton. Harriet M. Jinkenson, Bethalto.
John Albert Steiner, Alton. Mary Emeline Stookey, Freeburg.

Robert Ward, Otterville. Martha Ellen Wham, Salem. Benjamin F. Williams, Upper Alton. Byron Wood. Upper Alton. Samuel H. Wyss, Alton.
Charles A. Stookey, Belleville. Charles F. Tonsor, Alton.
Albert F. Scott, Belleville.
Alexander W. Joesting, Alton. Orville V. Kell, Salem.
Charles
W.
Jolly, Plainview.
SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.
45
GENERAL SUMMARY.
Students in Rock Spring Seminary Students in Alton Seminary Students in Alton College flrregular, Preparatory, Academic, Collegiate Under Graduates Collegiate Graduates Students of past Theological Under Graduates and present in { Theological Graduates Shurtleff College Academic, Present Attendance Preparatory, Present Attendance Collegiate, Present Attendance L Theological, Present Attendance
138 79 39
1,587
.....!..........
&c
367 126
51
'.
36 43 63 48
11
Deducting those counted twice
/.....
2,578 38 2,540
Grand Total
is now lost; so that, it is probable, quite 500 more pupils, during the Fifty Years of the history of the School, have been connected with it, under Its various organizations, than are named in the Catalogue or included in the above Summary making a probable aggregate, of all, that, first and last, have been connected with the Institution, of more than 3,000.
NOTE. It is kntwn positively that 242 Students, in all, attended Rock Spring Seminary, while the names of only 128, as given, were found in time for use in this Catalogue and it Is also estimated that 150, at least, attended Alton Seminary, while only 79 names are given. It Is also knowî that different persons attended the College, during the earlier years, concerning whom all record
;
HONORARY DEGREES.
Those conferred by
*Prof.
this College are designated
by
italics.
ZenasB. Newman. A. M. *Rev. Alvin Bailey, A. M. *Rev. Isaac D. Newell, A. B. ..Ottawa Rev- Thomas Powell, A. M. *Rev. John McGilton, A. M. "Captain A. Harris. A. M., M. D Rev. William B. Maxon, A. M. Brookfield, N. Y *Rev. James M. Frost, A. B *Benjamin Shurtleff, A. M., M. Z>.,M.M.S.S N. B. Shurtleff, A. M., M.D., M.M.S.O..S.H.S... Boston, Mass Rev. Russell Holman, A. B Petra, Mo Rev. James L. Hodge, A. M., D. D Brooklyn, N. Y M. Rev. Prof. James C. Furman, A. Greenville, S. C Rev. Henry G. Weston, A. M., D. D Ciicstcr. Pa *Rev. Dwightlves, A. M., D. D Rev. JirahD. Cole, A. M., D. D Highland Park Rev. J. E. Ryland, D. D Virginia Hon. Lyrnan Trumbull, LL. D Chicago
,
1.S41
1841
1841 1841 1842 1842 1842 1843 1843 1843 1843 1845 1845 1847 1847 1850 1852 1852
46
SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.
Hon. Cyrus Edwards, LL. Rev. Jeremiah Hall, A. M., D. Rev. S. F. Holt, A.
.Upper Alton
Jessup,
Iowa
Louis
East
St.
*Rev. A. J. Joslyn, A.M. Rev. J. A. Smith, A. M. Rev. J. N. Tolman, A. M. Hon. J. M. Palmer, LL. Rev. E. T. Hiscox, A. M., D. D Rev. E. J. Thomas, A. M. Rev. J. B. Morrison, A. M. *Kev. P. Bennett, A. *Rev. Silas Tucker, A. M. Rev. W. D. H. Johnson, A. M. Rev. Thomas M. E. Robson, LL. O. C. Drake, A. M.
Chicago Woodstock, N.
New York
Springfield
City "
Atlanta Oskosh, Wis
England
Alton
St. Louis,
James Newman, A. A. W. Alexander, A. M. *AsaPotter, A. M. *Rev. C. B. Read, A. M.
Mo
*Rev. Albert Smith, A. M., D. U Rev. H. J. Eddy, D. Rev. Robert Boyd, D. Rev. William Cooke, D. D Rev- J. A. Smith, D. Rev. James Dixon, A. M., D. Rev. Geo. P. Guild, A. M. Rev. A. H. Burlingbam, A. M., D. *Rev. C. H. Taylor, A. M., D. Rev. G. S. Bailey, D. D Rev. Samuel Graves, U. D Gen. Oliver O. Howard, LL. D Rev. F. M. Ellis, A. M. Rev. A. C. Rafferty, A. M. Rev. Joseph Banvard, D. .D Rev. Richard Edwards, LL. Hon. Mark H. Dunnell, LL. Rev. A. C. Osborn, D. D Rev. A. M. Bacon, A.M. Rev. S. A. Kiugsbury, D. D *Rev. Miles Bronson, D. Prof. A. M. Bebee, D. D Rev. Sylvester Adams, A. M. Rev. Charles E. Hewitt, D. Prof. John B. Jackson, D. D Rev. Moses B. Sloan, A. N.
D D D
Syracuse, N. Y Waukesha, Wis London, England
Chicago
Ahnapee, Wis Patterson, N. J

Pittston,
Pa
1852 1854 1854 1854 1854 1857 1857 1857 1858 1858 1858 1858 1859 1859 1860 1860 1860 1860 I860 I860 1860 1861 1861 1861 1862 1863 1863 1863 1865
1865 1866 1866 1866 1866 1867 1867 1868 1868 1869 1869 1871 1871 1871 1872 1872 1873 1873 1873 1874 1874 1875 1875 1875 1875 1876 1876 1876 1876
Grand Rapids, Mich. ..1865

U. S.
Denver, Col Westport, Mo Neponset, Mass Princeton
New
Owatonna, Minn York, N. Y
Dundee
Bath, Maine
Hamilton, N.
Hastings,
Min
Kdward C. Lcmen, M D., P* B James P. Sladc. A. M. James 11. Kay, M. D., A. Prof. Charles Fairmau, LL. D Orville A. Snedeker, A. M. Reuben Aldrich Guild, LL. D A. S. Everett, M. D., A. M.
Chicago Chicago Allegheny City, Pa Upper Alton

Belleville
Bushnell Upper Alton

Jerseyville
Providence,
St.
R.I
llev. .1- M. Stiflcr, D. Rev. Frank M. Ellis. D. Rev. II. M. Gallaher, LL.
Louis,
Mo
D
D
.1.
Hamilton, NDenver. Col
Flavel Shurtleff Thomas,

*
Lewis
V,.
Uev. I. N. Hobart, D. D Prof. Washington Leverett, LL.
Donaldson, A.
M
D
New Haven, Ct Hanson, Mass

Chicago
Upper Alton
52
ERRATA ET ADDENDASince the publication of this Catalogue was commenced, Dr. B. F. Edwards, the sole survivor of the original Board of Trustees, of fifty years ago, has died; and, still later, since the Jubilee Anniversary Day and College Commencement, D. D. Ryrie and Isaac Snedeker, members of the Board, have also passed away and, last, too, the veteran, Hon. Cyrus Edwards, one of the seven constituting the first Board at Alton, forty -five years ago, has in like manner gone from earth, and therefore the * indicating deceased, should be prefixed to these four names, as found on pages 9, 10 11 and 58. It should also be prefixed on page 11, to the name of Thomas Pratt, who died several years ago.
;
The year when Rev. Daniel Head, LL. D., retired the College, should be changed to 1870, on page 12.
LL- D. should be
affixed to Prof.
from the Presidency of

13.
Orlando L. Castle, on page
Norton (Pierson), * Carrollton; Alan son Norton; Elthan A. Norton, Carrollton, and Charlotte Sherman, Greenfield, should be added, on page 15, to the list of students who attended Rock Spring Seminary. And the name of Col. John Thomas, Thomas. Belleville, should be changed to
The names *Hannah
Bains; *Katie
Lemen; Eli/a
J.
The address
of
Ann Wright
is
Susan Wright (Simmwell),
(Moore), page Auburn, Kan.
16, is Standard,
Mo., and of
The name of *Rev. Ellas R. Fort should be added to students of Alton College, page 17.
On page 18 the name of John "John O. Bernard, Paysou.

The
first
C. Bernard, Quincy, should be
changed to
names, under head of Shurtleff College, page 18, and the 1840-1, page 19, being Theological students, should have been in largest capitals, as all in that department are so indicated on the subsequent pages of the Catalogue.
five
first
three
names under
The
address ef Rev.
Wm.
H. Briggs, page
19, is Freeport.
Of Jose Donaziano Martinez, page
21, is Coahuilla,
Mexico.
S.
Of George
is
Spaulding, page 22,
is
Omaha, Neb., and of H.

Deunison, Texas.
Spaulding,
Vineland, N. J.
Of Cyrus L. Edwards, page Of Horace J. Loomis, page
23, is
24, is Chesterfield-
Of Charles M. Kay, page
25, is
Spring Lake, Mich.
Wm.
Of
yer,
Of Henry
C. Barnes and
Thomas Duckels, page
T. Brown, is Carlinyille. Corrington, same page.
27, is Vitden, and of Also Rev. should be prefixed to Joseph F.
Wm. W.
St. Louis,
is
Hays, page 28, is Bunker Hill; of Byron P. Henderson, ia Mo.; Samuel Slater, Washington, D. C.; and of Rev. John SawMai-tha's Vineyard, Mass.
60
ERRATA ET ADDENDA.
Of Cyrus Lemen, page 29, Collinsville; John Gclder, Brighton; Alon/.o F. Hart, Greenville, and Peter G. Weyrich, Peoria; Rev. should be omitted before R. W. Coon and Editor affixed.
J. C.
L. Cook, page 30, should be honored as A. M., and the address of Whiteford. is Chicago; of Rev. J. W. Swift, Butler, Mo., and Rev. M. M. Cooper, Mt. Venion. The name of W. T. Vandeveer, Taylorville, should be inserted among
Cyrus
Scientific Collegiates,
on page
31.
B. Beadle, on page 82, is unknown, and of Linn Bedell, is Trenton, and name, J. Chatham, should read J. R. Chatham, M. D., Xenia.
The address
of
W.
The address The
of William Pool, page 35,
is
is
Isleton, California.
address of L. N. Scanland, page 38, C. T. Floyd, Elk Falls, Ks.
Florence, Arizona; and of Rev.
Of Rev. Frederick
Hill,
page
85, isReetlsburg, Wis.; of J. L. Irwin, Jr.,
James Buchanan, Yankton, D. T.; of Gideon J. Scanland, Eureka, Nevada; and of John B. St'irler, Galveston, Texas. Dyer Christy's full name is Rev. Dyer M. Christy, Byron, Ohio, and that of Beal Ives is Benjamin C. Ives.
Indianapolis, Ind.; of Rev.
Rev.
J.
affixed to
E. Ingham's address, page 36, is Exeter, Neb. Rev. F. W. Tolman, and A. B., B. D., to Rev.
O.
A. B. should be
J.
N. Hartmau.
and of Rev. M. M. "Wamboldt, is Byron, Mm. Rev. should also.be prefixed both to Win. T. Cuppy and Isaac D. Wood, and A. M. affixed to Rev. C. A. Hobbs, Rev. J. L. M. Young, and I. D. Foulon.
37, is Mossville,
The address of Rev.
M. Merrick, page
On page
The
38,
to D. G. Perrine, and A. changed to Wauconda*.
Rev. should be prefixed to J. C. Robertson, and A. B. affixed M- to Rev. Joseph Mountain, whose address is
true address of G.
W.
Guunisou, page
H. Bradt, Fremont, Min., and of Rev. John
39, is Shenaudoah, Io.; J. Keeler, Mt. Sterling.
of
W.
The name of Rev. Henry W. Tate, B. I)., Newton Centre, Mass., should be added to page 40, and B. D., Centre should be erased after J. T. Covcl, A. B., as he is not a graduate from Theology, and his address is New York city, N. Y. M. D. should be affixed to H. T. Burnap, and the address of Rev. A. H. Post is Victor, Io.
A. M., B. D., should be affixed to Rev.
J.
B. English, page
41."
indicating decease, should also be prefixed to Hon. Win. B. Loomis, E. J. Bement and S. B. Henderson, page 23; to George Gilbert, page 24; Albertes Silsbe, page 27; Chas. F. Dandridge, and Rev. Thomas W. Greene, page 28; to W. Chatham, page 32; Rev. B. F. Goldsby, page 33; to S. Chatham and John E. Phillips, page 36; and to Hon. N. B. Shurtleff,
*,
The
page
45.
S., in index, page 56, should read H. S. After several months of extensive correspondence, sending out of proof sheets, and waiting for corrections, the foregoing are all the ERRATA we have been able to discover, and hence suppose the Catalogue to be, at this date, September 3rd, 1877, as correct as it is possible to make it, with any reasonable amount of time and effort.
Spauldiug, J.
CO
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JUBILEE ANNIVERSARY.
HISTORICAL ADDRESS
POEM,
DELIVERED AT
-
ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT
UPPER ALTON,
ILL..
JUNE
10-14, 1877
ALT03,
ILL.:
DAILY TELEGRAPH STEAM PBIXT.
The
tion of
Fiftieth year of this Pioneer School of the West, and oldest InstituLearning in the Mississippi Valley, was celebrated with special Com-
memorative exercises in connection with the Annual Commencement of the College, June 10-14, 1877. The Baccalaureate Sermon of the President of the College, Rev. A. A. Keudrick, D. D., delivered on Sunday morning before a large and appreciative audience, befittiugly led the programme. It was an able exposition of the clause in the Lord's prayer "For Thine is the Kingdom." At night Rev. Galusha Anderson, D. D., of Chicago, preached the Annual Sermon before the Illinois Baptist Education Society, eloquently and forcibly setting forth the need of more and better educated preachers of the
:
gospel.
The Examinations of classes, that had commenced the previous week, were continued through the day sessions of Monday and Tuesday, and the competent committee appointed to attend upon them, pronounced the same
highly satisfactory. On Tuesday occurred also a special, and on Wednesday the regular aumttl meeting of the Board of Trustees. In view of the all-absorbing financial question, the chief interest of these meetings was centered in the
Agent of the college, who, for almost eighteen months had been devoting himself to raising funds for the relief and endowment of the college. From this report it appeared that subscriptions, cash and pledges had been secured to the amount of $85,370.
report of Dr. G. J. Johnson, the Financial
Of
this
sum
were
in interest bearing notes
over $27,000 had already been paid in. Of the balance $33,000 some of them however being at a low rate
rate of interest,
much
ed.
There were $25,000 in pledges, and condition that the $100,000 are securIt was the unanimous conviction of the Board, as expressed in their
and for a long time.
of this
sum was promised upon
discussions of this report, that, in view of the financial stringency and general dullness in business prevalent throughout the country, this was an
exceedingly gratifying exhibit, and all expressed an earnest desire that the Agent, that they believed was called of Providence to engage in the work, should continue in it, at least till the $100.000 were completely secured.
The following were

wit
:
elected to
fill
Prof. Ebenezer Marsh,
W.
vacancies in the Board of Trustees, toT. Norton, Esq., and Rev. Thomas G.
66
Field, of Alton
ville,
;
Hon.
Silas L.
Bryan, Salem
Hon. Samuel Wood, JacksonHon. Daniel B. Gilham, of

Morrill, of
and Rev.
W. W. Boyd,
of St. Louis.
Upper Alton, was elected President of the Board, and Rev. D. same place, Secretary.
On Monday evening an able Commemorative Address, as published following, was delivered by Rev. Samuel Baker, D. I)., of the Alton Theological Seminary in the year 1837, at present of Russellville, Ky., and Tuesday
night the Oration before the Literary Societies was pronounced by Rev. Daniel Read, LL. D., for fourteen years President of the College, and now
resident in Brooklyn, N. Y., and a Poem read by Rev. C. A. Hobbs, of Mason City and Class of 1868. An able reporter of the occasion said : "Dr.
Read's oration was an eloquent and masterly review of the duty and mission of the scholar. pleasant mingling of eloquence and humor abounded in Mr. Hobbs' poem, which was greatly enjoyed and did credit to the author
and the occasion."
Wednesday was a day of deep and thrilling interest to a large collection of Alumni, patrons and friends of the College, old and young, who had gathered from far and near to attend upon the special Jubilee exercises, for
whiclfthis day had been set apart.
Dr. Johnson, by special request, acted as presiding officer of the day, and the devotional exercises were conducted by Rev. N. A. Reed, D.D., of Dr. Johnson then Centralia, and Rev. A. Sherwood, D. D., of St. Louis.
presented a carefully prepared sketch of the origin of Rock Spring Seminas Alton Sentary-, and its subsequent removal and location at Upper Alton
under the joint labors of Dr. Jonathan Going, of Worcester, Mass., and Dr. B. P. Edwards, of Edwardsville, 111. He next exhibited the pages of the 'American Baptist Magazine for 1826, containing a report made by Dr. Peck, of funds gathered by him in that year, in New England and Ne.w York, to the'amount of about $1,200, for the purpose of the establishment of the school, and also the Magazine for the following year, 1827, giving an account of t the organization of the Board of Trustees, January 1, and tfien
inary,
a plain picture of the Rock Spring Seminary school building, sketched by Mr. Henry Peck, of California, youngest son of the founder of the school
;
also a
page from the registry of pupils, giving the names of the

:
first
four-
teen pupils who entered the school at its opening, November 1, 1827, and a copy of Dr. Peck's paper, the Pioheer, the first newspaper ever published in the State of Illinois, and on the first printing press ever set up
lastly
on
at
Illinois soil.
In this paper exhibited mention was made of the Seminary

as the
first
Rock Spring
Dr. S.
II.
institution of learning established in Illinois
above the grade of u a
common
or primary school.
Ford, of St. Louis, gave a very interesting address on the "Character, Life and Educational Work of Dr. Peek," the speaker having known him well and been intimately associated with him for many years.
Mrs. M. P. Lemen,'of~Salem, who was a member of Dr. Peck's family at the tune of the suspension of Rock Spring Seminary, and subsequently
taught a private school in the building, gave a most interesting account of
the actors and scenes of those early clays, and of the transfer of the inary to the new location.
67
Sem-
Mr. Lewis H. Scanlancl, of Normal, and Mr. Wm. II. Rider, of Jacksonboth students of Rock Spring Seminary at its opening and for several years after, wese next introduced, and gave interesting reminiscences of the school and its teachers, and were followed by Prof. Wm. Whitney, of
ville,
Granville, Ohio, who came, forty-seven years ago, from Dr. Malcom's church in Boston, 1,800 miles away, and a portion of the distance on foot,
to attend
upon the
institution at
Rock
through
Alton.
its last
years and until
its
Spring. He was in the Seminary suspension with reference to removal to
letter from Dr. J. G. Warren, of Newton Centre, Mass., was read, ex. pressing deep interest in Shurtleff College and its Jubilee, and regret at his inability to attend, and hoping that full justice would would be done to the
of those giants, Drs. Peck and Going. Services of Dr. Jonathan Going/' prepared by Rev. Frank B. Cressy, of Detroit, Michigan, of the clas of 1865,
memory
An interesting paper on the "Educational
and grandson of Dr. Going, was read by Dr. Castle, for twenty-two years a popular Professor, in Shurtleff college, and formerly a student of Dr. Going A touching tribute of the memory of Dr. B. F. Edin Granville college. waads was also paid by Dr. Johnson, as it was mainly through his influence, sustained by Dr. Going, that Rock Spring Seminary had been removed and the present location chosen. Dr. Edwards' loss was exceedingly deplored, as his connection of fifty years as a Trustee at the beginning and then cpntinuously on for about twenty-five years, and to the end a devoted friend of the college, would have made his presence on this jubilee 'day specially valuable. But, with all the other original founders of the institution, he
was now gone. At this point an adjournment was made to the grove on the college campus, where a liberal collation was enjoyed. In the afternon, Hon. Cyrus Edwards,. venerable and infirm, the now oldest first living trustee, and one of the charter members of the school at Alton, spoke, eloquently and grandly, and closed by proposing to give, in addition to his former munificent gifts, $1,000 more to make up the $15,000 yet wanted to complete the proposed $100,000. Rev. Mr. Boyd, of St. Louis, the last elected and youngest trustee, followed with words that cheered and
Rev. Adiel Sherwood, D. D., the veteran of over fourfirst President of the college, in 1841-5, spoke congratulation and encouragement, and was followed by Dr. Read, President in 1856-70, on the patrons of the past, as H. N. Kendall, Elijah Gove, Dr. E. Marsh, Sr., who all were now dead, and of Cyrus Edwards and others who were living. Rev. J. Bulkley, D. D., of the class of 1874, and present
thrilled all hearts.
score and six years, and the
Professor of Theology in the College, spoke of the teachers of by-gone days, honoring the names of Hubbel Loomis, President of the Alton Seminary, Zenas B. Newman, Professor in Alton College, Warren Leverett, of Shurtleff College, as
well as Dr. Sherwood and Prof. Washington Leveret,
still
living.
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Rev. Henry L. Field, of class of 1866, spoke a few kind words of attachfor his Alma Mater, and volunteered the pledge of $1,000 additional and contribution, if the whole $100,000 proposed should be early raised was followed by stirring words from other Alumni, as Rev. J. L. M. Young, of class of 1868; Rev. M. D. Bevan, of 1865, Rev. George JQme, of 1864; Rev. J. H. Mize, and others. But it will not be possible to follow all the addresses made and letters read from students present and absent which crowded the three short hours of the afternoon session, nor even to give a list of the speeches made .or
ment
the letters read from friends representing nearly all parts of the land. Suffice it to say the Jubilee Day will long be a pleasant memory with all who
enjoyed
it.
An Alumni Reunion
occupied the closing hours at night session, intro-
duced with an address by Willard A. Smith, Esq., of Chicago, and followed by a banquet, a general conference and congratulations that continued to a
late hour.
The Commencement proper on Thursday constituted the " last great day of the feast," and befittinsrly closed the Anniversary. After the orations of the graduating class, which were all of a high order, Rev. "William C.
Richards, Ph. D., of Lawndale, read the Jubilee Poem. For nearly three quarters of an hour his melodious chimes rang forth for the entertainment of the vast congregation. Nothing could have been more suited as a finale to the grand occasion.
The Farewell Address
of the President to the graduating class, the con-
ferring of Degrees in course, and the honorary A. M. Weir, Esq., of Belleville, and of LL. D. upon Prof.
upon Marshall W.
C. Hewitt, President of Illinois State Normal University, the reading of a telegram from Rev. W. W. Boyd, of St. Louis, proposing the give $1,000, if $15,000 more were raised and the whole $100,000 secured, with a benediction by
Edwin
Dr. Sherwood closed the Jubilee Anniversary of Shurtleff College. As the excellent reporter of these exercises for The Standard, of Chicago, happily concluded his account, so will all the friends say "Long wave old Shurtle.$\
:
and may
she live to see yet
a thousand Jubilees more."
HISTORICAL ADDRESS.
BY REV. SAMUEL BAKER,
In ray address on
this occasion, I
D. D.
propose to give you some sketches of history relating to the progress of civilization, religion, and education in the Central Valley of the Mississippi with particular reference to the growth of religion and education in Illinois and neighboring States, among the
;
Baptists,
and the connection of
this
growth with the history of Shurtleff

ILLINOIS
College.
EARLY TIMES IN INDIANA,
AND MISSOURI.
history of any country will be very much influenced by the characMuch is said and written of the character of the Angloter of its religion.
The
Saxons, of their wonderful enterprise, perseverance, success, of their wisdom and grasp of plan, and their indomitable vigor to accomplish. But all
history will bear out the assertion that it is their Protestantism, and not their Anglo-Saxonixm, that has been the source of their peculiar characteristics.
In the uniform influence of Protestant principles
is
to be
found the
explanation of all that they have been and done. The tendency of Romanism has always been to degrade the manners, to keep men in ignorance, to
their pockets, to check the noble aspirings of thought, and to extinguish the holy ilanie of liberty. In the early history of this country, there seemed to be a strong proba-
empty
bility, that
the predominant influence in the Great Valley of the Mississippi
would be papal, and that Rome would have ample opportunity in this New World to compensate herself for her losses in the Old World. Next to. the Indians, the earliest settlers in the territory embraced in the States of Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, were of that faith, and papal governments claimed to
have the dominion in this vast region, and had that dominion continued, it must have given character to the population. Towards the close of the seventeeenth century, the French, from Canada, began to make settlements on this section of the Mississippi. Kaskaskia was founded shortly after the visit of LaSalle to the Mississippi, in 1683, by Father Gravier, a catholic missionary among the Illinois, and was the capital of the Illinois country, so long as the French continued in possession of it. Cahokia was settled by the French- about the same time. Fort Chartres, in
Randolph county, Illinois, was originally built by the French, in 1720, to defend themselves against the Spaniards, who were then in possesIt was rebuilt in 1756. sion of the country on the Mississippi. Vincennes,
hi Indiana,
was
settled
by the French
in 1735.
By
the treaty of Fontaiu-
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blcau, the 3rd of
HISTORICAL ADDRESS.
November, 1762, between Great Britain, France, Spain, and Portugal, the regions east of the Mississippi, including all the various towns on the north-west, were given up to Great Britain, and in 1765, Capt. Sterling, in the name of the Majesty of England, took possession of Fort Chartros, and issued a proclamation, promising freedom of religious worship to the western Catholics, a right to leave the country, if they wished, or remain, with the privileges of Englishmen. In 1778, the fort on the east side of the river at Kaskaskia, was taken by Col. George Rogers Clark.
were formed by the French on Camndelet was settled in 1767. Ste. Genevieve was settled at an early day by the French, and in 1771, contained a population of four hundred and sixty, beside blacks. The present site of the great city of St. Louis was chosen by Laclede, on the 15th of FebruIt was settled as a trading station for the trappers of the West. ary, 1764. Up to 1820, the number of the people had not reached 5,000. It Avas Earned by Laclede in honor of Louis ,15th of France. In 1768 (August llth), Rious and his band of Spanish troops took possession of the place, in belater period, the settlements
At a somewhat
the western side of the Mississippi.
half of her Catholic'' Majesty of Spain, who kept -possession until transferred to the United States, March 26th, 1804.
.
it
was
What is now Missouri was formerly Upper Louisiana, and at an early period all the territory included under the name of Louisiana, was held to be under the dominion of the French. And the French claimed to include
lish colonies.
in this country of Louisiana, all the vast territory that lay west of the EngIn April, 1763, Franca by a secret treaty, ceded Louisiana to
Spain.
On
the 1st of October, 1800, a treaty
was signed
at St. Ildefonso,
between France and Spain, by which Louisiana was to be conveyed to Napoleon. This was confirmed, and reiterated in the treaty of Madrid, March France thus became master, a second time, of this territory. 21st, 1801.
Bonaparte, to prevent the English from making a conquest of this
terri-
Without any knowledge of tory, determined to sell it to the United States. this intention, President Jefferson despatched Mr. Monroe to negotiate for Island of Orleans. arriving in France, Mr. Monroe was surprised to
On
French determined to sell the whole of Louisiana and the only matter to be settled was the amount to be paid for it. On the 30th of April, 1803, the treaty of cession was signed by the commissioners, by
learn that the
;
which, the United States gave eighty million ef francs, for the territory, deducting twenty millions for spoliations upon our commerce. When the deeds of transfer were signed, the commissioners, Barbi Marbois, Mr. Livingston and Mr. Monroe, were so transported with joy, that they rose and grasped each others hands with the utmost enthusiasm. Mr. Livingston is " We have lived said to have exclaimed, long, but this is the noblest work of our lives. The treaty which we have just signed, has not been obtained by art, nor dictated by force. Equally advantageous to both parties, it will change vast solitudes into flourishing districts. The United States will reestablish the maritime rights of all the world, now usurped by a single nation. The instruments we have signed, will cause no tears to be shed.
They prepare
ages of happiness for innumerable generations of
human
HISTORICAL ADDRESS.
creatures."
71
Ildefouso, and
required to execute the treaty of St. joint action of the representatives of the French and Spanish ^'governments, both Lower and Upper Louisiana were transferred to
The Spaniards were-now

by the
the United States, and became part of our
common
territory.
In 1783, at the close of the Revolutionary war, the Illinois country was yielded to the Uuited^States, and by the ordinance of 1787, the whole public domain north of the Ohio river was erected into the Northwestern Territory under a single government.
souls.
In 1800 the territory contained 50,240
Ohio was erected into a separate State, and what is now Indiana and Illinois was formed into a Territory, called the Indiana
year,
The same
Territory.
In 1805, the Territory of Michigan was formed. The Illinois Territory at. that time, included what are now the States of Illinois, Wisconsin and a part of Minnesota.
As these territories had been rescued from papal domination, and now were under a free government that protected all in the free exercise of their religion, they were rapidly settled by emigrants from almost every part of the United States and among the rest were to be found Baptist families, here and there scattered, in most of these remote and wide-spread regions.
;
At the commencement of the present century, a few
Baptists emigrated Illinois in 1805 was to the territory now included in the State of Indiana. erected into a separate territory. Virginia organized a civil government here, and Ninian Edwards, at that time Chief Justice of Kentucky, was appointed
Territorial Governor. This opened the way for American emigration, and even as early as 178G, a number of families had settled on the American Bottom, and in the hill country of what is now called Monroe county. They came chiefly from Western Virginia and Kentucky. The Baptist were the first Protestant Christians to enter this region. In 1787, Elder James Smith, a Baptist minister from Kentucky, made them a visit and
few families from their first setpreached the gospel with, good effect. tlement, had been in the habit of keeping the Sabbath, governing their
children,
and holding meetings for religious purposes. At that period there were none who had been members of churches. Their method of observing the Sabbath was to meet, sing hymns, and one would read the ScripIn 1794, some of this number were tures, or a sermon from some author. baptiseu by Elder Josiah Dodge from Kentucky. Five brothers from one of these families became Baptist preachers and in 1796, the New Design Baptist Church was constituted of twenty-eight members, with Elder David Badgeley, (who had removed his family from Virginia to this land of prom;
ise),
as their pastor.
the Baptists were the protestant pioueers, and have an undoubted "pre-emption right" to Missouri. As early as 1796 and '97, a number of Baptist families emigrated from North and South Carolina and Kentucky to Upper Louisiana, now Missouri, and lived for several years under the Spanish government. The Romish religion only was then tolerated by law, but the commandants, disposed to encourage emigration from the United States, did not molest them. John Clark, Thomas R. Musick, and a man by the
And
name
of
Brown, and perhaps other
ministers, penetrated to the frontier set-
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HISTORICAL ADDEESS.
tlements, and sought out and fed these scattered sheep in the wilderness. They were frequently threatened with the Galaboza, (the Spanish prison,)
but through the lenity of the commandants were permitted to escape. Their little meetings were quite refreshing to the pilgrim settlers, surrounded as they were by the rites and laws of Romanism. In these times of restriction,
St. Louis,
Abraham Musick
an
applied to Zeno Trudeau, the
commandant
at
officer quite friendly to the Protestant emigrants, for leave to
have preaching in his house. The commandant was inclined to favor the Americans secretly, but compelled to reject all such petitions openly, and replied'promptly, that such a petition could not be granted. "I mean," said he, " that you must not put a bell on your house, and call it a churcJi, nor suffer
any person to christen your children but the parish priest. But if any of your friends choose to meet at your house, sing, pray, and talk about religion, you will not be molested, provided you continue, as I believe you are good Christians." He knew that as Baptists, they would dispense with the rite of infant baptism, and that plain "backwoods" people, as they were,
could find their
way
to their meetings without the sound of the
"church
going bell." This was quite
liberal for a
Romanist, but
fell
far short of the liberty
which the early Baptists of Rhode Island gave to those who differed from them. In England, from whence they came, dissenters from the Established Church, have ever been forbidden the use of bell or spire. Rhode Island Baptists laid claim to no such monopoly, and when the First Baptist Church of Providence had erected the first elegant structure owned as a meeting house by the Baptists of America, they had cast, and suspended in that building a bell on which was inscribed the following motto
:
planted, towi^was Persuasion, not force, was used by the people; This church is the eldest and has not recanted, Enjoying and granting J>ell, temple, aiid steeple."
" For freedom
of conscience the
first
Catholics sometimes baptise their bells before they suspend them in their churches, and in one of the prayers used on such occasions, they pray that the sound of these bells may drive away tempests, make the fiery darts of
the devil to fiy backwards, and that the devil may always flee before the sound thereof, and such an important means of grace should not be denied
to any.
THE EARLY PREACHERS OF ILLINOIS AND MISSOURI.

For a considerable time
after emigrants
began to
settle
in this vast terri-
tory, the religious institutions of this region remained in a rude and irreguPublic religious worship was observed in any neighborhood lar condition.
only at long intervals, and then under charge of roving preachers, who, ranging over immense tracts of territory, and living on their horses and in the huts of the settlers, called the people together under trees or cabin roofs, and spoke to them simply of the great truths of Christianity. The preach-
were peculiar persons, made so by the peculiarity of their circumstances and pursuits. And the simple addresses of these humble and devoted itinerants were often blessed of God in a most remarkable manner.
ers themselves
HISTORICAL ADDRESS.
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honor.
In most respects, the Baptist Ministers of that period are worthy of all Deficient as they were in a liberal education, the Baptist ministry
in this region, at that time, as approved by the whole community, did by their self-sacrifices and arduous labors, accomplish great things for God.
They spread the truths and influences of the gospel into every settlement, and to the remotest frontier. These pioneers in a vast multitude of cases, performed this warfare at their own charges. The Baptist Ministry of that period, with some exceptions perhaps, were pre-eminently adapted to those In their pritimes, and to the people, and the condition of the country. vate character they were distinguished for their piety and good practical common sense as preachers they were faithful and laborious, and some of them were endowed with talents, which had they been cultivated, would have
;
raised their possessors to the highest degree of eminence. Springing directly from the bosom of the people, they did not forget or despise their origin they mingled familiarly with all classes, understood the prevailing habits of
;
thought and feeling, and with brotherly interest entered into whatever affected the humblest individual among the simple-hearted settlers. No
course of academical training, peculiar to themselves, and needlessly superior to 'that of the most favored among their hearers, elevated them
above the reach of the popular sympathies, and made them a distinct and uncongenial class in the community. At the same time they were far from being deficient in native "energy of mind, or insensible to
their
weighty
responsibilities as the public servants of Christ.
Some
of
them were hard
students of the
Scriptures, closely
One Book, wonderfully enlightened in the observant of characters and events, and habituated to
They kept in advance of their flocks in useful knowledge, and were clear in doctrine, rich in experience, and "apt to teach." The sensible piety, the ardent zeal, the laborious benevolence of these men, gained them universal confidence. "The common people heard them gladly." Their shrewdness, sagacity, and foresight, were of incalculable
munities.
reading and meditation.
value in shaping alike the social and the religious system of the infant comThe influences of their healthful counsel? are seen all around us,
even at the present day. They planted the churches which you now water. They labored, and you have entered into their labors. They, under God, laid the foundation's of our social and religious prosperity, and the names of those good men should be had in everlasting remembrance. Such having been the character of the Pioneer Ministers of this region, it was quite
them to disperse abroad. The yeomanry of a people in a new country naturally move onward until they .have spread themselves over the whole face of the country, and such precisely was the course of our ministers. As cultivation and refinement advanced, their ministry became less
natural for
acceptable in town and city, and consequently, they naturally moved onward with the tide of population to the more newly settled parts of the country. And thus we account for the fact, that the Baptist denomination
are dispersed over the
whole
territory of the United States.
In this part of
our history of mercy.
we mark the hand of Providence, and see in it special designs Had our ministry possessed a different character, though en-
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riclied
HISTORICAL ADDRESS.
with the choicest stores of learning and refinement, they might not have been either willing or able to encounter the necessary hardships attendant on their keeping pace with the march of population.
The circumstances
of the country have
now become
changed, and conse-
quently, the prospects of an unlearned ministry, have been reversed. The progress of intelligence and of general improvement in this region has been inconceivably rapid; this State, (and this is also true of the neighboring
States,) has outgrown, with marvellous rapidity, its ruder conditions, and become populous and powerful. In sections of this State, which but a few years since were an undisturbed wilderness, cities and villages have sprung up with unheard of frequency, and have become centers of wealth and inAn educated community will have an telligence, and of cultivated taste. educated ministry, and if one denomination will not supply the demand another will, and that denomination which fails in this work, must yield the
ground
tion,
tire
it now occupies to others. Hence, there is left to us as a denominabut one alternative, which is either to cultivate our ministry, or to reand leave the field to others. If we would go forward and prosper,
we must have
a pious and an intelligent ministry.
ALIENATION AND DIVISION AMONG THE CHURCHES.

Prior to 1820, the early pioneer preachers in Illinois held almost undisputed sway over the religious portion of the people. Soon after, when a more
refined
and better educated ministry
considerable extent
by the missionary
settled in the country, sustained to a societies and associations at the East,
and essayed to establish churches, bible and schools, they encountered no little opposition.
tract
societies
and Sunday
It is true, that
among
the
Baptists this opposition did not develop itself all at once. The "Illinois United Baptist Association" was formed as early as 1812. and the subject
of both Foreign and Domestic Missions

in 1818,
was introduced
into this Association
and met with approbation, and a
and educational purposes was recommended the Bethel and Missouri Associations west of Mississippi the same autumn. This organization was called "The United Society for the spread of the Gospel." Its object was "to aid in spreading the gospel and promoting common schools in the western parts of America, both amongst the whites and Indians." The missionaries employed to preach to the destitute in Illinois were David Badgley and William Jones. Elder Jones engaged in this work for a short period, and Elder Badgley labored as an itinerant missionary for two months, and received" for this service sixteen dollars per month* Prejudices, however, soon sprung up, and these good brethren, with many others, were brought to occupy anti-missionary ground, and the Illinois Association, to which they belonged, declared non-fellowship with all engaged in missionary operations. When one of these opposers of missions was called upon publicly to state his objections to missionaries, it is said he re" We don't care plied to the following effect: anything about missionaries that's gone amongst the heathen, 'way off yonder. But what do they come among us for? We don't want them here in Illinois. You know, brother
social organization for mission to be formed in conjunction with
HISTORICAL ADDRESS.
;
75
Moderator, the big tree in the wood overshadows the little ones and these missionaries will be all great, learned men, and the people will all go to
hear them preach, and we shall be put down, that's the objection." The lender of the opposition party to missions in Indiana and Illinois, was Daniel Parker, a native of Lawrence county, Tennessee. He was the author of
"Two Seed Doctrine," as taught in his writings. He sets out with the postulate that God never made a creature that will suffer eternal misery. All the elect were created in Christ Jesus from eternity; consequently
the
when they
their debt or
Adam, Christ was bound by covenant engagement to pay redeem them. These were the children of the kingdom the good seed and they would be saved from sin and all its consequences, and be happy forever as the bride of Christ. The non-elect are literally, and in fact, the children of the devil, begotten in some mysterious manner of Eve, as manifested in the person of Cain. These constitute the bad seed, and
fell in
with their father, the devil, will perish without mercy or hope. On these leading principles Mr. Parker built a tolerably extensive system. Of course the devil, as the. author of evil, always existed, yet God, as the Supreme Behas him under his power, and will destroy him and all his works. The parable of the tares and many other passages of Scriptures- were relied on to support this strange doctrine. These notions, though somewhat modified, have been propagated to some extent in several Western States, but are now
ing,
lish his
almost forgotten Parker, ambitious to distinguish himself, sought to pubviews in the Columbian Star, a paper then published in Washington
.
The editor City, associated in the conduct 'of the missionary enterprise. not only refused to publish his views, but ridiculed them as immodest and
preposterous. This gave Parker mortal offense, and from that time forth he became the foe of missions and ministerial education. These vagaries,
of course, had the effect of causing dissensions in the ministry.
According to Parker, the mission principle is the prophetic beast, which as described in Revelation, chapter 13th, John saw coming up out of the earth, and which "gives life or law power to the image it is making,
to the
first
beast and
it
arises as out of the Bottomless Pit,
makes war
with, and kills the church and her ministry, which will lay the spirit and the word, (the two witnesses), inactive and dormant. Then no doubt there will be great rejoicing with all the workers of iniquity ; but in a short time, to their sad surprise and eternal confusion the God of Zion will raise
his
two witnesses to more splendid light, power, and glory, to the final overthrow of all their enemies." (Benedict's History of Baptists, p. 788.) Such were the sentiments preached by Baptist Ministers in Illinois fifty years ago. But few men have exerted a wider influence than that, which for a series of years, Parker exerted on the lower and less educated classes of frontier people. In 1818, he removed from Tennessee to Crawford county, Illinois. " he sinIt is said of him, by one who knew him well, possessed a mind of gular and original cast. In doctrine he was an Antiuomian from the first, but he could describe the process of conviction, and the joys of conversion, and of dependence on God, with .peculiar feeling and effect. This kind of the preaching was calculated to take a strong hold on the hearts and gain
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HISTORICAL ADDRESS.
confidence of a class of pious, simple-hearted Christians, of but little religious intelligence and reading. He fully believed, and produced the impression on the others, that he spoke by immediate inspiration. At times, his mind seemed to rise above its own powers, and he would discourse for a few moments on the divine attributes or some doctrinal subject, with such
and force and correctness of language, as would asThen again, it would seem as though he was perfectly bewildered in a mist of abstruse subtleties. But with a zeal and enthusiasm bordering on insanity, firmness that amounted to obstinancy, and perseverance that would have done honor to a good cause, Daniel Parker exerted himself to the utmost to induce the churches Avithin his range to declare non-fellowship with all Baptists who united with any missionary or other benevolent (or as he called them, new f angled) societies.
brilliancy of thought,
tonish
men
of education and talents.
The
diana and
blighting influence of his ministrations was widely felt both in InIllinois, producing alienation and divisions, both in churches and
By his influence in 1824, the Illinois Association declared a virtual non-fellowship with missionary operations and similar declarations were made by other Associations at subsequent periods. Colleges a'nd theoassociations.
" men made preachers," logical seminaries, and, as he called them, shown no mercy by Parker, but how different might have been his
were
own
history, had he, while a young man, enjoyed the advantages of higher secular and theological training. It would have saved him from the wild
vagaries that characterized his ministrations, and given a right direction to his ministerial influence.
JOHN MASON PECK AND MISSIONARY OPERATIONS.
How
of
striking the contrast

!
John Mason Peck
terary and theological
between the life of Daniel Parker and the life John Mason Peck enjoyed the advantages of a littraining only in a very limited degree, but what ad-
vantages he had, he sought to improve to the utmost. He received his elementary education in the common school in his own native Connecticut, he made farther advance in the several branches of an English education, while
devoting himself to the vocation of a school teacher; he endeavored, without the help of an instructor, to gain some knowledge of the Greek and Latin languages, and for a short period he received instruction in these lan-
guages from a very able teacher, Mr. Barnes, then of Poughkeepsie, New York. After this, far several months, he received literary and theological instruction from the distinguished Dr. Staughtou, of Philadelphia, than
whom
no man ever had more capability for bringing out and strengthening and polishing whatever there was in his pupils susceptible of improvement. But it does not turn altogether upon the amount of time spent in college If one is ever really eduhalls, whether a man is an educated man or not. cated at all, in one sense, he is self-educated. It is only in the voluntary exercise of his mental powers that he gains development and discipline of these powers. John Randolph said, "Put a blockhead through college, and the more books you pile on his head the bigger blocktead he will be." A man has to educate himself, no matter how numerous and advantageous his And then, in another sense, no man is self-educated. Even those helps.
HISTOKICAL ADDKESS.
77
who never had a teacher, if they really become educated men, have been educated by books, (teachers who, being dead, yet speak ;) by the men with whom they converse by the events which lead them to think, which draw
out their powers into active exercise, by the ideas which are abroad in the atmosphere of their time. This self-education in most cases, is acquired
very slowly, and the great advantage to be derived from our colleges and schools of learning is, that the facilities they afford and the mental training they give, secure that mental development and discipline in three or four
years,
which otherwise
it
would,
in ordinary case?, take
more than a score

instead
of years to acquire.
John M. Peck was an educated man
his
mind was widened out
of being narrow-minded, he could take broad views he could see the different sides of a question he had the power of patient thinking he could fasten his mind on a subject and hold it there at pleasure his judgment
was sound, he knew how
to reason to right conclusions,

;
and so to argue as
was right and he could express his thoughts He was then, truly an educated man, as this educaclearly and forcibly. tion had much to do in qualifying him for that eminent usefulness to which
to convince others that he
"A wise man," said Solomon, "is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength." (Prov. 24: 5.) From the beginning of his public career till the close of his life, John M. Peck was willing to labor any where, in any department, and with anybody, if he might be useful.
he attained.
At the commencement of 1818, tion with his true yoke-fellow,

bors,
we find him in St. Louis, where, in connecJames E. Welch, he begins his pioneer la-
under -the auspices of the Baptist Triennial Missionary Convention. These two brethren, at that early period, taught a school in that city, and preached the Gospel there, and soon a Baptist church was constituted. After two or three years, Mr. Peck commenced school operations in St. Charles, Mo. But he never confined himself to teaching his principal work was to work much time was preach the gospel, and in carrying on this
;
spent in missionary explorations, in itinerant labors among the destitute, and preaching Christ to the scattered pioneer dwellers in the wilderness. After two years labor, the Board of Triennial Convention discontinued their mission at St. Louis; and in March, 1822, Mr. Peck received an appointment as the missionary of the Massachusetts Baptist Missionary
Society.
and
its
In 1832, the American Baptist Home Mission Society was formed Executive Board was located in New York, and Mr. Peck became
the missionary of that Society.
But the pioneer work of John M. Peck enterprising than could be indicated within the limits of any commission, that it was impossible for any one organizaAfter residing for some time with his family tion to monopolise his labors.
was
so
much wider and more
in St. Charles
and tts vicinity, he came to the conclusion that it would best promote the interests of the mission and cause of Christ for him to settle his family in Illinois. Accordingly in April, 1822, he removed to Rock
Spring,
which henceforth became
his family residence.
But
He
powerful personal influence could not be limited by State lines. has done more to mould the character, not only of the State of Illinois,
his
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HISTORICAL ADDRESS.
but of the Great Mississippi Valley, than any other man v.'ho ever lived. Possessed of wondrous native energy, his powers of mind thoroughly de-
veloped by contact with all classes of men, well informed on almost all subjects, a man with an indomitable will, accompanied with incessant activity, unflinching perseverance, and untiring devotion to the cause of the Re-
deemer; he made himself felt in every department of Christian, educational, and social enterprise throughout the whole West. Was it important in the interests of civilization, that this vast region should be settled by an indusHe prepared and published those popular trious, enterprising population ? books ''Peck's Guide to Emigrants," and "Gazetteer of Illinois;" and " he had led Dr. Lyman Beecher used to say of him, forty years ago, that more families into the West as permanent settlers that any other ten individuals." He did not believe in mixing up politics and religion; but when his duties as a citizen demanded that he should take active part in the poliand Gov. Reynolds tical controversies of his time, he did not shrink back and Gov. Coles, regarded him as the most efficient instrument in preventing Illinois from becoming a slave State in 1823. In his extensive missionary tours, as the country became settled, he found an alarming destitution of the Scriptures, and of every thing like Christian instruction and in this wide and fearful moral- destitution, he saw not only danger to the souls of men; but also danger to the free institutions of the country; and he sought to do all in his power to supply this deficiency of moral and religious instruction. As Agent of the American Bible Society, he explored Missouri, Illinois, and Western Indiana, and supplied county after county, with the Sacred ScripAs Agent of the American Sunday School Union, he devoted nearly tures. as much more time to planting, reviving, and supplying with requisite books the Union Sunday Schools needed in the sparsely settled districts. He found
;
;
scattered
all
bread of
life,
over this vast region many of God's people, destitute of the and multitudes of others not enjoying the preaching of
the Gospel,
which God has made ordinarily necessary to the salvation of in labors more abundantly," and "by journeyings often," he sought, as far as he was able, to supply -this Gospel destitution and as new and feeble churches were constituted from time to time in this destitute He became the defield, the care of these churches came upon him daily. nominational leader hi the Mississippi Valley, in all departments of denominational enterprise. The paper which he founded, " The Baptist Pioneer," was the able advocate of every form of benevolent enterprise and he engaged with equal readiness in the labors of a pastorate, an agency, an editorship, or authorship, with little regard to the exposure and fatigue in" men; and
;
;
volved in the enterprise, or the meagreness of its pecuniary reward. Whenever duty seemed to demand it, he could travel on horse back if necessary,
the distance to New York and New England, to repout to Christians the pressing religious wants of the great valley of the Mississippi, and to plead for men and means for the enlightenment and evangelization of the mighty West and then he would return to encounter again all the hardship of
all
;
frontier
life,
on
his chosen field of labor
service of his master.
While, as
we have
and to wear himself out in the seen, there were some Baptist
HISTORICAL ADDRESS.
Ministers,
79
who turned to him the cold shoulder, and declared non-fellowship with him because of his advocacy of missions, there were other frontier preachers who sympathized with him, and rejoiced to co-operate with him. This was the case with James Pulliam, the brothers Lemen, and others
among
the pioneer preachers.
Bartleff, Joel Sweet,
And at a later period, Alvin Bailey, Gardner Jacob Earner, E. Dodson, Calvin Greenleaf, Thomas Powell, Isaac Taylor Hinton, and a host of others, too numerous to name, were welcomed by him in the Illinois field, as true " fellow-helpers to the truth." And in Missouri, at an early period, John Clark, Thomas R. Musick, Lewis Williams, Thomas P. Green, Jeremiah Vardeman, Ebenezer Rogers, and many others, were his fellow-laborers in the Gospel. But, with all their excellencies, John M. Peck must always fill the chief place among
these missionary pioneers.
what has God wrought," by these instrumentalities? In 1818, was admitted into the Union, she had a population of 50,2li the census was taken in 1870, she had a population of 2,539,891. In 1835, one year after I came to this State, there were in Illinois, 21 Baptist Associations, 250 churches, 151 ordained Ministers, and 7,112 members. In the American Baptist Year Book for 1877, we have reported for Illinois, 43 Associations, 939 churches, 693 ordained ministers, and a total membership of 67,271. In 1835, there were in Missouri, 16 Baptist Associations, 206 churches, 99 ordained ministers, and 7,831 members. In 1877, Missouri reports 69 Associations, 1,443 churches, 771 ordained ministers, and a total membership of 90,364. In 1835, there were in Indiana, 24 Baptist AssociaIn 1877, tions., 358 churches, 162 ordained ministers, and 13,058 members. the Baptist Year Book reports for Indiana, 30 Associations, 562 churches, 349 ordained ministers, and a total membership of 40,015.
"And
when when
Illinois
Illinois is no longer an uncultivated waste. No other State in the Union has a larger proportion of rich arable land, and it is no wonder that her terThis State has become a power in the ritory has been filled up so rapidly.
good or evil must be great in the nation at large. improvement, and her own influence in exalting the character of the nation, depends upon the prevalence and power of righteousness for righteousness alqne can exalt a nation.
land, and
its
influence for
Her own growth
in social
The "Anti-Mission," or "Hard-Shell Baptists," have long since become a declining people, and there is every probability that they will continue thus to decline to complete extinction, or to an existence which is a living death.
Their history gives evidence of the trnth that faith without works is dead, and that high orthodoxy without the grace of diffusiveness is barren. The mission cause, to which John M. Peck cheerfully devoted forty years of hard service, is continuing to wax stronger and stronger. It is the cause of
God, and His word and oath are pledged that
it
shall live
and prosper.
PROGRESS OF EDUCATION IN ILLINOIS AND VICINITY.
The cause of education
is
closely connected with the healthy existence of
civil society, especially in the form which such society has assumed with us. There is no good ground for faith or hope in the future of this country,
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HISTOKICAL ADDRESS.
only BO long and so far as the people are both intelligent and upright; nor is it possible to preserve the honesty and simple virtues of Republicanism without the means of early mental discipline are provided for all and, if neces;
the successive generations, during the tender and irrepressible years of childhood and youth. The troubles connected with our last Presidential election had their root in a
sary, their use should be
made compulsory by
want of popular intelligence and popular virtue. It is a terrible strain upon any free government to have to carry millions of voters, utterly unqualified by lack of culture and political training, for the proper exercise of the right of suffrage, and so ignorant as to be controlled by unprincipled demagogues. It is absolutely necessary f or a maintainance of the civil order under a system of universal suffrage, that the masses should be educated and hence,
;
the
common
and
life,
school, supported permanence of the State.
has a right to
by taxation, is necessary to the well-being But while the State, in defense of its own support, by taxation, common schools and normal
schools to furnish teachers, its right to go further than this may be questioned. Education, at the expense of the State, should be carried only so far as the great body of tne tax -payers can make it available for their chil-
and hence, it should net extend beyond those common branches which every child can acquire, or be made to acquire. The Illinois Supreme Court has decided that pupils cannot be compelled, in any public school, to study any branch not prescribed by the law which establishes the
dren
;
common
schools.
The
studies so prescribed are,
orthography,
English
reading, writing, arithmetic, English grammar, geography, and United States history. That principle of self-preservation which warrants the State in educating at all, cannot be made to sanction the higher education
of the few at the expense of the many. And common school education should be so administered, as far as possible, as to do no injustice to the
religious convictions of
any tax-payer.
shade of opinion must be respected.
When
Minorities have rights, and every the State has done what is
necessary for its own life, private enterprise must do the rest. icent field is thus left open for far-sighted Christian beneficence
A
;
magnif-
and those
academies and colleges which owe their origin to the voluntary principle, can prosecute the work of instruction free and untrammelled. When voluntaryism in higher education gives us schools under the direction of Christian men and liberally endowed, Christianity will waken up and invigorate all the intellectual energies of our youth, and our colleges will maintain the highest character and become the most useful.
But while education

so
is
so important to create the character a free nation
needs, how is it possible for parents to secure this education while It is hardly possible for us, in our cirsettling a new region of country ? cumstances, to properly estimate the difficulties encountered by the early
much
settlers in Illinois
and the neighboring territories, in attempting to educate very difficult for any one bred in the older communities of the country to appreciate the extreme humility of border life, the meagreness and meanness of its household appointments, and the paucity of its stimulants to mental growth and social development. As a specimen of the
their children.
It is
HISTORICAL ADDKESS.
81
rude condition of the early settlers, take the description which Dr. Holland has given us in his "Life of Abraham Lincoln," page 28, of the furniture of the rude log cabin of Thomas Lincoln, the father of Abraham LinDr. Holland says "The bed in which coln, when he resided in Indiana. the elder Lincolus, and on very cold" nights, the little Lincolns, slept during their first years in Indiana, was one whose radeness will give a key to the
:
kind of life which they lived there. The head and one side of the bedstead were formed by an angle of the cabin itself. The bed-post standing out into the room was a single crotch, cut from the forest. Laid upon this crotch were the ends of two hickory sticks, whose other extremities were morticed into the logs, the two sides of the cabin and the two rails embracing a quadrilateral space of the required dimensions. This was bridged by slats "rived" from the forest log, and on the slats was laid a sack filled with dried leaves. This was, in reality, the bed of Thomas and Nancy Lincoln and into it, when the skins hung at the cabin doorway did not keep out the cold, Abraham and his sister crept for the warmth which their still ruder couch upon the ground denied them."
;
EARLY SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONDITION. In the " Life of John M. Peck," pp. 101, 102, Mr. Peck gives us a description of a log cabin and its furniture, that he came across in Missouri,
that in
its
the early
home of Abraham
was
structure and household appointments, was very far inferior to Lincoln. Another characteristic of these primto be found in their dress.
itive settlers
The men were seen wearing
the coon-skin cap, buck-skin breeches, linsey hunting shirt (secured by a belt, from which hung the inevitable hunting knife), and coon-skin mocca-
home-made woolen and cotton frocks, their and if they went to the religious meeting, some would go barefooted, and if any of them were so rich as to own shoes, they would often carry them in their hands until reaching the
sins.
The women wore
their
heads were covered with handkerchiefs
vicinity of the sanctuary. And we are told that the early judiciary system in Illinois,
.
was
also
Judges quite in keeping with the primitive simplicity of those early days. were not necessarily prodigies in learning or law ; all that the people seemed to require was common sense, and a little sagacity. It is related of a certain Judge, that in a case when asked by the lawyers for information, he " replied: Why, gentlemen, the jury understand the case; no doubt they will do justice between the parties." At another time, when sentencing a man to be hanged, this same Judge said " Mr. Green, the jury in their verdict say you are guilty of murder, and the law says you are to be hung.
:
your friends down on Indian creek to know " And, you, but the jury and the law. then, having asked him what time he would like to be hung, the prisoner replied he was ready to die at any time the Court would appoint, the Judge told him he would give him four weeks to prepare for death. The Prosecuting Attorney reminded the Judge that it was necessary for him to state to the prisoner the particular reasons for sentencing him to death, and admonish him to prepare for the solemn event. " His Honor " replied "Oh,
Now,
want you, and

not I
all
that
it
is
who condemn
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HISTOKICAL ADDRESS.
Mr. Green understands the whole matter as well as though I had preached to him a month he knows he's got to be hung this clay four weeks you " understand that, don't you, Mr. Green ? to which thr- prisoner replied "yes." When Judge Reynolds afterwards Governor was on his first cir
;
cuit, the Sheriff
proclaimed
court," and court

tion.
was
held.
Come in, boys our John is going to hold This was before the days of legal circnlocu;
In
this primitive state of things,
it is
not to be wondered
at,
that but
little
of educating the young. Some of the early settlers had never received any education themselves, and they did not know its value, and they contended that learning only qualified men for dishonesty
in the
was done,
way
and hence they were quite willing thnt their children should grow up to be men and women without it. The father thought it much more important
that his son should be taught how to use his rifle than how to read or write. Some of the early settlers were more enlightened, and sought every oppordifficulties.
tunity to educate their children but in doing this they encountered great I have already alluded to James Lemen, Sen., a native of Vir;
ginia,
and one of the pioneer
settlers in Illinois.
Josiah Dodge,
when
vis-
iting the country on a species of missionary tour, baptised this Mr. Lemen, and this is believed to have been the first administration of the ordinance
within what
tism, Mr.
of the
is now the State of Illinois. A few years subsequent to his bapLemen became a preacher; and five of his sons became ministers gospel. One of his sons, Robert Lemen, gave in "The Pioneer and
Western Baptist," for 1835, "a sketch of the
difficulties-
encountered by the
:
early settlers in Illinois, in attempting to educate their children." He says "In July, 1786, my father moved to this country. few days before his arri-
val at the place intended a family
was murdered by the
Indians.
This
dis-
tressing occurrence made it necessary for the inhabitants, being few in number, to collect together in a small fort, and the only subject in discussion was, how- to devise the best possible means to secure themselves from danger,
while they procured the necessaries of life, which was with great peril, on account of the sword in the wilderness. In this state of things, nothing was said, and but little thought of, about education. It is also to be recol" backlected, that the early settlers in Illinois were chiefly what is called
woods men," who had but

raised
little
or no education themselves, having been
on the
frontiers.
FIEST SCHOOLS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY.
was taught at Bellefoutaine, near Waterloo, by a man by the name of Francis Clarke. Unfortunately for himself and the children, he was an intemperate man, but the people were under the necessity of doing the best they could. The next school was
first
The
school of which I recollect
taught by one Charles O'Hara. He was, by profession, a Roman Catholic, and loved a dram, but all this had to be encountered. Another difficulty was the scarcity of books. Dillworth's spelling book the one most in use
and the currency consisting of deer skins, (specie being out of the question), it was difficult to make change, and children were neglected for the want of books. Some of the reading books were those that
cost one dollar,
HISTORICAL ADDRESS.
83
were- ill suited to the youthful mind, such as the Arabian Nights' EntertainThe man ment, Robinson Crusoe, and the Seven Wise Mistresses.
. .
from whom I received the principal part of my small share of education, was by the name of Thomas Halfpenny. He was an honest, industrious This was unfortunate, as he taught a conteacher, but a poor scholar.
siderable length of time."
The
settlers
Some
of which Mr. Lemen wrote were common to all the early in Southern Indiana, Southern Illinois and Southern Missouri. of the schools at that period were really a public nuisance, and did
difficulties
the people more
some were advantageous

,
harm than good others about balanced the to the community in various degrees.
;
account, and "Not a few
drunken, profane, Worthless Irishmen were perambulating the country, and getting up schools and yet they could neither speak, read, pronounce,
the English language. These agents were encouraged by the priests to go among the people. They loved their poteen dearly and frequently negotiated with the youngsters fora treat." [Life of J. M. Peck,
spell, or write
;
p. 123. I have already spoken of a society, formed in 1818, in connection with the Illinois United Baptist Association, and the Missouri and Bethel Associations in Missouri, whose object was "to aid in spreading the Gospel, and
promoting
common
schools in the Western parts of America, both
among
the whites and the Indians."
In connection with this
United Society,
Brethren Peck and Welch directed their efforts to find out well-qualified teachers, and to recommend them to such settlements as would sustain them a measure fraught with no small benefits to the people. But Mr. Peck was not satisfied with this. For a long time he entertained the conviction, "that one
prime essential for the religious welfare of the West,
was the establishment of a seminary, of a comprehensive and somewhat unique character, where the elements of a good, thorough, practical English education should be open to all on very economical principles, and where teachers of common schools could receive better instruction than many of them had enjoyed; but especially and that was to be its grand peculiarity where ministers of the Gospel, whether young, or farther advanced in years, could come and spend more or less time, according to their several circumstances and exigencies, in learning those things in which their deficiencies were the most painfully felt, pertaining to their great duties in
Peck,
tells
p. 225.)
preaching the Gospel and building up the churches aright." (Life of As one illustration of this want of education, Mr. Peck
of one worthy brother and successful preacher at the West, so ignorant of our language that he would speak of our Savior as descending into heaven, and pray that the Lord would degenerate the hearts of sinners. (Bap. Me-
"I cannot bear," said Mr. Peck, "that our preachers ) and Missouri should continue as ignorant as some of them now There are some who wish to improve their minds, and gain useful are. learning. Young men who commence preaching with very inadequate education will avail themselves of such a school, with immense benefit to themselves and the cause." Mr. Peck, therefore, continued to urge the immorial, 1842, p. 157
in Illinois
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HISTORICAL ADDRESS.
portance of such an institution in the West, and the result of his continued agitation of the subject was that in January, 1827, a meeting of the friends of such an enterprise -was held at Rock Spring, a Board of Trustees was
chosen, and the seminary was located at that place, on land given by Mr. Peck for this purpose. By the end of May a seminary building was erected, and early in September a boarding house was raised, and the first of November, 1827, a
ble father, Rev. Joshua Bradley,
seminary was opened for the admission of pupils. The venerawas made Principal, Mr. Peck, Professor of Theology, and other professors and tutors were secured, so that very soon the number of students flocking to enter and enjoy its advantages far exceeded their most sanguine expectations. The seminary commenced with 25 students of both sexes, which number in a few weeks was increased to 100- At that period no school for boarders, under Protestant direction, existed in Illinois or Missouri.
"Rock Spring
was the
first literary
institution in the State of a higher order than
Theological and High School" a com-
mon or primary
school, and continued four years. During its continuance, 242 youth, male and female, attended as students for various periods of time. Of these, 33 professed to be converted while at the Seminary, and 20 more after leaving it, who received their first serious impressions in the Institution. Including such students as have since commenced the Gospel
who were licensed preachers when they entered the Seminary, and the number is eleven. (Allen's Baptist Register, 1836, p. 83.)* In 1831, the school was closed with the view of its removal to Alton, as the commencement of a college. The Institution opened again in 1832, unministry, with those
name of "Alton Seminary." A charter for a college was granted by the Legislature during the session of 1834-5, under the name of the " Alton of the liberal "donation of ten Illinois.'" In
der the
consequence College of thousand dollars made in 1835, by Dr. Benjamin Shurtleff, of Boston, Mass., " SHURTLEFF COLLEGE the name in the charter has been changed to that of
OF ALTON, ILLINOIS." The subsequent history of this Institution has been written by Prof. Bulkley-and Dr. G. J. Johnson, who were better prepared to do the subject justice than I am, and hence I shall pass it over.
HUMBiE BEGINNINGS
GKAND RESULTS.
often employs feeble means to produce great effects. "Behold,"' " " The kingdom of says James, how great a matter a little fire kiudleth " is like to a heaven," said our Savior, grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field. Which indeed is the least of all seeds but
God
when
13
*
:
it is
grown,
it is
the greatest
that the birds of the air

31, 32.)
come
so herbs, and becometh a tree and lodge in the branches thereof." (Matt.
among
In 1814 the Boston Baptist Association formed an Education
An interesting fact, illustrative of the state of society, and the sentiments prevailing in that day, is narrated by Mrs. M. P. Lemen, who was, about that time, a young lady teacher, residing in Mr. Peck's family. Soon afterthe opening of Bock Spring Seminary Mr. Peck applied to the (State Legislature for a charter for the Institution, but the granting of it was bitterly opposed and defeated finally, through the influence of the Lieutenant Governor, who was a Hard Shell Baptist preacher. He argued that there was great danger from it, to the State. "Those Yankees," said he, "are moving into this Stale very rapidly, and, if we give them a charter for all these monopolies, our liberties will all soon be gone." xxx
HISTORICAL ADDRESS.
Society.
lin,
85
An Address from the pen of Rev. Dr. Chapthen pastor at Danvers, contributed materially to the formation of this The Address proved, in the providence of God, a most fruitful society.
told that
We are
"
agency.
isters for
The
society,
which
it
so
much
;
aided in forming, sent young min-
Maine Literary and Theological Institution, having located it at Waterville, appointed him Professor of Theology, and his removal to Waterville with his students led to the chartering of the institution as Waterville College. The society also
the Trustees of the
education to Dr. Chaplin
had an intimate connection with the founding of the Newton Theological The AdInstitution, and for several years supported one of its professors. dress exerted a potent influence also in Western New York. In March, "Soon after my con1864, Dr. T. J. Conant wrote to Dr. H. B. Ripley nection with the Hamilton Literary and Theological Institution, in 1835, I had the pleasure of meeting with the Rev. Daniel Hascall. During the interview he spoke of Dr. Chaplin and of the Address written by him and presented to the Boston Association on the subject of forming an Education Its arguments, he said made a deep impression on his mind, and Society. first suggested to him the idea of forming such an association for promoting the education of the ministry and that this led to the formation of the New York Baptist Education Society. The formation of that society occasioned the founding of the Hamilton Institution, and this led to the chartering of Madison University and in these originated the University of Rochester and Rochester Theological Seminary. Thus the seed, cast abroad by one earnest effort of 'a good man, full of faith and the Holy Spirit,' has taken root and brought forth a thousand fold." (Missionary Jubilee, pp. 334, 335.) And alike fruitful have been the earnest efforts of John M. Peck. In " The Baptists and the National Centenary," p. 161, Dr. Smith, of Chicago, says of John M. Peck "A characteristic incident is related of him in this connection. One day a young Presbyterian minister, Rev. John M. Ellis, a graduate of the Andover Theological Seminary, and who had then recently come into Illinois, was riding on horse back, in "the Sangamon Country," as the central portion of the State was then called. As he was making his way over the lonely prairies, interspered here and there with " timber," he came to a clearing in the midst of hazels and blackpatches of and was arrested in his purpose by the sound of an ax. Observing jacks, " What are the woodman near by, he called to him with the question, you " I am a theological seminary," was the ?" building doing here, stranger " What, in these barrens ?" "Yes, I am planting the seed." The reply. woodman was John M. Peck, and the " seed he planted sprang and grew as the Rock Seminary, transplanted, subsequently to Alton, and is now But Mr. Peck was planting flourishing and fruitful as Shurtleff College. seed for even more than he himself knew for the thoughts suggested by this interview grew in the mind of Mr. Ellis himself, and resulted in the
: ;
; : ;
foundation of Illinois College, at Jacksonville.*

* And it is affirmed bv living witnesses that Lebanon Seminary, which was opened Nov. 24, 1828, a little over one year later than Rock Spring Seminary, at Lebanon, in sight of Rock Spring Seminary, and which has since become McKendree College, was brought into existence by our Methodist brethren in x x x their laudable zeal not to be outdone by the Baptists.
86
No
HISTORICAL ADDRESS.
hurnau being can
tell
the full influence, direct and indirect,
of the
planting of that seed at Rock Spring, and the subsequent transplanting to Alton. One honest effort of that kind prepares the way for many others.
two
In the Bethel Baptist Association to which I belong in Kentucky, we have flourishing literary institutions the Bethel College; at Russellville, and
the Bethel Female College, at Hopkinsville. In the minutes of our last Association, Prof. Waggener gives the history of the origin of these two Institutions, and he says of one of the former students of Shurtleff College
:
establishing the two literary institutions of Bethel Association. And although these enterprises were successfully carried out by the persistent labors of others, yet the Association to-day owes
"He was
the
first
mover
in
him the conception and happy inauguration of the schemes which have given her two well -equipped colleges."
to
OTHER RESULTS FROM THIS BEGINNING.

David Benedict,
p. 844,
in his
says:
"As yet
new "History of the Baptists," published in 1848, do not discover that our people have made any
progress toward founding a college or theological seminary in Missouri. The Shurtleff College, at Alton, Illinois, is so close alongside of them, and the
water c ommunications from almost
all parts of the State concentrate so generally at that point, that their students, I believe, avail themselves genAt no distant period our Miserally of the advantages of that institution.
souri brethren will
the great river
no doubt have an institution of their own somewhere on which gives name to their State and somewhere in the Boone's Lick Settlements, in my opinion, would be a good location."
;
The next year

College
was founded by the Baptists

;
after Benedict published this, 1849, the William Jewell in Missouri, through the action of their
it is
and although it has had to struggle hard with pecunidoing good service in the cause of education. Its theological department has been organized as a school of the college, and a large number of young ministers have availed themselves of the advantages of that institution. And La Grange College, at La Grange, and the Baptist Female College, at Columbia, known as Stephens' College, are doing a good work in that State. In his edition of 1848, Benedict says of Iowa and Wisconsin, p. 849: "The Shurtleff College at Alton, Illinois, I see in some of
General Association
ary embarrassments,
their documents,
is
recommended
as a suitable place for their students, until
they can get up institutions of their own." But Iowa has now her Burlington Collegiate Institute, her Central University at Pella, and the University of
And
Des Moines, and is no longer dependent on Shurtleff College. the Baptists of Wisconsin have their Wayland University, at Beaver Dam, as a suitable place for their students. And since John M. Peck
!
planted that "seed" at Rock Spring, in 1827, how many literary institutions, In 1881, even within our own denomination, have sprung into existence
the Baptists of Ohio established what is now known as Denison University, In 1834, the Baptists of Indiana founded at Granville, in that State. Franklin College. In January, 1857, an act incorporating the University of
Chicago was passed by the General Assembly of the State of Illinois. But though the field formerly occupied by Shurtleff College is far more limited
HISTORICAL ADDRESS.
than formerly, the density of population
to her,
87
field that
now
in the
yet remains
and the vast increase of Baptists in that field, go far to compensate her for her loss of territory. She still occupies a good field, a commanding site, a good location, and has a "warm place in the hearts of the people. Solomon says "In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or 6. Not all the that, or whether they both shall be alike good." Eccl. 11 seed which even John M. Peck helped to plant, was by any means as productive as that which he planted at Rock Spring. "Of the Western Theological Institution at Covington, Kentucky, whose plan and whole purpose he largely aidec he was deservedly reckoned one of the founders. And when it split on the rock of sectionalism, he mourned as the true mother of the Irving child before King Solomon, in view of the cutting asunder. This Institution was originated by the Western Baptist Education Society, formed at the meeting of the General Convention of Western Baptists, at CincinValuable property was purchased in Coviugtou, nati, in November, 1834. Kentucky, which rose rapidly in value, and the Institution was put into operation under the most flattering circumstances. A correspondent of the American Baptist, in 1836, speaking of the contemplated Institution and its location, says: "It is near Cincinnati nearer, I believe, .than the Lane Seminary, and cannot fail of receiving the sympathies and patronage of the whole State of Ohio. Still it is in Kentucky, and will doubtless be regarded by her, so generous in her dowries, as her own and most cherished daughter. Indiana favors the selection, and will not be backward in adopting the InThe Churches in the East will not only pray, but stitution as her own. contribute for its success. It will clash with none of their Institutions or but it will be a powerful means of promoting that for which interests they labor and pray the diffusion of knowledge and pure religion throughout the immense valley of the West. Let it maintain the character of a purely theological institution let it be trammelled by no appendage let it interfere with no political or feverish question, which so often agitates and distracts human society let it be eminent for sound knowledge arid sound religion, as taught by Christ and His apostles, and it will be, and long continue, a bright and shining star in the West."
:
: : 1
This Theological Institute was chartered by the Legislature of Kentucky, For thirteen years it was in Covington, having an 5th, 1840. "The Board of efficient Faculty, and a respectable number of students. Trustees was composed partly of Southern and partly of Northern Baptists, and the students were drawn from the South as well as from the North. It was a period of intense feeling on the subject of slavery, and it is by no means surprising that dissension appeared, and the location of the school became unsatisfactory. In 1853, the funds and effects were divided by a compromise between the Northern and Southern Trustees." The half that
February
went
to the
Northern Trustees was put into the Fairmouut Theological
Seminary, near Cincinnati, of which nothing now remains. The other half of the funds and property was transferred to Georgetown, Kentucky, and amounts to about $48,000. The Western Baptist Theological Institute,
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holding this property,
HISTOKICAL ADDRESS.
is
town
they
is
College, yet
many
a corporation distinct from that which holds Georgeof the same men are members of both Boards, and
may
the meagre and stinted fruitôf
be looked upon as working together for the same end. But this what promised to be an abundant harvest.
THE GLORIOUS FRUITAGE AND HARVEST.

at Rock Spring has not issued in any such mortifying disappointment. Transplanted under the guidance of Divine Providence, God caused it to take root, to blossom and bud, and fill the face of the country with fruit. Located from design on "Free Soil," the agitation of
The seed planted
has ever marred its growth or worked its growth has not been rapid it has been a healthy growth, and the fruit it has borne has been good fruit. At every step of its progress, tokens of Divine approbation have marked its history. The refreshing rain, and the gentle dew from heaven, have descended from time to time, and converts have "sprung up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses." The sons of Shurtleff have been "as plants grown up in their youth." full-grown, well-formed, stout, strong and vigorous, even in early life not stunted in their growth, but of full and manly proportions. The* students of this College have distinguished themselves by their patriotism and bravery in the service t>f their country. Some of them have acquitted themselves nobly as jurists, statesmen, teachers and editors a large number of them have entered the Gospel Ministry. Some of them rank among the first Christian ministers in this laud, and others are now missionaries of the cross among the heathen in foreign lands. And then, too, some who were once students in this College have finished their work on earth and have gone up on high to receive their reward. And among the departed are the names of some that will not soon be forgotten, for they are worthy to be had "in everlasting remembrance.'" The Baptists of Missouri will long hold in grateful remembrance the name of Noah Flood, and not soon will the Baptists of Kentucky cease to cherish the memory of James M. Frost. We have an interest hi cherishing the memory of such men being dead, they yet speak to us by their examples of piety and devoticn, and we will remember them as righteous men. The root, then, transplanted from Rock Spring to Alton has not been as Heaven has furnished rottenness, and its blossom did not go up as dust. the moisture and the suitable juices for the support of the plant, and it is now a goodly, stately, fruit-bearmg tree, with abundant promise for the future. And had John M. Peck been blessed with the gift of prophetic vision, when he planted that seed at Rock Spring, with reference to that seed and the cause of education which he represented, he might have sung the lines of Dr. John Ryland
politiqal or feverish question
no
destruction.
If its
This little seed from heaven Shall soon become a tree, This ever blessed leaven Diffused abroad shall be Till God the Son shall come again;
' '
:
It
must go on Amen, Amen!"
QUINQUAGENARIUM.
REV. WILLIAM C. RICHARDS, PH. D.
I
know an
adage old and terse

:
I may begin my verse And nothing as I've come to know itSo much embarrasses the poet As how to make a good beginning, And thus its first applauses winning
With which
With
just a sip or
two of sense
Carry his easy audience thence, Into the desert, thinking still They get of sparkling wit their fill And, drinking, call the nonsense fine Because at first they tasted wine
; !
Be mine the fortune at this time To fashion thus my opening rhyme,
And with some happy

Your friendly favor
All this
I turn at
trick beguile
all
the while.
by way of preface meant

once to
my
intent,
The adage old and terse, whose wit The budding of my verse shall fit.
You've said and felt it often, brother That "One good turn deserves another."
You smile, and
yet you
know
not why,
Nor in my parable descry The happy hit that is to make Through half an hour just for its sake, The dullness of my task^less dreary And save your ears from growing wear}-.
This
is
my riddle,
solution,
No
Its
matter whose,
then, or yours so it secures
own
and you see

here to-day,
How
Ye
pat the proverb seems to me.
sous of Shurtleff,
At Alma Mater's shrine to pay The honors of your hearts and voices While every heart to heart rejoices
And
kindles to
its
old-time passion,
alien lyre
In speech and song and festive fashion,
May wonderjwhy au
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IB struck to-day
with alien
fire,
When
Shurtleff's altars are ablaze

fires
With the hot
of ancient clays,
the shades of fifty years In their red light her fame appears
;
And through
May wonder why
a stranger stands Before your mustered, marshalled bands, Without their ichor in his vains
To mock you with his foreign strains, And veil in unknown shibboleth
Themes
that befit a brother's breath.
Ah, if your eyes indignant burned Like these sharp rhymes my muse has turned, If you but felt as I have sung Your frowns had hushed my timid tongue
;
And
the old adage in my verse I had not waited to rehearse,

I
To which What wit

Along
I
come
hid
at last to
its
show
lies
words below.
'Twas eight years

life's
since, as I count back,
swift receding track,
heard
my own
word
dear Mother* say
I use the
in college
way
the roses blow, "And June's bright smiles around me glow, "I shall have come, through smiles and tears
son,
"My
when next
"To number fifty rounded years. "Then I shall gather at my feet "As doves around their windows meet
"My noble sons from far and nigh

"And oh, what Mother proud as "To sit and see the grand array
;
I,
"About me that auspicious day. "My heroes first the white-haired few, "Who hi my smiles their youth renew
;
"Next, the long ranks of stalwart sons, "Grudging yet glad to leave their guns, "Those weapons of their strength and skill "They train God's foes and man's, to kill.
!
"And,
last,
my boys
just
fit
to
go
!
"With hairy cheeks from Jericho "But in each hand a sword to wield
"And
over every breast
my
shield."
"My
son," the mother said again "All these will need some music strain,
"Some anthem wrought from

* Madison
out the years,
University, Hamilton, N. Y.
QUINQUAGENARIUM.
"And woven" well of smiles and tears "To mark our~eras as they go
;
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"Slug such a
strain
the best
you know."
With
I
wrought
faltering tongue and fainting heart, at that high feast part
my
And heedless what

I did
had to'earn,
my Mother "one good turn," Which, sous of Shurtleff, your good Mother Made up her mind "deserved another" 'Gainst Kendrick's wish and Johnson's must In what proof -armor could I trust ?
My judgment to their pleas said, The while my lips belied it so.

;
"no,"
I'll
But hence I'm warned and never more do as I have done before. "One good turn" from my hand not reckoned;
will not deserve a second.
The first
Had
Death, insatiate Archer, missed His aim when to her starry list
Shurtleff' s first
Hobbs
his shaft transferred,
My voice this Jubilee,

Had been
Of
unheard,
as needless, in the flow
his sweet strains who, long ago, Sang, while he trod her classic way?, Her quarter-century's song of praise.
And had
known how
yet his
fire
Electric thrills a brother's lyre,
My deep reluctancy had grown Into denial's ruthless tone

;
younger Hobbs to fill With melody this June-decked hill.
And
left the
Since
who
so well last night could siug,
This song of Jubilee should bring. He envies not my task, perhaps,
But bides
Of
his time, and waits the lapse half a hundred years, when he
Shurtleff' s centennial bard shall be;
And
With whiter locks upon
older than our Bryant now, his brow,
Ten thousand Shurtleff sons shall throng To bless her name, and praise his song.
THE GATHERING.
We have heard
"Come,
our Mother's
call
all,
my
children, one
and
"Gather at
my
ancient hall."
!
And we come
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QUINQUAGENAEIUM. We have conie that we may greet,

One another
at her feet,
And
that fifty years
may meet
As we come
Some with heads
as white as snow,
;
the farthest back can go Many for the first to know,
Who
Since
we come!
toils aside,
We have laid our
Hast'ning o'er the prairie wide, Floating down the giant tide-
Here to come. Only once could we obey Such a call, on such a day Love would not let us stay away And we come God be with us, as He stood
; !
With our fathers in the wood Then for good, and only good, Are we come.
EETEOKSDM.
Fifty long years to come and go, Of all their lapse 'tis nought we know
But
In
fifty
many Thy cycle,

Of Of Of
Of Of
years behind usjshine a bright, historic line.

Shurtleff,
A hundred memories,
Of Of commerce whitening every sea, With wings of thrift and industry Of daring emprise that has won
sweeps around, and profound, daring deeds, heroic names, human glories, and of shames falling thrones, and thrones that rose, kingdoms rent by battle's blows nations crushed by tyrants' greeds, shifting crowns and changing creeds
; ;
An
,
empire reaching toward the sun
Of marriage bonds of
That link twain
glittering steel, oceans heel to heel,
And
I
belt the continents they sever
With human sympathies
forever.
not sing in this brief hour, Th' unnumbered trophies of man's power The mysteries scanned and marvels wrought
may
Out. of his cunning cells of thought, That curb the fleet electric steeds
And harness them
to
humble deeds
QUINQUAGENARIUM.
Or bid
their feet obedient run, Swift as the ceursers of the sun,
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O'er deserts drear, and under waves, Where once man nothing found but
graves
Where thy
In
soil
first
germ of
life
was
set
that lies prolific yet, Then by the threacherous savage trod, But vowed and 'consecrate' to God
By one who in the wilderness, Owned and invoked His power
to bless,
No
fiery steed
on iron track
Beat the red warriors' ambush back
Beyond
that flood,
whose
tide
to-day-
Divides a heritage half way, That, East and West in happy strifeThrobs to its core with boundless life.
THE GERM.
While
in great
its
London's splendid mart
busy beating heart, They laid with stately form and rale
nigh
And
The
corner-stone of far-famed school
And
builded well for
men
to see,
The London University

Another school, unnoted sprung E'en while the ducal trowel rung
Upon the polished stone in place, Wrought with nice skill and carved with
Another school, beneath a sky
grace
Whose lightnings "scared the red man's And in a wilderness, whose gloom Lay thick as shadows 'round a tomb. No corner-stone with pomp was laid,
eye,
No speech of courtesy was said, No vivas rose from eager throng,

in dedication song Yet in silence there, was set A germ that broadly bourgeons yet For through the forest rang the strokes That bit the breasts of stately oaks,
;
Or swelled
And
laid their leafy crests at length
To droop above the shattered strength. A single arm that ravage wrought,
Nerved by one bosom's holy thought.
No woodsman
he, of
common
fame,
But bearing an Apostle's name
Who
swung
his axe, nor
paused to heed
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A pilgrim's challenge from his steed, But answered him between' the strokes
He dealt upon the stately oaks And thus the challenge rang, they say!
Fair legend of that shadowy day
"Why, Brother Peck, what do you here And thus the answer, sharp and clear "I hack and hew for sacred knowledge
;
"
?
I fell
time
trees to found
College
/"
WHO AEE
LIFE'S
HEEOES?
shall
?
Who are
life's
heroes ?
Whom
we crown
.
When
their sun has
gone down
Are they princes of war, whose red plumes Cast their shadows on tombs ?
Who are Earth's great ones? Whom shall we praise

At the end of their days ? Are they masters of wisdom, whose Is of time, and no more ?
lore
Who
are the sovereigns
Whom
shall
we
greet
With our knees
at their feet ?
Are they tenants of thrones ? Do they play With their crowns for a day ?
Who
They
are Earth's heroes

last
Whom may we
?
;
!
bless
At the
of Life's stress
are servants of
God
and their throne
Is as sure as
His own
He was a hero that John of the And he stands as he should

With
!
wood,
his axe, in our memory to-day, First to strike and to pray
KOCK-SPEING 'SCHOOL.
Where
the savage trapped the deer,
Nigh a rock-spring gushing clear, Of the stalwart trees that fell,
When the woodman smote so To the music of his blows,

Soon a citadel arose Not so true that myth of
!
well,
old,
Of As
divine
Amphion
told
How
the
Theban walls upgrew,
his tuneful fingers flew
O'er the strings of the new-born lyre Quivering with Citherean fire.
Wondrous music of the
steel
QUINQUAGENARIUM.
Lo
!
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the forest monarchs feel,

to
And
beams and
rafters spring
;
Of that citadel I sing Though less proud the name
it
bore,
Just a Sclwol, and nothing more,
Hallowed, though, by high intent, To one sacred purpose bent, Prophets of our God to teach
Dialects of heavenly speech Tongues to voice the sweet evangels Earth-ward dropt from lips of angels.
;
Through a lustrum, song and prayer

Blent with ardent study there Stealthy savage of the wood
;
By its holy spell tabooed, On it drew no bow in wrath From his hasty hunting path.
For a lustrum, as I sung, Hary woods with life grew young Here and there, in bosky glade,
;
Studious wood-nymphs, unafraid, Learned "to love" tho' but in Latin

(I'm reminded to put that in
!)
And incipient Websters spoke To some leafy, listening oak.

Happy days but
!
brief as fair
Shadows gathered unaware, And the lustrum fled the woods
Won
back their old solitudes While a fairer spot beguiled

Nearer the great
river's flow,
;
Learning's forest-cloistered child,
And
a cradled town below
This domain with foresight planned,
Where
these halls of Shurtleff stand.
SHADOW AND SUNSHINE.

The good
apostle's heart fell sore,
Rock-Spring silence fell, His happy dream, too brief, was o'er, And with that dream his hope as well
In vain upon the thick trees, he
When over
v
laid,
The sharp prophetic axe had
His "College" he should never see Communing with his fears, he said.
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And when the newer home was found, And hope in other breasts grew bright,
Wrapt
in his sense of loss profound,
light.
His eyes were slow to catch the

It
broke for his faint soul at length, clear promise in its ray, As the old School, with new-born strength, At Alton heights, pursued its way.
With a
And
ere its second lustrum filled, His dream among the oaks came true; His doubts dissolved, his murmurs stilled, As Alton School a College grew.
Trophies enough for one decade, The generous gift of ShurtlefE crowned
Presage of victories here displayed Now fifty years have run their round.
'Twas thus this seat of learning sprung Prom one twice-planted, feeble root, Set when this populous State was young, And only Faith foresaw its fruit.
Set where the wilderness stood thick, For many a weary league abroad
;
With inward
light their eyes
Who planted it
On
were quick, for men and God.
Shurtleff's classic annals stand,

;
Their honored names with stars anigh Our chief apostle and his baud,
Old Rock-Spring's grand decemviri

MEMORIES.
Ten years
of the fifty I
And
half of
am to my poem already
review,
run through
The College, I trow, will shine less in my verse, Than the germs it has sprung from I stop'd to rehearse. The
leisurely pace of
my muse
hitherto,
;
For the rest of her journey 'tis plain will not do How's this, that she's going at now allegro She couldn't have galloped, among the graves, so.
!
But before we get out of a second decade, There's an item of credit that ought to be made
To
the State Legislature, of date 'forty-one,

its
For the deed of
sage predecessors
undone.
QUINQUAGENAKIUM.
While yet they were Vandals Vandaliam Those Soloiis had infinite dangers foreseen,
I
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mean,
In granting to Alton's judicious trustees A charter to do whatsoe'er they might please.
Those seven wise men sought a franchise," to frame schools with one charter and only one name A terrible plot to those Vandals it loomed, To unite Church and State, and the Charter was doomed.
Two
With a change of
And
So
venue, came another of thought, the Charter untrammelled to Alton was brought
and Science and Art and Theology, Shurtleff, became at a bound, very Colleg-y.
in Letters
My own Alma Mater her struggles and strife Come back to my mind with the colors of life,
As I ransack the records of Shurtleff to glean The facts for these verses, and fancies between
I
!
shut from
my
vision the
poem
read
When
the blossoms of fifty years flushed her fair head, Lest the lays of this hour unconsciously grow
Too much
in the
manner of
that in their flow.
From
the plow-tail and work-bench she
summoned
;
her
boys, As did Shurtleff, I trow, from the young Illinois Poor fellows were both, in a dollar-ous sense,
Of more weight
I
in pounds,
I'll
be bound, than in pence.
At a
sung of the fashion in which we were fed, dollar a week for our porridge and bread
it
And my
That
notes of your ancient "Refectory" hint wasn't in lessons the boys suffered stint.
Memorandum: "Boys raided on pantry and kitchen," Not added if Abigails' there were bewitchin'; So I'm left to infer it was cookies and pies, That sharpened their wits and affected their cjres.
In those primitive days if the viands were scantj', And the chapel or hall just a hut or a shanty, There was pluck in the boys and the making of men,
And one
wishes at times, they would come back again

luxuries lacked, there
When
if
was
logic to spare,
ventured with mind to compare; When brain had not bowed to the lordship of muscle, Nor scholarship turned on a mill or a tussle.
And matter none
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QUINQUAGENARIUM.
In corpore sano mens sana perhaps The adage is good with a possible lapse
!
There are caputs so sound, that they echo like brass, And there's nought else within or beneath them alas
But honor to
Shurtleff, her
When
brain
is still
day is not gone, lord over muscle and brawn
"When her wisdom moulds wit and virtue stamps knowledge And Religion and Law are the guards of the College.
Not her's be the woe of old Harvard to-day, Whose sons are fast flinging her honors away
In orgies of
lust,
Bacchanal rites, Defaming their days with their revels of nights.

in
and
Ah, mother of colleges in this new world, Dragged down from thy throne and to infamy hurled. Rase, rase from thy 'scutcheon the legend we see Deep graven there "CHEISTO ET EOOLKSI^R !"
made mrtute ye fortunate youth, Drink deep at the well springs of knowledge and truth Like deacons be grave, or like men you may see, With tags to their names, the inscription M. C.
Let no wild heats of blood, or indulgence, e'er rage In your scholarly veins, and oh, never engage In raids, most unseemly, on innocent chickens When a tell-tale's at hand, who will just raisethe Dickens.
Give ear to a
tale of a
far-away College
on second-hand knowledge Of how when the chapel lacked water and paint, And was sweet to the smell of nor sinner nor saint;
1 credit the legend
The wrong-headed boys, from the top through each grade. Their surplus of wit and of ardor displayed Turned the chapel clean out on the campus, and set The old stove to belching, there, thick clouds of jet.
;
Then with faces like monks, at their benches they sat, With wayward side glances, now this way, now that,
To catch the first glimpse of the then regnant Vice, And their eyes then to drop on the ground in a trice.
I I
was
told
it is
on that morning that prayers were not

true
said;
young sinners shed Floods of tears, that both washed out their crime And left enough over to wash out the hall
hope
that the
!
in their fall.
QUINQUAGENARIUM.
The College makes men, but it happens sometimes. That the case is reversed both in fact and in rhymes, And a man makes a college by wisdom and zest Circumspice reverendm magintei- adest.
99
He came to the chair when the chair was a throne, And the pestilent morals of Harvard unknown
;
His boys came to time both for task and for For he carried in front of him ever a dial.*
trial,
Not always
his
name marks
I
the force of a
man,
;
As
found while
chanced
Shurtlcff's annals to scan
And
noted of Presidents there named, a Head, Who for fourteen long years was a ruler indeed.
From the sea on the east to the great river's side, He came as your guest at this Jubilee-tide And his step and his smile and the words he has spoken,
;
Are the sign and the

Here's Kendrick
seal that this reed is
unbroken.
How
the
name
stirs
the king of your councils to-day my heart as the wind stirs the *sea
Nathaniel, of Hamilton, grand among men, May this Adin, of Alton, revive him again.
While your Presidents thus in procession pass by, There is one whose white crown rises up to mine eye Who has stood in the breach (I might have said breaches, But even the bard must beware of his speeches !)
;
Ecce Jwmo, juvenes,
et puellce formosa>,
;
His cheek had grown furrowed ere your's was yet rosy Think how long he's been patient with folly and bosh,
And keep
You
in
your hearts a
warm place
for Prof.
Wash.t
looked for these verses from me Monday night, But mine would have been but a pitiful plight, Bringing "funeral baked meats," like some grave undertaker, When yon'd supped on a very large loaf from your Baker. J
Were
this Jubilee day like one of the six, So long they get Science and Faith in a fix I'd sing for you, Fairman, Hodge, Dodge, Clark and Castle, And Bulkky besides but I'm Time's humble vassal
!
in his eighty-sixth year. twice acting President, and for thirtytwo years a Professor of the College. 'Prof. Wash" is his familiar soubriquet. Orator IRev. Samuel Baker, D.D., one of the first graduates, and Historical
*Rev. Adiel Sherwood, D. D.

tProf.
Now
Washington Leverett, LL.
D.,
'
of the Jubilee.
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QUINQUAGENAEIUM.
So I leave them unmcntioncd, (as Paddy would say) Awaiting their chance on next Jubilee day When Hobbs with his Century -plant in full blow, Will fill ii]> that hole* where he says it should grow
; !
ALLEGRETTO.
Flow now Avith soberer course, my verses, ^llow, The end is nigh to which your currents go An allegretto movement suits the thought
;
To which my wandering
There beams, to-day, on
all this
fancies here are brought. labor done,
No mortal
Or what
eye that smiled
when
it
begun;
And
delight would in such vision dwell, with our Jubilee raptures rise and swell.
Too soon to our impatient thoughts and sighs Sunk in unwaking sleep his friendly eyes,
Who only,
of the ancient ten,
we
said,
Might living, represent to us the dcad.t Death lets the Doctor sometimes balk his will, But takes a sure revenge upon his skill. Dead dead hew close the stars shine on the leaves Of the half-century book Death's clustering sheaves
I !
Her faithful guardians, counted by the score, Her generous benefactors Heaven send more Her Kendall, Gove and Marsh replaced, she'd build New monuments to fame, the old regild Not Johnson's zeal though crowned to all his dream,
! !
And the full rim of his Centennial scheme, Would make your Alma Mater's means exceed
Your wish, good
Sons, or her most urgent need. Measure her worth, by unremitting ami, To keep unstained her pure, religious name, To shield her sons from gilded charms of sin, To teach them virtue and to root it in
.'
To make them rich in all of earthly lore, And wise to value heavenly wisdom more. To give again to Church and State their gold x Minted in men of worth, a thousand fold.
TO THE GIELS.
I cry your pardon, Shurtleff s daughters fair,
That
in my song you shine not anywhere How can I make excuse both true and meet,
!
The basement of a new College-hall, whose foundations have waited [and wanted] for years the superstructure. fDr. B. F. Edwards, who died May, 1877.
QUINQUAGENAKIUM.
Save, only, pleading that a theme so sweet I held reserved until its length should make
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My
Ah, when
verse too tedious, save for your dear sake ? I went to College, boys and girls
;
Were kept apart like pebble-stones and pearls Except when sometimes pretty pearls would glide, Or pebbles roll, to one another's side. Had they been polished then in one sainc mill, Though bashful once, I had not stayed so still
!
the problem oft my mind perplexes, If wisely we co-educate the sexes

I
;
own
Though
I
I forbear
my pros
and cons to
state
could not in your presence put them straight.

I fear,
My cons,
When all
And
might somehow serve to tease you,
is to please you; equally I must my pros withhold, Since all my tale, in verse alone, is told.
niy present puipose
I greet you, maidens,
and congratulate
The The
boys,
hear your dimpling lips narrate pretty legends of the Virgil classes,
play. ./Eneas
who
And
Yet
to
young Dido
lasses.
thought my verse inflame, With tribute fit to woman's hallowed name, That manhood nurtured from its youth with you,
shall this loftier
Were false
to
allwJien not
to
honor
true.
A SONG TO UKAK WOMAN.

/
Here's a Jubilee chant to dear
woman,
She's the light of our homes ; And who does not love her is no man,
Wheresoever he roams.
Here's a beaker of f praise to our mothers, All the good in us their's
;
All the evil our own, or another's They would wash out with tears.
Here's to our wives, 'our devotion, "Until death do us part,"
As
the river flows into the ocean
Flows
their love in our heart.
Here's a cup to our dutiful daughters, Their sweet mothers twice ours
;
As
fountains renew their
own
waters,
And
their margins their flowers.
102
QUINQUAGENARIUM.
Here's honor and love to true maidens,
What
they
make men
they are
!
Life's deserts they turn into Aidens,
Where each
shines as a star
IMPROMPTU.
A moment here, my muse,
I pray,
Linger a tribute sweet to pay To Monticello's queen,* whose smiles Have Hashed like sunlight down these
aisles.
We give her welcome here to-day,

bless her for her work alway. In Monticello's charming shades She trains a host of lovely maids
;
And
And
with God's grace and light upon her, Makes them her happy maids of honor And fits them each at length to rule, Mistress and queen of home's dear school
;
EOLL-OALL.
Now
But
call the roll
of
fifty
years
stay, the list too long appears.
We'll play the great procession's passed,
Three thousand from the first to last And each one answering to his name, The pageant closes with acclaim Nor we can all the work renew, And weigh its worth in balance true The Master's hand must hold the scales,
! !
;
He settles what succeeds or fails And failure or success with Him,

Lies hid from us beyond the rim
Of
finite
knowledge, where alone,
Unerrinf
Wisdom
lies
holds the throne.
The
record
before His face

it
Prostrate,
we
leave
to His grace.
THE JUBILEE SONG.

Fifty years of hope and
toil,
Fifty years of toil and faith, Great the labor, rich the spoil,
So each grateful
toiler saith
*Miss H. N. Haskell, Principal of the Monttccllo Fcm.ale Seminary, situated

five miles
from
Sliurtleff College.
QUINQUAGENARIUM.'
Many
voices sweet there be
103
Mingling in our Jubilee.
Some grown dumb of mortal speech, Sing in tones we may not hear, Though we strive in vain to reach Some soft cadence haply near Oh, the rapture if but we
;
Heard
their song in Jubilee.
All along the fifty years, Silence fell on sainted
lips,
Folding earthly hopes and fears, In the gloom of life's eclipse Now they sing more sweet than we
;
On
this
day of Jubilee.
What a throng upon the Earth, What a group in Paradise,

Join to-day in sacred mirth,
Never earthly
Blending songs of earth and strain can be
skies.
Sweeter than our Jubilee.
Other tongues than ours will sing
When
Fifty years from this glad day, Centennial shouts shall ring
O'er our
sin
Hut from
unawakencd clay and sorrow free,
We
sfiall
keep Heaven's Jubilee !
CENTENNIAL-JUBILEE
MEMORIAL ROLL-BOOK
OF
UPPER ALTON,
ILL.
oNTRIBUTOI\S, CONTAINING THE NAMES OF ALL WITH POSTOFFICES, AND AMOUNTS GIVEN TO THE COLLEGE, IN CONNECTION WITH THE jDEN TENNIAL AND JUBILEE EFFORT OF YEARS
1876
AND l87Ji ARRANGED UNDEJ\ THEIR RESPECTIVE JR.OLLS, WITH PAYMENTS, so FAR AS MADE, AND GENERAL SUMMARY.
ALTON,
ILL.:
DAILY TKLBQKAPH STEAM PRINT.
1877.
EXPLANATORY.
When the effort, that was commenced in 1874, under the direction of the President, for paying off the debts of Shurtleff College, had made a degree of hopeful progress, and then, in 1876, under the superintendance of a
Special Agent secured, was enlarged to a
possible, $100,000, a
crease
movement to raise, at least, if sum sufficient, not only to pay all debts, but to so inthe Endowments as to furnish henceforth ample income for the sup-
port of the College, hi its present organization, and possibly, also to add one or two new Professorships, it was promised that, if the effort should be successful, the result should be published in detail, in book form, and a copy be fnrnished to each contributor at bare cost of the publication. In compliance with that promise this issue is made. All new contributions that have come to the College, since the commencement of the effort, and whether or not specially designated as Centennial or Jubilee gifts, are in-
cluded in this report. It is not claimed that the aggregate, herein reported as secured, is a full equivalent to that amount of money in hand for, while about $30,000 have
;
been already paid in cash, a portion also has been, or

lots,,
is
to be, paid in lands,

all
railroad bonds, or life insurance policies, that may not, in of present equal value to the money they nominally represent ;
cases, be
and quite a large sum is also in promissory notes, running for years, on moderate interand several thousands, too, are in mortuary est, or without interest till due
;
It is, notes, bearing very small interest until after the death of the givers. however, claimed that there are no pledges or obligations of any kind
herein published (unless a few may be excepted, whose conditional features are indicated in writing,) but are positive in their promise provided only
that $100,000 or more should be raised, and hence all are fully expected, sooner or later, to realize for the College the amounts they represent.-
In accordance with the plan announced, at the beginning of the Centeneach contribution is arranged under its respective Roll always in keeping with the wish of contributors, when known, and at other tunes,
nial year,
according to the best judgment of the Agent. The credits that appear for payments made, set opposite to each pledge of larger amounts than the Dollar Roll, though exactly correct on the day that the account is given to the printer, still are frequently changing on the books of the Treasurer by additional payments made, and, therefore, must not be regarded as necessarily correct at any subsequent date.
";
proper here to add that, it is expected, that any parties who have made pledges that they have not yet paid or secured, will promptly attend
it is
And
108
to the
ROLL BOOK.
same upon receipt of the information that .$100,000 have been subscribed, as all pledges, not] previously paid or secured, became due for payment or security as soon as that amount was obtained.
In addition to those contributions, that appear on the following pages, for the general purposes of the College, as for the paying of debts and increase of endowments, and to the special contributions designated for the Alumni Professorship, some twenty Scholarships also, of $1,000 each, have been created, generally upon the condition that, when not in use by their owners, they may be applied by the Faculty to aid of worthy and needy students; and especially, also, two Memorial Funds have been established,
one, by payment of $6,000 by Mrs. Stephen Griggs, of New York City, as the "Griggs Memorial Fund," for aid of Ministerial Students, under direction of the Faculty; and the other, by Mrs. Thomas Pratt, of St. Louis, who
made
has secured $5,000 as the "Pratt Memorial Fund," for general support of the College and education of the Gospel Ministry. These Memorial Funds, like Professorships and Scholarships, are to be forever preserved as Trust
Funds
the annual interest only to be expended, and that for the purposes
it is
designated.
In connection with the foregoing,
appropriate to call attention to the
interesting'fact, which an examination of the following pages will sustain, that the ladies have contributed over one-third of the entire amount raised
during this Centennial-Jubilee
effort.
All honor to the noble Christian
women whose names
are herein recorded.
And, in closing our report, we may also append, for the encouragement of friends, that we regard as not least among the good results, that have been attained by this effort the wide diffusion of information concerning
the College,
its history, work and prospects, and the awakening of a deeper all of which interest in its present behalf, and a higher faith in its future will be sure to yield more or- less of fruit before many days. Indeed, it is
believed that already much has been actually secured to the College additional to what is herein reported, through personal promises and wills that
One single friend, who is abundantly able, has faithfully pledged that $30,000 shall be secured by him through his will and be paid to the College at his death, and many other smaller amounts have jlso been
have been made.
equally positively promised. But as none of these amounts can, beforehand, be considered certain, they cannot, of course, be at present made public or be counted; and, still, thev will, very likely, sooner or later, bring to the College a degree of valuable help.
With devout thankfulness to that God who has sustained His servants while prosecuting this prolonged and arduous effort, and to the many benevolent friends who, in the "hard times" that have characterized these years, have given so liberally, the report is respectfully submitted to the patrons
of the College.
MEMORIAL ROLL-BOOK.
116
120
Miss Cora E. Vaughn .... R. J. Vaughn
BOLL-BOOK.
ROLL-BOOK.
LATHAM, ILL. Wm. A. Dingmnn
A. H. Hadlock
121
W.
LITER, ILL.
S. E.
Ennis
LADIES' $10
ALTON, ILL.
Mrs. Mary Marsh Mrs. J. H. Austermell Miss Allie L. Austermell Mrs. Wm. M. Pierson Mrs. Mary F. Platt
MEMORIAL ROLL,
Pledged. Paid. 10 10 Mrs. Elizabeth Smith " James H. Forbes 10 10 10 10 Miss Ella Forbes " Bessie Forbes 10 10 10 10 Mrs. E. A. Haight 10 10 Miss Lizzie C. Pattison 10 10 Mrs. M. A. Perrine
Pledged. Paid.
$10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
10 10 10
$10 10 10 10 10 10 Miss Laura Clement " Mary Daple 10 i 10 Mrs. Mark Pierson Mrs. M. E. Pierson, Phil., Pa. 10 10 Mrs. Gaukrodger 10 Mrs. Hayden Miss Lydia Hayden 10 Miss Rebecca Danforth 10 10 Mrs. Sarah A. Cheney 10 Miss Etta Cheney 10 Mrs. G. J. Johnson 10 Miss E. Johnson Miss Sarah M. Johnson 10
" E.C.J.Smith
I'l
Ann Ann
Miss Mary E. Emerson Mrs. C. A. Caldwell Miss Hannah L. Caldwell..
10 10
..
.
10 10
10 10 10 10 10
"
Emma H. Caldwell...
Mrs. Thos. G. Field Miss Carrie A. Houghton Mrs. A. L. Daniels ' Elizabeth B. Runzl " Julia A. Jamison, Bassein,
10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
10 10
10 10
10 10 10
10
Emma
Ann Roberta Gibson

Mrs.
Eliza
" Asia Robert Gibson

Minn
W. Newman, Burlington, Iowa..... Mrs. T. S. Griffith, Holmdell, New Jersey Miss Elizabeth Nickerson, Cazenovia, N. Y Mrs. Laura A. Hinckley, Nantuck et, Mass. Mrs. Matilda S. Holden
Mrs.T.
Day, Chatfleld,
10
Mrs. Isaac J.
10 10
Richmond
ALBION, ILL. MissEdieLow
10
Miss Emma Holden Mrs. Louisa Veach Mrs. W. R. Woodruff.
" Eliza Barnctt Miss Mary Miller.

"
Ella Miller
" " Richard Flagg " Addie B. Sloman
W. H. Burroughs
10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
1
10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
ALEDO,
Mrs. Lizzie David
ILL.
10
jETNA, ILL.
Mrs.
Mary W. Jones " M. E. Darnblazer
10 10
10
10 10 10 10 10 10
10
Mrs. Nancy J. Diamond " Nancy Riley " John L.Blair Miss Hattie Blair Mrs. Lucy Edwards Miss Mary Ballinger Mrs. Mary L. Bassett " Emily Shelley " Helen Detrich Miss Delia Shelley " Frederika Shelley Mrs. Christian Spreeii " Henry S. Baker. " Mary Cutter " D. A. Spalding Sarah II. Phiuney
,
;
ARCOLA,
ILL.
10 10
10 10
10
Mrs. A. M. Williamson
'
11
Frank P. Hopkins Miss Fannie K. Hopkins
" " "
Jane Hood
Rachel
1).
D. D.Ryrie.
Hopkins
10 10 10 10 10 JO 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
10
ATLANTA,
Mrs. Abigail Hoblett " J. A. Hoblett Miss Nellie Hoblett Mrs Frank Hoblett
ILL.
10 10 10 10 10 10 10 JO 10
10
10
10 10
10
" Miller " William " E.J.Thomas Acsah Olin Merriam
10 10 10 10
10
10
Miss Bessie Borland Merriam..
" Lucy White Merriam
10 10 10 10
10 10
AUBURN, ILL.
Mrs.
" " Robert Morse
A. Epling James M. Stout

.
W.
10
JO
>10
10 10
10
ROLL-BOOK.
BARKY,
Mrs. William Green. Caroline Babcook
'
123
ILL.
Pledged.
,
BUNKER HILL,
1'ald.
ILL.
10 10 lo 10 lo 10 10 10 10 10 5 10
10
lit
10
Hi
10 in in
Lewis Angle " Benjamin Brown " Nettie E Hitch Miss Mary W. Poling
1
10
10
Mrs. J. F. Howard Mrs. C. C. Campbell

'
Pledged. Paid.
'
'
Solomon Davis Lucinda Williams....

(ioor.iri!
10 10
Silver
'
'
S.E.Barnes
R. K. Barnes
]o 10
BERLIN,
Mrs. Charles Boynton
' '
ILL.
10 10 10
10
'
" Julia A. Rhea
Sarah Foutch Martha Foutch
10 10 10
Juliette Johnston Sarah B. Carter Miss Jennie Brown

'
'
10
10
10
BRIMFIELD, ILL.
Mrs. Gilbert
BAKERSFIELD, CAL.
Mrs. Philo D. Jewett
10 10
Hathaway
ILL.
10
10
BUSHNELL,
Mrs. N. B.
BROOKLINE, MASS. /
Mrs. George Brooks "
Kay
ILL.
10
" B. F. S. Coolidge David
Baker
10 10 10
10 10
CARROLLTON,
Mrs. Francis McFadden " J. T. Cameron
' '
" Joseph H. Ripley Mrs. James H. Ripley
Mrs.
BELLEVILLE, W. W. Weir
ILL.
10
M iss Mary Julia Ripley

Matt
T.
10
10 10 10
10 10 10
" Hill Matilda Clemmons "

Wni. B. Robinson
Fannie C. Burruss R. G. Robinson " Courtney Hill, per R. B.
10 10 10 10 lo 10 10
10
1:1
10 10
Miss Sadie Susan Ripley Mrs. Elizabeth Stookcy "
CAMERON, ILL.
10 10 10 10
" LouS.Stookey " Margaret H. Ogle

Miss Gillie G. Ogle Mrs. Livonia E. Gooding., .... " J. B. Rentchler
Stookey
10 10 10 10
10 Id 10 10 10 10
Mrs.
G.D.Kent
10
10
CANTON,
Mrs. D. C. Jenne.
. .
ILL.
" James L. Pulliam " Fafinie A. Bowman " W.H.Powell
10 10 10 10
.10
BETHALTO,
Miss Lenora Flick Mrs. J. S. Deck
ILL.
10 10 10
10
CAZENOVIA, ILL. Mrs. Rimh Hammers .......... (." L. Luella Hammers ...... '" Julia A. Hammers ........ " W. E. James .............. "
AbnerMuudell ............
" W.
J. Prewitt.
[CENTRALIA, ILL.
Mrs. N. A. Reed
BLOOMINGTON,
Mrs. Francis H. Roach
ILL.
10 10
19 10 10 10 10
" J.M.Morrison
10
Martha Benjamin M. X. Chuse J. R Mason
COLLINSVILLE,
Mrs.
ILL.
10 10
10
10 10 10 10 10 10 10
Samuel Lander
Hewitt " H. H. L.M.Hewitt " Lydia Wilson
W. Lyman George McFadden

S.
Mary Begole " Cyrus L. Begole
CORDOVA,
ILL.
10
Mrs. Jacob H. Marshall
BLANDINSVILLE,
Mrs.
ILL.
10
10
CLEVELAND, OHIO.
Mrs. A. K. Scott ...............
10
10
Nancy Logan BOIS D'ARC, ILL.

.'..
CHRISMAN, ILL.
10 10
Mrs. Narcissa Y. Ewing Miss Mary E.Ewing
10 10
Mrs. J. S. Hartley. ........... " Siimuel Kenton ...........

.
10
BRIDGEPORT,
ILL.
.
" James McKee .............. " William Wyatt ........... " John McKee, Sr ...........
John McKee, Jr .......... " Rebecca Hoult ............
10 10
10
Mrs. Margaret H. Black...
10
10
124
CHATHAM, ILL.
KOLL BOOK.
""
FREEBURG,
10
..;
ILL.
Pledged. Paid.
10
10
Pledged. Paid. Mrs.
Mrs. Henry Kinncy
H/S. Dcppe
CHICAGO, ILL.
Mrs. Carlos Swift
FRANKLIN, ILL.
10
10
"
C. E.
Hewitt
Martha H. Spires
10
10
10
CARTHAGE,
Mrs.
II.
ILL.
10
GALESBURG,
Mrs. Zephaniah Lewis. Mrs. E. Benncr
ILL.
ID 10
P. Cutter
JO
CHARLESTON, ILL.
Miss Alice Maxwell " MattieBarr
10
10
GALVA,
Mrs. James M. Coon
ILL.
10
DECATUR,
Mrs. W. G. Inman " Thos. Hays
ILL.
]<>
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GIRARD,
ILL.
10 10
"D.P.Elwood
10
Mrs. John Lloyd Miss Mella Lightbourn " Gussie Lightbourn..Mrs. E. M. Cooper
10
10
10 10
DELHI, ILL.
Mrs Mary Ann Randolph Miss Ruth Randolph Mrs. Moore C. Stelle
.
GREENVIEW, ILL.
10 ID 10 10
Tattie A. Broomfleld. Virginia A. Godbey.
10
Miss Jennie
May Stelle...... EVANSVILLE, WIS.
GRANVILLE, OHIO.
Mrs. William Whitney.
.....
10
Mrs. C. R. Lathrop
10
GRIGGSVILLE,
10
ILL.
EDWARDSVILLE, ILL.
Mrs. Mary O'Hara " Margaret N. Fruit
10 10
EFFINGHAM,
Mrs. \V. P. Surrells
ILL.
10
10
EWING,
Mrs.S. J.King
ILL.
10
10
Miss Sara E. Coflfey Mrs. R. L.Eastman Miss Lucy J. Eastman Mrs. James Brakefleld " Rioly F. Gray Miss Tennie Lamar Gray " Anna Rhipton Gray Mrs. B. B. Carpenter " Sarah Temple " Josiah Bryant Miss Abbey Petra. Belle Petra
EL PASO,
Mrs. E. E. Evans
ILL.
10
HAVANA, ILL.
10
ENGLEWOOD, ILL.
Mrs.
J.
Mrs. A. D. Hopping " Elizabeth M.Mitchell....
10 10
10
Carr
10
'.
HORACE.
Mrs. Jennie Harding
ILL.
10
FREEPORT, ILL.
Mrs.
W. H. Dorward
10
HULL'S STATION.
Mrs. Sarah Hull
10
FAIRBURY,
Mrs. Margaret Merit Miss Vena Merit " S. R. Merit " Minnie I. Merit
ILL.
'10 10 10 10
10
JACKSONVILLE,
" Rosa M. V. Holmes Mrs Lois Holmes " R. Reynolds
Mrs. Posa P. Holmes Miss Francis E. Holmes
ILL.
10
10
1
FIDELITY, ILL.
Mrs.
' '
Wm. A. Tomkins Mary Christopher

FLORA,
ILL.
. .
10 10
10
Miss E. C. Spencer Mrs. A. E. Goltra " Justus V. Read
10 10 10 10 10 10 10
10 10 10
10
10 10
M)
Mrs. Rarah E. McEndrco.
" Mary
.10
10
JERSEYVILLE, ILL.
10
10
(0
C.
Dye
Mrs. Caroline Snedeker
126
MONMOUTH,
Mrs. Draper Babcock Drap
L.
ROLL-BOOK.
ILL.
Pledged, raid.
10
10
](l
PHILO, ILL.
Mrs. D. J. Moury.
Pledged. Paid.
.
10
10
M. Reed
10
MOWEQUA, ILL.
Mrs. H. N. Hancock
10
ROSEVILLE, ILL.
Mrs.
'
Edwin C. Cady Hannah Ostrander
."
Mrs.
NILWOOD, Anna Hulitt
ILL.
10
Lucy A. Gray Miss Ina L. Gray

Mrs. Mary C. Pratt. Beth P. Stern
'
'
;.'..
'
'
NOBLE, ILL.
Mrs. Clara L. Slate
Alphens Lewis V. T. Lathrop
10 10 10 10 10 10 iQ 10
10
250
10 10 10
" Sarah Morgan
10 10
BARITAN,
Mrs. Elizabeth Hill
ILL.
10
NORMAL, ILL.
Mrs. E.C.Hewitt
10
10
ROSETTA, ILL.
Mrs.
J.
NEW YORK, N.
Mrs. H.
II.
Y.
10 10
Miss Lou Musgrove
M. Mnsgrove
10 10
Lamport
RIDGE PRAIRIE, ILL.

Mrs. Elizabeth Begole
'
NEOGA,
Mrs. Lewis Curry
ILL.
10
'
OLNEY, ILL.
Miss Ida Sheets
10 10
Miss Luella Piggott
Mary Smiley Mary A. Piggott
10 lo
10
10 10
10
SHELBYVILLE,
Mrs. John H. Phillips... " G. W. Abell " E. P. Prince " A. P. Conn
"
ILL.
.
OREANA,
Mrs. V. Bowers
ILL.
10 10 JO 10 10 10
10
10
" " " " " "
M.E. Bowers
L.
Lucinda Erwin
CRaney
M.C.Davis
10 10 10 10 10
"
E.O. Stilwell
AnnThornton
SCIOTA, ILL.
10 10 10 10 10
10
Anna
C.Swift Sarah E. Short
10 5
O'FALLON, ILL.
Mrs. C. B. Darrow
10
Mrs. A. E.Schiller " Martha Smith " Harriet C. King
10 10 10
10 10
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.
10
OTTAWA, ILL.
Mrs. Sarah B. Powell
10
PANOLA,
Mrs. M. J. Abbott
ILL.
10 10
" H.C. Dix
PINCKNEYVILLE,
Mrs.L.T. Ross
ILL.
10 10
" Barbara Buchanan " Dr. Henry Wohlgemoth. " A. L. Converse " W. O. Converse Miss Elizabeth Hay " Maria
"
Mrs. Shelby M. Cullom " Jennie Powell " C. E. Richardson Miss Annie E. Keys Mrs. John L. Beveridge " D. L. Phillips " E. S.Walker
-.
Mrs. G.
PEORIA, W. Avery
L. C.
ILL.
10 10
PRAIRIE.CITY, ILL.
Mr s.
Mrs.
II.
Vaughn PONTIAC, ILL.

PARIS, ILL.
10
J.
W.
Icenbarger
10
" T. L. Little " Maria W. Slemuions Miss Rilla Clark " Gertrude Price Clinton... Sarah J. McKinnie Edith B. Dyer
ST. LOUIS,
" Mrs. Marcia Gregory Miss Sarah Mizner Mrs. Cordelia Divelbiss
Hay Elma Hay Doniza Hay
10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 JO 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 !) 10 10 10 10
10
10 10
10
10
10
10 10 10
10 10
1
10 10 10
10
MO.
.
Mrs. G.
W.
Riley
10
10
Mrs. Lewis E. Kline.
10
10
ROLL-BOOK.
Pledged. Paid. Miss Florence K. Holdeii 10 10 Mrs. E. B. Starkwather 10 Horace N. Chitteuden 10 Mrs. F. R. Dolbey 10 " Sarah R. Cease 10
4
127
Pledged. Paid.
10 10 10 10 10 10
10
Miss Nora Newell, Gleuville,
Ann IT. Bulkley Miss Ella A. Bulkley Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Barber. "
Mrs.
,
Neb
10 10 10 10
10 10
STERLING,
ILL.
.
Mrs, Taylor Williams... " Dr. H. Utley
G. B. Dodge " Elizabeth Dodge " J. C. C. Clarke
10 10
10
TALLULA, Mrs Maria W. Spears

.
ILL.
10 10 10 10 10 10 10
J. Blount Matilda Nancy Bell
Elizabeth F. Spears Martha R. Spears
" Henry L. Field Miss Mabel D. Field Mrs. Jennie Thompson " Harry Barber " Elizabeth P. Smith "
R. Stelle " A. B.Gillham D.
Miss Janette Francis Clarke. Mrs. Charles Fairman
Mary
M ss Julia J. Beek man
Mary
C.
Beekman
Nellie S. Beekman Carrie W. Beekman Lizzie M. Beekman
M. Anna Beekman
10 10 10
10
TOLERANCE,
Nancy A. MoCosh
ILL.
10
TAYLORVILLE,
Mrs. Martha A. Goodrich
ILL.
10
TECUMSEH, MICH.
Mrs. Sarah E. Morse...
LO
TUSCOLA,
Mrs.
ILL.
10
Mary U. Ryneerson
" Alice E. Gillham Mrs. Jennie Tart Miss Ida L. S. Tart Mrs. F. Hewett Mrs. Susan P. Lemen Permelia Rodgers Sarah J. Cole Miss Cora V. Cole GracleCole E.A. Cooley Louise Cooley Mrs. H. N. Kendall Miss May Rosa Kendall " Polly J. Daniels Mrs. E. Q. Rising Miss Alice Roberts " Fannie Roberts " Mary Roberts Mrs. Sophia Edwards "
Miss M. Eliza Gillham " Nannie A. Gillham
1J 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
10
10
10 10 10 10 10 10
10
10
10 10 10
10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
)
10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
UPPER ALTON,
Mrs. Aaron Butler
ILL.
10 10 10 10 10 10 10
10
"
Emma
Miss Maria
Maria Hodge....
"
C.
I.
Josie
" Mary P. Dannel Mrs. Martha Broner Miss Julia Brener " Margaret A. Johnson....
estine.
'
Mrs. Phoebe Butler Miss Eve Butler
Hodge Hodge
10
10 10
Mrs. Susan Nevlin " Francese H. Evans, Pal-
10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
Miss Edith Lea, Alton, 111. ... Mrs. Mary B. Hopkins, Alton, Miss May Hopkins, Alton, 111. " Sophie Hopkins, Alton, Mrs. Henrietta Edwards ' Mary A. L. Greene
Maggie Lea, Alton,
111...
" Hannah
Schofleld
10 1C 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
10
10
10
10
10 10 10
10
10
10 10 10
Mrs. J. M. N. Y
Stifler,
Hamilton,
10
10
" W.
ids,
II. Stifler,
lo
Cedar Rap10 10
Miss C. M. Harris Mrs. Caroline Newman Eben Marsh, Jr

' '
MO
10 10
Texas
10
A. A. Kendrick 10 Miss Mattie Kendrick 10 Miss Mary Kendrick 10 Mrs. Mary Kendrick, Waukesha. Wis 10 " J. J. Watson, Delavan,
Miss
' '
10 10
10
10
S.
Wis M. Jewett, Oakland,
10
10
" William Gill f" S.B. Congdoii " Madison Williams
Stanley Josie Stanley Mrs. Warren Leverett Mrs. John Bostwick Mrs. Sarah Ann Badley
" N.Stanley Miss Timmie A. "
10 10
10 10
10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
10 10
Cal
10
10
10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
Mrs. Justus Bulkley 10 Sarah E. Roberts, Wau10 kesha, Wis Miss Ruth T. Roberts, Wan* 10 kesha, Wis Fannie N. Bulkley 10
" Rebecca Roberts " J. F. Stebbins " H. C. Swift " Lavlnia L. Clift
" " T. P. Yerkes M.A.Bailey " " " " " "
10
10
10
10 10
10 10 10
5
10 10 10 10
10 10 10
Miss Belle Harrison, Greenville, Ills .Mrs. 1). T. Morrill
May Bulkley Bertha Bulkley Olive C. Bulkley Mrs. Cecilia E. Newell " Grace B. Newell, Glenville,
Emma C. Bulkley
Clara
10
10 K)
10 10
Neb
10
10
W. W.Bell K. A. Johnson J.H. Weeks Edward C. James Kebeoca Collett O.B. Ground
10 10 10 10 19 10 10
10
128
" " George Smith Gertrude Stout " John Teasdale
'
BOLL-BOOK.
Pledged. Paid.
10
WASHBURN,
Mrs. Peter A. Coen
ILL.
Pledged. Paid.
.
10 10
10
10 10
10
10
F. L. Marshall
VIEDEN,
George H. Cox " John W. Utt Miss Jennie Tagg "
ILL.
10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
WOODBURN, ILL.
10 10
10 10 10
Mrs. John A. Bronaugh "
Miss Irene Greer " Jennie Greer Mrs. Melinda Greer
10 10 10
10
10
10
NellieProudflt Mrs. J. Ryan " T. F. Borchers
WESTFIELD,
Mrs. John G. Scott
,
ILL.
10
VINCENNES, IND.
Mrs. W. N. Denney.... " E. A. Arnold
.
WAVERLY.ILL.
10 10
10 10
10
Mrs. F. M. Coard Fanny O. Batty

'.'
VERSAILLES, Mrs. Luzerna Hurd

\
ILL.
10
WEST NEWTON, MASS.

Mrs. David R. Griggs
10
WINCHESTER,
Mrs. E. G. Miner
ILL.
10
XENIA,
10 10
10 10 10
ILL.
10
10
Miss Pearl Milhous
" Henry Miner
Mrs.
J.
M. Bryan
YOUNOBLOOD,
Mrs. Sarah A. Hill Margaret R. Spires
' '
ILL.
10 10
WAUHOO, NEB.
Mrs.
W.
I.
Price
10
Total Paid on Ladies' Memorial Roll
$3,802 50
Yet to be Paid...
1,77750
Grand Total of
Ladies'
Memorial Koll
$5,580 00
ALUMNI PROFESSORSHIP ROLL.

Pledged.
Paid.
300
John M, Palmer, LL.

Dr. E. C.
D D
Springfield,
111 111
$1,000
1,000
Lemen
Upper Alton,
Denver, Col
Rev. H. M. Gallagher, LL. Rev. Frank M. Ellis, D. D Dr.T.P. Yerkes Newell H. Brown
New Haven, Ct
Upper Alton,
Plainview, Alton, 111
111
111
1,000 500
500 35
10
W.T.Norton Rev. J. F. Howard

Rev. W. W. Regan Rev. Prof. T. M. Stewart Rev. Henry L. Field Dr.J.R. Kay Mrs. Ingersol Mrs. Viola M. Leverett Rev. Prof. J. Bulkley, D. D Rev. Pres't A. A. Kendrick, D. H. E. Mills. Esq
Prof. G. B.
Bunker
Hill, 111
111
Farmington,
50 35 200
20
14
Vacaville, Cal Upper Alton, Ills Bushnell, 111 Galesburg, 111

Little
WO
100
25
40
50
50
Rock, Ark
111
111
100
300 250
100
20
350
80
Upper Alton, Upper Alton,

St. Louis,
Mo
Dodge
Rev. Charles A. Hobbs Prof. E. A. Haight Prof. Eben. Marsh

Prof. J. T. Covell Prof. L. J. Hancock
Upper Alton, 111 Mason City.IJl

Alton, Alton,
111
111
200 50
100
100
30
100
New
York, N.
100
Rev. Frank B.Cressey
Detroit,
.
Mowequa, 111 Mich

Io...
50
200
George W. Cox Rev. W.A.Cain Rev. C. R. Lathrop Rev. J. M. Stifler, D. D Rev. D. H. Drake Rev. John W. Primni Mrs. Sarah J. Cole
Virden, 111 East Des Moines, Evansville, Wis Hamilton, N. Y. Kuriiool, Asia Atlanta, 111
25 50
35
150
100 150 50 100

1,000 50
Upper Alton,
Bethalto, 111 Upper Alton,
111
1,000
E.W.Reid, M.D John G. Oulson W. C. Simpson, Esq Rev. M. D. Bevan Rev. Samuel Atwell
Rev. J. J. W. Place Rev. John H. Mize Rev. W. San ford Gee Rev. E. N. Elton Rev. Simeon Hussy J.Edwin Black
111
100
Minonk, Normal,
111
111
25
100
111
100
Metropolis,
Winchester,
Troy,
111
111
20 25
10!)
Upper Alton,
Cordova, 111 Pana, 111
111
100 25 50
65
W.S.D. Smith
Rev. J. B. English Mrs. Elida M. English
Bridgeport, 111 Pinckneyville,
2W
111
5050
50
5050
Quincy,
Q,uincy,
111 111
50
130
BOLL-BOOK.
Pledged.
Paid.
10
Eev.
Wm. S. Roberts
Janesville,
Wis
100
100
Dr. J, R. Chatham Rev. J. G. Lemen. S. H. Beedle.
Xenia, 111 Lebanon, Mo Ridge Prairie,
111
100 100
John Leverett
Rev. George Kline
J. Otis
Upper Alton,
Greenville,
111
50
50
205 5 10
]'-'."
111
Humphrey
John
Rev.
J. Pitts
W. H. Steadman G.B.Davis Rev. Prof. Wm. Whitney

Rev. C. F. Tolman Rev. S. D. Badger F. W. Parsons Rev. W. A. Jarrell Rev. Daniel Seckman Elisha English Rev. R. Gibson, M. D Rev. A. M. Bacon Rev. T. C. Coffey J. E. Roberts
Auburn, McLean, Urban a,
111 111
111
100
10
125 100
Independence, Texas.. Granville, Ohio

Chicago,
111
111
111
30
25
10
100
100 25
111
;
Taylorville, Griggsville,
Olney, Perry,
Alton,
111
111
Upper Alton,
111
100
1-JO
120
Dundee, 111 Appleton, Wis...
25
10 100 10 25
25
10 10
Samuel E. Tyson Rev. W. H. Dorward Rev. G. W. Reed

Rev. A. H. Post F.M. Coard Rev. R. F. Gray Rev. J. L. M. Young Rev. W. H. Briggs.
.'.
,
Upper Alton, 111 Upper Alton, 111

Freeport,
111
25
.Peru, Neb Victor, Iowa
100 100 25
Waverly,
f
111
Griggsville, 111
Macomb,
111
20 50
25 100 100
20
25
Edward E. Tyson
Richard H. Flagg.. P.J.Randolph
Charles F. Mills J. P. Vissering
Freeport, 111 Upper Alton, Alton, 111 Virden, 111
111
100
20
150 10 100
Springfield, 111
50
10
Alton, Alton,
111
James Dunn Hon. HenryS. Baker J. F. Baker
Belleville, 111
111.....
100
15 100
W.
C. C.
R. Andereck.... Theo. F. Harley....' G. B. Harris
Rev.
W. Harris W. H. Stifler W. Leverett
Bloomington, 111 Oden, 111..... Oden, 111 Goodland, Iiid Goodland, Ind Cedar Rapids, Iowa...
ICO
100
100
10
60
10
Upper Alton,
111
60
Daniel Wise Rev. Madison Reed Hon. Jas. L. D. Morrison Spencer G. Russell
Prof. J. D.
Whitehall, 111 Mexico, Ind

St. Louis,
50 400 100
Mo
111 111
,
Bluffdale,
Hodge. ..
Upper Alton,
Elkhart, Ind Upper Alton,
60 50
25
50
Rev. Isaac W. Reed.. John H. Bos twick
111
Total Paid on Alumni Roll
3,029 50 9,276 00
Yet to be Paid...
Grand Total of Alumni Professorship Roll
$12,305 50
BAPTIST MINISTERS' ROLL,

Pledged.
A. A. Kendrick, D.
Paid.
J500 200
1,000
Upper Alton,
Virdcn, 111 Upper Alton,
St. Louis,
111
500 1,000.
EugeneG.Sage Henry L. Field W. W. Boyd

G. G. A. D.
J.
111
1,000 1,000 500

10 JO
Mo
111 111
111
Johnson, D.
Alton,
111
500
10
D.
F.
Kent
Carnahan
LL.
Cameron,
'Chatham,
Streator,
Gross
25
111
W. Leverett,
E. J.
J.
Upper Alton,
Atlanta,
111
Thomas
W. Hunsaoker W. P. Hart
E. E. Bayliss J. E. Wenman.
C. J.
Anna,
111
150 25 10
10
50
150
25
Franklin, 111 Indlanola, Iowa Chattsworth, 111

Peorla,
111 111
100
50
100 25
25
Thompson
O. B. Stone
T.P.Campbell
Albert Guy J. W. Icenbarger C. E. Hewitt, D. D
Bloomington, Delavan, 111
100
25 25
25
Hutton M.C.Clark J. H. Pennington

J. B.
Brimfleld, 111 Pontlac, 111 Chicago, 111 Mt. Pulaskl, 111

Carlinville, 111 Roseville, 111
25
100
25
'.'.->
Thos.G. Field
Bulktey, D. C. I>. Merltt
J.
Alton,
111 111
Upper Alton,
Fairbury, 111 Upper Alton,
D.T. Morrill
J.
J.
111
200 200 100 50 50

10
c>0
100
50
10
Cairns M. Stickney
H.M.Carr
J.
Cambridge, 111 Toulon, 111 Downers Grove,
n>
111.......
:.i
25 50
100
A. Smith, D.
Chicago,
111
111
100
111 111
J.M.Gregory D. D. Holmes
G. Silver Charles Cross
Champaign,
Jacksonville,
100 20
20
10
20
.Bunker Hill,
Bushnell,
111
M. H. Worrall
D. King, Jr W.I. Price
Springfield, 111 New Berlin, 111
25
100 35 25 100 10
100
25
Wahoo, Neb
Springfield, Paris, 111
111
Clark G. W. Riley G. N. Drury

('.
\V.
W.
E. James E.A. Ince W.C. Archer
Panola, 111 Cazenovia,
111
25
25 25
Owosso, Mich
Anawan,
111....
132
N. Hobart, D. D V. B. Ingram J. C. Lewis S.B. Gulp J. C. Qrosh Norman Parks B. P. McAuley J. M. Harrington
I.
EOLL BOOK.
Pledged.
f.
Paid.
155
Chicago, Osceola,
111
111
200
15 60 10
10
Alpha,
111
Carlinvllle, 111 Littleton, 111
10
10
Blandinsville, 111 Dallas Ci'ty, HI
10
25
Macomb,
'
111
S. J.
J.
McCormick
L. Osborn
W. Reed W. P. Throgmorton
Plymouth, 111 Plymouth, 111 Newton, 111

Benton,
111
25
25
5
50
25
I.
Wm.
Elmer..
St. Louis,
Mo
T..
15 5
John Jumper
D. P. French, D.
Seminole Nation,
5 150 25 10 50
D
.
W. H.
Garner
NilesKinne James Buckland

A. Jones Peter Long
..Shobonier, 111 Nashville, 111 Carthage, 111 St. Louis, Mo Sullivan, 111
150 25
10
...
5
10
in
N.
J. J.
Coffey
W.
Chapin John Washburn...... N. L. Grifflng T. M. Colwell Thomas Powell

F. A.Armstrong E. C. Taylor W. G. Inman M. T. Lamb.
Pocahontas, 111 Sweetwater, 111 Edwardsville, 111
5
l'
5
in
Ewing,
111 111
25 5
96
Sadorus,
Mendota, 111 Ottawa, 111

Louis, Mo Jersey ville, 111 Decatur, 111.... Jacksonville, 111 Jacksonville, 111 St. Louis, Mo
St.
;
30
100
3
5
10
3 5
Jti
50 10
10
100
10
Lee
Goff.
J.T. Green
John H. Phillips W. C. Roach

Walter L.
Shelby ville,
111
Wood
Mowequa, Oquawka,
St.
111 111
10
10
J. V. Schofleld
Louis,
Mo
50
10
Daniel L. McBride. D. H. Cooley
William Ashmore, Jr T. M. Griffith N. B. Crisman

Benj. F. Bishop
Canton, 111 Rochester, N.

Tolerance, 111 Alton, 111 Bridgeport, 111
25 10
25
5
6
1 1
-25
Louis Auger
Muridy Durant S. F. Gleason P.P. Shirley N. A. Reed, D. J. S. Barnes

R.
St. Annie, 111 CreekNation, Ind. Ter'y
Mahomet, 111 La Grange, 111
10
Centralia, 111 Prairie City, 111
10
r>o
D.Adams
Wacaconna
E. Nisbett, D.
J.
Kansas Le Fountain, Ind

.
75
50
D
Total Paid on
H. Austermell M. Melvin Jameson Yet to be

Paid...
Island, 111 Alton, 111 Bassein, Asia Ministers' Roll
Rock
25
50 10
:
10
10
3,741 00 3,925 00 7,666 00
Grand Total of Baptist
Ministers' Roll
GENERAL CENTENNIAL ROLL.

Mrs. Stephen Griggs Elisha S. Converse.
New York,
N.
Pledged. 8 6,000
5,000 1,000 2,&50 2,575
Paid.
$ 6,000
5,000
950
Boston, Mass
..Boston, Mass Alton, 111 Alton, 111 Philadelphia, Jacksonville, Alton, 111
James W. Converse John E. Hayner George K. Hopkins Mrs. Martha E. Pierson Moore C. Goltra
Friends, Per Anonymous Daniel D. Ryrie
Pa
111
2,0.-)0
2,575 50
1,800 500
7:'-r>
1,800
1,500
W. H. Burroughs
Mrs. Eliza Porter Cyrus Edwards, LL. D Hermon C.'.Cole, Estate A. A. Kendrick, D. D Charles B. Day Mrs. Henrietta Clark Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Barber M. C. Cooley S. A. Bemis Hon. D. B. Gillham Misses Hay, Sisters Miss Matilda Jackson
Jesse Hammers Mrs. Carrie E. Richardson
Alton, Alton,
111 111
1,350
1,250 2,500
111 111 111
500
1,500
La Moille, 111 Upper Alton, Upper Atton; Upper Alton,

Peoria,
111 111
2.200 1,000 1,000 1,100

1,000
1,200 1,000 276
400
McLean
Upper Alton, Upper Alton,

St. Louis,
111
111..
1,000
1,000 1,000
1,200 1,000 1,000
1,000
500
1,000 200
Mo
111
Upper Alton,
Springfield, 111 Mason City, 111
200
Cazenovia,
Springfield,
III 111
1,000
1,000
Henry H. Herr
Lewis B. Kline L. J. Hastings A True Friend Wm. M. Pierson George H. Stookey
E. W. Pattison Mrs. Renewa Gove
Canton,
111
1,005
St. Louis,
Mo
1,000
1,000 500
Mason
City, 111
Jersey ville, 111 Alton, 111 Freeburg, 111 St. Louis, Mo
500
500
250 200
300
400
200
300
200
:>(*)
Quincy,
111
C.C.Campbell
L. P. Scrogin Peris Holmes
Bunker
Hill. Ill
111
Lexington,
500
H.M. Thompson
Mrs. Richard Flagg Maj. G. W. Ingalls Dr. A.S. Everett II. A. Cheney
Jacksonville, 111 St. Louis, Mo
wo
100
100
200
100
Alton,
St.
111
Muskogee, Ind. Ter'y.

Louis,
III 111 111
100 250
100
Mo
....Alton,
100
100
Boston
W. Smith
Frank
J.
P. Hopkins \Vm. E. Pattison
Alton, Alton,
100 100
100 100
Shenandoah, Iowa
Tallula,
111
Q. Spears
B.
100
Mark
Sloman
Alton,
111
100
50
BOLL-BOOK.
Pledged.
135
Paid.
80
Abner Mundell Miss Abbie M. Lawton
Cazenovia,
..,
, ,
111
100
Mason
Wm.
City, 111
III
80
25 25
A. Robinson
David Evans
Miss Agnes Johnson
Carrollton, El Paso, 111
Alton,
. .
111
5 5 5
James Rixon
Rev. H. R. Hicks and Wife.
Warren Whitefleld
Carlton G.Taylor A. D, Hopping
J.
,
Upper Alton, 111 Paw Paw, 111 Minonk, 111

Pontiac,
111
111 111
5 5
5
Havana,
M. David
Lewis
,
New Windsor,
Stonington,
111
5
ii
Andrew C. Chapman
Wm.
Mrs.
Dr. J. T.
Springfield, 111
C. L. Bridges
Auburn,
111
5
5
5
Amanda E. Corn well C. W. Bishop

Christ
Whitaker H. James
John
J. L.
Mrs. Sarah Lackford
f.Mason, 111 Aetna, 111 Arthur, 111 Arthur, 111 .Arthur, 111 Arthur, 111
2 50
5
3 2
4
111.
Ruse and
wife...
Windsor,
III
Mr. Ferguson Mrs. Jenkinson Mrs. Sophia Sage Miss Mattie Kendrick Eddie A. Kendrick Theodore Pridemore
J.
Carrollton,
3
3
:'>
Minonk. 111..... Upper Alton, 111

..Upper Alton, 111 Upper Alton, I1L Windsor, 111
Sterling,
1 1
5
10
C.Turner.....
,
Kan
111
F. R. Marshall
Eureka,
Atlanta, Atlanta, Lincoln, Lincoln, Lincoln,
200 200
100 100 100 100
111 111
Samuel Bevan
Mrs. Julia A. Foltz
J. B.
111 111 111
100
10
Montague
,
Wm. Leighton
Mrs. F. P. Bone Mrs. Lucinda G. Bent W.F. Coolidge
111
111
20
Edward Wilson
Mrs. Phcebe G. Strawn Mrs. C. N. Bonner
Bloomington, Bloomington, Bloomington,

Jacksonville,
100 250
111
111
1
200
103
...
Luther Bishop H. J. Pierson A. Judson Wilson

Eleazer Dunlap
Dudley H. Vance F.Q. Hicks

P. P.
Bloomington, 111.... Bloomington, 111 Bloomington, 111. Bloomington, 111..". Bloomington, 111 Bloomington, 111 Danvers, 111 Danvers, 111
Aledo, Aledo,
111
111
100
100
25
20
50 5 5
100
5
r>
10 50 5
500 200
Louis D. Holmes
Wm.
S.
Dean
20
1,000 1,000 i;000
Josiah Francis Lafayette Smith
Springfield. Ill Springfield, 111
W.A.Epling Lewis H. Thomas

E.G. Miner
Mrs. S. A. Willard Daniel C. Jenne Mrs. H. N. Barnhurst...
,
Auburn,
111
Virden, 111 Winchester,

Centralia,
1,000
111
1,000 1,000 1,100

,1,000
111
100
Canton,
111
111
1,100
Mendota,
136
EOLL-BOOK.
\
Pledged.
1,000
1,000 60
Paid.
L. B. Merrifleld F. J. Comstock
Mendota,
St. Louis,
111
Mo
111
Henry Hall
J.
....Latham,
L. McDaniel
Latham,
Canton, Canton, Toulon,
111
25
25 15
E.
J.
W. West
G. Piper
111
111 111
Benj. Packer Gilbert Hathaway Alfred C. Cady
50
50
10 5
W.
S.
A. Parks M. Smalley Richard Rich Samual Rich

D. P. Prichett
Brimfleld, 111 Brimfleld, 111 Osceola, 111
1250
5
25
Oalesburg,
111
SethP.Stem
Taylor Williams
F.
C.
G.Mason
C.Buel Alonzo Barnes M. T. Winslow L. W.Garlick
Fidelity, 111 Fidelity, 111 Fidelity, 111 Roseville, 111 Sterling, 111 Sterling, 111 Sterling, 111 Prairie City, 111
100
100
100
100
20
10 10
100
10
10 10 25
Macomb,
Chicago, Cordova,
111 111 111
W.G.Marshall
Nelson Holt Tamaroa, 111 C.F.Linzee DuQuoin, 111 C. R. Poole Mt. Vernon, 111 Henry M. Gee Tamaroa, 111 J.A. Lemons Tamaroa, 111 J. Brad Davis Pinckneyville, 111 L. T.Ross Pinckneyville, 111 Misses Molly and Fanny L. Primm.. Pinckney vill e, 111 John H. Harris Pinckneyville, 111 T.J.Williams Spring Garden, 111.... Mt. Vernon, 111 Blithey Reece Don T. Short Ashley, 111 Vesalius Colbert Dundas, 111 Samuel W. Puffer Winchester, 111 Charles Wilson Winchester. Ill C. B. Hubbard Winchester, 111 Joseph Burnap Upper Alton, 111 Third Baptist Church St. Louis, Mo
. .
6 5 100 5
10
6
5
100
5
10
10 50 6 5 5
10 50
5
5
5
5
10
5 5
10
10
6
10
10 10 10 10
10 40 40
100
40
John Ryan
N. Scheller M. A. Smith Miss Lenora Page
I.
Virden,
111
40 25
120
111
Sciota, 111 Snicarte, 111
5 20 5 5
10
Monmouth,
5
5 10
Walter Wilkins L. E. Wilkins
H.T.Cunningham Miss Mary A. and Julia Badlet

J.C.Bernard Mrs. E. Richardson Daniel Furry A. F. Dunlap J.B.Turner Mrs. M. P. Lemen
Mrs.
I.
Laclede, 111 Laclede, III Centralia, 111 Centralia, 111
5
5
100
5 5
100
Quincy,
Loxa,Ill
111
100
10
111
Loxa,
111
Tolerance,
10
Windsor, 111 Salem, 111

Collinsville, 111
100 100
ICO
100 100
100
Mary Begole M.A.Cushing

H. Elkins, Jr
.*.
Minonk,
lola, 111
111
ROLL-BOOK.
Bowen
137
Paid.
100
Pledged.
E. A.
Baptist Church
Mendota, Mendota,
Alton,
111
111
100
111
50
50
50
N.C. Hatheway
B. Foster
T. G. Shannon Prof. C. S. Pennell Moore C. Stelle Ellsworth Stelle Harry Justus Stelle Frank Everett Stelle Kay Johnson Stelle William P. McKennie
60
50 50 25
Fidelity, 111 Fidelity, 111

St. Louis,
Mo
111
25
Jersey ville,
60 10
10 10 10
George W. Sanders George Dennison Manning L. Allen

Baptist Church H. A. Stanard ]Virs. E. S. Gill
Jerseyville, 111 Jerseyville, 111 Jerseyville, 111 Jerseyville, 111 Springfield, 111 Carlyle, 111
20
10 10 10
15
20
10 10
Mendota,
LaMoille, LaMoille, LaMoille, LaMoille,
111
111 111
111
15
100
25
111
111 111
100
100 100
100
Franklin Walker Rev. A. Cleghorn. D. D ilder A. D. A. T. Swartwout A. L. Swartwout Mrs. Ellen Trowbridge
Champaign, Champaign,
Sublette, Sublette, Sublette, Sublette, Sublette, Sublette,
111 111 111
100
100
111
111
50 25 25
109
100
Charles F. Ingalls
William Gray Mrs. Lydia Tewksbury John G. Irwin John A. Prickett Samuel B. Smith Francenia Cox J. J. Smith J.M. Gentry Russell Godbey John W. Turner and Wife M. H. Alderson Marcus L. Sloat Thomas Eaton
A. Scott G. W. Tegg E.B. David Lewis Curry
Alice Johnson
J.
,
111
111
Mendota,
Edwardsville, 111 .Edwardsville, 111 Jacksonville, 111 Jacksonville, 111.....'.. Jacksonville, 111 Jacksonville, 111
.'
5
5
6 5
10
Greenview,
Virginia,
111
10 10 5
-5
111
6 5
.5
Bath, 111 Bath, 111 Poplar City, Poplar City,
JO
111 111
6 5 5
Havana,
Aledo, Neoga,
111
5
r
- ,
111
111
111
30
3
4
Chrismaii,
W. Johnson
.'
Chrisman,
Paris,
111
111
Baptist Church Baptist Church Baptist Church A. R. Collins
Nancy Hart
Martha Hart SarahHart Dr. A. McBride
Mrs. Nancy Clark A. J.Swlft
C. P.
Fairview, 111 Sadorus, 111 Horace, 111 Munsie, Ind
6 20 8
8
20
Munsie, Ind Munsie, Ind Oreana, 111
5 6 5
5
5
f>
5 5 5 5
Kimmundy, -111
Oreana, Oreana, Oreana, Oreana,
111
Raney
111
111
B. Giveler
James Malcom
111
138
ROLL-BOOK,
Pledged.
Paid.
5
S. J.
Griggsby
JonnLloyd D.C.Moore Wm. Huskinson

H.L.Miller C. B. Darrow
Blandinsville, Girard, 111
111
5 5
5 2
10
....Kimmundy,
Alton, Alton,
111 111
111
111
'2
10 10 10
10
...O'Fallon,
W.F. Redburn John W. Stillwell Wm. P. McMurry
Wm. DuffHaynie
Elvin Armstsong
Isabella Robinson
Waverly, 111 Shelby ville, 111 Normal, 111 Normal, 111

Jerseyville,
111
10
10 10
10 20
100
200
100 100
Tremont,
111
100
Lincoln Chase E. B. Harper C. H. Flick Mrs. Permelia Rodgers Rachel Bardsley...
Boston, Mass New York, N.

Bethalto.Ill
Y
111
100
500
William M. Gonterman W. A. Wilson Hon. Silas L. Bryan Baptist Church Baptist Church C. S. Mixter
Mrs. A. E. Fisher
Upper Alton, Troy, 111 Troy, 111 Troy, 111 Salem, 111 Riverton, lo
Goshen, Ind
500
600
100 100 180
50
50
50
:>n
Thomas B. Griggs Henry R. Glover

B. F. Sturtevant
'
Arlington, Mass Arlington, Mass Brookline, Mass Boston, Mass Boston, Mass
20
25 23 50 50
50
50 50
David Randall
C. C. Bills....
B.B.Johnson
Mrs. H. E. B. Kelley
Waltham, Mass Waltham, Mass Waltham, Mass

Maiden, Mass New York, N. Y
Peoria,
111
100
100 5
5
5 25 40
10
5
25
GeorgeT.Hope G. W. Avery Mrs. W. N. Denny

J.S.Richardson James Anderson A. Judson Jones Joshua Meek Feorge Foster
40
Irvd
111
Vincennes,
Springfield,
40
10
<>
Hord,
111
Dix, 111 Flora, 111

Flora,
111
<
5
10
]()
W.
P. Surrells
JamesGriffln
Mrs.
Efflngham, 111 Windsor, 111
10 10
Anna Willis*
Upper Alton,
111
10*
Miss Mary Willis* Mrs. A. Fuller Rodgers* Mrs. George Cartwright* Miss Hannah Cartwrlght* Mrs. Kate K. Boyle* Mrs. S. W. Marston M rs Z. B. Jobf Miss L. Jennie Jobf Miss E. Alice Jobt
.
..Upper Alton, 111 Upper Alton, 111 Upper Alton, 111.., Upper Alton, 111 Upper Alton, 111
10*
10*
10*
lo
10*
lo
Muskogee, Ind.
Alton, Alton, Alton, Alton, Alton,
111
Ter....
10f
10f
10f 10f
111
111
111
W. W.Martinf Miss NinaHawleyf

Mrs.
111
10f
10
*These six subscriptions belong to Ladies' having been omitted there, are counted here.
810
Memorial Roll, pages 127-8, but fThesc five ditto, page 122.
ROLL-BOOK.
Pledged.
Dr. "W. C. Q.uiglcy
139
Paid.
67
1
Alton,
111
67
Salem Association
Illinois
Rowe Hiram Rose

A.
J. J.
E. Bosler
Macomb, 111 Oquawka, 111 Oquawka, 111

Chicago, 111 Stonlngton, Rosetta, 111
111
10 60 20
1050
5
5
S.Dickerson N. Sanders K. A. Pence

Mrs.
5
r,
5 5
r>
Nancy Gardner...
W. Wilkes Harris Mrs. Lou Hutfaker Miss Oracle Watkins Fred Shelley
Tobacco Factory (J. T. D.) 1 'res. Edwin C. Hewitt, LL.
East Newbern, 111..... Neosho Rapids, Kas..

Berlin,
111
5 6
5 5 5
100
100
100
5 5
5
loi)
Mason
Alton, Alton,
City, 111
111
III.
. .
Normal,
111
W.H.Harris
Dr. A. H. Schott
Albert Draper G. W. Lamoreaux and Family Charles Alt
Cleveland, Ohio Alton, 111 Upper Alton, 111

Clinton, 111 Alton, 111 Charleston,
Jerseyville, Peorla, 111
100
1011
100
25 11
10
11 10
W.M. Barker
Prof. F. L. Marshall
111 111
10
]()
Upper Alton,
Baptist Church First Baptist Church
111
10
r>
JO
5 5 5
D.M.Clark
E. A. Fisher
Eureka, Eureka,
111
111
Sundry Unknown
Mrs. Peter
In Illinois
833
1,000
833
Howe
Yet to be Paid
Wenona,
111
Total Paid on General Roll
$33,068 50
40,068 00
Grand Total of General Centennial Roll
$73,136 50
SPECIAL JUBILEE ROLL,
Pledged.
Paid.
Second Baptist Church

Mrs. Harriet Pratt
Four Friends, unnamed

Mrs. Margaret W. Wood Mrs. Margaret McTaggart
.'.
Louis, Mo St. Louis, Mo Boston, Mass Boston, Mass

St.
$5,009
r,,roo
2,000
2,000
1,000
l.OCO
.Springfield, 111
140
BOLL-BOOK.
Pledged.
Paid.
Miss AnnaClinton George Taylor and Wife Dr. A. Kendrick
Springfield, Bethalto, III Taylorville,

St. Louis,
III
1,000
1 ,000
Wakesha, Wis
111
Hon. Wm. S. Frink WilliamM. Senter David Pierson James Duke, Jr
603 600
300 125
100
Mo
111
Carrollton, Rosetta, 111

,
no
800
1,000
10
D. D Rev. E. J. Manchester and Wife 3Irs. H. M. Snedeker
Two Notes by
Away Down East

Mendota,
111
Mt. Pleasant, lo
1,000
Total Paid on Jubilee Roll
1,110 00
Yet
to be Paid
20,335 00
.$21,445 00
Grand Total of Special Jubilee Roll
GENERAL SUMMARY.
Paid.
To be Paid.
$
288
15
Total.
UNIVERSAL DOLLAR BOLL
82,361
173
$2,619
188
SUNDAY SCHOOL ROLL LADIES' MEMORIAL ROLL

ALUMNI PROFESSORSHIP ROLL BAPTIST MINISTERS' ROLL
3,80250 3,02950
3,741
1,77750
9,276
5,580
12,30550
7,666
3,925
GENERAL CENTENNIAL ROLL

SPECIAL JUBILEE ROLL
33,06850
1,110
40,068
20,335
73,13650
21,445
TOTAL PAID ON SEVERAL ROLLS
47,285 5O
YET TO BE PAID
75,684 5O
GRAND TOTAL OF CENTENNIAL-JUBILEE

OFFERINGS
$
|
22,970 OO
FINANCIAL AGENTS.
The
Agent
fact that the foregoing
of the College, will sufficiently, perhaps, explain
pages have beeu mainly edited by the Financial why the Agency work,
present and past, notwithstanding it has been so important a factor in making the College what it is, has been scarcely alluded to by him. But justice to those
who have
filled this office,
as well as necessity to
any approach toward com-
pleteness of this
work as a
history, requires at ieast, a brief tribute to those
who
have served in
All,
this capacity.
however,
who have first and last
and
useful in their time, cannot, of course, be
served in this relation, though valuable even mentioned; and the space al-
lowed will permit only a glance at the few who have been instrumental in raising the larger sums. Not even what may have been done by the Presidents, Ldomis,
Sherwood, Read and Kendrick, and other Presidents and Professors, who have been deeply interested and more or less active in this direction, may be noticed, as they were not, specifically, Financial Agents. The first Agent of the College, employed as such, and who raised any large
sum, was Rev. John M. Peck, D. D. He not only secured the first 81,200, or thereabouts, in Boston and other parts of the East, in 1826, with help of which Rock Spring Seminary was founded the following year, but, when the School was removed to the new location at Upper Alton, and then, in 1835, had secured a charter as a College, he again went East in behalf of the Institution and gathered near 820,000 more, as the results of which, the name was changed to Shurtleflf College, and the first degree of endowment provided. Rev. George B. Davis was the next Agent of the class under consideration, serving six years, from 1839 to 1845; and while yet this Western country was so new and the friends of higher learning here were few and poor, he was not so successful in securing larger amounts, as in imparting information and awakening interest. His cash collections, however, aggregated $2,512, while much larger sums were secured in notes, deeds and pledges.
Rev. Isaac D. Newell served about
five year?,
between
184<i
and
1855,
ami WHS
probably as laborious, indefatigable and useful an Agent as the College has enjoyed in all its history. He raised for the College in cash, not including notes ami other assets of much larger amounts, 87,292. All honor to his memory. Rev. John Teasdale performed invaluble service during 1852-4, in raising the funds for finishing the main edifice and in defraying the expenses of Professors
and Students, as well as by securing some
larger
amounts
for
endow-
142
ment.
KOLL-BOOK.
His cash collections were
definitely
83,076
but the amount of other assets secured
by him are not now
known.
Rev. J. Bulkley, D. D., though never regular Agent, yet has been several times detailed to give special aid in that line, first, some twenty years ago when he secured the first 85,000 from Dea. Elijah Gove, of Quincy, and then,
later, in
company with Bro. H. N. Kendall,

largest
$15,000
Gove the
sum
ever at one time given or secured by
more from Mr. and Mrs. any one family to
the College; and also, soon after, in connection with Mr. Daniels, the regular Agent, raised from the friends of the College at large the endowment of his present chair; and, finally, during the Centennial year, when he again gave a whole year in aiding the General Agent, and in all of these services he was most
efficient.
during the
Rev. Harrison Daniels was mainly instrumental in securing to the College, five years, 1864-9, in which he served, not less than $45,000, nearly all of
is
which
too,
now
included in the permanent
should forever be preserved and honored as
endowment of the College. His name, among the most efficient of
the laborers for the College.
Rev. Henry L. Field, serving for about two years, early succeeding Mr. Daniels, and with main reference to collecting the notes, pledges and other assets secured
for the College tions,
by preceding Agents, as well as
in part to obtain
new contribu-
was
specially useful.
for
No
than he has ever labored
and more devoted friend of the College advancement of its interests.

truer
The work of the present Agent, Rev. G. J. Johnson, D. D., who has served through the Centennial and Jubilee years, is sufficiently detailed in the foregoing pages of the Jubilee Memorial, and particularly of this Roll-Book; and
it
will be
,
enough
to say further, that friends
have procured his portrait to be
placed beside those of other special benefactors, on the walls of the Chapel, and, by unanimous vote of the Board of Trustees, he has also been elected Chancellor
of the College.
I3OARD OF
As COMPOSED AT END
T~)
T 1
RUSTEES.
OF JUBILEE YEAR, 1877.
HON.
DANIEL
T.
B.
GILLHAM
D......
PRESIDENT.
REG.
REV. D. T. MORRILL REV. WASHINGTON LEVERETT, LL.
AND
COR. SECRETARY.
TREASURER.
AUDITOR.
Upper Alton.
1878.
WILBUR
NORTON,
ESQ.,
REV. A. A.
KENDRICK,
ESQ.,
D. D.,
(ex-offlcio)
TEEM EXPIRES JUNE,
JOHN
L.
BLAIR,
Alton.
REV. M, D.
SEVAN
Normal.
Alton.
St.
RICAHRD FLAGG, ESQ

M. C. TEASDALE, ESQ REV. W. LEVERETT, LL. D., D. P1ERSON, ESQ REV. D. T. MORRILL RKV. G.J.JOHNSON, D. D.,
E. B.
Louis, Mo.
Upper Alton.
Carrollton.
Upper Alton.
Alton.
St. Louis, Mo. Muskogee, Inch Ter.
STARKWATHER,
ESQ.
[EfiQ
G.
W. ING ALLS,
TERM EXPIEE8 JUNE,

HON. WM. T. BEEKMAN M. C. COO LEY, ESQ
1879.
Tallula.
Upper Alton.
St. Louis,
EVERETT W. PATTISON. ESQ JOHN E. HAYNER.ESQ GEORGE K. HOPKINS, ESQ

REV. THOS. G. FIELD, F. J. COMSTOCK, ESQ
Mo.
Alton. Alton. Alton.

St. Louis,
Mo.
HON. D.
GILLHAM A. T. HAWLEY, ESQ WILBUR T. NORTON, ESQ

B.
Upper Alton.
Alton. Alton.
1880.
TERM EXPIRES JUNE,
W. LEVERETT, ESQ HON. SILAS L. BRYAN, RKV. W. W. BOYD C.C.CAMPBELL, ESQ

C.
Upper Alton,
Salem.
St. Louis, Mo. Bunker Hill.
HON.
T. P.
SAMUEL WOOD
YERKES, M. D EDWARD C. LEMEN, M. D JOSIAH FRANCIS, ESQ.,
Jacksonville. Upper Alton. Upper Alton.

Springfield.
DANIEL R. STELLE,
REV.
HENRY
ESQ.,
L.
FIELD,
Jersey ville. Upper Alton.
FACULTY.
REV. A. A.
KENDRICK,
L.
D. D., PKESIDENT,
And
Acting Professor of Systematic Theology.
ORLANDO
RKV.
CASTLE, LL. D.,
Shurtleff Professor of Oratory, Rhetoric and Belle Lettres.
JULTUS BULKLEY,
to be Filled,)
D. D.,
Professor of Church History and Church Polity.
(Vacancy
Professor of Systematic Theology and History of Doctrine.
REV.
J. C. C.
6LARKE,
A. M.,
Acting Professor of Biblical Literature and Interpretation.
CHARLES FAIRMAN,
REV.
J. C. C.
LL. D.,
Hunter Lecturer on Chemistry, Geology and Mineralogy.
CLARKE,
A. M.,
of Latin
Gove Professor
and Greek Languages and
Literature.
CHARLES FAIRMAN, LL. D.,

Edwards Professor
of Mathematics
and Natural Philosophy.
JOHN
D.
HODGE,
B.
A. M., M. D.,
Instructor in Botany, Zoology and Physiology.
GEORGE
JOHN
D.
DODGE,
A. M.,
Principal of the Preparatory Department.
HODGE,
A. M.,
First Assistant in Preparatory Department.
LUCIUS M. CASTLE,
REV.
A. B.,
Second Assistant Teacher and College Tutor.
WASHINGTON LEVERKTT,
LL.
D.,
Librarian.
4.
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1827.

ALTON, ILL.: DAILY TELEGRAPH 8TBAM PRINT.

This Building was erected

Spring, Illinois, under direction of ELD.

ROCK SPRING SEMINARY,

OFFICERS AND STUDENTS

UPPER ALTON, ILL

SHURTLEFF COLLEGE had

known as Rock Spring Seminary,

organization rendered necessary

Upper Alton, June

The next chapter

in this history, prepared for use in another connection

members of good standing

Trustees proceeded to lay

and a college campus, and

"In February, 1835, a new charter was granted,

violate, so far as said

compatible with the charter of this incor-

Department which supercedes the necessity of a separate organiza-

Department, a separate Association was formed,

ing success, until the present time.

obstacles, both legal

views upon education have made.

Institution has been brought

as a prerequisite to a degree goes far to account for the comparatively

how many, in all, have entered known to be several hundred.

but the number is

and statesmen, teachers and

missionaries of the Cross

more, as a special Jubilee Offering. In closing our brief sketch, we

GOVERNMENT AND INSTRUCTION.

of Trustees and Teachers, the blank spaces, under

the head of RETIRED, indicate those

ROCK SPRING SEMINARY.

ALTON AND SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.

Enoch Long, Esq *Hon.Geo. Smith Wm. Manning, Jr., Esq

*Hon. Alfred W. Cavarly John Tillson, Esq Rev. Lewis Colby, A.

*Rev. Dwight Ives, D. D....

1F89 1840 1841 1842 1842 1845

James Dun lap Hon. Edward G. Miner Samuel Howard

1854 1886 1877 1867 1860 1866 1861

1865 1856 1866 1863 1876 1856

Esq Hon. John M. Palmer, LL. Hon. Levi Browning

1868 1859 1859 1857 1872 1869 1862

*John R. Woods, Esq *W. W. Watson, Esq

John Trible, L. Blair, Esq

3on. Nathan Cole

1867 1867 1870 1870 1862 1865 1864

Rev. Robert Boyd, D.

Rev. L. C. Carr H. H. Cobb, Esq Geo. K. Hopkins, Esq

1869 1868 1867 1874 1871 1872 1874 1876

Norman Stanley, Esq *Herman C Cole. Esq

18~2 1870 1869

1871 1872 1873 1871

1874 1875 1876

Henry Miner, Esq

M. D Isaac Snedeker, Esq

*John Russell, LL.

*John Russell, LL. D.

ALTON AND SHURTLEFF COLLEGE.

and Belles Letters *Rev. Warren Leverett, A. guages and Literature

and Greek Lan'1853

John R. Woods, Esq W. W. Watson, Esq

Monroe Cole. Abner Crozier.

Lemuel Darrow. Isham Day. *Augusta Earnst, (Wilcox.)