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Besides the foregoing there have been Lectures upon special subjects not otherwise connected with the Faculty (the first being Dr. Asa Gray upon Botany in 1834), and first and last over forty Tutors. The succession of Treasurers has been Erastus Clark, 1812; James Dan, 1825; Othniel Williams, 1828; Dr. Benjamin Woolsly Dwight, 1832; Othniel Samuel Williams, 1850, and Publius V. Rogers (acting), 1880 —.

Number of Graduates from Hamilton College, previous to the beginning of Report, of Attendance by Classes in 1836.

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Summary of the Occupations upon which the Graduates of Hamilton College entered, as shown by the Catalogue of 1884–5.

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Foreign Missionaries.

Moderators of the Presbyterian General Assembly.
Commissioners to the General Assembly of 1884.

Members of Congress..

State Governors.

State Senators.

...

Members of State Constitutional Conventions.

Regents of the University of the State of New York.

Supreme Court Judges.

College Presidents...

College Professors and Tutors...

Theological Seminary Professors.

State Superintendents of Public Instruction..

Normal School Principals and Professors.

Principals of Academies and High Schools.

Physicians..

Bankers and Brokers...

Editors ....

Agriculturists.

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585

1820

252

459

673

31

5

19

27

5

20

12

27

12

6

86

16

4

13

99

71

41

67

23

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Present Faculty of Hamilton College.

Rev. Henry Darling, D. D., LL. D., President and Walcott Professor of the Evidences of Christianity, and Pastor of the College Church, 1881.

Rev. Nicholas Westermann Goertner, D. D., Pastor Emeritus of the College Church, 1863. Oren Root, LL. D., Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Mineralogy and Geology, 1849. Christian Henry Frederick Peters, Ph. D., Litchfield Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Litchfield Observatory, 1858.

Edward North, L. H. D., Edward Robinson Professor of Greek Language and Literature, 1813.

Rev. Edward John Hamilton, D. D., Acting Professor of Intellectual Philosophy, 1883.
Ambrose Parsons Kelsey, Ph. D., Stone Professor of Natural History, 1876.
Rev. Oren Root, jr., A. M., Samuel-Fletcher-Platt Professor of Mathematics, 1881.
Albert Huntington Chester, E. M., Ph. D., Childs Professor of Agricultural Chemistry
and Professor of General Chemistry, Mineral Metallurgy and Mining Engineering, 1870.
Rev. Abel Grosvenor Hopkins, A. M., Benjamin-Bates Professor of Latin Language and
Literature, 1869.

Francis Marion Burdick, A. M., Maynard-Knox Professor of Law, History, Civil Polity and Political Economy. Librarian, 1882.

Rev. Henry Allyn Frink, Ph. D., Kingsley Professor of Logic, Rhetoric and Elocution, and Professor of English Literature, 1872.

Herman Carl George Brandt, A. M., Professor of German and French Languages and Philology, 1882.

Robert Gracey Denig, Corps of Engineers, U. S. N., Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics, 1883. George Prentice Bristol, A. B., Assistant Professor of Greek and Philology, 1882,

GENEVA COLLEGE, NOW HOBART COLLEGE.

In tracing the history of this College, we must begin with the efforts made by the Rev. Amos G. Baldwin, who, in 1806, cominenced missionary labors at Fairfield. IIe had just received deacon's orders from the hands of Bishop Moore, and held Episcopal services occasionally in the Academy, and secured the support of a large portion of the community. In 1811, he suggested the advantages of placing the Academy under the patronage of his denomination, and solicited aid from Trinity Church, upon the following plan:

The Trustees of the Academy authorized him to say that they would give the Principal $550 per annum, and allow him to instruct four Divinity students free of charge. Trinity Church was to give to the church at Fairfield $250 per annum, and to the clergyman that might be settled there, $250 as a Theological instructor, and he might divide $50 per annum among the Divinity students as he might deem proper.

The plan of establishing a College there was contemplated,' and if it received the aid expected from Trinity Church its President was to be an Episcopal clergyman.

"The plan thus warmly advocated by Mr. Baldwin and the Fairfield Trustees received the favorable notice of the leading members of the corporation of Trinity Church. The Rector, the Rev. Dr. Beach, the Hon. Messrs. Robert Troop and Peter Augustus Jay,

1 See our account of the proposed plan of “

Clinton College" at Fairfield.

Thomas L. Ogden, Esq., together with Professor Bowden (of Columbia College), and Bishop Hobart, who had succeeded to the Episcopate of the State, won by the importunity of the earnest and far-sighted Baldwin, entered heartily into the scheme proposed, and the grant from Trinity Church, by means of which Fairfield Academy was secured to the church, was obtained. Subsequently the original grant of $500 per annum was increased to $750, so as to provide for an assistant in the work of instruction, it being a condition of the gift that eight students shall always receive the whole course of their classical and literary education, and afterward their theological instruction free of any charges of tuition.'

The Rev. Bethel Judd became the first Principal under this arrangement, but his removal to Connecticut hindered him from fulfilling his contract. His successors were Rev. Virgil H. Barber, Samuel Nichols and Rev. Daniel McDonald. The latter had been Rector of St. Peter's Church, in Auburn, and came in January, 1817. The subject of Theological Education began about this time to be actively discussed in Conventions, and this finally led to measures taken under the auspices of the New Theological Educational Society, with the approval of Trinity Church, and at the suggestion of Bishop Hobart, for the establishment of a Branch Theological School at Geneva, the main institution being located in New York city. The Vestry of Trinity Church, on the 8th of January, 1821, resolved to transfer its patronage from Fairfield to Geneva, and, as a first step in the execution of this plan, Mr. McDonald became the Principal of the Geneva Academy.

This Academy had been commenced in 1806 and was incorporated March 29, 1813. It appears to have been well conducted and well sustained. The transfer of patronage, above noticed, was made contingent to the condition that the inhabitants of the village of Geneva and vicinity should furnish, at their own expense, a suitable lot of land and building thereon. To effect this purpose a subscription was circulated under date of February 15, 1821, in which certain sums were pledged to the Trustees of the Geneva Academy, should they transfer their institution to meet this requirement.

The Academy opened April 25, 1821, under Mr. McDonald's charge, the Rev. Orin Clark, D. D., Rector of Trinity Church,

History of Ontario county. Evarts, Ensign & Evarts, 1876, p. 68, and authorities there cited.

We have given some further account of this institution under the title of "Geneva Academy."

A subscription paper, for the procuring of a charter for the Academy in 1813, is given in the publication of Messrs. Evarts & Ensign, cited in a previous note.

Geneva, being his associate and on the 11th of June the Branch Theological School was opened with nine young men in attendance. In his address to the Convention of the Diocese, in 1821, Bishop Hobart, after announcing this arrangement, stated that it was not designed that the "General Theological Seminary" in New York, and the "Branch" at Geneva should be entirely distinct; "but to afford to those students who, from preference or from circumstances of peculiar convenience, have pursued their studies in the branch school at Geneva, an opportunity of completing or revising their course in the Theological School in the city of New York. By this arrangement they will enjoy the advantages which retirement affords for diligent application, and for the formation of those serious dispositions and habits which are essential to the ministry, as well as the benefits resulting from the Theological establishment in New York, where the number of the clergy and the congregations of the churches and the opportunities of more extended social intercourse, will afford to the candidates for orders peculiar facilities for strengthening and refining their minds for obtaining that knowledge of human nature which is so important and useful, and for improving themselves in the performance of the various offices of the desk and the pulpit."

The peculiar advantages of Geneva were pointed out; its picturesque location on the banks of Seneca lake; its proximity to the line of the Grand Canal, and the prospect that at no distant day a College would be established there.

Under these auspices the "Interior School of Geneva " went into operation, with the following professorships:

1. Of the Interpretation of Scripture, of Ecclesiastical History, and of the Nature, Ministry and Polity of the Church ;

2. Of Biblical Learning; and

3. Of Systematic Divinity and Pastoral Theology.

As soon as the funds of the Theological Education Society would permit, these professors were to have salaries of at least $800 a year, and in the meantime, and while engaged in other duties and receiving other emoluments, their salaries were to be fixed by the Board of Managers as circumstances might render expedient.

The Rev. Daniel McDonald, D. D., was appointed to the first, Rev. John Reed to the second, and Rev. Orin Clark to the third of these professorships.

One of the stone buildings now called "Geneva Hall," was built by the Trustees of the Academy in 1821-2, and the first report

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