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NOTICES, {Alumni Association and Class Secretaries are in- vited to contribute to this column.] Ninety-Six. There will be a Ninety-Six Class dinner at the Yale Club, 17 East 26th street, New York, on Saturday even- ing, January 28th, at 7 o'clock. As this will be the last New York dinner prior to the Triennial next June, all members of the Class are earnestly urged to make every effort to be pres- ent. Owing to the incomplete state of the present list of addresses, it is probable that many men living in New York and vicinity will fail to receive their .in- vitations. On this account everyone reading this notice is requested to do his best to make the dinner a largely attended and successful affair. The cost of the dinner will be two dollars a cover, and men are reminded that all members of Ninety-Six are in- vited to attend without regard as to whether or not they are members of the Club. Those who intend to be present should communicate as soon as possible with M. D. McKee, 17 East 26th street, New York. —_——_—_+—__—. Obituary. JAMES ARCHER, 730. James Archer, ’30, died at his home, Oakland Plantation, Stanton, Miss., December 30, 1898. His death leaves only one member of the Class of 1830 living. This is Hon. Henry Barnard of Hartford. Mr. Archer was born near Belle Air, Md., December 23, 1811 He was pre- pared for College at the Belle Air Academy, and entered Yale in the Sophomire Class in the Spring of 1828. After graduating in 1830 he studied law with his father and practiced for a short time. In 1835 he moved to Mississippi, residing at first in Port Gibson. In 1837 he purchased a large property near the South line of Jefferson County and lived there as a planter all his life. He was very successful and had acquired an independent fortune prior to the war. In the war he lost everything except his land, but continued thereafter to live on the plantation, and his former slaves remained with him as laborers, sharing with him in the expenses and products of the plantation. He belonged origi- nally to the Whig party, favored the election of Bell and Everett, and op- posed the course of the people in his State and their attempt at independence. But when the struggle came he went with his own kin to the side of the Confederacy and sent his sons to the front. The latter engaged in most of the worst conflicts of the West, but all survived, though not without wounds. The last Class book has the following entry: than that of Justice of the Peace and Supervisor of the County—is in favor of universal suffrage, universal amnesty and the rights of all men. He is strongly attached to his own section of the country and believes that ‘Missis- sippi possesses the finest lands, finest climate, finest people, and most valua- ble staple in the world,—and that ‘Cot- ton is still King,’ joyed uniform good health; is an Elder in the Presbyterian Church, and in favor of all good enterprises.” He married in 1836 Miss Mary Ann Hunt, daughter of David Hunt, one of the largest planters of Mississippi. She died before’ her husband. Fourteen children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Archer. Dr. J. B. Stratton, in writing a memorial sketch of Mr. Archer for the Natchez Bulletin, spoke as follows of him: “Mr. Archer’s life, till the disaster connected with the late civil war, was an eminently happy one. He loved his occupation, his home, his children who had clustered around him. The war involved him seriously in the re- verses which it spread broadcast over our Southern land, but his homestead and his land were left to him, and his books furnished an inexhaustible solace, and Christian fortitude bore him through losses and troubles: and filial love, with its untiring assiduities, smoothed the way, by which, year by year, he traveled cheerfully toward his eternal home. He was a consistent and faithful member of the Presbyterian © Church, holding office in it, and prac- tically aiding, as Mr. Gladstone, in England, was accustomed to do, in _ Massachusetts. “He has held no other office ° Mr. Archer has en-— Ak: (A LODANT Wen maintaining its ministerial services and af . > charitable enterprises. REV. GEORGE I. WOOD, 733. The Rev. George I. Wood, ’33, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. I. Vinal, 1106 East Capitol street in Wash- ington, D. C., on January Io. Mr. Wood was born at Stamford, CTonn., on May 20, 1814.. He was one of the first members of the Yale society of Skull and Bones and entered the Yale Divinity School after having studied law for two years with his father in Bridgeport, Conn. He gradu- ated from the Union Theological Sem- inary in 1838, and was ordained pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in Washington, D. C., in May of the year 1840. He was afterwards called to the pastorate of the Congregational Church in Hartford, Conn., where he resided three years. At the end of that time he supplied the pulpit of the Congrega- tional Church in North Bradford, Conn., residing there until 1850, when he became the pastor of the Congrega- tional Church at Ellington, Cony. In 1854 he resigned the pastorate of the church at Ellington, and later was called to the Third Church at Guilford, Conn., where he remained from 1858 to 1867, when failing health obliged him to resign. In July, 1869, he bought a house at Ellington, where he resided for some time. Of late years he has lived in Washington, where his death oc- curred. 3 REV. MOSES HOGE HUNTER, 736. Rev. Moses Hoge Hunter, ’36, died at La Plata, Charles County, Md., on January oth. He was 85 years of age. Mr. Hunter was born in Martins- burg, Va., in 1814. He studied in the Princeton Theological Seminary, and was ordained as a clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 18,0. He spent six years as rector of a num- ber of churches in Kentucky and In- diana. In 1847 he opened a school at Gross Isle, Mich. In 1861 he was ap- pointed Chaplain 3d Pennsylvania Cavalry. After the war he was in charge of churches in Detroit, Mich. and Knoxville, Tenn. He was twice -married, and is survived by his second wife and two sons and two daughters, all children by the first wife. DR. HORACE BURR, 742 M.S. Dr. Horace Burr, ’42M.S., died of pneumonia at Newcastle, Delaware, on January 1oth. Dr. Burr was born at Haddam, Con- necticut on December 13th, 1817, and was a direct descendant of Rev. Peter Buckeley, the founder of Concord, In early life he taught school and was thereby enabled to attend the Yale Medical School, from which he graduated with the Class of Forty-Two. After his graduation he moved to Westbrook, Conn., and there began his medical practice. His ability soon won for him a leading place among physicians of that district and his practice was extended over all the neighboring towns. In 1868, the failure of his health forced him to withdraw from active work for a few years, dur- ing which period he changed his place of residence to Newcastle, Pa. Regain- ing his health, he continued his practice until a short time before his death. Dr. Burr was an earnest student of. history and had made himself familiar with many languages, Some years ago he wrote a history of the Swedes, which is a valuable work on the subject. For over twenty-five years he was a vestry- man of the old Swedes church in Wil- mington. Dr. Burr was married in 1847 to Louisa W. Hungerford, and had eight children, six of whom sur- vive him. He leaves a second wife, Miriam Moore, to whom he was mar- ried on Jan. 12, 1808. DR. MYRON N. CHAMBERLIN, ’57. Dr. Myron N. Chamberlin, 57, died very suddenly last week in West Ches- hire, Conn. He was driving with the Rev. Mr. Hoyt on his way to visit a patient when he complained of feeling ill and died from a stroke of apoplexy before he could be taken to the nearest residence. Dr. Chamberlin was in his sixty-second year and had been prac- ticing medicine in Cheshire for thirty years, having graduated from the Yale Medical School in. 1866,. He. was a prominent citizen and respected, being Chairman of the Board of Health, Chairman of the School Board Library Association, and a member of E. A. Doolittle Post, G. A. R. His funeral was held on Friday afternoon, January 13, from the Congregational Church, Cheshire, of which he was a prominent member. He leaves a widow and one daughter besides his brother, Mr. George Chamberlin of New Haven, and two sisters. CHARLES PARSONS, jr., 78. Charles Parsons, Jr., 78, died at his home, No. 27 West Forty-fifth street, New York City, on Thursday, Janu- ary I2. Mr. Parsons was born in 1858 at Savannah, Ga., on January 18. After his graduation in Seventy-Eight, he read law at the Columbia College Law School, and in the office of the Hon. Daniel H. Chamberlain. In June, 1883, he married Miss Frances Louise Hum- phrey of Hartford, Conn. pleting his law studies he became in- terested in various financial enterprises, especially railroads. He was Vice- President of the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensberg and of the South Caro- lina and Georgia railroads at_the time of his death. He was also connected with the Utica and Black River rail- road. Mr. Parsons was a widower and had been in ill-health during the last few years of his life. 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