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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.
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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-—
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maintaining its ministerial services and
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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. Edwin Parsons,
88, and Robert William Parsons, 1901,
are brothers of the deceased.
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