CLASS OF 1854
Professor Galen Allen Graves died August 4 in his home, Ackley, Iowa - by accident with his horse - suffering in full consciousness for eight hours. His long life of seventy-seven years was given to successful teaching, which he began at the age of sixteen. He organized White Hall Academy, New York, taught Latin and Greek in Kalamazoo College, Michigan, superintended public schools of Battle Creek and Marshall. Removing to Iowa, he pursued the same eminent usefulness in public schools and academies, until the last year of his life. He was an earnest Christian and much lamented
The Reverend Levi Henry Cobb, D.D., has been a sufferer for three years with rheumatic gout - acquired, so far as he knows, by " high living among the missionaries on our western frontier" -- a pathetic climax to forty years of heroic, unbroken service after leaving Andover Seminary in 1857. Besides successful pastorates, Dr. Cobb, as secretary of the Congregational Church Building Society, aided in building two thousand churches and five hundred parsonages. His home is in Maynard, Mass. He continues a measure of usefulness in the publication work of the society and accepts his situation with Christian patience.
The Reverend Charles Caverno, LL D., of Lombard, Ill., wrote the secretary, September 19: " In July, I graduated from a Chicago Hospital for ' biliari calculi ' ' summa cum laude.' The operation was necessary and proved successful. I can now harness the horse, get the corn for the table, and cut up the stocks for the cow. I correct old manuscript 'to keep the sprightly soul awake' literary wise." Life seems to be worth living. Dr. Caverno has been in delicate health for years, but never an idler.
John Eaton, LL.D., Washington, D. C., a partial invalid from paralysis acquired in public service organizing education in Porto Rico. He is writing a book of war reminiscences, Grant, Lincoln, and the negro.
Benjamin A. Kimball, Concord, N.H.,carries lines of business formidable in volume and number, but finds time to serve his alma mater with untiring fidelity as trustee.
William Callahan Robinson, LL.D., teaches in the Catholic University at Washington, having published numerous law books used at Yale and elsewhere.
Colonel Daniel Hall, Dover, N. H., serves the banks, and public generally, in many prominent stations of pecuniary service, his health delicate, but his courage unabated.
George Hazeltine, LL.D., continues a long and successful career as patent solicitor in New York.
Reverend William' Winchester Whitcomb, Geneva, Illinois, was disabled by paralysis in 1901, after faithful Baptist pastorates in the west, but he finds life a boon and privilege yet.
John Goldthwaite Adams, a veteran teacher, resides in Keene, N.. H.
Dr. Samuel Wood Dana, New York, N. Y. Horace Bliss Woodworth, professor in State University, Grand Forks, North Dakota.
Secretary, Stephen L. B. Spear, 369 Atlantic Ave., Boston, Mass. Number of graduates 61, survivors 16.
