CLASS OF 1858

After forty-six years of active service as a Congregational minister, Reverend Doctor Samuel L. Gerould died May 22, at Hollis, N. H., after a long illness.

He was a well-known minister of the state and one of the older graduates of Daitmouth College. He was well-known in the world of letters as well as among the clergy and the members of his various parishes. Reverend Mr. Gerould was born in Alstead, N. H., July 11, 1830. He graduated from Dartmouth in 1858, and then attended the Union Theological Seminary in New York, from which he entered the ministry. His first pastorate was at Stoddard, N. H. , beginning in 1860 and ending in 1868. From 1868 to 1886 he was pastor of the Congregational church at Goflstown, and in 1886 he came to Hollis as minister of the Congregational church, which post he held until his death. During the Civil War he served in the 14th New Hampshire volunteers as chaplain, on leave of absence from his church from 1862 to 1865. For thirty-three years he had been statistical secretary of the general association of ministers and published in book form annually the minutes of the association. He had written two histories of his class at Dartmouth, of which he was secretary, the Gerould genealogy, and a valuable book, "Churches and Ministers of New Hampshire,'' published in 1900. He received the degree of doctor of divinity from Dartmouth College.

He is survived by his wife and seven children.