CLASS OF 1877

The death in New York City, May 18, 1907, of Reverend Angus Archibald Robertson removes the oldest member of the class of "77, and a man much loved by all his classmates. He attained neither wealth nor fame, but his faithful and laborious service to humanity through his chosen Profession deserve all the tribute that may be paid in these columns. Hi's name indicates his ScotcH ancestry. He was born on Prince Edward Island, June 11, 1849, and came to Massachusetts in 1868. He was dependent upon his own exertions for the means of his education, at Lawrence Academy, Groton, Mass., and at Dartmouth. After theological study at Yale and Oberlin seminaries, he was ordained in 1880 to the Rational ministry. Up to the year 1887 he served as pastor of churches of this denomination at South Haven, Mich., Buda, Ill., Massena, N. Y., and Vergennes, Vt. From 1887 to 1892 he was minister in charge Willoughby Avenue chapel, in Brooklyn, IN. Y. For some time following, he lived in poor health at Demarest, N. J., and preached for a time at Pelhamville, N. Y. ; He then took charge for some time of a new enterprise at Port Morris, in upper New York City. In 1897-8, he wag pastor at Aquebogue, Long Island. A change of views then led him into the Protestant Episcopal church, and for some time from June, 1899, he labored in and about Duluth, Minn. In 1900-03, he was reCtor at Fort Smith, Ark., and for the next two-years he was in charge of churches in Michigan, at Croswell, Detroit, and Hudson. For a year he was at Maquoketa, la., but his health had gradually failed since reCeiving a paralytic stroke in Detroit, and in May, 1906, he returned to New York, where the last year of his life was spent in increasing weakness. This record can only hint at the unselfish devotion of his life and at hardships bravely borne. He was twice married, his first wife, Mary Barrows How of Portland, Me., having died in 1887. In 1893, he married Mrs. Marie JR. (Vermilyea) Barnett of New York, who survives him. Of the two children of his first wife, one died in infancy and one at the age of seventeen. An only son by his second wife died at the age of three years.

Hattie Z. (Curtis), wife of Sumner Wallace, died at their home in Rochester, N. H., July 13, of consumption.

Lew Rosen crossed the Atlantic from London in September. His address for the present is 448 Guy St., Montreal, Que

Secretary, John M. Comestock, Chelsea, Vt.