CLASS OF 1854

Rev. Stephen Lewis Bates Speare, late secretary of this class, died at his home in Newton, Mass., June 4, 1907, after a long illness. Mr. Speare was born in Corinth, Vt., May 6, 1834. After graduation he studied for a year at Andover Theological Seminary, taught for a year, and was then engaged in business from 1856 to 1867, in Haverhill, Mass., and Chicago, Ill. After a year's study in Chicago Theological Seminary, he resumed business again in Chicago and Haverhill for five years. In April, 1873, he was appointed chaplain of the Massachusetts State Prison, and remained there until November, 1877. Meanwhile he was on the 30th of January, 1874, ordained to the Congregational ministry. From 1878 to 1881 he was pastor of the First Street Congregational church of Bangor, Me., and at Middlebury, Vt., in 1881-7. In 1888-9 he was engaged in mission work in the city of Brooklyn, and was in 1890-1 pastor of Pilgrim church, Minneapolis, Minn. His home thereafter was in Newton, Mass., and he maintained a connection with a business firm in Boston. He married, Deo. 18, 1856, Abby Godfrey, daughter of Humphrey Hoyt of Bradford, Mass., who, with one daughter, survives him. Mr. Speare was a man of strong convictions, a scholarly and vigorous preacher.