CLASS OF 1847
Reverend Richard Hall died April 1, after a short illness, at his home in St. Paul, Minn. He was born in New Ipswich, N. H., August 6, 1817, prepared for college at Phillips Andover Academy, and after the four years at Dartmouth, studied for the ministry at Union Theological Seminary, where he was graduated in 1850. He was ordained at New Ipswich, and October 1, 1850, was commissioned by the American Home Missionary Society, with his college and seminary classmate, Charles Seccombe, to begin Congregational missionary work in the new territory of Minnesota. He at once began pastoral duties at Point Douglas and Cottage Grove, Minn., and also at Prescott, Wis., while his classmate became the pastor of the First Congregational Church in St. Anthony(now the east part of Minneapolis), the oldest Minnesota church of this denomination.
In 1856 Father Hall was appointed superintendent of the work of the home missionary society in Minnesota, in which service during eighteen years, until 1874, he traveled very extensively throughout this state and aided in the foundation of more than eighty Congregational churches and also of Carleton College.
Daring his later years he resided iD St. Paul, being an assistant of the Society for the Relief of the Poor.
He was married in New York City August 20, 1850, to Mary Elizabeth Chapin, who died about nine years ago. Their two children died in infancy. The funeral of Father Hall was in Plymouth Church, St Paul, of which he was a member, and he is buried beside his wife and children in Prescott, Wis.
Honorable Charles C. Colby died recently at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Stanstead, Quebec, where he had been a patient for some time.
The Honorable Charles Carroll Colby was the son of the late Doctor Moses F. Colby, who came to Stanstead from New Hampshire in 1832, and afterwards represented that county in the parliament of Lower Canada. Mr. Colby was born at Derby, Vt., on December 10, 1827, and was graduated from Dartmouth College, in 1847. Returning to Canada, he took up the study of the law and was called to the Quebec Bar in 1855 He took up the practice of his profession at Stanstead.
Twelve years later, when the Dominion of Canada came into being, he was elected as the first representative of the county of Stanstead in the House of Commons, and continued as its representative until the general election of 1891, when he was defeated, having sacrificed his own campaign in order to help the Conservative candidates running in the other counties of the Eastern Townships, the greater portion of these being elected.
After this reverse, Mr. Colby went abroad, and on his return in October, 1893, being pressed to again contest the county in the next general election, he announced at a dinner given in his honor at Stanstead Plain that "he had laid aside the public harness for good, and desired to dwell among his friends only as a private citizen."
When in parliament Mr. Colby acquired the reputation of being one of the ablest debaters in the House of Commons. Preferment naturally came to him. From 1887 to 1889 he was deputy speaker of the House, and in 1889 was called to the Privy Council, taking his seat in the cabinet of Sir John A. Macdonald as president of the Privy Council, resigning after his defeat in 1891. In 1896, when Sir Mackenzie Bowell formed his government, he offered Mr. Colby a portfolio, but this the latter declined, holding to Ms decision no longer to take any part in public affairs.
Mr. Colby was one of the fathers of the National Policy, his speeches in 1878 contributing materially to the success of the Conservative platform in the general election of that year. With local enterprises Mr. Colby was always intimately connected, doing much to advance the interests of the section of the country in which he resided.
In recent years Mr. Colby passed much of his time abroad, still maintaining, however, his interest in the county with which his name had been so long and so prominently identified.
Mr. Colby married in 1858 Miss Harriett Child, of Weybridge, Vt., who survives him, together with his four children, Professor Colby, of McGill University; Doctor J. C. Colby of Stanstead: Mrs. J. F. Aikins, of Winnipeg, and Miss Colby.
