CLASS OF 1844

Rev. Samuel John Mills Lord was found dead in bed on the morning of January 11 at Post Mills, Vt., where he had made his home for a year past. He had attended church the day before (Sunday), and was apparently in his usual health when he retired that night. Mr. Lord was the son of John and Lucy (Bliss) Lord, and was born in Norwich, Vt., October 4, 1830. His preparation for college was at Thetford Academy. The first year after graduation he taught in Kentucky, and then took a three years' course at Lane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, graduating in 1848. In 1849-50 he preached for the Second Congregational church of Brookfield, Vt. ; at North Truro, Mass., in 1851-4; at Wilmington, Vt., in 1855-9; then at Wadham's Mills and Westport, N. Y. In 1862-3 he preached at Enfield, N. H., and in 1864-5 at Deerfield, N. H. About this time he received a severe injury by being thrown from a carriage, aDd for many years suffered great weakness and was able to undertake very little work in his chosen calling. September 12, 1861, he was married to Harriet Billings, daughter of Phineas C. Butterfield of Francestown, N. H., and Mr. and Mrs. Lord taught together in several places; among them, Billerica, Mass., where Mr. Lord also preached in 1870-1. Tor many years they resided in Weymouth, Mass., until the death of Mrs. Lord in June, 1904. Soon after this he went to South Windsor, Conn., and lived with a niece, the wife of Rev. Charles A. Jaquith '96, until the removal of the latter to Nebraska a year since. Mr. Lord was a man of great cheerfulness of disposition, singular piety, and unusual richness of spiritual experience.