CLASS OF 1861

Horace Greenleaf McDuffee died of cancer July 3, at Bennington, Vt., in the Vermont Soldiers' Home, of which he had been an inmate for a few weeks. He was the youngest son of John and Dolly (Greenleaf) McDuffee, and was born at Bradford, Vt., December 22, 1833. Preparing at Bradford Academy and Newbury Seminary, he in 1858 entered the sophomore class in the Chandler Scientific Department. Before this he had taught school for several terms, and had studied and practiced surveying. After graduation he studied law for a short time in the office of Roswell Farnham of Bradford, but never was admitted to the bar or engaged in practice. In 1862 he went to Troy, N. Y., and there enlisted as a private in Company G, 169th New York Volunteers. He was later transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps, and was discharged in 1864, much broken in health. For most of the time since he had followed no regular occupation, living in Bradford and East Corinth, Vt., being of very eccentric if not unbalanced mind. In 1867 he married Mrs. Ellen P. Smith. Mrs. McDuffee died July 4, 1899, having been separated from her husband for many years. They had one daughter.

Secretary, Edward D. Redington, 325 Marquette Building, Chicago