CLASS OF 1856

Rev. Leonard Zenas Ferris died December 26 in Gorham, Maine. He was born in Ogden, N. Y., July 16, 1834, the son of Sherman and Mary (Lake) Ferris. He prepared for college at Lima and Wilson Academies and at the city high school of Rochester, N. Y., and was two years a member of the Univerversity of Rochester, entering Dartmouth at the beginning of junior year. He was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. In 1857- 8 he studied at Andover Theological Seminary, in 1858-9 was principal of Day's Academy, Wrentham, Mass., and also taught at Gloucester and Weymouth, Mass. For some time during the Civil War he served in the Christian Commission. He then entered the Congregational ministry, and was pastor at Pittsfield, N. H., 1865-70; South church, Lawrence, Mass., 1870-2; Gorham, Me., 1872-7; Rockland, Mass., 1880-6; East Providence, R. I., 1888-1909, finally retiring on account of the failure of his health. He was married August 4, 1858, to Mrs. Elizabeth S. Pond, daughter of John and Sarah (Woodman) Thompson of Durham, N. H. She survives her husband, with their only daughter. A son died in early manhood.

Secretary, Rev. Franklin D. Ayer, 3739 Walnut St., Philadelphia