CLASS OF 1843

The last survivor of this class has passed on, Edward Addison Lawrence having died at his home in Orange, N. J., February 6, of pneumonia. His parents were Curtis and Lucy (Merriam) Lawrence, and he was born in Groton, Mass., February 25, 1823. He was prepared for college at Groton Academy, under Rev. Horace Herrick '34. In college he was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity, and at graduation he was admitted to Phi Beta Kappa. During the first year after graduation he taught briefly at several places, and was then from 1844 to 1851 principal of Appleton Academy, New Ipswich, N. H. He then taught in graded and high schools at Naugatuck and Stamford, Conn., until the winter of 1854-5, when health compelled a vacation from teaching. In the spring of 1856 he took charge of Luzerne Institute, Wyoming, Pa., and in January, 1859, of the high school of Scranton, Pa., being also superintendent of schools. In August, 1862, he became principal of a grammar school in Brooklyn, N. Y., and left this school three years later to open a private school for boys in the same city. After a year considerations of health caused his final abandonment of teaching, and soon after he became connected with the University Publishing Company of New York, as literary adviser and director, and so continued until his retirement three years since. In this capacity he edited and revised many school and college text-books, among them Maury's Geographies, Venable's Arithmetics, and the Clarendon Dictionary. He was also prominent in the management of the company's affairs, in which he was financially interested. In 1869 he removed from Brooklyn to Orange, N. J., where he has since lived. Until advanced age he was active in church work, serving several churches in turn as elder and Sunday school teacher and superintendent. July 26, 1850, he was married to Joanna Pond, daughter of Stephen and Joanna (Pond) Thayer of New Ipswich, N. H., who survives her husband. One of their daughters also survives, and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.