CLASS OF 1872

Rev. Dr. Alva H. Morrill has resigned the pastorate of the Christian church of Laconia, N. H., to become pastor of a church of the same denomination at Franklin, N. H. Frederick Wesson Newcomb died May 11 of valvular disease of the heart, at the home of a sister at South Royalton, Vt. He was the son of Wesson and Eunice Jane (Deming) Newcomb, and was born in Barnard, Vt., December 3, 1843. His preparation for college was obtained at the. Orange County Grammar School. He was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. For nearly a year after graduation he studied law in Montpelier, Vt., and then with a change of purpose he studied three years at Yale Divinity School, graduating in 1876. During his course at Yale his health failed, and he was never able to undertake the work of the ministry. After a sea voyage from New York to the Pacific coast for his health, and some work as a surveyor in Oregon, he returned in 1879 to his native town, where he has since lived oh a farm. For many years he has been engaged through the summer as colporteur for the Vermont Bible Society, and in that capacity has been engaged in all parts of the state in inconspicuous but highly useful work, winning the confidence and respect of all classes of people. He has been for many years a deacon of the Congregational church in Bethel, the nearest to his home. Mr. Newcomb never married.

Secretary, Prof. Albert E. Frost, Winthrop St., Pittsburg, Pa.