CLASS OF 1876

Rev. Frederick William Ernst died quite suddenly of heart disease at his home in Dorchester, Mass., November 3. He was born in East Feliciana Parish, La., June 28, 1853, being the son of Frederick Steinman and Elizabeth Ann (Hammond) Ernst. In 1869-73 his home was in Cummington and Danville, Ky., and he fitted for college at Danville Academy, and took his freshman year at Center College, in that town. Entering Dartmouth at the beginning of sophomore year, he became a member of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. The first three years after graduation he passed as a student at Yale Divinity School, and graduated there in 1879. In that year he became pastor of the Congregational church at South Hartford, N. Yi, and remained there till the spring of 1884. He then left the active ministry, and after a year and more spent in study and travel, entered upon teaching, and in the fall of 1885 became principal of Dow Academy, then newly opened at Franconia, N. H. He remained there with good success until 1899. After a year's rest he became in 1900 principal of Parsonfield Seminary and Piper Free High School at North Parsonfield, Me. In 1903 he removed to Dorchester, taught in the New England College of Languages for a year, was engaged for a year in private teaching, and became in 1905 principal of the University School, a private preparatory school, with which he was connected for the rest of his life. Mr. Ernst was married March 18, 1880, to Hattie Emeline, daughter of John Hart and Mary Elizabeth (Smith) Holt, of New Haven, Conn., who survives him. They have had two daughters and two sons, all of whom are living, the sons being recent graduates of Harvard.

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