CLASS OF 1861

William Wallace Dow was born in Portsmouth, N. H., November 27, 1832, being the son of Henry and Elizabeth (Lowd) Dow. Before he entered Phillips Academy at Andover to prepare for college (he had previously graduated from the Portsmouth schools in 1848), he had learned the printer's trade, and was four years in the office of the Portsmouth Journal. In college he became a member of Alpha Delta Phi and Phi Beta Kappa. After graduation he entered Bangor Theological Seminary, and graduated therefrom in 1863. Just before completing his theological studies, he was invited to take charge of a theological institution in the Sandwich Islands, but declined because of the condition of his parents, who were old and needed him near them. For a year he preached for three neighboring Maine churches, at Mercer. Farmington Falls, and North Chesterville. He then took tip work with the Christian Commission, and was placed in charge of an office at Martinsburg, W. Va., in the Shenandoah Valley. Here he labored among the soldiers in camp and hospital, and often acted as chaplain in burying the dead, and continued in this service to the end of the war. After his return North, he supplied the pulpit for eight months at Kennebunkport, Me., and then was called to the pastorate of the church at West Brooksville, Me., where he was ordained May 23, 1866, and remained till 1869. While here he was married, May 14, 1868, to Elizabeth Ham French of Portsmouth, who died a few years since without children. He held pastorates afterwards as follows: Waterford, Me., 1869-71; Winchendon, Mass., 1871-4; Douglas, Mass., 1874-81; Norfolk, Mass., 1881-2; Kittery, Me, 1882-6; Danbury, N. H., 1886-7; Winchendon, Mass., again, 1889-90; Lebanon Center, Me., 1890-1. Since 1892 he has resided in Portsmouth, supplying pulpits and contributing to the press, and leading somewhat of a retired and secluded life. His death occurred, after a general decline, August 16, 1911.

Secretary, Mai. E. D. Redington, 1905 Harris Trust Building, Chicago