CLASS OF 1863

Rev. Joseph Connor Bodwell died at Machiasport, Me., April 17, 1913. He was the son of Rev. Dr. Joseph Connor and Catharine (Sykes) Bodwell, and was born in Weymouth, England, February 29. 1840. His father, a Dartmouth graduate of 1833, was some years a pastor in England, returning to this country in 1850. The son fitted at Phillips Andover Academy, and entered Dartmouth in the fall of 1859. June 24, 1862, he enlisted in Company B, Seventh Squadron Rhode Island Cavalry, the "College Cavaliers," most Of whose members were students from Dartmouth and from Norwich University. Mr. Bodwell did not return to College after his military service of four months, but was given his degree in 1869. He studied law at Harvard in 1863-4, was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1864, and practiced some years in Boston and for a short time in Minnesota. His plans of life having changed, he entered Hartford Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1871. He then entered the Congregational ministry, serving at Thompson, Conn., in 1872-4; at Stockbridge, Mass., 1874-7; at Leavenworth, Kan., in-1877-80; at Bridgewater, Mass., in 1880-6; at Lyndon ville, Vt., in 1887-1904; and at Machiasport, Me., in 1905-6. He resigned the last pastorate on account of ill health, but retained his home there. June 15, 1871, he was married to Annie L. Kimball of Woburn, Mass. They had one child, a son.

Secretary, M. C. Lamprey, Concord, N. H