CLASS OF 1852

Rev. John Colby died December 30 at his home in Fitzwilliam, N. H., in his ninety-second year. He was born in York, Me., October 1, 1821, being the son of Benjamin and Betsey (Tenney) Colby. After graduation from Andover Theological Seminary in 1855, he became pastor of the Congregational church at Hampton, N. H., where he remained for eight years. He was then for nine years at Southboro, Mass., and from 1873 to 1885 at Fitzwilliam, N. H. After a pastorate at South Natick, Mass., of eight years (1886-94), he returned to Fitzwilliam in 1895 to spend his last years in retirement. May 14, 1856, Mr. Colby was married to Helen Lavinia, daughter of Heman Barden of Dover, N. H., who died over a year since, leaving two daughters. The following is taken from The Congregationalist: "In his whole course as student and pastor, as well' as in his retirement, Mr. Colby was greatly honored and sincerely beloved. Respected for his talents and trusted for his uprightness and candor, loved for his warm-hearted bearing, with a fund of humor, he was withal a devout minister of Jesus Christ, holding tenaciously the faith of the fathers and preaching with fervor the gospel which he believed. The graces were all his, and it was manifested in his life that the greatest of these graces is love."