CLASS OF 1853

Rev. James Milligan Dickson died at North Yakima, Wash., January 29. He was born in Ryegate, Vt., February 6, 1831, the son of Robert and Janet (Lenny) Dickson, both immigrants from Scotland, and fitted at Peacham Academy. His first three years of college life were spent at Geneva Hall College, Ohio, and he entered Dartmouth at the beginning of senior year. Until the fall of 1854 he taught on Staten Island and at Haverstraw, N. Y., and then spent three years at Union Theological Seminary, graduating in 1857. From 1857 to 1862 he was pastor of the Church of the Covenanters (Reformed Presbyterian) in Brooklyn, N. Y.; from 1862 to 1869 of the Sixth Presbyterian church, Newark, N. J.; from 1869 -to 1883 of the Goodwill Presbyterian church, Montgomery, N. Y. From 1883 to 1889 he was pastor of the 34th Street Reformed Dutch church, New York, from 1889 to 1894 of the Pilgrim Congregational church, Providence, R. I., and from 1894 to 1903 of the East New York Reformed Dutch church, Brooklyn. After the close of the last pastorate he made a trip abroad, and in 1905 went to North Yakima to make his home with a son, and for a time preached for a newly organized Congregational church in the neighborhood. His life record is one of great activity and usefulness until the end. In 1885 the degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him by Drury College. Doctor Dickson was twice married: first, April 7, 1858, to Agnes Annot Nelson of Ryegate, Vt., who died February 23, 1859; secondly, September 30, 1863, to Helen Alrina West of Dorset, Vt. Two sons and a daughter survive their father, another son having died in infancy.

Secretary, Rev. Nathan F. Carter, 51 Rumford St., Concord, N. H.