CLASS OF 1845

William Chamberlain Strong died May 14 at the home of his son, Dr. Lawrence Strong, at 80 Morningside Drive, New York, where he had been living for a year or two past. Mr. Strong was born in Hardwick, Vt., August 18, 1823, and was thus in his ninetieth year. His parents were Elnathan and Jane (Chamberlain) Strong, and Rev. Dr. Elnathan Ellsworth Strong '52 is a younger brother. After graduation he studied law for a time in Boston and at Harvard Law School, but about 1850 became a farmer in Newton, Mass., and continued in that occupation, being for many years owner of an extensive nursery in Brighton, and being four times president of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. He gave up active business about fifteen years ago. He had been for many years an active member of the Newton Highlands Congregational church. Mr. StrDng was twice married: first, to Margaret, daughter of Joseph Breck of Brighton, June 11, 1850, who died many years since; second, October 7, 1864, to Mary Jane, daughter of Samuel Davis of Boston, who died about two years since. He leaves a son and two daughters.