HONORARY

Rev. George Burley Spalding, who received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1878, died March 13 at his home in Syracuse, N. Y.

Dr. Spalding was the son of Dr. James (1814 D.M.S) and Eliza (Reed) Spalding, was born in Montpelier, Vt., Aug. 11, 1835, and graduated from the University of Vermont in 1856. After studying for the ministry at Union and Andover Seminaries, he was pastor of the Congregational church at Vergennes, Vt., 1861-4, of Park church Hartford, Conn., 1864-9, of the First church, Dover, N. H., 1869-83, and of Franklin Street church, Manchester, N. H., 1883-5. In 1885 he went to Syracuse as pastor of the First Presbyterian church, and retained that position during the rest of his active life, becoming pastor emeritus a few years since.

Besides his effective service in the regular work of the ministry, Dr. Spalding did much editorial writing on various papers, served in New Hampshire as a member and chaplain of the House of Representatives and a memer of the Constitutional Convention, and in New York as a trustee of Hamilton College and Auburn Theological Seminary.

In addition to his degree from Dartmouth, he was made a Doctor of Laws by Syracuse University in 1894, and a Doctor of Divinity by the University of Vermont in 1904.