CLASS OF 1863

Rev. Albert Bowers died of apoplexy at his home in Ashland, Ohio, March 15. He was born in Hancock, N. H., April 11, 1837, the son of Mark and Selina (Foster) Bowers, and prepared for college at Mt. Vernon and Hancock. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.

The first year after graduation he was principal of Springfield (Vt.) Wesleyan Seminary, and for the next year of the high school at Sandwich, Mass. He then entered Andover Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in 1868. For-forty years he was actively engaged in the Congregational ministry, as follows: at Macon, Mo., 1868-73; at Huntington, W; Va., 1873-84; at Ruggles, Ohio, 1884-1901 ; at New London, Ohio, 1901-8. The last six years and a half of his life were spent in a happy and honored retirement at Ashland. Always modest and unassuming, he was loved and respected in all the fields where he had labored.

June 22, 1869, Mr. Bowers was married to Melvina Emeline Hart of Harmar, Ohio, who survives him, with a son and daughter, the former being Rev. Roy E. Bowers of Wilmette, Ill.