CLASS OF 1870

Rev. Schuyler Chamberlin Farnham was born in Lowell, Mass., December 25, 1845, and died of heart disease and arteriosclerosis in Wyoming, N. Y., November 12, 1916.

His parents were Ransom and Betsey (Andrews) Farnham. He prepared for college at Newbury (Vt.) Seminary. His fraternity was Psi Upsilon.

For the first two years after graduation he studied in the theological school of Boston University, and then entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, becoming at first a member of the New Hampshire Con- ference. He was stationed at East Canaan, N. H., in 1872-4, and at Exeter, N. H., in 1874-5. In August, 1875, he resigned this charge on account of a throat trouble, and in October entered the Boston University School of Oratory, from which he graduated in 1877. In 1876-7 he preached at Derry, N. H., in 1877-9 at Methuen, Mass., and from April to December of 1879 at South Newmarket, N. H. In 1880 he was transferred to Genesee Conference, and was stationed at Pavilion, N. Y., 1880-1, and at Alexander, N. Y., 1881-2.

Overwork at Pavilion caused a serious impairment of health, from which he never completely recovered. In 1882 he bought a farm at Batavia, N. Y., and lived there nearly six years, during which time he supplied the pulpit at Alden, 1884-5, Stafford, 1886-7, and East Elba, 1887-8. He then returned to New Hampshire, and preached at Moultonville from October, 1888, to April, 1889. He then bought a farm at Hubbardston, Mass., and lived there two years, supplying part of the time at East Templeton.

In, 1892 he returned to the Genesee Conference, and preached at Kanona, N. Y., 1892-3; at Painted Post, N. Y., 1893-4; at Knoxville, Pa., 1894-7; at Hornellsville and Almond, N. Y., 1897-1901; at Webster, N. Y., 1901-2; at East Bloomfield, N. Y., 1902-5; at Albania, N. Y., 1905-6; at Alexander, N. Y., 1907-12. He then retired permanently from active work, and bought a home at Wyoming, N. Y.

Mr. Farnham was a clear and forceful preacher, and a faithful pastor, and the laborious career outlined above was one of honor and success.

April 3, 1878, he was married to Mary 0., daughter of Robert and Anna Fernald of Salmon Falls, N. H., who died January 9, 1901. They had six children, three of them dying in infancy and two sons and a daughter surviving their parents. April 2, 1902, he was married to Mrs. Happy Cook, who survives him.

William Wallace Roller, for somewhat less than two years a member of this class, died February 8, 1916, in Denver, Colo., at the home of a son, with whom he had lived for a few years past. Failing health had been the cause of his removal from Salida, Colo., where he had been in mercantile business for thirty years or more. He was one of the most prominent business men of his section, and bore an enviable reputation for integrity, enterprise, and public-mindedness.