CLASS OF 1853

Rev. Calvin Butler Hulbert died February 12, at Bowling Green, Ohio.

He was born in Sheldon, Vt., October 18, 1827, his parents being Chauncey and Charlotte (Munsell) Hulbert. He obtained his college preparation at Bakersfield Academy, under Jacob S. Spaulding '41, and at Thetford Academy, under Hiram Orcutt '42.

For the first year after graduation, he was principal of S wanton (Vt.) Academy, and then for two years of Franklin County Grammar School, at St. Albans, Vt. He then studied for three years, at Andover Theological Seminary, graduating in 1859.

His first pastorate was with the Congregational church of New Haven, Vt., where he remained ten years, 1859-69. He was then for something over two years pastor of the Belleville Avenue church of Newark, N. J., then from 1872 to 1875 of the Second church of Bennington, Vt.

He had become a trustee of Middlebury College in 1866, and in 1875 was elected its president, serving for five years. He went to Middlebury when the affairs of that institution were at the ebb, and contributed materially to the return of prosperity. In 1875 he was made a Doctor of Divinity by Dartmouth.

After his college service he returned to the pastorate, and was at Lyndonville, Vt., from 1881 to 1887, and at East Hardwick, Vt., 1887-90. On account of the failure of his voice he withdrew from active service for a . time, and in 1890 made his home at Zanesville, Ohio. In the spring of 1891 he took his son's classes in English literature in Marietta College, during the latter's absence in Europe. In September, 1891, having recovered his voice, he began preaching', for the Presbyterian church of Adams Mills, Ohio, and remained there till 1898. His concluding pastorate was at Rome, Ohio, from 1898 to 1904. He then made, his home at South Dennis, Mass:, till 1912, since which he had been at Bowling Green.

Dr. Hulbert was a vigorous preacher and occasional speaker, and published much in the press and in pamphlet form.

He was married at Sandwich, N. H., August 28, 1854, to Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Henry (Dartmouth 1815) and Clarissa (Emerson) Woodward, who survives him. Their six children are all living, one being Homer B. Hulbert '84.