CLASS OF 1874

Rev. Albert Francis Newton died March 24, at his home in Brooklyn, N. Y., of arteriosclerosis, after an illness of about two years. After closing his last pastorate, April 30, 1916, he spent the summer at his daughter's home in Willsboro, N. Y., but continued to fail in health, and in October went to Brooklyn for the winter.

He was the son of Elbridge and Jerusha E. (Stearns) Newton, and was born at Salmon Falls, N. H., April 3, 1848. He prepared for college at Reed's Ferry and Francestown, N. H., and became a member of Alpha Delta Phi.

For three years following his graduation he studied at Andover Theological Seminary, and in 1877 became pastor of the Congregational church at Townsend, Mass. He remained there five years, and 'was then from 1882 to 1892 pastor at Marlboro, Mass. For five years from 1892 he was pastor of the Rochester Avenue church in Brooklyn, N. Y., from 1898 to 1901 of the Union church in Haverhill, Mass., from 1901 to 1912 at North Leominster, Mass., and then to 1906 at Dunstable, Mass. In all these fields he did faithful and effective work.

Throughout his active life Mr. Newton wrote much for the press, and was a frequent lecturer on temperance and on other topics.

December 5, 1877, he was married to Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Amos and Jane (Little) Wright of Milford, N. H., who survives him, with two daughters.