Year. 1871 1868 Marsh, George Daniel Merriman, Daniel 1867 Moore, Nathaniel Schuyler 1862 Moore, William Enos Boise 1856 Morse, Charles Fitch. 1862 Morss, George Henry 1862 Osborne, Cyrus Pearl 1895 Rich, Charles Selwyn 1866 Richardson, Alvah Mills Page. 39 34 32 25 20 26 21 26 27 22 15 29 30 40 ΙΟ 47 32 9 12 17 19 39 24 19 27 16 28 38 35 44 15 STATEMENTS. For many years the necrology has been presented at the annual meeting of the Andover Seminary Alumni Association by the recording secretary, and for over thirty years this has been printed. Dr. Hazen, the Rev. C. C. Carpenter and Arthur W. Kelly, Esq., have established a precedent for painstaking and somewhat minute accounts of the alumni who have died in preceding years. With the transfer to the Seminary library of the voluminous material gathered in preparation for the General Catalogue of 1908, together with much additional data then in the possession of Mr. Carpenter, this collection became the center for any work that looked to setting forth the records of Andover Seminary men. At the library also there are on file the publications of colleges and many books of reference which make this the logical center for the compilation of the necrology. Moreover the University collections are easily accessible. In accord with these circumstances the Alumni Association voted, June 19, 1912, to pass over the necrology to the Librarian of the Seminary. Dr. Gates has very kindly taken upon himself this arduous task in addition to his other manifold duties and he has edited this present necrology. In accord with the wishes of the Trustees of the Seminary the necrology is now published after an interval of three years. In this number of the necrology, too, there has been no attempt at any characterization of the men who have died, as there has been in the past few issues. However, no essential step in the career of the men noted has been knowingly omitted. The general plan that has been followed has been the continuance up to the time of a man's death of such a record as we find in the General Catalogue, with added facts concerning his birth, education, special achievements, family and death. Although the necrology is now paid for by the Trustees and compiled by the Librarian it is essentially an Alumni production as it must be the alumni who shall have an interest in the presentation of the records that are given of classmates and other fellow alumni. It is upon the alumni, too, that the compiler must depend for information in regard to the death of Andover Seminary men. All present records are constantly getting out of date, so that it is to the alumni that one must turn also for the latest and closest information concerning the men whose names shall be recorded. It need hardly be mentioned, too, that for one to do the great amount of work that is necessary in the compilation of this necrology one must feel a sense that he is working with others and with the appreciation of others, so that it is in a representative capacity, acting for all the alumni, that one engages in such an undertaking as this. The alumni support must be gladly and freely given. |