Memorials of the Class of 1834 of Harvard College; Prepared for the Fiftieth Anniversary of Their Graduation (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MEMOIRS OF THE DECEASED. NATHANIEL BABCOCK INGERSOLL. "ATATHANIEL BABCOCK INGERSOLL, eon of Nathan- - iel and Eliza (Babcock) Ingersoll, was born in Brookline, Mass., Dec. 15, 1813. He was fitted for college at the High School in his native town. During his collegiate course, which was highly creditable to him, he lived with his widowed mother in a modest house within walking distance of the college, where his friends in the class enjoyed a simple and sweet hospitality. His personal appearance, manners, conversation, everything about him, indicated uncommon sweetness, purity and conscientiousness. Everybody loved and respected him and hoped that, with increasing years, he would acquire a physical vigor that seemed to be the only thing necessary to make his virtues and accomplishments of lasting benefit to his friends and society. But the somewhat obscure indications of consumption rapidly increased after his graduation. He filled, while he was able, with much success the position of Assistant in the High School at Brookline, where he was born and educated, and was the first of the class to pass the veil, dying in March, 1836, at the early age of twenty-two. 1 CHARLES KNOWER. /CHARLES KNOWER, son of Benjamin Knower, was born at Albany, N. Y., Feb. 2, 1815. He joined the class of 1834 at the beginning of the Sophomore year, and showed himself to be a man of scholarly habits, pure tastes, and upright life and character. He was of rather a reserved nature; but those who gained his intimacy found in him a friend well worth having. Like many others of the class he did not take his degree at the close of the Senior year, and his early death, the second in the class, prevented his ever applying for it. Soon after leaving college he began the study of the law with his br...