uaintance will mingle their grief
in bemoaning the loss of a sincere friend, a valuable citizen, and an
exemplary Christian."

The records of the public life of Professor Woodward are thoroughly
interwoven with the history of northern New England. Few pioneers in
the valley of the upper Connecticut did more to promote the general
welfare of the community.

His wife was Mary, daughter of Pres. Eleazar Wheelock.

CHAPTER XXI.

PROF. JOHN HUBBARD.--PROF. ROSWELL SHURTLEFF.

Prof. John Hubbard succeeded Professor Woodward. We quote from a
published eulogy by Rev. Elijah Parish, D.D., his college classmate.

"The Hon. John Hubbard, the son of John and Hannah (Johnson) Hubbard,
late Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in this
university, was born in Townsend, Mass., August 8, 1759. Dark and
dismal was the dawn of that life, which has been so fair and luminous.
Five months before his birth his father died, and this, in his last
moments, when his children stood weeping round his dying bed, he made
use of as an argument of consolation to them, entreating them not to
weep, for God had taken care of him when a fatherless infant. During
his minority most of his time was employed in the labors of
agriculture. At the age of twenty-one he commenced his studies, and
the next year became a member of this institution. In the second year
of his residence at college, when many were awakened to a religious
sense of divine things, our friend was one of the happy number. His
subsequent life and death have proved that his conversion was not
imaginary. While this increases our loss, it is the best reason for
consolation.

"In his college life Mr. Hubbard was a youthful cedar of Lebanon. He
gave visible tokens of his approaching eminence. So tenacious was his
memory, that his progress in the languages was remarkably rapid. While
he lived, the Greek and Roman writers were his amusement; and with a
taste refined, he was charmed with their classic beauties; his memory
was stored with numerous favorite passages.

"On leaving college, his love of study, his delight in religious
inquiries, his devout regard for the best interests of man, led him to
the study of theology. Becoming a preacher of the gospel, his voice,
naturally small and feeble, was found to be ill adapted to such an
employment. After a fair experiment his good sense forbade him to
persevere. The transition was easy to his 'delightful task to teach
the you