m in their
perplexities and troubles, grieving for their errors, and rejoicing in
whatever advances they made in scientific attainments and true
excellence of character. Remembering his own early struggles, he felt
much sympathy with young men similarly situated, and often rendered
them efficient aid.... Nor was his care and interest limited
exclusively to the college, but he sought to do good "as he had
opportunity," and in the manifold relations he sustained to others, in
the family, the church, the neighborhood, the village, his unselfish
kindness was ever manifested. He held the office of Treasurer of
Meriden Academy for several years after the resignation of his
predecessor, and at the time of his death had been a deacon of the
church for twenty years.

During the summer term of 1858, he was unusually occupied with college
labors, being employed most of the day in attending his recitations
and lectures, and in preparation for them. He had obtained some new
philosophical apparatus, which interested him much, and he never
seemed to find more pleasure in his work than then, though it often
left him quite weary and exhausted.

At that time there was a remarkable degree of religious interest
throughout the country, in which the college and the village shared,
and it resulted in numerous conversions. He often attended the
noon-day prayer meetings of the class he was then instructing, and
spoke of them with much pleasure; and his own heart was deeply moved
by the heavenly influence.

Near the close of July he began to suffer much from a malady which,
though hidden, must have been long in progress. His sufferings were
most acute and severe, but never did he lose that sweet patience and
serenity of spirit he had always manifested, nor that calm submission
to his Heavenly Father's will. He died September 13, 1858.

In the words of one of his most esteemed associates: "The village
mourns, for it has lost an excellent citizen; the church mourns, for
it has lost an efficient officer; the college mourns, for it has lost
a revered teacher; the State mourns, for it has lost an exemplary
subject,--one who belonged to that class who are justly styled 'the
light of the world!'"

Few men in America have ever been called to teach the abstruse science
of Mathematics, who combined in such desirable proportions a thorough
knowledge of the science with a faculty of presenting it in a pleasing
manner in the recitation room. In the ha