from Harvard,
'a Roman of the Romans,' one who would have done honor to Rome in her
noblest and best days for the purity, integrity, and elevation of his
character. Charles Marsh, who held for many years the unchallenged
position of the leader of the bar in Vermont, a cousin of that giant
in the law, Jeremiah Mason, whom he greatly resembled in many of his
intellectual characteristics,--a high-toned gentleman, and a devout
and reverend believer in Christianity. Moses P. Payson, a graduate of
the College, of the class of 1793, a lawyer of courteous and elegant
demeanor, and of high social position. Judge Edmund Parker, a sound
lawyer, a man of good sense, and excellent judgment, and above all a
man of unspotted character, a brother of the distinguished ex-Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire. Israel W. Putnam, D.D.,
a graduate of the class of 1809, so long and so favorably known in New
Hampshire as a clergyman. John H. Church, D.D., a graduate from
Harvard, a man of apostolic solemnity and dignity of character, whose
praise is in all the churches. John Wheeler, D.D., an accomplished
scholar, afterwards President of the University of Vermont. Bennett
Tyler, who was still a Trustee, although he had resigned his position
as president, a man of commanding dignity of presence, an unrivaled
logician, and one of the best pulpit orators it has ever been the good
fortune of the writer to listen to. Judge Samuel Hubbard, of Boston,
one of the best lawyers of New England, who for many years was the
rival and the peer of the leaders of the Suffolk Bar. When on the
bench of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, he was numbered among her
most eminent jurists, and was ranked with Fletcher and Shaw. He was a
man of the finest sensibilities, and a devout and reverent Christian.
Mills Olcott, of the class of 1790, who had been the Secretary and
Treasurer of the College before he was a Trustee, whose father had
served before him for twenty years in the same capacity, a man of
remarkable sagacity and enterprise in business affairs, of assured
social position, and of great elegance and dignity of manner.

"And of this body of men was Ezekiel Webster, the elder brother of
Daniel, a man of remarkable intellectual endowments; in sagacity and
judgment, in the opinion of those who knew them both, fully equal to
his distinguished brother, well read, as all the gentlemen of the old
school were, in the old English authors; a profound l