January 1, 1860 At her home, present site of County Clerk�s office, died Helen Hascall, daughter of Ralph and Mary Sterne Hascall, of Essex, and wife of Judge Lemuel Stetson. The Stetson Memorial Chapel presented to Trinity church by her only surviving son, Francis Lynde Stetson of New York, perpetuates her memory.
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January 14, 1860Died in Plattsburgh, on the morning of January 1, 1860, HELEN HASCALL, wife of Hon. LEMUEL STETSON, aged 51 years.
It is ever profitable to remember God's blessed saints, who have left behind them the savor of a godly life. The manifestations of divine grace in their spiritual attainments, or deep religious experience serve not only to illustrate the deep religious experience serve not only to illustrate the power of that grace, but to encourage others in their Christian course. And when they are taken away, they do not seem entirely lost to us, having in memory, their holy lives Though dead, they still speak.
It is with such thoughts that we record the death of our beloved friend. She has indeed left behind a bright example for us to follow who survive. Her religiouscharacter was marked and striking, she was ever earnest, faithful, and devoted, striving to adorn the doctrine of her Savior in all things.
With great jealousy of herself arising from her deep conscientiousness she was anxious to perceive and know what she ought to do, and then to the best of her ability, to do it. In all the relations of life she had a high regard for her responsibility, and without intruding into the sacred privacy of domestic life we cannot say how faithfully and tenderly she fulfilled them. She was greatly endeared to all who knew her by her many amiable qualities. A large circle of friends appreciated her worth, and mourn her loss. In her last sickness our departed friend gave most precious evidence of the strength of her faith, and her entire submission to God's will. She calmly committed herself to her Heavenly Father's hand, fully confiding in his wisdom and love. Her severe sufferings shook not her faith and trust, and her prayer was not to be delivered from suffering, but that she might have grace patiently to endure.It is due to the memory of Mrs. STETSON to state that from principle she many years ago attached herself to the Baptist denominations of Christians and she died in the conscientious belief of, and adherence to all the principles of that order. But she now is art rest from all sufferings and labor, and rejoices as we earnestly believe, in the presence of that Savior whom, in her life, she honored and loved.
Lemuel was a prominent lawyer of New York state; a member of the New York Assembly; District Attorney; County Judge and a member of Congress.
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Stetson Family PapersThis collection consists of materials relating to the Stetson Family of New York City especially Francis L. Stetson. The founder of the family was Robert Stetson, a native of England, who came to America in 1630 and settled at Scituate, Mass. Lemuel Stetson (March 13, 1804-May 17, 1838), a lawyer, served as a Democrat in the state assembly and as a representative in the 28th U. S. Congress.
He married Helen Hascall on Feb. 24, 1831 and she died on Jan. 1, 1860. They had four sons, Ralph Hascall (Jan. 22, 1832-Nov. 5, 1859); John Lemuel (Mar. 8, 1832-Sept. 17, 1862); Francis Lynde (Apr. 23, 1846-Dec. 5, 1920) and William Sterne (Apr. 2, 1850-May 29, 1883). John L. Stetson was a Lt. Colonel with the 59th New York Veteran Volunteers and was killed Sept. 17, 1862 at the Battle of Antietam.
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The Troy Weekly News
May 30, 1868Hon. Lemuel Stetson died at his residence in Plattsburg on Sunday last. He was a man of marked ability and has occupied a prominent position in the politics of the state. He represented the Clinton and Essex district in Congress on 1843-45, was subsequently the Democratic candidate for Comptroller, was a Barnburner in 1848, left his party and for a time acted with the Republicans as a war Democrat in 1861, when he was was elected to the Assembly and served with distinction. Subsequently, however, he returned to the Democracy, but took no active part in politics. The loss of his son Col. Stetson, in the battle of South Mountain, was a terrible blow from which Mr. S. never recovered. He was a man of warm heart and generous nature, and all who knew him will regret his decease. His age must have been upwards of sixty.
New York Times
November 7, 1859In this city, on Saturday, Nov. 5, at the residence of Wm. S. Hascall, Ralph Hascall Stetson, of this city, eldest son of Hon. Lemuel Stetson, of Clinton county, N.Y.
John Lemuel Stetson was a lawyer. He died in the Battle of Antietam, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, in the Civil War.
Graduated Williams College in 1867. He was distinguished as a lawyer in New York, and particularly as bringing into his law firm President Cleveland, at the close of his first administration.
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Fort Worth Public Library
Stetson Family PapersFrancis Lynde Stetson, a lawyer, was born at Keesville, Clinton Co., N. Y. on April 23, 1846. He graduated at Williams College in 1867. He attended Columbia Law School and graduated in 1869. In 1894, he formed the firm of Stetson, Jennings & Russell. His firm represented J. P. Morgan and U. S. Steel Corporation. President Grover Cleveland was a partner of Stetson between his two terms as President. He was also the counsel for Samuel J. Tilden in the Tilden-Hayes controversy over the 1876 Presidential election. He was president of the New York State Bar. He held memberships in the Century, Metropolitan, University, Down Town, National Arts, Tuxedo, Riding & Groilers Clubs of New York. He married Elizabeth Ruff on June 26, 1873 and died in New York City on Dec. 5, 1920.
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New York Times
December 7, 1920On Sunday, Dec. 5, at his residence, 4 East 74th St. Francis Lynde Stetson, in the 75th year of age.
Interment at Williamstown Mass.
New York Times
April 18, 1917At her residence, 4 East 74th St., New York, on Monday, April 16, 1917, Elizabeth Ruff, beloved wife of Francis Lynde Stetson.
Interment in Williams College cemetery.
New York Times
May 31, 1883Stetson - At Riverside, California, May 29, 1883, William Sterne Stetson, of this city, in his 34th year. Interment at Plattsburg, N. Y.
New York Times
August 3, 1880At Tarrytown on the Hudson, August 1, Elizabeth, wife of S. Burt, and daughter of the Hon., Ralph Hascall, Essex, Clinton county, N.Y.
Sobieski Burt and his wife Elizabeth were members od The West Baptist church established in Oswego in May 1853.
New York Times
May 21, 1914Burt - May 18, William H.., aged 73, Funeral services Chapel Stephen Merritt Burial and Cremation Co., 8th Av., 19th St. Thursday 8 p.m. Interment Friday morning, private.
New York Times
December 31, 1934Burt - Margaret, at her residence, Hotel Endicott, West 81st St., on Dec. 30, 1934, wife of the late William H. Burt, sister of Eva Beauchamp Hoyt.
Interment Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Student of Pompey Academy, winter 1838, sponsored by Dr. Jehiel Stearns.
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Entered West point in 1841, did not graduate.
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Notes dictated from the daughter (Allis Fitch Hascall) of William Sterne HascallWilliam Sterne Hascall was born on March 16, 1822 in the town of Essex, N.Y. His father Ralph Hascall, died when he was only a year old, and as was the custom of the time, his mother who had great beauty married again, this time Dr. Nathaniel Kendrick, the first President of Hamilton College, now Colgate University, which was founded by Deacon Daniel Hascall, uncle of William Sterne. Dr. Kendrick was a widower with two daughters, one of whom remembered the little William Hascall very well in later years, and a son not much older than William. The little Kendrick boy was so naughty William was sent to live with his uncle Dr. William Sterne, for whom he was named, in New London, Connecticut, and there he grew up. I do not know what schools he attended, but he did go to West Point. However, he did not remain in the service but resigned to study law which he practiced until his death.
During his school vacations William sometimes visited his sister Helen, then the wife of the Hon. Lemuel Stetson, a Judge in northern New York. During these visits he became a warm friend of Josiah Fisk and also knew Josiah's little sister, Myra Peters Fisk, whom he marrried when she was 25 and he was 27.
Before William married, some friends persuaded him to go west to Waukesha, Wisconsin. He practiced law there and was Clerk of the Court. He returned to New York in the fall of 1849 to be married on October 4th to Myra Peters Fisk and then took his bride to Waukesha which is still known for its springs. At that time Wisconsin was still in its early stages of development and Mrs. Hascall later told amusing stories of the country. When they went to an inn for a meal they were asked if they would "white bread and chicken fixings, or brown bread and common doings". It was not the custom in the town to keep servants, but the Hascalls had one maid.
Their first child was born in Waukesha, but lived less than a year. About a year later their daughter Lorraine Fisk was born. Shortly after this Mrs. Hascall's mother wrote that she very mich wanted her daughter to be near her, so with the little Lorraine Mr. and Mrs. Hascall came back to New York to live with Mrs. Fisk and Mrs. Hascall's sister Lorraine and her husband Dr. Evander Ranney, and the orphan son of Annete Fisk.
The family home was then on West 23rd Street, with a large yard running clear through to 24th Street, the stable and carriage house being on 24th Street. Although the house was called "the cottage" it was built of brown stone. It stood in the center of lawns and there were flower beds and fountains. There were three similar houses on the north side of 23rd Street between 8th and 9th Avenue.
When Mrs. Ranney died the family moved to 319 West 23rd Street, where Mrs. Fisk died. Then the Hascalls and the children moved to Rutherford Place at 17th Street, near St. George's Church. Mayor Grace and his family lived on the south side of the square and Ex-Governor Hamilton Fish lived on the north side of the square. Later the Hascalls lived on 27th Street between Fourth and Lexington Avenues and then on West 29th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues. (You cannot judge what these sections of New York were then, by what they are now.) It was while the family home was on 29th Street, that William Sterne Hascall died at Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania, where he had gone for a rest. This was on June 30, 1879. By this time Lorraine was married, and Mrs. Hascall was left with her second daughter, Allis Fitch, who was born in New York, a second son, Will, also born in New York, having died in childhood.
Mrs. Hascall and Allis Fitch Hascall lived abroad for about six years, in France, Italy, Switzerland and Germany. When they returned to the United States they lived for a time on Tenth Street and later on Washington Square. Mrs. Hascall died on April 23, 1908.
William Sterne Hascall was a man of very strong affections, devoted to his family. Somebody said of him that he knew neither moral nor physical cowardice. He had an unusual influence on young men although he never preached to them. Some of the young men he knew used to go to his house in the morning to walk down town with him and the nephews of his household, to his office. He was a man of great uprightness and an excellant lawyer. He always did better for others than for himself.Mr. Hascall practiced law in New York until his death, at first alone and then with his nephew, Francis Lynde Stetson, graduated from college he took him into his office as a clerk and after he finished law school as a partner. When Francis became Assistant to Corporation Counsel William C. Whitney, Mr. Hascall took in another partner, Edmund Stedman, a friend and classmate of Francis, and the firm name was Hascall, Stetson and Stedman until Mr. Hascall's death in 1879. At that time Francis Stetson was invited to become a partner of Francis Bangs, a well known lawyer, under the firm name of Bangs and Stetson, which arrangement lasted until Mr. Bangs death. Then Francis Stetson became the senior partner and the firm name was changed to Stetson, Bangs, Tracy & McVeagh. Mr. Bangs was a young relative of Francis Bangs, and Mr. Tracy was a brother of the elder Mrs. J. P. Morgan. Later the firm was changed to Stetson, Jennings & Russell, this partnership lasting until Mr. Stetson's death in December 1920. Within nine months the other two partners also died. Then Allen Wardwell, a nephew by marriage of Mrs. Stetson, and a junior member of the old firm, invited John W. Davis, former ambassador to Great Britain, and Frank Polk, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, to become the older members of the new firm, Davis, Polk & Wardwell.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer
July 3, 1879William Sterne Hascall, senior member of the firm of Hascall, Stetson & Stedman No. 79 Cedar Street, of this city, died on Monday morning at Delaware Water Gap. His body will be brought to this city and the funeral services will be held tomorrow morning in the Baptist church on Madison avenue and Thirty first street. Mr. Hascall was born at Essex, N.Y. in 1824. He was the son of Ralph Hascall, who was a State Senator for four years at the time of Martin Van Buren, with whom he was on terms of close friendship. After the death of his father, Mr. Hascall went to Hamilton N. Y. to live, where his mother married the Rev. Mr. Nathaniel Kendrick, president of Madison University. Mr. Hascall entered West Point and was there three years, being a classsmate of Fitz John Porter and a room mate of General Daniel A. Russell. Afterward he studied law at Keysville in the offices of his brother in law, Lemuel Stetson; when twenty-five years of age he settled in Waukeesha, Wis., and was there made clerk of the first Territorial Court of the county, and afterward elected twice to the county clerkship. In 1854 he came to New York and has been a practicing lawyer here ever since. He was best known as one of the best real estate lawyers and as a trustworthy counsel. He was a dirtector of the old Knickerbocker Stage line, has for a long time acted as counsel for various city stage lines, the New York Gaslight Company and the Broadway Bank. He was a Democrat. He leaves a wife and two daughters, one of whom is married.
New York Times
April 25, 1908Hascall -- At her residence, 29 Washington Square West, early on Thursday morning April 23, Myra Fiske Hascall, wife of the late William Stearne Hascall of this city and daughter of the late Josiah and Phoebe Peters Fiske.
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Notes from the daughter( Allis Fitch Hascall) of Myra Peters FiskMyra Peters Fisk and her sisters were highly accomplished, brilliant and witty women. In fact the whole Peters line apparently were witty. We know that General Absolom Peters and his son, the Reverend Absolom, and his daughters Phoebe and Myra were notably witty. In the family it was said that it was a great delight to have their uncle Absolom come to see their mother because the conversation was so fascinating. As a family, from General Absolom down, they wrote a great deal of poetry.
The two sons, Elbridge and Josiah (brothers of Myra) and all the daughters had every educational advantage possible at the time and there were already admirable schools and colleges. The daughters of the family then were not admitted to any colleges but from what I know of their daughter, Myra, and the others, they were educated as thoroughly, apparently, and as broadly as girls in the colleges are now. They studied Greek, Latin and French, mathematics and philosophy, and certainly Myra was well grounded in all of these studies. She attended the fasionalble school of the day, Mrs. Oakill's in Greene Street, New York City, wherer the daughters of well known old New York families attended.
At the time of Myra's girlhood, the social center of New York was Bond Street and lower Broadway, and balls and parties were given in that part of the city. When an uncle moved from Grove Street to East 22nd Street, then called Chelsea, the family considered that he was going into the country and expected to meet their cousins only at long intervals.
People in New York kept cows and horses then. Grandfather Fisk used to drive from Clinton and Essex Counties in the Lake Champlain section of the state, to New York City to see his friends and attend to business. Years after his death farmers in the Adirondack region remembered his passing through on some of his trips.
In those days people travelled by canal boats and stage coaches quite often, and when one of the older daughters was going to New York to visit her relatives her trunk was lost on a canal boat and it was two years before it again reached her with its contents in perfect order. This same aunt drove with some cousins all the way from New York to Alabama to visit relatives. Many of the Fisk letters belonged to the period when envelopes were not used, but a large sheet of paper was written on and folded in such a way that it remained closed. Frequently people availed themselves of opportunities to send letters by friends who were traveling, and so the Fisk family carried letters for various friends and relatives when they travelled.
This grandmother of Reginald Hascall Parsons, Myra Peters Fisk Hascall, was a woman of very wide sympathies and love of humanity. She gathered about her outstanding men and women of her period. People of all classes, if they had ideas, were welcome, and guests were consistantly in her house, it was the exception to be without them. The daughters and sons of her friends were warmly welcome and the conversation of her dinner table was always extremely interesting, entertaining and enlightening.
No movement likely to benefit the community was brought to her notice that she did not do her utmost to advance it. She believed, as did her mother before her, that the spiritual life was the real life, and that the external life should be its reflection. Years after having met and talked with her, people would recall their conversation with her as having added value to their lives. It is a blessing to have had the standards and ideals of such a father and mother inculcated in their descendants.
When Myra Peters Fisk was about fifteen years old, a woman of the neighborhood was stricken with small-pox and because it was such a dread disease she suffered for proper care, not being able to hire it and people being afraid to go to her. When Myra heard this she was so sorry for the woman and so indignant that no one would help her that she announced her intention of going there herself, to do something for the woman. After some consideration, she was allowed to go and no harm came to her from her errand of mercy.
When Mrs. Hascall was about sixty, she returned to the village of her girlhood for a visit. (Keesville, N.Y.) Upon seeing an old man who had long been a resident of the town and whom she remembered from her girlhood, she spoke to him and told him who she was, the daughter of Judge Fisk. The man at once replied, "Oh yes, I remember your parents. They stood for religion and education and everything that was good"
Notes on Parsons Family by Mabel ParsonsAllis Fitch Hascall, the only sister of Lorraine Fisk Hascall Parsons, was born and brought up in New York City, where she still lives at 10 Mitchell Place. Her education has been, in a way, cosmopolitan, as she has lived abroad six years with her mother and studied at and graduated from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, with the dgree of M.D.
Since then she has taken a dozen trips abroad, making more or less lengthy stays there. She has also travelled all over the United States and has crossed the Pacific to Japan.
She is a member of the Women's University Club and spends much of her time there. She is an embodiment of the old New Yorker type which is gradually passing from view.
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Trip arrivals documented at Ellis Island
October 05, 1892 on Manitoba from Tilbury, Essex, England
November 07, 1911 on Minnehaha from Southampton, Southamptonshire, England
November 13, 1914 on Baltic from Liverpool, England
September 04, 1921on Carmania from Liverpool, England
November 17, 1924 on Adriatic from Liverpool, England
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New York Times
July 2, 1941Hascall - On Junday, June 29, 1941, Allis Fitch, M.D., daughter of the late Judge William Sterne and Myra Peters Fisk Hascall, aunt of Reginald Hascall Parsons of Seattle Wash. Se
Howell Smith Hascall was a farmer in Warren county, Illinois.
The following notes provided by Richard K. Hascall:
Howell Smith Hascall (b. 1811-d. 1892) was a farmer and one of the early members of the newly formed "Christian Church on the Cedar Fork of the Henderson River" established by the pioneers from Kentucky in Coldbrook, Warren county, Illinois. He kept the church record book until leaving for Creston, Iowa. (from Marlene Armfield)
He purchased 4000 acres at $125 per acre in 1836 in Illinois (Section 18, Township 10N, Range 2E).Howell Smith Hascall (b. 1811-d. 1892) was a farmer and one of the early members of the newly formed "Christian Church on the Cedar Fork of the Henderson River," established by the pioneers from Kentucky in Coldbrook, Warron Co. Illinois. He kept the church record book until leaving for Creston, Iowa. (Marlene Armfield)
He purchased 4000 acres at $125 per acre in 1836 in Illinois (Section 18, Township 10N, Range 2E).
Many geneoligists have Alberry Alderson spouse as Laura Bowling. After tracing this line we find Laura Alderson with her daughter Emma, residing with her brother Franklin Hascall in Texas, Cooke county, in 1880.
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Correspondence on the net by Foster K. Sampson (now deceased) supports this.The sources I am using from the 1890's seem to indicate that two brothers, Dr. Eugene Webster Alderson and Rev. James F. Alderson, were pastors of Wesley Methodist Church, Greenville, Texas, in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Eugene was listed as the son of Rev. A. L. Alderson and Laura Haskell; James was listed as the son of Rev. A. L. Alderson and Laura Hascall. Neither indicated their mother's name as Bowling.
Chicago Daily Tribune
May 1, 1881Meacham - At his residence, 2735 Michigan Ave. April 30, Willard Meacham of paralysis, aged 77 years.
15404. William Augustus Barden
Jamestown Journal
February 24, 1871Mr. William A. Barden, a well known lawyer and citizen of Fredonia, died at his residence in that town on Sunday Feb. 12th. The Fredonia Censor says concerning this sad event. "Two weeks ago last Monday, Mr. William A. Barden, went to Albany to argue two cases through the Court of Appeals. It was his first and last appearance at the court. He returned on the following Thursday, sick, his disease developing itself into a severe attack of erysipelas. Although deathly ill during last week, his friends entertained slight hopes until Sunday. He expired Sunday morning about two o'clock. A large concourse of citizens and bretren of the profession assembled at his funeral Monday afternoon to testify to the general sense of affection.
6458. George Washington Harman
Argus and Patriot
April 06, 1898
Pittsford pick-ups
The remains of George W. Harman were brought to town from Bennington on the flyer, last Thursday afternoon, for burial.
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Artemus Harmon Book
page 249:Hon. George Washington Harman, the first historian of the Harmon family, was born in Pawlet, VT, May 7, 1812. He married Laura Penfield, of Pittsfield, VT., 12 Oct 1836. He spent twelve years compiling the genealogy of all the Harmons who were descendants of John Harmon, the first, of Springfield, Mass.
The genealogy contains over 3500 names (in 1897), and is a most complete work of any family history in America. By his will he gave his great work, a large book and hundreds of papers, of Harmon families, to the town of Suffield, Conn. (In the town clerk's office in 1920.)
Mr. Harman (as he spelled his name) was admitted to the bar in Rutland county, VT., in 1833, became bank cashier in 1848, and judge of the municipal court of Bennington, VT. He died 29 Mar 1898, and was survived by one son, Henry A. Harman, of Rutland, VT., who was born 6 May 1845. He is living in Rutland in 1920.
See Harman-Harmon Genealogy by John William Harman pg. 268-69 Judge George W. Harman was a direct descendant of John Harman, the first of Springfield, MA and used the "a" instead of an "o" in his name, following the English form in spelling Harman. (pg. 269).
St. Albans Daily Messenger
September 28, 1900Mrs. Laura A. Harman, mother of Henry A. Harman, died Wednesday morning at her son's home in Rutland after a long illness. Mrs. Harman was born at Pittsford Mills February 20, 1814. She was married October 12, 1946, to George W. Harman, of Pawlet, who for many years a member of Rutland and Bennington county bars. They moved to Bennington in 1848, where Judge Harman died in March 1898. Mrs. Harman was the fifth in a family of 12 children, of whom five survive.
Descendants of Elder John StrongJames Saurin Hascall b. Oct.7, 1811, grad. at Madison University in 1836, m. March 1839, in Florence N.Y., Angeline Storm b. in East Town, N.Y., April 2, 1818 (dau. of Abram Storm and Catherine Van Antwerp). He has been a principal of an institution at Florence, N.Y., of the Rome Female Seminary, N.Y., and of the Dellton Academy, Wis., and has been Prof. in the Wayland University at Beaver Dam, Wis.; is now a farmer at Badger, Portage Co. Wis.
Arthur F Hascall
Enlist Date : 02 September 1861
Enlist Place : Hamilton, NY
Enlist Rank : Corpl
Enlist Age : 21
Promoted to Full Sergt
Served New York Enlisted C Co. 61st Inf Reg. NY died wounds at Smoketown, MD on 06 November 1862
Source: New York: Report of the Adjutant-General
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Descendants of Elder John Strong
Wounded at Antitam, Maryland Sept. 17, 1862, died of wounds at Smoketown hospital near Sharpsburg, Maryland November 11.
Ralph H Hascall
Enlist Date : 02 September 1861
Enlist Place : Hamilton, NY
Enlist Rank : Priv
Enlist Age : 18
Served New York Enlisted C Co. 61st Inf Reg. NY Killed at Malvern Hill, VA on 01 July 1862
Source: New York: Report of the Adjutant-General
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Descendants of Elder John Strong
Shot through the head in the battle of Malvern Hill, Va., July 1, 1862
The Press (Portland)
February 24, 1881William Hosmer Shailer D.D.
Our citizens were pained to learn on Saturday last of the serious illness of Dr. Shailer. Today we have to announce the sad intelligence of his decease which took place at 6:30 o'clock p.m., yesterday.
In the autumn he was attacked with what seemed to be incipient paralysis, his right arm being chiefly affected and his general health impaired. Rallying from this, however, he seemed to be regaining his usual health until a few weeks ago, when he caught a severe cold which threatened pneumonia. Severe pains in the head succeeded at intervals, followed by general prostation. On Wednsday of last week it was evident that he was sinking under his disease though everything that the best medical skill could devise was employed in his behalf. His mind remained unclouded until Sunday, when occasional delerium ensued. This was followed by the closing hours of quiet rest, when, surrounded by his family, he peacefully expired.
Dr. Shailer was born in Haddam, Conn., Nov. 20, 1807, where he resided until 18 years of age, when, desiring an education, he entered the academy at Wilbraham, Mass., and completed his prepatory course in Hamilton, N.Y. Entering Madison University in 1830 he was graduated in the class of 1835. A part of this time was spent in the Theological department of this University. He entered the Newton Institution this same year, but was called to take charge of the Connecticut Libaray Institute at Suffield Conn. Here he remained two years during which time he was ordained in Deep River, Conn., to the Christian ministry. While living here he was married, his wife being the daughter of Prof. Hascall, of Hamilton, N.Y., the founder and long a professor of Madison University. In 1837 Dr. Shailer accepted a call to the Baptist church in Brookline, Mass., of which church he remained pastor for more than sixteen years. While here he performed much work in connection with denominational societies. He was for ten years Secretary of the Massachusetts Baptist Convention; for thirteen years he was Recording Secretary of the American Baptist Missionary Union, and for eight years a member of the executive board of that society, sharing largely in the prepatory labors which have since borne such huge results. In 1842 he declined a call to the First Baptist church in this city, but accepted a call to this church when renewed twelve years later. Hebacame pastor in this city March 19, 1854, and remained the much beloved minister until he resigned, August, 1877, a period of nearly twenty four years. His united pastorate of the two churches covered a period of forty years, during which time he administered the ordinance of baptism to nearly 400 persons.
Dr. Shailer's pastorate was the longest of any minister of his denomination in the state, and his influence among the the churches was wide and salutary. In the years 1867-8 he was President of the Baptist State Convention, and during his entire residence in the State was one of its most active and judicious officers. He was deeply interested in the work of education, giving practical aid and sympathy to many youth of both sexes in obtaining a liberal education. He was trustee of Newton Theological Institution for many years; also of Colby University from 1855 to the present time, of which college he was also treasurer at his death. He recieved the degree of A. M. from Trinity College in 1836, and from his Alma Mater in 1846, which also conferred upon him the degree of D. D. in 1853.
Dr. Shailer has been connected with the superintendence of the city schools from 1856 to the present time, with the exception of the years 1874-5 when on account of a defect in the law the election was declared void. Much of his time he has been the efficient chairman of the board. No man in the city has had so much to do with the success of our schools and the training of our youth, more than twenty classes having been graduated from our High School since his first election. His loss will be greatly felt in the various school departments.
In 1858 Dr. Shailer became the publisher and editor of Zion's Advocate in this city which relation he sustained until 1873, a position, however, which he did not allow to interfere with his pastoral Labors.
Apart from Dr. Shailer's excellence as a minister of the gospel he was one of our most esteemed citizens. Well versed in business affairs, he was a wise and judicious counsellor, upright in his dealings and true to his word, which was always as good as his bond. His genial and kindly ways drew to him multitudes of friends. As a preacher he was logical, simple and clear. The warm glow of his love for the truth transfused his sermons and kindled a responsive feeling in the hearts of his hearers. He was a wise and faithful pastor. In the sick room and at the funerals of his flocknone knew how to speak tenderer or more comforting words than he. He was "a good minister of Jesus Christ."
Dr. Shailer leaves besides his wife, a son, Barnas S. and two daughters, Mrs. J. B. Matthews of this city and Mrs. Rev. S. D. Moxley of Mount Morris, N.Y., and an adopted daughter, wife of Rev. E. S. Small of Livermoore.