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...Barlow died in New York on Saturday last. He was born in 1834, and was graduated from Harvard in 1855, being a member of the class in which Alexander Agassiz, Phillips Brooks, and Robert Treat Paine graduated. After graduating he studied law in the office of W. C. Noyes, New York, and began practice in that city. For a time he was on the Tribune staff. In 1861 he enlisted as a private in the 12th regiment, New York State national guard, and went to the front at the first call. In September, 1862, he was made brigadier general...
...Russell was the son of the Hon. Charles and Persis Hastings Russell, and was born at Princeton...
...circumstances of St. Augustine's life were radically different from those of St. Ambrose. He was born in Africa and was designed by his father to become a professor, not a bishop. At Milan, however, he met St. Ambrose and, influenced by him, entered the clergy. On his return to Africa he was elected Bishop of Hippo. This office he held until his death. Influenced by a desire to get at the heart of things, he eventually took up the question of the source of evil and enriched the church by philosophical writings. As St. Ambrose was characterized...
...death of Theodore Lovett Sewall of the class of 1874 was recently announced at Indianapolis. Mr. Sewall, a descendant of Chief Justice Samuel Sewall, was born at Massillon, O., Sept. 20, 1853. Entering college in 1870, he graduated in 1874, and then, after a two years' course as a graduate student, received the degree of LL. B. He was the seventh Sewall in a direct line to receive a degree from Harvard. Mr. Sewall was a man of marked literary tastes. He was a fine critic. One of the organizers of the Contemporary Club of Indianapolis, he served for four...
...Proctor was born in Chelmsford, Mass., June 27, 1831. He was prepared for college at Phillips Andover Academy, entered Harvard, and was graduated in the class of 1854. Two years later, in 1856, he graduated from the law department of the University. He had also studied in the office of Charles Tracy of New York, and was admitted to the bar in that city in 1854, but continued his studies until his graduation from the Law School. He then began practice in Boston in the office of Harvey Jewell. In 1862 Hon. William W. Warren, late member of Congress, became...