OBITUARY RECORD

OF

GRADUATES OF YALE UNIVERSITY

Deceased during the Academical Year ending in

JUNE, 1905,

INCLUDING THE RECORD OF A FEW WHO DIED PREVIOUSLY,
HITHERTO UNREPORTED

[Presented at the meeting of the Alumni, June 27th, 1905]

[No. 5 of the Fifth Printed Series, and No. 64 of the whole Record]

OBITUARY RECORD

OF

GRADUATES OF YALE UNIVERSITY

Deceased during the Academical year ending in

JUNE, 1905

Including the Record of a few who died previously, hitherto unreported

[PRESENTED AT THE MEETING OF THE ALUMNI, JUNE 27TH, 1905] [No. 5 of the Fifth Printed Series, and No. 64 of the whole Record]

YALE COLLEGE

(ACADEMICAL DEPARTMENT)

1836

NEWTON BARRETT, son of Simon and Lydia (Mascraft) Barrett was born at Washingtonville (then called Richland), Oswego County, N. Y., September 28, 1812, but during his early years his parents removed to Woodstock, Conn., and from there he entered college.

After graduation he visited his parents in their new home in Michigan (Territory), intending to return to New Haven and enter Yale Theological Seminary in the autumn; but financial necessity changed his plans, and he taught a select school at Middlebury (afterward East Akron), O., a year, spent the following year in theological study at Hudson, O., and while continuing his studies taught a year in Euclid Academy, eight miles south of Cleveland, and in the Preparatory Department of Western Reserve College, then at Hudson. He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Portage in September, 1840, and began preaching at Brecksville, a few miles northwest of Hudson, and at Atwater in the adjoining county of Portage. From 1841 to 1848 he was settled in Brecksville, and then accepted a call to Milan, O., where he remained until the spring of 1852. He supplied the Congregational Church at Hudson from 1853 to 1856, and at Mendota,

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Ill., the following year. In the latter place he organized a New School Presbyterian Church, to which he ministered till 1861, a part of the time also preaching at Paw Paw Grove. He then became pastor of the New School Presbyterian Church at Knoxville, Ill., and remained there two and a half years, going thence to Dunton (afterward Arlington Heights), Cook County, Ill., where he was pastor nine years. He continued to reside there until 1881, and then for two years was pastor of the Congregational Church at Elkhorn in the neighborhood, which during this time erected a new house of worship.

Mr. Barrett died of acute gastritis at the home of his son in Chicago, Ill., August 9, 1904, in the 92d year of his age.

He married, September 14, 1840, Emily, daughter of Asa and Theodora (Curtiss) Bugbee, and had three sons and two daughters. One daughter died in infancy, and the eldest son (Knox Coll. 1866) and youngest son (Beloit 1871), both clergymen, are also deceased. Mrs. Barrett died in Elkhorn, Wisc., November 5, 1889.

1837

JAMES COWLES, one of the eleven children and youngest son of Deacon Samuel and Olive (Phelps) Cowles, was born in Colebrook, Conn., February 18, 1815.

After graduation he was a student in the Yale Theological Seminary in 1837-38 and 1841-42, in the interval holding the office of Tutor for two years in Oberlin college (where his brothers, Rev. Henry Cowles, D.D., and Rev. John Phelps Cowles, both Yale 1826, were professors for many years), and in 1840 teaching in Elyria, O. He did not complete his theological course, but in 1842 took a position in the Canton (O.) Boys' School, where he taught three years, and the same length of time in Painesville, O. From 1848 to 1857 he was occupied in teaching music in Akron. He then spent a year in Topeka, Kans., using his influence while there against slavery. The following two years he was Superintendent of Schools in Springfield, O., the next year in charge of a public school in Farmington, and four years Principal of the Academy in Farm Ridge, the two latter places in Illinois. He was in New Jersey, at Tuckahoe, from 1866 to 1868, and Cedarville, in 1868-69, at Mariner's Harbor, Staten Island, N. Y., a year, and in Rye, N. Y., three years. In 1873 he returned to Connecticut and was Principal of Winchester Institute four years,