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SEMI-CENTENNIAL

Historical and Biographical

RECORD

OF THE CLASS OF 1841

IN

YALE UNIVERSITY-

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PRINTED FOR THE CLASS

NEW HAVEN:

TUTTLE, MOREHOUSE & TAYLOR, PRINTERS

1892

PREFACE.

At a meeting of the Class of 1841, in the summer of 1886, it was voted-at the instance I think of the Class Secretary, Mr. Barnum-that two other members of the Class (Moore and Mitchell)'be associated with him in the preparation of the Class Record. I am sure that Mr. Moore will agree with the present writer, in saying that it was quite a needless extension of a trust, which from the beginning had devolved upon a Class Secretary so competent, so indefatigable, so conscientious, that he stood in need of no co-workers. His associates upon the committee have done the wisest thing they could have done in leaving his action untrammelled; and I think they deserve well of the Class in being able to say that the Record which is now presented to them is virtually, and in its entirety, the work of their lamented Classmate and Secretary, Mr. Barnum, and of his son and daughter, who have carried out his instructions, and brought his extended correspondence to a close.

Not alone did our late Secretary bring conscience and industry and accuracy to his cumulating labor, as historian of the Class, but also a charity and a kindly spirit that colored all mention of his old-time fellows of the Campus. And if wry fates had made any one of us an incorrigible vagabond, I think our honored Secretary would have so summed up his misdeeds, and so warmed his comments with the glow of his own charities, that we should have seen our vagrant brother shining always under the aureole of an old boyish innocence.

My own official connection with the Secretary-as a sort of honorary adjunct-fortunately enabled me to see more of him, the last year of his life, than I had ever seen before; and I shall never forget his visits to Edgewood, as he came up panting (in the latter days) after the walk from