Remarks on the Harvard triennial.

Jonathan Peele Dabney

Date:: [1847]

Credit: Remarks on the Harvard triennial. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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mental feebleness, and dependence on his friends, died at Ox- ford in Worcester co. within, the present century, towards 1810.—Private L. from IV. Sigoumey, Oxford. 1772. Jonathan Simpson.* 1804. The Catalogue has cut short his days somewhat over thirty years. J. S. Avas a son-in- law of John Borland, esq. (a well-known gentleman of for- tune, of the Revolutionary period,) and died in this city so lately that many w ill, doubtless, remember him [see newspa- pers.'] This blunder, as was apparent to us in a moment, grew out of servilely copying a mere typographical error of our own. 1770. Owen Warland.* 1795. An overshooting the mark of twenty years. O. W. was of Cambridge, and died of the small-pox on the very threshold of life as a medical practition- er, within five years from college.—See newspapers. 1771. Edward Kitchen Turner* 1771. That is, he died on the very year he left college. So much for relying on the treacherous authority of Winthrop's MS. Unluckily E.K.T. went through a whole three years' medical course as a stu- dent with Dr. Holyoke [Mem. of Dr. //.] ; and then, after a voyage or two between Salem, his native place, and the North of Europe, was lost on his return from Gottmgen.— Private Information from a living contemporary. 1771. Amos Winship.* 1811. What is the warrant for this ? The individual, early in life an apothecary at the North end, [Boston,] afterwards a surgeon in the U. S. navy, and in his last years a victim of mental dejection or alienation, died at Welfleet on Cape Cod, somewhat prior to 1828.—Private L. from the Town CI. of W. 1768. Jeremiah Fogg * 1828. His father, of the same name, [H. C. 1730] was minister at Kensington. N. H. ; and there also lived and died, the son ; not in 1828, however, but twenty years earlier.—See newspapers. 1746. Benjamin Fessenden.* 1762. He too had a clerical father of the same name [H.C. 1718], minister of Sandwich : Here also the son, who was an innkeeper, died some twenty years later than the date given him.—Private information and newspapers. [The above vocation was maintained in S. through the next generation under the same name, with an unusual celebrity.] 1755. Philip Livingston.* 1776. On the contrary, this young gen- tleman died at the Livingston Manor, N. Y. almost from col-

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