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MARSHALL COLLEGE
Class of 1841 Obituaries
Rev. David Barnhart ERNST, A. M., son of John and
Magdalena (Barnhart) Ernst, was born July 4, 1815, near Hanover, York county, Pa. He died at Bath, Northampton
county, Pa., March I I, 1877. He was confirmed at an early age by Rev. Samuel Gutelius. He served an apprenticeship
in the drug business at Hanover, and also learned the art of dentistry, which, during vacations, he practiced to earn the
means for continuing his studies at college. In 1836 he entered the Preparatory Department at Mercersburg, and
the next year the Freshman class of Marshall College, graduating with his class. He was a member of the
Diagnothian Literary Society. The degree of A. M. was conferred upon him by his Alma Mater in 1844, the year in which he
was graduated from the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church.
The same year, in May, he was licensed by the Old
Susquehanna Classis at New Berlin, Pa., and subsequently ordained to the ministry by the Westmoreland Classis, and
installed pastor of the Somerset charge, Somerset county, Pa. From 1849 to September, 1875, he served the
Saegertown charge, Crawford county, Pa., and then accepted a call from the Moore Township charge, Northampton
county, Pa., where he labored faithfully to the time of his death.
On February 11, 1851, he was married to Miss Margaret
E. Saeger, of Saegertown, Pa. He had two children, a son and daughter. The former, Neander S. Ernst, is a lawyer
and banker in Denison, Texas; the latter, who died in 1883, was the wife of Geo. W. Geiser, Esq. (1875), of Easton,
Pa. Mr. Ernst's death came suddenly. He is buried at Saegertown. He was prominently identified with the Masonic
fraternity. As a preacher he was earnest and eloquent, as a minister, churchly, as a man, gentle and generous, noble
and manly.
[The Fathers, 5 : 270 ; Geo. W. Geiser, Esq.)
Rev. Henry FUNK, A. M., was born May 7, 1816, near
Hagerstown, Md. His parents were John and Anna (Wolfensperger) Funk. His early education was received in the
schools of the neighborhood in which he resided, and, later, in the schools of Hagerstown. After he had resolved to
enter the holy ministry his direct preparation for college was made principally in the Preparatory Department of Marshall
College, where he studied for three years. He became a student at Mercersburg in the eighteenth year of his age and
was graduated in 1841. He was a member of the Goethean Society.
He immediately entered the Theological Seminary at the
same place and pursued the full course of study, and thus nine years of his life were spent in Mercersburg. After
being licensed to preach the Gospel, he rendered service first at Boonsboro, Md., where for a period of six months he
served as a supply in the absence of a regular pastor. On December 8, 1844, he was ordained and installed in his office
as pastor at Orangeville, Columbia county, Pa. Mr. Funk's ministerial life was passed within the bounds of this his
first charge, which he served with great faithfulness for ten years. He died April 16, 1855. His remains
were buried in the graveyard of Zion Reformed church, Hagerstown.Rev. Funk was married in the summer of 1850 to Miss
Matilda Snyder, of Bloomsburg, Pa. Her life, also, was brief; she died a short time before her husband. They had
one son, who, at this date (1895), is living in Bloomsburg—Nevin U. Funk, Esq. (Princeton, 1874).
[The Fathers, 3: 444; Rev. J. S. Kieffer, D. D.)
Oliver Cromwell HARTLEY, Esq., A. M., son of
William Hartley, was born near Bedford, Pa., on March 31, 1823. In 1830 he removed to Bedford, where he attended
the select school of Rev. Baynard R. Hall, a Presbyterian clergyman, till 1837, when he entered the Freshman class of
Marshall College.
At Mercersburg he took a most active interest in all
college affairs. He was a member of the Diagnothian Society. At graduation he spoke the valedictory oration.
September 26, 1843, he delivered the address before the second meeting of the Alumni Association. This address,
a pamphlet of 34 pages, was published at Chambersburg the same year. His subject was Art, and the production is
remarkable for one of his years. It shows very clearly the influence of the philosophy of President Rauch, an influence
that had a strong hold on him all his lifetime. Immediately after graduation he began the study of law
in the office of Samuel M. Barclay, and was admitted to the bar at Bedford in 1844. Hon. Jeremiah S. Black was
then president judge of the district and he soon became very strongly attached to young Hartley. On the other
hand Hartley's admiration was such that he named his only daughter Jerian in honor of Judge Black. July 4, 1844, he
delivered an address before the soldiers and citizens of Bedford, which reads almost like the chapter on " Manifest
Destiny " in John Fiske's American Political Ideas. This address was published at Chambersburg the same year,
and is a pamphlet of 19 pages.
In April, 1846, he removed to Galveston, Texas. Hardly
had he reached Galveston when the news of the battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma arrived. General Taylor
had only a handful of men to oppose a vastly superior (numerically) Mexican force; and Hartley, as a private, was
one of the first to answer Taylor's call for volunteers. On the organization of Col. M. T. Johnson's regiment, he was
elected a lieutenant of the company from Galveston. Returning from his service in the army he took up the
work of his profession with renewed energy. He devoted himself especially to the mastery of the crude and
undigested mass of laws of the new State,—laws " which were in great confusion and doubt, and the cause of litigation and
collusions of the most injurious character." This ,study laid the foundation for the first " Digest of the Laws of
Texas," a volume of 1041 pages, which he published in Philadelphia in 185o. In 1851 he was elected one of the
representatives of Galveston county to the State legislature, serving one term. He served on the commission,
appointed by the Governor in 1854, to frame the civil and penal code of the State.
From 1851 to the time of his death he was reporter of the
Supreme Court of Texas. During this time he published vols. IV-XXI of the Supreme Court Reports. In vols.
XI-XXI he was assisted by his brother Rufus King Hartley (a former student, but not an alumnus, of Marshall
College). These eighteen volumes, published in eight years, are the lasting monument of an untiring industry, skill and
accuracy that is hardly ever equalled. His adopted State has remembered him by naming Hartley county in his
honor.
He was married October 21, 1845, at Bedford, Pa., to
Miss Susan C. Davis, daughter of Judge Samuel Davis, of Bedford. He died at Galveston, January 13, 1859, of
apoplexy, due to overwork. His widow and daughter survived him.
[Lynch, J. D. The Bench and Bar of Texas, 1885; Raines,
C. W. A Bibliography of Texas, 1896; Thrall, Rev. H. S. A Pictorial History of Texas, I885; Bedford (Pa.) Gazette, May 6,
1859; Galveston Daily Civilian, Jan. 14, 1859; Galveston Civilian and Gazette, Jan. 18, 1859; Southern Intelligencer, Austin, Tex.,
Jan. a6, 1859; Hon. C. F. Black; Mrs. S. C. Hartley; W. Hartley; Hon. W. P. Schell; J. W. Tate.]
Rev. Jeremiah INGOLD, D. D., son of Peter and
Barbara (Moser) Ingold, was born in Guilford county, N. C., September 25, 1816. He died on the Lord's day, February
12, 1893. He entered the Freshman class of Marshall College in 1837 and was 'graduated with his class. He was a
Diagnothian.
Upon leaving college he taught, for a short time, a private
school in Lincoln county, N. C. He then returned to Mercersburg and pursued the prescribed course of
theological studies in the Reformed Seminary. He was licensed and ordained April 4, 1844. For almost half a century he
labored in the churches of one classis, giving a noble, devoted life to the church and people of his native State.
His first charge was in Alexander county, from May, 1844, to October, 1845, when he accepted the West Rowan
charge. Leaving Rowan in 1855 he accepted a call to the vacant charges in Lincoln and Catawba counties. Here he
lived on a farm and for many years taught and preached.
In 1872 he removed to Hickory, where he died and where
his remains now sleep. The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon
him by Franklin and Marshall College in 1884. He was
deeply interested in the educational work of the church. Catawba College, of Newton, N. C., owes much of its
usefulness to him, while the interests of Claremont College, Hickory, N. C., were ever near to his heart. Of the latter
institution he was a trustee from 188o to the time of his death.
Dr. Ingold was married, December 14, 1843, to Miss
Margaret Ramsaur. They reared an interesting family of children; four of whom still live to honor their parents. These
are Frank B. Ingold, Mrs. Alice Murrill, Mrs. C. C. Bost and Mrs. J. H. Pitts, all of North Carolina.
[The Corinthian, Hickory, N. C., March, I893; Rev. J. L.
Murphy.]
James Lefevre REYNOLDS, Esq., A. M., son of John
and Lydia (Moore) Reynolds, was born in Lancaster, Pa., March 8, 1822, and died in Philadelphia, April 5, 1880.
For many years his father was editor and publisher of the Lancaster Journal. Rear-Admiral William Reynolds of the
U. S. Navy, and Major-General John F. Reynolds, who was killed at the battle of Gettysburg, were brothers of the
subject of this sketch.
James L. Reynolds received his early schooling in the
private school of Mr. Clark and in the " Lancasterian " school on W. Chestnut St., Lancaster, and fitted for college
at John Beck's famous school at Lititz, Pa. Entering college as a Sophomore in 1838, he joined the Goethean
Society. He graduated in 1841. He afterwards studied law, first with John R. Montgomery, Esq., of Lancaster, and
completed his studies with the late General John Weidman, of Lebanon, Pa. On being admitted to the bar, November
22, 1844, he opened an office in Lancaster and continued the practice of law for many years. Mr. Reynolds was a lawyer
of decided ability, thoroughly read in the several branches of his profession. He appeared, however, to have no great
love for the practice of law, and being in easy circumstances, never pushed himself forward in search of legal business.
From early manhood Mr. Reynolds took an active part in politics. He was an uncompromising Democrat, an ardent
friend of James Buchanan, and worked hard to secure that gentleman's nomination for the Presidency, being a delegate
in his interest both at the Baltimore convention that nominated Cass, and at the Cincinnati convention that nominated
Buchanan. During the Mormon War (1857-58) he was largely engaged in furnishing supplies to the U. S. troops
in Utah; and H. H. Bancroft, in his history of Utah, says that " it is probable that no expedition was ever dispatched
by the United States better equipped and provisioned than was the army of Utah." After the Civil War broke out Mr.
Reynolds connected himself with the Republican party. He was appointed quartermaster-general on Governor
Curtin's staff, serving from November 8, 1863, to January 14, 1867, and rendered great service in the equipment and
transportation of Pennsylvania troops. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1872.
Mr. Reynolds was never married. He was a fine scholar and devoted much of his time to books, and was,
perhaps, as thoroughly versed in the standard and light literature of the day as any man of the community in which
he resided. Being of a social and genial disposition he had many warm friends, and his home was the almost daily
meeting place of many kindred spirits.
His remains were brought to Lancaster and interred
beside those of his father and his distinguished brothers in Lancaster cemetery.
[Hon. W. U. Hensel; Rev. H. H. Ranck.]
Edward Crawford WASHINGTON, B. L., was born in
Virginia, entered the Law Department of Marshall College, in Chambersburg, Pa., in 1837, and was graduated in 1841,
when he was admitted to the bar in Chambersburg. Sometime afterward he married the daughter of Rev. Dr. D. W.
Crawford. Mrs. Washington is still living in Chambersburg. On May 14, 1861, Mr. Washington, who was then
in Texas, was appointed captain of the 1st Battalion 13th U. S. Infantry. On May 19, 1863, he was twice wounded
while gallantly leading his men to the assault on the intrenchments at Vicksburg, Miss. He fell within the
enemy's lines and the next day, May 20, died of his wounds. In the official report of the battle he was recommended for
promotion and on the day of his death was made brevet major " for gallant and meritorious service in action before
Vicksburg."
In the College catalogue Mr. Washington appears as
Edward Crawford, and his real name was discovered too late to obtain fuller information.
[Hamersly, Thos. H. S. Complete Army and Navy Register of
the U. S. from 1776 to 1887, 1888; War of the Rebellion—Official Records, Series I, v. 24, Pt. 2, p. 264 ; E. J. Bonebrake, Esq.]
Source: Franklin and Marshall College
Obituary Record, Edited for the Alumni Association, Vol. 1, No.1, Lancaster,
Pa. Published by the Alumni Association of Franklin and Marshall College,
June 1897.
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