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MARSHALL COLLEGE
Class of 1852 Obituaries
Albert BANKS, son of the Hon. John and Catharine
Louisa (Keiser) Banks, was born August 20, 1832, in Mercer, Pa. His father
was a lawyer of that place, and for nine years a member of Congress from
that district. In 1834 he resigned and accepted a judgeship in Reading,
Pa., to which place he removed. His son Albert entered Marshall College
and graduated in 1852. He was a member of the Goethean Society. After
graduating he studied law with his father, and then entered the Law
Department of Harvard University at Cambridge, Mass. After graduating
there he entered the U. S. Navy, and was appointed assistant paymaster. He
was with the Mediterranean squadron and died abroad in 1866. He was a
brilliant young man and of fine personal appearance.
[Miss Jane P. Banks.]
John Howe BUCHER, the eldest son of Rev. J. C.
Bucher, D. D., and Ann Eliza (Frey) Bucher, was born January 3, 1832, in
the parsonage at Middletown, Frederick county, Md. He died in
Philadelphia, July 4, 1876, the result of a chemical explosion in the drug
store of his youngest brother, Henry F. Bucher, who lost his life at the
same time. He was buried at Harrisburg, Pa.
He prepared for college in the academy at Reading,
Pa. In the spring of 1849 the family moved to Mercersburg and John entered
the Freshman class in May of that year, and graduated with his class in
1852. He was a member of the Goethean Literary Society.
In the winters of 1852-53 he taught school near
Shoop's Church, Dauphin county, Pa., and in the spring of 1853 he engaged
in the drug business in Harrisburg, Pa. In 1855 he went to Henry City,
Ill., and with H. F. Walker, engaged in the drug business until 1858 or
'59, when he retired.
He returned to Pennsylvania, and taught for two
years in the high school of Mifflinburg, Pa. In September, 1861, he went
to Union, Montgomery county, Ohio, where he became principal of the high
school. He held this position at the time of his death. He became a member
of the Reformed Church at Shoop's Church, under the pastorate of Rev.
Daniel Y. Heisler, D. D., in the spring of 1853; but while he lived at
Union he worshipped at the Methodist Episcopal Church, there being no
Reformed Church in that town. He took an active interest in church work,
and lead a consistent Christian life. He joined the Masonic order while
living in Henry City, and the Odd Fellows, while at Union.
On April to, 1856, he married Miss Mary Elizabeth
Eby, of Union, Ohio, who survives him with three children: John Eby, Mrs.
Mary Eliza Fritchey (Bucknell, 1879), and Hannah Dorothy. The latter
graduated at the high school of Urbana, Ohio, in 1888, and afterwards took
a course in music in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Mr. Bucher was a devoted husband and a kind father,
and was highly esteemed in the community in which he lived.
[Miss Mary E. Bucher.]
Simon Calvin CRUMBAUGH, A. M., was born in Frederick
county, Md., near the Glade Reformed church, May 1, 1831. He was a son of
Gideon Devilbiss and Elizabeth Love (Reid) Crumbaugh. He went to school at
the " Old Glade School House," and then entered the Freshman
class of Marshall College in 1848, graduating in 1852. He was a member of
the Goethean Society.
He was twice married. The first time to Catharine
Cushwa, daughter of Captain Cushwa, living south of Mercersburg, in May,
1853. They had one child born to them. The child died in infancy, and the
mother lived only about one year. He was married a second time to
Charlotte Susan Wolff Whitmore, June 24, 1856. Three children are living
from this marriage, a son and two daughters.
Mr. Crumbaugh was a clergyman but made teaching his
profession. After graduation he taught one year at Milton, Pa. He then
returned to Mercersburg, bought out and conducted 'a female seminary there
for a time, after which he went West.
He was at Galesburg, Ill., and Farmington, Ill., in
1857, and in Richmond, Ind., in 1858, where he taught school for a year
and a half. He then located in Dayton, Ohio, in 1863, and was principal of
the high school for eight or ten years.
Later he located in Toledo, Ohio, where, June to,
1876, he died of hemorrhage of the lungs. In Toledo he was principal of
the grammar school, teaching Greek and Latin. He was also one of the
county examiners. For a time he conducted a private school in Toledo, but
owing to poor health, he gave up teaching and traveled in the South in the
interest of The Toledo Blade, writing under the name of Clarence Lindor.
He gained some reputation as a mathematician, having received a gold medal
for correctly solving a problem given by the United States for solution.
[Edwin N. Crumbaugh; Rev. E. R. Eschbach, D. D.]
Rev. Abner DALE, A. M., fourth son of David and
Margaret (Haney) Dale, was born near Boalsburg, Centre county, Pa.,
November 17, 1829. He was baptized in infancy by Rev. Mr. Auble of the
Lutheran Church, of which his father was a member. His boyhood and youth
were spent upon his father's farm and about the mill. In 1847 he entered
the Preparatory Department of Marshall College.
Here he attended catechetical instruction and was
received into the Reformed Church by the rite of confirmation. In 1848 he
entered the Freshman class and graduated in 1852. While at college he was
a member of the Diagnothian Literary Society. He pronounced the prologue
at one of the anniversaries of the Society. After graduation he gave some
attention to teaching, and then,- in 1854, began his course in the
Theological Seminary at Mercersburg.
He accepted a call from the Fairview charge in
Butler county, and, in May, 1856, was licensed, by Mercersburg Classis,
and in January, 1857, ordained by Clarion Classis. After serving this
charge four years he resigned on account of his health. He was engaged in
the interests of Rimersburg Collegiate Institute from 186o to 1862,
teaching and collecting funds for the school. He then removed to London,
Pa., where he took charge of the Mercer county mission, preaching mainly
at London and Balm. In 1866 he conducted a normal school at Bethel Church,
in Slippery Rock township, Butler county, where he remained until 1870,
when he was recalled to his first charge. During his pastorate several new
houses of worship were built, and paid for before their dedication. He
always had his charge in good condition.
At the time of his death, Rev. Dale was a member of
Allegheny Classis, and pastor of the Fairview charge. On the division of
Clarion Classis, he was among the original members of the new organization
known as the St. Paul's Classis; and was subsequently transferred along
with the territory of his charge to the new Allegheny Classis in May,
1872.
He was married February 15, 1859, to Miss Sarah A.
Adams, daughter of James Adams, of Harrisville, Butler county, Pa., with
whom he lived in fond affection till the day of his death. Four children
were born to them, three of whom are gone to the eternal world. One son,
David Ernst Dale, of Butler, is left to join the sorrowing wife in
mourning their greatest earthly loss. Rev. Dale died suddenly of
hemorrhage, at Fairview, on the morning of January 16, 1875.
[The Fathers, 5 : I 89; The Reformed Era, Jan. 15, 1
875 ; Rev. Jos. H. Apple, D. D.; Rev. R. E. Crum; D. E. Dale; Rev. H. S.
Garner; Rev. A. J. Heller, D. D.; Rev. D. G. Klein.]
Rev. Isaac Kalbach LOOS, D. D., son of Conrad and
Elizabeth (Kalbach) Loos, was born in Heidelberg township, near
Womelsdorf, Berks county, Pa., May 15, 1830.
In early boyhood his parents removed to the
Tulpehocken Springs farm, near Myerstown, Pa. He prepared for college at
the Myerstown Academy and the Preparatory Department at Mercersburg,
entering the latter in the spring of 1847. He entered the Freshman class
of the College in the fall of 1848, and was graduated in 1852. The faculty
awarded him the Latin salutatory. The subject of his oration was De
Literarum Graecorum et Latinorum Studiis.
He was a member of the Goethean Literary Society. In
1854 he was graduated from the Theological Seminary at Mercersburg, Pa. He
was licensed by the Synod of the Reformed Church (Eastern Synod) in the
United States, in Philadelphia, October 27, 1853, and was ordained by the
Classis of East Pennsylvania, at Bath, Pa., May 25, 1854.
His first field of labor was the Upper Mount Bethel
charge, consisting of five congregations: Centreville, Flicksville,
Roxburg, Lower Mount Bethel, Pa., and Oxford Furnace, N. J. He served this
charge faithfully and acceptably nearly thirteen years. In December, 1866,
he was elected pastor of the Reformed congregation at Bethlehem, Pa.
In 1869 the Reformed congregation
separated from the Lutheran
congregation and Christ Reformed church was built, a large and beautiful
church. In connection with his Bethlehem congregation, Dr. Loos also
served the Reformed congregation at Rittersville, Pa. He was the faithful
and highly respected pastor of this charge until 1888, when he resigned to
become the pastor of St. Paul's Reformed church at Bethlehem, which he
organized, and which he served until his death. During his brief pastorate
St. Paul's church building was started; the corner-stone was laid December
15, 1889, and the church dedicated May 25, 1890, after his death, which
occurred July 5, 1889.
Dr. Loos held positions of honor and responsibility.
In 1871 he was elected superintendent of the
Bethlehem public schools, which office he held for five years, when he
resigned, owing to his increasing ministerial duties. He was a member of
the Tri-Synodic Board of Home Missions, trustee of the Allentown College
for Women, from 1867 to 1889, and one of the organizers of the college. He
served several times as president of the East Pennsylvania Classis, and
was president of the Synod of the Reformed Church in the United States,
which met at Pottstown, Pa., in 1884. He received the degree of Doctor of
Divinity, in 1884, from Heidelburg College, Tiffin, Ohio.
His published works are " Salome the
Dancer," " Life of Cain," and the German prayerbook, "
Tischgebete." He translated from the German, " Grob's Life of
Zwingli." He also contributed to the theological reviews of the
Church.
Dr. Loos was married to Miss Catharine A. Butz, of
Lower Mount Bethel, November 13, 1856. Eight children, six sons and two
daughters, blessed their union. One son died in infancy. The surviving
children are: William C. (Lafayette College, 1881), attorney-at-law,
Bethlehem; Calvin A. (1887), attorney-at-law, Bethlehem; Nevin J. (Lehigh
University, 1894), attorney-at-law, Trenton, N. J.; Isaac B. (Jefferson
Medical College, 1888), physician, Trenton, N. J.; Mrs. John J. Bowman
(Allentown College for Women, 1879), Myerstown, Pa.; Clara M., and Charles
F., Bethlehem.
[Rev. D. F. Brendle, D. D.; Calvin A. Loos, Esq.]
John Oliver OGLE, Esq., son of John and Susan
(Thomas) Ogle, was born near Frederick, Md., January 19, 1827. His boyhood
and youth were spent on his father's farm. He received his preliminary
education in the public schools, and entered the Freshman class of
Marshall College in 1848, graduating in 1852. He was a member of the
Goethean Literary Society.
After graduation he taught school for nine months,
near Frederick, Md., and then, in the fall of 1853, went to Howard county,
Mo., where he taught school and read law. He married Margaret W. Ballan,
December 29, 1853, she dying August 16, 1854. He continued teaching near
Glasgow, Mo., until 1857, then going to Bethany, Mo., to teach. He was
admitted to the bar, by Judge G. W. Dun, at Bethany, in the fall of 1857.
He was married a second time, September 22, 1858, to
Miss Matilda E. Leebrick, of Dublin, Ind., and went at once to Albany,
Mo., where he opened a high school. He taught one term, when the news of
his father's death came with an urgent request for him to return home to
settle up the estate. In June, 1859, he returned to his old home, near
Frederick, but he did not remain long, returning to Missouri.
He bought a farm near Gallatin, Mo., in the fall of
1859, where he continued to farm until the spring of 1864, when he went to
California. He and his family traveled across the plains with an ox-team,
and landed in Sonoma county, Cal., in the fall of the same year. He bought
a farm near Windsor, where he lived eleven years. He was there justice of
the peace for four years. Then he moved to a sheep ranch in the mountains
of Mendoceno county. His health began to fail and he came to Ukiah City,
where he lived six years. He died March 8, 1895, in the hope of a blessed
immortality. His wife and six children survive him, as follows: Ewin
Goothe, John Oliver, William Givens, Byron Ruby, Susan Matilda, and Minnie
Leebrick.
[Mrs. M. E. Ogle.]
William David PATTERSON was born near Mercersburg,
Pa., July 22, 1833. He was a son of James Witherow and Sarah (Agnew)
Patterson. He entered the Preparatory Department of Marshall College in
1847, and the Freshman class the following year, graduating with his
class. While at college he was a member of the Diagnothian Literary
Society, and at its seventeenth anniversary, delivered an oration on
" The Tyranny of Fashion."
After leaving college he became an instructor in
Union Academy, Philadelphia, and also tutored the sons of Rev. Henry A.
Bowman, D. D., and Mr. Robt. Paschall.
In 1855 he entered the Western Theological Seminary,
at. Allegheny, Pa., and after finishing his course was licensed to preach
the Gospel by the Presbytery of Carlisle, June 17, 1858. After having
preached a year, with great acceptance, to the churches of Dillsburg and
Petersburg, York county, Pa., he received a call to become the pastor
of the charge. He accepted the call, and on August 14, 1860, the
Presbytery met to ordain and install him. Mr. Patterson's health, which
had been feeble for some time, suddenly gave way so seriously that he
could not be present at the meeting of the Presbytery and, therefore, was
not ordained.
Nor was he ever able to resume his labors. The
following winter he spent at Mercersburg, and the succeeding summer at
Lake City, Minn., in search of health, hoping to be able to resume the
duties of the ministry. But he was suddenly and unexpectedly, November 24,
1861, called to his reward. He was buried at Lake City, and in March,
1862, reburied in the graveyard of the old White Church, now Church Hill
cemetery, Mercersburg.
Mr. Patterson was a man of deep piety, of cultivated
mind, of genial disposition, and was more than ordinarily endowed for the
work to which he had been called.
[Miss Ellie D. Creigh.]
William Fulwiler POMEROY was the son of John Nevin
and Julia (Fulwiler) Pomeroy. He was born January 3, 1834, at Chillicothe,
Ohio, where his parents resided for a short time after their marriage, and
where his father, a graduate of Jefferson College, Cannonsburg, Pa.
(1829?), was editor of a paper.
William F. prepared for college at Tuscarora
Academy, Juniata county, Pa. He entered Marshall College, and though quite
young, graduated in 1852. He was a member of the Diagnothian Society.
After graduation he emigrated Southwest, and located in Greensboro, Ark.,
and engaged in teaching. While at this place his family frequently heard
from him. In his last letter he indicated that he would locate in
Batesville, Ark., and also spoke of not being well. From this time on
nothing more was heard from him, though diligent search and inquiry was
made. It is supposed that he is dead.
His father, a cousin of President John W. Nevin,
delivered the annual oration before the literary societies of Marshall
College in 1846.
[Hon. A. Nevin Pomeroy; Miss Elizabeth N. Pomeroy.]
Rev. Richard Perry THOMAS, A. M., son of Jacob and
Sophia (Bowlus) Thomas, was born in Frederick county, Md., February 8,
1828. He received his preparatory training in the academy of the
Middletown (Md.) Reformed church, and entered the Freshman class of
Marshall College in 1848, graduating with his class. He was a member of
the Diagnothian Literary Society. He received the degree of A. M. in
course.
He studied theology in the Seminary at Mercersburg,
and was examined and licensed to preach the Gospel by the Synod which met
in Philadelphia, in the fall of 1853. He was pastor of the Salem charge,
Westmoreland county, Pa., and served it acceptably for five years. For a
year and a half he was pastor of the Ft. Loudon and St. Thomas charge, in
Pennsylvania, until driven away by the Rebel raids. He had charges at
Aurora, Ind., and at Findlay, Ohio, but after 1864 did not follow his
calling. A sermon on
the " Reformation of the Sixteenth Century," prepared by
appointment of the Westmoreland Classis, and preached in the " Ridge
Church," on October
7, 1859, was afterwards published.
He was married to Valeria Conrad in May, 1854, and
their children are Harry, William, Lucile, Sarah and Josephine.
Mr. Thomas was a farmer and ranchman in Colorado the
last years of his life, from 1887. He died at Poncha Springs, Saquashee
county, Colo., November 11, 1892.
[J. H. Thomas; Mrs. Josephine T. Wescott.]
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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