{"id":76,"date":"2010-10-14T14:38:30","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T18:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-history\/?page_id=76"},"modified":"2025-05-22T11:33:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T15:33:01","slug":"concord-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth-history\/graduates\/concord-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Methodist General Biblical Institute (Concord, NH), 1847-1867"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"John<\/a>John Dempster<\/a><\/h3>\n

The Rev. John Dempster, in New York on leave from missionary work in South America during the summer of 1840, was contacted by Charles K. True, head of the staffing committee of the seminary project. He asked Dempster to head the project, though at first Dempster rejected the idea out of hand (\u201cI feel I am totally unqualified for this kind of work\u201d). He asked for more details and finally accepted the offer, provided he be allowed to finish the construction of a school for his South American Mission. That was agreed, and he returned to the mission field, beginning his seminary work in 1844, when he began to raise money and collect books. He never taught at Newbury although he was chief financial officer for the project, but when the new program at Concord NH was established in 1847, he became president and primary teacher.<\/p>\n

Methodist General Biblical Institute\"Postcard<\/a><\/h3>\n

Methodist General Biblical Institute Concord, NH, offered the recently vacated Congregational Church as home for the seminary in 1847. Under a new charter with trustees chosen from the minsterial rolls of all the area conferences, the school was incorporated as the Methodist General Biblical Institute. The students, finances, and library from Newbury were relocated to Concord, where the school had a twenty-year lease. Osmon Baker, who was a native of Concord, also moved with the program, and taught with Dempster and Charles Adams. The school graduated its first class of three in 1850. The students of 1855 paid for a printing plate to be engraved so they would get a real diploma instead of a hand-written note, prompting the school to create an official, if very similar, diploma shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n

The Methodist General Biblical Institute flourished despite Osmon Baker\u2019s leaving when he was elected Bishop in 1852, and John Dempster\u2019s leaving in 1854 to establish a seminary supported by Mrs. Eliza Garrett of Evanston, IL. Daniel Drew, an early supporter of the Institute, soon opened his own school in New Jersey in 1867, while New Englanders Lee Claflin (longtime treasurer of for the project), Jacob Sleeper, and Isaac Rich, focused their attention on the establishment of a Methodist university in Boston, to be centered around the seminary.<\/p>\n

The following are names of students at the Biblical Institute under the year of their graduation. Students who did not graduate are listed with an asterisk (*).<\/p>\n

1850<\/h3>\n

John B. Foote <\/a>\u2014\u00a0John Paulson<\/a><\/p>\n

1851<\/h3>\n

Shadrach L. Bowman, A.M.<\/a> \u2014\u00a0William Kellen \u2014\u00a0Samuel McKean<\/a> \u2014\u00a0Charles Nason<\/a> \u2014\u00a0John McLaughlin<\/a> \u2014\u00a0Oliver P. Pitcher \u2014\u00a0William H. Stetson \u2014\u00a0Luke B. Tower<\/p>\n

1852<\/h3>\n

Benjamin S. Arey \u2014\u00a0Horatio Arthur \u2014\u00a0Lorenzo Barber<\/a> \u2014\u00a0Alfred Brigham \u2014\u00a0Oloff H. Call \u2014\u00a0George W. Chesbrough, A.M. \u2014\u00a0Isaac S. Cushman, A.M. \u2014\u00a0Alonzo Flack, A.M.<\/a> \u2014\u00a0J. P. French \u2014\u00a0Rodney Gage<\/a> \u2014\u00a0Charles C. Goss <\/a>\u2014\u00a0Austin F. Herrick<\/a> \u2014\u00a0Dugald Thompson, A.M. \u2014\u00a0Alfred Welch<\/a> \u2014\u00a0Ira S. Watkins \u2014\u00a0Henry S. White<\/a><\/p>\n

1853<\/h3>\n

Carlos Banning \u2014\u00a0Andrew J. Church \u2014\u00a0Hiram M. Church \u2014\u00a0Lewis E. Dunham \u2014\u00a0Reuben Gregg \u2014\u00a0Francis D. Hemenway, A.M. <\/a>\u2014\u00a0E. Franklin Hincks \u2014\u00a0Levings H. Hooker \u2014\u00a0Thomas Montgomery \u2014\u00a0Robert Paterson \u2014\u00a0Charles H. Smith \u2014\u00a0Ezekiel Smith \u2014\u00a0Robert S. Stubbs \u2014\u00a0Wesley P. Wright, A.M.<\/p>\n

1854<\/h3>\n

Gilbert R. Bent \u2014\u00a0John Capen \u2014\u00a0John K. B. Clayton \u2014\u00a0Henry T. Giles \u2014\u00a0Andrew F. Morey \u2014\u00a0Oliver Springstead, A.M.<\/p>\n

1855<\/h3>\n

Jarvis A. Ames \u2014\u00a0Andrew Cather \u2014\u00a0Andrew K. Crawford \u2014\u00a0Charles U. Dunning \u2014\u00a0Joel W. Eaton<\/a> \u2014\u00a0William S. Edwards \u2014\u00a0George W. E. Ellis \u2014\u00a0Elon Foster <\/a>\u2014\u00a0Nelson Green \u2014\u00a0John S. Hannah \u2014\u00a0Charles E. Harris \u2014\u00a0Enos E. Kellogg \u2014\u00a0Jonathan A. Knowles \u2014\u00a0Alexander McLean \u2014\u00a0Charles A. Merrill \u2014\u00a0Munson G. Wadsworth \u2014\u00a0Charles Young<\/p>\n

1856<\/h3>\n

Benjamin F. D. Costa \u2014\u00a0Hanson F. Forrest \u2014\u00a0Washington I. Pond, A. M . \u2014\u00a0A. R. Sylvester \u2014\u00a0Samuel Wilson<\/p>\n

1857<\/h3>\n

Thomas J. Abbott \u2014\u00a0Robert J. Andrews \u2014\u00a0George S. Barnes \u2014\u00a0Edgar F. Clark, A. M . \u2014\u00a0Tertuilus Davidson, A.M. \u2014\u00a0Abraham S. Doffs, A.M. \u2014\u00a0George M. Hamlen \u2014\u00a0Albert L. Long, A.M.<\/a> \u2014\u00a0Henry M. Loud \u2014\u00a0William V. Morrison, A.M. \u2014\u00a0John Pilkinton \u2014\u00a0Joseph Scott \u2014\u00a0James T. Tucker \u2014\u00a0William F. Ward \u2014\u00a0William Wilmot \u2014\u00a0Thomas S. Wilson<\/p>\n

1858<\/h3>\n

Joseph Baker \u2014\u00a0Stephen L. Baldwin \u2014\u00a0George W. Blackman \u2014\u00a0William Glas \u2014\u00a0Charles E. Glover \u2014\u00a0Edwin H. Hynson \u2014\u00a0John J. Millsaps \u2014\u00a0Charles Morgan \u2014\u00a0Barnabas F. Reeve \u2014\u00a0Henry D. Robinson \u2014\u00a0Gustavus Silversteen \u2014\u00a0James B. Stevens<\/p>\n

1859<\/h3>\n

Nicholas M. Brown \u2014\u00a0Nathan F. Colver \u2014\u00a0Thomas Elliott \u2014\u00a0James B. Faulks \u2014\u00a0Samuel M. Hammond \u2014\u00a0Malcom D. Herrick \u2014\u00a0Carols R. Martin \u2014\u00a0Charles Miller \u2014\u00a0Edwin W. Parker \u2014\u00a0Matthew M. Parkhurst \u2014\u00a0Hiram P. Satchwell, A.M. \u2014\u00a0William Silverthorn \u2014\u00a0Ebenezer A. Smith \u2014\u00a0Sidney K. Smith, A.M. \u2014\u00a0Abram Vielie<\/p>\n

1860<\/h3>\n

John W. Ackerly \u2014\u00a0George W. Barber \u2014\u00a0Alexander N. Fields \u2014\u00a0Josiah Fletcher \u2014\u00a0Charles E.. Little \u2014\u00a0John G. Shrive \u2014\u00a0Daniel J. Smith \u2014\u00a0Theodore Stevens \u2014\u00a0George C. Thomas \u2014\u00a0Edward W. Virgin, A.M. \u2014 W. De M. Weedon \u2014 Benajah E. Whipple \u2014\u00a0Noah Wood<\/p>\n

1861<\/h3>\n

James M. Bean \u2014\u00a0George W. Brown \u2014\u00a0Daniel D. Cook \u2014\u00a0Oliver M. Cousens \u2014\u00a0Clement T. Frame \u2014\u00a0Elam Marsh \u2014\u00a0Thomas C. Potter \u2014\u00a0Abel W. Pottle \u2014\u00a0Alexander C. Reynolds \u2014\u00a0Nathaniel F. Stevens \u2014\u00a0Charles H. Vinton \u2014\u00a0Jesse Wagner \u2014\u00a0Henry S. Ward \u2014\u00a0Edwin Warriner \u2014\u00a0Robert H. Wilder<\/p>\n

1862<\/h3>\n

Watson M. Ayers \u2014\u00a0William W. Baldwin \u2014\u00a0George W. Brooks \u2014\u00a0Moses T. Cilley \u2014\u00a0John G. Gooding \u2014\u00a0William F. Hatfield, A.M. \u2014\u00a0Charles H. Newell \u2014\u00a0William H. Simonson \u2014\u00a0Henry F. Spencer \u2014\u00a0Church Tabor \u2014\u00a0John Warthman<\/p>\n

1863<\/h3>\n

Miles R. Barney \u2014\u00a0Edwin S. Chase \u2014\u00a0Anson C. Coult \u2014\u00a0Edward Davies \u2014\u00a0Adelbert Gaylord \u2014\u00a0Elijah Horr \u2014\u00a0Chester J. Hoyt \u2014\u00a0John H. Lane \u2014\u00a0Charles C. Miller \u2014\u00a0Hiram D. Opdyke \u2014\u00a0Isaac D. Peaslee \u2014\u00a0Ezekiel Richardson \u2014\u00a0James Saunders \u2014\u00a0William E. Smith \u2014\u00a0William Stout \u2014\u00a0Henry Newton Van Deusen<\/p>\n

1864<\/h3>\n

Henry W. Ackerley \u2014\u00a0Daniel C. Babcock \u2014\u00a0Sylvester Donaldson \u2014\u00a0 Richard Harcourt \u2014 J. Wesley Harkins \u2014 John H. Hillman \u2014\u00a0J. Henry Owens \u2014\u00a0Cornelius M. Pegg \u2014\u00a0Raphael M. Roberts \u2014\u00a0Watson W. Smith<\/p>\n

1865<\/h3>\n

Samuel R. Bailey \u2014\u00a0Daniel M. Birmingham, A.M. \u2014\u00a0J. Wesley Cole \u2014\u00a0James Esgate \u2014\u00a0Edwin F. Hadley \u2014\u00a0Joseph T. Hand \u2014\u00a0Wesley C. Johnson \u2014\u00a0Orren C. Lane \u2014\u00a0John A. Lansing \u2014\u00a0Norman J. Squires \u2014\u00a0William E. Tomkinson \u2014\u00a0Albert Van Densen<\/p>\n

1866<\/h3>\n

Nathan G. Cheney \u2014\u00a0Thomas Chipperfield \u2014\u00a0Otis Cole \u2014\u00a0R. James Donaldson \u2014\u00a0Alfred E. Drew \u2014\u00a0Horatio B. Elkins \u2014\u00a0Theodore S. Haggerty \u2014\u00a0Joseph R. Hammond \u2014 John Keogan \u2014 Sullivan C. Kimball, A.B. \u2014 Edmund Lewis \u2014\u00a0George C. Morehouse \u2014\u00a0Samuel J. Robinson \u2014 LeRoy S. Stowe \u2014\u00a0J. O. Thompson \u2014\u00a0William H. Washburn \u2014\u00a0Lorenzo D. Watson<\/p>\n

1867<\/h3>\n

George W. Anderson \u2014\u00a0James A. DeForrest \u2014\u00a0Allen J. Hall \u2014\u00a0Charles E. Hall, A.B. \u2014\u00a0Samuel J. McCutcheon \u2014\u00a0Charles W. Millen \u2014\u00a0E. Frank Pitcher, A.B. \u2014\u00a0Samuel Roy \u2014\u00a0George W. Ruland \u2014\u00a0Edwin R. Sullivan, A.B. \u2014\u00a0Nicholas T. Whitaker, A.B. \u2014\u00a0True Whittier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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