. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. quarianSociety of London, England. Shurtleff College,Illinois, gave him the honorary degree of Doctor ofMedicine in 1843. He was elected an Overseer ofHarvard in 1852, serving until 1861, and again in1863, serving to 1869, and he was Secretary of thatBoard for twenty years, from 1854 to the time ofhis death, October 17, 1874. FROTHINGHAM, Octavius Brooks Harvard in Boston, Mass., 1822 ; early educat
. Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees. quarianSociety of London, England. Shurtleff College,Illinois, gave him the honorary degree of Doctor ofMedicine in 1843. He was elected an Overseer ofHarvard in 1852, serving until 1861, and again in1863, serving to 1869, and he was Secretary of thatBoard for twenty years, from 1854 to the time ofhis death, October 17, 1874. FROTHINGHAM, Octavius Brooks Harvard in Boston, Mass., 1822 ; early education receivedin private schools and Boston Latin School; graduatedHarvard, 1843; Harvard Divinity School, 1846; heldPastorates in Salem, Mass., 1847-55; Jersey City, N. J.,1855-9, and New York City. 1859-79: travelled in Europefor several years, and on return in 1881 settled in Bos-ton, engaging in literary work ; author of many books,papers, etc., on religious subjects; President FreeReligious Association, 1867-78; died 1895. OCIAMUS BROOKS FROTHINGHAM wasborn in Boston, Massachusetts, November26, 1822. He was the son of the Rev. Na-thaniel Langdon Frothingham (Harvard iSii),. B. FROTH INGH.\M minister of the First Church from 1815 to 1850,and Ann Gorham (Brooks) Frothingham. Hisfather was a son of Frothingham, a crock-ery merchant and aiipraiser of in Marshalls UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 3i Lane near Boston Stone, a direct descendantfrom William Frotliingham, who came over in 1630and settled in Charlestown as a general carpenterand was made a Selectman in 1634. The subjectof this sketch was educated in private schools; inthe Boston Public Latin School, under Master CharlesK. Dillaway, where he was fitted for College ; and atHarvard where he was graduated in the Class of1843 with honors. From College he entered Har-vard Divinity School, pursuing his studies thereunder George R. No)es and Convers Francis andgraduating in the Class of 1846. He was firs
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