. Norwich University, 1819-1911; her history, her graduates, her roll of honor . once popular Wilsons Readers; contributed regularly to the localnewspapers, scientific articles on agriculture and topics of general was a popular lecturer on education, also scientific arid agricultural was one of the ablest educators of liis time. He was a born teacher and wasable to inspire the dullest boy with the ambition for an education. Many ofthe prominent men of the country received instruction from Professor Webster. He was twice married: first, August 7, 1845, to Isabella Franc
. Norwich University, 1819-1911; her history, her graduates, her roll of honor . once popular Wilsons Readers; contributed regularly to the localnewspapers, scientific articles on agriculture and topics of general was a popular lecturer on education, also scientific arid agricultural was one of the ablest educators of liis time. He was a born teacher and wasable to inspire the dullest boy with the ambition for an education. Many ofthe prominent men of the country received instruction from Professor Webster. He was twice married: first, August 7, 1845, to Isabella Frances Hobday,of Portsmouth, Va., who died September 19, 1885. Three; children wereborn to them: Ella Hobday, born S(^[)tembcr 1, 1846, married Hon. ErskineH. Brownson, resides in Ottawa, Canada; .John Nathan, born .July 12,1849,died in Norfolk, Va., November 27, 1908; Franklin Pierce, born March 4,, died in Norfolk, Va., April 25, 1907. He was again married, .July 26,1893, to Euphemia Mary Cowper, of Norfolk, Va., who survives him andresides in Vineland, N. J.; no Prof. Nathan Burnham Webster. 368 NORWICH UNIVERSITY. [1844 CLASS OF 1844. EDWARD MARCUS BROWN, A. M. Edward M. Brown, son of Charles and Hannah (Bartlett) Brown, wasborn in Hartland, Vt., June 22,1821, and died in St. Paul, Minn., July 31, prepared for college at the Norwich (Vt.) Institute and entered theUniversity in the spring of 1842, remaining until April, 1844, when he w^asappointed instructor of Mathematics at the Pennsylvania Literary, Scientificand Military Academy (q. v.) in Bristol, Pa. He nearly completed his course and had been appointed valedictorianof liis class, but was unable to returnto the University for the graduatingexercises. In 1898, the University,in recognition of his work as a soldierand editor, conferred upon him thedegrees of A. B. and A. M., as for1844. He taught in Bristol, Pa., until1845, when he located in Alstead,N. H., where he conducted theAmerican Ci
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