. Annals of Iowa. ty in the South Church in Andover, September 3d.* Andit is a most phenomenal fact that, while they all came to Iowa,yet after leaving New England they were never again as-sembled at any time in one place. Nine of them by agree-ment met in Buffalo on Saturday the seventh of October, 1843. Hill and Ripley came along in the spring of 1844. The for-mer was detained for the winter in settling the estate of hisfather. The latter, the best classical scholar in the company,who became the first professor in the college that they founded,tarried a few months for special study. They too
. Annals of Iowa. ty in the South Church in Andover, September 3d.* Andit is a most phenomenal fact that, while they all came to Iowa,yet after leaving New England they were never again as-sembled at any time in one place. Nine of them by agree-ment met in Buffalo on Saturday the seventh of October, 1843. Hill and Ripley came along in the spring of 1844. The for-mer was detained for the winter in settling the estate of hisfather. The latter, the best classical scholar in the company,who became the first professor in the college that they founded,tarried a few months for special study. They took thetrain for Buffalo, the last real Eastern city. That was thenthe end of railway travel westward. From Schenectady the *The men from Andover in the order of their ages were, Harvey Adams,EdMTin B. Turner, Daniel Lane, Erastus Ripley, James J. HiU, Benja-min A. Spaulding, Alden B. Bobbins, Horace Hutchinson, EphraimAdams, Ebenezer Alden, and William Salter. They were from six dif-erent States and eight MARY A. MACKINTIRE AND WILLIAM SALTER. 1845(From a daguerreotype) DR. WILLIAM SALTER 577 road had a snakc-hoad track, that is, ;in iron strap s[Hk(;don to a wooden rail. On SuiKhiy, in an liour oi ^reat ^e,they sat together in comniunion ;it the Lords table with tliefirst Presbyterian clinrcli. A rousing- i)ublic meeting was heldin the ev(»ning, and tivc of tiic young men were introduced andmade l)ri(>r addresses,—Salter, Ivobhins, K. A(huns, Ilutcliin-son, and Lane. Tlie Huffah) (Jazctte, October 10, 184:,, says: We cannot refrain from saying that we have seldom seen somany men banded together in an enterprise, who seemed to possesssuch sterling good sense, and humble, quiet characters, coupled withfirmness and decision, as did these young men. There is an Eastern spirit and a Western spirit, and to thispoint we will have occasion later to return. In Dr. Saltersday at Andover it is found that he walked not one day witha certain member of his class, and
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