Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . icut, Decem-ber 20, 1821. He entered Yale in 1838 but didnot complete the course on account of ill-health,but in 1S50 he was given the degree of Master ofArts and enrolled with the Class of 1842. .\fter afew years of natural history work with the H. Linsle), he went to Hartford, where in1847, he was made Assistant-Secretary of State,serving until 1852, State Librarian in 1854, againAssistant-Secretary in
Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . icut, Decem-ber 20, 1821. He entered Yale in 1838 but didnot complete the course on account of ill-health,but in 1S50 he was given the degree of Master ofArts and enrolled with the Class of 1842. .\fter afew years of natural history work with the H. Linsle), he went to Hartford, where in1847, he was made Assistant-Secretary of State,serving until 1852, State Librarian in 1854, againAssistant-Secretary in 1856-1861 and Secretary in1861-1864. It was about this time that he foundhis lifework in philology and bibliography. Soonafter coming to Hartford, in 1847, he joined theConnecticut Historical Society and became itsCorresponding Secretary in 1849, holding that posi-tion until 1863 when he was elected its the same year he was made Librarian of the UNIVERSiriES JND THEIR SONS 353 Watkinson Free Library, of which he was a Trustee,and in 1S64 became an officer of the WadsworthAthenaeum. He was a member of the AmericanOriental Society from i860, one of the founders of. J. HAMMOND TRUMBULL the American Philological Association in 1869 andits President in 1S74-1875, a member of the Amer-ican Ethnological Society from 1867, and in 1S72was elected to the National Academy of Trumbull devoted much study to the languagesof the North American Indians and prepared adictionary and vocabulary (now in the possessionof the American Antiquarian Society) to John EliotsIndian Bible, a volume which, it was said, he aloneof living American scholars could read. He alsofilled the position at Vale, from 1873 to 1885, ofLecturer on the Indian Languages of North Amer-ica. His bibliography is very extensive, includingnumerous memoirs on the Algonquin language andlocal history, and he contributed largely to periodi-cal literature. Yale conferred upon him the degreeof Doctor of Laws,
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