. Norwich University, 1819-1911; her history, her graduates, her roll of honor . I and from 1869 devoted himself to farm-ing and monej^ loaning. He was a stockhohier and director of the CitizensNational Bank of Princeton. He met with marked success in busi-ness and acquired a valuable was for years one of the leading menof his town and county in Illinois. Hewas a good adviser, a faithful friend andloyal citizen. While on a businessHon. WiUiam M. Whipple. trip to Sheffield in November 1885, he was taken sick and died at the home of his brother-in-law, B. He was a Republica
. Norwich University, 1819-1911; her history, her graduates, her roll of honor . I and from 1869 devoted himself to farm-ing and monej^ loaning. He was a stockhohier and director of the CitizensNational Bank of Princeton. He met with marked success in busi-ness and acquired a valuable was for years one of the leading menof his town and county in Illinois. Hewas a good adviser, a faithful friend andloyal citizen. While on a businessHon. WiUiam M. Whipple. trip to Sheffield in November 1885, he was taken sick and died at the home of his brother-in-law, B. He was a Republican in politics; represented Canaan, N. H., in the Legis-latm-e; nas postmaster of Sheffield, 1865-69; was a delegate to the NationalLiberal Republican Convention in Cincinnati, May, 1872, which nominatedHorace Greely for the Presidency. He was a member of the Unitarian was married in Berhn, Vermont, May 1, 1845, to Ednah RebeccaCummings, who died in Sheffield, 111., December 23, 1900. One adopted child:Annie L. Dewey Whipple, now Mrs. Anson L. Knox of Sheffield, 1840] SKETCHES OP ALUMNI AND PAST CADETS. 313 CLASS OF 1840. MAJ. SYLVESTER MILLER HEWITT, A. B., M. D. Sylvester M. Hewitt, son of Joseph Denison and Rebecca (Miller) Hewitt,was born in Pomfret, Vt., August 20, 1819, and died in Cincinnati, Ohio,May 17,1905. He attended the schools of the town and the Preparatory department ofthe University, 1835-37, and entered the Classical department of the Universityin 1837, graduating A. B. in 1840. He studied medicine with Dr. BenjaminR Palmer of Woodstock and graduated M. D. from llie Vermont MedicalCollege, Woodstock, Vt., in aided Dr. Palmer in one courseof lectures given at the BerkshireMedical College, Pittsfield, Mass.,early in 1843. He practiced hisprofession at Chesterville, 1843-51;Mt. Gilead, 1851-61; Newton, Ohio,1864, and in Cincinnati, 1872-1905. On the breaking out of the CivilWar, he offered his services to thestate of Ohio and was commission
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