. History of the "Old High School" on School Street, Springfield, Massachusetts, from 1828 to 1840 : with a personal history of the teachers : also, the names of 265 pupils, with their history in part : with portraits and a sketch of the building. at Yale College,class of 1837. After leaving college he studied medicineat the Pennsylvania Lniversity in 1837-40. Was a sur-geon in the army. In a few years he left the army andpracticed at his profession. Was a writer of considerablenote ; author of Shakespeares Treasury. Giving up thepractice of medicine, he resided in Baltimore, Md., inNewport, R
. History of the "Old High School" on School Street, Springfield, Massachusetts, from 1828 to 1840 : with a personal history of the teachers : also, the names of 265 pupils, with their history in part : with portraits and a sketch of the building. at Yale College,class of 1837. After leaving college he studied medicineat the Pennsylvania Lniversity in 1837-40. Was a sur-geon in the army. In a few years he left the army andpracticed at his profession. Was a writer of considerablenote ; author of Shakespeares Treasury. Giving up thepractice of medicine, he resided in Baltimore, Md., inNewport, R. I., and in New York cily. He invented thecreased soles for rubber shoes and boots, and made otherimprovements. He died of paralysis at Longmeadow, Mass.,Sept. 8, 1887, in the 70th year of his age. Marshall B. Blakk.— In 1830 went to New York asclerk for Arthur Tappan & Co., a silk dry goods jobbinghouse. In January, 1836, became a partner in the house ofRamsdell, Brown & Co., until 1862. Becoming interestedin politics was chosen a delegate in i860 to the ChicagoConvention that nominated Abraham Lincoln for president,and was by him appointed in 1862 Collector of InternalRevenue in the city of New York, remaining in ofifice until. MARSHALL B. BLAKE. old high school. 37 1886, when he was retired from office by President Cleve-land. Mr. Blake still resides in New York. William B. Bond, Rogers Park, 111.—Graduated atAmherst College in 1835. A clergyman. Studied at theLane Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, O. Graduated atthe Union Seminary, New York city, in 1839. Ordainedpastor of the Congregational church in Lee, Mass. Wassettled subsequently at St. Johnsbury, Vt., where heremained twelve years. Afterwards at Thorndikeand NewBraintree, Mass., where he held pastorates about eighteenyears. In 1879 he removed to Illinois, where he stillresides. Samuel L. Chapin.—Went to sea ; was for twenty-fiveyears captain of a sailing vessel between New York and theWest Indies. Was associat
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