Obituary Record of Graduates Author:Yale university General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1880 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: 1849. David Peck was born in Greenwich, Conn., Feb. 16, 1825, and entered college in the Sophomore Year. From collegg he passed directly to the Yale Divinity School, where he finished the course in 1852, having been licensed to preach by the New Haven West (Congregational) Association, in July, 1851. He was ordained as the first pastor of the Congregational Church in Orange, Mass., Oct. 13, 1852, where he labored until May 25, 1857. For six months from Dec. 15, 1857, he supplied the pulpit in Woodbridge, Conn., and was then installed (June 23, 1858) pastor of the 2d Congregational Church in Dan- bury, Conn. He resigned this charge, Jan. 2, 1861, and his next settlement was over the Evangelical Congregational Church in Barre, Mass., from April 16, 1861, to Nov. 25, 1867. He then went to Sunderland, Mass., where he was pastor from Due. 18, 1867, till his death, in that place, Jan. 31, 1874. He married, Sept. 8, 1852, Miss Frances M. Jocelyn, of New Haven, Conn., who is still living. 1850. Joel Sherland Blatchley, the eldest child of Samuel and Mary (Robinson) Blatchley, was born in North Madison, Conn., March 8, 1829. After graduation, he taught for a year in New Orleans, and then went to Dubuque, Iowa, where he studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced until the autumn of 1863. At that date, having lost several children, whose deaths were attributable, as he thought, to the climate, he removed to San Francisco, where he continued in his profession until early in 1870, when his health failed. He returned to his father's residence in Connecticut, and died suddenly in Fair Haven, Jan. 8, 18...« less