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That is the reason why my name & that of S? Stickeny
Eaton & nearly fifty more may not be found among
the graduates. But we did practically graduate & went
thence without further preparation & were recd into
the Colleges to which we applied. I went to
Oberlin- Ohio & was admitted as a member of the
Freshman Class. I graduated from Oberlin (old
in the autumn of 1840. Entered the Theol.
Sem. at New-Haven & staid there one year
spent the [?] years of Theol. Study at
Oberlin. [?] which Seminary I was graduated
in the fall of A.D. 1848. The business of my life
has been preaching the Gospel. The most of the time
in Green Lake Wisconsin I have won
no higher or dearer honor than that of being an
[?] of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am now
63 years of age. More joyful & [?] in Spirit
than when a youth at your school. Pretty nearly
worn out by over 30 years of solid preaching, but my heart is
strong tho my hands are weak. I have rejoiced in all
my [?] no complement? boys like a successful ministry
But souls age a minister's proper time. The salary a [??].
I send you greetings from the Pacific shore where I am sitting now
waiting the boat which is to bear me to the better [?] S. Bristol