History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts - citizen hylbom blog

284 HISTORY OF MIBBLMEX COUNTY.
Nathaniel Parker, Harvard, class of 1779, stud-
ied medicine and settled at Salem.
Micali Stone, graduated at Harvard in 1790;
Jacob Flint, 1794; Charles Prentiss, 1795; and
Eeuben Emerson, 1798'.
Thomas Pratt, son of Isaac, graduated at Dart-
moutli in 1798. Sjjent some time as teacher, and
finally became a merchant at Mechanicsburg, Penn-
sylvania.
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Timothy Flint, graduated at Harvard in ISUO,
and James Flint, 1802.
Rev. Nathan Parker, Harvard, 1803. Ecceived
the degree of D. D., and settled in Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, where he remained as pastor nearly
thirty years. He is said to have been " successful
almost without a parallel in the ministries of the
growing denomination to which he belonged."
Tiiose wiio remember him say he was a man of
talent, genial, and very unassuming. He was
born and lived where !Mr. James Davis uow re-
sides, and was brother of Hon. Edmund Parker.
Jonathan D. Weston, son of Captain Jonathan,
Harvard, 1802. Became a prominent lawyer, and
removed to Eastport, Maine. Said to have been
" one of the smartest men ever raised in Read-
ing." He served also as collector of the port.
Elias Upton, Harvard, 1802. Was a successful
teacher. Went to Blue Hill, Maine.
Daniel Temple, Dartmouth, class of 1817 ;
An-
dover Theological Seminary in 1820; ordained in
1821; w^ent as a missionary to Malta in 1822;
removed to Smyrna in 1833; returned to the
United States in 1844; died August 9, 1851, at
tlie house of his brother, Deacon M. M. Temple, at
tile ago of sixty-one, and was buried in this town.
His funeral sermon was preached by Eev. Mr.
Goodell, the missionary witii w^liom he had long
been associated, botli as a classmate and in mission-
ary interests. Mr. Goodell said: " Among the va-
rious nations and tribes and sects of tiie East, his
name is held in higli estimation He evi-
dently endeavored to be as upriglit, sincere, cor-
dial, gentle, kind, benevolent, economical, true, and
good, as lie expected everybody would be in tiie
milli'iiiiiiiin." His life and h'ttcrs, forming an in-
trrrsliiig Vdlunic of nearly live hundred pages, were
published in 1855.
John Batchelder, Harvard, 1X23. lie taught
school in Nantucket for some tinic, and in ls27
opened an academy iiere in a building erected for
that purpose, and designed in ])art for a church by
the I'liilariiui society that then existed in town.
The building stood on the present site of the resi-
dence of Dr. F. F. Brown. The school prospered
for many years, and numbers of young men from
this and tiie surrounding towns were fitted here
for college. Mr. Batchelder was succeeded in
1843 by a Mr. AVait, who soon gave up the school
here and opened one in Greenwood, where the
inebriate asylum of Dr. Day was formerly estab-
lished. The academy was converted into a dwell-
ing-house, and is now the residence of H. G.
Eichardson, Esq. Mr. Batchelder served the town
for thirty years with distinguished ability as one
of their school committee, commencing in 1828
and continuing nearly every year till 1862. He
was also once chosen representative to the General
Court, and served some years as selectman. He
died in 1871, aged eighty.
Eev. Benjamin Wyman Parker, Amherst, 1829
Andover, 1832. AYent as a missionary to the
Sandwich Islands the same year. He returned on
a visit to his native town in 1876, after an absence
of forty-four years. He died in Honolulu, March
23, 1877, in the seventy-fourth year of his age.
He had been for many years officially connected
with the Theological Seminary at Honolulu, and
Avas a faithful laborer in the mission-field.
Eev. George Nichols, son of James, graduated
at Yale, and studied theology at New Haven, but
never preached much. He was a successful teacher
for a term of years at New Ha\en and Hadley,
and for a long term at Springfield, Alassachusetts,
where he died at the age of forty-six.
Eev. Cyrus Nichols, brother of Eev. George,
graduated at Williams, and studied theology at
Auburn. He has long been in the service of the
Home Missionary Society, first in Missouri, now in
Wisconsin.
Eev. AVarren Nichols, another brother, grad-
uated at Williams and Andover, and labored also
in Missouri for the Home .Mission till his death.
Adams Nichols, AI. D., practised at Eockport,
Massachusetts, but removed to Quincy, Illinois,
where he had an extensive field of labor, and was
a popular physician. He was brother of the three
last named. He died in 1S71.
Eev. Stillman Pratt, son of Benjamin, graduate
of Amherst, 1831, studied theology, and graduated
at Andover. First settled at Orleans, where lie
remained four and a half years, and preached at
Eastliam six months. He then removed to South
Adams, Massaclmsetts, and after doing missionary
work several years, succeeded in establishing a
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