The Earle family : Ralph Earle and his descendants

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Philology and Literature. In March, 1875, he was promoted to the
Presidency of the College. In 1878, Harvard University conferred
upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, and in 18S0,
Haverford College gave him the degree of Doctor of Literature.
He spent the summer vacation of 1883 in travel, with his daughter,
in Europe; and made an extensive European tour with his family,
in 1886 and 1887, having resigned his collegiate office. He is now
devoting himself to literary pursuits.
In consequence of his proficiency in the Greek language, he was
appointed a member of the New Testament company of the Ameri-
can Committee for the revision of the translation of the Bihle.
Besides various review articles, essays, orations on Goethe and
Schiller, Lincoln, and Whittier, and educational addresses, he has
published an account of his travels in Greece, under the title,
"Hellas, her Monuments and Scenery"; also editions of Cicero's
Tusculan Disputations, Virgil, Horace, Livy and Juvenal, and a
Latin Grammar, all of which are widely used as text-books.
Charles Augustus Chase [1906-5], after preparation in the
public schools of Worcester, entered Harvard University in 185 1,
was graduated in course, in 1S55, anc^ received the degree of Master
of Arts in 1858.
He was a member of the editorial staff of the Boston Daily Adver-
tiser from September, 1S55, to April, 1S62, when he made a tour of
five months in Europe and returned to settle in Worcester. He was
elected Treasurer of the County of Worcester to succeed his father,
and held the office eleven years, from January, 1S65, to January,
1S76. He was also Register of Deeds for the same county, for the
year 1876. In November, 1879, ne was chosen Treasurer of the
Worcester County Institution for Savings, one of the oldest institu-
tions of the kind in the State, and now holds that office. For several
years prior to this appointment he had been one of the trustees of
the institution. He is a member of the Council, as well as of the
Committee of Publication, of the American Antiquarian Society, and
a member of the Worcester Society of Antiquity.
[874-7]. Eliza" Earle (Pliny, 6 RobertS Robert,* Rafykj
William, 2 Ralph 1
), dau. of Pliny and Patience (Buffum)
Earle, b. June 8, 1807, in Leicester, Mass. ; m. Nov. 13,