The Earle family : Ralph Earle and his descendants

354 THE EARLE FAMILY [Eighth
was educated in the public schools of Leicester and Worcester, and
at the Friends' School in Providence, R. I. He also attended some
lectures at the Institute of Technology, in Boston.
He studied architecture under Calvert Vaux, the well-known
architect of New York City, and, in 1865, supplemented that special
education by a seven months' tour of observation of the finest specimens
of the several orders of architecture in Europe. After his
return he became associated in business with James E. Fuller, under
the firm name of Earle & Fuller, and they opened offices in both
Boston and Worcester. This partnership was dissolved in 1874, and
since that time he has pursued the business alone,— his only office
for the last few years being in Worcester. Aside from the many
private dwellings designed by him, he has apparently had his share,
as architect, of the edifices for public purposes which have been
erected in Massachusetts and its vicinity. Among these are the
Technical School and no less than ten churches,— including the
Central Church and All Saints Church — in Worcester ; the Park
Church and the Slater Memorial, in Norwich, Conn. ; the Slater
Library, at Jewett City, Conn. ; the Rogers Library, at Bristol, R. I. ;
the Iowa College Library, at Grinnell ; the library and the chapel
of the Agricultural College at Amherst, Mass. ;
the Goodnow Memo-
rial Library, at Princeton, Mass. ; the Lyon Memorial Library, at
Monson, Mass. ; the Damon Memorial Library, at Holden, Mass. ;
and the Town Library, at Norton, Mass. He also furnished the
designs for Goodnow Hall, at Wellington, Cape Colony, South
Africa.
He has recently been appointed architect of the Clark University,
at Worcester, Mass., the institution founded and munificently
endowed by Mr. Jonas G. Clark.
In August, 1S62, he enlisted in Company C, of the 51st Regiment
of Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, and served eleven months under
General Foster, in North Carolina. He was Surgeon's Clerk and
Ward Master most of the time. He was in the Goldsboro expedition
and the battle of Whitehall.
The children of Stephen C. and Mary L. (Brown) Earle
were :
3189-1. Charles B. Earle, b. July 18, 1871.
3190-2. Ralph Earle, b. May 3, 1874.