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a service unqualified by tradition or prejudice. American geology, too, 

 also acknowledges its obligations to, and tliis Society has admitted among 

 its ranks, many an ordained Christian minister. 



Of these — indeed, among all of us — the subject of this testimonial lias 

 held a singular, if not unique, position, and in this necessarily brief 

 notice of his achievements in this science it is well that we remind our- 

 selves of his devoted service in other fields wliicli lie beyond the scope of 

 our present attention. 



The Eev. Horace Carter Hovey, Doctor of Divinity, was born near 

 Eob Eoy, Fountain County, Indiana, January 28, 1833, and died at his 

 home in Newlmryport, Massachusetts, the place of his last pastorate, 

 July 27, 1914, thus in his 82d year. The blood in his veins, drawn from 

 both sides of his parentage, was of the good vintage of the English 

 yeomanry who established this nation. His parents had followed one oL' 

 the remoter paths of Puritan dispersion about Xew England, taking their 

 way from I])swich, through Brookfield, Maiden, and Manchester; thence 

 into Hanover, New Hampshire, and to Thetford, Vermont. From Ver- 

 mont, in the winter of 1831-1832, they went as home missionaries, with 

 the express object of establishing a Presbyterian institution of higher 

 education in the Wabash A^'alley. There, at Crawfordsville, the Eev. 

 Edmund Otis Hovey, the father, with his associates, founded AVabash 

 College, and there for more than forty years he served that institution, 

 holding all administrative offices from the lowest to the highest, except 

 the presidency, which he persistently declined. In this somewhat varied 

 scholastic career it was the sciences that invited and held his most con- 

 tinuous service, and through his special concern with geology Doctor 

 Hovey, senior, is fairly entitled to be counted among the pioneer geolo- 

 gists of the Middle AVest ; for even though he himself did not venture 

 into the field of authorship, he kept in personal touch with the leaders in 

 American geology — Dana, Hall, and Newberry. The scientific museum 

 of Wabash College today bears his name — the Hovey ]\ruseum — and this 

 important educational factor has been assembled about the nucleus of a 

 little lot of crystals and ores brought by his wife all the long way from 

 Vermont. 



The inspiration and influence of such parentage, predisposed on both 

 sides to the love of science, could hardly fail to turn the heart of the son 

 toward tlie laboratory of nature. He was taught to observe: his eyes 

 and his mind were opened to things of woodland and valley, of rocks and 

 sky. The wondrous beds of crinoids in Coreys Bluff, of which all the 

 world now knows and specimens from which are to be found in most 

 geological museums, were discovered by him when a boy of nine years. 



