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for three years Professor of Greek in the State 

 University, and for many years one of its 

 trustees. Mr. Morrison filled many offices of 

 trust and honor. He was twice elected Treas- 

 urer of his own county, and was a member of 

 each House of the State Legislature. In 1852 he 

 was a member of the convention that framed 

 the present Constitution of the State, and as a 

 member of the Committee on Education aided 

 in shaping Indiana's excellent school system. 

 In 1864 President Lincoln appointed him Com- 

 missioner of Enrollment, and he was one of 

 Governor Morton's trusted advisers in those 

 perilous times. "While holding this position he 

 was elected Treasurer of the State. His pub- 

 lic career was as honorable as his private life 

 was stainless. He was a man of rare intellect- 

 ual attainments and force of character. 



NAIRNE, CHAELES MURRAY, born at Perth, 

 Scotland, April 15, 1808; died at Warren- 

 ton, Va., May 29, 1882. He graduated M. A. 

 at St. Andrews University, in 1830, and two 

 years later at Edinburgh. For some time he 

 was assistant to the celebrated Dr. Thomas 

 Chalmers, at Glasgow, and in 1847 came to 

 this country. For a short while he taught in 

 the principal classical school in Poughkeepsie ; 

 leaving there, he came to New York, and es- 

 tablished a private school, and in 1857 ac- 

 cepted the professorship of Philosophy and 

 Belles-Lettres in Columbia College. He con- 

 tinued to hold his position until October, 1881, 

 when, his health having become greatly im- 

 paired, he was relieved from duty. Professor 

 Nairne was a finished writer and a very at- 

 tractive speaker ; occasionally he lectured upon 

 the subjects he had made a life-study, and was 

 regarded as one of the most accomplished 

 scholars in those departments. He published 

 a collection of " Lectures and Orations," as well 

 as many pamphlets of lesser note. Professor 

 Nairne was a man of great gentleness of char- 

 acter, and in his lecture-room was particularly 

 kind and courteous in his manner toward the 

 students. 



PAINE, ROBERT, born in Person County, N. 

 C., November, 1799 ; died in Aberdeen, Miss., 

 October 20, 1882. When quite a boy his par- 

 ents removed to Tennessee, where he received 

 a good education. He joined the Methodist 

 Conference of that State, and became a mis- 

 sionary preacher. In 1830 he was elected 

 President of La Grange College, Alabama, the 

 duties of which position he discharged with 

 ability for sixteen years. He was made bishop 

 in 1846, during a very important period of the 

 Methodist Church, when the Northern and 

 Southern portions disagreed, and separate or- 

 ganizations were formed. Bishop Paine pre- 

 sided over the first General Conference of the 

 new body that was held in Petersburg, Va., in 

 1846. He was made chairman of a committee 

 to draw up a declaration of the intentions of 

 the delegates from Southern States, in seceding 

 from the General Conference. The question 

 of dividing the Church property came before 

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the Supreme Court of the United States, and 

 during the time Bishop Paine worked zealously 

 and ably for the good of the Church. Since 

 the war the Church has wonderfully recovered 

 from her misfortunes, owing in a great meas- 

 ure to his courage and untiring ability. He 

 was also instrumental in establishing new 

 missions in the Southern States, and even in 

 Mexico and China. Bishop Paine was the 

 author of a valuable work, which was pub- 

 lished at the request of the General Confer- 

 ence, the "Life and Times of Bishop McKen- 

 dree." 



PEASE, ALFRED H., born in Cleveland, O. ; 

 died in St. Louis, Mo., July 13, 1882. His 

 descent was direct on his mother's side from 

 Colonel David Humphreys, an aide to General 

 Washington in the Revolutionary War; after- 

 ward secretary to Benjamin Franklin, and 

 Minister to Spain. At an early age Mr. Pease 

 evinced a remarkable talent for music, but his 

 parents, being averse to his becoming a pro- 

 fessional musician, strove to counteract the 

 tendency. At the age of sixteen he entered 

 Kenyon College, at Gambier, Ohio, and at once 

 displayed a wonderful taste for drawing and 

 painting. In the prosecution of his studies he 

 made the acquaintance of a young German, 

 with whom he visited Germany under a plea 

 of ill-health ; there his love of music mastered 

 him, and he studied under Theodor Kinlack, 

 court pianist of Prussia, who taught him the 

 different schools of piano-music. Richard 

 Wuerst instructed him in composition, after 

 the manner of Felix Mendelssohn. Wieprecht, 

 the Prussian Director of Military Music, taught 

 him the science of orchestral scoring, and his 

 compositions were received with favor by the 

 Berlin public. With the foundation of his fu- 

 ture career thus laid, Mr. Pease returned to 

 America with happy prophecy of a success 

 which he rapidly achieved. He was not con- 

 tent, however, with the knowledge gained, and 

 returned to Europe and studied for nearly 

 three years under Von Bulow. As a com- 

 poser, Mr. Pease stood at the head of the sec- 

 ond rank, and his works are to be found in all 

 the fields of composition, though his success 

 was greatest in the orchestral and vocal. The 

 list of his popular songs reaches nearly one 

 hundred in number, and many of them have 

 found favor with the most distinguished sing- 

 ers of the time Miss Kellogg, Mmes. Nillson, 

 Albani, Parepa Rosa, Marie Roze, and others. 

 As a composer he was original in melody and 

 prolific in theme; he made many additions to 

 church-music, but his most remarkable com- 

 position was a memorial hymn, dedicated to 

 an only brother and sister, who lost their lives 

 in the New Hamburgh disaster, and whose ter- 

 rible deaths seemed to cast a shadow upon him 

 which, in a measure, accounted for the pursuit 

 of the melancholy habit of drinking, which in- 

 directly resulted in his own sad end. Mr. 

 Pease was a resident of Buffalo, and went to 

 St. Louis about the middle of May, 1882, from 



