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in some respects the complement of each other 

 in their native characteristics ; and during upwards 

 of half a century of daily association their mutual 

 confidence experienced no abatement. Of his other 

 contemporaries in the tutorship, Ebenezer Grant 

 Marsh died early ; Henry Davis, who attracted the 

 strong esteem of his early colleagues, attained to the 

 Presidency, first of Midtllebury, and then of Hamil- 

 ton, College ; Warren Dutton settled as a lawyer in 

 Boston ; Bancroft Fowler became Professor of Sacred 

 Literature at Bangor; and Moses Stuart, after dis- 

 tinguishing himself as a preacher in the First Church 

 of New Haven, made himself still more eminent as 

 an author and theological professor at Andover. His 

 early letters of friendship are full of the exuberant 

 vivacity that characterized him through life. There 

 were other young men with whom Mr. Silliman 

 early established relations of friendship. Shubael 

 Bartlett, of the Class of 1800, who, in the decline of 

 practical religion in Yale College, which preceded 

 the Revival of 1802, was on one occasion the sole 

 communicant from the ranks of the students at the 

 Lord's Supper, and who remained after graduation 

 as a theological pupil of Dr. Dwight, was numbered 

 among his respected friends and correspondents.* 

 Mr. Stephen Twining, a contemporary in college, 

 and for many years the college steward, stood in the 

 same category. The most distinguished of his asso- 

 ciates in the study of law was Seth P. Staples, 

 who rose to the first rank in his profession. But to 



* This excellent minister, of simple and sincere piety, after he became an 

 old man, informed Rev. Dr. Bacon that he and his wife had together sung 

 through the Connecticut Collection of Hymns, which had not long before 

 been published. 



