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alumni, friends, and acquaintances, and the unveiling of the portrait, 

 received an ovation such as rarely comes to a professor. 



His death called forth expressions which showed the breadth of his 

 influence. He lies buried under the hemlocks in a wild and picturesque 

 ravine on " Mount Marcy," at Wilbraham, Massachusetts. 



Remarks were made by W. H. Dal], W. H. Niles, W. North Rice, and 

 by the President in testimony of the high character and attainments of 

 Doctor Marcy and of his services to science, especially as a teacher. 



MEMOIR OF EDWARD ORTON 

 BY G. IC. GILBERT 



Edward Orton, ninth president of our Society, was born at Deposit, 

 Delaware county, New York, March 9, 1829. His father, Samuel G. 

 Orton, a minister of the Presbyterian church, was of New r England stock, 

 belonging to a family which lived for several generations in Connecticut. 

 His mother's maiden name was Clara Gregory. He was twice married : 

 in 1855 to Mary M. Jennings, of Franklin, New York; in 1875 to Anna 

 D. Torrey, of Millbury, Massachusetts. He died at his home in Colum- 

 bus, Ohio, October 16, 1899, having rounded out the allotted span of 

 three score years and ten. Charles, Clara, Edward, and Mary, children 

 of his first marriage, his wife, and her two children, Louise and Samuel, 

 survive him. His son Edward succeeds him as State Geologist of Ohio. 



As a boy he lived with his parents in a rural community at Ripley, 

 Chautauqua county, New t York, becoming- intimate!}' acquainted with 

 farm life and work. He was fitted for college mainly by his father, but 

 spent one } 7 ear in Westfield Academy, and another in Fredonia Academy. 

 He entered Hamilton College as a sophomore, and w as graduated at the 

 age of nineteen. After teaching for a year in the academy at Erie, 

 Pennsylvania, he entered the Lane Theological Seminary (1849), but he 

 was prevented from completing the course by the temporary disability^ 

 of his eyes. After a } 7 ear or more of rest and out-of-door life, he resumed 

 teaching in the Delaware Institute at Franklin, New York, where he 

 was assigned the department of the natural sciences. In 1852 he re- 

 turned to student life, spending six months in the Lawrence Scientific 

 School, and afterward resuming theological studies at Andover Seminary. 

 He was then ordained to the Presbyterian ministry and became for one 

 year the pastor of a church in Downsville, New York. In 1836 he was' 

 called to the chair of natural science in the New York State Normal 

 School at Albany, and from 1859 to 1865 was principal of the Chester 

 Academy in Orange county. He was then called to Antioch College 



