MEMORIAL ADDRESSES. 
JAMES J. BLAISDELL. 
James Joshua Blaisdell was born in Canaan, New Hampshire, 
February 8th, 1827. In 1834 his family removed to Lebanon, 
New Hampshire, where he grew up. He spent a few months in 
the Kimball Union Academy, entered Dartmouth College in 1842, 
and graduated in 1846, fifty years ago last Commencement. In 
speaking once of the formative influences of his life, Professor 
Blaisdell said that among them he recognized especially his hon¬ 
orable ancestry, his grandfather being a revolutionary soldier 
and a member of one of the early Congresses of our country, and 
his father an eminent member of the New Hampshire bar, of 
whom he always spoke with great veneration and love; his rear¬ 
ing amid scenes noble in landscape of mountain and river; and 
the fact that those among whom he was brought up were 
strenuous and plain people, doing their work thoroughly and 
fearing God. After leaving college he taught a year in Mon¬ 
treal. He then studied law between two and three years with his 
father, but during the study of the law his thoughts turned toward 
the work of the ministry, and leaving his father’s office he went 
to Andover, Massachusetts, and there spent three years in the 
study of theology, graduating in 1852. He was pastor of the 
Third Presbyterian Church, Cincinnati, Ohio, from 1852 to 
1857. In 1853 he married Miss Susan A. Allen, who had been 
brought up near him, under like influences, and who has been 
to a rare degree the companion of his home, of his thought, of 
his work. In 1859 he was called to Beloit College to the chair 
of rhetoric and English literature. In 1865 he was transferred 
by his own desire to the chair of mental and moral philosophy, 
