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ing better, but, too slowly. As a true reformer, be was always 
buffeted, often disappointed, but never disheartened. He 
hated slavery and was a foe to intemperance, and in waging war 
against them he was impatient of compromise. Honest men 
may have differed with him at times as to the means of reaching 
the end desired, but no breath of suspicion ever rested upon his 
honesty of motive or integrity of purpose'. He tried to make 
the world a little better than he found it, and it succeeded. His 
was the life of an earnest, active, Christian citizen—well- 
rounded and symmetrical,—and this is the richest legacy he 
could have left to his family, or to the world. 
J. B. Parkinson. 
HAMILTON GREENWOOD TIMBERLAKE. 
Mr. Hamilton Greenwood. Timberlake was born Dec. 8, 1871, 
at Medley Springs, Berkeley county, West Virginia. In 1884 
his widowed mother removed with her family to Port Byron, 
Ill., and it was there that Mr. Timberlake received his early 
education and preparation for college. 
He was a quiet boy, much over his books, and in the Port 
Byron Academy his studies were mainly in Greek and Latin 
and mathematics, perhaps because there was little opportunity 
for work in scientific lines and the animus of the school was 
strongly in favor of the then so-called regular college prepara¬ 
tory course, which was framed to meet the requirements of the 
classical course in the denominational colleges. His determin¬ 
ation at that time was to take a college and seminary course 
preparatory to entering the ministry. From the start he was 
largely dependent on his own resources, and after graduating 
from the academy he taught for a year in the district schools 
and a second year as principal in the town of New Bedford, Ill. 
In the fall of 1893 he entered the classical course in Lake 
Forest University. Under the influence of the then new presi¬ 
dent of Lake Forest, Dr. John M. Coulter, and in the atmos¬ 
phere of transition from a rigid course system to that of freer 
electives which was brought in with the new administration, 
Mr. Timberlake’s interests gradually changed and while con¬ 
tinuing his studies in the classics, he devoted more time to the 
