Hampshire County, Massachusetts Obituaries

David Stewart Lee
Listed in the 1843 Chicago, IL City Directory: "Attorney, Lake [St.], bds Mrs. Haight; Died, Northampton, Mass., November 15, 1860 [submitted by K. Torp]


Laurenus Clark Seelye
Died. Laurenus Clark Seelye, 87, President Emeritus of Smith College; in Northampton, Mass. He saw Smith's enrollment grow under his guidance from 14 girls in 1873 to 1,635 in 1910, when he retired. His definition of what a graduate of a woman's college should be was "intelligent gentlewoman." [Time Magazine, Monday, Oct. 20, 1924, submitted by K. Torp]


Edward Tuckerman
Prof. Edward Tuckerman, LL D., died at Amherst, Mass., March 15, 1886, aged 68. He was the eldest child of Edward and Sophia (May) Tuckerman, and was born in Boston, Dec. 7, 1817.

He prepared for college at Ingraham's School and the Boston Latin School; entered the sophomore class at Union College in 1834, graduating in 1837. From thence he proceeded to Cambridge and was graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1839. He remained in Cambridge till 1841, continuing his studies at the law school, and then went abroad and studied several years in Germany, devoting himself particularly to philosophy, history and botany. Returning to this country, he joined the senior class at Harvard College in 1846, graduating the following year. In 1852 he completed the course at the Harvard Divinity School. While a student at Union College he was appointed Curator of the Musuems. In 1854 he left Cambridge and removed to Amherst. His connection with Amherst College covers a period of thirty-three years. He held the position of Lecturer in History from 1854-55, and again from 1858-73; was Professor of Oriental History from 1855-58, and Professor of Botany from 1858 till his death. In 1875 he received the degree of LL.D. from Amherst College. He married, May 17, 1854, at Boston, Sarah Eliza Sigourney, daughter of Thomas P. Cushing, Esq., of Boston and leaves no children. One brother, Dr. S. Parkman Tuckerman, who has resided abroad for many years, survives him.

His literary work began at the age of fifteen, while a boy at the Latin School. In 1832 he wrote several minor articles on matters of antiquarian interest, for the Mercantile Journal and Boston Transcript. In 1833, he assisted the late Mr. Samuel G. Drake, the celebrated antiquary, in annotating two tracts on Philip's War. From 1834-41 he contributed to the New York Churchman a series of fifty-four articles entitled "Notitia Literaria" and "Adversaria," covering a wide range in criticism, history, biography and theology. He edited Joseyln's "New England Rarities," published in 1860 in the Transactions of the American Antiquarian Society, which in 1865 was revised and issued in a separate volume. He was an occasional writer in the Church Eclectic. During the latter part of his life he devoted himself to the study of botany. On the subject of Lichens he had been for many years the recognized authority in America. He published a number of botanical books and articles. [New England Hist. & Gen Register, Book Plates, page 348. Submitted by Peggy Luce]

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