with some furniture. It was in the spring of 1828 when Miss Mary Dobson and he, a boy of nine years, took their seats in a cart with two horses, hitched tandem, and journeyed out. Except in pleasure-carriages, I think horses were usually hitched. tandem then, and not abreast as now. Miss Mary would not let

him return, as it was a drizzling evening, but put him in care of one of the students, who arrayed him for the night in one of his garments. That student was Charles Dresser, a graduate of 1828, and a most faithful and useful minister. A mnemonic association of ideas makes Mr. Dresser's name readily recalled. He deserves a brief mention. Born at Pomfret, Conn., February 24, 1800, he graduated at Brown University in 1823, and went to Virginia, where he studied theology. He went in 1828, immediately after ordination to Antrim parish, Halifax county, where he labored faithfully and successfully for ten years. He married in 1832 Miss Louisa Withers of Dinwiddie county. In 1838 he removed to Springfield, Ill., where he remained twenty years and while there officiated at the marriage of Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln, November 4, 1842. He was chosen Professor of Divinity and Belles-Lettres in Jubilee College in 1855, and died March 5, 1865.

In 1827 eight thousand dollars was collected for the purchase, and for the first building, entirely in Virginia, and in the Virginia Convention Journal of 1829 is the list of subscribers with the amounts, which is very interesting reading to a Virginian who would know the people whose descendants are still in the old State.

In the year 1829 the Permanent Fund was about eleven thousand dollars. Everything then was on a simpler, less costly scale than now. Bishop Moore only received three hundred dollars a year for his services as Bishop, having besides his salary as rector of Monumental church. The professors received six hundred, eight hundred, and a thousand dollars a year, and the board of students then was fully covered by seventy-five dollars, which in Alexandria had cost one hundred and twelve dollars a year. The expenses of living then were hardly half what they are now; groceries were cheap, and servants' wages small, and what are now considered necessaries were then luxuries, and the numberless expenses of dress now were then much fewer. To show prices then, one subscription to the Seminary was thirty bushels of wheat, estimated at thirty dollars. I bought a bag of coffee at

nine cents a pound. Besides, money went farther then than now. It was said that General Washington once threw a silver dollar across the Rappahannock. Chief-Justice Coleridge was told this and was inclined to doubt the fact, but was reassured on being told that a dollar went farther in those days than it did now.

Mr. Gray was the treasurer of the Trustees from the organization of the Seminary, and gave thousands of dollars during life and at his death. After his death his son-in-law, Mr. William Pollock, gave his faithful and gratuitous services until the war. During this long period, for thirty-one years of which the institution was without a charter, the treasurers used such care and judgment that none of its funds were lost.

I knew only a few of the graduates of 1827 and 1828. The Rev. George L. Mackenheimer was a lovely man, affectionate, earnest and brave. He never failed to speak a word for Jesus, when many would have shrunk from doing so. He did not think it intrusive to warn the heedless or to encourage the timid when it was needed. Such was his gentleness and tact that he never gave offense, but on the contrary gained respect, and did good. He lived and died in Maryland.

Rev. Dr. Wheat, whose memory is still fresh and fragrant in this Diocese, after more than forty years, at the time of our semicentennial, wrote that he recalled Dr. Keith as to saintliness of character; as to Mr. Lippitt, modesty; as to Dr. Wilmer, keenness and power.

The Rev. Dr. Brooke was a native of Maryland, and when Bishop Johns was rector at Frederick he was a bright and rising lawyer. He came in once to church, rather to scoff than to pray, but was converted under Mr. Johns' attractive preaching, and became an eminent clergyman. He had the power to prepare and arrange even the very language of an elaborate sermon, and with rare eloquence and clearness deliver it unwritten, exactly as it had been prepared. Bishop Johns alone surpassed him in this rare gift. Dr. Brooke labored faithfully in Maryland and Ohio, and died full of faith. He was the father of Rev. Pendleton Brooke and Right Rev. Francis Key Brooke, Bishop of Oklahoma.

The Rev. John Grammer, D. D. (father of our Trustee, Rev. James Grammer, D. D), was one of the most faithful and true men, and one who, as minister and trustee, had a strong influence. He was born in Virginia, for which he lived and labored all his life. Except for a few years, which were spent in the parish of