University of Vermont - Ariel Yearbook (Burlington, VT)

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thee my faith by my works. He was always watchful over the interests of the church which he helped to found g often represented it in presbytery and synod 5 was three times a delegate to the general assembly, and was a member of its board of aid for colleges and academies. He was a founder of the Prisoner's Aid Society, and president of the Chicago Tract Society. He was well grounded in the principles and the practice of his profession. A safe, pains-taking and practical attorney, he had a reputation for the thorough analysis which his cases received as the result of his careful study. His argu- ments were close, logical and convincing, yet his forte lay in his chamber prac- tice rather than in forensic efforts in the court room. He never sought political preferment, or held a public office which was the reward of political service or obliged him to bend to the mandates of political managers. He was a close student of political economy, and a firm supporter of what he recognized as the underlying principles of that much befogged science. The fact that he was so frequently urged to accept positions of trust and of delicate and important responsibility in the management of organizations of every sort, social, educa- tional, eleemosynary, and religious, is evidence that he was esteemed a safe and sagacious counsellor. Such trusts he never betrayed. In his later years some steps which he felt should be taken to protect great interests confided to his care recoiled disastrously upon his private fortune. Yet even his misfortunes must be attributed to his unbounding kindliness of heart, to a temper never frosty, but full or sunshine 3 to an optimism not adjusted to the elements of the caustic atmosphere in which he moved : K' For e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side. He had a stalwart physique, a strong and kindly face, which Professor Swing likened to that of the great war-secretary, Edwin M. Stanton, with a glint of humor twinkling in his eye, and a presence to attract men's notice and inquiry. His face was the index of his personality. He was a genial, upright, honorable and manly man, one of those of whom saith Sir 'William jones, Such men constitute a State. I2

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had performed the duties of Register not a single complaint had been made to him of his oiiicial conduct, nor a motion made to retax his costs in any case. After 1878, Mr. I-Iibbard did not return to the practice of law, but gave his time and thought to the various business enterprises in which he had become interested. For many years he had held official relations with the American Insurance Company as treasurer or vice-president. It was due to his courage and financial aid, with that of others, that, after the great fire had brought the institution to the verge of the bankruptcy which had engulfed all other Chicago insurance companies, this one was tided over its temporary distress, and was en- abled to enter upon a new era of prosperity. From 1872 to 1887 he was a director in the National Bank of Illinois. In 1887 he became president ofthe Fort Dearborn National Bank, which post he resigned in 1889. I-Ie was afterwards president of the American Bronze Company, which produced works of art of a high order, and he was actively engaged in other enterprises of more or less moment. In earlier days he had an interest in the publication of the American Law Register. I-Ie was one of the early owners of the Chicago Daily Republican, edited for a time by Charles A. Dana, which subsequently developed into the Inter-Ocean. The scholarly impulses of his earlier years animated him through life. Particularly was he interested in the rapid advances of the sciences, which char- acterized the times. Nothing of this nature escaped his inquiry. Hence his interest in the Chicago Academy of Sciences, in the Astronomical Society, in the Botanical Garden, as well as in numberless schemes for applying scientific discoveries to practical affairs. I-Ie was a student oi literature, a lover of music and of the arts of design. I-Iis home was embellished with evidences of a culti- vated taste and aesthetic spirit. These instincts made him one of the earliest supporters of the movement which builded the Art Institute of Chicago, and found him at home in the Literary Club, and in various musical associations. His interest in education was thoroughly catholic as it was fundamental. It concerned not merely the public schools of the communities among which he dwelt, but every phase of higher education, He had been for nearly twenty years, and until his death, a valued trustee of his alma mater, the University of Vermont of whose commencements he had attended more than thirty. He was also a trustee of the Lake Forest, Ill. University. In religious matters he was a consistent, practical, work-a-day Christian. While he was a constant attendant upon the services of the church, and ready to serve whenever service was needed, the clearest evidence of his abiding faith in the eternal verities appeared in his daily walk and conversation-in a just, upright and conscientious life. As said the apostle to the gentiles, I will show II

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'Cbe University of Vermont FOUNDED BY GENERAL IRA ALLEN IN 1791 Corporate Name : THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE Board of Crustees. IWATTHEXV HENRX' BUCKI-IAM, D. D., Presirlwzf. His Excellenc Hon Hon Hon Hon HOD Hon Hou Hon Hon Hon Hon. Hon. Hon. Hon. Hon. Hon Hon Y: . IOSIAH GROUT, 'Ex'O'f6w' GOUE77Z07' gf Zlze Suzie. ON THE PART OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT. HOMER NASH HIEBARDW LLD., Chicago, Ill. GEORGE GRENVILLE BENEDICT, A. M., B2L7'Zz'1zQ'z'01z. HORIACE HENRY POXVERS, A. M., !lYo1'rz'szfz'!!e. JOHN HEMAN CONVERSE, LLD., Phz'!adeQbhz'a. Pa. TOIZREY ENGLESBY XVALES, A. B., Bufflnqgfofz. ELIAS LYMAN, A. M., Burlingion. ROBERT ROBERTS, A. B., Bzufliazgfofz. XVILLIAM SEWARD WEBB, M. D., Shelburne. DARNVIN PEARL KINGSLEY, A. M., New York Cify. ON THE PART OF THE VERMONT AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. JUSTIN SMITH MORRILL, LL. D., Sfmjord. GARDNER SMITH FASSETT, Enosbmfgh. 1393-99, CASSIUS PECK, BzL1'!z'1zg'!0n. CROSBY MILLER, T 1D077?j9'6f. REDFIELD PROCTOR, A. M., P:-odor. 13951901 EBENEZER JALLS ORMSBEE, A. M., Bmmiwz. VVM. PAUL DILLINGHAM, A. M., Wafwfbzugf. GEORGE THRALL CHAFFEE, Rzniland. Ig97-I9O3 HENRX' CLAY CLEVELAND, Covenifjf. GEORGE GRENVILLE BENEDICT, A. M., Secrefaajf. EDNVARD HENRY POWELL, 166 College Sireef, Tffeaszweif. 4' Deceased Nov. I5, 1897. T Deceased Nov. 22, I897. 13