The Humphreys family in America - citizen hylbom blog

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40. V. JaiiR-s \V.. ill i8j2; m. ill 184V, l.iiiny Wiii-lil. iliiljrni: (I) S.iimicl II. ' (2)Haiiy
J.-' (3) Carlisle.-; (4) Bettie.' (5) May.i- (6) Can-it 15.* Kcs. (1870) near Staunton, Va.
41. vi. John A.-«, b. in 1824; m. in 1857, Isabelle Humphreys. Res. (1870) Barter Brook, Augusta
County, Va. Children: (i) Finley.* (2) Franklin.-' (3) Charles.
42. vii. Samuel H.'', b. in 1B26; killed by falling of a log in a saw mill, in 1857.
43. VII. TiRZAH,3 b. in 1787; m. in 181 5, James S. Willson, a farmer, and for many years
an elder in Mount Carmel Church, Augusta County, Va. She was an eminently
pious woman. Children:
44- i- William Finley,^ M. D., b. in 1816; m. in 1840, Jerusha Adaline Wilson. His early life
was spent in Rockbridge County, Va., on his father's farm. At the age of twenty he
began the study of medicine, under the instruction of his uncle. Dr. \Vm. B. Willson,
a distinguished physician of West Union, Ohio. A few years after the completion of
this course, his uncle having died. Dr. Willson succeeded to his practice. In 1850 he
removed to Ironton, Ohio, where, for a third of a century, he has been a successful
practitioner and an honored citizen. During most of this period he has been an elder
in the Presbyterian Church, and has several times represented his Presbytery in the
General Assembly. He has no children.
45. ii. Thomas Newton,-" b. 23 Aug., 1823; ra. 30 Jan., 1850, Mary Caroline Evarts, dau. of
Frederick Evarts, descendant of John Evarts, who came from England to Concord,
Mass., in 1638, and thence to Guilford, Conn., in 1649. She died at Albany, N. V.,
28 Dec, 1884.
Mr. Willson was born at the old homestead, four miles N. E. of Fairfield, Rock-
bridge County, Va., and spent the first sixteen years of his life on the farm. At sixteen
he entered upon what proved a life work of teaching, at the same time studying without
a teacher, in preparation for college. In 1845, he entered Washington College, now
Washington and Lee University, and was graduated in 1848. During his last collegiate
year he was mathematical tutor. He graduated with the highest honor of the college,
his appointment being the ^^ Cincinnati Orntion"—\'he equivalent of the valt-iiiclory in
other institutions, and to which the latter honor was second at Washington and Lee.
Immediately after graduation he was associated with Rev. Joseph Brown, in charge of
a Presbyterian parochial school in Memphis, Tenn. The following year he became
principal of Mountain Academy, near Covington, Tipton County, Tenn., but before
the close of that year was appointed to the professorship of mathematics in Oakland
College, near Natchez, Miss., then under the presidency of Rev. Jeremiah Chamberlin,
D. D. This was in 1850, in January of which year he was married, and in September
entered upon his work as professor. .\t the end of three years, considerations of health
making a change to a more bracing climate desirable, he resigned his chair and spent
the following five years in Virginia and at the North, in search of healtji. In 1858, he
accepted an appointment as Professor of English in the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Troy, N. Y., and also as Rector of the Institute Training School (now Troy Academy).
The following year he resigned the professorship, that he might devote himself to
increasing the efficiency of the training school, and in this work he has continued up
to the present time with marked success.
In early life he was a fine horseman and marksman, fond of the hunt and all
out-door sports. He early made a profession of religion, and through life the consist-
ency of his Christian profession has been conspicuous. In 1859 he was made an elder
in the Second Presbyterian Church, Troy, N. V. His fiither and brother were at the
same time Kiders in the churclifs with which they were re-spectivcly connected. In 1867
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