Edith Alexander Curtis

James Lyman Harrington, B.D. 1876.

• Born June 2, 1848, in Bennington, Vt.
• Died February 27, 1930, in Brunswick, N. Y.
• Father, George Dana Harrington (B.A. 1845); son of Lyman and Althine (Bruce) Harrington, of Manchester, Vt.
• Mother, Mary Elizabeth (Lyman) Harrington; daughter of George and Catherine (Tichnor) Lyman, of Bennington.

Columbus (Ohio) High School; B.A. Williams 1872; studied in Yale Divinity School 1872-76; ordained to the Congregational ministry October 25,1876, in Orange, Vt., where pastor three years; pastor East Dorset, Vt., 1879-1882 Presbyterian Church, Sand Lake, N. Y., 1883-87, First Presbyterian Church, Brunswick, N. Y., 1887-1892, Presbyterian Church,Middle Granville, N. Y. 1892-1900, Denton, N. Y., 1900-08, and Hunter, N. Y., from 1908 until his retirement in 1916; had since lived at various times at Sand Lake, Tannersville, and Troy, N. Y.; member First Congregational Church,Bennington, at death.

Married April 7, 1885, at Sand Lake, Harriet Elizabeth,daughter of George and Louise (Merrill) Alexander.

Children:

George Dana, Syracuse ex-'11;

Edith Alexander (Mrs. John H. Curtis);

Florence (died in infancy);

Mildred Beach (Mrs.Ralph M Lord); and

Stella Elizabeth (Mrs. Ulric Sharpe).

Death due to chronic valvular heart disease. Buried in Old Bennington Cemetery. Survived by wife, son, three daughters, a granddaughter, a brother, William G. Harrington, of Columbus, Ohio, and a sister, Mrs. Catherine Egbert, of Bronxville, N. Y.

Bibliographic Information:

• Title: Bulletin of Yale University, Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University, Deceased during the year 1930-1931
• Number 90
• Twenty-eighth Series, Number Six
• Published: New Haven, 1 December 1931
• Page 324
• http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1925_1952/1930-31.pdf