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Subject: [MAINE] About Grave Stones - The Maine Historical Magazine - Part 2p.342
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:37:07 EST
Subject: Grave Stones
Source: The Maine Historical Magazine
p.342 ABOUT GRAVE STONES.
Part II.
The tomb of President McKeen is in the extreme northwestern angle of the
cemetery,
the head toward Bath Street. In form, this tomb is an oblong rectangle,
covering
the grave, and about three feet in height. The pedestal is of Egyptian
marble, and
is surmounted by a heavy slab of white marble - which bears the following
inscript-
ion:
H.S.E.
Quod Mortale Fuit.
Viri Admodum Reverendi.
DNI JOSEPH1 McKEEN, S.T.D.
AC COLLEGH BOWDOINENSIS PRAESIDIS PRIMI
Natus est October die XV Anno Dom. MDCCLVII
in Republica Neo-Hautoniensi
abi primo in literis humanioribus institutus
honores attigit Academicos.
p.343 BURIAL PLACES AND EPITPAHS.
Postea Verbi Divini ministerio aped Beverleam,
In Republica Massachusettensi,
annos septendecim
strenue juxta, ac benigne perfunctus est.
Novissime' autem, Nostratium omnium favore,
ac praecipue' doctorum piorumque,
Collegium hic loci fundatum,
quinque vix annos,
ea qua par est, dignitate et sapentia,
fideliter, feliciter rexit;
donce, morbo Hydropico impeditus,
Julii die XV. Ann. MDCCCVII, in Domino abdormivit.
Ingenio fuit sagaci, judicio imprimis acerrimo
priscorum temporum gratitate aemulus,
moribus autem facilis,
et benevolentia omnino Christianus.
Pietatem, doctrinam, artes optimas,
quoniam gnaviter excolebat Ipse,
in Aliis semper amavit, et quoad potuit, auxit.
M.S.
Monumentum hocce,
luctus, eheu! solsmen leve
at testimonium tamen,
SENATVS ACADEMICVS
P.C.
In the adjoining lot south is the monument of President Appleton. Its form
is the
same as that of President McKeen. The following is the inscription:
p.343 JOSEPH MCKEEN.
Here is buried what was mortal of the Reverend and most learned man, Joseph
McKeen,
S.T.D., the first president of Bowdoin College. He was born october 15,
A.D., 1742,
in the State of New Hampshire, where, first of all, instructed in secular
learning,
he attained academic honors. Afterwards he discharged, actively as well as
kindly,
the duty of a minister of the Gospel, at Beverly, in the Commonwealth of
Massachus-
etts, for seventeen years. But lately, a college having been auspiciously
founded
here in this town, not quite five years, with the approbation of all our
country-
men, and especially of the educated and pious, he presided over it, as is
meet,
with dignity and wisdom, faithfully and fortunately, until by a dropsical
disease,
on the tenth day of July, in the year 1807, he fell asleep in the Lord. He
was a
Christian of sagacious mind, of especially acute discernment, in dignity
emulous
of former times, but courteous in manner and uniformly kind. He always loved
in
others, as he himself dilligently cultivated, piety, education, the best
occupat-
ions and, so far as he could, he promoted them. Sacred to the memory, this
monu-
ment of grief, alas! slight consolation, but yet a testimony, the Academic
Council
caused to be placed.
p.344 HISTORY OF BRUNSWICK, TOPSHAM AND HARPSWELL.
TOMBSTONE.
Huic tumulo mandantur reliquisae
REV. JESSE APPLETON, S.T.D.
Mariti Desideratissimi. Patris Optimi.
Almeque Nostre Academie.
Secundi Presidis.
Vir fuit ingenil acumine insiguls, moribus
compositis, ae aspectu benigno,
majestatem quondam prae
se ferente;
sed morti inexorabili nihil est sanctum.
Eruditione magna,
inter literatorum principes justissime colloeandus;
at theologicae scientiae lauream praecipue meritus:
hac enim, quo homines audeant,
cognovit et tentavit.
Integra fide, disciplinaque salutari,
duodecim annos,
res Academicas administravit.
Nimilis tandem vigillis laboribusque consumptus,
sublimii ejus animo supernis intento,
ad quietem se contulit.
Ita vixit, ut omnes moribundi, sic se vixisse,
veling; ita mortuus est,
ut omnes, sic se morituros esse, optarent:
tamen voluit inscribi, se salutem sperasse in Jesu.
Natus est November die 17 mo
Anno Domini MDCCLXXII.
Obiit November die 12 mo. Anno
Domini MCCCCXIX.
On the south end of the tomb is inscribed:
Senatus Academiae Bowdoineusis.
summa reverentia,
hoe monumentum posuerunt.
To this tomb are committed the remains of Reverend Jesse Appleton, S.T.D.
The most
regretted husband, the best father, and the revered second President of our
college.
He was a man distinguished by acuteness of mind, composed manners, and
benign aspect,
occasionally manifesting dignity; but nothing is sacred to inezorable death.
Of great
erudition, most justly placed amonst the first of teachers, but especially
deserving
the laurel in theological knowledge: for this, where men may presume, he
examined and
tested. He administered the affairs of the college with incorruptible
fidelity and
with salutory discipline for twelve years. At length, worn out by excessive
vigils
and labors, his exalted mind fixed upon celestial things, he betook himself
to rest.
He so lived as all who are at the point of death may wish themselves to have
lived:
thus he died, as all themselves about to die might desire. Yet he wished it
to be
inscribed that he hoped for salvation in Jesus. He was born November 17,
1772. He
died November 12, 1819.
The trustees and overseers of Bowdoin College, with the greatest reverence,
have
erected this monument.
To be continued - Part 3 - p.345 - Burial place of William Smyth, b. 1797;
d. 1868.
Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth
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