Memorial Service for Calvin Stowe

Calvin Stowe died on August 22, 1886.

According to Twichell, “Professor Stowe’s passage out of this life occurred in midsummer, during that pause in the year when many are away from their homes, so that the funeral could not be the occasion of that testimony of respect toward him and his family which it would naturally have been among us.”

1. Twichell: “He was one of the original members of the Asylum Hill Congregational church, and one of its principal founders and inaugurators.”
2. Twichell: “Among the preliminary institutions out of which it developed, including a Sunday school held in the old district school house, and a neighborhood prayer meeting, was his Bible class, a memorable feature of our history.”
3. Twichell: “I often walked home with him after his lectures, and almost always his talk was a continuate of the theme he had been unfolding, showing how profoundly it had engaged him.”
4. “The Rev. J. Aspinwall Hodge, D.D., said that more than a year before Dr. Stowe’s death he asked him to make a statement for him as to his connection with the Presbyterian church. He was ordained by the presbytery of Newburyport in the spring of 1833 and from that time to his death had remained a Presbyterian.”

Neyer, Constance, “Asylum Hill Church to Reaffirm Its Commitment to Urban Setting,” Hartford Courant, October 5, 1985, page AB1D.

Unattributed, “Dr. Calvin E. Stowe,” Hartford Daily Courant, November 29, 1886, page 1.