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GOURLAY, a resident of Albany, New York, joined our Class at the opening of
Senior year in 1862, and consequently was only with us one year. He was a man of well-balanced mind, quiet and affable in manners, but not physically strong or vigorous in
health. After graduation he went to the Northwest, and became a member of the theological seminary at Faribault, Minnesota, in the hope of improving in health while
mastering theology in preparation for the ministry of the Episcopal Church. He spent
two years in Minnesota, graduating at the seminary in Faribault, and then returned East
and entered the General Theological Seminary, Episcopal, in New York City. He was in
attendance at this institution when he was prostrated with illness and became a
patient at St. Luke's Hospital, New York, where he died, on the 12th of May, 1866. He looked
forward with great hopefulness to his life work in his chosen calling. He is remembered
by his classmates for his sweetness of spirit and his gentle manners.
While in college, Gourlay was a member of the Sigma Phi fraternity and the
Lyceum of Natural History. He was never married.
Source:
Class of Sixty-Three Williams College Fortieth Year Report, by
the Class Historian, Thomas Todd Printer, Boston, 1903
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