Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1901 — Early Harvard Graduate. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Early Harvard Graduate.

At many of the college nnd uulversTty commencements tlie guest to whom tlie greatest honor has been paid was the

earliest living graduate of the iustitutiou. At almost all of them the younger men present took time to drink a toast to the continued good health of

rkv. ertoss. the “silver gray” who holds the title of the oldest son of Ills alma mater. Among all the universities few, if any, boasted of a living graduate who left eollege as long ago as the Rev. Joseph Warren Cross, who graduated from Harvard with the class of 1828. That was 73 years ago, when Mr. Cross was a youth of 20. After graduation he entered the ministry of the Congregational Church, and for more than half a century he lived at West Boylston, Mass., where lie was pastor of the Congregational Church. Now, retired from active life, he Is living with Ills daughters at Worcester, Mass., still n strong aud vigorous old man at the age of 93.