... It may be added to this brief sketch of one whose early death threw such gloom over the College, that his daughter, Sarah Gilman, became the wife of that admirable scholar, teacher, and man, Rev. John Newton Putnam, of the Class of 1843, who was, fourteen years, Professor in the College of the Greek Language and Literature, and who died, October 22, 1863, on his return from a visit to Europe for his health, when already on a steamer between Halifax and Boston. ...
