MEMOIR OF NATHANIEL LANGDON FROTHINGHAM, D.D. BY FREDERIC H. HEDGE. THE city of Boston owes much to her clergy. From the first they have been her intellectual leaders and literary lights, as well as spiritual guides. Among the honored of this profession, the subject of this brief notice merits a conspicuous place. NATHANIEL LANGDON FROTHINGHAM, son of Ebenezer Frothingham and Joanna Langdon, was born in Boston, on the twenty-third day of July, in the year 1793. Of his boyhood, there is nothing to record but his diligent scholarship and extraordinary intellectual promise. At school, in his native city, he took a high rank, and received the customary honors. At the age of fourteen he was entered as a student of Harvard College, a classmate of Edward Everett, in the Class of 1811. Of his college life, another classmate and friend, the Rev. Dr. Allen, of Northborough, has kindly communicated, at my request, the following reminiscence : "Dr. Frothingham was one of my most intimate friends in College, and our intimacy and friendship lasted through life. He was one of the younger members of the Class; and although from the first a diligent student and a good scholar, it was not, I think, till his third year that he gained a high rank among his fellow-students. But at the close of his college course, he was surpassed by very few; and as a reward |