Excerpt from Union College; Record of Class 1868, 50th Year Reunion, 1868-1918 The committee in charge of the half-century Record of the Class of 1868 has made much effort to render it as complete as possible. All printed reports issued by the class and college, supplemented by correspondence and otherwise have been utilized. The necessary incompleteness of the Record is in part ex plained by the fact that for various reasons some members of the class have failed to report at the class reunions, or to reply to official communications. This condition more or less exists in all class records and in all colleges. Besides it has been im possible for obvious reasons to secure such fullness of statistics as classes in some American colleges now seek to obtain. It may also be noted that until a comparatively recent period the College has not sought to keep track of its old students and alumni with the care and energy now manifested. It is, however, a matter for congratulation that a large amount of interesting data have been collated, and embodied in the Rec ord as it now appears. The cover is printed in garnet, the present college color; in 1868, the college color was magenta. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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The Civil War. The Industrial Revolution. The winning of the West. Union College's Class of 1868 was at the heart of these & other turning points in U.S. history. After reading the Class' long- forgotten "History," printed in 1919, author John Lubetkin, a Union graduate, became intrigued on discovering the book failed to state that a classmate who had won the Medal of Honor later had it revoked by an Act of Congress. And what a fascinating class it was! Numerous members were Civil War veterans: two fought at Little Round Top; one was captured & sent to Andersonville & the real-life, often dramatic & frequently moving stories of others are recounted. Another Class member was the impetuous George Westinghouse, whose legendary battles with Commodore Vanderbilt, Thomas Edison & J.P. Morgan are documented against the backdrop of laissez-faire 19th century capitalism. The class also included a "tenderfoot" engineer who became an Indian fighter, a pro-temperance minister whose first pastorate was in rough-&-tumble, Abeline, Kansas & others whose stories (whether painful or humorous) detail the Class members' frequently turbulent fortunes in the decades that followed. To order: John Lubetkin, c/o Mid- Atlantic DVPT, Suite 750, 5335 Wisconsin Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20015. (202) 364-3511.