Ezekial Bacon, for nearly six years the oldest surviving graduate of the college, died in Utica, N. Y., 18 Oct. 1870, aged 94.

In reply to a request made a few years since for a sketch of the events of his life, he wrote as follows: —

"Ezekiel Bacon was born in Boston, on the 1st of Sept. 1776, the only son of the Rev. John Bacon, then late pastor of the Old South Church, and of Elizabeth his wife, who was the daughter of Ezekiel Goldthwait, of Boston, and widow of the Rev. Alexander Cummings, Mr. Bacon's predecessor in office. The family settled in Stockbridge, Berkshire County, Mass., and the son was educated and graduated at Yale College of the class of 1794 ; read law at Judge Reeve's law school in Litchfield, Ct., and practiced it in Berkshire ; was a member of the legislature of Massachusetts in 1806 and 7 ; was a member of the House of Representatives of the U. S. Congress from 1807 to 1813, serving on the committee of ways and means, and during one year its chairman. He then held the office of Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western District of Massachusetts, until he received the office of Comptroller of the Treasury of the U. S. ; which owing to ill health he soon after resigned, and removing into the State of N. Y., settled in Utica, where except holding the offices of member of the legislature for one year. Judge of the County Court of Common Pleas for two years, and member of the Convention of 1821 for revising the Constitution of the State, he has since resided in private life, having passed fully one-third of a long-protracted life in a condition of continued ill health and great depression of the vital and active powers of being. ' Sic itur ad astra.''' He married Abigail, daughter of Dr. Reuben Smith, of Litchfield, Conn., and had five children.