Forbes, William Hathaway - Col.

FUNERAL OF COL. FORBES.

It Was Attended by Many Notabilities----Eulogy by a Comrade of the War---Burial at Milton.

The funeral of Col. William Hathaway Forbes was held at his home in Milton at noon Thursday. There was no music, and the brief eulogy delivered was the tribute of one soldier to the heroism of a comrade-in-arms. The attendance was so large that many persons were unable to enter the house.

On the train from Boston was a special car reserved for the officials and others connected with the Bell Telephone Company, of which Mr. Forbes was at one time President.

Other persons on the train were Professor James B. Thayer and Dean James B. Ames of the Harvard Law School. Edward W. Hooper, Treasurer of Harvard University, Representative Francis C. Lowell, Hon. Sherman Hoar, ex-United States District Attorney, Henry W. Putnam, Joseph Lee, George Putnam, Ezra R. Thayer, Colonel Henry L. Higginson, T. Quincy Browne, William Caleb Loring, Archibald M. Howe, Edward S. Grew, Charles C. Jackson, Dr. Alfred Worcester of Waltham and many others. The pallbearers were J. S. Russell, J. H. Perkins, P. F. Perkins, George H. Watson, E. W. Atkinson and T. W. Perkins.

The services were conducted by Rev. Roderick K. Stebbins of the First Unitarian Church of Milton, assisted by Rev. Mr. Humphrey, who was the chaplain of Mr. Forbes regiment in the Rebellion.

They began with the reading of selections from the Scriptures by Mr. Stebbins, followed by texts from the Bible read by Mr. Humphrey so appropriate to the character of Mr. Forbes that they seemed like a eulogy. He supplemented these with a personal tribute eloquently and tenderly expressed.

Prayer by Mr. Stebbins, the reading by Mr. Humphrey of a poem by Tennyson, singularly appropriate to the last hours of the life of Mr. Forbes and the benediction by Mr. Stebbins closed the services. The burial was in Milton Cemetery.

Boston Morning Journal, Boston, MA 15 Oct 1897