Robert Rose Sill, (Geneva, N.Y.) was born in Geneva, N.Y., in 1840, entered the Class in Jan., 1858, and left it in the Spring of 1859. In November of the same year he started for Springfield, Mo., intending to accompany some friends to Texas, but arriving too late to join them, he attached himself to an emigrant train, continuing with them as far as Fort Gibson, in the Indian Country. After recruiting here a while, he prosecuted his journey alone through five hundred miles of sparsely settled country, and reached the village of Waco on the River Brazos, “ragged and penniless, but full of confidence and courage.” Here he remained during the Winter, purposing to engage in stock raising, but neglecting the precaution imposed by the climate, though of uncommon hardihood of constitution, he died of typhoid fever in July, 1860. “He was a young man of sensitive mind, of noble impulses, and of truthful and honorable character, and died trusting in his Savior.”
From: Triennial Meeting of the Class of Sixty-One, Yale College, with a Biographical Record, and Statistics (New Haven, CT: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1864), p. 96.
Biographical sketch included as part of the 1861 non-graduates.
Also entered in records as “Sills”. He was alive for the US Census as of 3 July 1860.
From: Triennial Meeting of the Class of Sixty-One, Yale College, with a Biographical Record, and Statistics (New Haven, CT: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1864), p. 96.
Biographical sketch included as part of the 1861 non-graduates.
Also entered in records as “Sills”. He was alive for the US Census as of 3 July 1860.
Robert Rose Sill, (Geneva, N.Y.) was born in Geneva, N.Y., in 1840, entered the Class in Jan., 1858, and left it in the Spring of 1859. In November of the same year he started for Springfield, Mo., intending to accompany some friends to Texas, but arriving too late to join them, he attached himself to an emigrant train, continuing with them as far as Fort Gibson, in the Indian Country. After recruiting here a while, he prosecuted his journey alone through five hundred miles of sparsely settled country, and reached the village of Waco on the River Brazos, “ragged and penniless, but full of confidence and courage.” Here he remained during the Winter, purposing to engage in stock raising, but neglecting the precaution imposed by the climate, though of uncommon hardihood of constitution, he died of typhoid fever in July, 1860. “He was a young man of sensitive mind, of noble impulses, and of truthful and honorable character, and died trusting in his Savior.”
From: Triennial Meeting of the Class of Sixty-One, Yale College, with a Biographical Record, and Statistics (New Haven, CT: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1864), p. 96.
Biographical sketch included as part of the 1861 non-graduates.
Also entered in records as “Sills”. He was alive for the US Census as of 3 July 1860.
From: Triennial Meeting of the Class of Sixty-One, Yale College, with a Biographical Record, and Statistics (New Haven, CT: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1864), p. 96.
Biographical sketch included as part of the 1861 non-graduates.
Also entered in records as “Sills”. He was alive for the US Census as of 3 July 1860.
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