As part of his Introduction Thomas Scott Pearson created a brief summary of the Alumni's accupation, offices and &c., (sic)
"408 Graduates of Middlebury College have been employed as Clergyment,--of whome 319 have been Congregationalists or Presbyterians; 34, Episcopalians; 29, Baptists; 6, Methodists; 3, Dutch REformed; 2, Universalists; 1, Unitarian; 1, Unionist; 1, Millerite; 1, Campbellite; 1, Roman Catholic. The denomination of 16, we have not ascertained. 219 of the Alumni have been Lawyers; 72, Teachers, not including Professors, on that account, or those temporarily engated in teaching while preparing for another profession; 52, Physicians; 41 Merchants; 38, Editors; 31, Farmers or Planters; 9 have been in Military Service; 26 died without entering a profession. 11 have been Judges of Probate; 24, Judges of the County Court; 7, Judges of high State Courts; 1, Judge of the U. S. Supreme Court; 5, Speakers of a House of Representatives; 3, Presidents of a State Senate; 4, Governors of States; 12, Members of Congress; 2, United States Senators. 26 have been Foreign Missionaries; 43, Professors in Colleges or professional schools; 14, Presidents of Colleges; 8 have received the degree of LL. D.; 34, the degree of D. D. The profession of 96, most of whom are recent graduates, he have been unable to give.

THOMAS SCOTT PEARSON, Peacham, Vt., June 1, 1853."

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