-30 March 1878, age 70.
Taught at USMA 1828-1831 and 1833-1878.
Church graduated first in the USMA class of 1828 and immediately joined
the faculty. His wife was
the daughter of Colonel Jared Mansfield.
There is a separate file on Church as Department Head.
Pictures:
Original oil painting hangs in the Department of Mathematical Sciences today.
Obituaries:
Assembly, April 1878.
Biographical Articles:
The 1950 Register of Graduates has a biography [according to 1990 edition, p. 42].
Publications:
Personal Reminiscences of the Military Academy from 1824 to 1831, West Point: USMA Press, 1879.
Cullum #508:
[Shield=Ancestor] B-CT: Arty: Asst Prof Math USMA 28-31 & 33-78:
Distinguished
Mathematician & writer of texts: Awarded degrees by Washington
College, Princeton & Yale: Mem
of scientific associations: D-USMA 30Mar78 a-70: Ob-Ar 78. [From 1990
Register of Graduates]
To do: Contact Washington College of Connecticut (honorary M.A,
1837), Princeton (it was then
the State College of New Jersey; M.A. 1837), and Yale (honorary doctorate
1852) and find out
what the citations contained when Church received honorary degrees.
Might they have other files on
him? [Dates from Pappas, To The Point, p. 250.]
Genealogy:
Church had only one daughter, Margaret Augusta Church ( - 1904). She married Matthew Marsh Blunt, USMA 1853, on October 14, 1857. Their only child was Albert Church Blunt. He was born May 21, 1859 at West Point and graduated from USMA in 1881 (#2893). He is buried at West Point
References:
Arney, Chris, West Point's Scientific 200: Celebration of the Bicentennial. Biographies of 200 of West Point's Most Successful and Influential Mathematicians, Scientists, Engineers, and Technologists, 2002.