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Decennial Record
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Class of 1896, Yale College
Decennial Record
of the
Class of 1 896, Yale College
COMPILED BY
CLARENCE S. DAY, Jr.
CLASS SECRETARY
Printed for the Class at the De Vinne Press
New York, 1907
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Alma Mater
A vague, jar glory, like the moon in mist,
Downsifting to our callow consciousness;
A livelier light that drew us to the stress
Of stern probation; then a day of tryst
Happy as when one's love is caught and kissed,-
For we had gained thy gracious answer, "Yes,
I will receive you, nurture you, and bless" ; —
And full thy splendor shone on us, we wist.
Yet there are moments in this aftertime —
Moments of mastery, service, sacrifice —
When a new radiance, kindlier, more sublime,
Breaks round us, and our unsuspecting eyes
Grow glad with welcome as they understand —
For lo! thou walkest with us hand in hand.
Arthur Ripley Thompson.
157014
TS '96 Publications
1. The 1896 Senior Class Book, Edited and published by Philip Ray
Allen and Frederick Whitney Mathews, and printed by the O. A. Dorman
Company, New Haven, Conn. Pp. 191, 7 by g^i, bound in gray cloth.
May, 1896.
2. Triennial Record of the Class of 1896, Yale College. Edited and
published by George Henry Nettleton, Class Secretary, and printed by The
O. A. Dorman Company, New Haven, Conn. Pp. 72, 6 by 9^, bound in
g^ray boards. December, 1899.
3. _ Sexennial Record of the Class of 1896, Yale College. Edited and
published by Clarence S. Day, Jr., Class Secretary, with the assistance of
Henry S. Johnston, and printed by the Irving Press, New York City. Pp.
45 1) 5% by 7%, bound in gray boards with blue cloth back. September,
1902.
Several Address Lists have been issued, the last, dated August,
being a pamphlet of 24 pages, 4% by 6^.
1906,
Table of Contents
PAGE
Decennial
From the painting by Troy Kinney . . . . . Frontispiece
Alma Mater
Sonnet by Arthur Ripley Thompson v
A History of the Class
and its Reunions :
Letters :
and other Contributions
Undergraduate Days
By Henry Selden Johnston 3
The Curious Recollections of Edwin Oviatt
(A Series of Drawings) 21
Yale in 1906 and Yale in 1896
By George Henry Nettleton * 35
Reminiscences by Our Adopted Member
By Wm. Lyon Phelps, '87 (illustrated by Charles
Collens) 41
Class Gatherings
Illustrated by Charles Collens and with photographs
Commencement Week 49
Triennial SO
Bicentennial 52
Sexennial 56
Recent '96 Dinners in New York 59
Decennial 76
Ad Consodales, by Chauncey Wetmore Wells ... 80
Decennial Groups (a series of photographs)
facing page 82
Decennial : A Tapestry
By Troy Kinney (illustrated with photographs) ... 83
Ten Years After
By Maitland Griggs 90
vii
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TJuam
How It Looks to Us Now
By Herbert E. Hawkes (A tabulation of the answers to
Hawkes' circular letter of December, 1905) ... 94
A Letter from Ex-President Dwight, '49 112
Princeton '73 to Yale '96
By Henry van Dyke, '96 hon 114
A Letter from Payson Merrill, '65, Director of the
Alumni Fund and Fellow of the Corporation . . 115
Some Yale Problems
By Herbert E. Gregory 120
In Consideration of Youth
A Letter from Frederick Wells Williams, '79 • • • • 132
A Letter from Arthur Colton, '90 140
An Inside View of the Professor
By Albert G. Keller (with illustration on page 166) 142
The Boys that We used to Be
By John M. Berdan l6x
Epilogue : At the Tenth Milestone
By Dudley Landon Vaill 162
Biographies of the Graduates
and of Affiliated Members :
Bibliographical Notes
Biographies of the Graduates
With twelve portraits and two other photographs . . 169
Biographies of Affiliated Members
With one portrait 656
Biography of Major, the Class Mascot
By E. H. Young (with portrait) 711
Bibliographical Notes
With a reproduction of the Spinello Memorial Library
Book-Plate and a drawing by Theodore Carleton 713
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Pot-pourri
PAGE
Hopkins and the King
Illustrated by Troy Kinney 733
Articles about Pop Smith and Eddie Oakley
Reprinted from The Sun 733
A Letter about Spinello
From Louis Jones 736
The Way of Two Yale Employers
(Thorne and Neale) 737
The Gas War in Hartford
Illustrated by Edwin Oviatt 738
College Architecture
A Letter from Charles Collens (with photographs) . . 741
The Faculty Baseball Games with Phi Beta Kappa
Written by W. L. Phelps for the Alumni Weekly ... 744
Other Articles from the Alumni Weekly
(i) Junior Society Fun. (2) Nut Club Philosophy . . 750
The Ninety- Six Hall of Fame
With two portraits 753
Ninety-Six at the 1492 Dinner
By George X. McLanahan 755
Glimpse of a Reunion Scene at Harvard 757
A Letter from Henry van Dyke, '96 hon 759
Statistics
Preface by J. Pease Norton, '99 763
Editorial Memoranda 765
Vital and Marriage Statistics (Graduates only)
(See also pp. 872-73) 766
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE
Occupation Table (Graduates only)
With Notes by Professor Norton 794
Habitat and First Settler Tables (Graduates only)
With Notes by Professor Norton 823
Additional Tables, of membership, preparatory
schools, degrees received, deaths, etc. (Graduates
and Ex-Members) 874
Appendix
The 1907 Dinner (with illustration) 893
Locality Index 899
Recent Biographical Notes (with one portrait) ... 905
Roll of the Class 914
A History of the Class
and its Reunions:
Letters :
and Other Contributions
There were five peas in a pod; they were green, and
the pod was green, and so they thought the whole world
was green, and they were perfectly right! . . . And the
weeks passed, and the peas grew yellow, and the pod
grew yellow. "The whole world is turning yellow!"
said they, and they had a right to say that. — Hans
Christian Andersen, Five Peas in a Pod.
Books are safe ground and a long one, but still intro-
ductory only, for what we really seek is ever compari-
son of experiences — to know if you have found therein
what alone I prize, or, still better, if you have found
what I have never found, and yet is admirable to me
also. . . . — From the Correspondence of Ralph Waldo
Emerson.
Undergraduate Days
TEN years after graduation the Class of Ninety-Six
returns to New Haven on Class Day to find the
youngsters of the Class of Nineteen Hundred and
Six assembled on the campus for the reading of the class
history. They continue to meet after the manner of their
predecessors, to have read to them by their cleverest mem-
ber, not a history of their Class, but a recount, not seriously
deserving the name '"history," of incidents discomforting
to the person mentioned, amusing to the members of the
Class, and unintelligible to the kindly relatives who sit
about in admiration. They are over with the business in an
hour or so, singling out only the more prominent members
for the general gaze; but in the days of Ninety-Six the
reading of the history was apportioned among a number
of historians who went through the Class without omit-
ting a single member in their comments, and however
exciting each moment of the reading was for one member,
however amusing it was for some a little while, altogether
from sheer lapse of time the proceeding became monot-
onous and tedious.
In reality the readings of the histories of Ninety-Six
did not embrace its history as a Class ; such a history has
not been written, even the rolls of the class historians
are non-extant, and, alas, who remembers the anecdotes,
who remembers more than the hilarious mirth the read-
ings created,— and their surfeit? They recalled and re-
flected the spice of college days, the cherished memory of
which comes now in much the same form as did the his-
tories,— crowded with incident. Each man's memory dif-
fers from that of his classmates. In diverse parts of the
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campus, the field, the classroom, and the fray, various
happenings befell, so that each class event had for every-
one a separate experience. Yet for all the principal
features were the same, and an enumeration of some of
the chief events of the course of Ninety-Six from its
timid gathering in Freshman year to the farewell words
of President Dwight can hardly fail to be suggestive of
some of the finer incidents of those days. No member
of the Class need hope that he will find what he has not
heard or known before, but an enumeration of the general
facts will recall many things long since forgot, and will
serve for a framework on which to build that castle of
reflection which for each man was his college life.
Probably there is no one of us who now remembers the
names of all the men that stood forth in the weird-lit circle
in the Hopkins Grammar School lot the night before the
opening of college in the fall of 1892,— September 28th,
to be precise about the night,— to maintain for Ninety-
Six the standard of dignity and honor against the Sopho-
mores of Ninety-Five by a wrestling battle. The Class
of Ninety-Six having assembled in a motley array of
football jackets and old coats, and having formed with a
lusty phalanx to the fore, marched to meet the upper
class in a strident rush, but the benign gods who presided
over Battle, in the form of Seniors with flickering fangs
of light, abhorring a general clash of men, let four cer-
tain ones of diiferent weight be picked to represent the
whole. Three of these four men from Ninety-Six, not
without glory then or now, overcame their rivals and gave
the first of its victories to the Class before it fairly started
on its course. The custom of the Freshman rush was
the first of a number of customs of long standing that
were abolished during our four years. In the following
fall, when we were Sophomores, two wrestling bouts had
fallen to our credit, when the next was interrupted by a
slight injury to the opposing wrestler.
Prior to 1890 the academic classes at Yale did not ex-
ceed one hundred and fifty men. In 1894 the graduating
class exceeded two hundred, in 1895 the number was two
UNDERGRADUATE DAYS
hundred and fifty. The Class of Ninety-Six entered
college with an enrollment of three hundred, and during
the course at various times forty-three men were added.
But the ranks were likewise depleted for many reasons,
and a number failed to get their diplomas at the end of
the course, of whom it is proper to add that other causes
than standard of scholarship prevented their being gradu-
ated, so that, in the year of our graduation, only two
hundred and sixty-eight men received degrees. Since
then bachelors' degrees have been conferred upon ten
other enrolled members of the Class.
Yale University in 1906 is so different an institution,
its undergraduate life so changed, and a college expe-
rience so altered from the days of 1896 and prior years,
that because of the innovations occurring during our
course we may be justly said to have seen the transi-
tion days between the Yale of today and the traditional
Yale of many decades prior to the twentieth century. It
is not to be overlooked that it seems to have been an in-
herent quality in most of the classes leaving Yale before
1896, that each one of them thought it was the last to see
Yale life in its best traditional sense; and perhaps some
of the classes succeeding us have found solace ip that
same feeling of superior experience. However, it can
hardly be a matter either of boast or shame to have lived
the life of Yale in her diminutive days, and whatever
changes other classes may have observed directly after
their leaving Alma Mater and whatever merit they may
have discovered in what they termed the old days, it is
certain that the Class of Ninety-Six came to Yale when
physically she stood substantially the same as for a hun-
dred years. The tide of change gradually had been creep-
ing on the old campus by the erection at the eastern end
of Farnam, Lawrance, and Durfee Halls, and at the rear
by Dwight Hall, fortified in its noble purpose, and Chit-
tenden Library with its fighting architecture, and, on the
corner where the historic Fence had stood, by Osborn
Hall, glittering with newness on our arrival in New
Haven. But the Old Brick Row, to which so much manlv
6 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
sentiment has clung, with thresholds worn and chimneys
ragged, still grimly rose intact among the graceful elms.
Those old buildings that had seen classes go of hardly
more than a score, and classes come, as Ninety-Six, three
hundred strong, will bear repeating to our faded memo-
ries, named as they ranged from Chapel Street to Elm.
"South," which was torn down in the summer of 1893
to make room for Vanderbilt Hall, the latter being com-
pleted in time for occupancy in Junior year by members
of Ninety-Six; ''Athenaeum," next to ''South," a curious
little brick structure like the district schools that some of
us had left in old New England towns, in an upper room
of which the Class first met Billy Phelps in English litera-
ture, and Billy Phelps met Ninety-Six, his first class in
Yale. "Athenaeum" and "South" were demolished in the
same year. Next came "South Middle," today "restored" al-
most beyond recognition, and the only building of the Old
Brick Row now standing; beyond "South Middle" was
"Lyceum Hall," particularly memorable for class meet-
ings and Freshman lectures from President Dwight; the
dormitory beyond, namely, "North Middle," was de-
stroyed in 1894, leaving "Old Chapel," whose stairs
seemed to be eternally climbed to the garret in Freshman
year to read Thucydides; and last of all came the dor-
mitory called "Old North," which together with "Lyceum"
was demolished shortly after our graduation. In the
four years prior to 1896 substantially the whole of the
Old Brick Row had disappeared, and in addition to Van-
derbilt Hall there was constructed Phelps Hall to domi-
nate the line of buildings on College Street. Welch Hall
was opened for the first time in the year of our arrival
in New Haven. The classes were then so large in number
that only a small portion of us could obtain rooms on the
campus before Junior year. At that time the most pop-
ular dormitory was Durfee, the rooms of which were
taken before Vanderbilt, Welch, or White. Thus it will
be seen that so far as buildings are considered, the old
YalCj the Old Brick Row, was almost destroyed, a new set
of imposing buildings erected, the campus altered into a
UNDERGRADUATE DAYS
great quadrangle (completely so a little later by the de-
struction of the old Treasury which had promised in
rhyme to "see us dead, and our descendants buried"), and
a new campus begun beyond the confines of the old, all
during the four-year course of Ninety-Six.
In 1892 the faculty had not advanced much beyond the
time-honored theory and practice of educating by Greek,
Latin, and Mathematics. Those were the prescribed
studies for Freshman year, when indeed all the studies
were prescribed except for the choice of French or
German in the afternoon. During one term a course in
English Literature consisting in the reading of two or
three plays of Shakspeare was smuggled into the curri-
culum. In Sophomore year a choice of five out of six
subjects was permitted, which was the first wedge in that
grade the elective system had ever made in the adaman-
tine rule of half a century. In Junior year the leaven of
the elective system had fermented into opportunities for
diverse studies beyond all Yale experience, and the Class
found itself bound to only three hours a week of logic,
ethics, and psychology, with a latitude in the total number
of hours of from fifteen to eighteen a week. In both
respects, namely, choice of subjects and number of hours,
the change was sufficient to have shaken the Old Brick
Row to its base. Senior year found each man practically
free in his choice of studies, except for two prescribed
hours of philosophy. When the courses covering these
hours alone were left, there was an effort made to pop-
ularize them, and to give them the appearance of being
as much desired by students as some of the favorites;
and in Senior year, when the choice of three philosophy
courses was offered, of which one had to be taken, the
bidding by professors was not only brisk with liberal of-
fers of immunity at examination time, but in the courses
themselves the lectures and tests were so conducted as to
inspire neither a desire for learning nor a fear of failure.
The method of giving out questions in advance of exam-
ination, with one member of the Class coaching the others
the night before the examination as to the proper answers
8 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
to the known questions, presaged the utter demoralization
into which the philosophical department was later to fall.
In Junior and Senior years, when liberty in choice of
studies was almost unrestricted, some of the courses, such
as Professor Sumner's course in societology, Professor
Hadley's course in economics, and the history courses of
Professors Wheeler and Smith, were eagerly attended by
students under a complete reaction from the compulsory
readings of Latin and Greek, and Billy Phelps' unique
course in modern novels became so popular that it was
tolerated but one year. These new liberties of the elective
system were not without their abuses, for many men chose
courses from the amount of inattention and lack of prepa-
ration they would stand, not only with avidity, but shame-
lessly, as witness the courses in the Pauline Epistles and
in Biblical History. But notwithstanding the evident
desire on the part of some to take their ease in the way of
courses when the opportunity came, the scholarship of
the Class as a whole compares favorably with classes
which have preceded and followed it. Seventy-three per
cent, of our number were in the Junior Appointment list,
a record which no other class before or since has equaled,
and for ten years Ninety-Six has held the record of fifty-
nine men in the grade of Phi Beta Kappa, notwithstand-
ing the somewhat larger classes that have followed in its
wake. No more certain indication of the high level of
scholarship maintained by the Class could be given, yet
it is not to be supposed that there was not a strong protest-
ing lowest division of men. They showed their wit if not
their wisdom, their intensity of feeling if not strength of
intellect, by organizing in a body, calling themselves
Kappa Beta Phi, decorating themselves with badges of
distinction— a key similar to the emblem of Phi Beta
Kappa only with the initials reversed— and displaying a
bond of sympathy of conscious glory, if not of honor.
Their songs caught the college ear, their revelries rang,
echoing through the campus till the sound entered the
gloom of the lonely high-stand students' rooms, who
nursed the memory of only one formal dinner to mark
UNDERGRADUATE DAYS 9
the achievements of many a grinding hour. It is said
that this organization of low-stand men was continued at
Yale in later classes ; it represented the reactionary spirit
which one learns to look for in all opinionated move-
ments ( for from the point of view of the low-stand men,
the measure of their ability in marks was merely a matter
of opinion), and which will doubtless ever keep forcing
into the foreground of college life.
In society and in athletics, as will afterwards appear,
this group of Kappa Beta Phi men excelled, and when
the realization comes of how large a part of college at-
tractions those two ideas represent, the complaisance of
the low-stand men and the pique of the high-stand men
becomes apparent. For years the baseball team of the
men failing to receive scholarship appointments, jocularly
known as the Dis- Appointments, has been successful over
the other teams in that interesting series of ball games
between the different appointment groups. The custom
of holding the inter-appointment games is one of several
innovations in the athletics of undergraduate life insti-
tuted by Ninety-Six and retained by the succeeding
classes to this day.
In times more liberal than now, when the municipal
authorities permitted rowing in crews upon Lake Whit-
ney, some of our members formed scrub crews, rowed
to their great amusement on Lake and Harbor, and held
with crews from other classes a regatta in the spring of
Senior year that was most interesting because of its
novelty, although, prior to our waning days, rowing was
the most exclusive of all sports in college, and sweep
rowing was the privilege only of the masterful University
eight and its substitutes, and of the class crews for short
training periods.
It is hardly possible to believe that sufficient oppor-
tunity is given to Yale men for general athletic sports.
Notwithstanding all that is said about the excessive in-
terest and devotion of college men to athletics, it still
remains true that aside from the University teams whose
performances are attended by thousands and whose train-
10 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
ing commands great sums of money, the multitude of
Yale men have, or certainly, in the days of Ninety-Six,
had, but scant opportunity to engage in the ordinary
sports. The class teams constitvtted but a handful of
men out of the large membership, and the remainder had
to take their exercise by looking on at the side lines, or
by indulging in the excitement of a walk towards East
Rock on Sunday afternoon.
In the early days of Ninety-Six the Yale field was
closed through the greater part of the football season,
and an ordinary student, because of ''secret" practice, did
not even enjoy the exercise of sitting on a bleacher.
Happily we found a way to break in on some of the
closures and in the fall of Senior year the Visigoths,
the Vandals, and other of our eating clubs engaged in foot-
ball games of friendly rivalry. In Freshman year, to our
good fortune, the new Gymnasium was opened, which,
though largely devoted to a splendid stairway, still gave
to every puny frame a chance to vie in sprightly dumb-
bells.
However, the athletic experience of the Class, acting
by representation, was victorious almost without excep-
tion, from the night it put its fledging wrestlers in the
ring of flaming torches. The contests with other classes
in rowing and baseball created much college interest. For
three years we won the inter-class baseball championship.
With Harvard Ninety-Six the result was unsatisfactory,
for the football game was a tie and the Yale faculty
prohibited the baseball game by way of imposing a ridic-
ulously ineffective punishment for the pranks of a portion
of the Class. Our Freshman crew was successful on the
Thames, and it composed almost to a man the University
crew throughout the remainder of the course, defeating
Harvard every year, except Senior year, when no race
was rowed. That year the unique experience came to
Yale of sending her crew to England to row in the Henley
regatta, where it was defeated. In 1894 Yale's track
team also went to England.
Whatever may have been the success of Ninety-Six in
UNDERGRADUATE DAYS 11
scholarship and athletics, in another field where there is
constant and praiseworthy undergraduate effort, the re-
sults were far from flattering. In the literary realm the
general calibre of the work was not up to the standard
that had been set by many classes, and those who are com-
petent to judge have declared that the literary quality of
the college periodicals was at a rather low mark, and that
beyond a few men — a very few — there was practically no
aptitude for wielding the pen. Prior to our time debat-
ing, too, had fallen into a state of collapse, but in Senior
year an enthusiasm for that accomplishment rehabilitated
the old debating club, created new ones, transformed the
eating clubs, and even spread with a spark of hope to
"darkest Sheff."
In looking about for a further observance of the gen-
eral history of the Class it seems proper to count among
those changes it saw transpire and those new experiences
common to all, an institution not very closely connected
with the University, not created at the instance of the
faculty or student body, but bringing an amusement and
diversion that was quite generally indulged in — namely,
Poli's Theatre. Prior to the coming of the vaudeville
performances the succeeding classes of Freshmen and
others had made periodic descents in bands upon some
dreadful melodrama or cheap comic opera at Proctor's
Theatre, where was to be found more trouble than amuse-
ment; but times are now so changed in these affairs that
not only is Poli's a regular resort for students, but it is
even said to be a place where New Haven's superior
society and Yale's Faculty are not above attending.
The mummer's art that so flourished in the universities
situated in the larger cities had not racked the simple
souls of Yale before our day. They had been content to
read of lutes trimmed to the beating foot and to imitate
in cheers the classic chorus of the frogs. The secret socie-
ties, however, had long found amusement in giving on
their own hallowed stages plays that were not seriously
prepared or skillfully performed, and in our middle years
the Junior Fraternities sought the clamor and the glare
12 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
of the theatre by the public production of musical come-
dies, in one of which our classmates appeared as brigands,
nymphs, and gallowglasses. It is amazing, now that the
enthusiasm of seeing our college favorites in new roles
has waned, to think of the bad acting, singing and danc-
ing that an audience, fetched from afar and exhilarated
by the conscious presence of its "nice people," would tol-
erate. After two performances the Faculty, not outraged
at the quality— for that could be forgiven— but fearful of
offending puritanism by a toleration of Dionysian revelry,
forbade a further trial of the art.
No commentary, however abbreviated, on the life at
Yale would be adequate without some allusion to the
system of secret societies existing there. The establish-
ment of societies is fixed, although they are continually
undergoing a series of changes and developments, thereby
indicating some disorder of the social state. When we
entered college there were two Sophomore societies that
kept the entire Class in a state of unrest throughout Fresh-
man year ; their only outward indications being exhibited
by machinations in Freshman politics and by their march-
ing in a body, as of course, into the two larger Junior
societies, Psi Upsilon and Delta Kappa Epsilon. In our
Junior year a third Sophomore society was started by
the members of Ninety-Six, but shortly after our day all
these Sophomore societies, having met with a widespread
condemnation, were abolished by the Faculty.
At the close of our course Alpha Delta Phi, which had
been a general four-year society, was made a Junior fra-
ternity, resulting in a shifting in the system to overcome
the criticism then prevailing. The Senior secret societies
have continued without change, except that there is to be
recorded the recent birth of a non-secret Senior group
styled the Elihu Club.
The subject of societies is so abundantly, though fur-
tively, discussed in undergraduate days that any consid-
eration of the various views would perhaps be unwelcome
here, and the social problem involved is referred to only
to cut the ten-year notch in our opinions, and to pause,
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as we reflect once more upon that powerful undercurrent
of Yale life, for the observing of the modifications that
a decade of experience and of contact with a different
community have made in us.
A comment on the American people has been frequently
made that they are inordinately given to forming a multi-
plicity of secret orders and associations. Certainly in the
colleges this propensity has developed to a high degree,
and Yale has indulged in it in due proportion. Secret
societies abound, especially in preparatory schools, where
they are subjected to no very intelligent control. Boys
are entranced by the appeal of mysticism newly awakened
in a dawning life, and captivated in their unbalanced days
by an apparent superiority established by themselves and
accepted by the uninitiated. They bring to Yale all the
ardor and all the undesirable attitudes that school socie-
ties can create, and, with the latter, supply to the social
life an element that is in constant conflict with more
wholesome influence.
A Yale graduate will be most likely to form an opinion
uncolored by loyalty to his fraternity, or without bias as
to the society system, if he calmly considers the character-
istics of some outside fraternal order of whatever species
of Independent Reindeers it may happen to be. The
very fact that he himself is not a member— as not many
college men join in after years such associations— is an
expression of his opinion of their allurements ; he knows
that their secrets amount to nothing, that their symbolism
is the emptiest kind of trumpery. He recognizes the
valuable features which abound,— the insurance securi-
ties, the commercial opportunities, and the social benefits,
—but utterly scouts the serious claims of hidden power in
their secrecy. He turns again at this extended day to
view the societies of Alma Mater, to discover, doubtless
with some shock of surprise, how like in part they are to
those fraternal orders viewed with his indulgent eye.
True, there is a marked divergence, but on the point of
secrecy he finds college men no less ridiculous, except
they are not so old and fat.
14 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
To turn over the pages of the Yale Banner, or any col-
lege year book, is to find emblematic engravings of secret
orders with smouldering sarcophagi, exhaling the odor
of mystery, skulls, masks, spades, keys to the secret of
knowledge, books of sibylline prophecy, and a host of
gewgaws that symbolize the ages of credulity and igno-
rance. The sacred iron doors at Yale no more close on
the world than do the wicker wings of a summer bar-
room ; the societies have no secrets, except for the pitiful
agreement not to tell the meaning of A.B.C. or the signifi-
cance of chained hearts and clasped hands.
It cannot be denied that a spirit of mysticism, finding
its only expression in tokens of tragedy and darkness,
appeals strongly to all men and especially to the spirited
and immature temperament of youths. If Yale men take
a delight in the allurements and romances of the occult,
they are to be allowed that liberty, even at the seat of a
university, where it is the business of the Faculty to en-
lighten the blind, and the practice of a student body to
seriously administer the social law. In general the liberty
is harmless, but the spectacle is to be tolerated only where
it does not interfere or conflict with the wellbeing of the
college community. Whether it does so at Yale is the
question now raised for our maturer judgments.
It has been stated that but few graduates join fraternal
orders. A further reason for this is found in the fact
that those orders cannot bestow the favors or inflict the
pains that lie in the laps of the college fraternities. In
the world at large we have courts of law to govern the
conduct of men, and the requirements of the entire com-
munity over conduct extend not much beyond the reach of
the penal statutes. For the vast admixture of society
there are many standards imposed on as many classes,
among which the fraternal organizations by their paucity
in membership are entirely lost, so that a breach of any
particular requirement of a fraternal order not corre-
sponding with a general rule of conduct of the entire
community will bring no penalty except from the order.
One is permitted to observe a march of decorated Tem-
UNDERGRADUATE DAYS tS
plars without much concern for his own welfare, but at
Yale the underclass man lurks to watch a midnight
parade as fearful of detection as a Peeping Tom.
The college community is quite differently constituted
from the general, and the system of ethics which prevails
richly transcends that penumbra closely clinging to the
portals of the jail. Undergraduates come largely from a
single stratum of society and respond with almost equal
sensitiveness to the praise or blame of their fellow-men.
Their numbers are few, all are eligible to the same clubs,
and most regard an election as a thing greatly to be de-
sired. The secret societies dominate the entire activity
of college life, they establish by their elections a system
of rewards that are accepted by the community as the
highest gifts that man can have for man, and of punish-
ments whose sting no one is too independent to ignore
or too degraded to feel. They establish a morale, their
imposition of social regulations is accepted by all, and
the violation of their rules brings not only the disapproval
of the initiated and a failure of election, but shapes the
judgment of expectant underclassmen on the propriety
of conduct. Whether this situation is deplorable or benefi-
cent is for the moment immaterial ; the fact to be noted
is that it exists.
The government by a tribunal of public opinion, so
constituted, exercises a control, powerful, sustained, and
complete, over the behavior of men from the moment
they arrive in New Haven as Freshmen; it is powerful
only because its standards are high, sustained because it
affects a class superior in culture, and complete because
it manages men in their most dependent days. This
system, unique in its class progression and wholesome in
its achievement, is highly valuable. Yet in spite of its
wide and efficient control of conduct, and because of its
great authority, it has established a certain attitude and
exercises some requirements that neither appeal to reason
nor freely meet the approval of sober-minded graduates.
It is out of the feature of secrecy that there arises a
strong doubt.
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It has been maintained here that the secret societies have
no substantial secrets, and that their claims of the super-
natural or of hidden experience are as unreal as they
are pretentious, yet the power and the prestige they have
gained, coupled with the show of secrecy, give birth to
a feeling of superiority and exclusiveness that quite in-
toxicates. If men want to feel superior and exclusive,
of course they may be allowed the opportunity so to in-
dulge their intellects, but when they are the same men
whom circumstance has elevated to a position of author-
ity, the maintenance of their attitude may, and in under-
graduate days ought to be fairly questioned. That the
entire system is conducted with a fostered exclusion is
beyond doubt ; the countless prohibitions that are imposed
on non-members is proof enough. The quality of exclu-
sion is displayed not in an aloofness from non-members,
such conduct could be nicely tolerated, but in a pointed
commingling, a subtle insistence on a difference, and a
constant appreciation of a barrier, perhaps as wilfully
raised by the non-member, but certainly the fabric of the
other. It may be urged that men need not accept these
prohibitions, but the college world does submit to them —
the worst being a restriction upon free discussion.
The decrees of exclusiveness are administered con-
jointly with the wholesome rules of conduct, and
most men while willingly submitting to the latter feel
hotly the effrontery offered in the former, for ef-
frontery and chivalry can be maintained together in any
community and they so thrive in Yale's societies. As
the secrecy is false, the exclusiveness is manufactured,
and as it is manufactured it is offensive. A proper
answer is not given if it be said that no man need feel
the exclusion unless he chooses to take it as such, for when
a condition is ostentatiously created, as this is, and a pro-
hibition against open recognition is decreed, then exclu-
siveness is deliberately maintained. Objection arises not
out of pique at the assumption of the chosen few but out
of the injury submitted to, perhaps weakly, by the un-
initiated. In a hundred ways Yale men have been hurt,
have received wounds that have smarted even in later
UNDERGRADUATE DAYS 17
years, wounds that could have been avoided only by re-
fraining from entering Yale, and it is difficult to believe
that among those who have removed the spectacles of
loyalty there are not many who have come to think that
the whole system of societies, in so far as they are secret,
is prejudicial to the best possible undergraduate life.
The societies at Yale are essentially clubs for the de-
velopment of friendships, all have the interest of Yale
at heart, and election to their number is an honor not
lightly considered and a trust not wilfully violated.
Their power is great, their influence inspiring. Without
secrecy and the offense growing out of it, these clubs
would still maintain their high position and authority, and
they would remove from life at Yale a feature that long
has been an object of criticism and regret.
While the society system has a strong influence on col-
lege social life it is still only an undercurrent above which
is a stronger, wider stream, rich with experience and
opportunity from earliest Freshman days. At a casual
glance it seems amazing to think how quickly the mem-
bers of the Class in Freshman year came to know each
other. An universal intimacy sprang up that finds, as
we continually observe, no correspondence in the out-
side world. Mere boys, shy and diffident, from all corners
of the country, made up the membership; they were not
thrown together by the force of college regulations, but
were marshalled in divisions of thirty or so, and yet in
no time they were on terms of Nym and Pistol from A
to Z. This of course was due to the men coming in
groups from the preparatory schools, like Andover and
St. Paul's, and lesser institutions, where they lived in
closest relation. Each group stood practically as a unit,
so that to know one meant immediately to know all.
Those who came singly from remotest towns and isolated
high schools soon became attached to and a part of one
of the larger groups, with the consequence that from the
very start of the course the men gained acquaintances
widespread that later were to develop into friendships,
fraternities, clubs, and carousals.
At the time of our arrival as Freshmen in New Haven
18 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
the 'old gymnasium had not been opened as a university
dining hall, and all were compelled to struggle at the
mercy of the boarding-house keeper, and in order to be
relieved from the hard conditions of that inhuman sect,
the men, for the most part, banded together in eating
clubs, some for the purpose of making protests effective,
and others to practise schemes of cooperation of manage-
ment which were as such generally successful. These
clubs were especially productive of friendships, and un-
doubtedly have for many men some of the most agreeable
associations of college days. A singleness of purpose
seemed to prevail. The Class was notable in its full
attendance at interclass athletic contests and all occasions
distinctly confined to it. In Senior year the game of
"nigger baby" was constantly played in a lively manner,
and at the Fence in front of Durfee Hall a class ball
game was kept going with all the vigilant attendance of a
vestal flame. As the men gathered after the evening meal
in the spring, the game increased to a tumult, and through-
out the morning diminished to a fitful one-o'-cat played
by a faithful few ready to take cuts from lectures till
other members came to keep the ball alive. Everyone
joined in these games, and in this way as well as in count-
less others Ninety-Six as a whole displayed that spirit of
democracy which so long has been the pride of Mother
Yale.
Yale democracy has been a favorite topic of discussion,
and loud has been her sons' fond praise, but notwithstand-
ing all the comment, there is difficulty in finding a suffi-
cient expression of the nature of this cherished virtue.
It lies not in the government by the Faculty of college
conduct, nor in a form of control of college affairs by the
student body, and the precise limitations of the term
neither correspond with any general definition of the
word "democracy," nor bear with brevity an adequate
description. The indications of this quality so dear to
Yale are seen diversely in a multitude of ways. We
point to the spirit at the class meetings, the general sing-
ing at the Yale Fence, the Yale Fence itself, typical of
UNDERGRADUATE DAYS 19
being an equal seat for every man, we point to the make-
up of the clubs without aristocratic distinctions, to the
elections of the best men to high offices, to the honors
bestowed on earned respect, and we say at Yale we crown
with wreaths the best and most deserving men. Yet
these indications are not sufficient properly to describe
the "democracy" of Yale, for without doubt there is not
another college in the country where the same principles
do not substantially prevail. But the claim for distinction
is made that the influence of wealth and family, the ex-
clusiveness of clubs, the politics of social institutions,
and the rivalry of fraternities is more than usually sup-
pressed, while a more general spirit preponderates for
the welfare of college and class as a whole, and for the
cultivation of a type of man. Perhaps nothing could be
said more distinctive of Yale democracy than that it is
the insistence on shaping the condtlct of all into a common
course. If a man lives by the exercise of certain prin-
ciples, he meets with the approval of others, and con-
forms to the type, while if he violates fixed rules of living
he meets with a condemnation expressed in ways peculiar
to undergraduate self -discipline, that in general effec-
tively controls his behavior. It is the more than ordi-
narily prevalent insistence on conduct of one sort that
whips men into a common kind, which typifies life at Yale
and which earns description in the term "democracy."
After graduates have had some experience in the affairs
of the world, they learn, as all thinking men learn, to take
the measure of others by the application of certain stand-
ards; they look about to find a few men rise up among
the multitude as the pillars of the community who have
gained their reputation, prominence, and authority as good
men through the possession and exercise of strong quali-
ties of character. As each Yale alumnus examines with
keen scrutiny the world about him he discerns without
many exceptions his fellow alumni standing in the ranks
of the strong and good, and finds their qualities of
decency and manliness meeting with the approval and
respect of all men. The same few fixed rules of conduct
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that the world demands are the same and the sum of the
principles insisted on at Yale. The greater vices are not
tolerated, extreme luxuries are decried, the power of
wealth and family is minimized, and a court of conduct
that looks clean through the deeds of men sits in judgment
over all. This spirit which exists at Yale, tending to
mould men into a type that after graduation will
strengthen the bulwarks of society, is of inestimable
value, for the community which Yale men complement is
in need rather of the sinews of an upright force than the
adornment of an exotic cult. Every Yale man may be
justly proud of the influence at New Haven, and proud
of the character of Yale's sons abroad. He may be glad
to recognize the spirit imbued in every other alumnus and
thankful for the fortune that has at least enveloped him
in such an atmosphere. The highest hope that we can
have for Yale is that* she may continue to inspire her
sons in their most malleable years with her scorn of sham
and her love of fairness, and continue to send them into
the outer world to walk in the paths of honor, and to per-
form deeds of common service.
Henry Selden Johnston.
The Curious Recollections
of
Edwin Oviatt
The Freshman Rush
Hazing
First Appearances
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RESOLVED : THAT
CHflPEb SHOULD WOT
Come in THe MlDDliC
OF 6«eAK FAST.
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Scene at Commons
25
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WALKfMG
ABOUT
A Day on the Campus
27
The Prom.
30
The Lit. Election
31
Campus Baseball
32
Commencement
Yale in 1906 and Yale in 1896
THE story runs that an Oriental Prince besought
Dante Gabriel Rossetti to paint his father's por-
trait. When the artist objected that he had seen neither
the monarch himself nor his likeness, the Prince replied,
**But you had never seen Beatrice, the Virgin Mary,
and the rest." So Rossetti painted an ideal portrait of
an Oriental potentate and exhibited it to the Prince.
Sorrowfully the latter exclaimed, ''How father has
changed !" With equal unreason the Decennialist return-
ing to Yale after long sojourn in a far country may per-
chance exclaim at the changes that have come over the
face of Mother Yale. But though modern artists have
been busy, Rossetti-like, in altering the familiar aspects
of Yale to suit their own ideals, the wise son will reflect
that he himself knows best the Alma Mater whom neither
tide nor time can aught avail to change.
Yet as the Decennialist pauses before buildings not
within his ken, or from an orchestra seat in Woolsey
Hall beholds the trappings and ornaments of silken
gowned dignitaries on the Commencement platform, or
opens his ears to campus chat of a Dramatic Association
that substitutes English classics for the joint plays of the
old Junior societies, and of a prosperous Senior club
that recognizes itself as an open society, he may well
ponder a bit over some of the changes within Yale's last
decade. And, if he has been for years a stranger within
her gates, he may perhaps incline to question some one
to whom the lines have fallen in the pleasant places of
Yale as to the novel aspects of undergraduate life. To
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36 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
such an alumnus some random contrasts between Yale
of 1906 and 1896 may not prove amiss.
When '96 first came to Yale a good deal of Freshman
life was passed on the campus — about old South, where
Grig-gs, Twombly, the Hollisters, and Jack Adams most
did congregate — on the top floor of Farnam, where Vaill,
Bacon and Wadhams banded together to prevent Dicker-
man from attending Greek recitations by barricading his
door with half a hundred trunks — in the attic of Durfee,
with Knapp and Weyerhaeuser, discussing the pros and
cons of bomb hurling in connection with the orchestra
leader at Proctor's theatre. Now, the campus dormi-
tories are too crowded by upper classmen to include more
than a chance first year man or so, and Freshman life
pursues its tenor along the sequestered ways of York
Street. Pierson Hall, designed originally for graduate
students, is abandoned to the ash-can relay races of Fresh-
men, while private dormitories along York Street have
scaled up prices in the effort to free even the more pros-
perous from the temptations incident to excess currency.
Ninety-Six, by the by, is responsible for the change of
atmosphere in Pierson Hall. When some dozens of us,
in the fall of 1896, invaded the Law and Graduate schools,
the majority flocked to Pierson Hall, as an Alsatia provi-
dentially opened to '96 refugees from the campus.
Hardly was the fall term under way, however, when
hostilities threatened between the Law School faction-
Walter Clark, Arnold, Birely, Jackson, and the rest —
and the Graduate School faction, headed by Johnnie
Gaines, by virtue of the authority in him vested as proctor
of the dormitory, and Berdan, already nervous with
asthma from too much delving in the dust of obscure
seventeenth century poets, and subject to night attacks
from certain convivial spirits in the Class of '98 who
respected neither Berdan nor the Graduate School. The
Law School faction was for NOISE! The Graduate
School faction was for quiet! Hazy memory seems to
recall a night of sofa-pugilism where the voice was the
voice of Gaines, but the hand was the hand of Arnold.
YALE IN 1906 AND YALE IN 1896 37
An armistice was effected by the formation of a Friday
night Shakspere Reading Club with membership from
both the rival factions. But rupture came when Arnold,
in drawing for character parts to read, drew two queens
and three kings, including Lear and Cymbeline, while
Gaines pulled two blanks, the first murderer in Macbeth,
a Waiting Woman, and an attendant without speaking
part. Professional jealousy did the rest, and there was
no further quiet on the Rialto, though Mr. Shakspere
no longer came to town. All the world knows that the
authorities voted Pierson Hall a failure as a graduate
dormitory, and abandoned it utterly to Freshmen. It has
remained for the '96 chronicler to reveal the real secret
of that Bastile.
Sophomore year, you will remember, we felt still more
at home on the campus, and all except Anson Stokes
used to gather nightly to sing at the Fence. But today
the real Sophomore life centres off the campus, at the
private dormitories in the Crown Street section. In the
Alumni Weekly you may have seen, interspersed between
insurance lectures and statements of why the alumni
should prefer end-stand seats at the big football games,
some of the invectives of after dinner speakers against
the encroachments of the private dormitory. But this is
only a rambling sketch from a hasty pen, with malice
toward none. So, passons! Dormer hien, dormitory
owners ! To others the pen of gall and bitterness. We
do but chronicle how the whirligig of time brings in his
revenges.
Nowadays the belated rush to the campus comes with
Junior year. A year of York Street, a year of Crown
Street, and then "tomorrow to fresh woods and pastures
new" — the phrase is still a bit verdant even for present
campus horticulture. The modern thirst for cleanliness
has, until recently, shown itself in distaste for some of
our old favorites among the dormitories, such as Durfee.
Recent sanitary improvements have now, however, clearly
entitled that dormitory to the nick-name of our class-
mate—"Tubby" Durfee— a pleasing tribute to his whole-
38 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
some instructions in history. So there is hope that Durf ee
may resume something of the old prominence which it
enjoyed in the days when the Botocudo Club used to
meet in Foote's room while "Basso" Wells read the les-
sons aloud for Sumner's Anthropology and Sheldon acted
as tithing man to awake Pete Hunt and Fred Bennett.
South Middle, too, renovated by architect and sanitary
engineer as ''Connecticut Hall," is now a Simon-pure
dormitory, for the Co-op. has expanded under the care
of Fred Robbins in the basement of Fayerweather.
Fayerweather, White and Welch are popular with Juni-
ors, and Vanderbilt is the Senior's preference.
Toward solving the problem of feeding the under-
graduate multitude no steps in the past decade have been
so important as the transfer of "Commons" to University
Hall, one of the Bicentennial buildings, and the subsequent
inauguration of the Yale Dining Club. At first, under
incompetent management, the results were chiefly nega-
tive— in point of fact, a heavy deficit. But with the ad-
vent of Captain Smoke came the organization of student
boarders at "Commons" into the "Yale Dining Club,"
with representatives from the various tables to act as
committees supervising food, service, and general ad-
ministration. Instead of a constant weekly rate of board,
there now prevails a combination of the fixed charge
and the a la carte systems. A fixed charge of $3.00 per
week covers everything save meats, eggs and fish, allow-
ing the economical or the vegetarian to live fairly well on
even the minimum charge. Extras at reasonable rates
permit others to live as they choose or can afford. Thus,
something like a thousand men are reasonably well fed,
and "Commons" has ceased to be a hollow mockery to
the hungry, and a yearly debit on the books of the Uni-
versity treasurer.
When professional waiters replaced student waiters
at "Commons" there was some complaint that an im-
portant means of livelihood was denied the needy under-
graduate. Whatever the justice of this plea in individual
cases, it is certain that never before at Yale has there
YALE IN 1906 AND YALE IN 1896 39
been such intelligent and systematic aid offered to the
student who works his own way. The Bureau of Self-
Help, in charge of the Rev, Mr. Kitchel, a Freshman
Greek instructor, is decidedly one of the most important
and successful institutions of the last decade. Its re-
ports amply prove both the necessity of such a department,
and the effectiveness of its work.
An impressionistic sketch forbids a rigid analysis of
recent changes in the curriculum. To the Decennialist,
the most noteworthy novelty in entrance requirements
is the permission to substitute advanced mathematics or
advanced modern languages for the old compulsory Greek.
In the college curriculum itself. Junior psychology,
ethics and logic have ceased to be required, and Johnnie
Gaines's Senior philosophy digests are no longer a sine
qua non for the bachelor's degree. Broadly viewed, the
elective system may be said to have expanded on con-
servative lines, occupying perhaps a middle ground be-
tween the restrictions of our own day and the almost un-
restricted license of the Harvard system.
It is idle to do more than call attention to the fact that
the administration of the University has, since our day,
largely passed into new hands. Hadley, McClung, and
our own Stokes fill the places of Dwight, Farnam and
Dexter — a layman has replaced a clergyman among the
permanent members of the Corporation — and the person-
nel of the faculty includes a larger representation from
'96 than from any other single class. Billy Phelps, now
enrolled as an honorary member of '96 enjoys his old
popularity. "Baldy" Wright is still beloved as Dean,
though it may be doubted whether any recent alumnus
has imposed on his sympathies so wantonly as did Ed
Oviatt, when he secured a fortnight's leave for recupera-
tion and Lit. book reviewing, and was discovered by an
envious classmate comfortably attending Grand Opera
in Mechanics Hall in Boston. Billy Hess deals out
philosophy to graduate students, and still cplder philoso-
phy, from his desk in the Dean's office, to prodigals and
delinquents.
40 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
But, after all, these are external changes. How fares
it, you query, with the real life of Yale? Is her motto
still Lux et Veritas? Does she still fight the good fight —
has she kept the faith? Every now and then you hear
hue and cry that at Yale "democracy" is not the slogan
that it was in Stokes's day — that the rich are getting
richer, the poor poorer. A good bit of it is hysterical,
for Yale is still essentially Yale as we knew it. Some
externals, be it frankly admitted, seem strange to us —
automobiles and polo ponies are a step beyond Julian
Chamberlain's saddle horse, which held the place of pride
in the simple life of '96. The week-end exodus to New
York is more pronounced than of yore, and winter trips
to Palm Beach and to New Orleans for Mardi Gras
gayeties fail to make the perpetrators so conspicuous as
they would have been in our day. But, in fairness, let us
remember "the decade of progress in the bigger world,'*
"the growth in material prosperity," "the changed stan-
dards of living," etc., etc.— and all the phrases which opti-
mist and pessimist alike use in harping upon changes in
American social life.
At bottom — and this is of supreme importance — Yale
stands by the old bed-rock principles. Her life is clean,
her ambitions honorable. Her doors open to merit, and
in the long run worth tells, — not wealth. Tempora
mutantur. Yes, but where 's the need of pessimism over
disturbances on the surface when the under-current still
runs strong and deep? For much that is seen is tem-
poral— and that which is seen is not all.
George Henry Nettleton.
Reminiscences
By Our Adopted Member
WHEN I came to New Haven in the autumn of 1892,
I felt more like a Freshman than any other mem-
ber of '96. I had taught school one year, but teaching
books was there the least of my duties ; I had preserved
order, I had amused the boys in the yard and in the
Gym. and at night had seen to it that the smaller ones
took their hot water baths. I had also been an Instructor
in English at Harvard for one year, but there again I
had not received the experience necessary to deal in the
classroom with such an aggregation as '96, for at Harvard
my duties were confined to reading tons of themes. On
coming to New Haven, then, I felt like the clay, and '96
looked like the potter. Thinking that it would be a good
idea to appraise the face value of those who were forced to
take the September exams., I walked carelessly to Alumni
Hall, and attempted to enter that edifice at 8.59 a. m.
Here I received my first set-back, for Professor Newton,
who had taken the dogwatch while Hotchkiss went be-
low— Professor Newton, I say, literally pushed me off
the steps, remarking, in a tone like that of Oswald in the
last act of Ghosts, "No members of the incoming class
will be admitted before nine o'clock." That was more
than a decree: it was a prophecy. I felt at once like a
member of '96, and was pleased to know that I looked
the part.
The next day I repaired to the upper back room in
Athenaeum, by far the best recitation room I have ever
adorned. It was a curious coincidence that I should have
REMINISCENCES BY OUR ADOPTED MEMBER 43
been assigned to that room, for it was in that precise spot
that in September, 1883, I had attended my first Fresh-
man recitation — ^Homer — with Professor Seymour. This
thought did not soothe my nerves, which had just been
ruffled at the door by an incident similar to my Alumni
Hall experience of the preceding day. On attempting
to enter old Athenaeum, with a view to getting behind the
desk before any '96 men should get in front of it, I was
accosted superciliously by one of these same persons,
whose name shall not be recorded here, because I have
forgotten it. He said, "Oh! what 's the use of going
in now? The Prof, has n't got here yet." This recog-
nition of my class membership, following so hard on the
heels of Mr. Newton's welcome, helped me materially in
maintaining an appropriate front.
Silence in the room for a few moments — then I heard
the gilded youth coming up the stairs, and I was re-
minded of a song in Victor Hugo's Burgraves —
"The Devil is hobbling up the stairs;
He comes for me with his ugly throng!"
The Devil, however, as Hamlet once remarked, has power
to assume a pleasing shape, for as handsome a boy as I
ever saw entered the room first and looked at me with
incredulous amazement. It was Bacon. After one close
scrutiny, he evidently made up his mind that I belonged
to the Class of '95 and was his first Sophomore joke in-
carnate. He retreated precipitately, carrying with him
in his flight down the stairs such persons as Buist, the
future gymnast, Belo, the sunburst from Texas, and H.
Baker, the Horace Greeley of the Windy City. A con-
ference took place without the door in whispers ; the
division reformed, and entered this time in close order
headed by H. & W. Cross. When Alphonse Daudet's
little boy saw Flaubert and Turgenev enter his father's
study, he cried out : "Why, Papa, they are giants !" When
I saw the future Center-rush and gold-headed Guard
enter my little recitation-room, I felt vertiginous and
44 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
decided to say nothing. Like most giants, however (the
New Yorks excepted), these were peaceful, and I never
doubted they were blood brothers. They took their
places calmly, though the Tawny one experienced some
difficulty in arranging his legs, while the Black Knight
had to turn edgewise to push between the tablets, and
then bulged perceptibly on each side. I called the roll,
kindly but firmly; and the fastest collection of scholars
that Yale College has ever seen got away in a bunch.
Never have I heard such artistic recitations as purled
that year. Harry Benedict read English fluently, and I
ceased to marvel, when two years later I heard him re-
cite the Diikite Snake off the Jersey Coast. Dickerman
knew so much more than I did that it was with a palpable
effort that he slowed down as we neared the wire to-
gether. Conklin's sleepless eyes, "like frightened balls of
black," glowed behind his glasses with unearthly splendor,
and he followed my exposition of Shakspere even as a
Princetonian follows the leathern windbag. To see
Conklin, on the third seat from the door in the second
row, alert, agile, resourceful, ready to seize on a crux
in the text as a terrier seizes a rat — that made warm the
tutor's heart. S. Day knew his lessons perfectly before
he knew what they were, and in the classroom I enjoyed
what Crashaw calls "large draughts of intellectual Day,"
while the intellectual one took his elsewhere. C. Day,
with his enigmatical smile, puzzled me sore, and I never
found the key to that enigma till I discovered that in his
room he had pipe-dreams. Furthermore, Clarence never
shone with full effulgence till his Senior year. Then one
memorable December day in Alumni Hall, he wrote out
his exam, in "Modern Novels"— O shades of Marcella
and Esther Waters — in fifty-one minutes. His paper he
handed to Dean Wright, who sat at one of the four
corners of the large room. The Dean read gravely, after
Day had escaped, and then beckoned solemnly to me.
I crossed the room, walking delicately, for I feared that
the Dean was about to utter a condemnation of the course,
of its instructor, and of the brief paper he had just finished
REMINISCENCES BY OUR ADOPTED MEMBER 45
reading. What was my surprise when he said, *'You will
have to mark this paper FOUR ! it is an ideal example of
what examination answers should be." Clarence had
really hit the ball for four bases, and I so recorded it on
my score-card. To think of it! "Simple, plain, Clar-
ence!" as Richard III remarked. Not so simple either,
in these days, if we may trust his own account of dealings
in the West.
"He 's all stove up with the rheumatiz,
His hair haint cut, but his eye-teeth is !"
Time fails me to tell of the scholastic exploits of the
mighty Keller, the gentle Gaines, the peaceful Farr, the
roaring Morgan, the graceful Nettleton, the discreet
Charnley, and others of like virtue. Toward the end of
the summer term, I experienced two distressing shocks.
One was the steady melancholy of Oakley, who made his
living by illuminating gas ; this I never understood till
I observed that he was forced to sit alphabetically next
to Noon, where he felt his uneffectual fire begin to pale,
as says the Ghost in Hamlet ; or, as Milton more candidly
remarked :
"O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of Noon!"
In such a juxtaposition did Oakley, like Othello, feel his
occupation gone. The other shock was the downfall of
Mason Brown, who began his first summer vacation with
no prospect of ending it. I had not anticipated this down-
fall, because in comparison with A. Brown, whose seat-
mate he was, his recitations in Shakspere had seemed
to me positively brilliant. (Alexander was an amiable
young man, but his contributions to Shakspere-scholar-
ship were unimportant.) At the last Faculty meeting
of the year, held a few days before the boat-races, it was
voted that M. Brown should be dropped, and he zvas
dropped. Then some member of the Faculty conclave
said, "But is he entitled to row in the Freshman race, if
he is no longer a member of the college?" "Yes," said
46 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
President Dwight, "he is; he has completed a full year
of residence, and Seniors row on the University crew,
although they have already ceased to be members of the
college at Commencement." "Then," inquired the same
professor, "if we tell him this bad news now, it will dis-
hearten him for the race; and if we wait till after the
race, and Yale loses, it will seem like adding insult to
injury." The President waited thoughtfully a moment,
and then quietly remarked, "It is understood that Brown
will be informed that he is dropped in the moment of
victory."
Brown was informed by a tutor, not immediately after
the race, but during the celebration thereof ; and the tutor
marvelled that Brown received such low marks with no
corresponding lowness of spirits. He inquired the rea-
son ; and Brown, with his arm around the tutor's neck,
replied, not in the words of Brown, but of Browning :
"Well, if the marks seem gone,
'T is because stiffish cocktail, taken in time,
Is better for a bruise than arnica.
There, sir! I bear no malice: 't is n't in me.
I know I acted wrongly: still, I 've tried
What I could say in my excuse, — to show
The devil 's not all devil .... I don't pretend
He 's angel, much less such a gentleman
As you, Sir! And I 've lost you, lost myself.
Lost all-1-1-1 . . . . "
What I thought of the scholarship of my pupils has
been sufficiently shown; a testimonial as to what they
thought of my learning may now be given. G. Eldridge
once called on the Dean of the Freshman class, Mr.
Dutcher, and on the latter's inquiry as to how he liked
his work, Eldridge said with some passion, "I tell you.
Doctor Phelps can criticise Shakspere every time."
Sophomore year was rather uneventful, broken only by
a few trivial events, such as the attempt of Lackland to
hang his overcoat on a pegless wall, the arrival of the
bearded Chauncey, Schevill's spirited defence of his
hero. Bob Ingersoll, and Benedict's dream of Ophelia.
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48 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
The fact that Stokes was the only man in the first division
who knew what Chartreuse was, should also be recorded.
In the spring of this year Chace began to sing.
The Class was divided into four scholarship divisions,
so-called. In the second sat that terrible triumvirate,
Fisher, Foote, and Ford. During the recitation, these
three conversed with the ease and insouciance of society
women at an afternoon tea. But I bided my time. The
class was to be redivided. With a little manipulation,
one of these three advanced a division, one remained
where he was, and the other descended toward the foote
of the Class. You see I mention no names; but my joy
at this cleavage knew no bounds. It was not unmitigated
joy, however, for I feared reprisals ; my emotions were
like the expression on Lackland's face during the few
weeks in his career when he was a member of the first
division. Never shall I forget that look of mingled joy
and terror.
In Junior and in Senior year I got on very well with
my classmates, though I could have laughed wildly over
the corpse of Porter after his graceful introduction of me
at the Phi Beta Kappa public lecture. "We have with us
to-night," he shouted, "a speaker of word-wild fame!"
This statement was received with such demonstrations
of enthusiasm as seemed to me for the moment almost
too flattering. Kinney's table-talk, or Longacre by moon-
light were mild compared to the roar of delight that
greeted Porter's pretty compliment.
Wm. Lyon Phelps ('87).
UNIVERSITY ^^
or
class Gatherings
Commencement Week,
Triennial, Bicentennial, Sexennial,
The New York Dinners of 1903, 1904, 1905 and 1906,
Decennial
Commencement Week
IN the afternoon of Friday, June 19th, 1896, the Class assembled
at the Fence and started from there with a brass band for the
Class Supper at Savin Rock. The Supper Committee con-
sisted of Neale, Twombly, S. Thorne, Cheney, and Paret. Chaun-
cey Wells was Toastmaster. Speeches were made by Bentley,
Kinney, Gordon, etc., etc.
On Monday morning, June 22d, Arthur Thompson read his
Class Poem and George Buck delivered the Oration, in Battell
Chapel, This was followed by the presentation of the Woolsey
Statue, and by the Rev. Dr. Twitchell's sensational address in
which he censured '96 for taking its ivy from that upon the
grave of General Lee. In the afternoon '96 formed in a column
in front of South Middle and Lyceum, Sheldon led the proces-
sion, carrying the '96 banner, with Kingman and Loughran on
either side. The Class Day enclosure was between Old Chapel
and Lyceum, upon the ground North Middle used to occupy.
The Class filed into this enclosure, seated itself upon the long
wooden benches, and listened to the reading of the class his-
tories by P. C. Peck, Fisher, McLanahan, C. Day, and Cheney.
The Committee in charge was H. Cross, Treadway, S. B. Thorne,
W. H. Clark, and Beafd, Tobacco was passed around in buckets,
with a class pipe for each man to pull at, and as many long clay
pipes as one^ wished. The only liquid served was lemonade.
After the histories, the ivy was planted beside Chittenden
Library (it has now been moved to the College Street side of
Lawrance), and the Class then marched to the President's house
and to the Dean's. In the evening occurred the Senior Prom.
On Tuesday, June 23d, came a baseball game with Princeton,
which Princeton won. In the evening there was a Glee Club
Concert and the Senior German.
June 24th, Wednesday, was our Commencement Day. We re-
ceived our sheepskins in Battell Chapel in the morning and at
one o'clock attended our first alumni dinner.
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50 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
Triennial
Proceedings at the Class Meeting
Held at 176 Lyceum, 10:30 a.m., June 27, 1899
It was voted to hold the regular Sexennial Reunion in 1902 as
well as a reunion in 1901 at the time of the Bicentennial Celebra-
tion, and the Triennial Committee (Griggs, Foote, and W. H.
Clark) was reelected to take charge.
The resignation of Eliot Sumner as Class Secretary was read
and accepted and George H. Nettleton was elected in his stead.
It was voted that the committee appointed in New York at
the winter dinner to consider the question of a proper memorial
for Gerard Ives, deceased, should be given full power to provide
a suitable memorial, after advising with the President of the
University and Mrs. Ives.
It was voted to cable Lieutenant Ward Cheney, at Manila,
the greetings of the Class, and to telegraph to Huntington Taylor,
ex-member of the Triennial Committee, the greetings of the
Class, including in such telegram Fred Weyerhaeuser. It was
further voted to send a telegram to the retiring Secretary, Eliot
Sumner.
Discussion ensued upon the subject of the Bicentennial Fund,
and the advisability of the Class making a contribution as a whole.
It was finally voted that the matter be left to the Committee.
The meeting thereupon adjourned.
The following men were present at Triennial. There are a
number of omissions, but the list is probably in general correct :
B. Adams, J. C. Adams, Alexander, Allen, Arnold, Bacon, H. D.
Baker, A. R. Baldwin, Ball, Beard, Belo, Benedict, Bennett,
Bentley, Berdan, Bergin, Berry, Bingham, Birely, Bond, Boyer,
Brinsmade, Buist, Bulkley, Burnham, Cary, Carley, Chace,
Chandler, Chapman, Chittenden, T. B. Clark, W. H. Clark, Coch-
ran, Coleman, Collens, E. D. Collins, Conklin, Conley, Coonley,
Corbitt, H. P. Cross, Curtiss, A. S. Davis, C. Day, S. Day,
deForest, Douglass, Drown, Durfee, Eagle, Eldridge, Farr,
Fisher, Foote, Ford, Fowler, Frank, Fuller, J. M. Gaines, Gay-
lord, Goodman, Greene, Gregory, Griggs, Hatch, E. B. Hamlin,
Havens, Hawes, Hawkes, Heaton, Henry, Hess, Hoeninghaus,
G. C. Hollister, J. C. Hollister, Hooker, Hoole, Hoyt, Hunt,
Jackson, Jeffrey, Johnston, A. C. Jones, L. C. Jones, Keller,
Kellogg, Kingman, Kip, Knapp, Lee, Lenahan, Lobenstine,
Loughran, Lovell, Lusk, Mallon, F. W. Mathews, H. W.
Mathews, McKee, McLanahan, McLaren, W. S. Miller, More,
Morgan, Morris, Neale, Nettleton, Nicholson, Oakley, Paxton,
H. S. Peck, P. C. Peck, Perkins, Porter, Pratt, Reynolds, Rich-
mond, W. P. Robbins, Robert, Robinson, Root, Schuyler, Schevill,
Scoville, Scudder, Sherman, Shoemaker, D. Smith, N. W. Smith,
W. D. Smith, W. D. G. Smith, Spellman, Spinello, Starkweather.
CLASS GATHERINGS 51
Stewart, Stokes, H. G. Strong, T. S. Strong, Stuart, Thompson,
S. Thorne, Jr., S. B. Thorne, Treadway, Truslow, Twombly,
Vaill, Vincent, Wade, Walter, T. B. Wells, C. W. Wells, Whalen,
Williams, Wood, Woodhull, R. J. Woodruff, Young, Limburg,
ex '96, C. H. Woodruff, ex '96. Total— 160.
The Triennial Reunion
(Note: A full account of the reunion may be found in the Triennial Record;
reprinted in the Sexennial Record.)
The men began arriving on Saturday and immediately went
into uniform, consisting of plain white duck coat and trousers
and a round white hat with the class numerals painted on the
front. We had to go down to a store on Church Street to buy
them, and sometimes we had to wait while a person in the rear
inked up the hats. The Committee received praise for its
thoughtfulness and enterprise in making these arrangements,
primitive as they seem in contrast to present customs.
On Monday the Class organized an impromptu procession on
the campus led by "Mose" (who required some vigorous urging),
and by Young's big black dog attired in the regulation white
coat and hat. When the '99 Class Day histories were finished
we joined the Seniors. We sang their Ivy Song, marched with
them to the homes of D wight and Hadley, led their band (it was
Johnston who did that) and had a joint Omega Lambda Chi
dance down to the Green and around the flag pole.
The town and campus seemed still to belong to us. The Fence
was our headquarters and we flocked there naturally, confidingly,
for all the world like newly made ghosts, amateurs at haunting
and half unconscious of our ghostship. There was a Senior
Prom in Alumni in the evening. We loitered outside awhile,
restless and uneasy at not being in the thick of things, until we
simply had to force an entrance, police or no police. There
was n't anything to do when we were in but to watch the dancers.
Later we put Loughran up a pole to make a speech, and shot him
full of premature roman candles. Later still came Drown's real-
istic representation of the Battle of Manila Bay. Chapel Street
was Manila Bay and hacks were used for ships; Osborn Hall
was the Spanish Arsenal. A few peaceful classmates who had
been smoking cigars, d la belle etoille, upon the steps, were fero-
cious Spanish foemen. Their ferocity was arranged for by not
explaining the game to them until the firecrackers gave out, by
which time everybody was more or less burnt up. Next day
they bought new uniforms.
There was a class meeting Tuesday morning — very crowded
and unruly— which was held at the same time as the General
Alumni Meeting at which Stokes was one of the speakers. In
the afternoon, after an initial parade around the Green, the men
rode out to the Field, where the procession reformed. The Com-
52 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
mittee led, carrying huge Japanese parasols, followed by H.
Cross with the banner, C Dav with the old class flag, and Ball,
who walked arm in arm with a stuffed figure labeled "George
Dewey." Somebody had captured a baby carriage, and im-
provised a baby, for the reluctant Hawkes to wheef The band
marched itolidly ahead and the men danced behind, their long
Omega Lambda Chi ranks whirling deliriously in and out all up
and down the line. We don't dance that way nowadays. The
Sime was lost, the men marched jaraily home, dancing much of
e way, Prexy Dwight was visited, and then we called on
Hadley. In the course of his talk to us our new President an-
nounced that Stokes— our Anson— was to succeed Professor
Dexter as Secretary of the University. It was a proud moment
for Ninety-Six, and Anson had an exciting time of it riding back
to the campus on some dozen of lusty shoulders.
The dinner was in Warner Hall. Pius Peck presiding, and
was preceded by the presentation of the Class Cup to our first
boy, John Ballard Hawkes. Jack Berry's eloquent presentation
address to this child {vid. Sexen, Rec. \i^, 262-6) sparkled with
cultivated fire. "The warrior's cun is primed," ne told him
sternly, "Imt not with the powder from Beautv's cheeks." Young
Hawkes took it all in, as well as a little of the champagne when
the cup was filled. His father responded, his mother withdrew,
and the Class burst into song.
riicre were no speeches. Anson was seen on his feet for one
brief moment, then Pius. Arthur Thompson may have read a
little of the 'rriemiial Poem (Sexi'ti. Rec. pp. 260-72). But the
noise and uproar could not be checked and the Committee pres-
ently sent out the hand and led the way to the campus. There
the fellows remained amid a blaze of bonfires, roman candles,
and colored torches, until the early morning hours proclaimed
that Triennial was over.
Bicentennial
Proceedings at the Class Meeting
Held in A2 Osborn, Monday, Oct. ai, 1901, at 9:45 a.m.
The business meetinij? was called to order immediately after the
Dedication of the Ninety-Six Cheney-Ives Memorial Gateway.*
About eighty or ninety men were present. Samuel Thome, Jr.,
reported from the Committee on the Gateway that practically
the entire sum necessary for the erection of the Gate had been
secured. This sum was about $3,000. A vote of thanks to the
*Not0. A complete account of the erection and dedication of this gate*
wuy, including the apeechei by Pretident Hadley and by H. J. Fisher, was
prepared for the Sexennial Record by Samuel Thome, Jr. (.V## Stx0Hn%al
Kfcord, pp. VS-SJO.) The number of contributors was two hundred.
CLASS GATHERINGS 53
Committee was passed. It was announced that daily at 12:30
P.M., and 6 p.m., those Ninctv-Six men who wished to t,'iKc
luncheon and dinner at the Vulc University DininK iiaii wonid
meet at the Ninety-Six Gateway, and march together to the
Dining Hall. The meeting then resolved itself into a committee
of the whole to raise $300 for the special Ninety-Six band
and transparencies for the torchlight parade Monday night.
About $110 was secured at the meeting, and the balance was
raised later by collectors, J. B. Neale, G. L. Buist, Jr., and G. H.
Nettleton.
The following is a list of those present at this reunion :
B. Adams, J. C. Adams, Alexander, Allen, Ailing, Alvord,
Arnold. Am. ((in, Auchincloss, Baker, Baldwin, Ball, Beard,
Jkiinrti. 1; III I. 7, Bergin, Berry, Birely, Breckenridge, Brins-
niadc, r.H.wii, I'.ncic, Buist, Bulkley, Burnham, Burton-Smith,
Ciry, Ch.'icf, Cli.'uullcT, Chittenden, Clark, Cochran, Colgate,
Conkliii, Coiilcv. ('(um\ov, Cross, Curtiss, A. S. Davis, E. L.
Davis, (I. I on I, 1; iImiii, Dickerman, Durfee, Eagle, Eldridge,
Farr, lirM, I 1 Im ,, I 1 ,1,- ,(y, Foote, Frank, Fuller, Gaines, Ga;r-
I'l'l, '..'Mimin (,i,,n,, ( iregory, , Grigjjs, Haldeman, Hamhn,
ilii'li, iiivii , Iliw ., Hedges, Heidnch, Hclfenstein, Henry,
II' .., il-lli.i.i, ll....i,,r, Hunt, JackRoi), JcfTn-v, T'-lmJon, A. C.
I"ii. , I (' I'.ii' ., Jordan, kcllrr, Kii;ip|., 1 'i,i|.iiian, Lee,
L.Hirlii.iM, I,., .11, I iiJc. McKrr, lVI(-L:iii;il).'iii. M^Im-ii. Mathi-
•.MM, Mm, ,.,,,,, |.,,M. Nc.-ijc. Nriil.-i.Mi, Ni.-li..l',..n, O/Mit, Paret,
I' III' I -I. M •. I'- I. 1'. C. iVck, I'cltoii. I'.iliii . I'l iif, Prinrr,
I'-iM.M,. I'M I. :m.., Ml, l'\ O. Robbins, W. r I'-Mm., ., r-,..!, i-...,.
.^'ll•■■ ill, - iimM. : Micldon, Sherman, 1). .umiIi, '■ A .'.ninii,
N. VV ::iiniii <'.. Smith, W. D. Smnii, ' .1- iii,,,,.,, m- wart,
StoI<.'.. Mm.m . I. Thompson, S. Thou m, Ii , :. r. 1 iiornc,
Von loL-l. Im Mlway, Truslow, Twombly, V;nll
Wcycrl);!' II . I , Williams, Wood, Woodruff, Yon
tol. Toi.-il ijy.
VV.l.l--, VV.lIlr,
rhe Bicentennial Reunion
(Reprinted from the vpecial article in the Sexennial Record.)
Tt was only a handful of the Class that gathered around the
Ninety-Six Gateway, on Monday morning, to hear Fisher's words
of dedication, but their hearts were big with pride to think of
Cheney and Ives, and their eyes were satisfied with the memorial.
That was the Monday, or the second day set apart for Yale's
Bicentennial celebration. Not many of the Class had come, but
enough to have a class meeting in A2 Osborn, when the dutiful
Secretary promised us a tuneful band for the cveinng, but begged
us to realize that some one must account for its enthusiasm.
This was met with long-green eauanimity; but the meeting flew
into a passion of roaring pain when the quaking Nettleton read
54 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
a telegram from some irresponsible member in New York, to wit:
"Spent a mint for transparencies ; collect from Class."
Calm words of courage, threats of verTgeance and subsidence
by way of oaths, lowered the temperature— and raised the money.
All through the afternoon the Class registration list kept grow-
ing at the Library, where the new arrivals received from Dicker-
man and Farr the bronze medals for graduates, that passed us
in and out the campus gates. Ninety-Six men wandered about
bewildered to see New Haven blooming in blue, and startled at
the echoing hammers of carpenters erecting play-houses and
stands on the campus.
At Osborn Hall, post-graduate tailors were fitting blue muslin
gowns to broad-bosomed alumni, and there was a despairing
trying on of hats ; torches were plucked from the carpenter shop,
and by seven o'clock every one was accoutred with the proper
Bicentennial parade insignia — every one except Oris. Smith, who,
at the last moment, noisily burst past the guards at the Memorial
Gateway. He found the Class gathered at the corner of South
Middle. They stood amid smoking torches, whose glare lit up
the mottoed lights whereupon were writ the claims of Ninety-Six
to glory. One stalwart member was instructed to keep the side
which said "Anson Stokes belongs to us," constantly toward the
grandstand. The Class band arrived, and inquired in vain for
Nettleton. Then Twombly's Kazoo Band arrived ; it played.
Ninety-Six howled with delight, and the University laughed and
admired the stunt.
By eight o'clock the campus was packed with thousands of
flickering lights ; the air reeked with stifling smoke, and a hun-
dred bands clashed stridently. Great flambeaux capped with
burning pitch intermittently did light the towering walls, and
the trees above in the dismal mist looked weird. The under-
graduates swung off, the costume of each class delighting us—
Indians, cowboys, sailors and all ; then came the graduates from
old to young, when Ninety-Six, headed by Brinck Thorne and
Nettleton, marched in its turn.
Up this street and down that we marched, with a great Ninety-
Six transparency at our head, and always Twombly's Kazoo Band
creating amusement, till we reached the reviewing stand. Why
speak of presidents, governors, mayors — for there sat our Anson,
who rose to say— "Dear Classmates : You from whom among . . ."
Clash, bang went the cymbals and drum of Twombly's Band, and
Boolah wheezed over the deafened crowd as the Class marched
gaily by.
There were moments of Omega Lambda Chi and moments of
waiting, and new shoulders were put under the great trans-
parency. It had pictures of Eli Yale on one side and Timothy
Dwight on the other. This the Class carried proudly, and when
on Whitney Avenue, President Dwight, standing on the curb,
was passed, they cheered.
In the darkness of the streets the bandmaster cried for light,
and Bentley, steady and true with his torch— always in step with
the music— was placed within the midst. Loughran and Spellman
were link boys on the side, and that was the order of the march.
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CLASS GATHERINGS 55
Shortly before twelve the parade was over, and fleetly was the
rank dispersed for there were thirsty throats.
On the campus a great bonfire was started, and through the
early morning hours Ninety-Six straggled away to bed; a few
groups of wakeful under-graduates were left and finally they
departed, leaving the fire to die in a warm glow of embers.
Onl}^ a distant and infrequent sound from an echoing entry was
heard ; the air was cleared of smoke, and keen. There were
the old walls, clean cut against the sky, the old silent trees, the
Fence, Durfee, with a light or two, and black Alumni Hall. In
the midst of these I stood, and swaying with a thousand mem-
ories whispered, — "Good night, Yale ! Good night, old Yale."
* * *
Things were happening in Battell Chapel. This was Tuesday
morning. Some were taking the trouble to watch the gowned
backs going in, but mostly Ninety-Six was sitting on the Fence
gossiping and waiting for lunch. After that the class picture
was taken in front of the Gateway, with Twombly's Band doing
a fanfare in the front row.
No secondary brass band had been hired to escort the Class
to the football game at the field, so that when the undergrad-
uates with their bands formed a column to march out Chapel
Street, Ninety-Six found it necessary to head the column in
order to have hireling music. The Class was headed by
Twombly's Band— the feature of the entire parade. The band
was led by Weyerhaeuser. His figure was grand. In his hand
he held a great curtain rod covered with white enamel; on each
end of the rod there was a brass ball. Treadway played the
cymbals.
When the field was reached we marched round it, and cheer
after cheer went up from each class passed by; this proved so
pleasing that we perambulated again with like effect, and then
took seats.
Football was played and much music. On the return the
paid bands and costumed under-graduates went off to get what
glory they might. But the main column was led by Ninety-Six.
Beside it on the walks almost the oldest living graduates kept
step, and their families too, while in front shrill newsboys turned
cartwheels, and behind followed the mute rabblement.
The campus was reached. The Class disbanded, and that was
the end of the afternoon's divertisement.
* * *
In the evening there was a grand assemblage of the sons of
Yale. They sat in banks, encircling a large amphitheatre. Plac-
ards showed where those classes sat who had forgot how to
• cheer, and cheers showed where classes with young, lusty lungs
were gathered. Before the performance of the under-graduates
began, songs were sung back and forth, middle-aged songs and the
latest. Ninety-Six was inconspicuously placed in a dark angle
of the benches; below it in the arena there was a sea of faces,
and all around were shores of Yale men. It was the most vast
and impressive gathering that Mother Yale had ever seen. The
56 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
night was lighted with gigantic torches from which great col-
umns of smoke wound upward through the elms.
The Class took its turn at shouting and singing, and fixed its
eyes upon the play. Undergraduates in short tableaux did
represent the history of Yale's two centuries. The inspiration
of Nathan Hale was deep ; the mirth of college pranks was high.
These courses were bonded with the old songs that Yale sang
out a hundred years ago, songs made young again in Freshman
throats. The life of Yale was rounded out for us to look upon
and know. Quietly and proudly Ninety-Six felt itself to be a
part of that great life. Resolutely the Class filed out that night,
out into the next century for Yale.
* * *
On Wednesday morning it fell to the lot of the Class to look
dejectedly on at the lines of visitors and graduates who marched
into the Hyperion theatre for the conferring of degrees. With
the faculty went Gregory, the first of the Class to have the honor
of an assistant professorship in that body.
The Class stood hopefully in line for upwards of an hour.
It cheered the oldest classes as they tottered by, it bantered the
middle-aged classes, and finally, impatient at the passing endless
chain, broke in upon the swaying line to usurp the place of an-
other class. The hope of getting into the Hyperion had gone—
especially as word was passed along that soldiers were using
bayonets at the Vanderbilt Gate, but the desire for a frolic had
come and a general scrimmage ensued till collars began to melt,
when the members retired to the Fence to take farewell.
What does it matter how the official programme ended? With
Ninety-Six Bicentennial subsided gently, with sorrow that
Twornbly's bass drum was broken, with delight at the celebra-
tion, with memories of the past, and promises to come to the
Sexennial.
Sexennial
Proceedings at the Class Meeting
Held in A2 Osborn at 10:30 a.m., on Tuesday, June 24, 1902
The meeting was called to order by Maitland Griggs of the
Sexennial Committee. A letter was read from Nettleton (who
was over in Alumni Hall speaking for Ninety-Six at the General
Alumni Meeting), in which he resigned his Secretaryship and
urged the election of Clarence Day in his stead. Day was
elected. Griggs announced that the Sexennial Committee, con-
sisting of Foote, Walter Clark, and himself wished to resign.
Their resignations were accepted, and on nomination of J. C.
Adams three bachelors were elected to take charge of Decennial^
CLASS GATHERINGS 57
viz.: Nettleton, Samuel Thorne, Jr., and Clarence Day. Day,
however, declined to serve and Paret was chosen in his place.
On motion of George McLanahan a vote of thanks was ac-
corded to the retiring Secretary for his conscientious perform-
ance of his task and to the Sexennial Committee for their suc-
cessful management of the' reunions.
Samuel Thorne reported in behalf of the Gateway Committee
that the total cost had been about three thousand dollars and
that there was a surplus of about nine dollars in the treasury.
In putting one of the tablets in place, however, some of the
stone had been injured. The cost of putting in a new block
had been one hundred and fifty dollars and the liability for
this expense was in dispute. Until it was decided it was im-
practicable to make a final report.
Griggs and Foote then distributed chin-whiskers and songs,
and told the men to come around after lunch for their zoboes
and balloons. After the meeting had adjourned, a photograph
of about ninety of the men was taken on Osborn Hall steps.
The following is a list of those present at the reunion:
J. C. Adams, Allen, Ailing, Alvord, Arnold, Arnstein, Auchin-
closs, A. R. Baldwin, Beard, Bentley, Bergin, Berry, Benedict,
Birely, Bond, Buist, Bulkley, Carley, Chace, Chandler, Cochran,
Colgate, C. Collens, Coonley, Corbitt, H. Cross, W. Cross, A. S.
Davis, E. L. Davis, C. Day, S. Day, deForest, deSibour, Dicker-
man, Eagle, Farr, Fincke, Fisher, Foote, Fowler, Frank, Fuller,
J, M, Gaines, F. W. Gaines, Gaylord, Goodman, Gordon, Griffith,
Griggs, E. B. Hamlin, Hatch, Havens, Heaton, Hess, Hoening-
haus, G. C. HoUister, Hooker, Hoyt, Hunt, Jackson, Jeffrey,
Johnston, A. C. Jones, L. C. Jones, Jordan, Keller, Kelly, King-
man, Kip, Knapp, Lackland, Lovell, Lusk, McLanahan, McLaren,
F. W. Mathews, Neale, Nettleton, Nicholson, Oviatt, Pardee,
Paret, Paxton, P. C. Peck, Perkins, Richmond, F. O. Robbins,
W. P. Robbins, Root, Sage, Sheldon, Sherman, Shoemaker, D.
Smith, N. W. Smith, W. D. G. Smith, W. D. Smith, Spellman,
Stalter, T. S. Strong, Stuart, Sumner, S. Thorne, Jr., S. B.
Thorne, Tilton, Trudeau, Truslow, Twombly, Vaill, Wade, Wad-
hams, Walter, R. J. Woodruff, Woodhull, Young. Ex-members
Gilbert, Van Beuren. Total — ii8.
The Sexennial Reunion
(Note: A full account of the Reunion may be found in the Sexennial
Record.)
Less than three quarters as many men as were present at Tri-
ennial attended this Reunion. This is apt to be the case at Sex-
ennials. The ten-year man has had time to settle down to his
stride and arrange for an outing; the three-year graduate has
not yet taken up many responsibilities ; but a class at the six-year
mark is betwixt and between. Besides having fewer men we had
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a shorter reunion, owing to there being no Monday programme.
We felt for the first time a Httle strange and unfamiliar. The
town, the campus, and in some cases ourselves had changed more
than we had expected. We had no headquarters.
There were several sub-reunions, however, on Monday night.
A pamphlet full of '96 songs had been distributed, and these were
faithfully sung at all the old resorts— excepting Traeger's, which
was being changed into a tailor-shop. One anthem which
achieved temporary favor, owing to the presence among us of a
few new and puzzling full beards, began as follows: —
The bond that binds the sons of Yale
Has brought from shore to shore
The old familiar faces 'round
Our festive board once more.
Then haste thee. Nymph, and bring with thee
What Mr. Milton thinks
Essential, — but do not forget
The old familiar drinks.
The old familiar faces all
Have old familiar names.
So greet not him you can't recall
With vague "old boy" acclaims ;
Nor leave to random guess the task
From which your mem'ry shrinks.
But simply fill his nameless face
With old familiar drinks.
&c.. <2fc.
On Tuesday we made Osborn Hall steps our meeting place.
It was central, and roomy, and as most of the new-comers landed
there it had the advantage of precipitating them in medias res.
Between arrivals we set off firecrackers. Then came the class
meeting, a hurried lunch, and the formation of the uniformed
procession. The '96 uniform was much the same as at Triennial,
— white duck suits and hats and blue sashes, with the class
numerals on the hats. Some of the other classes wore garments
of more elaborate design, showing the influence of the Bicenten-
nial pageantry. Ninety-Nine, for instance, appeared in sailor
suits of thin white stuff. The weather had been so cool on Mon-
day night that these were almost chilly, and they were open to
the further objection of being made without pockets; but on
Tuesday it was warmer and the sailors were seen to have pur-
chased ladies' reticules to hold their dunnage.
Members of Ninety-Six who felt obscured by the common-
placeness of their apparel consoled themselves by the simple
expedient of carrying blue balloons. Some dozen or so, more-
over, appeared on old-horseback, waving lances tipped with '96
pennants, and in the rear there marched a chin-whiskered delega-
tion with a banner inscribed— "Class of 1796— Oldest Living
Graduates." The 1896 banner was carried by Brinck Thorne,
saltant.
After the game, which was again won by Harvard, and after
a speech from President Hadley, we sought Prexy Dwight's new
home on Hillhouse Avenue and learned from him that Anson
Stokes was practically in charge of the University. Anson being
in bed at the time, this assurance could not be directly confirmed.
CLASS GATHERINGS 59
The dinner was held in a hall down on Elm Street, and, in
spite of some remarkable dancing by individuals, all of it was
served, from radishes to strawberries. This was an improve-
ment on Triennial. Flushed with success the Committee repro-
duced the Triennial Toast List, announcing that unless the
speakers were heard this time their names would perpetually
head all future calendars. By way of compromise they changed
"heard" to "allowed to speak." After Nettleton, Kingman (vice
W. H. Clark), and Fisher had "responded" one by one, without
anybody's being much the wiser, Toastmaster Peck and Griswold
Smith mounted the table, just as somebody else wrenched off
the legs. Griggs hurriedly called time and sent us to the campus
before the Wild Men could swell the bill for breakage.
It was a long way to the campus. On our arrival the express
wagon full of fireworks (which preceded our torch-lit proces-
sion), to the admiration and delight of all classes present except-
ing our own, caught fire and exploded. This impromptu spec-
tacular entrance was our chief contribution to the gaiety of the
evening, although there was a pretty episode when Pius was set
on fire. Thinking that Sheldon was the offender he pursued him
with roman candles, maintaining his distance— in spite of the
constantly accelerated speed which these effected— in an alto-
gether remarkable fashion. Nearly everybody enjoyed this.
The reunion ended in a pow-wow on Wednesday morning at
the Graduates' Club's old building in Chapel Street.
Recent '96 Dinners in New York
The active interest which members of some college classes con-
tinue to take in one another seems at intervals to infect them
with a strong comprandial impulse. Ninety-Six has felt it often,
—indeed the Class has so many dinners to its credit (and debit
too, perhaps), that it may be said to be incurable. Some, of
course, like the "Steel common" dinner at Delmonico's in 1904,
have been confined to particular groups ; and others have been
arranged as welcomes to individual travelers. But in New York,
in Chicago, and in New Haven, there have been dinners open to
all members of the Class, and in New York they have been so
regular and so numerously attended as to deserve detailed de-
scription.
In the Sexennial Record there is an article by Elbert Hamlin
which tells how our custom of holding an annual New York
dinner, on the last Saturday in January, came into being, and
with what immediate success it was attended. The article goes
on to chronicle the dinners themselves up to and including that
of 1902, at which the first Long Distance Cup was offered and
presented. On the following pages are reproduced, for purposes
of record, accounts of the dinners held in 1903, 1904, 1905 and
1906.
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1903
The following account was sent to the Yale Alumni Weekly
and was printed substantially without change in the issue for
February 11, 1903.
An Unusual Class Dinner
The Midwinter Reunion of Yale Ninety-Six, with Some Detailed
Description of Uncommon Features— President D wight Among
the Guests
[By a Special Correspondent.]
Between eighty-five and ninety men came to the annual mid-
winter dinner of Yale Ninety-Six at the Yale Club in New York
on the evening of January 31. It was numerically much the
largest affair of the sort that has as yet taken place, and in
some respects it was the most important.
Preceding the dinner came an afternoon reception which the
Committee had arranged to hold at Mrs. George Hollister's,
No. 515 Madison Avenue. Mrs. Foote and Mrs. Griggs received
with Mrs. Hollister, and among those present were Mr. and Mrs.
Wadhams, Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Beards
Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Woodruff, Mr. and Mrs. deSibour, Mr. and
Mrs. Nettleton, Mr. and Mrs. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Heaton,
Miss Gresham, Miss Flinch, Mrs. Wells, Miss Winsor, Miss
White, Miss Kelly; and Vincent, Perkins, Charles Collens, Root,
Fisher, Scudder, Peck, Gilbert, Bennett, Day, Kelly, Walter
Clark, Neale, David Stuart, S. B. Thorne, H. Baker, and Davis.
About the going down of the sun the men commenced to gather
at the Yale Club, and when Toastmaster Peck appeared, escort-
ing President Dwight as an honored guest, the "crowd went
wild"; for the President's coming had been kept secret. After
every man had shaken hands with the ex-President, the diners
surged up to the ninth floor, where was laid the feast and where
every one soon found his place— the Toastmaster at the head,
with Dr. Dwight at his right, and at his left Prof. William Lyon
Phelps, the other honored guest of the evening.
Attention was immediately drawn to the menus, which were
embellished with the handiwork of Troy Kinney and read as
follows :
Menu
But what the deuce do you care whether you have peacocks' brains or dev-
iled kidneys? (To eat, we mean— not literally.) You know the food will be
plentiful and good, garnished with soothing weeds and ardent spirits, and why
go into detail?
CLASS GATHERINGS 61
Toast List
'Philip C. Peck, Toastmaster.
1. Sexennial Memories T. S. Kingman.
"O, what a fall was there, my countrymen!
Then I, and you, and all of us fell down."
— Julius Caesar, iii, 2.
2. Dinners I have Attended Henry D. Baker.
^The prophetic doubts of experience, and the succulent insinua-
tions of appetite, contended hotly."
— The Ordeal of Richard Feverel.
3. Is A College Corporation a Private Trust ?
Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr.
"We wish to remain a free and easy people."
—R. Croker.
4. Law and the Gridiron Frank E. Wade
"What Harvard has joined together let Yale put asunder."
— Mike Murphy's Ritual.
Several new songs that Wadhams and Gilbert had composed
were printed in full on the menus, and were at once sung by the
men. Then Pius Peck, as a pre-prandial, announced the "Long
Distance Cup" competition and explained the requirements. The
Judicial Committee was composed of Maitland Griggs, Chief
Justice, and Foote and Berry, Associates. Samuel Thorne was
named as prosecutor for all applications in this court.
The Phonographic Report
The men fell to at once upon the feast, but constantly inter-
rupted themselves with song, wherein "Our Dear Old Class at
Yale" took the honors. During coffee a large phonograph was
squeezed into a corner and the Toastmaster presented Bert
Hamlin to the exuberant crowd as the man who had been flitting
about the country, all unknowing and unknown, and had "col-
lected the wails of those who were then undergoing absent
treatment."
The use of the epithet "Classmate" has become so inseparably
connected in the minds of Ninety-Six men with verbal assaults
upon their pocket books, that no one but the Secretary of the
University dares utter it. And so when Mr. Hamlin began his
introductory remarks with the expression "My dear cotem-
poraneous students," he scored an instant hit. He went on to
explain the whys and wherefores of the phonograph scheme, and
It was revealed that Trojan Kinney was implicated. Then fol-
lowed a paean of praise for the Columbia Phonograph Company,
"who had so kindly consented," et cetera, et cetera. Amid
62 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
numerous interruptions every man, woman and child was urged
to secure one of this most particular brand. He gave the com-
pany, in short, as much free advertising as the Class would per-
mit; and the Class gave the company and its timorous repre-
sentatives three empty cheers.
The speaker went on to explain that he had taken the machine
up to New Haven in the fear that Secretary Stokes might be
unable to come. Unfortunately it began to record Stokes's con-
versation before the Secretary was aware of its presence, so he
trusted the audience would excuse the first part of the record.
The two assistants then arranged an immense megaphone in
front of the instrument and set the thing going. The Secretary's
voice was heard, pitched in a tempestuous key, in altercation with
a university officer, named Arthur, who had not been attending
properly, it seemed, to some of the Secretary's behests. The
Secretary was then heard greeting Hamlin, and ended by dictat-
ing a characteristic "my friends" speech into the receiver.
A St. Louis Message
Mr. Hamlin resumed the floor to describe his trip to St. Louis,
where, he said, he had found Griswold Smith in his favorite club.
Smith's voice was then heard emerging from the phonograph in
such a very oratorical manner that the stenographer was unable
to take any notes whatever. The next cylinder was the one
which had been used to register snatches of conversation at the
Ninety-Six Reception that afternoon, and was filled with the
twitterings and chatter of that assemblage. The most inveterate
"tea-er" in the crowd failed to follow the trail: it lacked the
environment which alone keeps the wooer on the scent.
From the Class Boy
The Class Boy was the subject of the succeeding selection, and
his frantic dispute with his father over what should and what
should not go into the Ninety-Six cup, gave rise to grave anxiety
among the diners lest the child were being denied sufficient malt-
nutriment . . . Mr. Hamlin finished by describing a flying
trip to Saulte Ste. Marie, where he had induced Neil Mallon to
sing into the phonograph; and when the machine was started
Mallon's voice was heard warbling "Here 's to Good Old Yale"
to a discordant variety of tunes. The Class gave Hamlin a
rousing cheer for his work and moved down to one end of the
room to permit a photograph to be taken.
The Chairman then read letters of regret from President
Roosevelt, Louis C. Oakley, Dr. John M. Berdan, R. E. Whalen,
E. H. Young, and others, and telegrams from a number of men,
including Kip, Harry Cross, Shoemaker, Lobenstine, Trudeau,
CLASS GATHERINGS 63
McKee and Loomis. Beginning on the toast list, he observed:
"You all remember what difficulty I had in upraising Tommy
Kingman at Sexennial. To-night we shall, I hope, have no such
trouble. Gentlemen, I introduce Chancellor Kingman,"
Chancellor Kingman
Mr. Kingman said it was indeed an honor to address an assem-
blage which included the greatest President of the greatest uni-
versity of the country. "I remember well," he continued, "a
remark that the President one day made to some of us in recita-
tion. He said, 'Gentlemen, you should have more enthusiasm.'
That was early in our course and since that time we have
developed into a great class, a class that surpasses the best of all
previous classes and is destined to have even more glorious a
future than her highly remarkable past." The speaker continued
for some time in this laudatory vein, told a number of anecdotes
of the Triennial and Sexennial Reunions, wandered through a
maze of legal stories and red tape, and ended with a florid
peroration likening Ninety-Six men to homing pigeons, "which,
although exceedingly satisfied with their surroundings, rise up,
up, up, whenever a chance affords, and wing their unerring flight
towards the fondly remembered abode of erstwhile comrades."
Ex-President D wight
When the Class had recovered, Mr, Peck said he would carry
them back three years to Triennial, when President Dwight had
informed them in a speech that he had just then graduated.
"So," he went on, "deeming him a young man who would enjoy
being at such a gathering as this, we asked him here as one of
our honored guests to-night, and I am sure, sir, I voice the senti-
ments of the whole Class when I say we rejoice in your being here
and hope you will speak to us all."
President Dwight spoke somewhat as follows : "The last
speaker has very appropriately said that all persons not members
of the Class of 1896 were in an unfortunate condition. Carrying
my mind back to the year of my graduation, which was before
the era of the photograph, I remember that we used to satisfy
the cravings incident to the last days of college life by circulat-
ing, among ourselves and our instructors, autograph albums.
One of the honored members of the Faculty wrote in my album
this sentiment, which I mention now to support my feelings,
and the feelings of Professor Phelps, after the remark concern-
ing non-membership in the Class of 1896, which I have just
quoted. He said: Tf it is a great thing to be senators of a free
nation, governors of her sovereign states, or judges in her courts,
what must it be to have been the teacher of those senators, gov-
64 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
ernors and judges?' Now as you remember remarks I made
in lectures, I judge that I must have been a teacher of this body
of gentlemen who lead the world. My teachings have taken root
in rich soil, I have no doubt. For instance, I can testify after
to-night that in regard to enthusiasm at least you profited much
thereby.
"But, gentlemen, there is n't much difference, beneath the elms,
between those of '49 and those of '96. We are all Yale men.
We all belong to Young Yale— at least, as far back as 1849 we
do. And we all respect our seniors, we who graduated in Ninety-
Nine, but with all due respect to our seniors we intend to do
pretty much as we please.
"It seems to me so strange to think of the years as they have
passed, and of the many, many classes that have followed my
own, and of my being here and enjoying it all to the full. The
end of the century! I remember it seemed impossible to us boys
to look forward to the end of the century. So far away— so far.
Yet it has come, and now we are in a new century, and, gentle-
men, the years pass so rapidly that I almost feel that I may live
to see the end of this one too.
"I am glad to see you all this evening— to see the old faces
that I remember from your undergraduate days. I saw you in-
frequently and you saw me often, but as I look around to-night,
though 1 have forgotten many of the names, I see and remember
the faces and the eyes— the eyes, which always remain with us
as the features through which are conveyed the character and
the intelligence.
"But I shall not keep you longer from hearing the pleasant
words and reminiscences which my elderly friend. Professor
Phelps, is all ready, I see, to present, in excellent English and the
very choicest diction. Some years ago I was invited by the
secretary of a benevolent society to attend one of their meetings,
and to say a few words. I explained that I really was not
gifted that way and must decline, whereupon he wrote back that
all they wanted was to have me show myself and pronounce
a benediction. The object with which I journeyed here to-night
was, to show myself and to give you a benediction. I have ap-
peared here, rather surprised that you all recognized me so
quickly; and now, gentlemen, I give you my benediction, and
with it my best wishes for yourselves and for your welfare.
And I hope that the life of each one of you may be as happy as
my own life has ever been, and is."
A Professor Familiarly Introduced
Henry Bond then led the Class in giving a long cheer for ex-
President Dwight, and the Toastmaster introduced a gentleman,
who, he said, could never be known to us by any other designa-
tion than that of "Billy" Phelps.
Professor Phelps addressed the men as "Fellow-classmates" and
announced that he had made a formal request to be regularly
enrolled as a member of Ninety-Six. He was interrupted by
CLASS GATHERINGS 65
cries of "You are! You are!" Alluding to the close of Presi-
dent Dwight's speech, he said the speaker had been guilty of
tautology in saying that he came here to show himself, and
to give a benediction, for he knew not of whom it could be
said if not of President Dwight, that his presence was a bene-
diction. Continuing, Dr. Phelps told an entertaining anecdote
of Stokes and Lovell, another of Kinney, and one of Benedict
going to sleep one morning in the room in Osborn. "You all
remember that room," he said, "filled with a lot of Beebe's
instruments which made it look like a torture chamber. Well, I
did n't know what to do about Benedict. The scene, I re-
member, was the madness of Ophelia. 'Gentlemen,' said I, very
quietly, 'you can see for yourselves how the actress who takes
this part should leave the stage. She should slip off quietly,
softly, without a sound. But when we see Hamlet performed,
we find that the actress never does this. No, she wants an
encore and so' (here I paused), 'she goes out with a WILD
SCREAM 1 1 !' Perhaps some of you recollect the way Harry
threw up his arms and legs and fell out of his chair. He had
insomnia all the rest of that lecture.
"I was as new at it as yourselves when we first met, and I was
struck with the fluent and brilliant way in which you Ninety-
Six men, and you only, recited. I told the Faculty at the time
that you certainly were an extraordinary class. They said, 'Oh,
you '11 get on to them in time.' But I heard the intellectual
siphon suck for four years without altering my opinion. In all
seriousness I want to tell you that I have never known any class
which at all compared with yours, excepting, of course, my own.
"There is not a man here I do not recognize. Things that you
yourselves have forgotten I still remember. I remember Hoole's
managing of the basket-ball team. I remember Porter introduc-
ing me to lecture before Phi Beta Kappa when he startled his
audience by announcing that they had with them that night a man
whose name was 'a household word, not only in every part and
portion of the United States, but in the remotest countries of
Europe!* You have a man on the Faculty now who is one of
their best, and who has succeeded in making even geology inter-
esting—I refer to Professor Gregory.
"The only thing I do not remember, gentlemen, are the marks
I gave you." [A voice: "We do!"]
"And now let me close as I began by speaking once more of
President Dwight and of my strong personal regard and affection
for him. He once told my Class that there were many definitions
of happiness, but that his was this: that the happiest man was
he who had the most interesting thoughts. I hope some day to
be as young and as happy as President Dwight, and like him to
go toward death itself as a young man."
The Chapel Bow
After the applause was over President Dwight reluctantly con-
fessed himself obliged to start back to New Haven. As he left
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his seat the men stood up and formed spontaneously into two
long rows leading to the elevator; and as he passed down this
improvised aisle they gave him the "chapel bow."
The Toastmaster then introduced Mr. Stokes. "For three
years," he said, "we have been trying to get Anson with us, but
it has been one of those in spirito and not-in-the-flesh games.*'
[A voice: "O rotten! In spiriTU."]
The Secretary of the University
The Secretary of the University began his speech by referring
with some asperity to the way "your toastmaster has timed this
thing. He knew," said he, "that I had to catch the eleven o'clock
train, and it is now only twenty-two minutes of, and I have yet
to pack my bag and walk over to the station. [A voice:— "He
knows his business."] However, I had even less opportunity
than now, at Triennial. I had prepared a great speech that
evening, Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, full of eloquence and wit
[A voice:— "Stick to the truth, Anson!"] which was intended
to trace the course of Yale from the days when the ministers
gave books, to the nights when 'Skim' Brown used to sit in his
room with a wet towel around his head and a little notice on
the door reading,— 'Dear Mike: if I am studying when you come
in, wake me up !'
"Now, my friends [great applause], I am mighty glad to be
with you to-night. I feel that we were greatly honored in having
with us President Dwight. When he received your invitation he
came down to my office and asked me what kind of an affair it
was going to be. I said it would be one of the best dinners of
the best class that ever graduated, and he decided to come.
Later on in one of the general circulars it was announced that
there was to be a hair-pulling contest between two of our
baldest members, and President Dwight appeared in my office
again. He said he hoped that that would take place before he
arrived, and when I reassured him he explained that he did not
want to run any risk of being considered a competitor.
"Gentlemen— but I don't like to use that formal expression-
Classmates ! [The disturbance at this 'point has left a hiatus in
the stenographer's notes.] You have a great big reputation to
live up to. You do not realize perhaps how big and how general
it is. At a recent meeting of the Freshman Faculty for instance,
I heard some men who were enthusiastic about this new Class
of 1906 say, to express their praise, that it was the best class
since Ninety-Six. You all remember John Q. Tilson, in spite of
Commons. He says and has always said that Ninety-Six is the
best class he has ever seen. We had the highest average stand,
the highest number of P. B. K. men; we have at this moment
far the largest representation on the Faculty, Our record in
the University Alumni Fund is well known.
"My time draws to a close and I have not been able to get off
the speech I had planned. But let me say just this. You and I
CLASS GATHERINGS 67
all belong to Yale. The University Spirit is the same and as
democratic as ever. And one reason why we are honestly the
best of classes is because we ourselves are so democratic, be-
cause we meet not as members of this society or that, but as Yale
men and members of Ninety-Six."
Mr. Stokes then extended a general invitation to come and
knock on his old house door in New Haven, and closed with a
tribute to President Hadley, in which he toasted him, in the
words of President Eliot, as "Arthur Twining Hadley. Scholar,
Teacher, President of Yale University, heir of her strong past,
prophet of her upward career."
The Cup Winner's Attempt
At the close of the time allowed him for return Mr. Stokes
hurried from the room to catch his train, and the Chairman pre-
sented to Mr. Henry D. Baker of Chicago, Editor of the Com-
mercial West, the Long Distance Cup. Mr. Baker was furiously
cheered. He then delivered a long harangue amid a volley of
facetious interruptions, lullaby choruses, and plaintive appeals
to the Toastmaster to do his duty. Towards the close he referred
feelingly to the domestic felicity of his friends and the want of
it in his own life, and was loudly requested by Bob Kelly to
"take his feet out of the slush." "This," continued Mr. Baker,
"practically concludes my remarks. [Great applause.] I re-
member I once asked my father how to make a speech and he
told me the great point was to know how you were going to
end it [A voice:— ''ThdX 's what we want to know!"], in short
to know the last word. [A voice :~"A.me.n\"] Now I thought
I knew how I was going to end this speech, but somebody has
reminded me that I am not speaking on the toast . . ."
As this was taken to mean that Mr. Baker was sparring for
his second wind, the Class rose up in protest and ended his
oratorical efforts by singing "Good-night, Henry," until he passed
easily into the chorus and abandoned his forgotten text.
The Toastmaster, to relieve the pent up feelings of the men,
read several more letters from absentees. At Colonel Berry's
request he finished by reaSing a letter from Professor Boyer of
St. Augustine's School, Raleigh, N. C. Boyer was given a long
cheer. The last toast was not responded to, owing to the ab-
sence of Frank Wade. Mr. Peck said that he had received a
telegram from Wade saying that his mouth was full of words
and his entrails full of thought but that it was impossible for
him to be present.
Henry Bond made a short speech, saying that he felt obliged
to criticize "just one thing, namely, the lack of enthusiasm ex-
hibited, as yet, on the part of my friend Peck,"
Peck responded by reviewing the proceedings of the evening.
He said the President had informed him that he liked to see the
way the "enthusiasm" developed as the dinner went on, "I prom-
ised to invite him next year again," said the Toastmaster, "and
68 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
he said he would put it on his calendar." After lamenting the
fact that none of the speeches touched upon the burning questions
contained in the toasts, he congratulated the Class on the success
of the dinner and closed the formal programme.
The Committee in charge of the dinner consisted of Harry J.
Fisher, Chairman ; Troy Kinney and C S. Day, Jr. The follow-
ing is a list of those present. The names of men from out of
town are followed by the names of their homes.
Guests: Ex-President Timothy Dwight, '49, and Professor
William Lyon Phelps, '87.
Members of the Class: Allen (from East Walpole, Mass.),
Arnstein, H. D. Baker (from Chicago), Ball (from Buffalo),
Beard, Beaty, Bennett (from Holyoke, Mass.), Berry, Bingham,
Birely (from New Haven), Bond (from Newark, N. J.),
H. S. Brown, Buist, Bulkley (from Hartford), Cary (from
Norwich, Conn,), Chittenden, W. H. Clark (from Hart-
ford), Cochran, Colgate, C. Collens (from Boston), Colton,
Conklin, Coonley, Corbitt, Curtiss, A. S. Davis, C Day,
Dayton, deForest, Eagle, Farr (from New Haven), Fincke,
Fisher, Foote, Frank, Gaylord, (jregory (from New Haven),
Griggs, E. Hamlin, Hatch, Havens, Heaton, G. Hollister,
Hoole, Jackson, Johnston, Kelly (from Newark, Ohio),
Kingman, Kinney, Knapp (from Stamford, Conn.), Loughran
(from Kingston, N. Y.), Lovell (from Plainfield, N. J.), Neale
(from Minersville, Pa.), Nettleton (from New Haven), Nichol-
son (from Bridgeport), Paret (from Essex Fells, N. J.), P. C
Peck, Perkins (from Hartford), Porter, Pratt, Richmond, F. O.
Robbins(from New Haven), Root, Schuyler, Schevill (from New
Haven), Scudder (from Schenectady), N. W. Smith (from Provi-
dence, R. I.), Stalter (from Paterson, N. J.), Stokes (from New
Haven), T. Strong, Sturges, S. B. Thorne (from Scranton,
Pa.), Truslow, Vaill (from Winsted, Conn.), Vincent, Wadhams,
Woodhull, R. J. Woodruff. Ex '96— Bristol (from Ansonia,
Conn.), Gilbert, Sears, C. H. Woodruff, Jr. Total, 82.
1904
The reading of letters from the men who cannot come is a
regular feature of our dinners. In 1904 some of these letters
chanced to be preserved. "You cannot realize," said one man,
"how homesick for a sight of some '96 men and the dinner the
letters and circulars have made me. Not since graduation have
I been so anxious to get back to you all and to the flesh pots
as I have this winter." Lenahan's letter said that he was too
busy playing the cymbals to his brother's first violin in the legal
orchestra, to come to New York. "My sister is going to be mar-
ried on the 30th," wrote Drown, "and the family would feel hurt
if I went East to get happy on that same date. My daughter
said to me, 'Father, why go to New York to the '96 dinner?
Can't you drink just as much at the wedding in San Francisco?'
I guess that child is bright some for ten months old. Maybe
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CLASS GATHERINGS 69
the Class Boy would have said that to Hawkes. Not on your
last lithograph.
"You have made a great mistake in the selection of the date
any way," he continued. "Next time follow our example and
hold it the night before the Yafe-Harvard game. Then invite
a few rich Harvard men. As few and as rich as possible. After
drinks and a speech or two on the real true genuine Yale Spirit,
tell the Harvard man next you,— one of those rich ones,— that
that genuine Yale Spirit will make that mean, cheap Harvard
spirit look like a ladies' cigarette on the morrow (or, if the
morrow has already come, then 'today'). In that way you can
not only pay for the dinner but have a little left over to back
the crew with.
"Did I ever tell you, Clarence, about the $ioo Dibblee of
Harvard sent me with instructions to get it covered at even
money? That was that year they thought they had a cinch.
I wired back 'covered,' and then put up that hundred on Yale.
What would it have cost if Harvard had won? Ask one of those
long-haired ones."
The letters are not always from classmates. Photographers,
and other tradesmen often write proposing some service on their
part, occasionally gratuitous, as in the case of this last selection,
dated at Owensboro, Kentucky: —
"My Dear Sir: —
"Mr. Churchill Clark, who formerly lived in Louisville and was
a member of Class '96 Yale Club, and who has spoken so nicely
of yon, has suggested that we send up a half case of GREEN
RIVER, THE WHISKEY WITHOUT A HEADACHE, or as
it is termed, 'locked up sunshine,' that you might present same
to the '96 Class at one of their famous dinners that is given
(from what we can understand from Mr. Clark) most every
Saturday evening. We want his friends to sample these goods
with his compliments and the compliments of the Green River
Distilling Co.
"Mr. Clark has kindly stated that he would write you concern-
ing the goods.
"The writer will be in New York, and possibly in company
with Mr. Clark, some time during April, at which time he will
be pleased to meet you in person.
"Hoping that you will enjoy the 'locked up sunshine,' and that
we may have the pleasure of meeting you in the near future,
^ve are, "Respectfully,
"GREEN RIVER DISTILLING CO.
"By Tom J. Landrum."
The Secretary has printed these letters because he is unable to
supply a full or veracious account of what happened in 1904.
He himself was in the West. "You were lucky to miss the
brutal game," wrote Fisher, after it was all over. "It was a great
occasion. Ask Neale for letters from Prexy Dwight, Stokes,
Billy Phelps, &c.,— he ran off with them. I sent some data to
70 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
the Weekly, but Hammy the Fat promised to send a more de-
tailed account to you, and if he has n't done so you had better
wire him collect."
The Weekly's report was short. It said that the Class had
voted to have a Ninety-Six Day at the World's Fair in St. Louis
in the summer ; but it is to be recorded that the authorities never
took proper cognizance of our determination. Hamlin's letter
follows : —
"My dear Mr. Secretary: —
"Fisher has put it up to me to write to you an account of the
'96 dinner, for the purpose of your class records, and I do so
reluctantly. It began on Saturday evening, January 30th, at
seven p.m. and I am informed that in some quarters it has not
yet ended. About eighty men were present, including a rotund
and red-faced piano player. Lovell looked at the latter's coun-
tenance for a minute and came to the unanimous conclusion that
the piano player would take a drink. He offered it to him rather
impulsively at a moment when the artist was punching out a
selection from Parsifal, with the result that the bottle was
handed to the piano instead of the player, and there was a tem-
porary mixup . . . The song on the back of the menu was
written by Wadhams while waiting for a Staten Island ferry-
boat. The bounding note of hope throughout the song bears
testimony to Wadham's optimistic nature. At about 8:15 ice-
cream and Jim Neale were served at the same time. Jim began
a few remarks the tenor of which has not yet been definitely
ascertained, owing to the fact that nearly every one was in
earnest conversation with himself, and one man in particular
kept whistling so loudly that Jim was compelled to hit him with
a French roll. In the momentary lull which ensued he managed
to remark, 'E pluribus unum and Dudley Vaill,* thereby being
understood to have introduced the first speaker. Vaill rose and
instantly commanded attention but not particularly of the kind
which he anticipated. He was responding to the toast 'jokes'
and started at the beginning by telling the story of the pall-
bearer who was mistaken for a polar bear by a Swede, just
landed in France from England— at least Dudley used all those
dialects. This story having been the first ever told by the
Weber & Field entertainers, was so familiar to all the men
present that they joined in one strong chorus and told it with
Vaill in unison. Every one seemed to appreciate this very much.
Bond could not be found for the 'sentimental song' which was
expected of him, and about this time I am informed that I my-
self made a few remarks. Berry and Johnston were down for a
little 'pitiful weeping' but had mistaken their cue and pulled off
their event during Vaill's joke. Oakley was called on, but at
that moment Neale remembered that there was a long distance
cup contest to be decided and named three friends of Douglass
as the committee on award. Several competitors sprang up at
this time. Schuyler, who had been retained by Lovell to repre-
sent his interests, stated that he had documentary proof that
Lovell had come all the way to the dinner on the Palm Beach
Limited. The hopes of the other competitors at once faded, on
CLASS GATHERINGS 71
the assumption that Lovell had come from Palm Beach, but one
of the Jersey members revealed the deception, averring that he
had seen Lovell get on the Palm Beach Limited at Jersey City
and then come to New York. Fresh claims immediately poured
in, and the committee went into active consideration of the
problem, but Fisher broke up their deliberations by saying that
Douglass' name had already been engraved on the cup. This
settled the matter of the award. Neale made a beautiful speech
of presentation, at the conclusion of which it was discovered that
the cup had not yet arrived from Oppenheim & Rosenberg's on
Nassau Street, where Fisher had ordered it. Peck met the
emergency by producing an ordinary common and domestic
water pitcher, which he demanded that Douglass should fill with
champagne for the benefit of the crowd. Douglass readily
acquiesced and signed the necessary check. It was later dis-
covered that he had ordered a Red Raven Split by mistake, but
Peck did not notice it at the time . . . The casualties were
remarkably few considering the slippery weather."
This letter reached the Secretary late in February. In the
meantime, not knowing whether Hamlin was ever going to ful-
fil Fisher's promise, he had canvassed several other guests of the
evening. Only one of these replied. He shall be nameless.
"Mr. C. S. Day, Jr.,
"Field's Ranch, Cave Creek, Arizona.
'^Dear Sir: — Yes, I understand there was a banquet, so-called,
at the Yale Club on the 30th of January. I journeyed there
from , anticipating a pleasant reunion. I dimly recall
consuming a few viands, incidental to a dinner— sort of warm-
ing-up, shellfish and soup,— and the subsequent proceedings are,
in my mental concept, an image of a tall, rangy person sitting
on several chairs, and looking toward me with aversion ill-con-
cealed. I have n't the faintest notion who it was. I know it
was n't Prince, for he sat at my left, and refused to dally with
the potions Tup Lovell was pouring for him.
"I met a fine crowd of educated gentlemen, at about eight
o'clock, clothed in the decent garb of sobriety, and renewing old
acquaintance in a very commendable way. Into this Eden of
good fellowship some fiend introduced a decoction whose in-
gredients were distilled in sin and compounded in inquity, called,
if I mistake not, an 'Olivet.' Misled by the biblical terminology,
I partook and was lost. I explained to the maddened populace
that I had a young brother waiting for me over in Brooklyn—
but all to no avail. I 'listened and was tempted, was tempted and
I fell' (like Annie, in 'Ostler Joe'), and QUIT, like a very young
Granger at a Brewers' Convention— I, who earned, at the mouth
of many an imminent deadly tankard the sobriquet of the Human
Manhole. One P. P. Peck, of blessed memory, is responsible for
this defection . . . Cetera desunt.
"Your letter came just as I was recovering from my lethargy.
It is the first reminder that I have proved false to the traditions
of Paxton, Brittain, and the rest of the gallant host.
"Alas, poor Yorick!"
72 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
Following is a list of those present, the names of out-of-town
men being followed by their places of residence :
B. Adams, Alexander, Allen (East Walpole, Mass.), Ailing (New
Haven), Arnold (Hartford), Beard, Berry, Birely (New Haven),
Brinsmade, H. Brown, Buist, Chapman, W. Clark (Hartford),
Cochran (Yonkers), Colgate, C. Col lens (Boston), Colton, Coon-
ley, Curtiss, A. Davis, Douglass (St. Louis), Eagle, Farr (New
Haven), Fincke, Fisher, Foote, Frank, J. Gaines, Gaylord, Gor-
don, Gregory (New Haven), Griggs, E. Hamlin, Hatch. Heaton,
G. Hollister, Hoeninghaus, Jackson, Johnston, Jordan (Peekskill,
N. Y.), Kip, Knapp, Lampman, Lee, Lobenstine, Lovell, McLana-
han (Washington), Neale, Oakley (Buffalo), Paret, P. Peck,
Patterson, Perkins (Hartford), Prince, Pratt, F. Robbins (New
Haven), W. Robbins, Root, Schuyler, H. Scudder (Schenectady),
Sheldon, Shoemaker (Cincinnati), D. Smith (Bridgeport), N.
Smith (Providence), W. D. Smith, Stewart, T. Strong, Sumner
(Altoona, Pa.), B. Thorne (Minersville, Pa.), S. Thorne, Trus-
low, Vaill (Winsted, Conn.), Vincent, Wade (Syracuse, N. Y.),
Wadhams, Walter (Stamford, Conn.), Wood, Woodhull, Young.
Ex '96 — Bristol (Ansonia, Conn.), Sears, Van Beuren. Total, 82.
1905
(The following account is reprinted from the Alumni IVeekly.)
That the question of increasing the tuition fees is one in which
the graduates are ready to take a lively interest has for some
time past been evident. Class dinners, to be sure, have not sug-
gested themselves as particularly adapted to its discussion; yet
the debate which followed the mention of Yale's difficulties at
this year's dinner of the Class of 1896 on January 28, in New
York City, is in some respects deserving of attention.
The matter first came up in the form of a suggestion that per-
haps graduate sentiment on the subject was a factor to be con-
sidered, as well as the facts and figures; and that, in so far as
this was true, a test vote would be of interest. Later on, when
James B. Neale (president of the "Model" Buck Run Collieries
at Minersville, Pa.) was introduced, he broadened the subject
by referring to the Weekly's recent article on the Alumni Fund
and the "10,000 who don't." H these graduates could be inter-
ested in the Fund, he declared, if five in six would give instead
of only one in six, the University would not have even to con-
sider increasing its fees, an increase to which he for one was
decidedly opposed. He went on to remind the men how much
the Fund might mean to Yale if everybody would give some-
thing, no matter how little; and of how distinctly it behooved
everybody who had ever gone to New Haven to remember his
Yale obligations.
The immediate effect of all this upon certain of the "10,000"
who were present was such that they rose from their seats and
The Cup won by Griswold Smith
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CLASS GATHERINGS 73
called upon H. J. Fisher, the class agent, to pass the hat then
and there. Fisher, with an eye to the future, declined.
The discussion of the tuition fee question was then resumed.
A resolution to the effect that it was the sense of those present
that the fees should not be raised was offered, and it received
some earnest support. But opposition developed both from men
who felt too much confidence in the authorities to seem to ques-
tion their judgment, and those who thought that any expression
from men who had not studied the problem would be an im-
pertinence. Griswold Smith inquired pleasantly whether it would
be in order to move "a resolution censuring the Czar," and that
decided it. On motion of Philip Peck the resolution against an
increase of the fees was promptly laid upon the table.
The significance of this quiet readiness to back up whatever
action might seem good to the authorities, was enhanced by the
determination shown to try to make any action at all unneces-
sary. At present the '96 figures show that one out of every three
men subscribes to the Alumni Fund. If, as Neale suggested, each
man — besides giving himself — would see personally that one or
more non-givers got into line, there ought to be a change in this
proportion.
Owing to the engagement of the large room at the Yale Club
by another class, the dinner was held this year at the University
Club. A number of the men objected to this change ; but, instead
of signifying their displeasure by not coming, they turned up in
force, Yale fashion, and voted by a large majority to return to
the Yale Club next year.
The after-dinner programme began with a long cheer for ex-
President Dwight, from whom a congratulatory letter had been
received. Telegrams and letters from absentees were read, in-
cluding some amusingly frank excuses from the Rev. Mr. Ross
of Highbridge. The 1905 Long Distance Cup was presented to
Griswold Smith from St. Louis. The toastmaster. Dr. George H.
Nettleton, then introduced the first speaker of the evening-
Herbert E. Gregory, Silliman Professor of Geology at Yale.
Gregory began his speech by remarking that no three other
classes had as many representatives on the Yale staff as 1896—
nine in Academic, two in Sheff. and Stokes. He told something
of each one, from Jack Adams, the well-beloved, down to Nettle-
ton, who, he said, was also well loved, particularly by younger
students who had n't been there very long. He told of the
weighty Durfee ; of Farr, the wrinkled proctor of "Hell Entry" ;
Superintendent Robbins; Recorder Hess; the gifted Keller; of
Hawkes and his unreadable books, and the Class Boy; Schevill,
with his Spanish words— and ways; Berdan, the original Cleve-
land man; and Stokes, who was, like Voltaire's Habakkuk,
"capable du tout" from writing editorials on measles to lecturing
before the Mothers' Club on the care of children. As for
Gregory, he said, the greatest thing Gregory ever did was to
enter '96 at the eleventh hour from his western ranch,— and he
told the men how strongly he appreciated the way he had been
welcomed to the fellowship. The close of Gregory's speech was
concerned with the henceforward famous Anecdote of The Hasty
Burmese Idol.
74 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
Sheldon, who followed Gregory, called attention to the fact
that at the New York Yale Club dinner on January 20th three
out of the five guests of honor were '96 men— P. Peck, Stokes,
and Wm. Lyon Phelps.
The next speaker was Thomas Wells, associate editor of Har-
per's Magazine, who told a story about the Anglo-Chinese origin
of the race of editors, which the stenographer (he was left-handed
anyhow) was unable to reproduce. Wells was followed by Neale,
and informal speeches were made by Peck, Day, Fisher and S. B.
Thorne. Fisher was given a vote of thanks for his work on the
Alumni Fund. Later in the evening the men adjourned to the
Grill at the Yale Club, where they were joined by J. Dwight
Rockwell.
There follows a list of those present, the place of residence
being given excepting for New Yorkers :
Allen (from East Walpole, Mass.), Arnstein, Beard, Berry,
Birely (New Haven), Brinsmade, H. S. Brown, Bulkley (Hart-
ford, Conn.), Cary( Norwich, Conn.), Chandler (Simsbury, Conn.),
Coit (Norwich, Conn.), Colgate, Colton, Conklin, Corbitt, H. P.
Cross (Providence, R. L), Curtiss, A. S. Davis (Tarrytown),
C. S. Day, Jr., Eagle, Fincke, Fisher, Foote, J. M. Gaines, Gay-
lord, Goodman (Hartford, Conn.), Gordon, Gregory (New
Haven), Griffith (Columbus, C), E. B. Hamlin, Hatch, Havens,
Hoeninghaus, G. C. Hollister, Hutchinson, Johnston, Jordan
(Peekskill, N. Y.), Kingman, Kinney, Knapp, Lobenstine,
Lovell, Neale (Minersville, Pa.), Nettleton (New Haven), P. C.
Peck, Perkins (Hartford, Conn.), Richmond, Schevill (New
Haven), Scudder (Schenectady, N. Y.), Sheldon, Griswold
Smith (St. Louis), W. D. Smith, T. S. Strong, Jr., S. Thorne,
Jr., S. B. Thorne (Minersville, Pa.), Truslow, Twombly (Bos-
ton), Vaill (West Winsted, Conn.), Vincent, T. B. Wells,
Woodhull, Young; ex '96, Bristol (Ansonia, Conn.). Total, 63.
1906
There is always a difference of opinion as to whether any dis-
cussion of university affairs or other serious topics is in place
at our class gatherings. In 1906, those who had voted the 1905
dinner a frost were appeased by a total absence of these in any
form, coupled with the trivial presence of some negro singers.
The dinner was held in the Yale Club on Saturday, January 27th,
and the following account of it appeared in due course in the
Alumni Weekly: —
The Ninety-Six dinner was to have taken the form this year
of an investigation of the class officers and committees, but
dilatory tactics on the part of the opposition prevented any-
thing being done. Not a fact was discovered, even when Paret,
of the Decennial Committee, was so ill-advised as to deliver
himself of what started out as a speech, but which was imme-
diately turned into a catechism conducted by the Class. Paret
CLASS GATHERINGS 75
had plenty of facts to impart, and there were plenty of facts
the Class wanted, but the two sets did not dovetail. At one
stage in the causerie Charles Birely entered the room dressed
in an elaborate white bag, which Paret said was a sample of a
proposed decennial costume. A vote on this costume was then
taken, those in favor so indicating by cheers, and those opposed
using celery and cigar stumps. The cigar stumps had it. The
Decennial Committee rallied around the bag quickly enough to
save Birely from injury, and he was in the middle of some grate-
ful acknowledgments when he learned that their solicitude arose
from the costume not having been paid for.
The toastmaster, Pius Peck, announced that two of the
speakers, Griswold Smith and Walter Clark, were not among
those present, whereupon the Class sang Smith's song and sent
a cablegram to Stokes. Letters and telegrams were read from
President Dwight, Ajax Squires, Henry Baker, and others.
Chancellor Kingman, assisted by Brinck Thorne and Fred Rob-
bins, then formally opened the hearing for the Long Distance
Cup competitors. Claims were presented by Allen from East
Walpole, Neale from Minersville, Richmond from Cuba, and
Loughran, who alleged himself to have come direct from Little
Egypt. Richmond's speech describing the hardships of his voyage
from Havana was particularly moving. It was a long, hard
trip, he said, and the food was something awful. "Why,
gentlemen," he continued impressively, "do you realize that it
took three days coming up?" "Stop right where you are," inter-
rupted Fred Robbins, with a dismal howl . . . The Class
voted unanimously to present the cup to Richmond, but as it
subsequently voted with equal unanimity to give it to Allen and
to Neale, the matter had to be referred back to the Chancellor's
Court, which upheld the first award. A suggestive singing by
Bond and his choristers of "Let every good fellow now fill up
his glass" was curiously ignored by the happy victor.
A full report of the speeches (except Loughran's) will be
published later in the Decennial Record. The stenographer had
a good deal of trouble because of the frequent interruptions,
and he has not yet finished separating the wheat from the chaff.*
Some excitement arose during the evening over the sale of
certain National Bank Notes bearing the signature of President
Thomas Gaylord Vennum, '96. They started off at a premium,
being deemed desirable rarities, but later a rumor went the
rounds that Vennum made a custom of distributing them free to
all visitors to his home in Watseka. This seemed, illogically
enough, to unsettle confidence ; early purchasers started to unload
in competition with the principal seller, and large blocks were
thrown on the market at bargain prices. Colgate, who had been
distrustful all along, sold out just before the rally, which Fisher
brought about by offering to accept the bills at par in payment
for dinner subscriptions. The market closed strong, with several
expeditions being planned to drop in on Vennum.
Following is a list of those present, the places of residence
being given excepting for those whose home is in New York:
^He never did finish.
76 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
Allen (East Walpole, Mass.), Ailing (New Haven), Beard, Ben-
nett (Holyoke, Mass.), Birely (New Haven), Bond (New Lon-
don), Brinsmade, Buist, Chandler (Simsbury, Conn.), Chitten-
den, Coit (Norwich), Colgate, Coonley (West New Brighton,
S. L), Curtiss, A. S. Davis, C. Day, Dickerman (New Haven),
Eagle, Farr (New Haven), Fisher, Foote, Frank, J. M. Gaines,
Gaylord, Goodman (Hartford), Gregory (New Haven), Griggs,
E. B. Hamlin, Havens, G. C. Hollister, Jackson, Johnston,
Kingman, Knapp, Loughran (Kingston, N. Y.), Lovell, Neale
(Minersville, Pa.), Nettleton (New Haven), Nicholson (Bridge-
port, Conn.), Paret, P. C. Peck, Perkins (Hartford), Richmond
(Havana, Cuba), F. O. Robbins (New Haven), W. P. Robbins,
Schevill (New Haven), H. Scudder (Schenectady, N. Y.), Shel-
don, N. W. Smith (Providence), W. D. Smith, T. S. Strong, S.
Thorne, S. B. Thorne (Minersville, Pa.), Vaill (Winsted,
Conn.), Wadhams, Whitaker, Woodhull, Young. Ex '96 — Bris-
tol (Ansonia). Total, 59.
Decennial
Proceedings at the Decennial Meeting
Held at A3 Osborn at 11 :i5 a.m., on Tuesday, June 26, 1906.
The meeting was called to order with George Nettleton of the
Decennial Committee in the chair. Sam Thorne made the Com-
mittee's report, with particular mention of a gift of $50 from
one of our non-graduate members, who, although unable to be
present, had wished in that way to testify to his interest in and
affection for the Class ... It was suggested that the Class
listen to some accounts of the men whom it had lost since the
last gathering in New York, and in response to this suggestion
McLanahan and John Hollister addressed the meeting on Tex
Belo and Louis Fincke respectively . . . The Chairman an-
nounced that the authorities had requested '96 to furnish one of
the two marshals to head the procession of graduates to the
Field. Brinck Thorne was chosen . . . The Class proceeded
to elect a Quindecennial Committee. Fred Robbins, Fisher,
Allen, Curtiss and Pius Peck were nominated. The nominations
were then closed and the five nominees were declared elected.
One hundred and forty men were registered at Headquarters
during Reunion. Their names are as follows :
J. C. Adams, M. C. Adams, Alexander, Allen, Ailing, Alvord,
Archbald, Arnold, Arnstein, Auchincloss, A. Baldwin, Beard, Beaty,
Benedict, Bennett, Bentley, Bingham, Birely, Bond, Brecken-
ridge, A. Brown, Jr., H. S. Brown, Buck, Buist, Bulkley, Burton-
Smith, Chace, Chandler, Charnley, Chittenden, W. H. Clark,
Cochran, Coit, Coleman, Colgate, Collens, Colton, Conklin, Conley,
CLASS GATHERINGS 77
Curtiss, E. L. Davis, C. S. Day, Jr., S. Day, deSibour, Douglass,
Durfee, Eagle, J. G. Eldridge, Farr, Field, Fisher, Foote, Ford,
Frank, Fuller, F. W. Gaines, J. M. Gaines, Gaylord, Goodman,
Greene, H. E. Gregory, Griffith, Griggs, Haldeman, E. B. Hamlin,
Havens, Hawkes, Heaton, Hess, G. C. Hollister, J. C. Hollister,
Hooker, A. E. Hunt, Jackson, Jeffrey, Johnston, L. C. Jones,
Jordan, Keller, R. Kelly, Jr., Kingman, Kinney, Kip, Knapp, Lamp-
man, Lenahan, Loughran, Lusk, McLanahan, McLaren, F. W.
Mathews, Mundy, Neale, Nettleton, Oakley, Oviatt, Pardee, Paret,
Paxton, P. C. Peck, Pelton, Perkins, Porter, Pratt, Reynolds,
F. O. Robbins, W. P. Robbins, Robert, Root, Sawyer, H. Scudder,
Jr., Shoemaker, G. A. Smith, G. Smith, N. W. Smith, W. D.
Smith, Stalter, H. G. Strong, T. S. Strong, Jr., Stuart, Sumner,
A. R. Thompson, S. Thorne, Jr., S. B. Thorne, Truslow,
Twombly, Vaill, Vennum, Wade. Wadhams, Walter, T. B. Wells,
N. Williams, Jr., R. J. Woodruff, Young. Ex- '96, G. P. Dodge,
Gilbert, Limburg, Sears, VanBeuren. Total, 140.
The Decennial Reunion
(Reprinted, in main part, from the Alumni Weekly. For a fuller account
see the article by Troy Kinney.
Perhaps the most successful of the '96 decennial arrangements
was having a Class Headquarters and Dormitory combined, at
the Hutch. Part of the building had not been vacated, so some
returning graduates had to go to the Little Hutch near by for
beds, but the main thing was that the men had a central and
really comfortable meeting place. A large suite on the ground
floor was reserved for club rooms, where new arrivals could
register, and where everybody could loaf and try on the uni-
forms. These consisted of blue dinner jackets, having white
facings and a white '96 band on the left sleeve; white trousers;
blue neckties; and white felt hats, with the class numerals in
front. They were quiet, comfortable, and distinctive. Ninety-
Six Sheff. wore white frock coats and high hats, 1900 a zouave
costume, 1900 S. appeared as Buster Browns, 1903 S. as coolies
and 1903 as convicts.
A majority of the men arrived on Monday. At noon the Com-
mittee led them forth to lunch at Commons . . . The pro-
gramme for the evening was dinner at Savin Rock, Dutch treat,
and some of the fellows enjoyed this entertainment more than any
other feature of the reunion, although others had arid tales of
its being held in a prohibition joint, whereby they felt obliged to
do overmuch subsequent penance. On Tuesday morning part of
the Class attended the General Meeting in Alumni Hall. Only
four reunion classes had speakers, and '96 was one, being repre-
sented by James B. Neale. In fact the Class seemed to get a full
share of honors throughout, for one of the two leaders of the
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procession of all classes to the Field was a '96 man, and another
was in sole charge of the formal procession on Wednesday.
Following the General Meeting came the '96 meeting in A3
Osborn, after which a buffet lunch was served in Lenox Hall.
The chairman had said in advance that it would be a light lunch,
but apparently the men had not supposed that he would dare to
be so reliable a prophet, and Twombly had to create a diversion
by distributing instruments for his Kazoo Band. This band fell
into line behind the Wheeler & Wilson aggregation when the
parade was formed. Two professional clowns (old-timers-
very — ) also joined the ranks. They had been engaged to adorn
Lackland's promised elephant and otherwise to relieve the sombre
bearing of grave decennialists, but neither Lackland nor his
elephant appeared, and the clowns seemed bashful without them.
Then came the march of all classes to the Field— an innovation
since our Sexennial. It was a long dusty prologue to a ball
game ; but the unwilling '96 participants found solace in the very
real distress of the two clowns, who, being poor walkers, had
been told in advance that the total distance from the campus
was under a quarter of a mile, and who had to be violently
reassured on this score every fifteen or twenty blocks. They
arrived at the Field in a state of senile exhaustion, and after a
few faint-hearted and reluctant antics ceased to court an atten-
tion which was rapidly becoming prepared to take inurbane forms.
After the game and after the usual visits to Presidents Hadley
and Dwight the men assembled in Lenox Hall for dinner. There
was a good deal of excellent fun and frolic in the early stages
of this repast. Chace, e.g., obligingly allowed himself to be
dragged around the room several times inside a large bass drum,
Bond and the startled band presented a series of impromptu
tableaux, and Loughran was faithfully shampooed consuetudine
nostra by at least four sets of rival attendants, using cruel and
unusual unguents. Oakley contributed reminiscent samples of
Keats' Ode to a Nightingale, punctuated with a most astonishing
display of fireworks, which he produced entirely from a small
match-safe. But the brass band began to play thunderously:
conversation became difficult, impossible; and then, before the
Class knew what was happening, a half dozen or so emulous Wild
Men broke loose. Sincerely desirous as they may conceivably
have been to add, in their own peculiar way, to the pleasure
of the evening, their vitality so outran their invention that they
were presently able to find no better method of promoting good
fellowship than the smashing of furniture and crockery. Their
effervescence, as well as the crockery itself, lasted but a few
minutes, but it sufficed to break up the dinner, and to force the
surprised majority out of doors before nine o'clock. Charnley
and Mundy, still hopefully searching for a long distance cup,
were particularly loath to leave.
This stale offense, the committing of which was possible only
because it was so unexpected, had one good result — it empha-
sized and made perfectly clear, once and for all, the strength of
the general sentiment against it. It may safely be affirmed that
it is not likely to occur again.
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Fortunately the abbreviated dinner was only a small part of
Decennial, and in all other respects the reunion was a distinct
success. That very evening, for instance, after the fireworks on
the campus, there was a tuneful '96 gathering at the Graduates'
Club, where the reunited friends of ten years back found that
they knew and liked each other better than ever. . . . The
following day Cochran's yacht started for New London, the flock
of motors for New York and Hartford, and the last that '96 saw
of New Haven was Harry Fisher waiting to carry its Alumni Fund
contribution of $5,512 to the Treasurer. This is an unprecedented
sum for a decennial subscription, and, what is more important,
it represents gifts from 164 individual contributors, which is
much the largest number on record.
The following decennial poem, by Chauncey Wells, arrived at
the Graduates' Club the day before the dinner : —
Ad Consodales
When first to old New Haven
We came to wear the gown,
Our lips and lore unshaven
And soft as thistle do\yn.
We fashioned our behavin'
As if to take the town.
II
We scarce had sloughed the weaning,
The slippered pantaloon,
And Osborn towers were leaning
Their clumsy shades at noon
Like El Dorado, gleaming
In the magic of the moon.
Ill
We learned to smoke and swear, too.
We thumbed the classic tome;
Or trotted horse and mare, too.
Through Sparta, Athens, Rome;
The flunks the fresh is heir to,
We braved 'em all and some.
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IV
Our Sophomoric gander
We sauced with condiments.
We tripped to strains of Lander,
Bade duns and tutors "hence,"
Sweet eves and noons to wander
To the "comfortable fence."
We watched the sunlight dapple
The shadows of the trees ;
We cut our morning chapel
And won our slow degrees,
And plucked the golden apple
Of the glad Hesperides.
VI
Swift-footed, unbeholden.
The years full circle swung,
We leaped with hearts emboldened.
The world's wide ways begun,
Full ninety-six years old and
Just twenty-one years young.
Farewell the dawn-dream golden,
All hail the risen sun!
Now, ere the hot noon parches,
Breathe soft from tower and hall
Blithe Mays and blowy Marches
And wafted winds of fall.
Hark, through the high elm arches
Gay ghostly voices call.
VIII
The lads will list the warning.
'T is lisped of all the leaves
While yet in fields of morning
The unwearied sickle cleaves.
With shout and song returning
They bear their early sheaves.
IX
There were of souls unwonted
Yet eager of the prize,
Whom the Dread Mower hunted.
The swift and chill surprise.
Unmoved the foe they fronted
With brave and level eyes.
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But we whom Time has sifted,
Whose chaff the drear wind blows,
Bring empty hands ungifted
Save this— the Mother knows—
Some waif of petals drifted
Yet fragrant of youth's rose.
With eyes how soft she gazes.
How blont of teen and ruth !
She marks amid the traces
Of swift-departing youth
Still fair upon our faces
The symbols of her truth.
XII
Up, lads, and toast "The Mother,"
Who recks of lost or won?
About her knees we '11 gather
Till deeds and days are done
And Time, the great-grandfather
Has gathered everyone.
XIII
We '11 prate of Aristotle
We '11 draw the long, long bow,
Old times and tides we '11 prattle
Till, caught by th' undertow,
The glass will kick the bottle.
The bottle overflow.
XIV
Dim days of far niente
Will tingle to the quicks.
Old dreams and draughts a plenty
Old fun and fancy mix—
And we' 11 be one and twenty
Who then are Ninety-Six.
XV
With faltered voices after
The wand her magic wields;
We '11 quaver to the rafter
Old songs old memory yields—
And, Oh, to lip the laughter
And babble o' green fields !
Chauncey Wetmore Wells.
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Decennial: A Tapestry
THE CAMPUS
UNREAL. A stage setting remembered only vaguely.
A dream. To you, entering the quadrangle Sunday
ni^ht, having completed ten years of hustle in a world
where sound is not deadened nor tension sterilized, the
campus is almost as a land you knew only in some previ-
ous incarnation. Unreal. Peaceful. Too .peaceful to
be of this world, therefore doubly unreal.
And lonesome. The few people about are strangers.
Voices that reach you are alien. The elms in their dignity
hold aloof. Scattered lights about the dormitories, ob-
scured by foliage, seem turned down — as though their
owners slept, and would not be disturbed. The complacent
walls forget that their virtue is their one-time power to
echo certain voices. Stone and mortar. Nights have been
when no hour was too late for them to give sign — a light,
a sound — that made you welcome. Now the college,
cherishing mother, does not know you.
Sounds come from the class-day amphitheater, the glee
club getting busy. G-L-E-E, something to do with merri-
ment? It seems not. They 're good singers, but pessi-
mists, this glee club. Melodies and words say the under-
graduate is oppressed. He looks upon the face of sor-
row. Dr. Seaver should be — ^but no.
Undergraduates, your pardon. Many of you are at the
end of your college days, and your songs no more than
voice the feelings proper to you at this time. You look
to after-college days as a void in which your friendships,
dearer to you than almost all else, may be lost. Sing.
At least it will make your parting no harder. But the
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ten-year graduates can give you something to wear in
your hat and absorb : your friendships will not weaken,
but will grow in strength and number. They have only
begun.
While proudly caressing these uplifting thoughts, I
sneaked away from the glee club's sorrowfest. For I
heard the voice of Harry Bond from afar off, and knew
it, and rejoiced greatly, and ran to meet him. It was
indeed as I had hoped; Harry had the accumulated en-
thusiasm of two days in New Haven. More '96 men
were found. The campus was still ours.
DECENNIAL
Sunday night was not too early for the gathering of
a large advance guard at headquarters in the Hutch.
The spirit of reunion had descended. Everybody was
commenting on the absence of change in the fellows'
appearance, at the same time overworking the "old man"
formula of greeting. This is n't so inconsistent as it looks.
Compare a half printed photograph with a fully brought
out print from the same negative, and you would find
the difference to be one of intensity, or degree, but not
of character. In college some men represented the under-
exposed print of their real selves. Results of change
accompanying completion of maturity were interesting.
Incorporated with these changes due merely to added
years were the facial records of a continuance of old
habits of mind, or new ones that have been assumed.
Along with the expression of increased decision naturally
to be expected, it was conspicuous that every man present
had a serene look of confidence enriched by benevolence.
You are making good, gentlemen, in your respective jobs.
It is the man who can't keep up with the procession that
feels the need of cultivating suspicion; he that does n't
know how to employ idleness that becomes "muckerish"
or effeminate. Compare this unanimous improvement
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with the record of lives in any other organization — espe-
cially if non-collegiate — and you are confronted with
something that looks like vitality in the Yale principle.
Every fellow found his friendships increased and
strengthened, and that his friends were a set of
lovable gentlemen: men that play the game hard,
yet are good sportsmen. Those separated from us
by death are actively with us. In class meeting this
was pointed out by the men who spoke of Tex and
Louis Fincke. Perhaps the influence of these white lives
will be of wider reach because of their early end. Death
has at least strengthened our fraternal feeling; we don't
say it, but some of us may not be at Quindecennial. So
we give ourselves over the more to the enjoyment of our
friendships, and open our eyes the wider to the good
qualities in the living.
Jim Neale made a speech at some stuffy meeting in
Alumni Hall Tuesday morning. Chronologically it
should have been said that an "unofficial" dinner at Savin
Rock Monday evening drew about half a hundred fel-
lows ; Billy Chace sang "Tim Toolan," and much else
happened. But getting back to Jim; the ventilation of
the hall was what you M expect, and the important old
gentlemen on the platform and elsewhere were sad.
In spite of all that, Jim made a live, characteristic talk.
Its general motive was that we now begin to benefit
by the training our reasoning faculties received during
the four years ; that when we get a good result in work,
we can analyze, so as to repeat or improve the perform-
ance. No one was heard to question Jim's assertion con-
cerning the trained condition of our minds. The re-
mainder of the speech, which was short, was of the happi-
ness of undergraduate days. Everyone felt that Jim had
something good to say, and so had not needed to use the
familiar commonplaces ; in short, that the Class had been
creditably represented.
The pervading atmosphere of the whole game — up to
the time of the march to the field — was of peaceful re-
laxation. One was always meeting new arrivals to town.
86 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
These meetings were expedited by our uniforms, dis-
tinctive enough to identify a '96 man at long range.
Absentees were missed : the name of every man who
was n't there came up at one time or another as needed
to make the game fully what it ought to be. Donnelly
was really the host representing the college; good old
soul, he knew us by our first names. The faculty knew
us, too, and always bowed courteously. Our coats and
hats had class numerals on them.
Everybody was happy with the uniform. We particu-
larly appreciated not being made to appear as convicts,
Buster Brown, or any other cuteness. Those uniforms
expressed us as we are — dignified, yet polished and not
lacking in a modest infusion of the brilliant. Am I right ?
The Graduates' Club made an ideal auxiliary head-
quarters for reunion classes, ours not the least. Here
was the inviting chair, the social glass, the breakfast
served till lunch hour. And here it was that '96 showed
it could sing some after all. Mory's and Heub's of course
had their quota. The new Hofbrau fills requirements.
George McLanahan took a crowd out to luncheon at a
Sabine villa of his near Lake Whitney on Monday, when
the greater part of the decennialists deemed it a choice
bit of sentiment to take a meal at Commons. They got
their old associations embodied in a hamburger steak.
There was no more clamor for meals at Commons. It
was good of George to be hospitable at that time in par-
ticular.
In the march to and from the field, Johnny Johnston
was a sedate generalissimo to the band. Our zobo band,
by the way, probably did n't get results commensurate
with effort expended. Brinck, centaur-like on a worried
pony, combined himself in an equestrian group with Mr.
John Q. Tilson to lead the footsteps of ourselves and sub-
sequent graduates. The parade of the reunion classes to
the field was a good spectacle ; we all have had a child-
hood wish to belong to a circus, and here was our chance.
Tommy Kingman had engaged a pair of invalids dis-
guised as clowns to relieve any tedium that might appear
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The Head of the Procession
DECENNIAL: A TAPESTRY 87
during the ball playing-; but the tedium did n't happen,
so the invalids were spared. The game was won by a
Yale man swatting the ball in the tenth, with two men
on bases. Just the sort of self-command we go back to
New Haven to see. After the game we marched with
enthusiasm and eclat to call on Presidents Hadley and
Dwight. Both came onto their front porches, smiled
amiably and said words that nobody could hear. There
was no ill feeling, however, as we assumed they had no
occasion to hand us anything contrary to what 's custom-
ary under the circumstances.
Now comes the dinner. Would that I had ten thou-
sand tongues to sing its delirium.
Some say it was due to the music. Certainly there had
not been time for other stimulant to circulate in propor-
tion to the state of things that suddenly existed.
Perhaps it was while the third course was being con-
sumed— or earlier, or later — anyhow, the impression is
that the food visible at the moment was on smallish plates.
With this as a clue, future and more thorough historians
can learn from Sammie at just what time the eruption
took place. Thirty seconds before the crisis, a scene of
pastoral calm. Men ate placidly, Johnston accompanying
the music with a dreamy dance, ignoring bread and dishes
that fell about him monotonously; a nymph of Terpsi-
chore, showered by vagrant petals of magnolia bloom.
Would Henry Baker had been there to see !
Now, abruptly, the turning on of some titanic current.
With no middle stage to punctuate transition, that erst-
while peaceful tableau was a thing that had not been.
A Russian massacre, flaming-eyed pursuers with liquid
meteors ; victims, streaked with wandering blood,
shrieked beneath the vaulted roof ; a seething brothel of
maniac dancers; stormy clouds, edges tinged with light-
ning: these things were present to the burning soul.
A glorified barber shop there was, infinitely busy with
champagne shampoos; a blast, upheaving pinwheels,
birds of paradise, much-glittering bottles. Youths
88 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
with a dreadful joy on the face wrought mightily,
echoingly.
Yet affairs must end. Turning away to rest for a
moment the red rolling eyes, a second look revealed no
more than a blasted heap. Tables, band, dinner there
were none, nor sign that any had been.
The attitude of conservatives was dual. "Oh, this is
an outrage!" a man would protest; then slam! crash!
he *d hurl a chair into a passing flock of crockery. Then
he 'd express more regret on the score of our speechless
speakers. The programme had seemed to think that Wal-
ter Ford, Bobby Lusk, Day, and Farr were going to ad-
dress us.
Now go we forth under the stars of the black night,
with spoils of sideboard. To Durfee and the Fence. A
hundred fires in one blaze heavenward. Ten times a
hundred celebrants give voice to joy. One, exalted, will
cross the flames. None deter him. The gods, miracle-
workers, preserve him, lest the revel be checked.
Dudley Vaill, remembering deeds of other days, will
visit his former room. The oak resists the sturdy shoul-
der. Dudley, charged mightily with wise words, visits
a roomful of undergraduates elsewhere, unwilling hosts
fettered by courtesy.
Under the stars men's voices resound. The game
waxes.
Wednesday morning found the active reunion a thing of
the past. There was said to be an alumni dinner some-
where; Russ Colgate and two or three others thought
they 'd go. The faculty, graduating class, and anyone
else who chose to, had a parade, very solemn, except as
to the colors the faculty had about them, which were
frivolous and not soothing to eyeballs still unrestored to
coolness. George Nettleton looking neither unto the right
nor unto the left, becomingly headed this cortege, bearing
in his hands the superstructure of an Argand Base
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Discussion naturally centered around that mad dinner
of the night before. Without doubt it was as wild a riot
as respectable citizens of our age ever produced. Gen-
eral opinion seemed to be that even if there was no par-
ticular harm in one such outbreak, it would not do to per-
mit any recurrence of similar fits. But efforts to figure
out a cause of the upheaval led nowhere at all ; it had to
be dismissed as an accident, with which antecedent cir-
cumstances had nothing to do.
As the excitement begins to retire into background,
however, matters clarify. Unconsciously we had passed
a milestone, even a crisis, in our history as a class. Ten
years. We came together, and instead of finding our-
selves individually grown apart, needing to get reac-
quainted, mirahile dictii, we find that absence has drawn us
closer to one another than we ever had been before. We
hoped to begin where we had left off : by some alchemy,
what was last seen as pleasant acquaintance is redis-
covered as maturing friendship. And the crowd are so
much better fellows than you 'd known!
So it had come to pass that Decennial found us repre-
senting not two hundred odd individuals, but a unified
class. Not a group that is on the road to disintegration,
but an organism that promises during our lives to gain
always in cohesion. As close an association as you
choose.
The excited gang at the dinner, with two or three days
of accumulated emotional excitement back of them, felt
all this. And the aggregation that broke the record for
scholarship, produced Anson, had a freshman crew that
beat the 'Varsity in practice, and has contributed most of
the live men to the present faculty, was no more than
conforming to its nature when it went to superlatives in
the baptism of a re-united Class.
Troy Kinney.
Ten Years After
TEN years ago we were wont to label the other man
something after this fashion :— "He will make a good
straight citizen but he '11 never set the world on fire." It
will be well with most of us if this same prophesy ful-
filled can find a place in our epitaphs some day ; we may
glory in having proved the truth of it, believing that so
we have achieved much. Perhaps world-firing has not
the same charm for us now that it had in imagination
then, or is it that we are looking on a day when a good
straight citizen, if only his reputation and respectability
be still unshredded, is a person much to be envied ? The
value of the low but steady glow-light has never been so
well recognized as now when plenty there be to rush about
with the flash torch, in a fruitless effort to keep the flash
a constant quantity.
It would be of the utmost interest if after each name
the class record could truthfully chronicle the thoughts
and aspirations that were ours in '96, and, opposite them,
the intermediate experiences and attainments, the
thoughts and ideals of 1906. Doubtless the old rule of
the unexpected would obtain as to experiences and attain-
ments but as to the thoughts and the new ideals resulting
it is doubtful if they would not ring strangely like the note
that was ten years ago sounding so full of hope and belief
in the future.
The years since were splendid to have lived! Every
man who went out of Yale in '96 fell upon a time when
matters in this country were beginning to seethe. Ques-
tions were fairly flaming into view throughout the land
that quickened our pulses and set in motion every think-
TEN YEARS AFTER 91
ing and acting power that was in us. We saw the begin-
ning of this immense national prosperity; we saw the
early growth of the tremendous wealth of our country;
we saw fortunes begin to attain their present colossal
proportions; we were in at the launching of this era of
extreme commercialism; we saw, too, the will of the
people more than ever effectually strangled in the grasp
of avaricious political bosses, and, underneath it all, we
have seen the inevitable cancerous growth of envy, sus-
picion and excess, destined some day perhaps to under-
mine the entire formidable structure. It has been a time
to test character of the strongest brand, to bring into
play every principle of manhood, and doubtless many of
us can thank God for the opportunities we had at col-
lege to form ideals to which we could cling, of right
acting and living and fair thinking. The metal rod
which was cast in the back of each of us ten years ago
has had its test and in most of us it is stiffer and stronger
to-day for these trials and better able to rise to the call
for good metal in the future.
Somebody has spoken of the world as "the university
of hard knocks" and most of us have taken a post-
graduate course and a degree or two in that university
since we left college. It may have been a longer course
for some than for others but it is doubtful if any of us
have quite failed to qualify, and is it not time that the
effect of the knocks should have been not to harden and
crustify, but rather to soften us up a bit about the heart?
Happily it was not a race we all started upon that
June day of '96, each to outdo the other in achievement,
but rather a lone pilgrimage for each one, with goals as
different as the directions in which they stretched; so
that now we are left with little opportunity to applaud
one more than another. If we were to bestow honors, to
whom would they go ? Would it be to that man who has
striven against the odds imposed by poverty and attained
to a degree of power and position, or rather to him who
has started from that point of possible disadvantage of
having every want supplied, but who, in spite of it, took
92 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
up some great work, mastered it and developed it along
the lines of greatest economic good. The odds of poverty
are little for the ambitious college graduate to struggle
against in the attainment of happiness and real success,
compared to the thrice greater odds of ready-made plenty.
Why attempt to judge between the success of the man
who has made his life work, say, the study of the German
language and literature; teaching it by day in the high-
school of some small city and wearily studying it by night,
and in the summer taking his little family over to Ger-
many where they can live it and love it and each other ; and
that of the man who has made good by summer and winter
nervously buying, selling and talking stocks, bonds,
eighths and quarters. The honors would probably go in
as many different ways as there are judges, so let pass
the applause, and each, with his light undimmed by any
great brilliancy of another's, be content that the wheel of
fortune was weighted just as it was, duly understanding
and properly valuing each other's progress.
Probably none of us in this time has achieved im-
mortal fame and it is open to question whether a college
training is apt to produce youthful prodigies or even men
of very brilliant deeds. Certainly we seldom hear of
them during the ten years after. Most of the world's
young pedestal-occupiers were men inflamed with one
idea or one cause, or born with some all-consuming pas-
sion in all ways untrained, while the development of a
keen sense of honor, the habits of thought, of careful
judgment, of justly proportioning seem seldom to occur
in the make-up of popular heroes. What then of these ten
years? This at least— that we have learned the inestim-
able value and usefulness of the man who quietly but
staunchly preserves the balance of things. If we look
about us we cannot but feel that the greatest thing in a
college training is that it has helped to create men capable
of knowing a big thing from a little thing, men of broad
and tender sympathy tempered with wisdom, men who
know the value of the real compared to the sham, who
know truth from the sensational; men who keep the
TEN YEARS AFTER 93
balance wheel true by looking clear through the half
truths of the demagogue, the platitudes of the politician,
the antics of the hysterical reformer; and by throwing
their weight where they find it is most needed.
If we are right in our observation, then it is reason
enough for those four years of college, and these ten
years after were indeed well spent; our steadfast hope
and faith in the future fully justified. And to-day abiding
with us, strong as ever, for our inspiration, is the old
underlying consciousness that we are still Yale men, able
to do Yale deeds and to meet Yale expectations.
Maitland Griggs.
How It Looks to Us Now
A tabulation of the answers to Hawkes' circular
letter of December, 1905.
WHEN it was proposed to send to the Class a list of
questions regarding- the result of their experience
at Yale, there was some ground for the feeling that the
plan would not be successful. It seemed very possible
that the Class would not answer the questions. This fear
vanished when 166 or 62 per cent, of the living members
of the Class who graduated in 1896 replied. In addition,
nine ex-members were heard from, of whom some gradu-
ated in other classes, and some went to other colleges.
In reading the replies to the various questions these
answers were used at discretion.
It was also feared that the Class might not answer
seriously, but regard the questions in the somewhat flip-
pant light in which Senior Class questions are considered.
As a matter of fact, there were in the 1500 replies to in-
dividual questions only three or four attempts to be
funny. These were, of course, not counted. The replies
to the questions are in some cases rather critical of the
College, while some undoubtedly idealize the college ex-
perience. In this report the only aim is to give an im-
partial account of the sense of these answers as the
members of the Class write them.
To what use the results of this investigation will be
put cannot accurately be foretold. If the enthusiasm that
the few members of the faculty who have seen the manu-
script have displayed is any criterion, it is certain that those
men who took the pains to return answers rendered the
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College a genuine service. Men not on the ground can
scarcely realize how inadequate and unreliable are the
means in use at present for determining graduate opinion,
and the result of undergraduate experience. To one not
familiar with the questions that present themselves to
the faculty the results tabulated in this article may seem
monotonously commonplace and obvious. This is far
from the fact. I doubt if any one, on or off the faculty,
would have predicted accurately the outcome of all the
questions, — and that is precisely what makes them the
more important. These remarks are not made merely
to inspire confidence in this investigation, but to assure
those men who did answer the questions that their time
was well spent, and to suggest to those who did not that
they lost an opportunity to do the College a good turn.
A few figures regarding the source of the replies may
be interesting. The largest per cent, of the replies came
from high stand men. Eighty-seven per cent, of the Phi
Beta Kappa men answer, 75 per cent, of the men in the
upper half of the Class, while only 47 per cent, of the men
in the lower half of the Class reply. Of the men living
in or near New York City 57 per cent, answer. Of the
members of the Class not living in the metropolis 73 per
cent, are heard from.
Question I
Do you think the discipline at Yale was too strict
or too lax?
Of the 156 men answering this question, two thirds
say that the discipline was about right. No one thought
it too strict as a whole, though several (6) characterized
it as erratic. Twenty-three men are sure that it was too
lax, and nearly as many think it was "certainly not too
strict." A number (6) think that a man who gets drunk
should be discovered and expelled, and that the necessary
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disciplinary machinery for executing this rule should be
devised. Individual comments regarding the effects of
this laxity are rather numerous. For example, one man,
not a hard worker in college, says : "College makes a
man lazy. It took me four years to get over it." Another,
who was a hard worker and is now in a very responsible
position, replies : "My experience with college men leads
me to believe that they are not sufficiently accustomed to
strict discipline." Other criticisms are: "They used to
give the wrong man the benefit of the doubt." "The
discipline was too lax to those needing any." A large
number mention cordially their recollection of Dean
Wright's influence.
To sum up, about one third of the answers betray the
feeling with varying degrees of intensity that they and
the College would have been the gainers if the discipline
were stiffened up; that college is too often regarded as
the last vacation before a life of hard work rather than
a serious and worthy preparation for one's career.
Question II
Does any part that you remember seem unjust?
One hundred and forty-six answers were received of
which 71 per cent, were in the negative. Two men re-
sponded with a rather unsuggestive "Yes." There are
not half a dozen complaints against penalties to individ-
uals, and no one feels the injustice of any discipline that
he received personally. Most of those who recall any in-
justice in the College discipline date their grudge from
Freshman year and the prohibition of our baseball team.
The complaint varies in bitterness from statements that
"a little authority rests heavily on the conceit of Fresh-
man class officers" and "some officers are too petty to be
administrative officers" to mild suggestions that "disciplin-
ing the Class as a whole never did much good" and "some
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things in Freshman year seem fooHsh." It may be
worth mentioning that mass legislation meted out on
innocent and guilty, which seems to be the only feature
of the College discipline in our time that rankles, has
now disappeared almost entirely at Yale.
Question III
All desire to rub it into 'py being removed, would
you now vote for required chapel?
The question of whether chapel should be required is
one of those which has from time to time a period of
activity in the faculty, followed by one of quiescence,
much after the fashion of certain volcanoes. When it is
an active question one may frequently overhear an
argument like the following:
Prof. A.— "But the Seniors always vote for required
chapel, and as long as the students want it and like it,
we should not abolish it on theoretical grounds."
Prof. B. — "The students vote for it merely to ensure
the same degree of torment for the next class that they
suffered. Of course they dislike it. How can they help
disliking it? It is a relic of mediaeval times."
Every one agrees that it is an institution that should
stay or go on its merits, and the answers received to this
question go further toward defining its merits in a reliable
manner than anything has done up to the present time.
There were i66 answers to this question. Of these 133
or 80 per cent, voted to retain required chapel in its pres-
ent status. Twenty-four or 14 per cent, voted in the neg-
ative. A very few (3) would require it on Sundays only
and an equal number would require it on week-days only.
When we graduated, out of the whole Class, only 120
voted for required chapel, and 70 voted to abolish it ; as
many others (70) thought the Sunday service should be
optional. Thus it seems that a considerably larger num-
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ber of votes are now polled from three fifths of the Class
for required chapel than came from the whole Class at
our graduation. The ratio is now over 5 to i, then not
nearly 2 to I. A number of the most religious men in
the Class voted in the negative on the ground that **the
religious influence of the service is nil" and that the
'Veligious purpose is the only one for required chapel."
Others in far greater numbers who, perhaps, do not re-
quire such a strong religious atmosphere to feel the ef-
fects, are equally positive that there is a genuine uplift
in the service and that it is "a good way to start the day."
The principal argument, however, is utilitarian rather
than religious. Typical comments are the following : "It
gives that thrilling mass feeling." "During my college
course and for three years afterwards I was opposed to
chapel on theoretical grounds. Experience as a teacher
opened my eyes to its practical benefits." "Such gather-
ing of the student body fosters the growth of college
spirit." In fact, the impression gained from the answers
as a whole is that the members of the Class look back on
chapel as one of the impressive experiences of their col-
lege life that they would not be without.
Question IV
Do you wish you had come into closer personal touch
with your instructors?
During the last few years certain of the larger uni-
versities have asked themselves the question whether the
function of the University was discharged by placing
before the students comprehensive lists of courses from
which choice could be made practically at will, and from
that point on leaving the students to take advantage of
the resources of the University as best they might.
Princeton has given a strong impetus to those that believe
that a university is more than a wide range of electives.
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and an education more than occasional attendance at lec-
tures. Chicago has shown the same tendency, and Yale
should have and has the question under serious discus-
sion. Questions IV, V, VI and VII constitute an at-
tempt to find out what are really the lasting influences of
a college education.
Taken as a whole the replies to these questions were
remarkably suggestive. They emphasize the view that
by far the most important benefit that men carry from
their college is the result of seeing, hearing, knowing
men of fine, robust character and inspiring influence ; that
the college fails of its highest function and opportunity
if it fails to provide such men on her faculty, and to fur-
nish means for as close personal contact as possible be-
tween teachers and taught. The answers do not betray
a desire on the part of the student for the members of the
faculty to descend to the plane of their student interests
and favor them with their views on athletics and college
politics, but the Class would gladly have seen more of the
well disposed teacher who was interested in them and
would have been glad to feel more of his influence both
in scholarly and personal directions.
The answers to question IV leave no doubt that in the
opinion of the Class the most important part of the col-
lege professor's work is his personal inspiration and
example. He may not give teas or visit students in their
rooms— that seems forced and out of place— but he should
be accessible. Of the i6i answers to this question all but
22 were in the affirmative. Most of these (loo) were an
emphatic "Yes"— others (33) express regret at not hav-
ing seen more of certain of their instructors.
Of the 22 who reply on the negative only 12 are un-
conditional, their comments being: *T do not think the
instructors and their classes could become real personal
friends, and I think a slight acquaintance would make it
hard for the instructor to be impartial." "Such relation-
ship is as a rule unnatural and somewhat forced." "Fa-
miliarity breeds contempt." The remaining 10 who vote in
the negative do so on the assumption that it is impossible
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or impracticable, though perhaps desirable, for closer per-
sonal relations to exist. Thus : "I doubt if a busy in-
structor has time." "A good many of them were not
attractive, and I felt that the rest gave what they had to
give in class. I wanted no perfunctory social functions."
"Not unless the entire system of instruction had been
entirely different." A number of men (3) mention the
Princeton experiment as a movement in the right
direction.
Those who answer in the affirmative very generally
specify one or two reasons for wishing closer relations
with the faculty. The larger number (39) feel that they
would have been stimulated with a more genuine interest
in scholarship. A smaller number (29) mention the in-
fluence on character that closer touch would imply. The
general sentiment of those answering "Yes" may be seen
from a few quotations : "I think personal contact with a
man who knows some one thing well, whose mind is
thoroughly trained, and who is kindly disposed toward
you, is one of the best if not the very best means of educa-
tion." "Yes, for a better understanding would doubtless
have been created between the teachers and the taught.
As it was there seemed to be an awful chasm intervening."
"Yes, the curriculum was the only sphere of activity
which had no (or very few) personal advocates."
A considerable number mention the fact that a man can
learn much more in small divisions than in larger ones.
A few (6) think that they were on sufficiently intimate
terms with their instructors, while one man says : "I never
knew them well enough to answer this question."
Question V
What type of professor do you regard as most essential
to the effectiveness of Yale? Why?
It is impossible to tabulate the results of this question
along hard and fast lines. There were 150 replies, and
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only one man states that the scholar pure and simple is
the greatest need, because "at present we are overdoing
the so-called undergraduate spirit of superficial work."
The answers enforce the conclusion that the function of
the undergraduate instructor is to teach. The plea for
more intelligent enthusiasm for scholarship on the part
of the Faculty is very striking. The attitude shown is not
at all that of men who have discovered too late what an
opportunity for culture was theirs and thrown away;
but rather that so far as they did not realize their scholarly
ideals in college the responsibility lies largely in the nar-
row, or unsympathetic instruction. "Many a man's in-
tellectual powers have been hopelessly dwarfed by almost
criminal negligence in their care by those who should
have been able (and were not) to nourish and strengthen
them to their full growth." This does not imply that
most of the instruction is of this character. Many men
illustrated their ideal of a professor by a particular in-
stance selected from the faculty. For example : "The A
type because he made his courses interesting and hisisted
on their being instructive." "B. The effect of his teach-
ing was self-reliance and manliness." "More men were
needed who could arouse genuine interest in scholarship."
"Such men as C and D because of the deep interest
involved in their courses and their broad handling of
great problems." "E and F were broad men who knew
their subjects. They had the faculty of making me want
to know more about it myself. I never wanted to shirk
with those men." "G and H teach a man to look for
cause rather than at a mass of little facts that, at best,
are soon forgotten." Many men make the observation
that various types are needed. "One tires of eating pie
and at times longs for a pickle." "There should be
several types. The research men to brag about outside;
the inspiring teacher for one's own development."
Of the answers received almost all express in some
way the feeling that the instructor most effective for the
College is the man who through his robust mind and
breadth of character impresses his students with the
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worth of the best things both in character and scholar-
ship. This cannot be accomplished by men of shallow
scholarship, far less by a man of shallow sympathies and
ideals. The most effective type of professor is "one who
sees everything in its relation to human life."
Question VI
Do you wish you had studied more?
Most of the answers to this question were directly yes
or no. In general the high stand men do not wish they
had done more work, while the low stand men do. The
character of the answers appears from the following
table :
Yes No
Phi Beta Kappa men . . 3 33
Upper half of class . . 28 18
Lower half of class . . 43 13
The most suggestive replies came from the comparatively
few (15 or 20) men who do not answer the question
directly, but express the wish that they had "studied
better." Such answers almost always come from the
upper half of the class, about half being from Phi Beta
Kappa men. Characteristic comments are "Not more, but
with more definite aims, under the intelligent guidance
of a deeply interested instructor." "Yes, it was my
fault ; and it is Yale's misfortune that the instructors and
professors do not extend a stronger influence for work
and do not arouse more enthusiasm." "Oh, yes, yes ; and
that my work had been followed personally and that I
had been held searchingly accountable week by week."
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A man who was dropped early in the course replies:
The question is hardly relevant."
Question VII
To whom and to what do you look hack as having been
of greatest benefit to you in your college course? Why?
This was the hardest question on the paper. "This is
too hard for me to answer," says one man. Less than
loo men make any definite reply. "In such a mingling
of influences the superlative is hard to find." A good
many fall back on the "Yale spirit." Of those who do
make a definite reply fully seven-eighths attribute their
greatest benefit to personal contact with the class or the
faculty. A few introduce their reply substantially with
"Apart from the learning and culture that Yale brings,"
leaving one in doubt whether the study was not in their
minds an obvious supreme benefit. I am inclined to
think that such mental reservation is not in general enter-
tained. Typical answers are: "The association with a
large body of fellows of my own age of reasonably high
standards, ideals and prospects." "Certainly I could not
have had the enjoyment of societies and friends without a
certain mutual intellectual pursuit." "To the fact that
I was able for the first time to measure myself with men
of my age, and win out." Eleven men mention outside
activities (News, Dwight Hall, Lit., but no one athletics)
as having been of greatest benefit. A few think that self-
reliance gained by working their way is very important.
The impression made by the answers to this question en-
force the point made by the last three, that the greatest
thing in a college education is the opportunity for per-
sonal contact with many men, both older and of one's
own age.
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Question VIII
What relative importance would you now place on study
and on activities outside the curriculum (e. g., athletics,
societies) ?
A few more than half the men answering this question
(151) are clear that study is of first importance, very
many regarding the outside activities merely as a relish.
The sentiment of the entire body of answers is contained
in the reply: "i. Study, 2. Social associations with class-
mates and others, 3. Athletics, 4. Societies." Other sug-
gestive replies of men who look on study as of primary
importance are : "To any one of ordinary intelligence,
there seems to be time for both. An honest day's work
every day on the studies and all the rest of the time de-
voted to outside activities or to recreation would seem to
be desirable." "Study first. Many activities which at
college seemed of first importance lose much of that
importance in the retrospect."
A number of men (about 40) seem to place general
association with their classmates (including athletic and
social activities) in the first place, though the common
intellectual interests seems to be the substratum that
makes this association valuable, or in fact possible.
"Study is the basis of college life, and indispensable, but
the greatest good from the stay at Yale comes in my ex-
perience from the constant intercourse with men. Athlet-
ics and societies are first-rate mediums through which the
pressure of many may cause the individual to modify his
peculiarities and faults. Four years at New Haven seeing
no one but instructors, and devoting the whole time to
study would be less valuable than four years under the
present system, with study left out and some regular
physical labor substituted as the reason for our presence,
— No, on reading this I convert myself to the contrary.
The improvement would not come without the mental
activity of study. It is absolutely essential."
The chief complaint against athletics is that com-
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paratively few are encouraged to take part in them. A
very common sentiment is expressed by the man who
says : ''I think athletics should be more generally indulged
in and less attention paid to University teams."
Although the question does not suggest a criticism of
the society system, about 20 men add such criticism. Their
replies are mostly to the eifect either that societies are
very much over-emphasized or that they should be abol-
ished. Six of them, however, feel that the societies do
more good than harm. Of these six men five were in
Senior societies. The only Senior society man to criticise
the society system stated the following : *T do not think
a man should make a Senior society unless he has a Junior
appointment." Of the critics a very few were members
of Junior societies. Sentiments expressed are as follows :
"The fetish of Senior societies seems to me wholly bad.
Its evil influence penetrates even the lower grades of
preparatory schools." "Societies (all of them) root and
branch should be abolished." "Societies seem to me of
less importance each year." These from Junior society
men who did not make a Senior society. Non-society
men who mention them at all criticise severely.
Our epigrammatic member says : "The four things
which did me more good than all the curriculum were
learning :
1. In Freshman year, that a man is a fool to sport.
2. In Sophomore year, that a 'pull' is a great help.
3. In Junior year, that general acquaintance with
current affairs is very desirable.
4. In Senior year, that the best man doesn't always
win."
Question IX
Would you have gotten more out of your college course,
if your choice had been more widely elective?
This is one of the most important questions on the
paper. It should be kept in mind that the present system
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permits much wider choice than we were allowed. In
fact, a good number of the replies to this question which
are recorded in the affirmative express the opinion that
at present there is surely enough option given the stu-
dents. Only graduates of Yale were counted in reading
this question.
A little more than one third of the 167 men voting
would have preferred a wider elective system. This in-
cludes six, whose only complaint was Psychology and a
like number who would have avoided some of the Greek,
Latin and Mathematics of Freshman year. As both of
these are now elective it seemed certain that a much
smaller proportion would vote for a widening of the
present elective system. There was comparatively little
comment in the affirmative answers.
In the negative 99 votes were recorded, and a good
deal of rather strong feeling is displayed in various direc-
tions. First, the elective system would make it easier for
a man to take attractive but unsubstantial courses. This
general feeling is voiced again and again by men of all
degrees of scholarship in College and of distinction since.
Second, the faculty ought to be able to judge the value
of various courses better than any boy however well
meaning. A considerable number of men expressed their
sense of the need for more help from their instructors
in selecting their courses. A curious combination of the
practical and the ideal appeared a number of times in some
form like— "I think a more widely elective course would
have been very beneficial, but I doubt if I could have
elected wisely."
The results of this question show a surprising senti-
ment in favor of a rather restricted course. The ratio is
about 2 to I for a course as narrow as that at Yale ten
years ago and the answers indicate that it would be more
decisive against any further widening than at present.
This is all the more interesting in view of the fact that
"the alumni" have the reputation of being strongly in
favor of a much wider choice of electives than that at
present enjoyed.
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Question X
Do you now feel the need of training that the College
might have, or ought to have, supplied?
Only general conclusions can be drawn from the an-
swers to this question. Seventy-one men out of the i66
either do not answer or have no criticisms either of their
opportunities or the way in which they took advantage of
them. A number (22) of the men reply with an un-
illuminating "Yes." Seventeen say in substance, "I don't
blame the College for the loss of opportunities I did n't
take." In the directions where the most severe need is
felt by members of the Class it is worth mentioning that
the College is far better equipped than it was ten years
ago. The most common complaint was the lack of train-
ing in self-expression either by writing or speaking. More
than a dozen men mention this need. A considerable
number of men feel the need of training, and ability, to
concentrate and to think logically. But a good many
others specify just these benefits as having been acquired
in College. A few (6) lament the lack of knowledge of
modern languages. A like number feel the need of
sciences. A considerable number wish the College could
have taught practical affairs like business methods, latter
day finance, etc. Only one man confesses his regret at
coming to College, and he in answer to the next question
states that he would not send his son or brother to Yale.
Question XI
// you had a son or brother to send to Yale, would you
prefer him to spend the time you spent on the Greek
language in preparing for College or to put it on
French, German, or Mathematics?
The agitation against the disciplinary trinity of Greek,
Latin and Mathematics of which we reaped the first fruits
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by our option of study in Sophomore year has con-
tinued until now Greek is not required for entrance to
Yale. The candidate may substitute various combinations
of French, German and Mathematics. The trend of
educational progress seemed to the advocates of this plan
to demand at least this amount of concession from the
classics. No one can tell how extensively this substitu-
tion for Greek will be employed in the future. This ques-
tion is an attempt to feel the pulse of those who will be
sending boys to Yale in a few years.
Of the 175 men sending answers 14 did not answer
the question or answered non-committally. Eighteen re-
plied that it would depend on the boy. Of the remaining
replies about one half were in favor of "as much pre-
paratory Greek as we had." The reasons given are di-
vergent but serious. For example: "Greek by all means
—if it were taught humanly and philosophically."
"Greek, I dropped it as soon as I could but it is excellent
mental training." "I believe thoroughly in continuing
Greek through at least two years of college. A university
is not a business college." "Greek, a knowledge of which
is the key to the world-old standards of esthetic apprecia-
tion, must be gained in college if at all." "I see no harm
in Greek."
The men who do not vote for Greek are scattered in
their recommendations. Nineteen do not seem to have
any preference so long as Greek is not required. Others
specify the modern languages, and sometimes with and
often without Mathematics. The following is typical :
"I don't believe in Greek in prep, school. I think that a
hard study of French and German with Grammar and
Mathematics would develop the mind as Greek is sup-
posed to." "Reluctantly I say it. Take French and
German, but make knowledge of English translations of
Greek classics essential to entrance to college." On minor
points opinions usually balance each other. For instance
two men reply as follows : "I should certainly avoid the
waste of time on Mathematics." "Mathematics :— above
all he should be taught exactness of thought."
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The general impression gained from the replies to this
question is that about half the men would cut down or
omit the entrance requirement of Greek that we met, sub-
stituting the modern languages at any rate and perhaps
some Mathematics. Whether those who vote for Greek
would have it required or merely urge the brother or son
to take up the study is not brought out.
Question XII
Comment on the grasp of Greek life and literature that
you obtained from your study of Greek
The form in which this question is put is unfortunate.
It is easiest for a man to reply that he obtained no grasp
or 'The question is a joke." This "pernicious suggestive-
ness of the answer some one wants to get" (an insinua-
tion which the framer of the question most emphatically
combats), must have had a tendency on the one hand to
draw an answer unfavorable to Greek from a good many
who have no very strong views on the subject, but on the
other hand to stimulate to more forcible expression those
who feel the value of their study of Greek. On the whole
it renders rather more striking the loyalty. of the Class
to the classical training. From the i66 graduates who
answer 128 definite replies are received. Of these only
six state substantially that the time spent on Greek did not
pay. Forty-three men in addition state with varying de-
grees of positiveness that they obtained little or no grasp.
A number of these men may feel that they would not be
without that little, but from the tone of the replies it may
be safely inferred that most of them feel that they could
more profitably have spent their time on something else.
It should be kept in mind that the form of the question
encourages these 43 answers and that is very probably a
maximum limit. Against these 43 men who seem to retain
little friendly feeling for Greek are 79 who with various
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degrees of emphasis state their appreciation of the study.
Forty-five of these men indicate that their "grasp" is
slight but satisfactory. Replies like the following are in-
cluded in this category. "Slight but invaluable, especially
that derived from Homer, Thucydides and the drama-
tists." "The disciplinary and educational value of Greek
is greater than most of us are willing to admit— at first."
"I remember Homer was fine." "I am somewhat out of
training now, yet I never regret the time spent on Greek."
"Enough to make the memories of the work done very
pleasant." These men quoted above were all but one in
the lower half of the Class.
Eight men compare their grasp of Greek life and litera-
ture favorably with that gained in other subjects, notably
German. It should be remembered, however, that most
of them studied Greek twice as long as they did German.
It is interesting to note that a number of men state that
their preparatory school (Andover) taught them "more
of what was worth knowing about Greek and the Greeks
than Yale." Twenty-six men modestly admit that their hold
on Greek was good, a fair number, perhaps six or eight,
asserting that they read some favorite Greek authors with
pleasure now. Here are some of the replies : "It has al-
ways been and always will be of great benefit to me." "I
gained enough to give me a lifelong appreciation of what
Greek culture means to the world." "I retain only a hazy
idea of Greek life and literature, but it presents to my
mind an image of more charm and beauty than any other
part of my entire experience as a student. If such a
thing were possible I would give up any other part of my
course of study before I would the Greek." "It has af-
forded me one of the most delightful sources of medita-
tion. In this practical age we need the ideals we derived
from the Greek."
Along with this very general tribute to the educational
influence of Greek no less than 25 men present suggestions
to the Greek faculty regarding the proper teaching of the
subject. These suggestions come from all the types of
replies and all emphasize the same point. This can be
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shown in the clearest manner by quotations. "I believe
that what knowledge I have of Greek life and literature
has been gained far more from reading English articles
on the subject (I don't mean 'trots') than from actual
translation from the original." "My knowledge of Greek
life, after four years' study is less than my knowledge of
Egyptian, Assyrian, or Persian life gained from chance
reading." "Later comers should be obliged to read
English books along with the rest." "Would recommend
greater body of literature to be read with the idea of catch-
ing more of the spirit." "Could not Greek architecture
be touched?" "Not as much as could have been gained
by a study of Greek life and literature along other chan-
nels than the Greek language." "Except for a few high
thoughts brought out by Prof. I now retain little or
nothing that I would not have possessed without even
learning the Greek alphabet." "A valuable addition
would be a course giving a survey of the literature as a
whole." "Given a properly qualified instructor I think
every Freshman ought to be allowed to choose a course in
Greek masterpieces in translation if he does n't want the
original." These suggestions indicate a desire on the
part of students for the valuable results of the study of
Greek without the drudgery of acquiring the language.
Whether a royal road to such results exists, and whether
it is traversable is a question that the teachers of the clas-
sics are at present engaged in working out. There can,
however, be no doubt of the fact that the Class very gen-
erally attributes a high value to the educational and cul-
tural qualities of the study of the classics.
I WISH finally to thank the members of the Class for
their serious and frank cooperation in answering these
questions. It indicates that the alumni have a deeper in-
terest in Yale than is represented by mere enthusiasm for
her athletic triumphs, or by the personal prestige that her
degree is supposed to bring.
Herbert E. Hawkes.
A Letter
From Ex-President Dwight
To THE Members of the Class of 1896 :
My dear Friends:— In reply to a very kind letter re-
ceived from your Secretary, I desire to send to you my
congratulations on the tenth anniversary of your College
graduation now so nearly approaching. The anniversary
is one which will bring to you pleasant memories and
awaken in your minds cheering and encouraging hopes.
It is for you, in a certain special sense, a dividing point of
life. The memories go backward not only to the under-
graduate years, as they did when you left the University
walls, but they gather up for you also the experiences of
the time of your preparation for the distinctive sphere of
effort and usefulness which you have chosen, each one of
you for himself. These experiences must be even richer
for you than those of the earlier period, for they have
fitted you for the larger duties of your manhood in its
whole career. The hopes likewise will be more cheering
and have in themselves a higher inspiration, because they
are not simply a part of a beautiful vision altogether
beyond your present realization, but because they rest upon
what you have already begun to accomplish, and thus
have for you the promise which the successes of the be-
ginning may always give of the achievements and rewards
of the later time. Your chosen life-work has opened for
you. You have only to move onward in it with earnest-
ness and with devotion, and the future you may hope
will be yours with an ever increasing satisfaction.
My best wishes will be with you and for you on the
A LETTER FROM EX-PRESIDENT DWIGHT 113
happy anniversary day, and my benediction also if this
will be of any worth to your thoughts. We are all
brothers in the Yale fraternity. As one of the older mem-
bers of the family I give you this assurance of my friend-
ship which will abide with you, and I hope that you may
see in your lives somewhere, now and in the coming
time, something of helpfulness and of good which you
can trace backward to the days in the old College years
when it was my privilege to meet you all, and to bear
witness to you of the spirit of the brotherhood.
Very sincerely yours,
Timothy Dwight ('49).
New Haven, May 18, 1906.
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Princeton '73 to Yale '96
Some mathematics, Latin, Greek,
And French, (though hardly fit to speak,)
Some logic and astronomy,
Political economy,
Philosophy and physics, too,
All this, and more, I thought I knew
In eighteen hundred seventy-three,
When Princeton gave me an A.B.
But year by year my Greek grew dim.
My logic stiflF, my science slim :
My mathematics shrank to nix;
Until, in eighteen ninety-six,
When life had taught me to discern
How much was left for me to learn,
The faculty of Yale agreed
That I was fit to be D.D.-d.
It would have put me up a tree
To stand "exams" for that degree;
But you, good fellows of my class !
You took me in without a pass.
Un vieux moustache, I give you thanks
For welcome to the younger ranks,
And send to our decennial meeting,
In limping verse, this hearty greeting.
A hand to each, a health to all!
And here *s to you, good fellow!
As learning's youthful leaves do fall.
May wisdom's fruit grow mellow:
A kinder heart, a clearer eye,—
And may no wintry weather
Be wild enough to break the tie
That binds old friends together.
Henry van Dyke ('p6 hon.)
Copyright, 1907, by the De Vinne Press, for the Class of 1896
A Letter
From Payson Merrill
Director of the Alumni Fund and Fellow of the Yale Corporation.
My dear Sir: — You ask me to write a short article for
your class record on the subject of the Alumni Fund.
You tell me that the class agents differ widely in their
methods; that some appeal for it as a worthy charity,
others claim that the graduates in supporting it simply
discharge a debt; that some appeal on the ground of class
pride, and others on that of loyalty to the University;
that some try to secure the largest number of subscribers
by asking for very small amounts, and that others lay
stress on large amounts from the wealthy; and you ask
me to indicate what in my judgment is the proper scope
and basis of this work.
I am so much interested in this Fund and so grateful to
everyone who works for it, and your Class has set so good
an example for the following classes, that I gladly
comply with your request.
This enterprise had its origin in a deep conviction of
the utter inadequacy of Yale's income to meet increasing
but imperative demands. Her invested funds are small
compared with those of her competitors, and for years
they have been growing relatively smaller. Her un-
sectarian character precludes an appeal to denominational
wealth; her constituency is national rather than local,
and that fact prevents her securing the local support
which Harvard and Columbia can command. The
alumni of Yale are widely scattered, and the demand
made upon their generosity by the localities in which they
116 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
live has largely diverted their attention from the needs
of Yale. Still, Yale alumni have always been noted for
their loyalty, and it was felt that if the crying needs of the
University could be brought. to their attention, two results
would follow : the treasury of the University would ob-
tain some relief, and the interest of the graduates would
be permanently increased. The immediate relief of the
treasury was perhaps the object most prominently before
the minds of those who took up this work more than fif-
teen years ago, but some of them felt that the influence
of the movement on the graduates, though less perceptible
and more distant, would be equally valuable.
The resolutions of the N. Y. Alumni Association in
1890, and that of the alumni meeting at Commencement
the same year, gave definite form to the effort. They
both announced as one of the objects of the Association
the securing of contributions, "large or small." The
early circulars and reports of the Directors of the Fund
frequently proclaim that, while large subscriptions are
very gladly received, the Fund especially seeks small sub-
scriptions of five or ten dollars annually.
The strength of Yale is very largely to be found in her
alumni, among whom men of moderate means are both
more numerous and (potentially at least) more influential
than the wealthy. They have more children to send to
college. In the main, they are of a sturdier class. They
offer the best constituency from which Yale may be sup-
plied with students. If they can be induced to contribute
small annual amounts, the aggregate result in money is
large, and their interest and affection for the University
is increased.
In addition, experience shows that if men shortly after
graduation begin this practice of small annual contribu-
tions, the size of their contributions will increase with
their increase of means. The mere fact that a large
number of men of small resources are contributing a
large annual amount to the College is the best incentive
to larger gifts from wealthier men. There is a constant
and natural increase in the number of gifts from one
A LETTER FROM PAYSON MERRILL 117
hundred to one thousand dollars each. It may be said,
therefore, that the number of men who give small
amounts annually constitutes the basis of the growth and
success of this work.
Again, Yale is justly proud of her democratic tradi-
tions; but the sons of the wealthy are more and more
attracted to her, and in Yale, as in every other commu-
nity, the danger is ever present that the wealthy few will
attain a disproportionate influence, subversive of a
genuine democracy. Yale cannot remain the same unless
the graduates of limited means, by their concerted action
and usefulness, assert their power, and continue, not
necessarily the dominant influence, but certainly not a
subordinate one. I know of no way in which this result
can more readily be secured than by enlisting the great
body of the alumni in the financial support of the Uni-
versity. Such action will of necessity be a powerful in-
fluence on the management and character of the Uni-
versity.
For these reasons, I think the Directors have been wise
in always laying special stress on a large number of small
annual contributions, while gladly welcoming larger
gifts.
As for the grounds on which we shall make our appeal,
perhaps a bit of my own experience may be of service, if
you will pardon a personal reference.
For more than two years of my college life I paid no
tuition. I remember well the reluctance with which I
applied for the remission of my tuition. It seemed to me
that I was taking the position of a charity student; I
knew, however, that in the near future I must borrow
money for my college expenses, and I resolved to treat
my remitted tuition as a loan from the College.
A few years after my graduation, an effort was made
among the graduates to raise a fund in commemoration
of President Woolsey. I acted as agent in my class to
solicit contributions, and I subscribed enough to cover
the unpaid tuition. The repayment of this money to the
College was to me a great satisfaction ; something which
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seemed slightly to mar the pleasure of my college
memories was removed; I felt on better terms with my
class ; I visited New Haven with greater pleasure, and my
interest in the University and in my classmates was in-
creased.
After a while it was brought to my attention that the
tuition fees paid by the student defrayed less than one-
half his actual cost to the College, that the balance of the
cost was made up by the gifts of former times; I began
to query whether I was really out of debt for my college
education, and before long determined that when the
right time came I would do what I could to enable Yale
to give the same proportionate advantages to succeeding
generations that she had given me; when the Alumni
Fund was started I felt that my time had come. My
interest in that work and my conviction of its importance
has grown each year, and concurrently my interest in
Yale and my affection for my classmates, who have al-
ways generously responded to my appeals. Though my
class has fewer living members than almost any class that
has graduated for the past fifty years, it stood at the head
of the list in aggregate contributions until the beginning
of the present century. That fact has tended to increase
the pleasure of our re-unions and our interest in the class.
Some have contributed because of pride in the Class;
some because of loyalty to the University; some because
they felt they were discharging a debt, and some on the
broad ground of national patriotism, feeling that Yale is
one of the strongest influences for good in the whole
country, an influence which is at the same time conserva-
tive and progressive.
It has always seemed to me that the variety of grounds
on which appeals for support can be based is a cause of
rejoicing, and one of the main grounds of the success of
the work. The class agents have been left entirely free,
each one to work in his own way, because it has been felt
that each agent would use with most force the argument
that most powerfully appealed to him.
In conclusion I wish to express my admiration and
A LETTER FROM PAYSON MERRILL 119
gratitude for the loyal and efficient work of the class
agents. Their service is laborious and not free from
unpleasant features, but they are doing a noble work for
Yale, and deserve the support of every graduate.
Faithfully yours,
Payson Merrill ('65).
N^w York, March 6, 1906.
Some Yale Problems
TEN years have elapsed since we were officially
stamped as Yale men, and during this time our
views of life and our attitude toward the University have
undergone important changes. As undergraduates our
chief interest centered around certain social and athletic
affairs, around those courses which seemed useful or
interesting, or easy, around the quality of board at
Commons, and the methods of torment for our younger
brethren of ^97. Our interests have broadened since
those times. Men who feel that Yale did much for them
want to do something for Yale. They are not content to
confine their interest to dinners and ball games, however
"glorious" these may be ; they desire to know how things
stand at the University, what deficiencies there are, what
policies are being worked out, so that their interest and
support may be intelligent. Hence this unofficial presen-
tation of some of the problems now before the officers of
the University.
One of the problems which faces Yale to-day is the
question as to what sort of a university can be established
in New Haven. The university such as commonly ex-
ists throughout the United States and Europe implies
among other things centralized authority and the fullest
cooperation between the different departments. It im-
plies no unnecessary duplication of instructors or of
laboratories, and it presupposes a hearty, whole-souled
helpfulness on the part of all the men working in dif-
ferent lines. To-day this does not exist at Yale to the
extent that some of us would like to have it.
The University at New Haven has been a slow growth
SOME YALE PROBLEMS 121
and its history is, accordingly, very different from those
universities like Chicago and Stanford which were
created full-fledged institutions with carefully correlated
departments before faculty and class rooms had been
provided. For a hundred years Yale University was Yale
College, and as the other departments were established
in response to local needs or as the result of endowment
they naturally took on individual characteristics and were
more or less independent of the original College. The
Scientific School, founded in 1847; the Divinity School,
in 1822; the Medical School, in 1813; the Art School, in
1866; and the Law School, in 1824, for many years con-
ducted their affairs with only nominal supervision on the
part of the president and corporation; and even the
Forest School, founded at a much later date, 1900, was
the result of gifts of land and money to be devoted to this
particular purpose, which necessarily gave the School an
independent character. While the enrollment in these
separate departments remained small, the curriculum of
each school was a matter of little interest to the other
groups constituting the University; and when the num-
ber of students and the range of studies offered began
to increase it naturally followed that there arose some
duplication of courses. The work of the Medical School,
Law School, Art School, and Forest School, is so special-
ized that there is little occasion to give courses parallel to
those in other departments. Yet even in these schools
duplication has grown up. Courses in the Medical School
overlap the biological courses of the Scientific School,
courses in art are offered by the Academic Department,
and Forestry courses include surveying, botany, and
physiography, taught by Sheff. and by Yale College, al-
though the Forest School avoids duplication by taking
advantage of courses offered by other departments and
supplying only the special instruction not to be had else-
where in the University.
In the two undergraduate departments there has conie
to be much similarity in courses offered. The engineer-
ing courses of Sheff. and the classical courses in the Col-
122 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
lege have no counterpart elsewhere, but, owing to the
non-technical character of a large part of the instruction
offered by the Scientific School, parallel courses in Eng-
lish, history, economics, geology, etc., have been developed
in the two departments. The most marked instance of
duplication of plant and instructors is in the case of the
select course in the Scientific School, where students are
pursuing practically the same work as the Freshmen,
Sophomores, and Juniors of Yale College. That cooper-
ation and the elimination of unnecessary duplication of
instructors and facilities is the end to be sought, is recog-
nized on all sides. But lack of funds delays its accom-
plishment, and, besides, the practical difficulties are great.
The Academic courses are largely elective, and, because
of this, interchange is readily arranged between this de-
partment and the Law, Medical, and Forest Schools. The
courses in the Scientific School, on the other hand, are
fixed and inelastic and extend three years instead of four ;
and the difficulty of holding a student to a required
course and, at the same time, allowing him to select
courses in other departments, is apparent.
In certain instances this development of separate sched-
ules and parallel courses for undergraduates has tended
toward progress, yet, on the whole, it seems not to be in
accord with increased educational efficiency, and efforts
are being made to eliminate the undesirable features of
the present system. During the present year the corpora-
tion has adopted a tariff of charges for interdepartmental
instruction, and rules looking toward ''coordination of the
powers and functions of the various faculties and deans."
The catalogue for the coming year shows courses in the
Law School given to Academic and to Sheffield students ;
courses in the Forest School given by Sheff. and by
College professors ; courses in the College by instructors
from the Scientific School; and courses in the Scientific
School by men from the Academic faculty. The struggle
for the advancement of science was appreciated only by
the most broadminded men in years which the older pro-
fessors well remember, and whatever opposition there
SOME YALE PROBLEMS 123
seems to be to-day to a more economical merging of
Sheff. and Academic instruction, dates from that period.
The development of a university, as distinguished from
a group of independent schools, is closely bound up with
the development of a graduate school. Progress in this
direction has been somewhat slow at Yale, compared with
that of other universities. The graduate instruction of-
fered is of the highest order, but the securing of a gradu-
ate faculty, devoted primarily to research, has been
retarded by the lack of funds. In fact, there is no grad-
uate faculty at Yale, except for purposes of recommend-
ing candidates for advanced degrees and for voting fel-
lowships. To some of us the lack of a separate university
faculty composed of men from all departments, whose
chief interest would be the instruction of advanced stu-
dents in the University as a whole, seems a hindrance to
larger development. Professors in the separate schools
will necessarily give instruction in the graduate school,
but there is need of professors who could devote most
of their time to advanced students, men who would have
ample opportunity for research, and whose interest would
be in Yale University instead of in one of the separate
departments. The need of a large endowment for this
purpose is evident. Endowed research professorships are
needed and funds are required to increase laboratory and
library facilities and to provide for research assistants.
The Graduate School is severely handicapped by lack of
fellowships which may be used to attract high grade men.
The Dean of the Graduate School has at his disposal a
meager $2,000 to be used for this purpose— a sum
ridiculously inadequate when compared with the large
endowments for this purpose at other institutions. The
largest unrestricted fellowship granted this year was
$300 and tuition, and half the men from other colleges
who applied for aid could be given no substantial en-
couragement to study at Yale. It is indeed high praise
for the character of the advanced instruction furnished
by the University that a large Graduate School has been
built up in spite of these difficulties. The social side of
124 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
graduate student life has been greatly improved by the
formation of a Graduate Students' Club, which is de-
signed to furnish a common meeting ground for scat-
tered groups.
In the Academic department much progress has been
made since '96 constituted the chief feature of the
New Haven landscape. The teaching force for the
Freshman Class and the methods of handling its sub-
divisions are now much better than before. To be sure
we still have some men who, perhaps, ought not to
come in contact with the Freshmen, and occasionally a
complaint comes from the entering students that the
instruction received is inferior to that which they have
just left in the preparatory school. Among the pro-
fessors, too, there are still some men who take practically
no interest in college affairs outside of a certain amount
of routine teaching, but seem to consider the position one
of honor which is satisfactorily filled by their presence
in New Haven. It is a difficult problem to know how to
deal with such members of the faculty. It seems better
to retain them than to invite them to resign, for the per-
manency of the professorial office is a valuable university
asset. Some of these men are better adapted to adminis-
trative positions, or to positions in the Graduate School,
where their expense to Yale College will be less, their
influence on the undergraduate body diminished, and
their usefulness to the University still retained. The evi-
dent correction for this state of affairs is to be much more
careful about the appointment of professors, and there is
a strong tendency in this direction. It has been an un-
written rule for some time past that the man at the head
of a department has nominated an instructor, assistant
professor, or professor, and this man has been elected as
a matter of course. There is a feeling, now, however,
that this method is not suitable, that what we need is to
add to the faculty the best man who can be secured any-
where, whether a Yale graduate or not. By vote of the
faculty during the past year a professor is now nominated
by a committee, whose duty is to scour the country in order
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to find the best man available. ... In selecting profes-
sors for undergraduate work care must be taken to secure
first of all a teacher, and a man whose influence on the
undergraduate body is good, and secondly, to obtain a
man who is capable of conducting original research. If
one or the other of these qualities must be sacrificed in
a newly obtained professor there can be no doubt that the
teacher rather than the investigator should be chosen.
The graduate student needs research men, and the Uni-
versity at the present time needs them badly; the under-
graduate too needs both the investigator and the teacher,
but he must have the teacher.
One of the recent improvements in undergraduate teach-
ing has come as a result of an investigation by what is
popularly called the "Snap Course Committee." This
committee examined into the methods of teaching in
order to discover how the different instructors were work-
ing, how easy or how hard their courses were, and what
they were really teaching the students. The result was that
certain so-called advance courses were found to be simpler
than certain elementart^ courses, that certain courses were
given which required very little work on the part of the
student, and other courses were given which required
nothing but a slight cramming at the end of the year.
As a result of this investigation the faculty adopted a
rule that no course should be given in which there was
not a definite amount of work assigned for each exercise,
the object being to eliminate the "snap course," and to
make the work in the different departments of somewhat
uniform grade. It was found, for instance, that two
courses innocently scheduled as two hours each were so
far apart in their requirements that a certain student
reported eight hours per day preparation for an English
course and twenty minutes per week for a course in
economics. Two members of '96 were on this com-
mittee, and it is due largely to Hawkes that such satis-
factory results have been secured.
Another improvement to the Yale College instruction
is the recent establishment of what is called the ABC
126 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
system, by which courses in any subject are classified in
order of their difficulty and grade of advancement, —
C courses being most advanced. One of the great faults
of an elective system is the fact that a student may spend
all of his college life in taking elementary work, for
instance, elementary Hebrew, elementary chemistry, ele-
mentary history one year; elementary Chinese, elemen-
tary bacteriology the next year, and so on, with the
result that no course is really pursued to an extent where
the student has become familiar with the methods and
facts connected with it. Under our present system such
a selection of work is impossible provided a man wishes
to get a degree. He may take as many A courses (ele-
mentary courses) as he wishes, but before graduation
he must have pursued in at least two lines courses which
range A B and C. This makes it possible for a student
to know a little about a great many things, and at the
same time to have some command of at least two related
lines. It is the writer's belief that a Yale A. B. is now the
strongest course of the sort given in any American uni-
versity, and that the opportunity for frittering away
time is much less than at universities having unrestricted
electives.
On the side of the instruction offered, Yale College's
greatest weakness at the present time is in the teaching
of biology. Biology, including zoology and botany, is
generally considered as a study of prime importance in
order to prepare the student for the appreciation of the
greatest problems of life and to understand the various
processes which have played such an important part in
the history of the world. In other universities the num-
ber of professors of biology is large, and the number of
students taking at least elementary courses is in the hun-
dreds. In Yale College some twenty men per year have
been taking this subject, and the most of them take it as
a necessary requirement for medical schools. That the
College appreciates the need of better facilities for in-
struction in this subject is shown by the plans now being
perfected whereby one department of biology is to be
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developed in which enlarged opportunities for study are
to be open to all students in the University.
Another weakness, the lack of adequate instruction in
public speaking, is directly reflected in the failure of Yale
teams to win debates. A graded series of courses in
argumentation, debating, etc., in charge of a professor is
needed not only as an aid to more effective work in inter-
collegiate debating, but even more as general training
for a large number of men. At present our debators are
at an evident disadvantage as compared with Harvard
and Princeton, where much more attention is paid to the
subject. It is as if our athletic teams entered contests
without a long period of careful training.
But whenever the further development of the University
is considered, we are confronted at once with the financial
problem. Yale cannot stand still, it must advance and
adjust itself to ever changing conditions. Increased
efficiency implies increased endowment, — and who is to
supply the funds ? The University naturally looks to its
graduates for support, but the alumni as a body do not
appear to be interested in the financial problem of the
University. Yale men are proverbially loyal and the col-
lege might reasonably expect support from a majority of
those of her graduates who can afford to give it. Yet,
during the year ending June, 1903, one hundred and two
Yale alumni died, and but four of these remembered the
University in their wills. Up to June, 1905, the Alumni
Fund amounted in all to a little over $200,000, and in-
stead of that representing a small contribution from
every living Yale graduate, it was in reality made up of
gifts from two thousand men, leaving over ten thousand
men unaccounted for. It may be that the graduates are
not in close enough touch with the University, that they
do not have sufficiently detailed knowledge to encourage
special as well as general contributions. The President's
Reports are sent to all of them, but it is doubtful how
thoroughly they are understood, and even how widely
they are read. The men as a body seem to remain uncon-
cerned— or else unacquainted — with the fact that any en-
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largement of the usefulness and influence of the Uni-
versity must involve more universal and generous finan-
cial support.
Large gifts are needed for important additions to
equipment, and to the faculties. We need a School of
Architecture to supplement the work of the Art School.
There is need of new professorships, if not of Greek
and theology, at least of politics, geography, biology,
colonial administration, and other branches of instruc-
tion which fill so important a place in modern times.
The enlargement of the University Museum, and funds
to utilize its unrivaled wealth of material would put Yale
again at the fore in lines of natural history. Still again, if
funds in $5,000 and $10,000 lots could be received, the
University could enter actively into the exploration of
the less known parts of the world, making collections in
ethnology, geology, zoology, and archaeology.
Aside from these large general demands, there are
many ways in which the instruction and general life of
the University could be improved by gifts in moderate
amounts. The service accomplished by these small gifts
is all out of proportion to their size. The gifts of $50
and up by George E. Dimock to certain clubs for gradu-
ate instruction have enabled those organizations to pur-
chase reference books and charts and photographs which
have added very much to their efficiency. Another man
gave an electric lantern which resulted in a great im-
provement in the instruction of certain classes. There
are many similar needs for things not so essential as to
justify running the University into debt, but at the same
time things which make the difference between first
grade and second grade instruction.
On the social side, the lack of funds has forced upon
the Academic undergraduate body a very difficult prob-
lem: that is, the housing of the Freshman and Sopho-
more classes. During the past year one hundred and
forty-eight Sophomores lived on Crown Street in an
area of high priced rooms, and ninety- four of them
lived in one building at the corner of Crown and College
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Streets; and one hundred and thirty- four Freshmen
roomed in a restricted section of York Street. Both
of these locaHties are expensive — too expensive for
the poor student to obtain a room. The result is that
both the Freshman and Sophomore classes are divided
geographically into groups of rich and poor men.
Perhaps the worst factor of this present difficulty is
the fact that the social honors in Yale College, which
are so highly prized by the students, seem nowadays
to come almost entirely to those men living in the
higher priced dormitories. Managerships of athletic
teams, membership in the Glee Club, membership in
the Junior societies, seem to be largely controlled from
those houses occupied by the wealthier students. As
shown by the Alumni Weekly, three fourths of the
Sophomores elected last year to the three older fraterni-
ties came from the '^rich men's" dormitories, and about
two thirds of these men roomed on York Street during
their Freshman year. "Parents in selecting rooms for
their sons, sometimes frankly say that they prefer the
more expensive rooms in these quarters, that their sons
may not be at a social disadvantage among their class-
mates." This situation is manifestly opposed to that
democratic spirit which is Yale's boast. The grouping
of these men together works also against high scholar-
ship. The majority of men warned for low scholarship,
the largest number of men disciplined or dropped,
roomed in these private dormitories. The lowest twelve
men in the Class of 1908 lived in private rooms in York
Street. That Dean Wright feels very strongly the un-
fairness of the present difficulty is apparent from his
statement in the President's Report for 1905, from which
the above quotation is taken. The remedy for this is
obviously an increase in the number of dormitories, so
that all or nearly all of the Sophomore and Freshman
classes may be taken in on the campus and choose rooms
by lot.
The athletic situation involves perennial problems of
its own. Some of them demand careful attention, but
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most of them are minor matters and more adapted to dis-
cussion in newspapers than in university councils. Yale
has been little affected by the general hysteria over foot-
ba).l and other major college sports, but has gone quietly
ahead in an effort to remedy defects as they arise from
time to time. The discussions in other universities over
college sports have produced much more heat than light,
and the result has been a more general approval of Yale's
settled policy to leave athletic matters in the hands of
undergraduates, with limited faculty supervision. Yale
believes that athletics are an important part of college life,
and that honorable victory is even better than honorable
defeat. The desire to win is characteristic of modern life,
at any rate on American soil. It is success, and success is
a desirable thing to obtain. It is no more possible for us
to remove the ambition to win in a game than it is the
ambition to succeed in business or to succeed in character
building. Anyway the environment is entirely against it,
and all the best teaching which goes to develop true man-
hood places emphasis on the value of a struggle to attain
an end. One might as well try to cultivate the date palm
in New England as to introduce the ''After you, my dear
Alphonse" system into football.
The faculty, however, have taken occasion to present
their views regarding some features of Yale's athletic
system. They consider it unwise that the control of
large funds should be in the hands of the undergradu-
ates. Instead of being a training for business the
training is more apt to be one which renders the man
careless of other people's money. If the funds are
sufficient, no admission should be charged to the field,
and in any case a strict detailed accounting should be
made each season, so that the student body as a whole
may know exactly what certain things have cost, and to
whom the money is given.
Aside from the question of funds, football (again from
the faculty standpoint), is not a satisfactory game for the
undergraduate body as a whole. It is specialized, and
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it takes so much time and preparation that the average
student can have nothing to do with it. What the Uni-
versity needs is some game sufficiently interesting to at-
tract young men, which serves to give exercise, and which
at the same time does not require months of preparation.
The ideal game would be one which the student is ready
to play within ten minutes after leaving a class room,
one which could be played by all the students in large or
small groups, without laborious training. In order to
bring about this ideal condition a play-ground should be
provided near the college buildings.
* * * * * *
Yale is confronted by large and important problems
whose solution is vital to the advancement of the Uni-
versity. They are problems which cannot be solved by
the president nor the corporation nor the faculty, but
which demand the hearty cooperation of the alumni.
Most of the men directly connected with the University
are devotedly at work to make the most of the resources
at hand, but we sometimes feel the lack of sympathy and
intelligent support on the part of our brothers in other
walks of life.
Herbert E. Gregory.
In Consideration of Youth
My dear Clarence:— Yon ask me to develop the problem
of adolescence before your classmates, as though the
operations of thought and speech were as easy for me as
the construction of those ridiculous and permeating little
sketches with which you adorn your tale after the manner
of the dainty Tahitian with his tattoo. In my own case
these essays at toast-making are not so singularly cheap
as they appear to the somnolent banqueter at the feast of
reason who, instead of listening, wonders why my name
should appear on the programme anyway. There are
only a dozen or so of really funny things fit to be repeated
in respectable society, and Billy Phelps claims the
monopoly of these for service at alumni meetings when
sent out to represent the Faculty in the vernacular. These
are things, therefore, that, even for your delectation, I
cannot beg— and to dig I am ashamed, which is the true
cause of my deficient scholarship. Yet why should I
hesitate about acknowledging the plain truth that your
class know the names of these funny things as well as I,
beginning with Adams and Durfee and Farr and
Gregory, and so down the list to Nettleton and Schevill
and Stokes; they have long since become the Elder
Statesmen of our university and we accustom ourselves
to their domination. We have learned to live with them
(I think this was Emerson's advice) as people learn to
live with fretful or violent spouses. And so long as we
retain Anson— precious as a scarecrow in a garden of
cucumbers— to captain and control the team, we shall
abide the victorious future in patience.
It is with a certain sentiment of satisfaction that an
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elderly man like myself contemplates the rapid shifting
of a company of youths from the era of juvenescence to
that of maturity. You know now as well as I how sud-
denly and mysteriously the change occurs ; after a single
night you awake to discover that if not already old you
are no longer young. In college you learned the first
lesson in your life's philosophy, that to sin was but the
first step toward salvation; since graduating you have
been testing the sweet and bitter of that Life Beyond out
of which there 's no retreat to dormitory or society hall
or to Moriarty's, and the experience has perhaps already
warned you to
Contract thy firmament
To compass of a tent.
Of course no college boy actually thinks that his par-
ticular firmament comprehends everything, but most of
them have a conviction that they can always do pretty
much what they really want to do. In life you don't;
there 's the difference. "Nature gets us out of youth,"
says the Autocrat amiably, "as sailors are hurried on
board of vessels— in a state of intoxication." I have
known men who, being pleased with their ability to re-
cognize a good thing when they found it, preferred to
remain in this state rather than in that of matrimony or of
Connecticut, or any other old state— an appreciation of
the law of quantum suff. that finds its illustration in an
early experience of Pius Peck, who on being urged by
some fatuous advocate of conventional virtue to say
"Sarsaparilla" when he M had enough replied (very cor-
rectly), "But I can't say Sarsaparilla when I 've had
enough." The incident being unfolded to me in con-
fidence I do not expect it to go beyond the intimacies of
the class group.
Now that you have tasted of the fruit of the Tree I
cannot preach to you as I might once have done in the
old days before this trouble of conscious age came upon
us. We are equals in the ranks, most of us, though some
there are of you to whom I have already learned to look
134 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
up, as I do to that sane and serene exemplar of Christian
Hving, Tom Archbald. Perhaps you have discovered, a
few of you, by this time that it is the part of wisdom not
to put your trust in money but rather to put your money
in trust. But even among- equals every one has his per-
sonal experience that differs from the rest, and I shall if
occasion offers relate some of mine with your classmates
for the betterment of an immoral world ; I have a vague
recollection that a select few on the Faculty used once
upon a time to serve your own purpose to advantage in
dramatic crises on the stage in Psi U. . . . You fel-
lows have attended reunions, and, possibly, you read the
Alumni Weekly at your clubs, but you know as much
about the real Yale of to-day as the tourist in St. Paul's
knows about the real state of the Church militant. A
decade seems to separate the graduate as by an abyss
from his college. He finds upon his return here how he
has unconsciously drifted away from the old point of
view. In the society of undergraduates, after a few per-
sonal or athletic reminiscences, conversation lags. There
is a gulf that opened in that enchanted night when you
over-slept your ebullient nonage, and you cannot bridge
it. I returned ten years after graduation to some in-
timacies with students and can, possibly, sympathize with
your consciousness of this better than those whose col-
legiate life has never known a break from childhood to
old age. The grown man comes suddenly in this ad-
venture face to face with his own youth, for whose cal-
lowness and barbarism Time's nepenthe has the kindly
trick of bestowing a night's forgetfulness until rudely
aroused to breakfast with Truth in the morning on dry
toast and a hiccough. Our younger brothers are essen-
tially what we were ; it is not they but we ourselves and
our contemporaries that have changed.
For there is an odd conservatism in the genus student,
a preference for the traditional, a satisfaction in old cus-
tom, that is like the instinct of insects to go in ruts.
Fashion alters the forms of their follies but the type
hardly varies at all. It is an instance of survival, just as
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destructive childhood and the prehensile facility of an
infant's hands are survivals from our brute ancestry.
The only time I ever got comfortably close to greatness
was in a long talk with Walt Whitman. One of the
topics touched upon happened to be a fashionable re-
ception which he had attended, and when I inquired if
this sort of artificiality interested him he said quite
simply, "Yes, it is Nature in one of her aspects." So is
the student in college. Let us take him discerningly, even
a little lovingly— not with a kick, as you do in your open-
ing interview with a chestnut burr,— remembering that
when he is rid of some evanescent resemblances to the
pithecanthropus erectus he will have shuffled off many
traits that are otherwise charming and even lawful. The
hand of the grown boy may be as rough and grimy as
that of the diver, but induce him to open it and he will
show you a pearl more beautiful than any in all your ac-
cumulated stores. He will sing you a ribald song that
daunts your endurance, but when the little gust from
Gehenna is past and it is your turn to talk he will remem-
ber the honor and chastity of your discourse as long as
he lives. The surface mud may soon be washed away
but his sentiment for righteousness remains as yet (as
Chaucer would have put it) the Virgin undefouled with-
in him. And the sentiment is genuine— what there is of
it. College convention ordains that these things should
not be spoken, that conversation should be confined to
fatuous buffoonery and conveyed in the garbage of slang.
I regret it as heartily as you, but the same was true of
your generation and of mine. The student has not passed
out of the acquisitive age into that of Vorstellung, he is
still in the rut. Though he live in heaven there are good
reasons why a cherub cannot sit down.
I recognize in this instinctive conventionalism of the
student at college the source of his reluctance to abolish
tap day and to mitigate the amenities of the game of foot-
ball. They are institutions handed down to him from the
ancients and he means to be faithful to the trust implied
in a temporary usufruct. But these are highly contro-
136 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
versial topics gravid with consequences if I venture upon
their discussion. I choose a safer illustration in his
quaint allegiance to forms of spelling now generally dis-
countenanced by schoolmasters, in itself merely an ex-
hibition of his mute, unchanging odium pedagogicum;
or to those cryptic utterances of the recitation room by
which he challenges the sanity of his instructor, as exem-
plified in that of George McLanahan wherein he defined
chaut as the "custom of making a Hindu widow-woman
single." By such gay attire of goodly words does the
student often hope to suborn marks and credit enough
for his degree. 'There is no speech nor language," says
the Psalmist, "where their voice is not heard." I pre-
sume he refers to the children of Israel, not the grown-
ups.
We have seen a new generation of fowls nurtured here
since you departed from these academic walks, and still
they go on quacking about the democracy so helpful to
the boy at Yale. But the levelling influences of democ-
racy are not unmitigated advantages; they even off the
exterior but leave unchecked the tendency toward snob-
bishness within. Now distinctions are the best savor of
life. In their place we have a plague of uniformity. The
student nowadays will waste none of his energies on mere
impulse; he appears to lack appetite for either study or
fun. Conform to custom and acquire merit, avoid excess
and thou shalt earn praise; on these two commandments
hang all the law and the prophets like street-signs about
a college room. Once upon a time there was a type
known in college as the Dude, a creature of infinite re-
freshment to the observer, a contributor to the gaiety of a
multitude of modest maids. The mammal is now extinct,
he has n't left even a skeleton in any closet on the campus
for research work. He is replaced by two or three thou-
sand young men all of whom exhibit the self-same style
of coat and manners. Beneath the pedantry of this
democratic uniform, however, the members of a certain
social caste are at pains to secure immunity from contact
with those beyond the pale. Curiously enough as distinc-
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tions between classes disappear under the elective system
castes arise for the elect. And if you maintain that the
majority, after all, lose nothing by a process that segre-
gates the snobs, I object. They may lose much. A col-
lege should be a social microcosm containing all the ele-
ments tolerated under the law, and the. elements should
intermingle ; otherwise your vaunted democracy is a fraud,
it is a Tammany. I have in mind a delicious little ass of
the old days whose vanities were renowned. He had
given so many hostages to Fortune as to have no fear,
and being by his reputation deprived of all power of evil
he wagged about the campus unscathed as the squirrels.
Everyone knew him, and when he exhibited his jaunty
charms on the Fence the observant muckers of our gener-
ation might learn something of the language and license
of the "aristocracy" untainted and untaxed. Without
some experience of all ranks our sympathies die out and
we poor bread-winners become intolerant and socialistic.
To preach this doctrine to the youngsters who crease
their trousers and increase their debts at Yale is to canter
with the cantharides, I confess. And I do not need to be
told that this is a tendency of the age, not alone of our
little community. Yet the peach of my protest has at
least this pit : — that we laud and magnify too continually
the name of Democracy while we remain at heart just as
critical and aloof as the literati of any county. The
ways of culture lead inevitably to segregation ; the grad-
uates of three or four hundred colleges are equipping
a group that becomes year by year the governing class in
America, a class that in the camaraderie of its university
clubs and alumni associations all over the land is ever
more conscious of its social and intellectual prestige. The
fathers begin to understand the nature of this evolution
but the sons apply the principle of differentiation, unhaj>-
pily, in the very germinating bed of the class. They must
understand that ancient code of noblesse oblige under
which the aristocracy of a bygone age recognized and
sustained its own; they must comprehend the solemn
character of an order based on brain, not on blood or
138 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
brawn; they must see that within this body, so long as
honor is maintained, there need be no fear of contamina-
tion from abnormity on the part of individuals. Success
in life pays small heed to our callow estimates when she
at last bestows her wreaths upon the few whom death
and dissipation have left for her triumphant train. You
and I have been already long enough out of college to
observe strange changes in the alinement of our former
companions. The shy discretion of the poor man holds
him in abeyance from the crowd of good fellows while in
college, and none of them is at pains to give him a
friendly hello in passing, "just because that fellow's a
classmate." I heard one tell the other day of his meeting
a classmate in Calcutta the year after their graduation.
"It was Jorum,'' he said, "and I felt queer, after four
years with him at Yale, to speak to him for the first time
in India." College to-day is full of Jorums, but let one of
them become celebrated in time and your society man
will rake his wits to refresh his acquaintances with
imagined reminiscences of their intimacies when the
shabby chum was rooming in South Middle and he knew
him not.
They confess the truth more frankly at Cambridge
than we venture to do here. "What I like best about Har-
vard," declared a student there, "is the fact that it unfits
you so well for the world." And, as Dicky Bird used to
retort when the Freshman showed some unsuspected ap-
preciation of the truth of his demonstration, I should
rejoin, "Yes, that 's right; why?" Because, to my limited
intelligence, the high aim of both our great universities
seems to be motive, not practice. The thing I myself
like best about Yale is its reverence for principles, not
the development of details. "Of three things," says
Confucius, "a true man stands in awe : the laws of
Heaven, great men and the words of the wise." This is
the oecumenical idea of the university that intends to be
something more than a technical school in the mechanic
arts. We do not need to sharpen the wits of the money-
getters in this country but rather to bring, if we can, the
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inherent sanity of our race into accord with the infinite
and eternal. Nor must we expect success in striving
after this ideal unless we are content to merge ourselves
in the truth of which we are but the instruments. Har-
vard and Yale alike welcome into their brotherhood all
the colleges of the land, as do their teachers all the host
of graduates that are alive to the necessity of this com-
mercial age. We shall have to stand together a solid
phalanx in this great endeavor, and in the forefront of
our array will be found, I am sure, that company of
Yale's honorable sons that were graduated in ninety-six.
Frederick Wells Williams ('79).
A Letter
from Arthur Colton
Dear C. Day: — Forgive this delay, but yonder is a
supersubtle function that you assign to the tributary
friends of '96. . . . How does a "compensating lens"
act ? Corrects the focus, does it ? Sir, I '11 correct noth-
ing. Did n't I correct '96, till it seemed to me that an
instructor was none other than a sort of June bug or blue
bottle fly butting and buzzing in most noisy futility
against the glass window panes of two or three hundred
intelligences that were very properly engaged with their
own ideas. The resemblance between an instructor and
a June bug often struck me as a student, but I suspect
most instructors do not stay conscious of the resemblance,
as I did, after they become instructors. Anyway, the
business of making mistakes of one's own is more fun
than the business of rearranging other people's mistakes
and calling the rearrangement a correction. . . .
For some reason I had more personal friends in '96
than in '97, perhaps because '96 was the first of the two
classes that I buzzed against, perhaps for the same reason
which inclines me to think now that your class is particu-
larly capable of composing an interesting document,
namely : That there was an extraordinary lot of humanity
in it.
But in those days, when I knew '96 in a bunch, I was
mainly interested in selected and preserved humanity,
booked and shelved humanity, bottled humanity so to
speak, particularly such as had been long laid down, like
old sherry, and came out of its dusty receptacles with a
A LETTER FROM ARTHUR COLTON 141
glow and an aroma that seemed to my palate the balmier
for its cellarage, these choice vintages of other generations.
Something of that taste I 've lost since and mourn after it.
For whatever may be said for an active life, for "Es Lebe
das Leben," and the contact with what, by an inaccurate
distinction, are called "realities," it remains that the re-
cluse has an argument for himself, that we ruin our
palates with novelty, that the new may have — in fact it
has — the stronger grip by reason of its newness, but the
old has an inimitable touch, if not by reason of its age —
well, I don't know but it is by reason of its age. It is
for some reason connected with all this that I think our
old university days had their main value, as a sort of
compensating lens. There really seems to be no other
important country where people's minds are so much set
to the future and so little to the past as here, and a com-
mon judgment also seems to be that this is altogether a
fine thing, and that we don't pay for it. It 's my notion
that we do. Anyway, if a college education is a com-
pensating lens, it is evidently not because it fits the Amer-
ican for business — he 's apt to be fit enough and by and
by to be fit for nothing else, — or gives him a technical
training, or teaches him to concentrate, but because
rather it leads him in the direction of understanding the
possibility of a not otherwise idiotic person's being able
to feel that the fact the world was not made yesterday
is as important as the probability that it won't end to-
morrow.
Sincerely yours,
Arthur W. Colton ('90).
An Inside View of the Professor
THE dictatorial Day imparts to me, as a lamp unto
my feet and a guide unto my path, the following :
"The raison d' etre for your article will be less that it
pictures a sphere of work in which many '96 men are
engaged, than that it shows the professor's life, etc.,
from the professor's view-point, to a group of men who
used to sit under professors, who are now beginning to
think of them as fellow beings, and who will soon be
sending their children to receive their ministrations.
Only a few of us are interested particularly in lawyers,
brokers, etc., etc., but all college graduates are interested
(potentially) in professors and their work."
I confess that this was an aspect of the case which
had not occurred to me; nor should I have dared to as-
sume such interest on my own responsibility. One of the
first things a professor is made to feel in the stress of
modern life is that he may play in his corner if he wants
to, and amuse the younger fry, but he must n't think
that his doings interest the big boys. I had thought
rather to write an apology for the profession itself,
having in mind the press notoriety which its threadbare
and philoprogenitive status has periodically called forth.
I had thought to prove among other things that some
professors had less than ten children. But Day's words
cause me to reflect that the class in general is rather
forehanded in this particular, and that, as an inevitable
result, there are at least some who are forced to calculate
with the typical professor "how many times twelve goes
into round steak." I am led to assume, then, that you
fellows actually want to know about us book-worms;
AN INSIDE VIEW OF THE PROFESSOR 143
that you wish information as to what our professional
wallowings and wrigglings, and our little heaps of gnaw-
ings, really mean, anyway. What kind of a job have
we? How much more than the regulation seventy-five
per cent, of bluff are we putting up ? Do we look "sagely
sad" and pitch the march Parnassus-ward in a minor key
because we are really weighted down by the onus of
erudition, or simply because we desire so to seem?
I will not presume to say, with the poet, *'I, knowing,
will tell ;" but, trusting that you will not blab the secrets
of a profession in which you are all interested (accord-
ing to Day), to your children who will soon (ace. to Day)
enter the freshman class,— I shall try candidly to set
forth some of the pros and contras of the profession as
ten years out from under and six years in association
with the Yale faculty have revealed them unto me.
DOCTRINA
That a teacher should primarily teach, seems to have
about it something axiomatic. "How can school be
On the axiom— school if it is not kept?" Theoretically such
^uid teach!' Propositions go without the saying; in prac-
tice, however, it is a different matter, as I
shall try later to show. But I am declaring my own
adherence to an old-fashioned tenet in that I am placing
first among a professor's duties the instruction to which
he is, by the intent of most professorial foundations, and
by the inexorable logic of the tuition-fee of the student,
bound to assign its due prominence. Yale in particular,
having been and being what she has been and is, can
worry along without so many investigators, but teachers
she must have.
It used to be thought that anybody could teach ; stress
was laid on the moral character of the prospective peda-
gogue, who for this reason was best recruited from the
144 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
ranks of those chastened by ill success in other walks of
life, notably the ministry. That time has passed away.
Contrary, however, to a common impression still exist-
ent, it is just as hard, or harder, to find a real teacher
as it is to discover a pronounced type in any other
profession. This is why certain men we sat under in
college loom up in the background of our mental horizons
just as the lights of our own professions are exalted in
the foreground. The elect are few. And of course the
rarissima avis is the teacher who is also an investigator —
one whose span is wide enough to rap on the gates of
the unknown with one hand, while he raps on the skull
of the unawakened youth with the other.
Passing over the masters, the better of the common
running of teachers must possess qualities of mind and
The teacher character that are unique, and whose absence
bom, notmade; I for One, havc ncver seen atoned for by
and rare at that, j^^j^y courses of pedagogy. Teachers cannot
be incubated in a dark closet, wath a roll of banker's
linen and some (midnight) oil. Doubtless a man by
taking thought can become a better teacher, but scarcely
a good one. On the other hand almost any industrious
student can do what passes for investigation, and what
gives him a considerable tail of "productions" to balance
his professional kite withal — rendering more securely ma-
jestic its farther ascent into regions churned by winds still
more strong and constant. It seems to me far and away
easier to make a respectable investigator out of a good
teacher than vice versa. Some assert that the two func-
tions are irreconcilable, and experience seems to bear this
out as a general proposition. The temper of mind of
the investigator is often divorced from that of the teacher
by the very effects of deeper concentration and absorp-
tion. Thus a great scholar at times becomes unworldly,
unmindful of form, in the extreme, a freak. All this,
as you know, does not help his teaching. He should
be on a Carnegie foundation; his place is not in the
classroom of an institution of learning at the stage of
development of an American college. And what is true
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of the extremes is true in corresponding degree of the
descending series.
But who is to tell whether a professor is a good teacher
or not ? In what I have said I have had in mind student
impressions corrected by subsequent experi-
f^i^llon^o^ ence of one kind and another. In a general
know a teacher way I think neither the students nor the col-
whenhesees leagues are reliable in their judgments on
the score we are discussing. Undergraduate
popularity is no safe gauge in this matter, although in the
absence of anything better it is regularly appealed to in
deciding the fate of young teachers. On the other hand
there is a prevailing ignorance, or misapprehension,
among professors as to each other's abilities in instruc-
Nothiscoi- tion. How should they know, for they do not
leagues. visit each other's classes? Few heads of de-
partments have the courage to enter the classrooms of, or
even to advise, younger colleagues ; and if they have, they
generally lack the tact which would make their criticism
constructive, and so, welcome. They are fain to have
recourse to student opinion, in one way or another, in
deciding whether to encourage or discourage subordi-
nates.
I have expressed the opinion that student judgment is no
safe guide in these matters; it is immature, with all the
weakness of that condition, and, be it added, the strength.
It is very largely an emotional afifair; it is often purely
traditional ; custom and chance help largely to mold it,
and of real reflection there is a minimum. Commonly
there is a notable lack of half-way stations in student
opinion : a professor is what he is in the superlative de-
gree— the hardest man, the pleasantest, the
Nor his pupils. ^ V 4. J A r j\-
surliest, and so on. Degrees of gradation
are lacking. Nor must we omit the fact that the stu-
dent view-point changes at indeterminable periods as
he browses down the dewy path of learning that
stretches, or did stretch for us, from Alumni Hall
deviously to its conclusion in Battell. Students cease
as freshmen to look up timidly to their instructors;
146 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
and attain as upperclass men the dispassionate and
unashamed station of the bacteriologist passing upon
the noxious, merely irritating, or even benign, quali-
ties of some microscopic fauna. There is no doubt
that undergraduate sentiment in these matters is singu-
larly apt in many cases — it approaches intuition — and I
should be disposed to say that it is generally correct when
it essays an extreme negative estimate. Students are
strong at detecting the poor teacher and his weaknesses.
But I distrust its more positive manifestations; they are
too often unjust to the greatest teachers and too prone to
exalt the importance of certain striking, though unessen-
tial, and perhaps accidental, qualities ; too apt to be allured
to the spectacular and superficial; too likely to assume
that a teacher with a sympathetic attitude possesses all the
virtues of sound scholarship, and ability to impart what is
worth the while. Mr. Dooley says of education that it
makes no difference what you study so long as you don't
like it ; and I think one might say of some great teachers,
at least, that they are great because they have made one do
what he did n't want to do. Such men are always re-
spected; they receive, for example, scattering votes for
the "best teacher;" they cannot be dismissed as neg-
ligible quantities. But they bulk large in later time.
The man who gets out cap and bells from his desk-
drawer before he addresses his class shrinks up mightily
in the perspective of the years.
I have little doubt — though the matter is not susceptible
of demonstration — that alumni of about ten to fifteen
How about years standing are able to form the best judg-
ten yearling ments regarding the instruction they them-
aiumni? selvcs got and which they wish their chil-
dren to receive in time to come. It is true that many
of the men to whom we look back will have passed on
before our sons can benefit by them ; but I wish the col-
lege had at its disposal a body of opinion from alumni
at their decennial periods as to who were the great
teachers ; the type upon whose selection and perpetuation
Yale's usefulness to her graduates depends. For, as I
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said at the outset, it is through its teaching and teachers
that the American college makes its most vital impres-
sion upon its day and generation.
II
OFFICIUM
But I am saying too little of the intimacies of teach-
ing as a job. Well, it is a job rich in ups and opulent
The real in- ^^ downs. You have your times, and these
wardnessof not Seldom, when you take yourself apart
the job. and ask yourself in language of oriental rich-
ness, "Why do I burden the earth?" You feel that it
is no use; that you are merely marking time — hay- foot,
straw- foot — while the procession is marching by; that
your world is a play-world. Then again, it is hard to
be wise, and still harder so to seem; herein lies the
especial need for a large tincture of bluff within the pro-
fessorial outfit. For, although nowadays there is much
less of the ipse dixit than formerly, still a man cannot
be forever making damaging public admissions. The con-
stant need of such admissions to one's self is one of the
things which entails a world of despair, especially at
first. You sit down in a quiet comer and try to think of
something interesting along your line, which "every cul-
tured man should know about." You find something,
inform yourself enthusiastically but hastily in regard to
it, construct or adopt unripe or over-mellow theories,
maybe, and then in a burst of generosity which is the
characteristic of the lover of the young, you impart your
"message" to your classes. It creates no particular emo-
tion, to all appearances, except a sort of decorous pity.
Later you find that you have been wrong or hasty or
crude and half-baked in your generalizations, and feel
sure, in a hang-dog way, that some of those bright lads
must be on to you by this time. The crow from the
hollow oak caws at you: "Charlatan! bluffer! fake!"
148 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
You hope you will never meet the members of 190-,
whom you have spiritually wronged, again. You re-
enter your class-room in humility, but lo! it is the same
air of evident though politely disguised lack of interest
which greets you — the same attitude of tolerant detach-
ment from you and your remarks. You take courage,
your tail-feathers rise again unto their pristine jaunti-
ness of position — you are not discovered! Even if your
error has remained uncorrected, you need not fear to
meet returning classes. Error is a part of the human
lot, and you have n't ruined a generation nor interfered
with destiny very much. You are led even to console
yourself with the reflection that at most only two or three
carry any permanent intellectual twists as a result of your
ministrations, for the rest undoubtedly dismissed the
whole matter from their minds in a week or two — even
if they heard it at first. You think the students have
treated you remarkably well considering your ignorance
and youthfulness.
But anon you fume over the very thing which saved
you. Of what use to the world is a voice crying uncer-
tainly to those whose ears are closed ? Where
are the results ? You envy the man of affairs
who lays his hand upon matter and works a visible
change — cuts out a man's appendix and saves his life —
and your ideas and occupation seem to you as petty and
contemptible, as unpractical as the common use of the
term ''academic" has come to indicate. What is all this
world of thought, a structure reared in mid-space, ever
changing, and without foundation? The "grimness of
human destiny," as Howells calls it, breaks over you,
and you realize that you are purveying by profession that
which, although it purports to be knowledge, is but the
play of the fallible intellect upon the tossing chaos of
phenomena.
When you feel this way it is good to take a cold shower,
go to bed a little earlier, or leave off smoking awhile.
It is n't well for anyone to scrutinize these metaphysical
matters (with which the student's calling brings him into
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periodic contact) too closely or too long; it tends to
break down his criteria of wholesome judgment and to
reduce him to a mere "vestige of ontology." If a pro-
fessor realizes that his best destiny is to lay hand to every-
thing that is his to do, there is a wholesome and busy, if
uneventful existence before him. Granting that it is
worth while to know anything— and this is generally
conceded — the educator is a factor of some importance
in the world. This modest conclusion is deducible eveti
in hours of gloom.
Besides purveying what he thinks — or at least hopes —
will stay true a little while, the teacher is inevitably
drawn into a more or less extensive per-
^idTbrotii^r^ sonal relation with the undergraduates whom
vicissitudes of divers kinds have stranded
in his courses or neighborhood. What a teacher needs
in such relationship is a sympathy tempered with
sound judgment and fearlessness. To be of any vital
utility he must not hesitate at times to express the un-
pleasant truth in plain United States. Above all, how-
ever, he should not as a teacher forget his feelings as a
student. This is as bad as to forget as a mature man
the asinine performances of one's earlier days. For
awhile one shrinks from the thought of these and blushes
for them and despises what he was, but the passing of
years exhales the bitterness and leaves a kindly memory
and an understanding sympathy with the crudities of
callowness. Such comprehension of the student mind
enables one not only to call a bluff at the psychologic
moment, but, what is still more important, guards him
from calling as a bluff that which is not a bluff at all.
It is far better to be sometimes taken in, cheated, over-
reached, than always to be watching with ferret eyes
and a knowing smile. The young men we meet at Yale
are as a whole a fine lot of fellows, who can be treated
frankly and as man to man. They will try to get you at
times to allow them the exemptions of children, but if
you are vertebrate, you need n't do that.
I am of the opinion that less of a stigma attaches now
150 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
to the man who knows or seeks to know his professor
than was the case in our day. This is probably one of the
many advantages of the elective system. In my exper-
ience, such relationship generally arises, if it is worth
anything, in a common intellectual interest, such as would
scarcely develop for example out of an irregular verb or a
five o'clock freshman lecture on conduct. I have been
particularly blessed, being more accessible, with sum-
monses to elucidate and "baby down" some of Pro-
fessor Sumner's pregnant utterances — a task, it need
scarcely be said, which always repaid itself, however in-
adequately performed.
Men also come to you at times with difficulties and
woes whose immediate origin does not lie in one of your
own reports to the Dean. They are often very pathetic
and it is harder than a day's work to know of them.
However, I think it well to give up early the ideal that
attracts many ardent hearts into the pro-
•^'younruvS^'' -^^^^^^^ (^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ministry) of being able
to "influence others" — in this case the "im-
pressionable young." It is thought noble to influence
"lives;" but if the common running of us could make
an impression upon minds, we should cherish higher
hopes with more fervor. It is only the exceptionally
gifted and compelling intellects and characters which
stamp a lasting impression upon our classes, and this to
a limited degree. Nowadays the object of admiration
(and so of imitation) is scarcely the professor. Each
college generation works out the bulk of its own destiny
within its own ranks.
It is not safe to try to play Providence to any indi-
viduals, let alone groups; for, here as elsewhere, the re-
sults of our actions are not always commensurate or even
causally connected in any way that can be foreseen, with
our intentions. The best thing a young instructor can do
is not to worry over his influence or try to do "mission-
ary work among young men"; but to attend steadily to
his own business like a man, without gush, pretence or
flourish; he will then be respected, and may now and
AN INSIDE VIEW OF THE PROFESSOR 151
again have the opportunity to lend a hand to a younger
man over a hard or confusing place.
Ill
IMPERIUM
In a college like Yale, where government is by long
usage, as it were, parliamentary, not a little of the adminis-
tration of the plant falls to the professorial
The dder
Statesmen. body. The share of the young (non-perma-
nent) professor in this is very humble, con-
sisting chiefly in onlooking. The sights are at times in-
spiring, often edifying, not seldom humiliating. You
may learn the cosmic significance of a point which
strikes you at first blush as infinitesimally minute, if it
be but breathed upon by the learned. This, be it under-
stood, in the porticoes of the temple; of what goes on
behind the veil, among the twice-born men, let Gregory
say! But the ark of the covenant is not infrequently
surrounded by scuffling that is audible to the kneeling
acolyte without.
Of course the part that a professor takes on commit-
tees, etc., is various and scarcely susceptible of close defi-
nition. The younger men naturally meet the freshmen
and sophomores as division-ofiicers and the like. That
has not been my pleasure and profit; let Hawkes and
Farr tell you how sick-excuses, etc., look from the faculty
side, and explain the sensations of a man awakened at
2 A.M. by a collect telegram upon the subject of a
Sunday cut. Let Adams tell how it seems to hear one
sophomore say to another, "Who 's your nurse?" and
the second answer, "Oh, Jack Adams!" This matter
of discipline is not one and the same thing to professor
and student. The faculty no doubt fails of its manifest
duty in many respects: for example, it has never fol-
lowed Fred Robbins's helpful and indeed obvious
suggestion of not having chapel until after breakfast.
152 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
There are sins of commission as well as of omission.
But I have often thought how many of you, who
languished under marks and salaamed with simulated
respect to the donors, would esteem some of us extremely
On learning to lenient, if you could apply the hard-headed
keep the ideas of the outside world to the problems
elbows in. ^hat confront the cathedra. As we all now
know, after ten years, the essence of education for a
place in society is discipline and has always been so.
Goethe's epigraph to his autobiography is the proverb:
6 fir] 8apel<s av6p(i>7ro<; ov TratSeverat — whlch IS tO Say : The
fellow who has n't been skinned alive gets no education.
A man ought in youth to learn to appreciate in some
degree the complex play of interests and rights in society.
There should be discipline in a college if for no other
object than to assert the independent station and dignity
of the place. What kind of a status has the college
where a student can say to an instructor, "My father pays
you to be here and give out information, but I can take
it or leave it as I choose" ?
At the risk of seeming to be a confirmed hardshell
I venture to say that one of the best things we pro-
fessors in the college, as you parents in the home, can do
for a Yale man's education is to insist upon a strict, though
manly, discipline; dignified, not petty, I hasten to add.
It is, alas ! too true that it has often partaken of the latter
character rather than the former; there are many small
things — microscopically small — in the operations of the
faculty and its constituent members. As there is the
martinet, so are there the infirm of purpose; those who
are disposed to dodge collision by smoothing over what
should not be smoothed, and by forgetting unpleasant
things, the lively recollection of which would be salutary
to students, faculty and institution alike.
But why, you men of affairs ask, are such men re-
tained in the academic body? You say you would n't
stand for them for a minute in your vocations. But now
you open a large subject— and one which ramifies deeply
into the general contemporary question as to the status
AN INSIDE VIEW OF THE PROFESSOR 153
of the profession itself. I shall not enter upon this, for
it is in some respects a sorry tale, except to note that
the professors in some American colleges.
How the deuce notably Yale, have a good deal to say regard-
on^he Yale ^^ ^"§" ^^^ Constitution of their own personnel.
Faculty? This is a great privilege, but a greater re-
sponsibility, for it means that professors hold
to some degree the fate of themselves and their profes-
sion in their own hands. They can lower its quality and
repute, and, with these, its rewards ; they can grope and
vacillate and win indifference or contempt; they can
practice a strict selection of personnel and exalt both
quality, standing and remuneration, whether the latter be
reckoned in money or in honor. The walls of a uni-
versity, like those of the ancient city, are not bricks and
stones, but men.
IV
LUCUBRATIO
In deference partially to Day I have touched more
fully upon the aspects of the professor which are promi-
nently, not to say protrusively in the eye of the student,
and potentially (according to Day) in the vista of the
fond parent. I have spoken of how the professorial worm
fertilizes or withers the roots of the tender shoots con-
fided to his little plot of academic soil, and how he
wriggles against and chafes them; concerning his little
mounds of constructive work and his periods of subter-
ranean quietude, I wish to urge garrulity yet a little
further.
This expansion of the boundaries of human knowledge
is a good thing. You all feel it. When you read in the
papers somewhere that Professor A. of Yale is the
authority on the number of p's used in the discarded
copy of Jonson's Volpone, found in the gentleman's
scrap-basket the next morning by a faithful servant and
handed down as an heirloom, you say, "Well, that 's
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fine ! Good for you, A. ! You are an ornament to learn-
ing. Do it again ! Try another letter, if you can stand the
strain!" Swift on the heels of this great news comes
the rumor that Professor B. of Harvard, after years of
grinding investigation on the same subject,
On the godlike- is compelled to differ with A. ; he asserts
narreL'arch?" ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^t One of the p's counted by A. is
not really a p at all, but a b. Your heart
sinks. You apostrophize the champions : "Gentlemen !
wavSpcs! For Heaven's sake, be cautious ! Remember that
it is not yourselves or your personal reputations that are
at stake in the matter. All humanity pauses to observe
vour titanic struggle to wrest Truth from 'Chaos and old
Night.' "
It is the academic fashion to exalt the hero of the
original source, of the perspicacious comment or the fan-
tastic innovation; not to mention the one who ought to
draw behind him, like the fat-tailed sheep, a Httle cart
upon which to rest the indiscriminate onus of his trailing
bibliography. These are the gnawings to which I alluded
along back. There is a wave of academic feeling, arisen
in consequence of German inspiration, which assigns to
investigation the palm among professorial qualifications.
This attitude seems to some of us, for reasons already
On the need of Stated, to be a great error. Some of us will
mental Maithu- recall our feelings regarding the value to the
sianism, student of some professors whose reputations
abroad were at the same time (if we knew or heard of
them) something to vaunt ourselves over. It seems un-
questionable that the erection of "production" into a
fetich is responsible for a variety of trash hurried on the
market with a view to securing the advancement of its
originators. Regarding the mania for production there
recur to my mind the pithy phrases of one of the strongest
men under whom we sat. About a production he says
there are three questions to ask of the author :
What is it?
How do you know it?
What of it ?
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It is the last of these queries which is the hardest to
to offset pro- answer anent much of the publication origi-
ductive incon- nating in the groves of Academe. One of our
tinence. famous educators says : "I am well aware that
there is a cant of investigation, as of religion and of all
other good things. Germany, for example, is full of
young men who set forth to investigate, not because they
*are called to explore truth,' but because research is a pop-
ular fad, and inroads into new fields the prerequisite to
promotion. And so they burrow into every corner of
science, philology, philosophy, and history, and produce
petty results in as automatic fashion as if they were so
many excavating machines." This kind of investigation
is what one Yale man used to call "digging clams with a
derrick," and another, ''planting onion-shoots with a pile-
driver." If all scholars published temperately and advis-
edly, the term "academic" could scarcely bear the significa-
tion to which I have alluded. It is the pretentiousness and
assumption of authority with which unimportant, flimsy
or ridiculous publication is put forth, which, in these
latter days of unawed scrutiny, have not seldom made the
professor a grotesque rather than a respected figure.
Unquestionably if knowledge is worth anything, — and
people with considerable unanimity agree that it is —
great is the glory of him who adds to its sum, or, with
rare genius and fortune, is enabled to open up a new
vista. But the indiscreet pursuit of this ideal of pro-
duction, especially on the part of the immature and not
overgifted, tends to self-deception as to the value of
things, haste in judgment, impatience of toil, and, above
all, to the depreciation of that prime vocation of the
American professor's life — teaching.
I put this strongly, for I feel that the prevalent trend
is strong. I do not take the occasion to exhibit the real
value of investigation — that is so generally and even
enthusiastically admitted as to need no further support.
We are duly proud of our Danas and Whitneys, but we
sometimes fail to recognize that these were extraordinary
men, of a type sparsely scattered through the millions.
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Their work disappears from view by having been built
into the structure of our knowledge; but what do you
think happens to a book upon the ontological theory of
the relation of man to the universe, which has aided a
young fellow of twenty-five to a position in the University
of West Podunk? The greatest affliction is that he at
once sets about some more "research" which may at
length open the portals of the greater institution at North
P. ; and thus is the world poorer by many things.
LUDUS OTIUM
But I call your wearying patience to my last topic —
professorial recreation. I see a sneer upon the composite
The professor's Countenance of '96 (composite of all those
stiff -legged who are not teachers) ; and I hear with the
gambols. g^rs of the sympathetic imagination the unan-
imous concord of sawboneses, pettifoggers, curb-warmers,
etc., bawling, "Recreation ! you don't know what work is !
Lazy, pampered, conceited, whining, gorbellied, you
goose-march down the aisles of Time working your
jaws alone — and that in fitful peevishness over your
hard lot." Where is the professor when the
doctor strenuously hastens out at 2 a.m. to adminis-
ter three bread pills, at $2.00 per, to the infant
who is supposed by fond parents to have senile
sclerosis! He is, I admit, upon his back with his
soft and flabby hands crossed upon the only part of
him that works at all steadily. Where is he when the
lawyer is making history by collecting a bill of $347?
I admit he is only handing in marks at the Dean's Office ;
they are late, but then all he has to do is to persuade
Billy Hess that it is all right. I admit the generally
lower level of professorial strenuosity, and wish simply
to show you how it all seems to him, in his inexperience
and with his enfeebled physique, rambling mind, and in-
nocence of the affairs of the practical world.
AN INSIDE VIEW OF THE PROFESSOR 157
At first sight the case looks pretty strong against the
professor. He is seldom expected to hold classes even
15 hours a week; often much less. He may,
in Tthree^day^ i" addition, mass these hours on four or five
week in a days, leaving one or two quite "free." Again
thirty-week ^^ jg presumably twiddling his thumbs between,
say December 20th and January loth; April
1st and April loth; and June 20th and the end of Sep-
tember. This is probably what the students think when
they seize your blue-veined and transparent hand in their
ferocious paws about the first of October, and hope you
have had a very good summer, incidentally mentioning
that they are going to take your course in which they
have always felt a deep and devouring interest.
Now if any restful youth chooses the profession with
an eye to such a dolce far niente, he errs ; that is to say,
if he wishes to keep up with the procession or stay near
the bandwagon. In the first place it is not the initiate
but the elect who ride in this vehicle ; it is those who have
crossed the bar while we are all at sea. It is only the full
professors; those sages who, as one of our own greatest
scholars has said, "never die and seldom resign, and can-
not be dismissed for any crime short of rape." They
have made good, somehow, and the obvious goad of in-
security of tenure has been removed from proximity to
their anatomies. They can do as they please, within
certain limits. As the students say, "The younger
men don't give many cuts— they are making good;
the professors do — they have made." But what vaca-
tion means to the young man who is measuring up
to a future of respectable proportions is a time when
work can be done which cannot be accomplished for the
press of duties during the broken periods of the term;
or, still worse, when the peat must be
A^uu dinner- grubbed up with which to boil the kettle
at other seasons. That the professor is, to
a certain and exceptional degree, his own boss, does
not mean that he can knock ofif work for his "free"
hours or days or weeks. Nor does the character of
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his own chosen labor atone for everything else; he
drives jaded faculties under the goad when the average
business man who receives four times his income can
take time for complete relaxation. It is the very irregu-
larity of his duties, and his sense of self-placed re-
sponsibility— provided of course that this is conceived
in any conscientious and manly sense — that cause these
duties to invade all hours and all places.
This situation weighs very heavily on some, entailing
loss of health and elasticity of mind and cheerfulness of
On not being disposition. The number of **break-downs"
Sisyphus, experienced by professors under forty years
of age is a witness to the style of life and work which
many of them have pursued. Some men actually get so
they do not know how to relax. That is a pity, for they
are the less men thereby, just as are those who, relying
upon a security of tenure, go to the opposite extreme.
Especially is the former alternative the case with a man
who becomes absorbed in investigation; for he often
thinks he sees the answer to the riddle of
^"** the Sphinx right ahead — whereas there is
no answer at all for us men.
VI
SODALITAS
One of the considerations which I can scarcely place
in my categories remains : that of the professor's associa-
tions. I do not hold much to the enhancement of his
social status derived from his title. The days when
erudition was reverenced sui causa are over. But it
is a perfectly true, though old, saying that birds of a
feather flock together; and this is largely due to their
enjoyment of their mutual likenesses. Whether they
would not be doing better by associating with birds of
other plumage is a separate question. Professors bicker
AN INSIDE VIEW OF THE PROFESSOR 159
abjectly, but they yet obtain considerable pleasure out
^^ of their mutual association ; there would be no
^^^' possibility of this very bickering if they were
not all professors. The ditch-digger worries through
Social ameni- Sunday and descends with relief into his
ties. subterranean palaver-house of a Monday
morning. He is more at home there, can pass the time
of day, and so on. So the professor; he brightens up
visibly in the fall at the sight of colleagues from whom
he has parted in June with sincere satisfaction. He re-
sumes interrupted squabbles in the sanguine spirit of re-
newed youth, and in the genial beUef that after all A. is
not an ass or a knave, as he had thought, but simply un-
enlightened. He sets down the fact that A. has called
him worse names than these (before C, D. and E., who
strove mightily among themselves in the friendly rivalry
of dissemination) to exaggeration of expression un-
happily too natural to A. He likes, after all, to grub in
the same old ditch with the rest of the fellows ; he knows
where each keeps his knife and where to dig each in order
to elicit the maximum of irritation with the minimum of
reflex action. It would be different with laborers in other
unions, or the dagoes in the next street, who.
On thinking besides, reek of garlic and speak a grotesque
something"^ tongue. Here one digs red dirt and another
clay or gravel; but all the kinds of material
must be dug out, no matter if the ditch is in the wrong
place, or in no place at all.
Similia similibus curantur; and the man who chucks
out the most or the shiniest dirt will be decorated, along
toward time for the whistle to blow, with a nice cap with
a gold tassel, and allowed to "wear a mother-hubbard in
public without being run in."
QUIDQUID LATET^ ADPAREBIT
Well, Mr. C. Day and gentlemen, here is a partial con-
spectus of the professor's life. I neglected to say that
160 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
its associations here are rendered the more felicitous ow-
ing to the fact that there have been connected with the
Yale faculty no less than twenty-five '96 men (almost
nine per cent, of the class). There are now fourteen
'96 men so connected.
So send on your sons presently and tell them the old
fables on which we pastured — how the Pierian springs
are right under Osborn Hall. Put your decennial record
on the top shelf back and tell them that we know it all :
how Gregory can find a Devonian cock-roach in a piece
of concrete walk ; how Hawkes has squared himself, with-
out difficulty, both before the faculty and the students
(a double performance) ; how Farr's German vocabulary
is the thing which makes Kaiser Wilhelm want to assail
the Monroe Doctrine; how Anson measures up to the
loftiest in the bloom of all those masterful qualities whose
tender burgeonings we ourselves were permitted, in awe
not unmixed with respectful hilarity, to view.
The professor's life is, in short, like the life of other
mortals, for — and the assurance of this from Day leads
me to my confidences — you men now know that we are
like other human beings. The mask is fallen ; the cothur-
nus is off. The awesome dignity and heroic stature,
which they erstwhile lent the professor, impressed us
once so forcibly that in our imagination we shall doubt-
less reconstruct them, from time to time, about his com-
monplace person. But nevertheless we know the truth:
that introspective gaze, as into the far backward and
abysm of time, those portentous hemmings and hawings,
and so on — all professional mannerism, no more. The
hand is the imposing paw of Esau, but the voice is the
thin twitter of the humdrum Jacob.
Albert G. Keller.
The Boys that We Used to Be
Ten years ago! We meet once more
To talk of bygone college days ; —
Forgot the hard-earned legal lore,
Forgot the desk or pulpit phrase,
And all of life's distracting ways, —
In college born fraternity
To hymn our Alma Mater's praise,
To be the boys that we used to be.
We never were so young before.
As, carolling our antique lays.
With the long lost grace of the dinosaur
We caper while the music plays !
The cynical senior stands at gaze.
For his approval what care we?
Let crackers snap and rockets blaze,
When we 're the boys that we used to be !
So fill the stein till the beer runs o'er.
Light the bonfire's ruddy blaze.
Time 's a liar ; ten years more
Is Ninety-Six's paraphrase !
Our heads may show his whites and grays,
But our hearts are beating full and free;
And life and youth shall be ours always.
And we are the boys that we used to be !
Ah, classmate mine of the ancient days.
Would you erase your history.
What those years have brought you in pain or praise,
To be the boy that you used to be ?
John M. Berdan.
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• Epilogue
At the Tenth Milestone
" It is a matter of common note that it is impossible to make one
man realize another's experience; but it is often quite as hard to
make him recover a past stage of his own consciousness. "
H. A. Beers.
LET us admit, to begin with, that we are Old Men.
The fact is not to be doubted ; it is easily provable.
You may grow objectively venerable in quite an impres-
sive way if you will but observe to your youthful sopho-
more relative that "my class" was a class in the days, let
us say, of the old brick row — the brick row, which for
so many years has had its existence in memory only, or
in some of those deplorable etchings cherished by senti-
mentalists who are not connoisseurs.
Many of us have had the experience and have found
it disturbing, because after all (let us consider this busi-
ness without heat), after all the boy is right about it,
considering his experiences and illuminations. It is ab-
surd, it is surprising, it is commonplace enough — all this
we acknowledge as the matter opens before us, and the
conclusion comes all at once that here is a Remarkable
Fact; meditating on it we come through byways of re-
flection not unprofitable, to consideration of that point
of view which once was ours.
The discovery of how much it has shifted in ten years
is not extraordinary of course, yet it has a certain individ-
ual interest for each of us notwithstanding. It is the func-
tion of our anniversaries, I take it, to recreate as far as
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may be that former state of mind, and so the matter is
worth a word in this anniversary record.
There are other ways of recovering snatches of it. It
will flash back upon some unexpected meeting — as when
you fall in with the man you detested, and the fact seems
so odd and unreasonable now, — or again with the hero
of a once fervent admiration, now unquestionably mortal,
and, it cannot be denied, disappointing. And old pic-
tures turn up now and then, or old note books, or some-
thing of the kind, — perhaps the Horace you would not
sell to unknown Philistines, whose text, beyond the fitting
fragments "Eheu!" or "Heia!" has grown uncertainly
mysterious.
These interesting relics have their depressing aspect,
it must be owned, as is the fashion with relics. In fact
all the features of that bygone age make various appear-
ances; the time itself now near and now remote; the
good, or what we held was good, showing quite insig-
nificant; the bad, or what we feared was so, perhaps
after all — not so bad.
Then there is the pilgrimage. Most of us have made
it, not without company perhaps, to whom we descant
reminiscently, pointing out the old window where a
strange head shows in a way that will seem impudent.
We have a fond curiosity, something almost patriarchal in
character (quite inwardly of course) in observing the pres-
ent inhabitants of those regions, with their haunting like-
nesses to men of other times — though "men" seems open
to question — and our feelings are properly indescribable.
To wander in those gravelly groves, half expecting some
familiar form to emerge from each entry, and hardly
restraining the impulse to shout forgotten names before
the well-known casements, is to know the bewilderment
of Rip Van Winkle; " I 'm not myself; I 'm somebody
else; That 's me yonder." — She finds it invariably very
interesting.
Altogether, it appears, the pilgrimage is decidedly an
institution to be cultivated. It is a wonder and a joy to
see how a breath of the old atmosphere will bring the
164 A HISTORY OF THE CLASS, ETC.
memories crowding to the surface, forgotten nothings
chiefly they may be, dear to recall for what they implied
rather than for what they were.
To recover the externals of the old days is not difficult;
to realize now the past stages of consciousness that at-
tended or gave rise to them is become plainly impossible.
Such a stage have we reached after ten years that certain
deathless episodes, perhaps the very adventures which
privately we cherish most fondly, must be held as phenom-
ena quite beyond the reach of explanation. It matters
little enough after all. There is no lessening of the joy
to be taken in these private recollections, whether of the
mysterious doings, or of the preposterous opinions we
harbored, or of the things we intended to do, they are
all so intimately interesting.
As for the plans and projects, let us by all means insist
on their absurdity; it is much the cheerfulest view to
take, and the next man has also his own little fragment
of pathetic sentimentality to cherish within himself when
these things order themselves in memory. We dreamed
fair dreams in those days, — and facts have overtaken us.
So much was done prospectively in these ten years, such
traffics and discoveries accomplished, such wondering ac-
clamations earned! The weight of probability seemed
then to be that by this time there would be swelling a
chorused repetition of the Alexandrian sigh — and here
the world lies still before us.
This was all very real, as real as the absorbing
and incessant politics, so utterly vanished now,
or so many of the activities that went to make up
life, as we knew it. It will seem at times that
there must be some single poignant moment to recall
which would epitomize it all, and one strives vaguely, and
of course vainly, to lay hold of it. We recover the little
unmemorable things that went to make up the com-
posite,— the dim winter afternoons in the galleries of
Linonia, with the lights thro' the west window and the
creaking door below; the dark half hour in chapel late
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in the day when the organ was playing ; snatches of song
and echoing steps under the trees at night; the walks
and sails we took, the eating clubs, the literary discus-
sions (I think we called them so), loafing of divers
pleasant kinds at all seasons, the birthday party when
your room-mate reached twenty-one, things large and
small, resolves and efforts of splendid seriousness, — yes,
and unrespectable marauds, — all these come back again
glorified. "A picture of it all fashions itself together."
Many men of many minds we were, grinds and toss-
pots, and the memories may range themselves for us
about field or class-room or knife-scarred table top; it
is all one now, and was all, then, Life — as we knew it.
But somehow, from this stern distance, it will not al-
together seem to have been that, so Httle did it know of
some of the elements which later y^ars and chances have
brought into attendance on the course of things for all
of us; would not seem in fact quite a reality sometimes
but for the strength of the impressions. The pressure
of men's work is no longer as it was, a thing in future,
to talk about and wonder over, but here upon us, and
feeling it, we come to see the difference that sets those
days apart from all others that shall be given us.
And then, the Children. What vaguest foreshadowing
could we have of this ? What scheme of things in which
it had no part could have been otherwise than incomplete
and unreal ? It marks the altered world, a thing so pres-
ent and so great, so far beyond the possibilities of our
knowing then, that the dimness of great distances seems
to lie between it and that former time.
So the days that were stand apart — a memory, but not
that alone, not unrelated to another time to come, for
there is now the eager hope that for another generation
also there may be such a season of pleasant ways, such
men to know, such memories to love, as we do not forget.
Dudley Landon Vaill.
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Inside View of the Professor
Biographies of the Graduates
and of Affiliated Members :
Bibliographical Notes
"That I can't remember," said the Hatter.
"You must remember," remarked the King, "or I '11
have you executed." — Alice's Adventures in Wonder-
land.
"Now am I positioned to comprehend God's experi-
ence when He did breathe upon the clay and it became
man. For I have urged the breath of mine own belly
upon these people, and behold they exhibit life. It is
credible to me that the good God may have felt sur-
prise."— Citizen Michel Riverrais, Memories of the Great
Revolution.
It is a trite but true observation, that examples work
more forcibly on the mind than precepts; and if this be
just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly
so in what is amiable and praiseworthy. Here emulation
most effectually operates upon us, and inspires our imi-
tation in an irresistible manner. A good man therefore
is a standing lesson to all his acquaintance, and of far
greater use in that narrow circle than a good book.
But as it often happens that the best men are but little
known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness
of their examples a great way, the writer may be called
in aid to spread their history farther, and to present the
amiable pictures to those who have not the happiness of
knowing the originals; and so, by communicating such
valuable patterns to the world, he may perhaps do a
more extensive service to mankind than the person
whose life originally afforded the pattern.
In this light I have always regarded those biographers
who have recorded the actions of great and worthy per-
sons.— Henry Fielding, The History of the Adventures
of Joseph Andrews.
Biographies of the Graduates
Editor's Note: The members of our Class had so many other circulars
sent to them this year, that instead of asking them for their college
records, including scholastic honors, membership on athletic teams, so-
cieties, etc., the Secretary compiled these particulars himself as best he
could from the old year-books. The rest of the preliminary information
about each man was obtained either from the man himself or from his
family. Verifications and corrections of the data given have been made
in most of the doubtful cases, but many college and genealogical errors
probably remain. The Secretary will be thankful for any and all correc-
tions or additions, large or small, from any source.
The information concerning classmates' antecedents was collected between
October, 1905, and July, 1906. The information concerning classmates
themselves, their wives and their children, was collected between May and
July, 1906, and is supposed to be complete up to June 30th.
Events happening after June 30th, 1906, and before final publication are
not included in these biographies. So far as reported they will be recorded
in the Appendix.
John S. Abercrombie
Rushville, Indiana.
John Sexton Abercrombie was born at Rushville, Ind., May
I2th, 1874. He is the son of Theodore Abercrombie and Sarah
Wilson Sexton, who were married March 25th, 1869, at Rush-
ville, Ind., and had three other children, all boys.
Theodore Abercrombie (b. July 23rd, 1831, in Franklin
County, Ind.) has spent most of his life in Rushville. He has
been a farmer, a tailor, and is at present President of the
Rushville National Bank. His parents were John Abercrombie,
a farmer of Rush County, Ind., and Rebecca Pursel of New
Jersey. The family came to America from Scotland early in
the nineteenth century, and settled in Westmoreland County,
Pa.
Sarah Wilson (Sexton) Abercrombie was born March 2d,
1842, at Rushville, Ind. Her father was Dr. Horatio Gates
Sexton, a physician of that place, and her mother was Hannah
Pugh of Cincinnati, Ohio. Hannah Pugh's grandmother was
a full-blooded Cherokee Indian, named Tonpah, who lived in
the Carolinas before the Cherokees were forced by the Gov-
ernment to "move on" to Indian Territory. The Sextons came
from England and settled in New England.
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170 BIOGRAPHIES
Abercrombie was graduated from DePauw University in 1895,
and entered Yale in the fall of that year. He played on the
Champion Senior Baseball Team, was elected to Phi Beta
Kappa, and received a High Oration at Commencement,
He has not been married.
On September ist, 1897, after studying law for one year
in a Rushville office, Abercrombie was appointed to a
position in the U. S. Consulate-General in Paris. Dur-
ing the three years he was there he traveled extensively
in France, England, Scotland, Switzerland, and Italy,
until in September, 1900, he resigned and returned to
America. He spent part of the following winter and
spring in Southern California for his health. On
July 4th, 1901, he was operated on for appendicitis.
The operation left him very weak and ill. He con-
tracted a bad case of catarrh, deafness developed, and
he has had to spend most of his time since then in seek-
ing relief from this disabling affliction. He was in
Phoenix in 1902-3, the year before the Class Secretary
struck that heated town; and he has been in Colorado
too, but the Secretary and he have never met; and as
Abercrombie is disinclined to write much about himself
for publication, there is nothing one can add. He has,
of course, no occupation at present.
His Class at DePauw University, of which he was
President, had its decennial reunion a year ago, and
Abercrombie collaborated with the '95 Secretary in pre-
paring the Class Report which appeared a few months
later. "He is a notable reader of old books," writes one
of his friends, *'and an interested student of his kind."
Benjamin Adams
Assistant to Chief of Circulating Dept., New York Public Library.
209 West 23d Street, New York City. (Residence in Brooklyn.)
Benjamin Adams was born Sept. 20th, 1873, at Wethersfield,
Conn. He is a son of Thomas Griswold Adams and Lucy
Stillman Dickinson, who were married on Nov. 21st, 1855, at
OF GRADUATES 171
Wethersfield, Conn., and had, including Benjamin, eight chil-
dren, four boys and four girls, of whom five lived to maturity.
Thomas Griswold Adams (b. June 21st, 1832, at Wethers-
field, Conn., d. April 22nd, 1902, also at Wethersfield) was for
many years the head of the firm of Adams & Haumer, com-
mission merchants. He held many local offices and positions
of trust in Wethersfield. His father was Welles Adams, a
commission merchant, and his mother was Mary Wolcott Gris-
wold, both of Wethersfield. The family came from England
prior to 1650 and settled at Farmington, Conn. (See Stiles'
History of Ancient Wethersfield, Vol. H, pp. 11-27.)
Lucy Stillman (Dickinson) Adams (b. Jan. 24th, 1835, at
Wethersfield, Conn., d. Dec. 29th, 1901, at Wethersfield) was
the daughter of Ransom Dickinson, a farmer, and Lucy N.
Smith, all Wethersfield folk.
Adams prepared for Yale at the Hartford High School. In Col-
lege he received a First Colloquy at the Junior Exhibition, and
a Second Dispute at Commencement. He was a member of the
Yale Union.
He has not been married.
Excepting for the three years from graduation until
May, 1899, when he was connected with the Brooklyn
Blue Book Publishing Co., Adams has been employed
wholly in library work. He began in the Prospect
Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. In September,
1902, he was advanced from Librarian of that branch to
be Superintendent of the Department of Traveling Libra-
ries. A year and a half later, in April, 1904, he resigned
that position to become Assistant to the Chief of the
Circulation Department of the New York Public Library.
There he has since been seen at intervals, sometimes
seated at a well appointed but complicated desk, anon
climbing dustily up from the catacombs upon which all
libraries appear to be built. He hopes to find a home
in the new building on Fifth Avenue when (or if) the
builders get through with it.
Adams has done a good deal of genealogical and
bibliographical work (see the "Bibliographical Notes" in
the back of this volume), principally in connection with
Wethersfield. He has also rendered important services
172 BIOGRAPHIES
to '96, in the way of expert advice and of individual
researches, in connection with the collection and prepa-
ration of the genealogical data now included in our
Class Biographies.
John Chester Adams, Ph.D.
Instructor in English, Yale College.
Residence, 75 Mansfield Street, New Haven, Conn.
John Chester Adams was born in Lewiston, Maine, Feb. 7th,
1874. He is the only child of John Samuel Adams and
Harriet Ada Marr, who were married on May 21st, 1872,
at Auburn, Me.
John ■ Samuel Adams (b. Jan. 29th, 1842, at Brewer, near
Bangor, Me.) has spent most of his life in Brookline, Mass. He
lived a short time, however, at Bangor, Auburn, Lewiston, and
Portland, Me. He is a banker, and an officer of several
financial and religious organizations. His father was Aaron
Chester Adams, a Congregational minister of Auburn, Me.
and Wethersfield, Conn., and his mother was Harriet Sargent
Johnson of Brewer, Me. His ancestors came to America from
England in 1640, and settled at Braintree (Quincy), Mass.
Harriet Ada (Marr) Adams (b. June 24th, 1845, at Win-
throp. Me.) spent her early life at Winthrop and at Auburn,
Me. Her parents were William March Marr, a builder, and
Ruth Metcalf May, both of Winthrop.
Adams spent his youth in Cambridge, Mass. and in New Haven.
In College he took a Third DeForest Mathematical Prize in
Freshman year, won a Berkeley Premium of the Second
Grade, served as Treasurer of Phi Beta Kappa, and in Senior
year was on the Executive Committee of the Yale Union. He
received a Philosophical Oration at the Junior Exhibition and
at Commencement.
He was married at New Haven, Conn., April 8th, 1901, to Miss
Mary Elizabeth Willis Munger, daughter of the Rev. Dr.
Theodore Thornton Munger, '51, and has one child, a
daughter, Harriet Elizabeth Adams (b. Jan. 5th, 1903, at New
Haven). (See Appendix.)
In 1898, after two years' graduate work, Adams re-
ceived the degree of M.A. at Yale. He taught at the
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Taft School in Watertown, Conn., the following year,
studied in Harvard, 1899- 1900, ^^^ then returned to Yale
as a tutor in English. "The annals of this poor man,"
he writes (May, 1906), "are extraordinarily short and
simple. As soon as equilibrium was restored after the
shock of Sheldon's narrow escape from Pius's pursuing
roman candles, I steered for Mount Desert Island, where
(at Bass Harbor), Mrs. Adams and I spent the summer
of 1902— as also the following summer. The winter
between is memorable for the birth in January of the
present manager of the household, Harriet Elizabeth.
The next winter (1903-4) was a very busy one by reason
of increased college teaching and work on my thesis for
the Ph. D. degree, which was charitably bestowed on me
in June, 1904. . . . Last summer my work neces-
sitated a journey to England, where I studied in various
libraries, chiefly in London and Oxford. This last win-
ter (1905-6), in addition to regular teaching, I have been
engaged in University Extension lecturing— making in
all forty-six trips to neighboring communities. My work
cut out for the coming summer at Bailey's Island (in
Casco Bay, Maine) is the completion of an edition of
'Heroes and Hero-Worship,' for Houghton, Mifflin & Co.,
and the continuance of work on a volume on 'The Masque'
(of the XVIIth Century). . . . Lack of space pre-
vents my explaining that my spare minutes are all ex-
hausted in the attempt to invent new methods of defence
against the ceaseless inroads of the insinuating H.
Fisher."
Marcellin C. Adams
Residence, sth Avenue and Woodland Road, E. E. Pittsburg, Pa.
In Sales Department of the Best Manufacturing Co. (iron foundry), 2Sth and
Railroad Streets.
Marcellin Cote Adams was born Jan. 26th, 1872, at Pittsburg,
Pa. He is the son of Stephen Jarvis Adams and Emma Vir-
ginia Anshutz, who were married Nov. 17th, 1862, at Pittsburg,
174 BIOGRAPHIES
and had altogether five children, four boys and one girl, three
of whom lived to maturity.
Stephen Jarvis Adams (b. April 21st, 1837, near Oak Hill,
Greene Co., N. Y.) is a foundryman and inventor, having
some seventy-five or more patents to his credit, and is now
(Jan., 1906) living at Pittsburg, where he has spent the greater
part of his life. His father was Calvin Adams, also a foundry-
man and inventor, of Oak Hill; and his mother was Cynthia
GifTord, of Medusa, Albany Co., N. Y. The family came to
America from England in 1632-33, and settled in Mount
Wollaston, Mass. (later called Braintree).
Emma Virginia (Anshutz) Adams (b. Feb. loth, 1843, at
Pittsburg, Pa.) is the great-granddaughter of George An-
shutz, who built the first furnace and made the first iron ever
manufactured in Pittsburg. Her parents were Alfred Pithon
Anshutz and Eliza Jane Holmes, both of Pittsburg.
Adams spent his early life in Pittsburg. In College he was
Treasurer of the Yale Gymnastic Association in Sophomore
year, and Vice-President in Junior year. He was on the
gymnastic team and took several prizes. In Senior year he
played on the Class Baseball Team. Beta Theta Pi. An Ora-
tion at the Junior Exhibition and at Commencement.
He was married Jan. sth, 1898, at New Haven, Conn., to Miss
Ida Elizabeth Bright, daughter of Robert C. Bright of New
Haven, and has one child, a daughter, Emma Virginia Adams
(b. Feb. 28th, 1902, at Pittsburg, Pa.).
Adams was compelled by ill health to leave the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania's Medical School in January, 1897.
After six months in North Carolina he returned to Pitts-
burg, entered the foundry business with S. Jarvis Adams
& Company, and remained with them until they sold out,
in the fall of 1899, ^t which time he took a trip to
Denver. From May, 1900, to February, 1901, he was in
charge of the Sawyer Gold Mining Company of Sophia,
North Carolina. In April he left for Europe, travel-
ing in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Belgium,
France, England, and Scotland until September. Shortly
after his return he went into the paint business with the
American Cold Japan Company and in March, 1902, he
left them to enter his present connection. Since then
his traveling has been confined to short vacations in
OF GRADUATES 175
Atlantic City, New Haven, Chautauqua Lake, etc. His
decennial letter follows : —
''As far as business goes, I have been with the Best
Manufacturing Company since 1902. I started in as
Superintendent of the Iron Foundry. I began by taking
a fairly extended trip, visiting various foundries in
Philadelphia, New York, New Haven, Springfield, Bos-
ton, Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago and Fort
Wayne, Indiana. About a week after I got back I
had a strike on my hands, and after the smoke of battle
had cleared away I found I had 'bounced' two foremen,
and was doing the foremen's work myself. I was get-
ting so much good, practical information from this that
I did not make much effort to get a foreman, so for about
ten months I 'held down' the foreman job. It meant that
I had to be there at least at 7:15 A.M. every morning
and that I got home in the evening anywhere from 6 : 00
to 8 : 00 o'clock or later. The experience though was fine.
I finally broke in one of the molders from the shop as
foreman, and gave most of my time to adapting our work
to molding machines, i.e., mechanical molding instead of
hand work. Having brought this work to a stage to give
it a good trial I have left the foundry proper and am
now connected with the selling end and getting my
knocks and experience along that line.
"Our main line of work is the erection, etc., of high
pressure piping, having in connection therewith a line
of valves and pipe fittings and some specialties. Within
the last few months I have done a good deal of out of
town work in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Washington, Cleveland, Columbus, and in other neigh-
boring states and cities.
"I have been quite active in church work. I have been
Superintendent of our Sunday School for nearly five
years with rather encouraging results. Am a member of
Ascension Church, one of the largest Protestant Episco-
pal churches, and have recently been made a member of
the Vestry.
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"Have been connected for the last twenty-five years
with the East Liberty branch of the Young Men's
Christian Association, the largest branch of the Pitts-
burg Association, and situated in the residence district.
For three years I was Chairman of the branch, but had
to give this office up, owing to stress of work. Am
still a member of the Board of Management and Chair-
man of the Sunday Afternoon Meeting Committee.
"Up until I struck my present job I practically did
no work, and since then nothing but work. I think I 11
swing back the other way a little, and start by joining
the merry throng at the '96 Decennial, the first class
reunion I have had the pleasure of attending."
Eugene D. Alexander
Lawyer. Permanent mail address, Clinton Avenue, New Brighton, N. Y.
(See Appendix.)
Eugene Davenport Alexander was born May loth, 1875, at
New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y. He is the only son of
Henry Eugene Alexander and Mary Boorman Davenport, who
were married on Jan. 28th, 1869, at the Church of the Trans-
figuration, New York City, and had four other children, all
daughters.
Henry Eugene Alexander (b. Nov. i6th, 1839, at Baltimore,
Md., d. June 2Sth, 1904, at New Brighton, S. I.), graduated
from St. James College (Md.) in 1855. He served all through
the Civil War as Lieutenant, Captain, and Brevet-Major, in
the Volunteer Light Artillery. After the war he removed from
Baltimore to New York, and lived on Staten Island from
1870 until his death. From 1870 to 1895 he was a member of
the New York Stock Exchange. His father was John Henry
Alexander, of Baltimore, a State Engineer of Maryland, and
his mother was Margaret Hammer. The family is of Scotch
descent.
Mary Boorman (Davenport) Alexander (b. Feb. 19th, 1845,
at Cazenovia, N. Y.) spent her early life at Cazenovia and at
Albany. She lived at Annapolis during the war, and since her
marriage has resided at New Brighton, Staten Island. She is
the daughter of the Rev. Dr. James Radcliffe Davenport (Yale
1830), a Protestant Episcopal Clergyman of New York, and
Mehetable Whiting Newell, of Dedham, Mass. Dr. Davenport
OF GRADUATES 177
is descended from John Davenport who came to this country
about 1638 and founded the colony of New Haven.
Alexander prepared for Yale at St. Paul's School in Concord.
In College he was Secretary and Treasurer of the Berkeley
Association, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa with a High
Oration stand at the Junior Exhibition and the same at Com-
mencement. Psi. U. Wolf's Head.
He has not been married.
After teaching for a year in Mr. King's School in Stam-
ford, Conn., Alexander entered the New York Law
School, graduating in 1899. He has practised with
Reid, Esselsteyn and Ketcham, with Rowland Cox, Sr.
(trade-mark law, Jan.-June, 1900), with Dexter, Osborn
& Gillespie of 71 Broadway, New York (Oct., 1900-Feb.,
1902), with Charles Bulkley Hubbell, 31 Nassau St.,
New York (as managing clerk, Oct., 1902-Nov., 1904),
and with Hand & Hale, now Richard L. Hand, of
Elizabethtown, Essex Co., N. Y. (May, 1905, to date).
In the interval Feb.-Oct., 1902, he went abroad on the
Celtic Cruise, visiting Madeira, Gibraltar, Algiers,
Greece, Turkey, the Holy Land, Egypt, Italy and
France; during the Sexennial he was in Paris con-
valescing from an attack of typhoid.
''I am sitting out on my balcony," he wrote the Secre-
tary in January, 1905, ''with everything furred but my
tongue, and as the ink freezes in my fountain pen, I
take to pencil. You may be surprised to see me writing
from 'Elizabethtown.' I only do so because I am here.
Last fall I had a mean touch of grip and the doctor sent
me off for a complete change of air and loaf. . . .
I am enjoying it. I rode horseback daily until just be-
fore Xmas, skated some, tramped, etc., but now the snow
has cut me down to sleighing and snow-shoeing. Write
me again, O Clarence, thou child of contradiction, half
alkali, half acid, a neutral salt yet a land-lubber, for the
mail is the feature of the day."
The Secretary did write him again (for his biography)
178 BIOGRAPHIES
last spring, and upon receiving a reply of two lines,
wrote yet once more. "I plead guilty to your indict-
ment," he responded, "but answer in mitigation as did
the two little French cherubs whose total anatomy was
heads, when asked by St. Peter to sit down, — *mais nous
n'avons pas de quoi.' . . . After about six months
rest in this Adirondack country I was in fine condition
and ready to go home. It was then May, 1905, and an
offer was made to me to go into the law office of Hand
& Hale as managing clerk. As it has agreed so well with
me up here and as it seemed foolish to go back to work
with the summer heat coming on, I decided to remain
for another winter. While the work has not been at all
arduous I have felt that I have been 'keeping up' to some
extent, though the deliberate way one can do things in
the country is unfitting for city methods. I shall doubt-
less notice the difference when I return to New York."
Philip R. Allen
With F. W. Bird & Son, Paper Makers, East Walpole, Mass.
Philip Ray Allen was born July 25th, 1873, at Allenville, a
suburb of Walpole, Mass. He is the son of Melzar Waterman
Allen and Martha Metcalf, who were married Feb. 13th, 1867,
at Franklin, Mass., and had including Philip five boys and one
girl. Two of Philip's brothers have been graduated from Yale,
Bernard Melzar in 1892 and Frederic Winthrop in 1900.
Melzar Waterman Allen (b. Dec. 7th, 1840, at Walpole,
Mass.), a builder by trade, has held and still holds town offices
in Walpole. He is a veteran of the Civil War (i6th Massa-
chusetts Battery). He is the son of Lemuel Allen, a builder
of Walpole, and Adelene Fisher of Medway, Mass. His an-
cestors came from England, 1630-1665, and settled at Water-
town, Dedham, etc., Mass.
Martha (Metcalf) Allen (b. June loth, 1841, at Winthrop,
Me.) spent her early life at Winthrop, Me., and Franklin,
Mass., and is now living at Walpole. She is the daughter of
Joseph Addison Metcalf, a teacher and farmer, of Winthrop,
and Chloe Fales Adams of Franklin, Mass.
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Allen went to school at Andover. In College he took a Berkeley
Premium of the First Grade in Freshman year, rowed on the
Class Crew in the fall and spring of Junior year, was elected
Class Statistician, published the Senior Year Class Book, and
served on the Executive Committee of Phi Beta Kappa. He
was a member of the Yale Union. A Philosophical Oration
at the Junior Exhibition and a High Oration at Commence-
ment. D. K. E.
He has not been married.
"For a year and a half I was traveling tutor for a boy,"
wrote Allen in 1902. ". . . Then, in 1898, I started
in at the paper manufacturing business with F. W. Bird
& Son, East Walpole, Mass." (This firm was estab-
Hshed in 18 17. It makes roofings, insulating and water-
proof papers, paper boxes, etc., and has branch offices
in New York, Washington, and Chicago.) "This job
I still hold. I 'm 'on the pike' a good deal of the time —
just got back from a nine days' trip to Chicago, Des
Moines, and Kansas City. Went South on a business
trip last winter and spent a week in Cuba." "My time
since 1902," he wrote this spring, "has been spent at the
same old game— viz., the paper business at East Wal-
pole and traveling on trails all around this country look-
ing for business. I have spent some time up in Canada
where we have been putting up a new mill. From a
recent tabulation I discovered that I had traveled last
year some 56,000 miles. On the side I have gone into
farming, having bought an abandoned New England
farm. In general I have been trying to lead the steady
and temperate life of an old New Englander.
"For vacations, I have for two years been in the
Maine woods, canoeing from the West Branch of the
Penobscot and around Moosehead. Last year with H.
Twombly and two ethers went on a three hundred mile
trail from Portland through the White Mountains and
down by Lake [Winnepe-something] to Boston again.
We shipped our saddle-horses by boat to Portland. By
keeping several horses and getting in a ride or a jump
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across country when the day's work is o'er I manage to
eke out a fairly pleasant existence.
"This village is within 19 miles of the Hub of the
Universe (plenty near enough), so when we get to rust-
ing away we can go in and buy all the civilization we
need any time. We had a good game in local politics
here this year; the 'reform and progress' movement won
out hard. This was the most interesting game I 've had
in many a year."
Pete was enthusiastically telling us all about this cam-
paign at the Yale Club one night, and enlarging upon
what a mighty good thing it was for a young man to
take an active part in civic life. It subsequently ap-
peared that his own "active part" was that of a tree
warden, on the reform ticket.
Arnon A. Ailing
Partner in the law firm of Ailing, Webb & Morehouse, 42 Church Street,
New Haven, Conn. Residence, 50 Edgehill Road.
Arnon Augustus Alling was born in New Haven, Aug. 8th,
1874. He is the son of John Wesley Alling, '62, and Constance
Adelaide Parker, who were married Oct. loth, 1867, in New
Haven, and had besides Arnon, two children, both girls, one
of whom died before maturity.
John Wesley Alling (b. Oct. 24th, 1841, at Orange, Conn.)
has spent most of his life at Orange and New Haven. He is
at present a lawyer in New Haven, Conn. His father was
Charles Wyllys Alling, a farmer and manufacturer in Orange,
Conn., and his mother was Lucy Booth of Woodbridge, Conn.
His ancestor, Roger Alling, came to America from England
in 1638, and settled at New Haven. He was one of the original
founders of that colony.
Constance Adelaide (Parker) Alling (b. Dec. 24th, 1844, at
Derby, Conn., d. Jan. nth, 1903, in New York City) spent her
early life at Derby and at New Haven, Conn. She was the
daughter of Augustus Hull Parker, a manufacturer, of New
Haven and of Derby. Her mother was Jane Eliza Hotchkiss
of Derby, Conn.
Alling spent his early life in New Haven, and in Concord, N. H.,
at St. Paul's School. In College he was a member for two
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years of the Track Team and he took a Second Colloquy at
Commencement. Zeta Psi.
He was married at New Haven, Conn,, June 15th, 1899, to Miss
Katherine A. Terrill, daughter of Frederick M. Terrill of New
Haven, and has one child, a son, John Wesley Ailing (b. May
26th, 1900, at New Haven).
Alling entered the Yale Law School in the fall of 1896
and in 1899 he was graduated with the degree of LL.B.
He was married that June and then entered practice in
New Haven. He served as member of the Common
Council in New Haven, 1899-1900. In 1901 he was
elected to the Board of Aldermen. He is now the Cap-
tain of Company D, Second Regiment, C.N.G. (the New
Haven Blues), and a member of the law firm of Ailing,
Webb & Morehouse (John W. Alling, James H. Webb,
Samuel C. Morehouse and Arnon A. Ailing).
''I have been quiet and generally peaceful in my ways
since 1902,'' he wrote this spring, thus (inadvertently or
otherwise) casting a suspicion and a shadow over the
years preceding. "I should be very glad to give any
assistance I can to aid you in getting your book into
first-class condition. You may call on me at any time
and I hope I shall be equal to the emergency. . At least I
will do my prettiest."
These latter assurances were in response to the Secre-
tary's requests for aid in persuading Flaherty, Billard,
and other hyper-reticent persons, not to regard his oft-
reiterated inquiries into their antecedents as mere pur-
poseless drivel. Arnon did it beautifully, using nothing
but the long distance telephone and a specially competent
stenographer. The Secretary has had enough experience
in persuasion to know an expert when he finds one, and
he begs leave to salute Arnon Ailing as a Master.
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S. M. Alvord
Teacher in the Hartford Public High School.
Residence, 254 Ashley Street, Hartford, Conn.
Samuel Morgan Alvord was born at Bolton, Conn., Nov. 19th,
1869. He is a son of Elijah Anson Alvord and Cynthia Ann
Warner, who were married Oct. 12th, 1856, at Bolton, Conn.,
and had altogether six children, five boys and one girl. An
uncle and a cousin are Yale graduates.
Elijah Anson Alvord (b. April loth, 1825, at Bolton, Conn.,
d. Oct. 4th, 1870 at Bolton) was a farmer and held various
town offices. His father was Martin Alvord, also a Bolton
farmer, who married Martha Burleigh Clark, originally of
Rochester, N. H., and later of Columbia, Conn. His ancestor,
Alexander Alvord, came to America from Whitestaunton
Parish, Somerset County, England, about 1632, and settled at
Windsor, Conn., removing to Northampton, Mass., about 1661.
One hundred years later Samuel Alvord, grandfather to
Martin, came to Bolton, and there the Alvords have con-
tinuously resided since that time.
Cynthia Ann (Warner) Alvord (b. Jan. 26th, 1830, at Bol-
ton, Conn.) is the daughter of Ashbel Warner, a Bolton
farmer, and Hannah Morgan, who was born at Preston, Conn.
Alvord received honorable mention for the Hugh Chamberlain
Greek Prize at his entrance examination. He was President
of the Freshman Union and held various offices in the Yale
Union, including that of President in Senior year. He re-
ceived a Berkeley Premium of the Second Grade in Freshman
year, was Secretary of Phi Beta Kappa, and a member of the
Executive Committee of the Hartford Club. A High Oration
at the Junior Exhibition and at Commencement. A. D. Phi.
He was married at Pennington, N. J., Dec. 27th, 1900, to Miss
Mary A. O'Hanlon, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Thomas O'Han-
lon. President of the Pennington Seminary, and has one child,
a son, Morgan Hanlon Alvord (b. March 31st, 1902, at Hart-
ford, Conn.).
From September, 1896, until June, 1900, Alvord was in-
structor in Latin and Greek, and from September, 1897,
on, Vice-President at the Pennington Seminary, Penn-
ington, N. J., of which Dr. O'Hanlon was President.
He was then elected to the position he now holds, that
of instructor in the Hartford (Conn.) Public High
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School, entering upon his duties in the fall of 1900 and
only returning to Pennington during the 1900 Christmas
vacation to marry the President's daughter. "My work
has been in the Latin Department for the most part,"
he wrote this spring, "occasionally working in a little
Greek, and now and then doing some private tutoring.
I have learned that vacations are just as acceptable in the
teacher's career as in the pupil's, and I have 'put in' some
most agreeable ones. The summers of 1902 and 1903
were spent chiefly deferring to the little stranger known
as Morgan. But the 'grown-ups' had their own way
about it the summer of 1904, which was spent in the
metropolis of the South-west, Los Angeles, where Mrs.
Alvord's people were residing. After six weeks in that
delightful city we returned via San Francisco, enjoying
an afternoon at Berkeley, where we were given a most
cordial reception by our own Chauncey and Mrs. Wells
in their cottage among the trees. A week was spent at
the St. Louis Exposition on the return trip. I came
home quite content to continue my residence in this
conservative municipality of Hartford within striking
distance of a football game."
Rev. Thomas F. Archbald
Professor of Missions at the University of Wooster.
Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio.
Thomas Frothingham Archbald was born Dec. 31st, 1873, at
Scranton, Pa. He is the son of Capt. James Archbald, Union,
'61, a veteran of the Civil War, and Hannah Maria Albright,
who were married Jan. 2Sth, 1865, at Scranton, and had be-
sides Thomas, seven children, four boys and three girls, six
of whom lived to maturity. Tom is a brother of James Arch-
bald, Jr., '87 and Joseph A. Archbald, '88 S., a nephew of R. W.
Archbald '71, and a cousin of R. W. Archbald, Jr., '98 and
Hugh Archbald, 1903.
James Archbald (b. Feb. 13th, 1838, at Sand Lake, N. Y.)
spent the first nineteen years of his life at Carbondale, Pa.,
and the rest at Scranton, where he has been engaged as Chief
184 BIOGRAPHIES
Engineer of the D. L. & W. R. R. Co. He is at present Chief
Engineer of the Mississippi Central R. R. Co. He is the son
of James Archbald and Mary Ann Wodrow. James Arch-
bald, Sr., was born at Little Cumbrae Island, Buteshire, Scot-
land, March 3rd, 1793, came to America in 1807, settled at
Auriesville, N. Y., and died Aug, 26th, 1870. He was a Civil
Engineer, President of the Bloomsburg R. R., and was con-
nected at various times with the Delaware & Hudson Canal
Co., the Michigan Southern and North Indiana R. R. Co.,
and D. L. & W. R. R. Co. Mary Ann Wodrow came from
Eastwood, Ayrshire, Scotland.
Hannah Maria (Albright) Archbald (b. Aug. 3rd, 1841, at
Ashland Furnace, Lehigh County, Pa.) spent her early life
at Buchanan, Va., and moved to Scranton in 1852. She is the
daughter of Joseph Jacob Albright (b. Sept. 23rd, 1810; d. Jan.
I2th, 1888) of Scranton, an iron manufacturer and coal agent of
the D. & H. Canal Co., D. L. & W., and President of the First
National Bank of Scranton. Her mother was Elizabeth
Sellers (b. January, 1811; d. Jan. 21st, 1890) of Salt Marsh,
Montgomery Co., Pa.
Archbald prepared for Yale at Andover. He was one of the
Class Deacons and served as First Vice-President of the Y. M.
C. A. in Junior year and President in Senior year. He was
a member of the Ivy Committee, and Chairman of the Y. M.
C. A. Northfield Committee. An Oration at the Junior Exhibi-
tion and at Commencement. He Boule, D. K. E,, Wolf's Head.
He was married at Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. loth, 1900, to Miss Jennie
A. Dann, daughter of the late Edward S. Dann and of Jane
R. Dann of Buffalo, and has two children, Thomas Webster
Archbald (b. Sept. 28th, 1901, at Cuba, N. Y.) and Jean Arch-
bald (b. April 22d, 1904, at Buffalo).
In the fall of 1896 Archbald entered the Auburn (N .Y.)
Theological Seminary from which he was graduated in
1900. He was absent for one year (1897-8) serving as
General Secretary of the Yale Y.M.C.A. and living in
D wight Hall; and again for seven months of 1899 tak-
ing a trip around the world with Rus Colgate. From
1900 until June, 1903, he was pastor of the Presbyterian
Church at Cuba, New York.
In 1903 the University of Wooster, Ohio (co-
educational,—the Synodical University of the Presby-
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terian Church), added a ''Bible & Missionary Training
School" to its departments and Archbald was called to
the Chair of Missions, the first Chair of the sort to be
established in this country. In addition to acting as
Registrar of his Department and giving some Biblical
Instruction and Instruction in Church History, Arch-
bald has the following courses : —
City Evangelization. — The needs of the city, its economic and
social conditions are presented. The agencies of reformation
come within the scope of this course. Such are institutional
churches, rescue missions, the Salvation Army, the Y. M. C. A.,
the Y. W. C. A., college settlements, fresh air work, men's
leagues. For the benefit of pastor's helpers training is given in
the matter of awakening and educating missionary interest. Two
hours a week, first semester.
History of Foreign Nations. — The country or countries to be
studied will be selected according to the wishes of the students.
This study furnishes some familiarity with the life of the nation
to which the student desires to give his life. Two hours a week,
second semester.
Dealing with Inquirers. — Christ's methods of winning indi-
viduals are studied historically. The text-book used is Mc-
Conaughy.'s Christ Among Men. A general survey of personal
work is made, following Johnston's Studies for Personal Work-
ers. In connection with each recitation throughout the year
selected portions of Scripture are studied and memorized. This
is based upon Torrey's How to bring Men to Christ. It is ex-
pected that students will engage in some practical work on
Sunday afternoons as well as at other times, as opportunity
offers. Two hours a week, one year.
He wrote this spring : "1 am a teacher, usually called
a 'professor' in the University of Wooster, a Presby-
terian College of about 550 students. My chair is that
of missions, similar to the one recently established at
Yale and held by Dr. Beach. ... At Wooster we
have a large foreign missionary center and the ends of
the earth are constantly meeting here. You see this
makes an atmosphere well adapted to my work. . . .
My summers have been spent in Buffalo, N. Y., and at
Martha's Vineyard. I have a few fish stories and bird
stories to tell you, but these must wait."
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*Wheeler Armstrong, Jr.
Died, November 12, 1896, at Hartford, Conn.
Wheeler Armstrong, Jr., was born June 4th, 1874, at Rome,
N. Y. He was a son of Wheeler Armstrong and Emma O.
Brown, who were married Feb. 9th, 1870, at Chicago, 111., and
had altogether five children, three boys and two girls.
Dr. Arthur S. Armstrong, Cornell '02, (M.D. '04), is a brother.
Wheeler Armstrong the elder (b. July 29th, 1840, at Rome,
N. Y.) is in the real estate business at Rome. He is a son
of Gen. Jesse Armstrong, a Rome merchant, and Abigail J.
Cole.
Emma O. (Brown) Armstrong (b. Feb. 9th, 1850, at Chicago,
111.) is the daughter of Jaduthan Brown of Chicago, and Ophe-
lia E. Elmer of Delta, N. Y.
Armstrong spent his early life at Rome, N. Y., and prepared
for Yale at the Rome Academy. He was not with us during
the latter part of Senior year.
He was unmarried.
Armstrong was taken ill during our Senior year and
was not able to complete the work of the course, but
his degree was voted to him by the faculty nevertheless.
He died of quick consumption on November 12th, 1896,
at Hartford, Conn.
In college there were times when his quiet unsophisti-
cated ways exposed him to some jesting. It is pleasant
to remember that in other quarters they won him
friends. The first of our graduate members to die,
he had neither time nor chance to make his mark in
the world, but he was a gentle, good-hearted fellow
whom, more than many others, we still remember.
Judge William A. Arnold
Partner in the law firm of Clark & Arnold, 50 State Street., Hartford, Conn.
Residence, 812 Main Street, Willimantic, Conn.
William Ansel Arnold was born May 5th, 1874, at Willimantic,
Conn. He is the son of Ansel Arnold and Maria Pitkin Chap-
Armstrong
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man, who were married Nov. 22nd, 1871, at Ellington, Conn.
Their other son, Louis H. Arnold, was graduated at Yale in '04.
Ansel Arnold (b. Aug. 8th, 1814, at Somers, Conn., d. Aug.
5th, 1899, at Willimantic) spent most of his life at Somers,
Mansfield, and Willimantic. He was a manufacturer, a mer-
chant, a Member of the Connecticut House of Representa-
tives in 1857 from the town of Somers, and in 1876 from the
town of Windham. He was the first President of the Willi-
mantic Board of Trade, President of the First National Bank
of Willimantic, and a director of various banks and insurance
companies. His parents were Samuel Arnold, a farmer, and
Amittai Pomeroy, both of Somers.
Maria Pitkin (Chapman) Arnold (b. Jan. 30th, 1849, at
Ellington, Conn.) is the daughter of Horace McKnight Chap-
man of Ellington and Willimantic, Conn., a farmer and mer-
chant, and Julia Ann Tiflfany of Somers.
Arnold spent his early life at Willimantic, Conn., and was pre-
pared for Yale at Williston. In College he received a First
Dispute at the Junior Exhibition and at Commencement.
He was married at Hartford, Conn., May 22d, 1901, to Miss
Katherine Hutchinson, daughter of John I. Hutchinson.
Arnold was graduated from the Yale Law School in
1899, and has since then been practising up in Hartford
in partnership with Walter Clark. He lives in Willi-
mantic and is a Director in, and Secretary of, the
Willimantic Traction Company. The year after our
Sexennial he was elected by the legislature Judge of
the Police Court of Willimantic, in which court he had
already served as associate judge. The office of Judge
had previously been held by much older men, so Arnold's
election, which was not won without a lively contest,
was quite a compliment.
His regular practice meantime has continued as be-
fore. In 1903 and 1905 he appeared prominently and
successfully before the legislature as attorney for street
railroad interests, and he has received and declined sev-
eral good opportunities to run for office. In 1904 he
visited the St. Louis Fair. There is no other news,
although the Secretary has a number of clippings com-
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meriting on Judge Arnold's decisions which he is
prepared to exhibit to the curious.
Leo Arnstein
General Manager of the Nathan Manufacturing Co., 416 East io6th Street,
New York City. Residence, 49 East 826 Street.
Leo Arnstein was born Jan. 25th, 1877, at San Francisco, Cal.
He is a son of Eugene iVrnstein and Josefine Mandelbaum,
who were married July 26th, 1874, at San Francisco, and had
altogether six children, four boys and two girls, five of whom
lived to maturity.
Eugene Arnstein (b. May 8th, 1841, at Sulzbach, Germany)
came to San Francisco from Fuerdi, Germany. He is now
a merchant and banker of New York City. His parents were
Lemuel Arnstein, a school-teacher, and Pauline Simon.
Josefine (Mandelbaum) Arnstein (b. Jan. 15th, 1853, at
Klattan, Austria) is the daughter of Elias Mandelbaum and
of Sophie Weiner, both of Klattan.
Arnstein prepared for College at Dr. Sachs' School in New York
City. He entered our Class from '97 in the fall of our Senior
.yj^ar,-^»d^as graduated with a First Dispute at Commence-
ment, completing the course in three years. He also received
a First Dispute at his Junior Exhibition while a member of '97.
He was President of the Yale Chess Club during Senior year.
He was married at New York City, Nov. 19th, 1901, to Miss
Elsie Nathan, daughter of Max Nathan, and has two children,
Elizabeth Arnstein (b. Oct. 15th, 1902, at New York City)
and Margaret Arnstein (b. Oct. 27th, 1904, at New York City).
[n 1902 Arnstein wrote: "Have been with the (hide
and leather) firm of J. H. Rossbach & Bros, ever since
graduation and have during that time been in Europe
twice on pleasure trips and twice to Brazil on business,
on each of the latter occasions spending three or four
months in Pernambuco and Bahia." In 1906, being
asked for further news, "Happy is the country," said
he to the Secretary, "that has no history."
Now the Class Secretary has grown to loathe the sight
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of this simpering old phrase, which he has blue-penciled
a hundred times only to find it complacently being re-
turned to him again from some other sententious source.
Deeming it, furthermore, a subterfuge unworthy of Arn-
stein, he penned a violent and perhaps inaccurate protest.
*'I note with satisfaction," Arnstein answered, "that
about 'one fifth of the men' not only are happy in the
lack of a history but furthermore are so impregnated
with the classic learning that was soaked in some ten
years ago, that misquotations are as second nature. As
to the dearth of interesting facts, my last answer was
prompted by truth, not laziness. Since 1902 I have been
acting as General Manager of the above concern (the
Nathan Manufacturing Co., of New York), and have
been putting in all my time at the factory, which is de-
voted to the manufacture of locomotive fittings, etc.
My summers have been spent on the Hudson, and vaca-
tions in the Adirondacks, An automobile and I take
turns at owning each other. I play chess but rarely,
and was betrayed into a tournament but once; this was
at the Yale Club this spring, when three of us gloriously
tied for second place— there were four in the tournament.
"I am on a few committees and things, of a social-
work nature, [he is Secretary of Mt. Sinai Hospital]
but enough has been said, to give you material to con-
struct a theme of burning interest. Try asbestos paper."
Edgar S. Auchincloss
Residence, 123 East 69th Street, New York City.
Member of the New York Stock Exchange. Office, 15 Wall Street.
Edgar Stirling Auchincloss was born in New York City, Dec.
13th, 1874. He is the son of Edgar Stirling Auchincloss (New
York University '67) and Maria LaGrange Sloan, who were
married on May 21st, 1872, in New York City, and had, in-
cluding Edgar, eight children, seven boys and one girl. Edgar's
Yale relatives include five brothers — Samuel S., ex '94, Hugh,
'01, Charles Crooke, '03, Gordon, '08, and James C, '08; three
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BIOGRAPHIES
uncles— Frederick L., '71, John W., '73 S., and Hugh D., '79;
and two cousins — Charles R., '03, and J. Rowland, '08,
Edgar Stirling Auchincloss, Sr. (b. Sept. 29th, 1847, in New
York City; d. Mch. 13th, 1892, at Augusta, Ga.) spent most
of his life as a commission merchant in New York City. He
was the son of John Auchincloss, also a merchant, and Eliza-
beth Buck, both of New York. The family settled at New
York when they came to America from Scotland in 1800.
Maria LaGrange (Sloan) Auchincloss (b. Feb. 4th, 1847,
in New York City) is the daughter of Samuel Sloan of New
York, a financier and Railroad President, and Margaret El-
mendorf.
Auchincloss prepared for Yale at Andover, and entered our Class
in the fall of Freshman year. He received a Second Dispute
at the Junior Exhibition and a First Dispute at Commence-
ment, and was a member of the Committee on the Boys' Club.
Psi. U.
He was married (i) at New York City, Feb. 14th, 1899, to Miss
Marie Louise Mott, daughter of J. Varnum Mott. She died
Sept. 3d, 1899, at Monmouth Beach, N. J.
He was married (2) at New York City, April 14th, 1903, to Miss
Catherine Sanford Agnew, daughter of Andrew Gifford Agnew
of New York, and has two children, Mary Bliss Auchincloss
(b. April 6th, 1904, at New York City) and Elizabeth Ellen
Auchincloss (b. June 27th, 1905, at Rye, N. Y.).
"After leaving College," wrote Auchincloss in 1902, "I
at once entered the General Freight Department of the
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad as a clerk.
In the spring of 1897 was appointed Assistant General
Freight Agent, which position I held until the fall of
1899, when I was made General Agent of the Freight
Department, with office in New York. In January, 1901,
I resigned from this position and left the railroad busi-
ness, entering shortly afterwards the brokerage office of
H. T. Carey & Company, New York. On August ist,
1901, I became a member of the New York Stock Ex-
change, and have been since that date engaged as a
broker, doing business on the floor of the Exchange. My
residence and place of business have always been in New
York." (See Appendix.)
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His decennial letter gives information concerning his
marriage to Miss Agnew in 1903, and proceeds as fol-
lows :— 'Went to Hot Springs of North Carolina for
honeymoon ; there met Bob Lusk similarly occupied. May
1st, 1904, became member of firm of Welles, Auchin-
closs & West [Charles E. Wdles and J. Terry West],
which dissolved May ist, 1906, by limitation. [This firm
was succeeded by C. E. Welles & Company, with whom
Auchincloss now has his headquarters.] About January
1st, 1905, was taken quite seriously ill, which kept me
from business until the latter part of March (in Atlan-
tic City and in Summerville, South Carolina). On Jan-
uary 22d, 1906, went to Nassau, N. P., for a month's
vacation, being a good deal run down. Am making a
vacation of this summer, in order to get back on my feet
again (not literally) and hope to show up at Decennial."
Edgar's summers have been spent at Rye, New York,
at Kennebunkport, Maine, and at Darien, Connecticut.
Leonard B. Bacon
Residence, 152 Gibbs Street, Rochester, New York.
Lawyer. 15 Rochester Savings Bank Building.
Leonard Beaumont Bacon was born July 25th, 1875, at
Rochester, N. Y. He is the son of Theodore Bacon, '53, and
Julia Selden, who were married Feb. i8th, 1864, at Rochester,
N. Y., and had one other son (Henry Selden Bacon, '93) and
two daughters.
Theodore Bacon (b. May 6th, 1834, at New Haven, Conn.;
d. Jan. 22d, 1900, at Rochester, N. Y.) served through the
Civil War as Captain of the 7th Conn. Regiment, and Assist-
ant Adjutant General on Gen. Terry's staff, and subsequently
practised as a lawyer in Rochester. He was the son of the
Rev. Dr. Leonard Bacon (Yale *2o), a member of the Yale
Corporation, and for fifty-seven years Minister of Center
Church in New Haven ; and of Lucy Johnson of Boston, Mass.
The family came from England in 1636, and settled at Dedham,
Mass. Theodore Bacon's seven brothers all received Yale
degrees, as follows:
Benjamin W. (A. B. '47)
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Leonard W. (A. B. '50; and also M. D., B. D., and LL. D.)
Francis (M. D. '53)
George B. (A. B. '56; and also B. D.)
Thomas R. (A. B. '73; and also B. D.)
Alfred T. (A. B. '73)
Rev. Edward W. (M. A. hon. '78)
Julia (Selden) Bacon (b: Sept. 24th, 1835, at Clarkson, Mon-
roe Co., N. Y.) is the daughter of Judge Henry Rogers Selden
of Rochester, a lawyer and judge of the New York Court
of Appeals, who received the degree of LL. D. from Yale in '57,
and was a Lieutenant-Governor of New York; and of Laura
Ann Baldwin, of Clarkson.
Bacon spent his early life at Rochester, N. Y., and at Andover,
where he prepared for College. He received a Dissertation at
the Junior Exhibition and at Commencement. In Sophomore
year he was Lieutenant of the Dunham Boat Club. A. D. Phi.
He was married at Ridgewood, N. J., May 14th, 1903, to Miss
Eleanor Cowperthwait, daughter of Frank M. Cowperthwait
of Brooklyn, N. Y., and has two children, David Bacon (b.
July 17th, 1904, at Rochester, N. Y.) and Alice Bacon (b. Oct.
7th, 1905, at Rochester).
Bacon studied law for one year in his father's office and
for two years at the Harvard Law School. Then, after
four months in Europe, he began to practise in Rochester,
New York. June ist, 1901, he formed the partnership of
Bacon & Bacon, with his brother, Henry Selden Bacon,
'93. He has recently been practising with the firm of
Harris & Harris.
v/ His decennial letter finds nothing much to describe
except vacations. "1903, vacation in North Woods. 1904,
vacation at Beaver River Club, North Woods. Too busy
in 1905, building a house in the country. Now living
in country on Lake Shore, Webster, New York, ten miles
from Rochester. Hardly ever see a classmate, through a
variety of circumstances, chief among which is the fact
that I had none from this city— in which '96 is rather
remarkable, for Rochester is a good Yale town. Rather
recently Loomis has come to live near here part of the
year, but I see little of him for he is not here in winter,
and in the summer I live down in the country on the Lake.
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I see Frank Wade occasionally when business takes me
to Syracuse. No travels, except on business, since 1902."
Henry D. Baker
Journalist. The University Club, Chicago.
Henry Dunster Baker was born Feb. 26th, 1872, at Attleboro,
Mass. He is the son of William Taylor Baker and Eliza
Anna Dunster, who were married in Chicago in 1861, and had,
including Henry, six children, four boys and two girls, five
of whom lived to maturity.
William Taylor Baker (b. Sept. nth, 1841, at Winfield,
N. Y. ; d. Oct. 6th, 1903, at Chicago) was a President of the
Chicago Board of Trade, President of the World's Columbian
Exposition, Vice-President of the Chicago Bureau of Charities,
President of the Chicago Federation, and a Director in the
National Biscuit Company and other Chicago companies and
institutions. His father died young, and nothing is known of
his life. His mother came from Winfield, N. Y. The family
are of English descent.
Eliza Anna (Dunster) Baker (d. 1873 at Chicago) was the
daughter of Samuel Dunster, a farmer of Attleboro, Mass.,
and was descended from Henry Dunster, first President of
Harvard College.
Baker spent his youth principally in Chicago. At Yale he was
made an editor of the "News" in Junior year, received a
Townsend Premium in Senior year at the DeForest Prize
Speaking, and took a Second Colloquy at Commencement. He
was a member of the Chicago Club and the Yale Union.
He has not been married. (See Appendix.)
"I AM ashamed to give an account of myself for the last
ten years," writes Baker. "My, how time does fly. For
I certainly cannot realize I Ve been out of College ten
years. I Ve been pursuing all this time such things as
money, pleasure, knowledge, power, and, while I have
made an occasional catch, I have not yet made a real
good haul of any sort. Too many holes in my net I
presume, and good things slip by. The fair sex seems
to think I would do better as a brother than as a husband,
194 BIOGRAPHIES
and when a man fails to get married, the holes will
usually stay in his net.
"As to my business for the last ten years, there is some
that is quite personal, like the litigation inside our family,
which has taken much of my time, and been a very
harassing feature of my life. I have contributed to
the newspapers. Was at first reporter of the 'Chicago
Tribune', then financial editor, then in the financial de-
partment of the 'New York Evening Post', then an editor
of the 'Commercial West' of Minneapolis ;and I have con-
tributed to various Chicago papers, and to the 'Financial
Times' of London, England. I have used at times such
noms de plume as 'Jackson', 'Sharpshooter'. During
the last two presidential campaigns I accepted some of
the insurance companies' contributions to the Republican
Campaign Fund (as a member of the Republican Na-
tional Committee's literary bureau in Chicago) for
writing articles on prosperity, etc. At present I am a
'capitalist' in a small way, and have 'business interests'
that demand my attention, though I still do some news-
paper work, and hope soon to do more. I am crazy to
write a novel, and after I recover from the effects of this
Decennial I may begin."
Baker has certainly established a place for himself in
the newspaper world, particularly, though not exclu-
sively, as a financial writer. He has wide business
interests : he has traveled— witness his tour in 1898-9
through a charmed though would-be-hostile Spain : he
has entertained notably — witness the banquet to Vander-
lip, Hill, et al. He knows all the bankers, statesmen,
actors, and other eminent citizens that man could ask, and
he is always doing three or four things at once. Here,
for instance, is an extract from a characteristic note
dated August 20th, 1902 : "... Just now taking place
of financial man on 'Chicago Daily News' as well as my
own work. I am also arranging for a picnic for the Sun-
day School of our Church; a banquet to be given by
some 'Captains of Industry,' to a 'Congress of Beauty'
from the Wizard of Oz and other companies that have
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been playing here this summer ; and a farewell dinner
to Troy Kinney." The man has a head, eh, gentlemen?
Think of what might have happened had he in the
smallest degree mixed up these feasts.
Rev. O. C. Baker
Fowlerville, New York.
Permanent mail address, Penfield, New York.
Owen Calvin Baker was born March 5th, 1874, at Rochester,
N. Y. He is a son of Henry M. Baker and Annetta Owen,
who were married Feb. 8th, 1873, at Rochester, N. Y., and had
altogether seven children, five boys, and two girls, five of
whom lived to maturity.
Henry M. Baker (b. April loth, 1845, at Ballston Spa, N. Y.)
was adopted when a child by Israel P. Baker, whose surname
he now bears. His father's name was Maurice, and his mother
was Lucy Laurie, both of La Prairie, Quebec, Canada. Mr.
Baker is a veteran of the Civil War (Corp. Co. B. 8th N. Y.
Vol. Cav., 1861-5) and has spent most of his life as a farmer
and a barber, at Penfield, Monroe County, N. Y.
Annetta (Owen) Baker (b. Feb. 8th, 1849, at Penfield,
N. Y.) is the daughter of Calvin Wooster Owen, a carpenter
and joiner of Penfield, and of Clarissa Beebe, of Wells, Vt.
Baker prepared for Yale at the Classical Union School, Fairport,
N. Y. In College he received an Oration at the Junior Ex-
hibition and at Commencement.
He was married at Conesus, N. Y., June 26th, 1901, to Miss Daisia
L. Durkee, daughter of George W. and Harriet Payne Durkee.
Mr. Durkee is a farmer of Conesus.
Baker spent the year 1896-97 at the Western Military
Academy, Upper Alton, Illinois, where he combined the
duties of Instructor of Mathematics and Director of the
Gymnasium. During 1897-98 he was Principal of the
High School at Kane, Pennsylvania. He then entered
the Genesee Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, became a minister of the Gospel, and was as-
signed to Conesus, New York.
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In Conesus he remained for three years, and there (in
June, 1901) he married. From the fall of 1901 to the
fall of 1902 he was pastor in the town of Alabama, New
York, and since then he has had a charge at Fowlerville.
His decennial letter follows :—
''I have spent the time mostly in this vicinity doing my
regular work, and attending our local conferences and
conventions, in which I have generally had some part on
the program. I have charge of three churches— the
other two being in Greigsville and Moscow. Last fall
(1905) Moscow was set off alone, and I organized a
church at the salt mining town of Retsof. My vacation
of four weeks each summer has been spent partly at my
home in Penfield, and partly at my wife's in Conesus.
This does n't make much show on paper, but ic has taken
all my time."
Wm. G. Baker, Jr.
Partner in the firm of Baker, Watts & Company, Bankers,
Calvert and German Streets, Baltimore, Maryland.
Residence, The Albion Hotel.
William Gideon Baker, Jr., was born Dec. 21st, 1874, at Buck-
eystown, Md. He is the son of William Gideon Baker and
Ella Jones, who were married in 1867, in Montgomery Co., Md.,
and had one other son.
William Gideon Baker, Sr. (b. March 2d, 1842, at Buckeys-
town) is a banker. He is a son of Daniel Baker, of Buckeys-
town, a tanner, and of Catherine Finger. The family came
originally from Germany, and settled in Frederick Co., Md.
Ella (Jones) Baker (b. 1847) spent her early life in Mont-
gomery Co., Md. She is the daughter of David T. Jones, a
farmer, and of Mary A. Dawson, both of that place.
Baker was graduated from the Western Maryland College in '94,
with the degree of B.A., and entered our Class in the fall
of Senior year. He took a Philosophical Oration at Com-
mencement and was elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa
and the Yale Union. He received One Year Honors in Po-
litical Science and Law.
He has not been married.
Baker received the degree of Bachelor of Laws from
the University of Maryland in 1899. 'Tor several years
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after leaving college," said his sexennial letter, **I was
Assistant Treasurer of the Standard Lime & Stone
Company. This position I resigned in 1900 to engage in
the banking business as senior member of the firm of
Baker, Watts & Company (of Baltimore). Previous to
this I spent a little while traveling, going to California
and through the West generally, and in '99 took it into
my head to go to Europe for several months. . . ."
Baker's partners are Sewell S. Watts and Edwin W.
Levering, Jr. His decennial letter follows: —
"I have been pretty busy during the four years you
mention, and, of course, practically all of my time has
been given to business. During the summer of 1902 I
spent about six weeks in Europe and repeated the per-
formance in 1904, and if nothing happens I rather think
I shall go over again this summer.
"You speak of amusements— I row a little, play a good
deal of tennis, and when I am feeling particularly brave,
attempt a round or two of golf. I have seen compara-
tively few '96 men since graduation. As you know,
none of our Class are in Baltimore. I think once since
then I have seen Walter Clark in New York.
*T do not think my experiences would be particularly
interesting as they have been rather the sort that comes
to the average business man. I am glad to see that a
goodly number of '96 men are entering the blissful state
of matrimony. I received only a week or so ago, an
invitation to Jack Berry's wedding which I think oc-
curs tomorrow."
Austin R. Baldwin
President of Baldwin Brothers & Company, Importers of Wines and
Rectifiers, 36 Front Street, New York City.
Residence, 409 Franklin Street, Bloomfield, New Jersey.
Austin Radcliffe Baldwin was born November nth, 1874, in
New York City. He is the son of Austin Parker Baldwin and
Alice Lockwood Bradford, who were married June 4th, 1868,
at Providence, R. I., and had one other son and one daughter.
Austin Parker Baldwin (b. Oct. nth, 1834, at No. 402 Broome
St., New York; d. Dec. 7th, 1901, at No. 8 West 32d St., New
198 BIOGRAPHIES
York) was in the steamship and foreign express business.
He was the son of Austin Baldwin and Julia Clarissa Huyck,
both of New York. Austin Baldwin was a manufacturer, and
founder of the first local foreign express company. The family
came from Devonshire, England, in 1630, and settled at Ded-
ham, Mass.
Alice Lockwood (Bradford) Baldwin (b. June 4th, 1844, at
Pawtucket, R. I.; d. Sept. 8th, 1881, at Morristown, N. J.)
was the daughter of Shadrach Standish Bradford, a Baptist
clergyman, and of Dorcas Brown Lockwood, both of Provi-
dence, R. I.
Baldwin spent his early life in New York City, and at St. Paul's
School, Concord, N. H. In College he was a member of the
Gymnastic Team and he received a Dissertation at the Junior
Exhibition and at Commencement.
He was married Jan. 7th, 1903, at the Church of the Incarnation,
New York City, to Miss Mary Mildred Williams, daughter of
the late William Bisland Williams of New York City.
"I WAS with the German-American Fire Insurance Com-
pany of New York until the spring of 1900," said Bald-
win's sexennial letter, ''when ill health obliged me to give
up that position and go abroad. I spent the summer in
England and France with my brother, and while in
France took in the Exposition. Returned in the fall and
went with the Magdeburg Insurance Company, until
August, 1901, when that company went out of business.
. . . In December, 1901, my father died, and shortly
after my brother and myself brought suit against my
uncle for the name and control of this (wine merchant)
branch of my father's business. We won our suit and
formed the corporation of which I am now Secretary and
Treasurer," namely, Baldwin Brothers and Company.
Austin is now the President. His decennial letter fol-
lows : —
'The last four years have passed very quickly with me.
I was married on January 7th, 1903, and in the spring of
that year took a house in the country, in Bloomfield, New
Jersey, where we have been living ever since. In the
same delightful town reside Billy Beard and 'Robby'
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Root, whom I see occasionally. Most of my time is
spent in touring the fine Jersey roads in my 'White
Steamer' with an occasional trip to Atlantic City for the
sea breezes. My extended trips are purely on business.
In the summer of 1903 I bought out my brother's inter-
est in Baldwin Brothers & Company, at which time Gene
Alexander also acquired an interest in the corporation.
''Of course I run across '96 men frequently in the city,
and Harry Fisher lets me hear from him regularly.
"As to my vocation, it seems to be hustling for busi-
ness, and I am always glad to hear from 'the thirsty'."
Mark Baldwin
Secretary and Director of the Bridgeman & Russell Company, Wholesale
Dairy Products, i6 West First Street, Duluth, Minnesota.
Residence, 1009 East Second Street.
Mark Baldwin was born June 22d, 1872, at Perry, 111. He is a
son of George Washington Baldwin and Sarah Jane Mason,
who were married July loth, 1858, in Pike County, 111., and
had altogether six children, five boys and one girl, one of whom
died before maturity.
George Washington Baldwin (b. Feb. 22d, 1830, at New
York City; d. July i8th, 1890, at Maysville, Colo.) was a miller
and grain buyer. The greater part of his life was spent at
Perry, 111. His parents were David Baldwin, a contractor of
New York City until 1836, and thereafter a farmer and miller
of Perry; and Anne Desney of New York City and Perry.
Sarah Jane (Mason) Baldwin (b. Feb. 3d, 1838, in New
Hampshire; d. Feb. 3d, 1891, at Griggsville, 111.) spent her early
life at Barry, 111. Her parents were Charles Mason, a farmer,
and Louise Farnam, both of Barry. Louise Farnam came to
Barry from New Hampshire.
Baldwin spent his early life at Perry and Jacksonville, 111.,
Duluth and New Haven. He prepared for College at Whipple
Academy and received a First Dispute at the Junior Exhibition
and a Second Dispute at Commencement.
He was married at Jacksonville, 111., June 20th, 1899, to Miss
Margaret Olive Black, daughter of Dr. G. V. Black, and has
one child, Clara Elizabeth Baldwin (b. Oct. 23d, 1900, at Du-
luth, Minn.).
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Baldwin went out to Duluth, Minnesota, in 1896, and
taught for nearly seven years in the Duluth High School,
dealing occasionally in timber lands just to keep his hand
in. On April ist, 1903, Henry Bridgeman, Newell F.
Russell and himself incorporated the "Bridgeman & Rus-
sell Company; Wholesale Dairy Products; Manufactur-
ers of 'Princess Brand' Creamery Butter ; Cold Storage,"
&c., with Baldwin as Secretary. "Did n't I always tell
you I was going to raise chickens?" said Mark. "We
buy all the stuff now, but sometime we expect to have a
big farm— dairy and chicken— near here. Then I will
be right in it."
"Bridgeman & Russell" was an old Duluth firm long
before this incorporation, with a practical monopoly of
the milk and cream business, and a large share of the
trade in butter and eggs. Their letter paper used to be
embellished with pictures of fat round cheeses, firkins
of butter, crates labeled "fresh eggs," and the like, aild
underneath all these was an intimation that "boat or-
ders" would be promptly filled.
With Baldwin's advent the pastoral and reassuring
tone of these studies in still life disappeared. To-day the
note-head displays a great brick factory, or storehouse;
a flag surmounting the middle windows, black smoke
pouring from the chimney. Two delivery wagons are at
the curb, a motor and a buggy race towards the door,
and the sidewalk is almost bare of people— they 're all
inside. . . . We miss the studies in still life, and the
cheeses.
Baldwin is a great believer in Duluth, and is always
trying to get people to go there and "just try it." The
Class Secretary finally put it on his schedule in 1905.
Three weeks before he started, however, he saw the
following item in the "Rocky Mountain News" :—
MUST NOT SHOOT BEAR WITHIN CITY LIMITS.
_ Duluth, Minn., Sep. 23. The shooting of bears within the city
limits has become so common of late that Chief of Police Troyer
to-day detailed two mounted officers to patrol the city to see
that his instructions against the practice are carried out.
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The Secretary's game leg shivered at this announce-
ment. It harrowed up his soul, froze his young blood,
made each particular hair to stand an end like frills upon
the fretful concubine. He concluded to stick to Colorado
where the bears are obliging enough to remain in the
woods.
Kneeland Ball
Permanent mail address, care of Conway W. Ball, 298 Pennsylvania Street,
Buffalo, N. Y.
Kneeland Ball was born Aug. 26th, 1875, in Buffalo, N. Y.
He is a son of Conway Wing Ball and Harriet Eliza Kneeland,
who were married June 13th, 1861, at La Porte, Ind., and had
altogether seven children, three boys and four girls.
Conway Wing Ball (b. July 18th, 1838, at Spencerport,
N. Y.) is a flour merchant in Buffalo, where he has spent
most of his life. He is the son of Henry Ball, a Spencerport
merchant, and Amanda Egglestone, of East Bloomfield, N. Y.
The family came from England in 1830, and settled at Water-
town, Mass.
Harriet Eliza (Kneeland) Ball (b. Oct. 22d, 1837, at Ogden,
N. Y. ; d. Nov. i6th, 1900, at Buffalo) was the daughter of
Elisha Yale Kneeland, a mechanic and inventor of Buffalo,
and Charlotte Ball of Spencerport.
Ball spent his early life in Buffalo. In College he was a member
of the Yale Union and of the Cap and Gown Committee. He
received a First Dispute at the Junior Exhibition and a Dis-
sertation at Commencement.
He was married at Buffalo, N. Y., June loth, 1903, to Miss
Maud Margaret Lansdowne, daughter of Mrs. Joseph Rus-
combe Lansdowne, and has one child, a daughter, Geraldine
Ball (b. March 2d, 1904, at Buffalo).
In September, 1896, Ball went into business in Buffalo
with his father, representing the Pillsbury milling people,
of Minneapolis. He advanced through the usual grades
until, in the autumn of 1905 he was made "Manager of
the Erie Branch office of the Pillsbury- Washburn Flour
Mills Company, Limited," at Erie, Pennsylvania.
While in Buffalo he served on the Membership Com-
k
202 BIOGRAPHIES
mittee, and as Treasurer, of the University Club, and he
used, at this time, to go up to New Haven every year,
and to attend with some frequency the Class's dinners.
This, however, was before his unfortunate experience
of 1903 when he spent our New York dinner night
stalled and snowbound on his train, arriving at the Yale
Club the next morning at six o'clock— by which time
even Tuppy was in bed. (See Appendix.)
James A. Ballentine
Lawyer. Monadnock Building, San Francisco, California. (See Appendix.)
Residence address, Piedmont, Alameda County.
James Arthur Ballentine was born Sept. 4th, 187 1, at De-
troit, Mich. He is a son of James Madison Ballentine and
Ellen Truesdale Smith, who had altogether six children, two
boys and four girls, four of whom lived to maturity.
James Madison Ballentine (b. Nov. 29th, 1832, at Prescott,
Canada; d. Sept. 22d, 1899, at Stanley, Custer Co., Idaho) was
Captain of the Elgin Battery, a company of Illinois volunteers,
in the Civil War. Most of his life was spent at Detroit, Mich.,
Chicago and Waukegan, 111., and Boise, Idaho, engaged in the
grain transportation business on the Great Lakes, in cattle
raising, and in mining. He was twice a State Senator in Idaho,
and ran for Governor of Idaho on the Democratic Ticket. His
parents were David Ballentine, a merchant and banker of
Waukegan, and Agnes McGee of Scotland and Canada. David
Ballentine was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He came to
America about 1820, and settled at Prescott, Canada.
Ellen Truesdale (Smith) Ballentine was born at Harris-
burg, Pa. She was the daughter of Whitney Smith, a tanner
of book leathers of Harrisburg, and also of Mineral Point,
Wis. Her mother's paternal grandfather, Samuel Thomas,
was a General in the War of 1812, on the American side. The
Thomas family were from Massachusetts.
Ballentine prepared for Yale at Andover. In College he played
the banjeaurine in the Second Banjo Club and was purser of
the Dunham Boat Club. A. D. Phi. He was a member of
'94 S. before entering '96.
He was married at Williamsburg, Va., Oct. 23d, 1901, to Miss
Frances R. Booth, daughter of Dr. Edwin G. Booth of Wil-
liamsburg, and has three children, two girls and a boy, Clara
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Booth Ballentine (b. Aug. 19th, 1902, at San Francisco, Cal.),
Frances Booth Ballentine (b. March nth, 1904, at San Fran-
cisco), and James Arthur Ballentine, Jr. (b. June loth, 1906, at
Piedmont, Alameda Co., Cal.).
After studying for three years at the Harvard Law
School, Ballentine returned to Boise City, and in October,
1899, became a member of the Idaho Bar. About a year
later (December, 1900) he went out to California. He
was admitted to the California Bar in April, 1901, opened
an office in San Francisco the following June, and has
since then practised in that city. During the years
1902-04 he was associated with Hugh W. Adams, Jr.,
under the firm name of Ballentine & Adams. In addi-
tion to his practice he has written on legal subjects (see
Bibliographical Notes) and he has served for the last
two years as Instructor in Torts and Crimes in Has-
tings' College of the Law, San Francisco, and Head
Instructor in the Young Men's Christian Association
Evening Law School. He was recently elected Secretary
and Treasurer of the Yale Alumni Association of Cali-
fornia.
A few weeks after the earthquake had shaken him out
of his new home in Oakland, he wrote the following
decennial report: —
"Up to April 1 8th, 1906, I had spent all my time at the
law, practising, teaching, and writing, the practice being
the principle thing. Both practice and library were
growing; and now, with a nucleus of one very stingy
client, and the possibility of a book store's coming to
San Francisco, there is every reason to believe that both
library and practice will come again.
" 'Travels' :— I leave it to Hebe Hawkes to say how
many thousand miles I have traveled to and from my
office across the Bay, twenty-two miles each day for a
year.
" 'Vacations' :— Here 's where I shine. Since April
i8th, 1906, life has been a glorious holiday— the first I
I
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have indulged in since the summer of '95, barring the
two weeks when I was married in 1900. I am spending
most of it trimming the grass, clipping the rose vines,
and training the climbing Wistaria; and my playmates,
the children, and their mother and I, are sunburned and
happy. We only hope it won't be too long a holiday.
" ^Experiences' : — The only one I remember is the
earthquake. If you ever went to bed (and you did) and
had your feet seem to make a grand semi-circular curve
and come around where your head was, you know one
feature of the sensation, but really a house with a jag is
far worse, because of the horrible rattle and jar going
with it. In fact my youngsters were the only people
I have met who enjoyed the jouncing. I rushed to the
nursery and found them sitting up in their little beds
howling with delight as they were being fairly tossed
about the room.
"I was in the City during the second and third days
of the fire and could easily write a small volume on what
I saw there, but I am trying not to think of it."
William M. Beard
Partner in the law firm of Beard & Paret, 45 Broadway, New York City.
Residence, Glen Ridge, New Jersey.
William Mossgrove Beard was born March 8th, 1876, at St.
Louis, Mo. He is a son of Oliver T. Beard and Elizabeth
Mossgrove (his second wife), who were married Aug. i8th,
1868, at Steubenville, O., and had one other son (Anson M.
Beard, '95) and three daughters.
Oliver T. Beard (b. Nov. 23d, 1833, at Brooklyn, N. Y.;
d. April loth, 1898, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.) served through the
Civil War, enlisting as a private, and retiring as Lieutenant-
Colonel of the 48th N. Y. Regiment. He led and commanded
the first colored troops who were actually engaged in battle.
He was a teacher, an author, a lawyer, and at one time editor
of the "Detroit Tribune." The greater part of his life was
spent in Brooklyn, Steubenville, Richmond, Va., Detroit, and
Poughkeepsie. His father was William Beard, who came to
America from Ireland in 1827, and settled at Brooklyn, where
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he became the owner of wharves, warehouses, docks, etc.;
and his mother was Mary Johnston, of Brooklyn.
Elizabeth (Mossgrove) Beard (b. May 27th, 1845, at Steuben-
ville, O.) is the daughter of William Mossgrove, a merchant,
and Elizabeth Johnson, both of Steubenville. She is now
(Dec, 1905) living in Poughkeepsie.
Beard prepared for Yale at the Riverview Military Academy and
at Hopkins Grammar School. He rowed No. 3 on the Fresh-
man Crew in the Spring Regatta, on the Sophomore Crew in
the fall of Sophomore year, and in the same position on the
'Varsity for the last three years of his course. He was Chair-
man of the Executive Committee of the Yale Union during the
second half of Senior year, and received a Second Colloquy
at the Junior Exhibition and a First Colloquy at Commence-
ment. Eta Phi. D. K. E. Bones.
He was married at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., June i8th, 1898, to Miss
Grace Carpenter, daughter of the late William Carpenter, and
of Mary V. B. Carpenter of Poughkeepsie, and has two chil-
dren, Cecil Beard (b. April 2d, 1899, in San Francisco, Cal.)
and Marcia Beard (b. Oct. 13th, 1900, in Poughkeepsie).
Beard received the degree of LL.B. from the law school
of the University of CaHfornia at Berkeley in 1899. He
then returned to Poughkeepsie, New York, practised
there for about a year, and on December ist, 1900, formed
his present partnership with Walter Paret '96, with
offices on lower Broadway, New York City. "Have
worked at the law, except that I have had a vacation of
one month each summer which I have spent at various
places," said his decennial letter.
"As to the Rocky Mountain trip which you enquire
about," he added afterwards, "I went to the St. Marius
Lake regions in the Rockies in Northern Montana with
my brother Anson and Walter Hill of St. Paul. We cer-
tainly did rough it to beat the band. We got a couple of
bear, some goats, good bird-shooting and wonderful
trout-fishing, and, of course, had many interesting and
amusing incidents on the trip. If you desire any further
information about that trip, I will prepare some pictures
and give an illustrated lecture, but, of course, you could
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not ask me to do all that without a very large retainer,
I should think about $5,000.
"My law work, and I can also speak for Walter P.
Paret in this, has been in general practice, principally in
the State Courts, with considerable work in the Federal
Courts. I have been making a specialty of a particular
line of work, but I really don't feel like advertising my-
self in it and would prefer to go into further details
when my reputation is a little more established."
Rev. Arthur H. Beaty
Rector of St. Peter's (Episcopal) Church, Buffalo, New York.
Residence, 123 Benzinger Street.
Arthur Hillier Beaty was born Jan. 19th, 1874, at Cedar
Springs, Mich. He is a son of James Beaty, University of
Toronto '68, and Mary Annie Toll, who were married in July,
1872, at Chatham, Can., and had one other child, a son.
James Beaty (b. Feb. 13th, 1843, in England; d. in May, 1896),
who came to Canada from England c. 1850, was a wholesale
merchant. He lived at Toronto, Can., Detroit, Mich., and
California. He was the son of James Beaty of Toronto, an
owner of large stock farms, and a breeder of thoroughbred
stock.
Mary Annie (Toll) Beaty was born May ist, 1850. Her
early life was spent in Toronto, Can. She was the daughter
of Isaiah Toll, a merchant of Bowmanville, Ontario, who was
one of* the leading members of the Masonic Fraternity in
Canada. She is now (Jan., '06) living in New York City.
Beaty spent his early life in Detroit and other places in Michigan,
and entered Yale in the fall of '92. He received a First
Colloquy at the Junior Exhibition and at Commencement.
He has not been married.
After one year in Detroit, Michigan, where he did some
mission work, Beaty, according to his sexennial report,
"entered the General Theological Seminary in New York
City in 1897 and graduated in 1900. During my semi-
nary course I was on the staff of St. James' Episcopal
Church, 71st Street and. Madison Avenue, for two years,
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1 898- 1 900. After my graduation I went to Grace
Church as Assistant to Dr. Huntington. I remained
there for one year. In July, 1901, I became Assistant in
St. George's, Flushing (Long Island), and took charge
of St. John's Church at the same place. . . ."
His decennial postscript says : — "In February of 1903
I came to Buffalo as Rector of St. Peter's Episcopal
Church and have been here ever since. The summer
of 1903 I spent in Muskoka, and met Whitaker who was
doing a flourishing motor boat business there and in
Toronto. The summer of 1904 I spent in the Adiron-
dacks. The summer of 1905 I spent in Europe, spend-
ing most of my time in England and Scotland, visiting
various places of interest, and having a splendid time,
with the exception of the greater part of the time spent
in the boat, where I rather over-indulged in sea-sickness,
and had to take a doctor's prescription to make sure that
the services on board would continue to the end without
being unexpectedly interrupted. I had charge of the
services although I begged the Captain to let me off,
but he would n't. Buffalo I find very pleasant to
live in."
* Alfred H. Belo
Publisher. Died in Dallas, Texas, February 27, 1906.
Alfred Horatio Belo was born Aug. 4th, 1873, at Galveston, Tex.
He was the only son of Alfred Horatio Belo and Jeannette
Ennis, who were married June 30th, 1868, at Galveston, and
had one other child, a girl.
Alfred Horatio Belo, the elder (b. May 27th, 1839, at Salem,
N. C.; d. April 19th, 1901, in North Carolina) organized the
first company from Forsythe County, N. C. at the outbreak
of the Civil War, and led it as Captain. Later he was made
Colonel of the 55th N. C. Regiment. After the war he went
to Texas, and entered the office of the "Galveston News," sub-
sequently becoming head of A. H. Belo & Co. (chartered in
1881). In 1885 this Company began the publication of the
"Dallas News" in addition to the "Galveston News." Alfred
H. Belo's father was Edward Belo, who was a merchant of
Salem, N. C. He was also president of a railroad company,
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and had an iron foundry. The family came from Germany,
and Salem was the place where they first settled.
Jeannette (Ennis) Belo (b. Dec. 3d, 1846, at Houston, Tex.),
who spent her early life in Paris, is the daughter of Cornelius
Ennis, a cotton factor and merchant of Houston, and Jeannette
I. Kimball, of Windsor, Vt.
Belo prepared for Yale at the Hill School, and while in College
was Secretary of the Hill School Club. He also served on
the Executive Committee of the Southern Club. He received
a First Dispute at tl.e Junior Exhibition and a Dissertation at
Commencement. Psi U. Wolf's Head.
He was married at Denton, Tex., June 12th, 1900, to Miss
Helen Ponder, daughter of William A. Ponder of Denton, and
had two children, Helen Ennis Belo (b. June 12th, 1902, at
Dallas, Tex.) and Jane Belo (b. Nov. 3d, 1904, at Dallas).
For two or three years after graduation Belo's health
did not permit his engaging actively in business. His
father was the President of A. H. Belo & Co., proprie-
tors of the "Dallas News" and the ''Galveston News."
During the winter months ''Tex" was employed on odd
jobs for these papers in Dallas ; the rest of each year he
spent in places like Canada or the Adirondacks. In 1899,
however, his health having decidedly improved, he buckled
down to steady work, and when, in 1901, his father died,
and he became the corporation's President, he had quali-
fied himself to fill the position not merely nominally,
but in fact.
He organized the Yale Alumni Association of Texas
on April 27th, 1904, an account of which was published
in the "Alumni Weekly" on May 4th of that year. The last
time the Class Secretary saw him was one afternoon in
April, 1905, at the University Club. "Tex" was full of
the subject of his children, but he told the fellows some-
thing of his business, too— especially of the three special
daily trains he had to charter (one from Galveston and
two from Dallas) solely to make the necessary deliveries
of his papers throughout the interior of Texas. He did
no editorial work himself, he explained, but had daily
conferences with his chiefs of staff,— and then he re-
Belo
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curred to his little girls again, and to golf, and the golf
club down in Dallas.
His death occurred in Dallas on February 27th, 1906.
George McLanahan went down from Washington to
attend the funeral, and it is from his article on "A Yale
Man's Record in Texas" in the ''Alumni Weekly"
(XV. 39. pp. 896-8) that the following extracts are
taken : —
... In college he was a good student, took an active interest
in Dwight Hall, was a regular delegate at Northfield, and made
his Junior and Senior societies with no apparent effort on his
part. An injury to his throwing arm prevented his going in for
athletics, so he started to learn his games over again by pur-
chasing a set of left hand golf clubs and teaching himself to
play tennis with his other hand, and it was typical of his sunny
nature that no one ever heard him utter a word of complaint. ...
In something less than five years (after attaining the Presi-
dency of his company), Belo reached not only in his home city of
Dallas, but throughout the State of Texas, and the whole South-
west, a position which few men can hope to gain in a long life-
time of work. His life during these years was a very full and happy
one. Interested in his profession, with a strong high-minded
determination to serve his country as successfully as had his
distinguished father, living in his beautiful Southern home, with
his mother, wife and children, he planned each summer to spend
the vacation month somewhere in the North, where he could be
near his Yale friends; for, as he expressed it, he lived so far
away from them during the greater part of the year that during
his vacation he wished to be where he could see as many of
them as possible, as he could not afford to live without these
friendships.
Returning from a hard hunting trip in New Brunswick last
November, he plunged into his work with the same restless,
ambitious energy which had been his characteristic since he had
assumed the responsibility as the head of these two great news-
papers. But his strength was not equal to the task, and though
his will and determination carried him along for some time, he
finally succumbed to the grippe, which had developed into cerebro-
meningitis. At his death the press of the whole State joined to
pay respect to his ability and to honor his memory.
In an editorial dated March ist, the "St. Louis Re-
publican" said:
'The death of Alfred H. Belo, proprietor of the Galveston-
Dallas 'News,' marks an epoch in the newspaper history of Texas.
The Galveston 'News' is older than the State of Texas. Colonel
A. H. Belo, father of the young man who has just died, became
one of the owners about 1866. The management of these two
210 BIOGRAPHIES
great newspapers, three hundred and fifteen miles apart, each ap-
pearing mornings as almost the exact duplicate of the other in
everything except local news, has called for a high order of
executive ability, and the task was well performed both by the
older and the younger proprietor. Dating as it does its origin
from the middle period of the Texas republic, the 'News' has been
an important factor in the affairs of Texas and has been power-
fully instrumental in the upbuilding of Texas."
"The same solid, steady growth of the 'News,' " said the Houston
"Post," "which marked the administration of the elder Belo, pro-
ceeded in unbroken continuity under the son, and his friends con-
fidently expected that in the fullness of time he would occupy
that exalted station as a journalist which his father had so
worthily filled. Richly endowed with intellectual forces, trained
to grapple with great responsibilities, strong and sound and true
of character, possessed of a patriotism luminous with the ardor
and virility of youth, with an ambition lighted with hope and
stirred by high and honest endeavor, with a culture as simple in
its nobility as it was noble in its simplicity, an opportunity such
as comes only to few, surely this splendid young gentleman would
have performed noble services as a citizen and a journalist."
"In the death of Alfred H. Belo," said the Sherman "Register,"
"not only does the Galveston-Dallas 'News' lose a great mind and
a strong guiding hand, but Texas loses a patriotic, energetic,
able and fearless citizen. A great man who loved his people, his
native state and had high purposes for their future, his work
will live after him and the good he has done for Texas will be a
lasting memorial to his virtues."
"Possessed," said another journal, "of indomitable will power,
having so much to live for and with ambition still strong in him,
he fought with the strength and determination that he had inher-
ited from his father that he might live to fulfill his duties. The
physicians who stood by his bedside marveled at his grim deter-
mination ; time after time when they thought the end must surely
come, he rallied and gave them new hope and even the most de-
spairing were led to believe for a time that his courage and
patience would triumph."
Four hours before he died, when for the last time he was raised
to be given some nourishment, though exhausted from the long
fight which was now almost over, he looked up with a smile and
whispered, "What! Is this milk again? Well, the next time I
will take a little coffee on the side." There never was a "next
time," and Alfred Belo went to meet the judgment which in his
case was a reward. G. X. McL.
George Merrill Bemis
Plainville, Massachusetts.
Superintendent of Schools for Wrentham, Plainville, and Norton, Mass.
Permanent mail address, Brookfield, Massachusetts.
George Merrill Bemis was born March 3d, 1874, at Brookfield,
Mass. He is the son of Oscar Bemis and Emeline Converse,
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who were married Nov. 24th, 1870, at Brookfield, and had one
other child, a girl.
Oscar Bemis (b. Dec. 29th, 1846, at Brimfield, Mass.) has
lived at Springfield, Worcester, and Brookfield, Mass., and at
Lafayette, Ind. He has been foreman in boot and shoe fac-
tories, a dealer in meats and provisions, and an Overseer of
the Poor. He is the son of John Bemis, a boot manufacturer,
and Mary Ann Newton, both of Brookfield. The family came
to America from England in 1700.
Emeline (Converse) Bemis (b. 1843 at Brookfield, Mass.;
d. June 3d, 187s, at Brookfield), whose early life was spent in
Brooklyn, N. Y., was the daughter of James and Laura Con-
verse, both of Brookfield. James Converse was a shoemaker.
Bemis prepared for Yale at the Brookfield High School. In
College he received a First Dispute at the Junior Exhibition
and a Dissertation at Commencement.
He was married at East Brookfield, Mass., June 12th, 1901, to
Miss Fanny Niles Cole, daughter of Sanford Cole, of East
Brookfield, and has one child, a son, George Merrill Bemis, Jr.
(b. Aug. 24th, 1903, at East Brookfield, Mass.).
Bemis became Principal of the Michigan City (Indiana)
High School after our graduation, and remained in this
position until the summer of 1902, excepting for the year
1897-98. During the first part of this year he was ill.
From April to August, 1898, he was Principal of the
Harwich (Massachusetts) High School.
In 1902 he went to Chillicothe, Ohio, to serve as Prin-
cipal of the High School there. "We have two hundred
and fifty-eight students," he wrote that winter, "and we
are affiliated with all the Ohio Universities, the Univer-
sity of Michigan, and the University of Chicago. Our
Football team claims the championship of the State by
defeating the Walnut Hills High School of Cincinnati,
on Thanksgiving Day by a score of 23 to o. My depart-
ment is History."
After two years at Chillicothe, Bemis became, in 1904,
the Superintendent of Schools for Brookfield and North
Brookfield, Massachusetts. Since May ist, 1906, he has
been Superintendent of Schools for Wrentham, Plain-
ville, and Norton, Massachusetts.
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H. H. Benedict, Jr.
Permanent mail address, 216 Bishop Street, New Haven, Conn.
Henry Hobart Benedict, Jr. was born March 22d, 1873, in New
Haven, Conn. He is a son of Henry Hobart Benedict and
Eleanor Augusta Maltby, who were married April i6th, 1872,
in New Haven, and had two other children, one boy and one
girl.
Henry Hobart Benedict, Sr. (b. June 15th, 1845, at New
Haven) is a coal merchant, an ex-President of the Young
Men's Christian Association, etc., etc. His father was Henry
Walter Benedict, of New Haven, also a coal merchant; and his
mother was Sarah Eunitia Hemingway, of East Haven, Conn.
Eleanor Augusta (Maltby) Benedict (b. May 12th, 1850, at
New Haven) is the daughter of George Williams Maltby,
a New Haven merchant, and of Sarah Anne Bogart, of God-
winsville, N. J. She is a descendant of Abraham Pierson,
first President of Yale.
Benedict prepared for College at the Hillhouse High School. He
was a member of the Gun Club, and shot for four years on
the team. He was one of the Board of Governors of the Yale-
Corinthian Yacht Club. Eta Phi. Psi U. Keys.
He has not been married.
It used to be said of Benedict that he was in the whole-
sale coal business in New Haven, and there was once a
rumor that he had also run for Alderman in the Fif-
teenth Ward. The facts seem to be, however, that he
never really has been caged in any way whatever. In-
stead, armed with rod and gun, he has roamed year
after year around his native land bringing song and
animation in his train— a brave example of the unwearied
hedonist. Somebody (Lackland perhaps) once com-
posed a sort of coronation ode on the subject, of which
memory recalls this flashing stanza :—
Wild animals and wines have pled
For mercy from his gun and gullet;
Aes triplex was his every bullet —
Iced-multiplex his head.
There are seasons when the Class Secretary betakes
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himself to a little mountain town in Colorado called
Glenwood Springs, from which hunting and fishing ex-
peditions may conveniently be planned. Benedict has
been there too, and sometimes they have met. On these
occasions his talk is of winters in Florida, shooting in
Canada, sport of many kinds,— interrupted as a rule with
the recitation of "Casey at the Bat," and of such selec-
tions from Kipling as the evening's audience may know
enough to call for, or care to hear. Will P. Thompson,
F. C. Havemeyer (ex 1900), Frank M. Carnegie, and
others, have variously companioned Benedict, or he
them, as the case might be, upon these trips. One year,
when there were two besides Harry in the party, they
took sixty-two pack horses into the mountains and were
gone about six weeks before exhausting their supplies.—
The mountain lion sought his lair
At sight of such well-nourished valor.
The wild cats wore a sudden pallor;
"He '11 rug me !" wailed the bear.
Hon. Fred F. Bennett
Partner in the law firm of Green & Bennett, with offices in Springfield and
Holyoke, Mass.
Residence, 252 Oak Street, Holyoke. Holyoke Office, 205 High Street.
Fred Fox Bennett was born Feb. 24th, 1870, in Hartford, Conn.
He is the son of Joseph Langford Bennett and Carrie Ross,
who were married Nov. 29th, 1866, at Providence, R. I., and
had one other child, a girl.
Joseph Langford Bennett (b. June 27th, 1838, at Plainfield,
Conn.; d. March nth, 1898, at Washington, D. C.) started life
as the first mate of a sailing vessel. He served throughout
the Civil War, enlisting as a private at Lincoln's first call for
troops, and rising to the rank of First Lieutenant and Captain
by brevet. At the close of the war he was appointed Asst.
Adjutant General of Connecticut, and served under Governors
Ingersoll and Hawley. He spent most of his life in New
London, Providence, Hartford, and Washington, as a mer-
chant, a chief clerk of the United States Patent Office, and a
patent solicitor. His father was Joseph Langford Bennett, of
New London, Providence, and Hartford; and his mother was
214 BIOGRAPHIES
Sarah Carpenter Weaver, of Coventry, R. I. The family came
from England.
Carrie (Ross) Bennett (b. March 27th, 1844, at Providence,
R. I.; d. Jan. 25th, 1885, at Hartford, Conn.) was the daughter
of William Ross, of Providence, and Emma Caroline Williams
Branigan, of Salem and Boston, Mass. William Ross was an
express and railroad man. He rode the first pony express be-
tween Providence and Boston, and was the first Superin-
tendent of the Boston & Providence Railroad, and ran the first
train over that road as conductor.
Bennett prepared for Yale at the Hartford High School. He
was on the Track Team two years, and as a speaker at the
Junior Exhibition received a Second Ten Eyck Prize. He
made Phi Beta Kappa in Junior year with a Philosophical Ora-
tion stand, which he held again at Commencement. D. K. E.
He was married Nov. loth, 1903, at Holyoke, Mass., to Miss Alice
Elizabeth Whiting (Wellesley '00), daughter of Edward G.
Whiting of Holyoke, and has had one child, a son, Frederick
Whiting Bennett (b. Aug. 31st, 1904, at Holyoke; d. Sept. 21st,
1904, at Holyoke).
Bennett "located in Holyoke, Massachusetts, imme-
diately after graduation, and began the study of law in
the office of Addison L. Green, Wesleyan '85, my
brother-in-law. Was admitted to practise in the courts
of Massachusetts in December, 1897, and in the United
States Courts in January, 1899. Have practised continu-
ously since admission. . . ," Since January, 1900, he has
been in partnership with Mr. Green.
In the fall of 1901 he was elected a representative in
the General Court of Massachusetts for the Eighth
Hampden District, on the Republican ticket. "Re-
elected to the legislature for 1903 (again without opposi-
tion at the polls)," said his decennial letter, "and
consequently spent substantially the first six months of
1903 in Boston, serving again on the Judiciary Com-
mittee, and as Chairman of Committee on Engrossed
Bills. Declined further election. Since return from
Boston, July, 1903, have given undivided attention to
practice. No extensive travels or vacations. Summer
vacation in 1902 in Maine Woods, 1905 at Nantucket."
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"You graciously called upon me for additions to my
autobiography," he added, soon after our June reunion,
"which I, disgracious, have failed to produce. But if the
class-book is n't already in print, would n't it be a good
place to voice a protest? How old must the Class be
before those who don't like all horse-play can enjoy
a reunion dinner and listen to the fellows that are booked
for toasts ? Perhaps I 'm too fast becoming the oldest
and most dyspeptic living graduate, or maybe I 'm a
crank, but I venture to say that ninety-five out of every
hundred men earnestly desire a dinner that shall not be
broken up by the other five. It is selfish and unfair for
the same men— and only a handful at that— to monopo-
lize the affair year after year to the exclusion of all
rational enthusiasm. May the time come, before we are
too old, when we can get together with some degree of
seriousness mingled with goodfellowship !"
Alexander G. Bentley
Lawyer. Columbian Building, Washington, D. C.
Residence, 1116 9th Street, N. W.
Alexander Garner Bentley was born Oct. 6th, 1875, in Wash-
ington, D. C. He is a son of Alexander Jackson Bentley and
Mary Catherine Christie (nee Garner), who were married
Dec. 24th, 1870, at Washington, and had one other child, a boy,
who died before maturity.
Alexander Jackson Bentley (b. in Muskingum Co., O., c. 1828),
a former resident of Cincinnati, O., has been for many years
law clerk and examiner of titles in the Department of Justice
in Washington. He served as Second Lieutenant Company B.
2d Ohio Volunteers ; and afterwards, until he was admitted to
the Bar of the District of Columbia, edited a newspaper. He
was later admitted to the Bar of the United States Supreme
Court. His parents were George W. Bentley, a farmer and
veteran of the War of 1812, of Muskingum County, and Har-
riet W. Deford, of Uniontown, Pa. The family came from
England in the i8th century, and settled in Virginia.
Mary Catherine Bentley (b. Dec. 17th, 1840, at Washington,
D. C. ; d. March 6th, 1904, at Washington) was the daughter
of James Washington Garner, of Westmoreland Co., Va., and
216 BIOGRAPHIES
Catherine Simpson, of Montgomery Co., Md. Mr. Garner
held a position in the United States Civil Service.
Bentley prepared for College at Friends' School, Washington,
D. C. He received a Philosophical Oration at the Junior Ex-
hibition and at Commencement, was a member of Phi Beta
Kappa, was graduated sixth in the Class and took Two Year
Honors in Ancient Languages.
He was married May loth, 1905, at St. Patrick's Church, Wash-
ington, D. C, to Miss Eurydice Miller, daughter of the late
Francis W. Miller, a real estate broker, and of Sabina M.
(Simms) Miller of Mount Pleasant, Washington, D. C.
Bentley was graduated from the Law School of Co-
lumbian University (Washington, D. C), now the
George Washington University, in June, 1898, and was
admitted to the Bar of the District of Columbia in De-
cember. In June, 1899, he received the degree of M.A.
from Yale. Since August, 1899, he has been practising
law in Washington.
''My life since 1902 does not contain very much that
is of interest to the outside world," says the bashful
Pyrosphere in his decennial letter. "My time has been
spent chiefly at home in Washington, D. C, except dur-
ing the summer, when I go for my vacation to the coast
of Maine. Most of my traveling during the past four
years was done after my marriage on May loth, 1905,
when I took a wedding tour of five weeks, a part of
which consisted in an interesting trip through Canada.
During this tour, and while in New York City, I had
a most pleasant meeting with Dwight Rockwell, and
later Mrs. Bentley and I stopped over in Wilkes-Barre,
Pennsylvania for a couple of days, where we enjoyed
the hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Lenahan, who
made our visit with them an extremely delightful one."
At the decennial dinner, Bentley, Lenahan, and P.
Peck, appeared severally and excitedly before the Secre-
tary, brandishing a covenant, which they wished to have
deposited instanter in the archives. In this curious
document, copies of which may be obtained upon appli-
cation. Peck promises Bentley free quindecennial indul-
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gence in consideration of the sum of fifty dollars, and
Lenahan is empowered to appear for Bentley as attorney,
and to "confess judgment for the same, waiving inqui-
sition and exemption laws." The covenant is hereby
referred to the Class Committee.
John M. Berdan, Ph.D.
Instructor in English in Yale College.
Residence, 68 1 Orange Street, New Haven, Connecticut.
Permanent mail address, 729 Superior Street, Toledo, Ohio.
John Milton Berdan was born July 9th, 1873, at Toledo, O.
He is the son of Peter Federick Berdan and Mary Elizabeth
Ketcham, who were married June 21st, 1866, at New York,
and had one other son and one daughter. There were also
five daughters and one son born to Mr. Berdan by his first wife,
of whom all, excepting the son, lived to maturity.
Peter Frederick Berdan (b. Oct. 23d, 1824, at Brunswick, O. ;
d. Nov. 13th, 1887, at Toledo, O.) was a wholesale grocer and
a prominent citizen of Toledo. An account of his life is given
in the "History of Toledo." He was the son of John Berdan,
a Toledo business man and the town's first Mayor, and Pamela
Frieze, of Lynn, Mass., who moved West in the first decade of
the nineteenth century. The family came to America from
France via Holland in the seventeenth century, and settled in
New York.
Mary Elizabeth (Ketcham) Berdan (b. Dec. 23d, 1835, at
Scarsdale, N. Y.) is the daughter of Thomas Ketcham, a
Scarsdale farmer. Her mother came from Westchester County.
Mrs. Berdan is now (Oct. '05) living in Toledo.
Berdan spent his early life in Toledo and at St. Paul's School
in Concord, N. H. In College he took One Year Honors in
History, a High Oration at the Junior Exhibition and the same
at Commencement. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa
and of A. D. Phi.
He was married June 25th, 1902, at Toledo, O., to Miss Anna
May Rodgers, daughter of James Scott Rodgers, and sister of
•James Otis Rodgers, '98, and has two children, Mary Anna
Berdan (b. April 17th, 1903, at Toledo) and Pamela Rodgers
Berdan (b. July 2Sth, 1904, at Toledo).
Berdan studied at Yale for three years, holding a Uni-
versity Scholarship part of the time, and received his
218 BIOGRAPHIES
Ph.D. degree in 1899. This was followed by a year in
Paris, at the Sorbonne. In May, 1900, he returned to
this country, served as Professor of English Literature
in the Polytechnic School of Toledo, Ohio, for two years,
and in 1902 went back to Yale as an Assistant in
Rhetoric. On March 21st, 1904, he was appointed an
Instructor in English.
"Taught here at Yale, using the summers to recuper-
ate in order to teach some more," said his decennial
letter. And, in response to a request for further news
about himself, "I am only too willing to oblige," wrote
John, "but what in thunder do you expect me to say ? Is
it my fault that I have not lived a melodrama? Noth-
ing has happened to me. My great crises are when the
cook leaves and the new nurse comes. The chief factor
now is that the dear old college requests me to hold
examinations away from New Haven; so I shall not be
here for the Decennial ! Yours very regretfully," &c.
In more than one remote unlikely hamlet the Secretary
has been questioned concerning Berdan's book on Cleve-
land, which has the reputation of being one of those bulky
volumes, "where at the foot of every page the notes
run along, like little angry dogs barking at the text."
Because of this general interest it seems desirable to ap-
pend the following review from the "New York Evening
Post" for December ist, 1903.
It is a quite profitable course to set candidates for the doc-
torate in English at the task of resuscitating and reediting poets
who possess a certain historical value, but are not interesting
enough to have been saved from oblivion. Such a task was per-
formed by Mr. John M. Berdan for John Cleveland, the uni-
versity wit and royalist poet of the seventeenth century, and he
has had the good taste to postpone printing his exercitation in
book form until it has received a more mature revision (the
Grafton Press). Cleveland was one of the Cambridge men who,
with Milton, wrote elegies on the death of "Mr. Edward Kin^,
Drowned in the Irish Seas." He was not very important as a
writer, and, on looking over his verses, one is likely to echo the
rhymer's own prayer :
O that I could but vote myself a poet,
Or had the legislative knack to do it !
OF GRADUATES 219
Thomas J. Bergin, M.D.
565 Howard Avenue, New Haven, Conn.
Thomas Joseph Bergin was born March i8th, 1875, in New
Haven, Conn. He is a son of Patrick Bergin and Ellen Crothy,
who were married June 30th, 1866, in New Haven, and had
altogether nine children, six boys and three girls, eight of
whom lived to maturity.
Patrick Bergin (b. 1840, at Cashel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland)
lived in Cashel until 1861, when he came to New Haven. For
the last thirty years he has been a member of the New Haven
Police Department. His parents were Michael Bergin, a
farmer, and Margaret Maher, both of County Tipperary.
Ellen (Crothy) Bergin (b. 1843, in Co. Waterford, Ireland)
is the daughter of Thomas Crothy, a farmer, and Ellen Cur-
ran, both of County Waterford.
Bergin prepared for College at the Hillhouse High School. He
received a First Colloquy at the Junior Exhibition and a Second
Colloquy at Commencement. Phi Gamma Delta.
He was married Oct. 26th, 1903, at St. Elizabeth's Church, New
York City, to Mrs. Irvinea Goddard Hanley, daughter of Thomas
Goddard, a metal manufacturer of Jersey City, N. J., and has one
child, Thomas Goddard Bergin, who was born Nov. 17th, 1904,
at New Haven, Conn. Proceedings for the divorce of Bergin
and his wife are now (April, '06) pending.
Bergin "took full course in Yale Medical School re-
ceiving the degree of M.D. in 1899. Spent summer of
1898 assisting in New Haven Hospital while Spanish
War was in progress. After graduation entered New
Haven Hospital, and filled all positions on House Staff.
Graduated from there January 10, 1901. Commenced
private practice March i, 1901."
His address on Howard Avenue has been changed
from No. 349 to No. 565.
John K. Berry
Lawyer. (See Appendix.)
Residence, 128 East 37th Street, New York City.
John Kirkman Berry was born Sept. 5th, 1874. in Nashville.
Tenn. He is a son of Coburn Dewees Berry, '68, and Amanda
220 BIOGRAPHIES
McNair}^ Kirkman, who were married Oct. 29th, 1873, and had
three other sons and one daughter. Two of the brothers (now
deceased) were Yale men, viz., Coburn Dewees, '99, and James
K., 1904 S.
Coburn Dewees Berry (b. Oct. 27th, 1845, at Nashville,
Tenn.) is a Nashville lawyer. His father was William Tyler
Berry, a publisher, and his mother was Mary Tannehill, both of
Nashville. The family settled originally at Baltimore, Md., on
their arrival from England.
Amanda McNairy (Kirkman) Berry (b. Jan. 4th, 1854, at
Nashville) is the daughter of John Kirkman, a banker, and
Catherine McNairy, both of Nashville.
Berry came North for the first time when he entered Yale. His
father was a Wooden Spoon man, and the son was elected
Chairman of the Senior Promenade Committee (which was
deemed in our time the modern equivalent). He was Manager
of the Class Nine in Junior year, and in Senior year was
President of the Southern Club. He received a Second Dispute
at the Junior Exhibition and at Commencement, and in Senior
year received the class vote for Greatest Favorite. Psi U.
He was married May 19th, 1906, at St. Thomas' Church, New
York City, to Miss Elizabeth J. Davis, daughter of the late
William Robinson Davis, a coal mine owner and operator of
Piedmont, W. Va., and the late Mary H. (Tilson) Davis of
Deer Park, Md.
Berry's trip abroad after graduation, with Mallon,
Haldeman, Vaill, and other desultory spirits, is believed
still to provide material for reminiscence along the boule-
vards ; and it was not until "Le Grand Sheldon," as Lew
was called in the newspapers, had casually won a Na-
tional Meet of French Athletic Clubs all by himself, in
1899, and thus provided Paris with a new sensation, that
the professional guides ceased to point out to visitors the
Colonel's Staircase.
In the autumn Berry returned to Nashville, intending
to enter the Yale Law School, but as things turned out
he stayed in the metropolis to study; chiefly because his
trunk was captured en route by the New York Law
School crowd. He was graduated from the New York
School in the spring of 1898, admitted to the Bar of
Tennessee the following July and taken into the law de-
partment of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Rail-
OF GRADUATES 221
way, at Nashville. In March, 1900, however, he returned
to New York City, and after one year with Lindsay,
Kremer, Kalish & Palmer, he entered the offices of
Wilmer & Canfield, where he gradually drifted into a
partnership. The other members of this firm are Wil-
liam M. Wilmer; George F. Canfield, Harvard '75;
and Harlan F. Stone, Amherst '94. (See Appendix.)
So much for business. One other fact remains to
note. For nearly twelve months prior to last fall, visitors
to the Yale Club Grill had not been able to count upon
the Colonel's presence as confidently as they were wont.
This had aroused, first resentment, and then suspicion,
among the plaintive ancient mariners there assembled,
whose competition for wedding-guests with the loud
and matrimonial bassoon is as sincere as it has been
unsuccessful. It was decided, however, that Jack was
"safe," and when he himself explained his frequent
absence by careless allusions to his "old lady," the club
became convinced. The "old lady" was supposed to be
a stern, exacting, cross-grained sort of client, so splen-
didly litigious in her disposition that she needed the
wellnigh constant attention of a lawyer no less tactful
than Jack himself to keep her from suing her own at-
torneys. She acquired so much objective reality indeed,
that, one winter, her supposititious photograph appeared.
(See Pot-pourri.)
Then, at last, came the solemn rumor of Jack's engage-
ment. The old lady proved to be a fraud, a blind. . . .
And on the nineteenth day of May, nineteen hundred and
six, with the betting still heavily against it. Jack Berry
walked himself into a church to take the first step in that
desperate readjustment of aid habits which the mono-
gamistic system in America seems to involve.
F. H. Billard
With the Lyon & Billard Co., Coal and Lumber Dealers, Meriden, Conn.
Frederick Howell Billard was born Oct. i8th, 1873, at Meriden,
Conn. He is a son of John Leander Billard and Harriet Yale
222 BIOGRAPHIES
Merriman, who were married May 26th, 1868, at Meriden, and
had altogether four children, three boys and one girl, three of
whom lived to maturity. One of the sons, Walter S. Billard,
was graduated in the Class of '93 S.
John Leander Billard (b. July i8th, 1842, at Saybrook,
Conn.), a coal merchant, has spent the greater part of his life
at Meriden, Conn., where he is now (Feb. '06) living. His
parents were John Denton Billard, a lumberman, and Emeline
Elizabeth Spencer, of Saybrook.
Harriet Yale (Merriman) Billard (b. Jan. 21st, 1842, at
Meriden) is the daughter of Howell Merriman, a broker, and
Harriet Yale.
Billard spent most of his youth in Cleveland, O., and at St. Paul's
School in Concord, N. H. He stroked the Academic Fresh-
man Crew in the fall of '92, and rowed No. 2 on the Sopho-
more Fall Crew, No. 4 on the Sophomore Spring Crew, and
No. 6 on the Junior Fall Crew.
He has not been married.
After a few years in Chicago where he was employed
by Swift & Company, the packers, Billard returned to
Meriden. "There is little to tell," writes one of his
friends; "he lives with his parents at 144 Lincoln St.,
this city, and is" employed as clerk by the Lyon & Billard
Company, coal and lumber dealers, of which concern
his father is president." In March, 1905, Billard was
elected a member of the Executive Committee of the
Meriden Yale Alumni Association.
It will be gathered that this information has been
secured piecemeal and as best it could. Billard himself
does not answer letters. He possesses that "dismaying
retentiveness" which Howells somewhere describes as
leaving interviewers "not only exhausted but bruised,
as if they had been hurling themselves against a dead
wall." With these sensations the Secretary has been
made thoroughly familiar. What feelings the wall may
experience, he does not know.
OF GRADUATES 223
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Arthur W. Bingham, M.D.
266 West 88th Street, New York City.
Arthur Walker Bingham was born April 13th, 1873, at West
Cornwall, Vt. He is a son of Eugene Webb Bingham and
Pauline Walker, who were married Sept. 15th, 1868, at Corn-
wall, and had two other sons.
Eugene Webb Bingham (b. Jan. ist, 1845, at West Cornwall,
Vt, ; d. Dec. 2d, 1877, at New Orleans, La.) spent most of his
life in Cornwall, Albion, N. Y., and Troy, N. Y. He was a
member of the firm of Miller & Bingham, of Troy, manu-
facturers of collars and shirts. His father was Harris Bing-
ham, a West Cornwall farmer, whose ancestors came to
America from Sheffield, England, in 1643, and settled at Nor-
wich, Conn.
Pauline (Walker) Bingham (b. Nov. 3d, 1845, at Cornwall,
Vt.) is the daughter of Edwin Walker, a farmer of Cornwall,
and Elvira Smith, of Shoreham, Vt. She is now (Nov. 1905)
living in New York City.
Bingham spent his youth in Troy, Middlebury, Vt., and at St.
Paul's School in Concord, N. H. In College he rowed on the
Class Crew in Sophomore and in Junior year. He received
a Philosophical Oration at the Junior Exhibition and at Com-
mencement and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and of
D. K. E.
He was married May 22d, 1899, at New York City, to Miss
Jessica Duncan Boorum, daughter of William G. Boorum of
Brooklyn, and has two children, Arthur Walker Bingham, Jr.
(b. July isth, 1900, at Brooklyn) and Jessica Boorum Bingham
(b. April 23d, 1903, at New York City).
In 1900 Bingham was graduated third in his class at the
College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City.
He received the first appointment to the Roosevelt Hos-
pital, served there from January, 1901, until July, 1902,
served three months at the Sloane Maternity Hospital,
and then began private practice at his present address.
He is now Demonstrator of Physiology at "P. & S.," and
Assistant to Dr. Reuel B. Kimball, of 15 East 41st Street.
'*! can't say that I Ve done anything since 1902 ex-
cept just living and learning," says his decennial letter.
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224 BIOGRAPHIES
"I spent the summers of 1903 and 1904 at West Cornwall,
and the summer of 1905 at the Sloane Maternity Hos-
pital (second service). Have kept on with my hospital,
clinical, and college work, together wiith my private
practice. The frogs' legs sometimes seem uninteresting,
but then life is not all frogs' legs, and once in a while
they do kick at the right time. ... I see Kinney occa-
sionally, read magazines and any good stories I can find
—but principally medical literature,— and go to a few
meetings of medical societies, but usually forget them
and stay at home. I 've grown older;— know more
about human ills;— think children and babies are the
nicest patients I have seen, and am specializing in that
direction."
Charles W. Birely
Partner in the law firm of Simpson & Birely, 203-206 Exchange Building,
New Haven, Conn.
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, Room 6, County Court House.
Residence, 1388 Chapel Street. Mail address, P. O. Box 226.
Charles William Birely was born Dec. 13th, 1874, at Fred-
erick, Md. He is the son of William Cramer Birely and
Laura Virginia Sinn, who were married Oct. 21st, 1873, at
Frederick, and had two other children, both girls.
William Cramer Birely (b. Aug. 9th, 1850, at Frederick)
has been a retail and wholesale grocer, a Deputy Clerk of the
Circuit Court, and is now a manufacturer, living in Frederick.
He is the son of John William Birely and Mary Rosanna
Cramer, both of Frederick. John William Birely was a cabinet
maker, a retail grocer, and a financier. The family came from
Germany, and settled in Middletown Valley, Frederick Co.,
Md.
Laura Virginia (Sinn) Birely (b. July 21st, 1853, at Fred-
erick) is the daughter of Edward Sinn, a liveryman and stage
coach line owner, and Eveline Prudentia Elkins, both of
Frederick.
Birely prepared for College at Frederick Academy in Maryland.
He was a member of the Yale Union and played flute in the
Yale University Orchestral Club in Freshman year. He re-
ceived a High Oration at the Junior Exhibition and a Philo-
sophical Oration at Commencement. Phi Beta Kappa.
He was married at New Haven, Conn., Jan. 31st, 1900, to Miss
Charlotte Ann Bushnell, daughter of Frank Chapman Bushnell
and Mary Eliza (Dee) Bushnell, of New Haven, and has had,
OF GRADUATES 225
beside one still-born child, two daughters, Barbara Bushnell
Birely (b. May 3d, 1903, at New Haven) and Charlotte Birely
(b. May 20th, 1906, at New Haven).
"Most of my time since graduation," wrote Birely in
1902, "has been spent in the shadow of Osborn Hall,
except when taking a trip or two to Maryland to sample
maternal cooking. Three years were given up to the
study of the law at the Yale Law School, but I found I
had been deluded, so went into business with the F. C.
Bushnell Company, and married Mr. Bushnell's daugh-
ter. We are now the only real things in the wholesale
grocery line. One day has been the same as all: re-
port at six-thirty A.M., slave all day, and in the evening
go to the Graduates' Club and help confer the degree
of W.B. (Wrinkle Belly) on Hollon Farr. Some spare
time I have given to watching the baseball and football
teams." His decennial letter follows : —
"The years have been so monotonous that I can
hardly remember what has taken place since 1902. In
January, 1905, I quit the grocery business to go into law.
The Class Secretary wrote me asking what for, and the
only answer I could give was because I wanted one of
those political jobs, like Clark, Arnold, Nicholson, Wood-
ruff, and others, had around here. At any rate, I was
not disappointed, for I landed as Clerk of the City Court,
and am now Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, with
one hand free and a partner looking for the rest of the
stray law business. In these pursuits I meet Jerry
Woodruff 'persecuting' and Arnon AlHng defending
criminals, to say nothing of seeing the two of them
throttling the Legislature. My travels are limited to
commuting in the summer time, and I always have rein-
forced trousers to guard against too continual sittings
in the cleanly (?) smokers of the N. Y., N. H. & H.
Anyway, boys, come up to New Haven any time and
have something! The latch string is always out."
Birely's partner is Ernest C. Simpson '99 L.S. The
firm was first announced in the "Alumni Weekly" in
October, 1905.
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Henry R. Bond, Jr.
Manager of Baker & Company, Platinum, Gold and Silver Refiners and
[anufacturers, 408-414 New Jersey Railroad Avenue, Newark, New Jerse
Permanent mail address, New London, Connecticut. (See Appendix.)
Henry Richardson Bond, Jr. was born Nov. 23d, 1873, in New-
London, Conn. He is a son of Henry Richardson Bond, '53^
and Mary Perit Ripley, who were married March loth, 1858, at
Norwich, Conn., and had altogether four children, two boys
and two girls.
Henry Richardson Bond the elder (b. May 2d, 1832, at Ban-
gor, Me.) has resided in New London, Conn., for nearly half
a century, during which time he has been a whaling merchant,
and engaged in the banking business, and had the management
of several large estates. His youth was spent in Norwich,
Conn. During the Civil War he was Colonel on the staff of
Gov. William A. Buckingham, of Connecticut. His father was
Rev. Alvan Bond, D. D., of Norwich, a graduate of Brown
University (1815) and of the Andover Theological Seminary
(1819), who served as pastor of various Congregational
Churches, and as Professor of Biblical Literature at the Bangor
Theological Seminary. His mother was Sarah Richardson,
daughter of Ezra and Jemima (Lovell) Richardson, of Med-
way, Mass. The Bonds came to America in 1630, from Bury
St. Edmunds, Suffolk Co., England, and settled at Watertown,
Mass.
Mary Perit (Ripley) Bond (b. Oct. 7th, 1836, at Norwich) is
the daughter of James L. Ripley and Ruth L. Huntington, both
of Norwich. James L. Ripley was for a time a merchant in
New York City. Among her ancestors was the Rev. Joseph
Coit, of Plainfield, Conn., who was one of the earliest students
at Saybrook Academy, which afterwards became Yale College,
and who, after a later course of study at Harvard, received the
degree of M. A., at the first Commencement at Yale, in 1702.
Bond was prominent in Junior Society theatricals while in Col-
lege, and took the part of Captain of the Russian Police in
the Third Joint Play. He was elected to the Renaissance Club,
and served on the Class Cup Committee and the Picture Com-
mittee in Senior year. Kappa Psi. Psi U.
He has not been married.
Bond's presence at our reunions is signalized by a sort
of contagious flourish, which kindles persons even of the
most sober bent to strange outbursts and to antics; but
OF GRADUATES 227
there is no flavor of the man in his epistles. His poly-
phloisboian humor demands, it seems, an open field for
its display, abhorring desks. His letters are unquotable,
jejune,— written with a reluctant hand and in seasons
of Aeolian exhaustion. Here are the dry bones thereof.
He lived in Vicksburg, Mississippi, during the two
and a half years immediately after graduation, engaged
in the purchasing of cotton for export and domestic
use. He then entered the selling department of the
business, in charge of the branches in New England,
New York State, and Canada, with headquarters and
residence at New London, Connecticut, and afterwards
at Fall River and Springfield, Massachusetts.
He retired from this business on June ist, 1902. Some
six months later he began his present connection with
the concern of which he is now the Manager, to wit,
Baker & Company, Platinum, Gold and Silver Refiners,
Assayers, and Smelters, of New York and Newark.
The most interesting part of their business seems to be
the buying of platinum, which comes to them from all
over the world,— from South America, for instance, and
from Russia and the Ural Mountains. Bond was talk-
ing about it at the Yale Club one afternoon with two
Japanese, whom he introduced to the rest of us as
Cato and Carmencita. The latter was or had been in
residence at Yale, taking what Bond called "a sort of
postgraduate alcoholiday," but he seemed to have re-
tained a surprisingly forbidding demeanor considering
the mollient influence of both his Alma Mater and his
(alleged) patronymic. (See Appendix.)
Chas. H. Beyer
Teacher of Greek and Mathematics at Saint Augustine's School,
Raleigh, North Carolina.
Charles Henry Boyer was born Nov. 12th, 1869, at Elkton, Md.
He is the only child of Edward Boyer and Indiana Clinton
Caldwell, who were married March 14th, 1869, at Elkton.
Edward Boyer (b. June 2d, 1845, at Elkton; d. Jan. 12th,
228 BIOGRAPHIES
1896, at Elkton) was a cook and butler. He served in the army
for more than three years during the Civil War, first as an
attendant to Dr. C. M. Ellis; and afterwards enlisting, was
mustered into service at Camp William Penn, at Philadelphia,
Feb. 17th, 1865. He was once captured and sent to Libby
Prison. His parents were George Boyer and Louisa McCurd,
both of Elkton.
Indiana Clinton (Caldwell) Boyer (b. Sept. 28th, 1852, at
Elkton) is the daughter of Hezekiah Compton Caldwell, a
barber, and Susan Ann Johnson, both of Baltimore, Md. She
was married again April nth, 1898, to Daniel Buntine, and is
now living at Jersey City, N. J.
Boyer was Treasurer of the Freshman Union while in College
and was a member also of the Yale Union. He took a Second
Dispute at the Junior Exhibition.
He was married at New Haven, Conn., Sept. 22d, 1897, to Miss
Alethea Amelia Chase, daughter of Daniel Chase, and has four
children, three girls and one boy— Harriet Stewart Boyer
(b. July 17th, 1898, at Raleigh, N. C), Clinton Caldwell Boyer
(b. Sept. 9th, 1900, at Raleigh), Adelaide Alverda Louise
Boyer (b. Sept. 26th, 1902, at Raleigh), and Charles Edward
Boyer (b. Nov. 26th, 1904, at Raleigh).
Although Boyer is occasionally heard from, along
about Class Dinner time in January, his communica-
tions are generally confined to greetings (with a "P.S. :
Please read this before the toastmaster mounts the table
to Me-crystallize' things"). Biographically there is noth-
ing much to tell. He has been teaching Greek and
Mathematics in Saint Augustine's School in Raleigh,
North Carolina, and on December 26th, 1905, he read a
paper in Washington, D. C, before the American Negro
Academy. This paper was one of a series on education,
the subject being **The Denominational School."
At Sexennial he reported that in addition to his work
at Saint Augustine's he was Vice-President of the
People's Investment Company, and Secretary of the
North Carolina Teachers' Association.
OF GRADUATES 229
L. L. Brastow
Care of the Trumbull Electric Manufacturing Company, Plantsville, Conn.
Permanent mail address, 146 Cottage Street, New Haven, Conn.
Lewis Ladd Brastow was born Oct. loth, 1874, in Burlington, Vt.
He is a son of the Rev. Lewis Orsmond Brastow, D. D.,
Bowdoin '56, Yale '85 hon., and of Martha Brewster Ladd, who
were married May 15th, 1872, at Painesville, Lake Co., Ohio,
and had two other children, both boys, one of whom is Edward
T., ex '98.
Lewis Orsmond Brastow (b. March 23d, 1834, at Brewer,
Penobscot Co., Me.) served as Chaplain of the 12th Vt.
Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War, was formerly pastor in
St. Johnsbury and Burlington, Vt., and is now (Jan. '06) Pro-
fessor of Practical Theology in the Yale Divinity School. His
father was Deodat Brastow, a lumber merchant of Brewer,
and his mother was Eliza Blake, of East Brewster (now Hol-
den), Me. The family came from England, and settled origi-
nally at Wrentham, Mass.
Martha Brewster (Ladd) Brastow (b. June 22d, 1846, at
Hudson, Ohio), the sister of Professor George Trumbull Ladd,
is the daughter of Silas Trumbull Ladd, a merchant, and Elisa-
beth Williams, both of Painesville, Ohio.
Brastow prepared for College at Andover and at the Hillhouse
High School. He took a Second Courant Prize in Poetry, and
was elected as an editor of the "Courant" in the fall of Junior
year. He received a Second Dispute at the Junior Exhibition.
A. D. Phi.
He has not been married.
Whether or not Brastow received his decennial circu-
lars, he sent in no reply, and his biography has had to
be compiled from other sources. His sexennial letter
chronicled his employment with Houghton, Mifflin &
Company of Boston for six months; his subsequent stay
in Cleveland, working for the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company; and his return to New York in 1902 to re-
enter the publishing business with Charles Scribner's
Sons. According to the Records in the Bureau of Navi-
gation at Washington, he was appointed a pay clerk in
the United States Navy, for duty on board the U.S.S.
Olympic, on October 28th, 1902, and he served until his
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resignation was accepted to take effect from December
7th, 1903. In 1905 he was in the North Central States
in connection with some insurance work, and in the fall
of that year he entered upon his present employment at
Plantsville, Connecticut.
J. E. Breckenridge
Chemist for the American Agricultural Chemical Company, Carteret,
New Jersey.
Residence, 198 Green Street, Woodbridge, New Jersey.
John Elliot Breckenridge was born March 4th, 1873, at Palmer,
Mass. He is a son of John Albert Breckenridge and Hattie
Eliza Kellogg, who were married Nov. loth, 1868, at South
Hadley, Mass., and had one other child, a boy, who is also
a Yale graduate.
John Albert Breckenridge (b. Feb. 19th, 1842, at Palmer,
Mass.) has spent his life at Palmer, as a painter. He is now
(Dec. 1905) living at Woodbridge, N. J. He is a son of Azel
Breckenridge, a farmer, and Eliza Smith, both of Palmer. The
family emigrated from Scotland to Ireland in 1720, and from
Ireland to America in 1727, settling in Palmer.
Hattie Eliza (Kellogg) Breckenridge (b. June 20th, 1842,
in South Hadley, Mass.; d. June 6th, 1900, at Palmer) was
the daughter of John Kellogg, a farmer, and Laura Chapin,
both of South Hadley.
Breckenridge prepared for Yale at the Palmer High School. He
received One Year Honors in Natural Sciences, and took a
Dissertation at the Junior Exhibition and an Oration at Com-
mencement.
He was married at Woodbridge, N. J., Oct. 26th, 1898, to Miss
Amanda G. Edgar, daughter of William Edgar, and has two
children, both daughters, Marion Edgar Breckenridge (b. Dec.
26th, 1900, at Woodbridge) and Harriet Amelia Breckenridge
(b. May 31st, 1906, at Woodbridge).
Breckenridge's letter is as follows :— "In the fall of
1896 (August 31) I entered the employ of the Liebig
Manufacturing Company of 26 Broadway, New York, as
Chemist, with laboratory at Carteret, New Jersey. The
OF GRADUATES 231
Company having had no laboratory up to this time it fell
to my lot to install the same and take care of the chemical
end of the business. Aside from the laboratory work my
mind was turned to the practical problems which pre-
sented themselves, and as a first result I patented a pro-
cess for rendering burlap bags proof against the acids
contained in fertilizers. This patent was taken under
the names of Waring & Breckenridge, Mr. Waring being
my Superintendent. This process has been a success,
and is in use by many large fertilizer companies today.
"My next work on practical lines was on 'Sludge Acid'
which, as used in our business, gives off very disagree-
able odors. I succeeded in destroying these odors, and
this was covered by patent under Waring & Brecken-
ridge, and sold to our Company.
"When the fertilizer interests were combined and the
American Agricultural Chemical Company was formed,
my laboratory became the laboratory for the Works
around New York, including the Williams & Clark Com-
pany, the Bowker Company, and the Liebig Company.
We also do much referee work for other associated
companies. The Liebig Laboratory, as mine is called,
has been a training school for several fellows, who,
after spending a time with me, have taken charge of
laboratories at other factories of our Company. I have
perfected a process whereby 'crude ammoniates' such as
horns, hoofs, hair, and such, are rendered first class ma-
terials for our business.
"All the work which has been done has been appre-
ciated, and I owe much gratitude to our President, Mr.
Gibbons, and those associated with him as officers of the
Company, for the steady financial advance which I have
had during the past ten years.
"Aside from the above, I have organized and assisted
in developing an entirely new industry under the name
of the Woodbridge Manufacturing Company, which,
although young, promises well.
"Personally, I am located in Woodbridge, New Jersey,
about three miles from business. I have acted as Secre-
232 BIOGRAPHIES
tary for our local club, the Woodbridge Athletic As-
sociation, for the past two years, and have helped train
the little ones in the First Presbyterian Sunday School,
having been Superintendent for the past three years."
Daniel B. Brinsmade, M.D.
564 West End Avenue, New York City.
Daniel Bradley Brinsmade was born Nov. 7th, 1873, at Wash-
ington, Conn. He is the son of Samuel Leavitt Brinsmade and
Frances Elizabeth Bradley, who were married Oct. 26th, 1872,
at Roxbury, Conn., and had one other child, a girl.
Samuel Leavitt Brinsmade (b. March 6th, 1848, at Washing-
ton, Conn. ; d. Jan. 21st, 1895, at Washington) was a merchant
of Washington and of New York City. His father, Thomas
Franklin Brinsmade, was also a merchant of those two places.
His mother was Elizabeth Leavitt, of Washington. The family
came to America from England about 1628, and settled at
Stratford, moving, in 1748, to Washington, then called Judea,
where Daniel Brinsmade, Yale 1745, was the first minister.
They include in their number many Yale graduates.
Frances Elizabeth (Bradley) Brinsmade (b. June 23d, 1850,
at Roxbury, Conn.) is the daughter of Eli Nichols Bradley,
a Roxbury farmer, and Elizabeth Rising, of Springfield, Mass.
Brinsmade prepared for College at Washington, Conn. He was
Second Tenor in the Freshman Glee Club and a member of
Phi Gamma Delta. The Senior Year Class Book speaks par-
ticularly of his prominence as an attendant at Poll's.
He was married June 3d, 1903, in Grace Church Chantry, New
York City, to Mrs. Grace (Downey) Clark, daughter of Robert
A. and Ellen Preston Downey, late of Oswego, N. Y., and has
one child, a daughter, Eleanor Preston Brinsmade (b. Aug.
5th, 1904, at New York City).
Brinsmade "entered the College of Physicians and Sur-
geons of New York in the fall after graduation and in
1900 received the degree of M.D. Spent three months
as Assistant Physician of a Sanatorium, and in the fall
of 1900 went abroad, where six months were spent in
Italy and Egypt. Entered the Presbyterian Hospital as
OF GRADUATES 233
Pathological Externe in June, 1901, and on January ist,
1902, started in business on West End Avenue, New
York.
"In 1898 I paid a visit to Cuba and Mexico. In 1899
the holidays were spent in Italy and Southern France.
''Since 1902 I have taken only one trip away from
New York State, that being through the Great Lakes
and Northern Michigan. A few minor trips in New
York State and Connecticut make up the rest. I got
married in 1903, but the 'honeymoon' was spent within a
radius of one hundred miles of New York City. Of
course Bicentennial saw me in New Haven. Having
never missed a Class Dinner, and running in at the Yale
Club occasionally, gives me the opportunity of seeing
quite a number of '96 men.
"My amusements have been those that generally fall
to the New Yorker of moderate means,— the theatre, etc.
Have done some automobiling, and am now enjoying my
second car. There is not much to say so far about my
professional record. Practice is growing slowly as I
'percolate more and more into the community.' Within
the past three years I have become a member of the New
York County Medical Society, the New York State Med-
ical Society, and the New York Academy of Medicine.
I am an associate editor of the Medical Review of Re-
views, and Physician to the O.P.D. of the Presbyterian
Hospital."
He adds, "If you happen to know of anything else
I 've done that does n't occur to me, put it down."
O excellent Brinsmade ! O mens conscia recti!
Jno. S. Brittain, Jr.
House and Special Road Salesman for the John S. Brittain Dry Goods Co.,.
St. Joseph, Missouri.
Residence, 9th and Faraon Streets.
John Sherrard Brittain, Jr., was born Oct. 21st, 1874, at St.
Joseph, Mo. He is the son of John Sherrard Brittain and
234 BIOGRAPHIES
Susan Mary Turner, who were married Jan, sth, 1865, at
Forest City, Mo., and had four other children, all girls.
John Sherrard Brittain the elder (b. Nov. 30th, 1841, at
Belvidere, N. J.) has lived at Trenton, N. J., Philadelphia, Pa.,
Forest City, and St. Joseph. He is in the wholesale dry goods
trade. His parents were William Baker Brittain, a newspaper
editor, of Trenton, and Letitia Jones, of Philadelphia, whose
father, Samuel Jones, was expelled from a Quaker Church in
that City for bearing arms in the War of 1812. The family
came originally from England and Scotland. The date is un-
known, but it is certain that they were living in Trenton, N. J.,
some time prior to 1750.
Susan Mary (Turner) Brittain (b. Dec. 13th, 1846, at Miami,
Mo.) is the daughter of Samuel Johnson Turner (of Culpepper
Court House, Va., and of Weston, Mo.), and Mary Noel, of
Essex Co., Va. Mr. Turner was a pioneer trader, and was
connected at one time with The Nicaragua S. S. Co., of San
Francisco.
Brittain prepared for Yale at the Hill School. He received a
Second Dispute at the Junior Exhibition, a Second Colloquy
at -Commencement, and was a member of the University Club
and of Psi. U.
He has not been married.
Brittain went at first into his father's dry goods busi-
ness in St. Joseph, Missouri. Early in 1901 the condition
of his health necessitated a change of climate, so he left
St. Joseph and went to Dallas, Texas, where he became
Assistant to the General Agent (for Texas and Louisi-
ana) of the Chicago Great Western Railway. His health
improved in Dallas and in January, 1903, he returned to
St. Joseph "to re-enter the employ of the John S. Brittain
Dry Goods Company, Jobbers, and Importers of Dry
Goods, etc." He is a house and special road salesman.
"There have been no startling events in my career to
tell you of, or that would be of any interest," he wrote
this spring. "In the fall of 1903 I was badly mixed up
with a runaway horse, and although my head was consid-
erably cut up, and my nose 'busted' and turned across my
face, instead of up and down, a clever surgeon got in
some fine work with his needles and splints, and I came
out of it just as beautiful as ever."
OF GRADUATES 235
* Rev. Wm. Hall Brokaw
Died July 13th, 1902, New York City.
William Hall Brokaw was born Jan. i6th, 1874, in Newburgh,
N. Y. He was a son of William Bergen Brokaw and Mary
Alice Hall, who were married Jan. 9th, 1872, at Jersey City
Heights, N. J., and had altogether seven children, four boys and
three girls, four of whom lived to maturity.
William Bergen Brokaw (b. March ist, 1846, at Bound
Brook, N. J.) served nearly four years in the War of the Re-
bellion, enlisting as a drummer and rising to the rank of Major
by brevet. He was severely wounded at Fort Harrison, Va.
His occupation since the war has been that of a manufacturer.
He has lived in New York City, in Newburgh, and in Yonkers.
He is the son of George V. L. and Sarah Brokaw; the former
a merchant of Saratoga Springs, N. Y., and the latter a resi-
dent of Bound Brook, N. J. The family came to America from
Holland and France about 1600, and settled at Staten Island.
Mary Alice (Hall) Brokaw (b. March 25th, 185 1, at New
York City) is the daughter of Alonzo Burr Hall, a merchant,
and Anna VanTine Hall, both of New York City.
Brokaw prepared for Yale at Newburgh, N. Y., and in College
was identified with certain lines of Dwight Hall work. He
was a member of the Yale Union, and received a First Colloquy
at the Junior Exhibition and a Second Dispute at Commence-
ment.
He was married at Yonkers, N. Y., June 15th, 1899, to Miss
Annetta Kerr, daughter of George Kerr of Yonkers, N. Y.
She died suddenly Oct. 28th, 1900, at Yonkers, N. Y.
Brokaw was graduated from the Union Theological
Seminary of New York in 1899, receiving a certificate of
graduation which would have entitled him to the degree
of Bachelor of Divinity upon the presentation of a thesis.
On July 13th, 1902, he died in New York City of con-
sumption. He was sadly wasted the last time any of us
saw him, in June,— too ill even to read,— but he had
made his sexennial letter, nevertheless, so complete,
that it is here republished in lieu of any other bio-
graphical account:—
"My wedding day was June 15th, 1899. Immediately
thereafter my wife and I left for Brownsville, Texas,
236 BIOGRAPHIES
which place we reached July ist. It is truly the jumping-
off place of these United States and one of the most
isolated towns in the country, being i6o miles from a
railroad; and this distance must be traversed in a slow-
going stage which takes 36 hours to make the trip. I
assure you we were glad when this portion of our jour-
ney came to an end.
"Brownsville has a population of about 4,500, but
four-fifths are Spanish-speaking Mexicans. My work
lay among the American contingent, and a very interest-
ing work it was. The church of which I had charge
was the only one in town in which the services were
held in English, so my congregation was not limited to
members of the Episcopal Church but represented nearly
every denomination. I say it was a deeply interesting and
inspiring work, and I was happy in it and in my home
life, in spite of our isolation, but before the year was up
I was compelled to resign my charge and come North. I
had been in poor health during almost the whole of my
stay, and in the spring my condition became so precarious
that there was but one thing to do, and that was to seek a
different climate at once. We left there in May, 1900,
stopping in San Antonio for a week's rest. Here I was
ordained priest, having been ordained deacon the pre-
ceding January in Brownsville.
"Soon after reaching my home in Yonkers I con-
sulted my physician who advised me to go at once to the
Adirondacks, preferably to Dr. Trudeau's sanatorium at
Saranac Lake. Thither I went and remained until
April of the following year. It was during my stay here
that the great sorrow to which I have referred" (in an
unpublished portion of this letter) "came to me. My
wife had been with me during a portion of the summer,
but for three months past had been at her parents' home
in Yonkers and I had not been able to see her. The last
Sunday morning in October a telegram came to me
stating she was seriously ill and to come home at once.
She had died very suddenly that morning and I reached
her side twenty-four hours too late. Again I say I hope
Brokaw
OF GRADUATES 237
no classmate may have to suffer as I did; but I also say
the dear God knoweth best.
"I returned to Saranac and remained until spring;
then went out to Liberty, N. Y., where I spent the sum-
mer with my parents. In the fall of last year I left
Liberty for San Antonio, Texas, and there spent last
winter. My health had improved very little, but I man-
aged to do some work while in San Antonio, chiefly in
the form of occasional preaching. During April of
this year the weather grew very hot, so May first I came
North again. I expect to be in the country somewhere
with my parents this summer. . . .
"As to my present occupation it is doing nothing, ex-
cept trying to get back my health. Let those who are
able to work rejoice. 'Doing nothing' is the hardest
work I ever did."
Alexander Brown, Jr.
Torresdale, Pennsylvania.
Alexander Brown, Jr., was born Sept. 25th, 1872, at Torresdale,
Pa. He is the son of Neilson Brown and Elizabeth Laurence
Carson, who were married Oct., 1868, at Torresdale, and had
one other child, a daughter.
Neilson Brown (b. July 3d, 1845, at Philadelphia, Pa.;
d. July 20th, 1905, at Atlantic City, N. J.), gentleman of leisure,
was the son of Alexander Brown, a banker of Philadelphia,
Pa., and Katherine Neilson.
Elizabeth Laurence (Carson) Brown (b. Feb. 5th, 1851, at
Philadelphia, Pa.) is the daughter of George C. Carson, a mer-
chant, and Rosalie Morgan, both of Philadelphia.
Brown prepared at St. Paul's, and spent parts of his youth in
Washington, D. C, and in Paris. He was a Class Wrestler, a
substitute on the Varsity Football Team, President of the St.
Paul's School Club, and a prize winner for several years on
the Track Team, including the Special Track Team that went
over to England to play Oxford in '94. His specialties were
the shot and the hammer. He rowed No. 2 on the Varsity
Crew in Senior year, and sang Second Bass in the Second Glee
Club. He Boule, D. K. E. and Bones.
He has not been married.
238 BIOGRAPHIES
Brown described himself on the class-blank this year as
a "Farmer," explaining, when interviewed, that it was
because he raised a good deal of hay to feed his ponies.
He is a member of the Bryn Mawr Polo Club; and of
the 542 men rated as active players by the National Polo
Association he is one of the first 54 (all of whom have a
handicap rating of four or over). He has made several
trips in the West and South- West, looking for likely
mounts.
"The Blues and Reds had a lively polo match this
afternoon," said a recent despatch from Newport, R. I.,
to a New York paper, "the former winning 13 to 8. The
game was devoid of interest except to the contestants
and a few of their friends. The teams were as fol-
lows:—Blues: William A. Hazard, Alexander Brown,
Rudolph L. Agassiz, and R. C. Snowden. Reds :— Regi-
nald C. Vanderbilt, W. H. T. Huhn, J. M. Waterbury,
and R. Livingston Beeckman."
"After I left Yale," wrote Brown at our Sexennial,
"you know we rowed at Henley. In the fall went into
Brown Brothers & Company, Bankers, for seventeen
months. April 4th, 1898, went into United States Navy.
Stayed until December 4th, 1898. Went to Europe.
Stayed until August, 1899. Ill most of the time. Next
spring went into United States Forestry, South Dakota,
brought home carload of horses. Broke and sold them.
Since then traveled in West and Europe."
His decennial postscript reads :— "Nothing except
living in country and traveling some in Europe and the
Western States."
Brown's term of service in the Navy was spent as
Assistant Paymaster on Wainwright's ship, the
Gloucester— the unprotected little converted yacht which
ran in at the very start of the great sea-fight off Santiago
and put the two Spanish torpedo-boat destroyers out of
action. The Sexennial Record (pp. 63-66) contained
some interesting reminiscences about "Skim" as a ship-
mate, contributed by one of his fellow-officers.
OF GRADUATES 239
Herbert S. Brown
Consulting Electrical Engineer, 319 East 23d Street, New York City.
Herbert Stanley Brown was born Nov. 26th, 1872, at Detroit,
Mich. He is a son of Charles Hall Brown and Georgiana
Newcomb, who were married Dec. 4th, 1867, at Detroit, Mich.,
and had two other sons.
Charles Hall Brown (b. July sth, 1843, at Charlton, Sara-
toga Co., N. Y.) has lived at Charlton, at Detroit, and at Little
Falls, Minn., engaged as a wholesale seed salesman, wholesale
drug salesman, and now as a retail druggist. He is a son of
Nathan Hollister Brown, a farmer, carpenter, contractor, "and
luckless inventor," of Detroit, formerly of Charlton, N. Y., and
of Amanda Hall, of South East, Putnam Co., N. Y. The
family are said to have come from the north of Ireland, and
the direct ancestor, Thomas Brown, was one of the original
settlers of Freehold, N. J.
Georgiana (Newcomb) Brown (b. Jan. 3d, 1838, at Quincy,
Mass.; d. Dec. 24th, 1881, at Detroit) was the daughter of
George Newcomb (Amherst '32), a physician, and Lucy Ann
Packard, both of Quincy, Mass.
Brown entered our Class from Northwestern University in Sept.
'93. He took Two Year Honors in Political Science and Law,
and in Senior year received the Cobden Club Medal. A Dis-
sertation at the Junior Exhibition and an Oration at Com-
mencement.
He has not been married.
Brown's pre-sexennial diary ran as follows :— "1896-97 :
Instructor in Mathematics, Cheshire Academy, Cheshire,
Connecticut. 1897-98: Graduate student in Social
Science at Yale. 1898-1901 : Editor of the Charities
Review (New York City), succeeding Dr. F. H. Wines,
now Assistant Director of the United States Census
Bureau. 1901-02 : Secretary of a Committee of Twenty
(Herbert Parsons, Chairman) organized to protect the
state charitable institutions from political manipulation.
1902: Secretary of the New York State Charities Aid
Association, succeeding Mr. Homer Folks, now Com-
missioner of Public Charities of the City of New York.
1902: Returned to the electrical construction business
240 BIOGRAPHIES
with which I have been connected or in close touch since
boyhood. Am editing a series of historical studies of
'American Philanthropy of the Nineteenth Century' for
the Macmillan Company. Have lived for several years
among the working people of New York City."
His electrical construction business, which was car-
ried on under the name of "Herbert S. Brown, Trustee,"
was fully described in the Sexennial Record (pp 66-68).
" 'Brown, Trustee,' of 1902 notoriety," says his decen-
nial letter, "prospered beautifully for two years, em-
ployes getting 20% bonus on their wages— and earning
it by their interest. Then came a cheerful row in the
New York building trades, and Mr. Trustee, unwiUing to
take sides against his men, or enter into combinations
obviously in restraint of trade, bowed himself out. At
last reports he was squandering on the Lord knows what
impossible inventions 101% of his income from a modest
engineering practice, living the simple life, and vowing
that some day he would get into the 'Trustee' game
again. There is a private suspicion that Brown's un-
reasonably cozy fireplace (that's patented, too), and an
endless procession of queer-titled books that litter his
desk and shelves, have a formidable conspiracy of their
own in restraint of trade— and fair ladies. But 'God,
you know, what can you do !' "
This alleged fireplace is in a small squat one-story
fortress, situated in the interior of an East-side New
York block, and surrounded by the rear walls and yards
of tenements. The Secretary has never been able to gain
admittance, owing to the absence (or the suspicions) of
the tenant, and to his cautious habit of locking all ac-
cessible windows. It looks rather interesting, from with-
out, though smelly.
Wm. F. Brown, M.D.
Lyon Mountain, New York.
William Fuller Brown was born Aug. 27th, 1873, at New York
City. He is the only child of John Fuller Brown and Carrie
OF GRADUATES 241
Spicer, who were married Dec. 2d, 1871, at Cincinnati, O. An
uncle, E. W. Brown, was graduated in the Class of '65.
John Fuller Brown (b. Sept. 12th, 1848, at West Killingly,
Conn.) served as a private in Co. C, 3d N. H. Vol. Infantry in
the Civil War. He is now (Jan. '06) engaged as a bookkeeper
and salesman at Lyon Mountain, N. Y. He has lived at West
Killingly and New Haven, Conn., Cincinnati and Cleveland, O.,
and New York City. He is the son of William Brown, a
cotton mill overseer and merchant, and Elizabeth Fuller, both
of Killingly.
Carrie (Spicer) Brown (b. Nov. 22d, 1849, at Hamilton, O.)
is the daughter of George Spicer, a farmer, and Elizabeth
Schaffer, both of Germany. She spent her early life at
Hamilton and Cincinnati, O.
Brown prepared for College at the Plattsburg High School, at
which place and at Northampton, N. Y., his early life was spent.
He received an Oration at the Junior Exhibition and at Com-
mencement.
He was married at Plattsburg, N. Y., Nov. 21st, 1901, to Miss
Marie E. Williams, daughter of the Hon. Andrew Williams,
and has one child, a son, William Fuller Brown, Jr. (b. Oct.
2ist, 1905, at Lj^on Mountain, N. Y.).
Brown took his M.D. at McGill University, Montreal,
in 1899. He received a hospital appointment, spent one
year as Resident Physician and Surgeon at the Montreal
General Hospital, and was then appointed Physician and
Surgeon to the Chateaugay Ore & Iron Company, and
the Chateaugay Railroad Company, with residence at
Lyon Mountain, New York. At Sexennial he reported
that he was also serving as Health Officer for the Town
of Dannemora, New York, and as Medical Examiner for
the New York and Mutual Life Insurance Companies.
"Tending strictly to business," says his decennial let-
ter, "helping the undertaker out when his trade gets
dull, and by way of variety doing a little veterinary work
on the side.
"By the way," he adds thoughtfully, "the animals
always croak."
242 BIOGRAPHIES
George S. Buck
Lawyer. 543 EUicott Square, Buffalo, N. Y.
Residence, 60 Irving Place.
George Sturges Buck was born Feb. loth, 1875, in Chicago, 111.
He is a son of Roswell Riley Buck and Maria Catherine Barnes,
who were married Nov. 8th, 1866, at Buffalo, N. Y., and had
altogether three children, two boys and one girl, one of whom
died before maturity.
Roswell Riley Buck (b. Oct. 21st, 1826, at Wethersfield,
Conn.; d. Sept. loth, 1904, at Buffalo, N. Y.), a grain merchant,
spent the greater part of his life at Buffalo and Chicago. He
was the son of Winthrop Buck, a farmer of Wethersfield, Conn.,
and of Eunice Moseley, of Glastonbury, Conn. His direct an-
cestors came from England in 1649, and settled at Wethers-
field, Conn.
Maria Catherine (Barnes) Buck (b. March 5th, 1836, at
Buffalo, N. Y.; d. May 5th, 1905, at Buffalo, N. Y.) was the
daughter of Josiah Barnes (Yale '26), a physician of Tolland,
Conn., and Delia Marsh, of Litchfield, Conn. Josiah Barnes
like his grandson, our classmate, was a Junior Exhibition man.
Buck spent his early life chiefly in Buffalo, and prepared at the
Buffalo High School. He was one of the speakers at the
Junior Exhibition, receiving a second Ten Eyck Prize. He
also took part in the DeForest Prize Speaking in Senior year,
taking a Townsend Premium. He was Class Orator and a
member of the Yale Union. A Dissertation at the Junior Ex-
hibition and an Oration at Commencement. Beta Theta Phi.
He was married Oct. 6th, 1903, at Buffalo, N. Y., to Miss Ellen
Louise Hussey, daughter of Dr. Elisha Pinkham Hussey of
Buffalo, and has two children, a son, Roswell Seymour Buck
(b. Aug. 22d, 1904, at Buffalo) and a daughter, Ruth Buck (b.
May 29th, 1906, at Buffalo).
In 1898 Buck was graduated second in his class at the
Buffalo Law School, and began practice, for awhile as
a member of the firm of Buck & Cole. He "went abroad
in 1899 ^^^ stopped off for a few hours at the North
Cape. Otherwise did the usual things."
His decennial letter follows:— "I have been for three
years a member of the Erie County Board of Super-
visors, a body which has charge of the County affairs.
OF GRADUATES 243
I have tried to do something for better government, and
I believe I have been effective, for I have been called
everything from 'a damned fool,' and 'the supreme ob-
jector,' to 'the guardian angel of the County Treasury'."
One of his friends has supplemented this information
with the following letter :— "George S. Buck is serv-
ing his second term in the Board of Supervisors of
Erie County, where he represents the twenty-first ward
of the City of Buffalo. During the year 1905 Mr. Buck
instituted and conducted an investigation into the affairs
of the office of the Superintendent of the Poor of Erie
County. The inquiry was conducted by him before a
committee of the Board of Supervisors, of which he is
a member, and this committee and its chairman were
extremely hostile toward him during its progress, evi-
dently desiring to shield the official whose acts were
under investigation. Nevertheless there was disclosed a
well-developed system of graft, consisting of exorbitant
and illegal fees, costly junkets, etc., which combined to
make the care of its poor highly expensive for the
County. As a direct result of the exposure the practice
of grafting received a decided check in that department,
and it is probable that the whole fee system will soon be
abolished.
"The same year saw the beginning of another hot
fight in which George took a leading part. This was
brought on by an attempt on the part of the local trac-
tion company to obtain a valuable franchise in some of
the streets and parkways of the City of Buffalo for noth-
ing. The alderman and other city officials were falling
over each other in their eagerness to help a rich cor-
poration to a good thing at the expense of the taxpayers.
But unfortunately the law required public hearings, and
at these hearings strenuous objections were raised to
the measure being jammed through without providing
for any compensation to the city. Among the leaders
of the opposition were George Buck, Wm. Burnet
Wright Jr. '92, and Robert S. Binkert, Sheff '04, Secre-
tary of the Municipal League of Buffalo. — The fight
244 BIOGRAPHIES
was carried into the Supreme Court, and at one time
the Mayor and other city officials were restrained by an
injunction order from taking any action in the matter.
The traction company has already offered forty thousand
dollars for this franchise, which the city fathers wanted
to give them for nothing; but the fight is still going on,
and franchise values, at least from the taxpayers' point of
view, are steadily increasing."
George Lamb Buist, Jr., M.D.
3 Hancock Street, Brooklyn, New York,
Permanent mail address, 283 Meeting Street, Charleston, S. C.
George Lamb Buist, Jr. was born May i8th, 1872, in Charleston,
S. C. He is a son of George Lamb Buist and Martha Allston
White, who were married May 22d, 1863, at Charleston, and
had altogether ten children, six boys and four girls, seven of
whom lived to maturity. Two of the sons are Yale graduates ;
the other being Henry Buist, '84.
George Lamb Buist the elder (b. Sept. 4th, 1838, at Charles-
ton, S. C), a lawyer, served as a Major of Artillery in the Con-
federate service. He was for sixteen years a State Senator
from Charleston, and has been for some time a Trustee of
Charleston College, and a member of the Educational Board
of School Commissioners. His father, George Buist, of
Charleston, a graduate of South Carolina College, was a lawyer
and Probate Judge. His mother was Mary Edwards Jones,
of Charleston. The Buist family settled in Charleston when
they came from Fifeshire, Scotland, in 1793.
Martha Allston (White) Buist (b. Oct. 21st, 1840, at Charles-
ton) is the daughter of Alonzo James White, a merchant and
commission agent, and Eliza Maria Ingraham, both of Charles-
ton.
Buist prepared for Yale at Exeter and at Hopkins Grammar
School. He was College Gymnast in Sophomore and in Junior
years, Captain of the Yale Gymnastic Association during the
last two years of the course, Coxswaih of the Class Crew in
Junior year, and Secretary and Treasurer of the Southern
Club. He was also a member of the Yale Union and of
A. D. Phi.
He was married at St. George's Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb.
OF GRADUATES 245
27th, 1906, to Miss Adelaide Richardson, daughter of Addison
Bentley Richardson, of Bentleyville, Pa., and the late Ella Cot-
ton Richardson.
BuiST was graduated from the Yale Medical School in
1900. Incidentally he served during the summer of 1898
in the Connecticut Volunteer Artillery, and, later, in the
Hospital Corps at Camp Wikoff. The summer of 1899
he spent in study and travel abroad.
After getting his degree he was awarded an appoint-
ment as interne to the Brooklyn Hospital for the
eighteen months ending January ist, 1901. He then
passed the State Medical Board Examinations and was
given license to practise medicine and surgery in New
York. In April, 1902, he was appointed Anaesthetist to
the Brooklyn Hospital, and on May ist he opened an
office in the Alhambra apartments on Halsey Street
(Brooklyn). He moved to his present offices on July
1st, 1904.
"Since 1902," he writes, "I have been trying to cure
some of the sick and to leave the 'well enough alone.' I
was appointed Clinical Assistant to the Gynecological
Service of the Brooklyn Hospital in 1902, and Associate
Surgeon to the same Hospital in January, 1906.
"Among my most pleasant avocations since Sexennial
was attendance at the wedding of our genial attorney
and classmate, Nat Smith, followed by a short visit with
Wade to Pete Allen's camp. Also a most delightful
visit to Hort Loomis in his bungalow just outside of
Rochester."
George E. Bulkley
Secretary of the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company of
Hartford, Connecticut. Residence, 943 Asylum Avenue.
George Edward Bulkley was born Nov. 4th, 1873, at North
I Granville, N. Y. He is a son of George Lucius Bulkley and
Mary Salisbury, who were married in June, 1859, at Jersey City,
246 BIOGRAPHIES
N. J., and had altogether five children, three boys and two
girls, three of whom lived to maturity.
George Lucius Bulkley (b. Feb. 22d, 1832, at North Gran-
ville; d. Aug. 31st, 1893, at North Granville) was the son of
Brigadier-General Edward Bulkley, of North Granville, and
Mary Brown. He spent his life partly in his birthplace, and
partly in Hartford, Conn. The family came from England in
1634-5-
Mary (Salisbury) Bulkley (b. Nov. i6th, 1832, at New York
City; d. Feb. i6th, 1902, at Hartford) was the daughter of
Henry Salisbury, a jeweler.
Bulkley spent his early life at his birthplace and in Hartford,
preparing for College at the Hartford High School. He re-
ceived a Second Colloquy at the Junior Exhibition and a First
Colloquy at Commencement and was a member of Zeta Psi.
He was married at Hartford, Conn., Oct. loth, 1900, to Miss
Juliette H. Lawrence, daughter of Charles H. Lawrence, of
Hartford, and has two children, one daughter and one son,
Juliette Hamlin Bulkley (b. April 7th, 1904, at Hartford) and
George Lawrence Bulkley (b. March nth, 1906, at Hartford).
Bulkley has been associated with the Connecticut Gen-
eral Life Insurance Company in Hartford, Connecticut,
ever since graduation, occupying in turn the positions of
mail-boy, clerk, Actuary, and Secretary. He has suc-
ceeded in making this sometimes dramatic occupation so
honorably uneventful in his own case that there seems
to be nothing more to say.
"The most evident results of the last four years," says
his decennial letter, "appear to be the doubling of my
family. I have stuck to my first job of life insurance,
which has kept me pretty close to the State of Connecti-
cut, most of my vacations having been spent on Long
Island Sound. I occasionally take my chances in a trip
to New York, where I have seen a few '96 men, but as
a general rule have not had the luck to see very many of
them, which record I hope to put out of business next
month."
In the hope of padding this bloodless tale with storms
at sea, or of otherwise imparting to it some elemental
flavor, the Secretary asked Bulkley just what he meant
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by "on the Sound." He replied patiently that he meant
•*on the shore of the Sound, except when I decide it is
time for a bath, or some good friend takes me for a
sail."
J. L. Bumham, M.D.
Lyme, Coon.
John Lau) Busxham was bom Nov. 24^ 1870, at Mcredidi,
N. H. He is a son of Charies Bttmham (Dartmoadi '56) and
Mary MelYina Noyes, who were married Feb. 8di, i357, at
Windham, N. H., and had ahogedier four dnidrcn, tiiree boys
and one giri, three of whom Ihred to maturity.
Charles Bumham (b. July 19th, 1812, at Pelham, N. H.;
d. July 3d, 1883. at Townshcnd, Vt) spent his life at Qoincy,
nU Bris^iton, la., Knoxville, la., Bath, Me., Mcredidi, N. H.,
Jamaica, Vt, and Newfone, VL He was a dersyman, being
prominent in the work of the Andover Band in tiie West. He
was the son of James Bumham and Nancj Smidi, both of
Pelham, N. H. The family came from England in 1635, and
settled at Chebacco, Mass.
Mary Mehrina (Noyes) Bumham (b. Nor. ijdi, iSs^ at
Windham, N. H.; d. March loth, 1897, at Townsbend) was tiie
daughter of James Noyes» a farmer of Windham, and Abigail
R. Lorejoy, of Amherst, N. H.
Bumham prepared for College at the Springfidd (Mass.) His^
Scho(^ He took a Dissertation at the Junior Exhibitioo and
an Oraticm at Commencement and received One Year Hooofs
in Natural Sciences.
He was married at New Haven, Coon., on Oct 4th, tdgg, to Mrs.
Irene Ahce Gillette (nee Manwarring), <Uinghtft of the late
Danid H. Manwarring and of Harriet R (Oupnan)
warrmg of Chntoo, Conn.
BuRNHAM studied for three years in the Yale Medical
School, received his MJ). degree in 1899, and settled
down in Lyme, Cdonecticiit. "Practised medidiie here
ever since, and no vacatioiis,'' says fais dcrfnnial letter.
It is slow work sometimes for a couulry doctor. Peo-
248 BIOGRAPHIES
pie may be trained to eat pills from the hand, even by a
fledgling, but a man generally has to have v^rinkles be-
fore he is allowed to carve or to take charge of an im-
portant case.
In addition to having served as Health Officer for
Lyme, Burnham is Insurance Examiner for the Mutual
Benefit Life, the Northwestern Mutual Life, the Massa-
chusetts Mutual, the Travelers, and other insurance
companies.
The Secretary met a man in New Haven a while ago
who said he had seen and had a talk with Burnham.
"He did n't look so very well at that time," said the man,
"and I asked him whether he was n't a little run down.
'Oh no,' says he, 'this is too healthy a place for that.
This is one of the healthiest towns in all New England.'
And then he looked sort of serious, and sighed."
R. H. Burton-Smith
Residence, 1705 Rebecca Street, Sioux City, Iowa.
Law Office, 305-6 Iowa Building.
Robert Henry Burton-Smith was born Feb. 15th, 1875, at
Sioux City, la. He is a son of William Remsen Smith and
Rebecca Osborne, who were married July 12th, 1859, at Tecum-
seh, Mich., and had seven other sons, five of whom died before
maturity.
William Remsen Smith (b. Dec. 30th, 1828, at Barnegat,
N. J.; d. July 4th, 1894, at Sioux City) was Surgeon of the
Iowa Board of Enrollment during the Civil War, and for thir-
teen years was receiver of the United States Land Office in
Sioux City. He was twice elected Mayor of that place, served
as Iowa Commissioner to the Paris Exposition in 1878, and
was an honorary member of the Cobden Club. His parents
were Daniel Smith, Jr. (b. June 2d, 1801), a brick and tile
manufacturer, of Middletown, N. J., and Elizabeth Boude
(b. Jan. 26th, 1807), of Farmingdale, N. J. Daniel Smith was
the descendant of John and Mary Smith, who came to New
York in 1670, and bought a plantation at Middletown, N. J.
Rebecca (Osborne) Smith (b. Aug. Sth, 1840, at Ovid, N. Y.)
is the daughter of John Hogarth Osborne, a farmer of Tecum-
seh, Mich., and Loraine Bryant Smith, of Ovid.
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Burton-Smith spent his early life in the West. At College he
was a member of the Yale Union and he received a Second
Dispute at Commencement.
He was married Jan. 24th, 1906, at Frederick, Wyo., to Miss
Leona Brownrigg, daughter of Dr. William J. Brownrigg, a
ranchman of Frederick, who was formerly a specialist (eye,
ear, nose and throat) and practised in Omaha, Nebraska.
Burton-Smith taught in the Sioux City (Iowa) High
School for three years ; entered the Harvard Law School
in 1899, and was graduated with the degree of LL.B. in
1902. Being of an original turn of mind he spent one
of his summer vacations working in Wall Street, and
another in the University Settlement of New York,
which is on Rivington Street over on the East side.
These are the two strangest places to spend a summer
vacation ever selected. Burt ought to write them up. In
addition to the individual interest possessed by each they
would make a charming study, considered jointly : —
"Wall Street and Rivington : A Comparison and an
Antithesis."
"Since my graduation at Harvard Law School in
1902," he wrote this spring, "I have been practising law
in Sioux City. Several franchise issues have afforded
me opportunity to work off surplus energy and per-
haps render some public service of more or less value.
The best thing I have done for myself has been to dis-
cover a mate and settle down to domestic happiness."
''It is very kind of you to ask for details," he said in a
later letter. ''My franchise fighting has been in the di-
rection of securing publicity clauses and optional pur-
chase clauses in public franchises. We fought the gas
and electric company to a stand-still and secured an op-
tion to purchase at the cost of duplication of the physical
plant during the tenth, fifteenth, twentieth, and last
year of the franchise."
In addition to his practice Burton-Smith is interested
in the Sioux City Foundry & Manufacturing Company,
which operates a foundry, boiler works, and steel yard,
250 BIOGRAPHIES
and which is owned by his brother and himself. A
memorandum of his writings is given in the Biblio-
graphical Notes.
Bertram J. Cahn
Partner in the law firm of Simeon Straus and Bertram J. Cahn,
Rooms 509-11, 85 Dearborn Street, Chicago.
Residence, 4809 Grand Boulevard.
Bertram Joseph Cahn was born Nov. loth, 1875, at Chicago, 111.
He is a son of Joseph Cahn and Miriam Schwab, who were
married Feb. 2d, 1875, at Chicago, and had altogether four
children, two boys and two girls.
Joseph Cahn (b. Aug. i6th, 1837, at Partenheim, Hesse
Darmstadt, Germany) has been a manufacturer and merchant
of Chicago for the last fifty years. He is the son of Isaac
Cahn, a cattle dealer, of Partenheim, and Henrietta Jacoby, of
Alzei, Hesse Darmstadt. Isaac Cahn came ta America in 1850,
after which date he never engaged in business.
Miriam (Schwab) Cahn (b. April 9th, 1851, at Natchez,
Miss.) spent the early years of her life at Rochester, N. Y. and
at Chicago. She is the daughter of Berin Schwab, a merchant,
and Sophia Mann, both of Nordstadt, Bavaria, Germany, who
came from Nordstadt to New York in 1840, and settled later
at Natchez.
Cahn prepared for Yale at Dr. Sachs' School in New York City,
in which place and in Chicago he spent his early life. In Col-
lege he took One Year Honors in Political Science and Law.
He received an Oration at the Junior Exhibition and at Com-
mencement. He was a member of the Chicago Club.
He has not been married.
Cahn has done nothing but live in Chicago and practise
law since he was graduated from the Northwestern Uni-
versity Law School (with the degree of LL.B.) in 1899.
It seems as though there ought to be something to add
to this bare statement, or, at least, some way of clothing
it in more ample verbiage, but neither Cahn nor the
Secretary can think of a word to say. Why, confound
it, the man has not even changed his address ! It would
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take a Balzac and a Boswell rolled into one, to do a
biography for a character like this.
He is associated in his practice with Mr. Simeon
Strauss. He plays golf. His decennial letter follows :—
"Practising law.
"Playing golf.
"Cahn."
Theodore Carleton
Illustration. Residence, 22 Allen Street, Bradford, Mass.
Theodore Carleton was born Dec. 28th, 1872, in New Britain,
Conn. He is a son of Isaac Newton Carleton (Dartmouth '59;
Yale '^2 hon.), and Laura Tenney, who were married Aug. 8th,
i860, at Hanover, N. H., and had altogether seven children,
four boys and three girls, four of whom lived to maturity.
Isaac Newton Carleton (b. June loth, 1832, at Bradford— now
a part of Haverhill— Mass. ; d. Aug. 8th, 1902, at Bradford) of
the Carleton School for Young Men and Boys at Bradford,
was an eminent teacher and educator. He was at one time
principal of the only State School in Connecticut (New Britain,
1869-83) ; and was for two years President of the American
Institute of Instruction, a national educational association.
Late in life he was licensed a Congregational preacher, and
often supplied pulpits, though he never held a pastorate. (An
account of his life is given in "Universities and their Sons,"
published in 1900). He was the son of Isaac Carleton, a
farmer, and Mary Carleton, (nee Carleton) both of Bradford.
The family came from England in 1637, and settled at Rowley,
Mass.
Laura (Tenney) Carleton (b. Feb. 13th, 1835, at Hartford,
Vt.) is the daughter of Reuben Tenney, a farmer, and Polly
Savage, both of Hartford.
Carleton prepared for College at home and at Andover. He was
a member of the Andover Club at Yale, and received a Second
Colloquy at the Junior Exhibition and at Commencement.
He has not been married.
Carleton taught in a private school for boys the first
year out of college, and then, in June, 1897, entered the
252 BIOGRAPHIES
New York offices of the Western Electric Company.
His residence was in Brooklyn.
"Referring to page ^2 of the Sexennial Record," says
his decennial letter, "I find myself quoted as 'now a
member of .the Export Sales Department' of the 'West-
ern Electric Co. of Brooklyn! That was an error, but
not mine, I feel sure. The Western Electric Company
has a factory, with offices and retail stores in Manhattan,
and was then otherwise variously established in Chicago,
Philadelphia, Cincinnati, San Francisco, London, Ant-
werp, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, St. Petersburg, Milan, Cape
Town, Tokyo, and may have had designs on Oshkosh
and Kalamazoo besides— but not Brooklyn.
"Early in 1903 the Export Sales Department passed
under the control of a manager 'who 'd make Simon
Legree look Hke a Sister of Charity' (Oakley: 'Idyls
of a Claim Agent'). He 'd keep forgetting he was not
boss of a ball-and-chain gang, and as I did not share his
unique point of view as to certain matters involving
a subordinate's clearly established rights, I left the Com-
pany's employ in October, 1903.
"Removing shortly thereafter to Hartford, Connecti-
cuti I entered Hartford Theological Seminary several
weeks late in the fall term, but should have selected a
sanatorium instead, as the condition of my health after
months passed under a severe strain of anxiety finally
landed me at home for the Christmas Holidays on the
verge of nervous prostration.
"I did not return to Hartford, but after a period of
rest here in Bradford, decided to take up again the work
for which I seem naturally best qualified, and began
the systematic study of illustrating, with the Interna-
tional Correspondence Schools of Scranton, Pennsyl-
vania. Along with my study I have done considerable
newspaper and commercial illustrating, the latter being
my present aim as an important part of the work of the
'all-around advertising man' I hope soon to be.
"Although not less interested in theology than for-
merly I have turned my attention from the babel of
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'modern thought' to Bible school teaching along safely
and surely conservative lines, and greatly enjoy the
work,"
John A. Carley
Lawyer. 41 Park Row, New York City.
Residence, 24 West 16th Street.
Permanent mail address, Leominster, Mass.
John Arthur Carley was born April 17th, 1869, at Lawrence,
Mass. He is a son of Patrick Carley and Mary McGinn, who
were married in 1866, at Lawrence, and had four other children,
all sons.
Patrick Carley (b. Aug. 1831, at Balnafade, County Clare,
Ireland; d. June 20th, 1895, at Leominster, Mass.) was a farmer
and paper maker, of Lawrence and of Groton, Mass. His
parents were Michael Carley and Ann Egan, both of County
Clare, Ireland.
Mary (McGinn) Carley (b. at Armagh, Ireland, c. 1840;
d. Jan. 1905, at Leominster, Mass.) spent her early life in Ire-
land and Peacedale, R. I. She was the daughter of Patrick
McGinn, a laborer, and Sarah Tierney, both of Armagh.
Carley spent most of his early life in Groton, Mass. He came
to Yale from Phillips Exeter Academy. He was a member of
the Exeter Club, and received a Second Dispute at the Junior
Exhibition and a First Dispute at Commencement.
He has not been married.
Carley "came to New York the last week in September,
1896, and entered the New York Law School on the first
of October; I graduated from that Law School in June,
1898, and was then admitted to the Bar. While I was
attending the Law School I also served a two years'
clerkship in the office of Tyler, Pratt, & Hibbard,
III Broadway. In January, 1900, I became managing
Attorney in the office of Ullo, Reubsamen & Higgin-
botham, 11 Broadway, and remained with them until
January of this year when I moved to my present
office. I have been very busy since graduation and have
254 « BIOGRAPHIES
had no time for travel and very little opportunity for any
kind of recreation."
This was written in 1902. His decennial letter
adds :— ''I have traveled none. I leave the city only to
spend one month each summer at my home in Leomin-
ster, Massachusetts. I attend all the important Yale
football games that I can reach, and attend the theatres
a little more regularly each year.
"Am a member of the local Democratic organization,
as member both of the General Committee and of the
Law Committee; have held no office and have sought
none."
T. F. Carroll
Lawyer. Towanda, Pennsylvania.
Thomas Francis Carroll was born July 2d, 1871, at Towanda, Pa.
He is the son of John Carroll and Maria Dunn, who were mar-
ried Oct. 4th, 1863, at Towanda, and had altogether eight
children, four boys and four girls, five of whom lived to
maturity. Charles J. Carroll, '99 S., is a brother.
John Carroll (b. March 27th, 1837, in County Monaghan,
Ireland; d. Aug. 26th, 1891, at Towanda, Pa.) spent most of
his life at Barclay, Longvalley, and Towanda, Pa., in charge
of mines and mining operations. His parents were Dennis
Carroll, a farmer, and Elizabeth Cummiskey, both of County
Monaghan. The family came to America in 1839, and settled
in Bradford County, Pa.
Maria (Dunn) Carroll (b. April 17th, 1843, in County Tip-
perary, Ireland) spent her early life at Towanda, where she
still resides. Her parents were Thomas Dunn, a farmer, and
Catherine Tracy, both of County Tipperary, who came to
America and settled in Bradford County, Pa., in 1851.
Carroll was graduated from Lehigh University with the degree of
B. S., in 1894, and joined our Class in Sept. of '95. He received
an Oration at Commencement.
He has not been married.
Carroll was in Nebraska when the material for this
volume was being collected and he sent no direct reply.
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At Sexennial he wrote:— "As to my life, there is
nothing worthy of being put in the record/'
After engaging for a time in the contracting business
he took up the practice of law. His office is in Towanda,
Pennsylvania. His other principal places of residence
since graduation have been Youngstown, Ohio, and
Pittsburg.
Herbert B. Cary
Residence, 83 Williams Street, Norwich, Conn.
Accountant for Eaton, Chase & Company (Hardware and Electrical Goods),
129 Main Street.
Herbert Bishop Cary was born Oct. i6th, 1873, at Norwich,
Conn. He is a son of Charles William Cary and Nancy Bing-
ham Bishop, who were married March loth, 1871, at Norwich,
and had one other son and one daughter. The brother was
graduated from Williams College, and the sister, after two
years at Smith, was graduated with high honors from The
Teachers' College of New York.
Charles William Cary (b. July 15th, 1843, at Middletown,
Conn. ; d. Aug. 27th, 1888, at Norwich, Conn.) served with
the i8th Conn. Regiment in the Civil War, was imprisoned at
Libby and Bell Island, and later became Secretary and Treas-
urer of the Norwich Bleaching, Dyeing & Printing Co. He was
for twenty-two years a Sunday School Superintendent. His
parents were Frederick William Cary, contractor and builder,
and Henrietta Richards Woodworth, both of Norwich, Conn.
The family came from England in 1634, and settled at Bridge-
water, Mass.
Nancy Bingham (Bishop) Cary (b. Jan. 21st, 1845, at Hano-
ver, Conn.; d. May i6th, 1898, at Norwich, Conn.) was the
daughter of Nathan Perkins Bishop, a farmer and merchant,
and of Nancy Lee, both of Lisbon (now Sprague), Conn.
Cary prepared for College at the Norwich Academy. He entered
Yale with the Class, and received a First Dispute at the Junior
Exhibition and a Dissertation at Commencement.
He was married Nov. nth, 1903, at Norwich, Conn., to Miss Alice
Maples Crary, daughter of John T. and Eunice P. (Maples)
Crary.
"During my first year after graduation," wrote Cary in
1902, "I was associated with my brother in the manufac-
256 BIOGRAPHIES
ture of bicycle chains. Our company was known as the
Thames Chain and Stamping Company, and we made
10,000 chains for the M. Hartley Company that year.
The chain business, like many others, has its ups and
downs, so I retired at the close of the first year, and
went into the office of L. W. Carroll & Son, dealers in
mill suppHes and paints. After more or less success with
the above firm for nearly two years, I resigned and se-
cured the position of Accountant for Eaton, Chase &
Company, of Norwich, Connecticut, where I have since
made my berth. Our business is that of a wholesale
and retail trade in hardware, iron, and steel. We em-
ploy electrical engineers and contractors, and we have
wired for electricity some of the largest mills of the
eastern part of the State. Our business was established
in 1764, so it is one of the oldest in the State."
His decennial letter follows :— "Since 1902 I have
been tied up in the hardware business, and any one who.
has had experience in that line knows that this busi-
ness is full of details every minute.
"Have been to New Haven only once in the past four
years, and then it was to see Yale down Princeton in
baseball in 1903. In fact, business, and writing gene-
alogies for Day, have kept me on the 'qui vive' all the
time. When I look for a rest along comes another letter
from Day with more questions to answer by 'return
mail.'
"Attended the banquet of our Class in New York in
1905, and enjoyed the occasion very much indeed. It
makes one feel as though he were back in college again,
when about 150 of the Class are gathered together, and
old times are brought vividly into view.
"Walter H. Clark called at my office in Norwich last
winter, and we passed a pleasant hour together. Arnold
comes to the 'Rose City' quite often, and I run across
him occasionally, thus keeping old friendships 'green.'
Gaylord comes to town frequently, and Coit is with us
for the present. Edwin L. Robinson summers here, so
we think that old Norwich is well favored with members
of Yale 1896.
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"In addition to my regular business I have been as-
sociated with my brother (Williams College 1894) in the
manufacture of revolvers. We have recently sold out
our business, and all of our stockholders received a hand-
some return for the money they invested.
"We have a boat club in our town, known as the
Chelsea Boat Club. Coit and I are members, and I am
on the Governing Board. We have over one hundred
members and we own a handsome piece of property on
the river front. There are twenty-five launches con-
nected with the club, and over fifty other boats, shells,
and canoes. Other organizations too numerous to men-
tion take my time, and I must close here."
Wm. Wallace Chace
Partner in the law firm of A. Frank B. Chace & Sons, Hudson, New York.
William Wallace Chace was born March nth, 1872, at Hud-
son, N. Y. He is one of the three sons of A. Frank B. Chace
and Mary Zilpah Bruce, who were married Aug. i6th, 1865.
at Hillsdale, N. Y. The brothers are Alfred B. Chace, '92, and
J. Frank Chace, who entered with the class of '94, but was
obliged to leave during Sophomore year on account of ill
health.
A. Frank B. Chace (b. Feb. 13th, 1837, at Hillsdale, N. Y.)
enlisted April 23d, 1861, as a private, in Company K, 14th
Regiment, N. Y. State Volunteer Infantry. He was severely
wounded at Malvern Hill, fell into the hands of the Con-
federates, went to Libby Prison, and was finally exchanged
and honorably discharged for wounds received in battle, on
Oct. nth, 1862. As a young man he was a school teacher.
The rest of his life has been spent as a lawyer. His parents
were John McGonegal Chace, a farmer, of Austerlitz, N. Y.,
and Eliza Ann Becker, of Hillsdale, N. Y. The Chaces came
from England in 1630, and settled at Roxbury, Mass. (now
called Boston Highlands).
Mary Zilpah (Bruce) Chace (b. March 9th, 1843, at Albany,
N. Y. ; d. Oct. 5th, 1904, at Hudson, N. Y.) was the daughter
of Alfred Bruce, a merchant, and Mary Ann McAlpine, both
of Hillsdale, N. Y., where she spent her early life. She was
the sister of Wallace Bruce, Yale '67, and W. Irving Bruce,
Yale '82.
258 BIOGRAPHIES
Chace prepared for College at Willi ston, and became famous
during our course by his rendering of "Tim Toolan." He re-
ceived a Dissertation at the Junior Exhibition and at Com-
mencement.
He has not been married.
Chace went back to Hudson after graduation, studied
law, and in 1900 entered the paternal firm of A. Frank
B. Chace & Sons, soon after his admission to the New
York Bar. His brothers, Alfred Bruce Chace '92, the
District Attorney, and J. Frank Chace ex '94, are also
partners.
He writes :— ''Since Sexennial have settled down,
and have been plugging away at the law without any
serious interruptions. Let up long enough to deliver
the Memorial Day Address at Hudson, New York, on
May 30th last.
'' Top' Loughran and myself, however, have held sev-
eral reunions of the Class, principally at Kingston, New
York. Have served as Secretary and Treasurer of the
University Club of Hudson, New York. Have been a
member of the Board of Directors of the local Young
Men's Christian Association, and Recording Secretary of
the Board. At present am serving a second term as
Master of Hudson Lodge, No. 7, F. & A. M. In May
last was appointed District Deputy Grand Master of
the 14th Masonic District of New York State by Grand
Master Townsend Scudder."
The Memorial Day Address to which Chevy alludes
was printed in full, together with his portrait, in the
''Hudson Evening Register."
"Alas," said he in his peroration, "the time is not far
distant when that Grand Army of the Republic shall be
no more ! In the presence of such a thought the lips are
sealed to much that the heart would utter, for when
speech endeavors to fathom those sadder emotions our
utterances are *As sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.'
No structure of human words may hold the deepening
significance to us of that melancholy fact. With pro-
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priety we may borrow an immortal sentiment of a
martyred president : 'The world will little note nor long
remember what we say here, but it can never forget what
they did/
* 'Where then is the veteran's son with heart and feel-
ing so dead that he does not count it both a grand priv-
ilege and a distinguished honor to be an heir to the
glories which they achieved and the blessings which they
have bequeathed as a rich heritage to their posterity and
their country! It is for us to see to it that both their
living and their dead shall have a home in the heart, a
green spot in the memory, and an honorable place on the
pages of history. They are the preservers of the Repub-
lic, and as such they shall be remembered. To-day, they
are our gray-haired, battle-scarred fathers, but in the
times that tried men's souls they were 'The Boys in Blue.'
And when at last they shall have crossed the river to
the elysian fields beyond, and become guards of honor
in the armies of Heaven, then what a precious privilege
—nay duty— it will be for us to keep their glories bright,
and, as Caesar was wont to say, hand the memory
down !"
W. Woods Chandler
Organist and Instructor of Music, Westminster School,
Simsbury, Connecticut.
William Woods Chandler was born March 23CI, 1874, in New-
Haven, Conn. He is a son of William E. Chandler and Mary
Peirce Woods, who were married Nov. 25th, 1868, at Enfield,
Mass., and had two other children, one boy (Robert Woods
Chandler, '01) and one girl.
William E. Chandler (b. Sept. 5th, 1839, at Longmeadow,
Mass.) is the son of Samuel Franklin Chandler, an inventor
and mechanic of Springfield, Mass., and Chloe Converse of
Palmer, Mass. He has spent the greater part of his life at
Worcester, Mass., and at New Haven, Conn., engaged as an
m. organist, choirmaster, and teacher, and has served as Treas-
R urer of the Connecticut Society of the S. A. R., as Alderman,
B; as President of the Common Council, and as an officer of
260 BIOGRAPHIES
various civic, social, and philanthropic organizations. He is
now living in New York City and is a Director of the Bankers'
Loan & Investment Co., of 76 Wall St. On Oct. 5th, 1904, he
married Anna Blanchard Souther, nee Pond.
Mary Peirce (Woods) Chandler (b. at Enfield, Mass.; d.
March 22d, 1903, at New Haven, Conn.) was the daughter of
Josiah B. Woods, a manufacturer of Enfield, Mass., and Frances
Catherine Belcher, of Boston, Mass.
Chandler prepared for College at the Hillhouse High School.
At Yale he was a member of the College Choir and Associa-
tion Organist of the Y. M. C. A. He took One Year Honors
in Music, and received a Second Dispute at the Junior Exhibi-
tion and a First Dispute at Commencement.
He has not been married.
Chandler entered the Music Department at Yale in the
autumn after our graduation. In May, 1901, his Con-
cert Overture for full orchestra was played by the New
Haven Symphony Orchestra at the Department's Com-
mencement Exercises, and he was given the degree of
Bachelor of Music. During part of his course he was
troubled with paralysis of his right hand.
The winter of 1901-02 he "studied the organ with Mr.
H. R. Shelley of New York City. Was conductor of
the Yale University Glee Club the last part of this year."
The winter of 1902-03 he spent in New Haven. In May,
1903, he went to New York to act as organist at Saint
Luke's Church in Brooklyn and Saint Agnes' Chapel,
Trinity Parish, New York. The following October he
began his present duties as organist of the Hay Memorial
Chapel and Instructor of Music in the Westminster
School, Simsbury, Connecticut. He spends his summers
at Enfield, Massachusetts.
During the five years ending May ist, 1903, Chandler
also acted as organist and choir-master of the Prospect
M. E. Church at Bristol, Connecticut, where he con-
ducted (and helped to organize) the Bristol Choral
Union, a mixed chorus of one hundred voices. At the
close of his services he was given a gold watch by the
congregation and a silver dressing-case by the choir.
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"I hear that you have been visiting many '96 men," he
wrote to the Secretary last fall. *'How about taking a trip
up here, before the snow comes? Any time would be
convenient if only you would let us know a day or two
in advance. The boys have cabins in the woods, and,
following their example, a Pembroke (Cambridge) man,
Gerald Chittenden '04 and I have put together a faculty
cabin, where we entertain distinguished visitors. Henry
Wright '98 was here on All Saints' Day, and gave a bully
talk in honor of the boy in whose memory our chapel was
built."
After thanking Bill for this invitation, the Secretary
wrapped an extra piece of red flannel around his legs
and carefully removed Simsbury and its "cabins" from
the map.
Harvey W. Chapman
Teaching. Permanent mail address, care of the Rev. A. P. Chapman,
Northfield, Connecticut.
Harvey Wood Chapman was born Feb. 22d, 1875, at Stratford,
Conn. He is a son of Adelbert Putnam Chapman, '65, and
Ellen Harvey, who were married April 2d, 1874, at Mansfield,
Conn., and had altogether four children, three boys and one
girl.
Adelbert Putnam Chapman (b. Oct. 17th, 1844, at Ellington,
Conn.) is a clergyman of the Episcopal Church (formerly of
the Methodist Church). He has lived at Ellington, Naugatuck,
Bethel, Middle Hadden, Putnam, and Sandy Hook, Conn.,
Quincy, 111., and Northfield, Conn., where he now (Jan. '06)
resides. His parents were Thomas White Chapman, a con-
tractor of Ellington, Conn., and Cottage City, Mass., and
Damaris Houghton Chapman (of another family of that name)
of Ellington. Thomas White Chapman was interested in an
ice business and in the street railway of Cottage City. Upon
his retirement (sometime in the late eighties) he moved to
Windsor, Conn., where he died. The family came from Eng-
land in 1660, and settled at Windsor, Conn.
Ellen (Harvey) Chapman (b. Feb. 4th, 1850, at Mansfield,
Conn.; d. Jan. 12th, 1898, at Bridgeport, Conn.) was the daugh-
262 BIOGRAPHIES
ter of Samuel Cone Harvey, a farmer (afterwards a tanner) of
Mansfield, and Delia Shephard, of Bolton, Conn.
Chapman prepared for College at Cheshire Academy. At Yale
he was a member of the Yale Union and served as its Secre-
tary during part of Senior year. He received a High Oration
at the Junior Exhibition and at Commencement. Phi Beta
Kappa.
He has not been married.
Chapman lived for three years in Bridgeport, spending
his time in tutoring and in commuting to New Haven,
where he took graduate work in English. In 1899 he
went to the Morristown School (at Morristown, New
Jersey) to teach Latin, Greek, and Geometry.
"As to biography," he wrote this spring, *'I submit the
following: I have not been married or engaged to be
married. I have no degrees, decorations, or titles. No
office in state or church has sought me out. I have
written no books, pamphlets, or articles in any periodical.
''Until June, 1904, I continued to be one of the teaching
staff of the Morristown School. From July, 1904, to Feb-
ruary, 1905, I did private tutoring in Ridgefield, Con-
necticut, and Morristown, New Jersey. From February,
1905, to January, 1906, I was superintendent of agents
under the manager for New Jersey of the Mutual Life
Insurance Company, and in that capacity visited almost
every town and hamlet in the State it seemed. From
January, 1906, to date I have been doing private tutoring
again at Morristown."
Harvey's life insurance work was checked by last
year's upheaval in that business. His plans for the
coming year were not settled at the time he wrote, but
we are hoping that he will be found in or near New
York.
Douglas Charnley
Dealer in Western Lands.
New York address, care of J. H. Oliphant & Co., 20 Broad Street.
Chicago address, 125 Michigan Avenue.
Douglas Charnley was born Jan. 27th, 1874, at Chicago, III.
He is the son of James Charnley, '65, and Helen Douglas, who
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were married Oct. 22d, 1872, at Chicago, and had two other
children, both girls, who died before maturity. Three uncles
are graduates of Yale : Charles Meigs Charnley, '65, Walter
Hatch Charnley, '71, and Lester Bradner, '57.
James Charnley (b. April 15th, 1844, at Philadelphia; d. Feb.
nth, 1905, at Camden, S. C.) was a business man of Chicago,
having large interests in the Chicago lumber trade. He was
a member of the firms of Bradner, Charnley & Co. ; Charnley
Brothers ; James Charnley & Co. ; and the Garden City Wire
& Spring Co. He was the son of William S. Charnley, a banker
and broker, of Philadelphia, later of New Haven, and Elisabeth
Atwater of New Haven. The family came from England in
1780, and settled at Philadelphia.
Helen (Douglas) Charnley (b. Jan. 3d, 1852, at Galena, 111.)
is the daughter of John M. Douglas of Chicago, a lawyer (for
many years President of the Illinois Central Railroad Co.),
and of Amanda Marshall of Plattsburg, N. Y.
Charnley prepared for Yale at St. Paul's School in Concord,
N. H. He was a member of the St. Paul's School Club and of
the Chicago Club, and was one of the two Vice-Presidents
of the Society of Kappa Beta Phi.
He has not been married.
The statement that Charnley began his postgraduate ca-
reer by making beds has a winsome ring to it, yet that
seems to be the fact, for his first recorded connection is
one with the Garden City Steel & Wire Company of
Chicago. Just what this company made, besides beds,
has not been entered in the Class files. The matter is
now of minor interest, however, because in July, 1899,
Charnley's father sold it out to the American Steel & Wire
Company, built a place in Santa Barbara, California, and
went to live there, for his health's sake, taking Douglas
with him to keep him company. ''Dug's" only business
interests at this time were centered in the ownership of
a plantation in Cuba, devoted to the production of coffee
and tobacco. Henry Baker says that Charnley was long of
Northern Pacific during the 1901 "corner" in that acro-
batic investment, and that his valet "arose from the panic
of that year like a Phoenix from somebody else's ashes."
However this may be, it was reported in 1902 that Charn-
ley was tired of slave-driving and that the Cuban planta-
tion was for sale. We next find our— shall we say?—
264 BIOGRAPHIES
hero, managing Granger Farwell & Company's bond
department (Granger Farwell '78 S.) and endeavoring
to sell the Class Secretary (who had rashly dropped in to
get an overdue receipt for the Sexennial Record) some
Sanitary District of Chicago 5s on a 3 1-2% basis. It
will be seen that the effort — although fruitless — left an
indelible impression.
He left this firm in 1903 and traveled about with his
father in Santa Barbara, Danville, N. Y., &c. until Mr.
Charnley's death in 1905. Later that year he took his
mother abroad for a prolonged tour in Europe.
They returned in 1906 and Charnley came to our
Decennial with a collection of such stories as a recent
three months' stay at Monte Carlo would naturally pro-
duce. He says that he is now a dealer in Western lands.
He has managed to deal in them in London and he
intends to deal in them in New York, and he wishes it
understood that the populace should regard this state-
ment rather as a golden promise than a threat.
*Ward Cheney
Soldier. Died in the service, from wounds received in action,
January 7th, 1900, at Imus, Philippine Islands.
Ward Cheney was born May 26th, 1875, at South Manchester,
Conn. He was a son of Frank Woodbridge Cheney, Brown
University, '54 A. M., and Mary Bushnell, who were married
Nov. 3d, 1863, at Hartford, Conn., and had altogether twelve
children, eight boys and four girls. Horace B. Cheney, '90 S.,
Howell Cheney, '92, Austin Cheney, '98, and Frank D. Cheney,
'01, are brothers.
Frank Woodbridge Cheney (b. June 5th, 1832, at Providence,
R. I.) served as Lieutenant Colonel of the i6th Conn. Vol. Regt.
during the Civil War. He is engaged in the manufacture of
silk, holding the office of Treasurer of Cheney Bros. His life
has been spent at Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, in Rhode Island, and
at Hartford and South Manchester, Conn., at which latter place
he now resides. His parents were Charles Cheney, a silk manu-
facturer of South Manchester, and Waitstill Dexter Shaw of
Providence, R. I. Charles Cheney was Brigade Inspector
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C. N. G., with rank of Major. The family came from England
and Holland in 1622, and settled in Rhode Island and Con-
necticut.
Mary (Bushnell) Cheney (b. Sept. 25th, 1840, at Hartford,
Conn.) is the daughter of Horace Bushnell, a minister and
writer, of Hartford, and Mary Apthorpe of New Haven, Conn.
Cheney prepared at the Hartford Public High School. He was
elected a Class Historian in Senior year and a member of the
Senior Promenade Committee, was a Cup Man, a member of
the Renaissance Club, and received an Oration at the Junior
Exhibition and at Commencement. He Boule. D. K. E.
Bones.
He was unmarried.
"In the early afternoon of Tuesday, the ninth of Jan-
uary, 1900, was held the simplest, yet to some the most
impressive gathering ever knov^^n in Dwight Hall. From
the Philippines had first come rumor, and then, that Mon-
day, certainty of Cheney's death. The meeting had been
called at but a fev^ hours' notice, yet every Ninety-Six
man in New Haven who had been reached was present.
Some one read the newspaper despatches— another, an
editorial touchingly phrased— the simplest possible reso-
lutions were drawn up and signed by each man. But no
spoken word bore such full tribute to Ward Cheney as
the hush that hung over the '96 room when all had been
said, and yet none stirred away."
A full account of Cheney's life, from which the pre-
ceding paragraph is taken, will be found in the Sexen-
nial Record, pp. 343-49. After graduation he spent the
summer in England, France, Switzerland. In September
he went to Brunswick to study German, and picked up
enough of it to enable him to understand lectures in
BerHn University, to which he repaired in Novemben
During the winter holidays and the long spring vacation
he visited Vienna, Budapest, and Constantinople, and
with two Yale men older than himself took a horseback
trip through Palestine. They returned by Cairo and
Italy. In the summer he was at Heidelberg and came
home in the early autumn. In December, 1897, he was
266 BIOGRAPHIES
given a position on the staff of the Hartford Courant,
and there he began his chosen work. But the Spanish
War breaking out in the spring, he enlisted April 26th,
1898, in Company G, First Connecticut Volunteers. He
was soon detailed for recruiting duty in Hartford, and
did not rejoin his regiment until it was on its way to
Camp Alger, Virginia, where it remained until Septem-
ber. At Camp Alger, Ward Cheney received a commis-
sion as Second Lieutenant in the United States Army, to
date from July 9th, and was assigned on July 26th to
duty with the Fourth United States Infantry.
On January 19th, 1899, he sailed with his regiment for
Manila on the transport Grant, the first United States
transport to go to the East via the Mediterranean and
the Suez Canal. They arrived at Manila on March loth.
The news of the outbreak of war with the Filipinos
reached the command at Port Said, and hurry orders
awaited them at Colombo. After arrival the Fourth In-
fantry was stationed first at Manila and then for some
three months near La Loma Church. From the latter
point two brief campaigns were made, one to Maraquina,
a twenty-four hours' march, on May i8th, and one of sev-
eral days, early in June, to Morong and Santolan. There
were a number of severe engagements about this time.
In June the regiment was moved to Imus, in Cavite
province, where its headquarters were fixed for the re-
mainder of the year. An engagement which took place
on the road between Imus and Las Marinas on July 19th,
when the First Battalion of the Fourth Infantry was
ambuscaded by about 2000 Filipinos, was one of the most
severe fights of the war. On this occasion Cheney, act-
ing as Battalion Adjutant, was recommended for a brevet
by the Major in command, and afterwards by General
Lawton in his last report. He prepared for his examina-
tion for First Lieutenant in May while at La Loma, and
his commission for that duty was dated to June 2d, 1899.
While at Imus, many of the officers being ill, he was
assigned to the command successively of Companies M,
H, and C. The latter was his own company, and he re-
Cheney
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mained in command of it for several months, and up to
the time of his death. In October, November, and De-
cember there were frequent brushes with the enemy and
two night attacks. Cheney's health had been excellent
all the time he had been in the Island of Luzon, but in
December he had an attack of dengue fever, which after
a week of delay sent him on December 8th to the Second
Reserve Hospital in Manila. He improved under good
care, and hearing that active campaigning under General
Wheaton was about to begin in Cavite province, after
only four days of rest he left the hospital on December
1 2th and returned to Imus. Friends who saw him said
that he looked ill and was obviously unfit for service, but
their persuasions and the advice of the doctor were alike
unavailing to keep him longer idle. He resumed com-
mand of his company, and, although not strong, was able
to attend to his duties. January brought the movement
for which they had waited so long, the invasion of Cavite
by an adequate force under Generals Wheaton, Bates
and Sell wan. The first move from Imus was a recon-
naissance entrusted to Lieutenants Cheney and Henry N.
Way, the official account of which is given in a regi-
mental general order as follows :
"G. O. 9, Jan. 14, 1900, 4th Inf., Imus, P. I.
"Again the 4th Infantry mourns the death of an officer, one
of its bravest.
"First Lieutenant Ward Cheney fell at the head of his com-
pany on the morning of January 7th, 1900, while leading a
charge upon intrenchments of the insurgents near Puente Julian.
Lieutenant Cheney with his company ('C/ 4th Infantry) and
Lieutenant Henry N. Way, with the scouts, 4th Infantry, had
been ordered to reconnoitre the position of the enemy at day-
break, to ascertain their strength at the bridge, before the general
advance which was to take place that day.
"The movement began at 5.15, and was a very successful one,
and a complete surprise to the enemy. At about a mile and a
half from here, Lieutenant Cheney's advance guard struck the
enemy's outpost, and drove them in precipitately. Taking per-
sonal command of the a'dvance guard, without a pause, he fol-
lowed closely on their heels, his company following as a support.
Upon coming in sight of the main body, already in confusion,
he instantly charged their works, from which he encountered ,a
heavy fire, however, and fell while crossing the barricade. A
268 BIOGRAPHIES
few minutes later, the insurgents were routed by the attack of the
scouts in the flank, five hundred of them flying in every direction,
but leaving two officers and seven men dead on the bridge.
When Lieutenant Cheney fell, his men attempted to carry hira
to the rear, but with that unsurpassed courage he repulsed them,
exclaiming: *I will not go to the rear until those works are
taken.'
"This affair was a brilliant success, but it has cost the 4th
Infantry one of its best young officers; one who, by his high
courage, devotion to duty and courteous bearing, had won the
esteem and affection of all who served with him.
"Lieutenant Cheney was appointed from civil life, July 9th,
1898, and has served with the regiment since August i, 1898.
His death is a blow that is felt by every one in the regiment.
"By order of Major Price.
(Signed) "Austin H. Brown,
"Adjutant."
Edward C. Chickering
In charge of the Department of Latin and Greek in the Jamaica High
School of New York City.
Residence, 31 Clinton Avenue, Jamaica, New York.
Edward Conner Chickering was born Feb. 19th, 1875, at Exeter,
N. H, He is the son of Joseph Knowlton Chickering, Amherst
'69, and Mary Elizabeth Conner, who were married Sept. 9th,
1873, at Exeter.
Joseph Knowlton Chickering (b. July, 1846, at Portland, Me. ;
d. Dec. 27th, 1899, at Burlington, Vt.) spent his life at his
birthplace, Amherst, Mass., Burlington, Vt., New Haven, Conn.,
Brooklyn, N. Y., and Cambridge, Mass. He was an instructor
in rhetoric in Amherst College, and professor of English, Uni-
versity of Vermont. His parents were John White Chickering
(A. B. Middlebury, D. D.), a clergyman of Woburn, Mass., and
Frances Eveline Knowlton. The family came from Wrentham,
England, in the seventeenth century, and settled at Dedham,
Mass.
Mary Elizabeth (Conner) Chickering (b. Aug. 24th, 184S,
at Exeter; d. March 12th, 1875, at Exeter) was the daughter
of Charles Conner, a merchant, and Mary Taylor Gilman, both
of Exeter.
Chickering prepared for College at Exeter, and came to our Class
from the University of Vermont in Sept., '93. He took One
Year Honors in Ancient Languages, a High Oration at the
Junior Exhibition and an Oration at Commencement. Phi
Beta Kappa.
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He was married at Christ Church, Exeter, N. H., July 6th, 1901,
to Miss Cornelia Baldwin Colton, daughter of Walter Ewing
Colton, a violin maker of Exeter.
Chickering studied at Harvard, 1896-97, and received
the degree of M.A. During the year 1897-98 he was
Teacher of the Classics and Mathematics at the Concord
School, Concord, Massachusetts. He then became head
of the Greek and Latin Department in the Jamaica High
School at Jamaica, Long Island, New York. "Nothing
unusual," he wrote this spring. "Teaching, with special
charge of examinations and certain branches of ath-
letics." His postscript follows :—
"Although there is really very little to add, I should
have answered your request for more information much
sooner had it not been for examinations ; for the giver is
often no less distressed by these than the taker.
"The Jamaica High School is a part of the New York
City system, and contains some four hundred pupils;
so the charge of the Department of Greek and Latin oc-
cupies a good deal of time. The Principal is C. J.
Jennings, '84. We sent one boy to Yale last year, and
have three more to go next fall. The reason we send so
few comparatively is that two-thirds of the pupils are
girls. In addition to the classes I have charge of base-
ball, and general supervision over examinations of all
sorts. I am also a member of a special committee ap-
pointed at large from the City schools to mark examina-
tion papers in Cicero and Virgil. That about covers
regular work in the winter, except for some research at
Columbia each year to keep from rusting out. In sum-
mer I go to Exeter, New Hampshire, and rest, playing
golf and tennis and anything else that suggests itself.
Last year I varied the program by taking in some fishing
and tramping in the White Mountains."
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Arthur S. Chittenden, M.D.
269 West 90th Street, New York City.
Arthur Smith Chittenden was born June 27th, 1872, at Bing-
hamton, N. Y. He is a son of Joseph Henry Chittenden and
Helen De Ette Smith, who were married at Binghamton ini
1865, and had one other child, a son,
Joseph Henry Chittenden (b. at Greene, N. Y., in 1838)
studied medicine at Bellevue, entered the army in 1861, and
rose during four years of service to Surgeon in Chief of the-
Nashville (Tenn.) Hospitals. He is now (Oct., '05) pursuing
the general practice of medicine at Binghamton. He is the
founder of the public school system of that town, has served
as President of the Board of Education, and is doctor, educa-
tor, and friend to the entire community. His parents were
Adijah Chittenden, a blacksmith and wheelwright, of Whitney's
Point, N. Y., and Miranda Lyon of Greene, N. Y. The family
came from England in 1656, and settled at Guilford, Conn.
Helen De Ette (Smith) Chittenden (b. at Castle Creek^
N. Y., in 1846) is the daughter of Lyman B. Smith, a lawyer^
of Binghamton, and Malinda Simmons, of Delhi, N. Y.
Chittenden came to Yale from Colgate University in Sept., '93.
He played guitar on the Second Banjo Club during Sopho-
more and Junior years and received a First Dispute at the
Junior Exhibition and a Dissertation at Commencement. D. K.
E. (Colgate election).
He was married Feb. i6th, 1905, at All Angels' Church, Newj
York City, to Mrs. Anna (Preston) Beebe, daughter of James!
Frederick Preston, a rubber goods manufacturer of New Yorkrj
City, and has one child, a son, Joseph Henry Chittenden, 2C
(b. Dec. nth, 1905, at New York City).
In the autumn of 1896 Chittenden went down to Johns
Hopkins to study medicine. Incidentally he received an
M.A. from Yale in 1899. After being graduated in 190a
from the medical school and winning appointments to
the House Staffs of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Mount
Sinai Hospital, and the New York Hospital, he went
home to Binghamton, New York, for six months' private
practice and then accepted the New York Hospital ap-
pointment. His decennial letter follows :—
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"After leaving the New York Hospital in 1902 I spent
five months in Europe. Then I returned to America,
where I practised medicine for the succeeding three
years. During this time I was Pathologist to the Lincoln
Hospital, and Instructor in Pathology at the College of
Physicians and Surgeons in New York for two years.
In 1904 and 1905 I was again abroad for study. Dur-
ing 1906 I have lived at above address and have again
engaged in the practice of medicine." He added, in a
later note :— *'In Paris I studied with Hartmann in
gastro-intestinal surgery. In Berne I was associated
with Kocher in the surgery of goitre. In Bonn I worked
with Schede. I have devoted myself almost entirely to
surgery, and have made that branch my especial work
since returning to this country."
T. B. Clark
In the Sales Department of the Pennsylvania Electrical & Railway
Supply Company. 723 Lewis Block, Pittsburg, Pa.
Thomas Benton Clark was born July loth, 1873, at Youngs-
town, O. He is a son of William Clark and Jane Dunn, who
were married Sept. 14th, 1854, at Pittsburg, Pa., and had alto-
gether nine children, seven boys and two girls, eight of whom
lived to maturity,
William Clark (b. June 30th, 1831, in Staffordshire, Eng-
Iland; d. Oct. 4th, 1884, at Boston, Mass.) was a steel manu-
facturer of Pittsburg, Pa. He was the son of Thomas Clark,
an iron manufacturer, of Staffordshire, and Jane Franks. He
came to America in 1845, and settled at Pittsburg, where he
spent the greater portion of his life.
Jane (Dunn) Clark (b. Dec. 3d, 1830, at Pittsburg) is the
daughter of John Dunn, a distiller, and Agnes Dunlap, both
of Pittsburg. She is now (Dec, 1905) living in New York,
lark spent his early life in Pittsburg, and prepared for Yale at
the Shady Side Academy. In College he took a First Dispute
in the Junior Exhibition and at Commencement, and received
an election to A. D. Phi.
He has not been married.
272 BIOGRAPHIES
After resting for just one week at his sister's home in
Pelham (N.Y.), Clark entered the employ of the Solar
Steel Works, his father's plant, in Pittsburg. He be-
came purchasing agent and continued in that capacity
until the spring of 1899, when the works were purchased
by the American Steel Hoop Company.
''When I had turned over my records to the new com-
pany/' he wrote in 1902, "I decided to take a long vaca-
tion, and so I went to Magnolia, Massachusetts, where my
mother had a summer cottage. At Magnolia I was in-
tensely busy doing nothing but I stuck it out until fall.
I never was a good loafer and when I got back to Pitts-
burg I cast around for something to do, and right here
I found the hardest task of my life. Finally ... in the
spring of 1900 I organized the Solar Engraving Com-
pany." His decennial letter follows :—
"In 1902 I was President of the Solar Engraving Com-
pany of Pittsburg, engaged in general advertising busi-
ness. I resigned from that company in 1903, and from
the summer of that year until the fall of 1905 I was en-
gaged in the merchandise brokerage business in Pitts-
burg. In September of last year I went into the Sales
Department of the Pennsylvania Electric and Railway
Supply Company, where I can now be reached by ad-
dressing our home office. I have been doing quite a lot
of traveling for our company over the Central Middle
States in the sale of engineering supplies, and it may be
some time before I can give you a permanent address.
I have been in Cleveland for ten days, where I find our
classmates scarcer than hens' teeth. If you see Tom
Kingman tell him that I am feeling perfectly brxythe-
ragyoppcdu. He will understand."
Hon. Walter H. Clark
Partner in the law firm of Clark & Arnold, 50 State Street, Hartford,
Connecticut. Residence, 38 Willard Street.
Walter Haven Clark was born Jan. 20th, 1872, at Hartford,
Conn. He is a son of Mahlon Newcomb Clark and Mary Alice
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Haven, who were married Sept. 20th, 1869, at Hartford, and
who had one other son, who died before maturity.
Mahlon Newcomb Clark (b. Sept. 20th, 1846, at Enfield,
Conn.; d. Nov. 14th, 1904, at Hartford) was for thirty-three
years chief clerk and cashier of the Phoenix Insurance Co., of
Hartford. His parents were Charles Clark, a manufacturer of
plows, and Dorothy King, both of Enfield. The family came
from England in 1636, and settled at Dorchester, Mass., moving
to Northampton in 1659.
Mary Alice (Haven) Clark (b. Dec. 12th, 1849, at Hartford,
Conn.) is the daughter of Hiram Haven, a music dealer, of
Hartford, and Adeline Olivia Lambert, of Boston, Mass. She is
now (Oct., 1905) living at Hartford.
Clark prepared at the Hartford High School. He was President
of the Freshman Union, Vice-President of the Yale Union in
Junior year. President during Senior year, and President of
Phi Beta Kappa. He took an Elocution Prize in Recitation
in Sophomore year, and represented Yale in two of the de-
bates against Harvard. He was a member of the Senior
Promenade Committee and the Class Day Committee, and was
Treasurer of the Hartford Club. A High Oration at the Junior
Exhibition and an Oration at Commencement. A. D. Phi.
Wolfs Head.
He was married June 26th, 1902, at Hartford, Conn., to M5ss
Julia Ellen Oilman, daughter of the late George Shepard Gil-
man, a lawyer, and Ellen Maria (Hills) Oilman of Hartford.
He has one child, a daughter, Eleanor Mary Clark (b. March
6th, 1904, at Hartford).
Clark was graduated from the Yale Law School in 1899.
He passed off his Bar Exams at the end of the second
year, and during his third was in the office of Bristol,
Stoddard & Bristol. "On leaving New Haven," he wrote
in 1902, " 'Billy' Arnold and I entered into a partnership,
under the firm name of Clark & Arnold, and opened an
office at 50 State Street, Hartford. In the spring of
1900 Doctor E. V. Raynolds, Instructor of the Senior
Academic Course Debates on Public Questions, was
obliged to take a leave of absence because of ill health,
and I was invited to substitute for him. He was eventu-
ally obliged to give up the course entirely. I have been
retained in the position, and find the work and the op-
portunity it offers of keeping in touch with the College
274 BIOGRAPHIES
very delightful. I go to New Haven one afternoon
(Tuesday) of each week to conduct the class. Early
in 1900 I was elected a councilman from the loth ward
in this city, and am now serving my third term. I was
Vice-President of the Board last year, and am President
this year. I am Vice-President and Director of the Willi-
mantic Traction Company, which is a street railway with
privileges of about twenty-five miles, connecting Willi-
mantic with the surrounding towns and running through
that city, now in course of construction. We are counsel
for the road, and obtained its charter from the Legisla-
ture." His decennial letter follows :—
''The Sexennial Record sets forth the most fortunate
event for me in 1902, or in any other year for that
matter, my marriage to Julia Ellen Oilman, which took
place on June 26th, and was the happy occasion of my
failure to respond to my toast at the Sexennial Dinner-
happy both for me and the Class, for it will be remem-
bered that it was to be warmed over toast left from the
Triennial Dinner, and it was pretty poor stuff. Mrs.
Clark and I spent the summer in the White Mountains,
returning in the fall to live at my father's home. In
the spring of 1903 I was so fortunate as to be appointed
Associate Judge of the Police Court, a position which I
still occupy. It 's hard to shake some men loose from the
public teat when they once get hold ! That summer Mrs.
Clark and I spent in the Adirondacks, and in the fall we
set up housekeeping for ourselves. In the spring of
1904, our daughter, Eleanor Mary, was born. That fall
I lost my father, Mahlon N. Clark, who died November
14th of a stroke of paralysis at the age of fifty-eight.
He had been connected with the Phoenix Insurance Com-
pany of this city, as chief clerk and cashier, for over
thirty years. The Roosevelt wave came along just in time
to sweep me into the Legislature as one of the two repre-
sentatives from the town of Hartford— we still have
'town representation' in this State— where I served on
the Committee on Judiciary. That Legislature broke the
record for long-windedness, remaining in session nearly
OF GRADUATES 275
seven months, one explanation for which will readily
occur to those who recall my 'hot-air' equipment. After
adjournment I gave myself and the State a rest by a trip
to Atlantic City, where Mrs. Clark had difficulty in re-
straining me from accepting a position as 'barker' for
a side show. I believe that this article is my most serious
breach in the talking line since that time."
The '96 files contain a newspaper clipping with this
stimulating heading:—
"when is a man 'drunk?'
''Question for Judge Clark to Decide— First
Prosecution of the Kind in Years/'
It seems that a bar-keep who was accused of selling
liquor to an intoxicated person, raised the point. When is
a man intoxicated f—2ind put it up to Walter. The most
radical utterance in the ensuing wrangle was that of the
Court Interpreter. His definition was, "A man is drunk
when he begins to give his money away."
Alex. Smith Cochran
President of Alexander Smith & Sons Carpet Company, Yonkers, New York,
Residence, Town, 5 East 45th Street, New York City.
Country, "Grasslands," East View, N. Y.
Alexander Smith Cochran was born Feb. 28th, 1874, at Yonkers,
N. Y. He is a son of William Frances Cochran and Eva
Smith, who were married at Yonkers, N. Y., c. 1870, and had
live other children, two boys (William Frances Cochran, '98 S.
and Gifford Alexander Cochran, '03) and three girls.
William Frances Cochran (b. at New York City in 1837;
d. at New York City c. 1901) was engaged at various periods
as clerk, owner of a large grocery store, in the lumber business
in Canada, and, before his retirement from active affairs, as a
carpet manufacturer. He was the son of Sara Phillips, and of
Alexander Gifford Cochran, a merchant of Amsterdam, N. Y.,
and New York City, of Scotch descent.
Eva (Smith) Cochran was born at West Farms, N. Y.,
where, and at Yonkers, she spent her early life. She is the
daughter of Alexander Smith, a manufacturer of West Farms
and Yonkers, and Janet Baldwin of Yonkers.
276 BIOGRAPHIES
Cochran prepared for College at St. Paul's School in Concord.
He was a member of the Yale Union and the University Club,
and received a Second Colloquy at Commencement. Kappa
Psi. A. D. Phi. Wolf's Head.
He has not been married.
Cochran went to Yonkers after graduation to enter the
Alexander Smith & Sons Carpet Company, a venerable
concern which occupies a commanding position in the
carpet industry. Early in 1902 he became its President.
In the spring of 1903, through the death of Warren B.
Smith, his uncle, he became a millionaire.
"The inheritance tax which the State will collect on
the estate of the late Warren B. Smith, the Yonkers car-
pet manufacturer, will be over $1,000,000," said the "New
York Tribune." "This will be the second largest amount
ever collected in the State. . . . Alexander Smith
Cochran is now one of the wealthiest active manufactur-
ers in the world. At the age of twenty-eight he is
President of the Alexander Smith and Sons' Carpet
Mills, having succeeded Francis T. Holder in that posi-
tion a little over a year ago. He is also President of the
Hollywood Inn, which was erected by his father."
At this time Cochran was a Director of the Seaboard
Air Line Railroad, but he has since resigned from the
board, and his present directorships are in the Northern
Pacific Railroad and the Union Trust Company of New
York City.
"My principal occupation at present is loafing up here"
(at East View), he wrote this spring. "When you get
tired of Class Records let me know and run up and spend
a night. . . . Will be delighted to post you on these
matters first hand and show you the delights of a pastoral,
bucolic existence."
At East View, New York, where Cochran does his
temporary resting from his labors, he has an estate of
about 550 acres, called Grasslands. He belongs to the
Union, Racquet, Riding, University, Brook, Knollwood,
Turf and Field, New York Yacht, Larchmont Yacht,
OF GRADUATES
277
Metropolitan (of Washington), Lambs, Yale, and
Ardsley Clubs, and he is the owner of the steam yacht
Alvina, on which a number of '96 men came up to our
Decennial.
Charles Coit
Railroad man. 185 Broadway,' Norwich, Conn.
Charles Coit was born March 28th, 1873, at Norwich, Conn.
He is a son of Charles Morgan Coit and Mary Brewster Hil-
lard, who were married June i8th, 1872, at Norwich, Conn., and
had one other son, Augustus Coit, '97 S.
Charles Morgan Coit (b. March 29th, 1838, at Norwich,
Conn. ; drowned July 3d, 1878, in New London Harbor) served
in the Civil War as Adjutant and Captain of the 8th Regiment
Conn. Volunteers, 1861-65. After the War he held the position
of Postmaster of Norwich (1866). He was at one time Treas-
urer of the Chelsea Savings Bank of Norwich, He was a
brother of George D. Coit, '(£ S., and the son of Charles Coit,
a merchant of Norwich, and Sarah Perkins Grosvenor, of
Pomfret, Conn. The family came to America from Glamor-
ganshire, Wales, about 1630, and in 1638 settled at Salem, Mass.
Mary Brewster (Hillard) Coit (b. June 8th, 1843, at Mata-
gorda, Texas) is the daughter of William Hillard, a druggist
of Norwich, and Caroline Elizabeth Wrigley, of Manchester,
England. She is now (Dec. 1905) living at Norwich.
Coit prepared for College at Norwich Academy. He was a point
winner on the Track Team in '94 in putting the shot. He re-
ceived a Second Dispute at the Junior Exhibition and at Com-
mencement.
He has not been married.
An instructor of ours who used to amuse himself by
looking for humorous juxtapositions in the class's roll,
once gave birth to an epigram which is reprinted here for
the sake of a certain biographic value it possesses, al-
though as it is not one that will commend itself to either
of the men concerned we forbear to expatiate upon it.
He said that Coit following Cochran always reminded
him of "roast-beef after roses."
Coit started in with the New York Central Railroad
278 BIOGRAPHIES
in the Auditor's office in New Yort: City. His subse-
quent connections were, Paymaster of the Honduras
Railway in Central America (Dec. 1897-Feb. 1898), with
the Thames National Bank of Norwich (Feb. 1898-May
1898), in the General Offices of the Great Northern Rail-
road at St. Paul (July 1898-Sept. 1898), and with the
Division Superintendent of the Great Northern at
Everitt, Washington (Dec. 1898-Spring 1900). During
the summer of 1900 he was engaged in construction work
in Montana. He returned to Everitt in the fall, and on
April 1st, 1901, he was appointed Assistant Superintend-
ent of the Spokane Falls & Northern Railway System
with headquarters at Spokane.
"Just at present," he wrote in 1904, "my endeavors are
being directed toward getting my eyes in good shape
once more, for when I was at Grand Forks, North Da-
kota, with the Great Northern, I nearly ruined them
using them so much by electric light." His decennial
report follows :—
"Left the Great Northern Railway Company in Febru-
ary, 1904, on account of trouble with my eyes. Between
then and 1905 did a little life insurance work, but only
a little, and then entered the employ of The Thomas
Phee Company, Chicago, General Contractors ; worked
for them in Iowa and Kentucky on piers for bridges on
the Chicago Great Western and Illinois Central. Came
home on account of further eye difficulties in January
and have been here ever since."
Professor C. B. Coleman (B.D.)
Professor of Modern History and Church History, Butler College,
Indianapolis, Ind. Residence, 33 Downey Avenue.
Christopher Bush Coleman was born April 24th, 1875, at
Springfield, 111. He is a son of Louis Harrison Coleman and
Jane Logan, who were married at Springfield, 111., c. 1870, and
had altogether five children, three boys and two girls. One of
the sons was graduated at Princeton.
OF GRADUATES 279
Louis Harrison Coleman (b. at Hopkinsville, Ky. c. Sept. 6th,
1844) has resided at Hopkinsville, Monmouth, 111., and Spring-
field, 111., as a farmer, dry goods merchant and manufacturer.
He is a director of Oak Ridge Cemetery and of Eureka College.
Jane (Logan) Coleman (b, at Springfield, 111. c. 1850; d. at
Springfield, 111., May or June, 1891) was the daughter of
Stephen T. Logan, a lawyer of Springfield, and America Bush.
Coleman prepared for Yale at the Springfield (111.) High School
and at Lawrenceville. He received a Second Ten Eyck Prize
as a speaker at the Junior Exhibition and served on the Execu-
tive Committee of Phi Beta Kappa. He was Secretary of the
Freshman Union, and Secretary and Treasurer, and afterwards
President, of the Lawrenceville Club. In Sophomore year he
was a Class Leader in Bible Study. He took Two Year Honors
in Political Science and Law, and received a Philosophical
Oration at the Junior Exhibition and at Commencement. D.
K. E.
He was married at Indianapolis, Ind. June 25th, 1901, to Miss
Juliette J. Brown, daughter of the late Mattie Julian Brown,
and of Edgar A. Brown, a lawyer and ex-judge of the Circuit
Court, of Indianapolis. He has had two children, Ruth Cole-
man (b. Dec. 15th, 1902, at Indianapolis; d. Dec. 24th, 1903,
at Indianapolis) a.nd Constance Coleman (b. Jan. i8th, 1905,
at Berlin, Germany).
Coleman studied one year at the Auburn Theological
Seminary with Tom Archbald, one year at the Chicago
Theological Seminary (Congregational), and one at the
Divinity School of Chicago University, receiving his B.D.
degree in 1899 at the September Convocation. Meantime
he did some preaching at various churches. He then took
up the teaching of History and Church History in Butler
College, Indianapolis, where he is now Professor of
those subjects. He is also Secretary of the Christian
Church Union of Indianapolis, and a member of the
State Executive Committee of the Indiana Young Men's
Christian Association. He traveled in Holland, Belgium,
Switzerland, and Germany during the summer of 1904
and spent the following year as a student in the Univer-
sity of Berlin.
"I have caught an occasional Yale man as he came
within hailing distance," he writes, "and have had life
280 BIOGRAPHIES
made brighter by a visit or two from Phil Allen, but have
the misfortune to live without any '96 men as near neigh-
bors. Pratt came my way once. You see all such occa-
sions are treasured up. Had a telegram once from
Clarence Day that he had passed through the city. Have
inflicted my presence and occasionally a speech at the
meetings of the Indiana Yale Alumni Association."
Russell Colgate
Partner in Colgate & Company, Soap Manufacturers, 55 John Street,
New York City.
Residence, 25 Berkeley Avenue, Orange, N. J.
Russell Colgate was born May 6th, 1873, at Orange, N. J. He is
a son of Samuel Colgate and Elizabeth Ann Morse, who were
married March 30th, 1853, at New York City, and had alto-
gether eight children, six boys and two girls, six of whom
lived to maturity. Russell numbers among his Yale relatives
five brothers, four uncles, and many cousins. The brothers are
Richard M., '77 ; Gilbert, '83 ; Austen, '86 ; Sidney M., '86 ; and
Samuel, '91. The uncles are Sidney E. Morse, '56; Richard C
Morse, '62 ; William H. Morse, '67 ; and Oliver C. Morse, *68.
Samuel Colgate (b. March 226, 1822, at New York City;
d. April 23d, 1897, at Orange, N. J.) was a soap manufacturer,
a prominent Baptist, a Trustee of Colgate University, Presi-
dent of the Society for the Supression of Vice, etc. His parents
were William Colgate, a soap manufacturer, and Mary Gilbert,
both of New York City. The family came from Kent, England,
in 1795, and settled at Philadelphia.
Elizabeth Ann (Morse) Colgate (b. Aug. 5th, 1829, at
Claverack, N. Y.; d. Oct. 8th, 1891, at Narragansett Pier, R. I.)
was the daughter of Richard Cary Morse, Yale 1812, of New
York City, a minister and an editor of the "New York Ob-
server," and Sarah Louisa Davis, of Claverack, N. Y. Mrs.
Colgate's grandfather was Jedidiah Morse, Yale 1783.
Colgate prepared for Yale at Andover and at the Hill School.
He was elected Temporary Deacon in Freshman year, served
as Superintendent of the Bethany Sunday School and played
First Base on the Class Baseball Team from Freshman year
on, serving later as its Captain. He was President of the
University Tennis Club in Senior year. D. K. E. Keys.
He was married April 25th, 1903, at East Orange, N. J., to Miss
OF GRADUATES 281
Josephine Bigelow Kirtland, daughter of John Campbell Kirt-
land, of East Orange, and has one child, a son, John Kirtland
Colgate (b. June 19th, 1905, at Orange, N. J.)
Colgate writes : — "The past four years have been
eventful in that I have deserted the ranks of the
Bachelors. The wedding took place in April, 1903, fol-
lowing which the bride and groom made a most delight-
ful trip to Italy. My two subsequent vacations have been
spent camping in the wilds of Canada and last year we
took a cottage at Watch Hill, Rhode Island. The rest
of my time has been spent between my home in Orange
and business in New York." He has served as Treasurer
of the Yale Alumni Association of Essex County, New
Jersey, and last spring he played first base in the game
between the Yale and Princeton Alumni Associations
at Orange (which Yale won, 14 to 9).
His previous history, as given in the ''Sexennial Rec-
ord," is as follows:— "Shortly after graduation I went to
Chicago, where I learned my first lessons in business in
the Produce Refrigerating Company. I enjoyed life in
the Windy City for two years, but in December of 1898
my sojourn was cut short by my swallowing a typhoid
germ. It took me nearly three months to eject the bug
from my system, but by the following March I was
strong enough to start on a trip around the world. Tom
Archbald accompanied me, and for six months we had
the time of our lives.
"Upon my return I tried my luck in the contracting
business bearing the name of the Merrick Fireproofing
Company. The company was a small one, but was al-
ways ready to tackle the mason work on the highest
of sky-scrapers. For two years I was identified with
the company, but in January of 1902 I was offered a
position with Colgate & Company, and am now hard at
work selling soap. During the last three years I have
been living with my brothers in Orange." The firm
now consists of the following members of the Colgate
282 BIOGRAPHIES
family: Richard M., 'yy, Gilbert, '83, Austen, '86, Sid-
ney M., '86, and Russell '96. On January 20th, 1906, they
gave a dinner to everybody connected with the concern,
one thousand in all, to celebrate the firm's centenary.
Each employee was given a five-dollar gold piece for
each completed year of service, the total distribution
amounting to about $40,000.
Charles Collens
Partner in the firm of Allen & Collens, Architects, 6 Beacon Street,
Boston, Mass.
Residence,' Dudley Road, Oak Hill, Newton Center, Mass.
Charles Collens was born at New York City, Oct. 14th, 1873.
He is a son of Rev. Charles Terry Collins, '67, and Mary
Abby Good, who were married Dec. 26th, 1872, at Pittsfield,
Mass., and had three other children, two boys (Clarence L.
Collens, '96 S., Arthur M. Collens, '03) and one girl.
Charles Terry Collins (b. Oct. 14th, 1845, at Hartford, Conn. ;
d. Dec. 21 St, 1883, at Yonkers, N. Y.) was a Congregational
minister. Most of his life was spent at Hartford, New York,
and at Cleveland, Ohio. His parents were Charles Collins,
a wholesale dry goods merchant of Hartford and New York,
and Mary Hall Terry of Hartford. He is descended from
Timothy Collins, 1718. The family came from England in
1632, and settled at Salem, Mass.
Mary Abby (Good) Collins (b. May 13th, 1852, at Baldwins-
ville, Mass.) spent her early life at Pittsfield, Mass. Her
father is Moses Hill Good, a coal and feed merchant of
Cleveland, Ohio, and her mother was Abby Sawyer Wesson
of Phillipston, Mass. She is now (Nov., '05) living at Niagara
Falls, N. Y.
Collens spent his early life in Cleveland, Yonkers, Hartford,
Germany, etc. He prepared for College at the Yonkers High
School. He sang in the College Choir, was elected an Editor
of the Yale Record in the fall of Junior year, and. as
owner of the cat "Caprice" was one of the Captains in the
Yale-Corinthian Yacht Club. He received a Philosophical
Oration at the Junior Exhibition and at Commencement. Phi
Beta Kappa. Psi U.
He was married at Brookline, Mass., May 20th, 1903, to Miss
Margaret Winsor, daughter of Alfred Winsor, President of
OF GRADUATES 283
the Boston & Philadelphia S. S. Co., the Boston Steamship
Co., and the Boston Tow Boat Co. of Brookline, and has one
child, a daughter, Margaret Lyman Collens (b. March 24th,
1904, at Newton Center, Mass.).
Collens wrote in 1902:— 'Tor one year after gradua-
tion acted as traveling tutor to two boys, traveling with
them in Egypt, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France,
and England. From 1897- 1900 was draughtsman in the
Architectural office of Peabody & Stearns, Boston. In
April, 1900, sailed for England and traveled and studied
in England, Holland, Belgium, and France, until Septem-
ber, 1900, when I went to Paris and passed the examina-
tion for the Ecole des Beaux Arts in October. Remained
at the School until May, 1901, when I went on a sketching
tour to Italy and Switzerland returning to the Ecole in
August. Worked at the Ecole from August, 1901, to
March, 1902. Went to Germany for two months, re-
turned to Boston April, 1902, and became associated with
Francis R. Allen, architect." On January ist, 1903, he
was admitted to partnership. His decennial letter fol-
lows :—
"Have spent almost all my time with my nose at the
grind-stone pushing a pencil, or traveling about the coun-
try overlooking work. As I am located at the Camp of
the Enemy (Harvard) I never see any classmates except
P. R. Allen, who helps me bear up under the burden of
life. The greatest event in the past four years has been
my marriage in May, 1903, followed by a trip to North
East Harbor, where we took a cottage for a few weeks.
Our summers have been spent at Cataumet, Mass., on
Buzzards Bay. In March, 1904, a little daughter came to
us. We live a healthy country life at home, having our
own house which we built on some eight acres of grand
country land. Our nearest neighbor is Mrs. Elizabeth
Stuart Phelps Ward of literary fame. I have been made
a member of the Boston Society of Architects, the Ameri-
can Institute of Architects, and the Beaux Arts Society
of New York. Have also been appointed on the Per-
284 BIOGRAPHIES
manent Committee, having in charge the formulating of
plans for the Municipal Improvement of Boston."
In the "Pot-pourri" Section of this volume will be
found an article by Collens on College Architecture.
Some of his firm's recent buildings are the Women's Hos-
pital in 109th Street, New York City, The Thompson
Memorial Library at Vassar, The Thompson Memorial
Chapel at Williams, Mrs. Eddy's Church in Concord,
N. H., a City Hall for Marlborough, Massachusetts, a
Bank building for the State Trust Company in Boston,
the Hospital for Ontario County, New York, etc. (See
Appendix.)
Edward D. Collins, Ph.D.
Principal of the State Normal School, Johnson, Vermont.
Edward Day Collins was born at Hardwick, Vt, Dec. 17th,
1869. When he was three years old he was adopted by the
family whose name he now bears, and was made the legal heir
of I. D. R. Collins. He is a son of Squire Newell Bullock and
Harriet Nichols, who were married July 4th, 1866, at Irasburg,
Vt., and had altogether three children, two boys and one girl,
two of whom lived to maturity.
Squire Newell Bullock (b. Oct. 29th, 1839, at Berlin, Vt.;
d. Oct. 9th, 1873, at Sheffield, Vt.) was a farmer and carpenter.
The greater part of his life was spent at Hardwick, Vt. His
parents were Benjamin Bullock, a farmer, and Ruby Spencer,
both of Marshfield, Vt.
Harriet (Nichols) Bullock (b. June i6th, 1848, at Wolcott,
Vt.) is the daughter of Asa Nichols, a farmer of Wolcott, and
Eliza Ann Hitchcock of Westmore, Vt. Three brothers, Frank,
Harry, and Ulysses Nichols, served as privates in the Civil
War. She is now (Oct. '05) living at Johnson, Vt.
Collins prepared for Yale at the Lyndon Institute. In Sopho-
more year he divided the C. Wyllys Betts Prize in English
Composition with H. Towle, who afterwards was graduated
with '95. He took Two Year Honors in History, a Philosoph-
ical Oration at the Junior Exhibition and the same at Com-
mencement. He sang Second Tenor on the Freshman Glee
Club and on the Second Glee Club and was a member of the
Yale Union and Phi Beta Kappa.
OF GRADUATES 285
He was married July 8th, 1903, at Newport, Vt, to Miss Ruth
Mary Colby, daughter of John Sullivan Colby of Chicago,
and Helen (Rutherford) Colby, and has one child, a daughter,
Ruth Mary Collins (b. Sept. 9th, 1904, at Montreal, Canada).
Since December, 1904, Collins has been Principal of the
State Normal School at Johnson, Vermont. "The State,"
says their pamphlet, "recognizes its public property in
the children who are to become its citizens, and for this
reason maintains Normal Schools for the purpose of pro-
ducing teachers skilled in the business of educating its
youth. ... To train teachers to do superior work in
the schools of Vermont is the purpose of the Johnson
Normal School. It is not a high-school, it is not an aca-
demy; it is not a college preparatory school; nor is it a
college. Its aim is not general; it is definite, concrete,
specific, in a way which does not hold of these other insti-
tutions. It is, in other words, a professional school, in the
same sense in which a medical school or a law school or a
theological school is professional. Students come here
to get a particular kind of training which will prepare
them to do a certain kind of work and do it as well as
it can be done. . . .
"The plan of instruction combines three things : — a
mastery of the fundamentals of education ; a study of the
science of education; and the application of the students'
capabilities in practice teaching under the supervision of
a skilled critic or training teacher. Teaching is an art,
and we offer the full facilities of a well-graded school,
embracing all grades of Primary, Intermediate, and
Grammar-School instruction."
Collins* previous history follows : — 'Toote Fellow
and graduate student at Yale, 1896-99; Assistant in His-
tory to Professor G. B. Adams, 1896-97, 1897-98;
Assistant in History to Professor E. G. Bourne, 1897-98 ;
Instructor in History at Yale, 1899- 1900, giving the
course in Medieval History during Professor Adams's
absence in Europe; Instructor in History at Yale,
I
286 BIOGRAPHIES
1900-01, in the course of European History offered to
Sophomores. During the last year of graduate work
took a trip to England and the Continent, spending sev-
eral months in independent research in the British Mu-
seum and Public Record office, and traveling through
Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. De-
clined a reappointment at Yale to accept a business posi-
tion in June, 1901, became associated with the publishers
of a farm paper recently started in Vermont, and in Oc-
tober became its Managing Editor."
This extract is from his sexennial letter. Later in 1902
the paper was sold. Collins' subsequent positions, as
given in his decennial letter, were ''Manager and Treas-
urer of the Canadian Carbonate Company, doing business
at Montreal, from December, 1902, to September, 1904.
Manager of the Publicity Department of The Tabard Inn
Corporation, September, 1904, to December, 1904. Prin-
cipal of the State Normal School, Johnson, Vermont,
December, 1904, to date. Avocations : Writing a History
of Vermont. Vacations : Have n't had any. Meet-
ings : Pete Allen at Montreal Horse Show, May, 1903."
Collins received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1899. A list
of his writings is given in the Bibliographical Notes.
Wendell P. Colton
Residence, 122 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
(See Appendix.)
Wendell Phillips Colton was born Dec. 22d. 1873, in Brooklyn,
N. Y. He is a son of Frederick Henry Colton, '60, and Alice
E. Gray, who were married Oct. 25th, 1865, at Brooklyn, and
had altogether nine children, five boys and four girls, seven
of whom lived to maturity.
Frederick Henry Colton (b. April 24th, 1839, at Long-
meadow, Mass.) is an attending physician at St. John's
Hospital, Long Island College Hospital, and Old Men's Home,
of Brooklyn. His parents were Jacob Colton, a manufacturer
of Longmeadow, and Clarinda Robinson, of Granville, Mass.
The family is of English descent.
OF GRADUATES 287
Alice E. (Gray) Colton (b. Jan. nth, 1841, at Andover,
Mass.; d. Feb. ist, 1890, at Brooklyn) was the daughter of
Alonzo Gray, a clergyman and teacher, of Brooklyn, and Sarah
Hurd Phillips, of Boston, Mass., whose father, John Phillips,
was the first Mayor of Boston.
Colton prepared for College at the Brooklyn Polytechnic. He
took a First Dispute at the Junior Exhibition and a Disserta-
tion at Commencement, receiving also Two Year Honors in
History. He was a member of the University Club and of
Psi U.
He was married at Brooklyn Heights, N. Y., Oct. 31st, 1900, to
Mjss Anne M. Mason, daughter of William Peckham Mason,
of Brooklyn, and has had three children, a daughter, Eileen
Colton (b. Aug. 2d, 1901, and died same day), a daughter
(b. Oct. 31st, 1903, at Brooklyn, who died at birth, unnamed),
and a son, Wendell Phillips Colton, Jr. (b. Oct. 3d, 1905, at
Brooklyn).
After receiving his LL.B. from the New York Law
School in 1898 Colton began work for the Delaware,
Lackawanna & Western Railroad as Auchincloss's office
boy. He worked his way up gradually and became the
Road's Advertising Agent in February, 1902. In 1904 he
gave up writing for the papers and magazines— work
which he had been doing "on the side" ever since his
days in college. His present official designation is In-
dustrial and Advertising Agent. He objected to writing
a decennial biography on the ground that "there are in-
vestigations being made by the Legislature and Inter-
State Commerce Commissions. What a man does and
what he says he does make two different stories and as
I know you have n't room for both I '11 keep quiet."
The newspapers and magazines throughout the State
of New York have been adorned for some years past
with drawings of a woman in white standing in Lacka-
wanna stations, or getting on and ofif of Lackawanna
trains. Accompanying jingles affirm that the confidence
with which she and her clothes begin each of these pic-
tured journeys is equaled only by her immaculate sar-
torial finish. They tell you how this "Phoebe Snow"
takes frequent trips to Buffalo, and only dares to dress
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in white because the Road burns Anthracite. It is one
of those advertisements which catch the popular eye, and
although its origin was prosaic enough — just a routine
idea of Danny's— the romantic possibilities have been
too much for some of the local journalists. "One re-
porter/' wrote Danny, "wrote a lurid account of how I
had met Phoebe while a student at College (she happens
to be a native of New Haven), and how my admiration
for her led me to bring her to New York and place her
on the Lackawanna payroll at a large salary to pose for
advertisements ; that Mrs. Colton had found, in my pock-
ets, bills for feminine attire that she knew nothing about,
and which were of course intended for vouchers by the
Company and not paid by me personally; and that this
nearly broke up my home, and a lot more of a 'Sunday
Yellow' order.
"Consequently I hesitate to tell anything more about
the young lady.— However, she has made a hit for our
Company; and my office force, which includes about
eight persons, spends its tirhe in advertising the merits
of the Lackawanna as exemplified by her spotless white
clothes.
"I am in charge of this advertising as well as of the de-
partment for the promotion of industrial development
of the territory through which the road runs, and am so
busy I can't write more now." (See Appendix.)
Lewis R. Conklin
Partoer in the law firm of Hamlin & Conklin, 59 Wall Street, New York City.
Residence, Ridgewood, New Jersey.
Permanent mail address, Monroe, New York.
Lewis Roberts Conklin was born Oct. loth, 1874, at Monroe,
N. Y. He is a son of George Rensselaer Conklin and Isabella
Roberts, who were married May i8th, 1869, at Monroe, and
had altogether four children, three boys and one girl, two of
whom lived to maturity.
George Rensselaer Conklin (b. Feb. 9th, 1843, at Monroe,
N. Y.) is a Monroe merchant. He is the son of Rensselaer
OF GRADUATES 289
Cory Conklin, a mining superintendent, and Mary Elizabeth
Howser, both of Monroe. His ancestor, John Conklin, came
to America from England in 1638, and settled at Salem, Mass.,
but soon moved to Huntington, L. I.
Isabella (Roberts) Conklin (b. March nth, 1843, at Mon-
roe, N. Y. ; d. April 7th, 1892, at Paterson, N. J.) was the
daughter of Lewis Roe Roberts, a railroad superintendent,
and Sarah Marvin, both of Monroe.
Conklin prepared for College at Exeter. In Freshman year he
took a Berkeley Premium of the First Grade and was Hurl-
burt Scholar of the House. In Sophomore year he took a
Second Lucius F. Robinson Latin Prize. He received a Phil-
osophical Oration at the Junior Exhibition and at Commence-
ment, and was graduated second in the Class, being titular
Salutatorian. Phi Beta Kappa. Beta Theta Phi.
His engagement has been announced and the marriage is ex-
pected to take place this summer. (See Appendix.)
Conklin wrote that he had spent the four years since
Sexennial in "reading law, hunting for clients and other
small game, and attempting to chase the hungry wolf."
His autobiographical sketch in 1902 was as follows : —
*'I graduated from the New York Law School (in 1898),
where I was President of my class, and succeeded in
capturing the first prize based on a special examination
and essay, and also the Prize Tutorship, which makes
one a tutor for three years at $500 per. I believe also
that my record of 99% for the course has not yet been
equalled. I have continued to give instructions in the
Law School until now, when the pressure of office duties
has compelled me to abandon it. As for my professional
work, I began as Managing Clerk with Frederic G. Dow
at 192 Broadway, New York City, in December, 1898,
and was made a partner under the firm name of Dow &
Conklin on January i, 1901. My partner died on De-
cember 28, 1901, and since then I have continued alone
under the name of Dow & Conklin, with the pleasures
and burdens of a very pleasant but rather responsible
commercial and corporation law practice."
This practice included the attorneyship for several
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estates and for a large number of commercial enter-
prises, among which were the Hardware Board of Trade
of New York, the Hard Rubber Board of Trade,
etc. On May ist, 1906, after practising for a time under
his own name, Conklin formed the new '96 partnership
of Hamlin & Conklin, with Elbert B. Hamlin, and moved
his offices down to Wall Street. He is interested in mo-
toring and golf and is President of the Ridgewood Golf
Club. (See Appendix.)
William P. Conley
Lawyer. 88 Erie County Savings Bank Building, Buffalo, New York.
William Patrick Conley was born June 8th, 1872, at Spring-
brook, N. Y. He is a son of Patrick Conley and Mary Ryan,
who were married in 1859, in Erie Co., N. Y., and had alto-
gether seven children, four boys and three girls, six of whom
lived to maturity.
Patrick Conley (b. April 3d, 1834, in County Monaghan,
Ireland) has spent the greater part of his life at Buffalo, and
Elma, Erie Co., N. Y., as a railroad employee, nurseryman,
and fruit farmer. He is the son of Bernard Conley, a linen
manufacturer, and Margaret Duffy, both of County Monaghan.
Mary (Ryan) Conley (b. 1835 at Newport, Ireland) is the
daughter of Michael Ryan, a farmer, and Mary Dahany, both
of Newport.
Conley prepared for College at Exeter, and was a member of
the Exeter and the Buffalo Clubs. He received an Oration at
the Junior Exhibition and at Commencement.
He has not been married.
Conley "attended the Buffalo Law School two years,
serving clerkship during that time in the office of E.
Corning Townsend, Secretary of the Law School, and
graduating in 1899 (with the degree of LL.B.). Spent
a few weeks in the office of Lewis & Lewis, and then
took place as managing clerk in the office of Potter &
Wright." On the dissolution of the firm he took up his
present work as managing clerk for the junior member,
WilHam Burnet Wright, Jr., '92. He spent the summer
of 1900 in Germany, England, and Ireland.
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"Yours of the i6th was duly received," he wrote last
May, *'and I hope you have not been inconvenienced by
my failure to make an earlier reply. The fact is that I
have been racking my memory trying to recollect what
has happened within my experience during the past four
years, and the result has been more barren than you could
imagine. I seem to have made the same rounds year
after year, with but little variation. About the only
amusements that I have had opportunities for indulging
in are an occasional baseball or football game, a show
or an opera, a trip on Lake Erie or down to the Falls.
I am very fond of water sports and would go in for them
more if I had the time and opportunity. I have scarcely
been outside of Buffalo, or at least of Erie County, during
the four years, and feel the need of a trip to New Haven,
and have therefore about decided to attend the Decennial.
I have had some correspondence with *Ajax' Squires on
the subject, with a view to getting him to go along. I
am not yet certain that he can get away.
"I have seen but very few '96 men in the last few
years outside of those living here. I meet Squires oc-
casionally here and at his home in Batavia. I used to
get together with Oakley once in a while when he was
here with the New York Central, but Oak has left
Buffalo, as you know, and gone to Corning. We have
had a couple of Yale dinners here during the period
under discussion, at one of which President Hadley was
present and Wilson S. Bissell presided, and at another,
last February, Julian Curtiss and Colonel Osborne were
the distinguished guests. My recollection of the more re-
cent one is that it was very enthusiastic."
Frederick Coonley, M.D.
22 Castleton Avenue, West New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y.
Frederick Coonley was born at Claverack, N. Y., May 29th, 1874.
He is a son of Edgar David Coonley, '71, and Amelia
Durland, who were married Jan. 2d, 1873, at Warwick, Orange
292 BIOGRAPHIES
Co., N. Y., and had two other children, one daughter
(Wellesley '99) and one son (ex '04 S.).
Edgar David Coonley (b. July 12th, 1844, at Greenville,
Greene Co., N. Y.) served as a private in the Civil War. He
is a practising physician and surgeon of Port Richmond
(Staten Island), N. Y. Most of his life has been spent at
Staten Island, Greenville, and Claverack, N. Y., and Rah way,
N. J. His parents were Frederick Coonley, a Greenville
"farmer, and Eliza Griff en of Bangall, Dutchess Co., N. Y.
The family came from Germany in 1640, and settled in
Dutchess County.
Amelia (Durland) Coonley (b. July 28th, 1849, at Peoria,
111.) spent her early life at Warwick, N. Y. Her parents were
Thomas Durland, a merchant and farmer of Warwick, and
Mary Ellen Booth of Campbell Hall, Orange Co., N. Y.
Coonley prepared for College at Andover. He rowed No. 4 on
the Freshman Crew in the Spring Regatta, No. 5 on the Sopho-
more Crew in the fall and spring events, and No. 7 on the
Junior Crew. He was also a member of the 'Varsity Squad.
He received a Dissertation at the Junior Exhibition and at
Commencement. Zeta Psi.
He was married Oct. 21st, 1903, in Trinity Congregational
Church, East Orange, N. J., to Miss Mabel Worth, daughter
of Frederick Worth of Llewellyn Park, Orange, N. J., and has
had one child, a daughter, Elizabeth Worth Coonley (b. Oct.
28th, 1904, at West New Brighton, N. Y. ; d. March loth, 1905,
at West New Brighton).
OiiDiNARiLY the Secretary wishes that he did not have to
ask so many questions, but in Coonley's case he is
tempted to invent more. Coonley hates it so. It is like
poking up the animals, or opening a Jack-in-the-box,—
safe, and yet piquantly thrilling— to send him a class
letter. Howlings attend it. Furious purple bellows
sound from across the bay, and when the postman hands
in the reply his arm gives electrified jerks. All of this,
however, is quite unprintable.
Coonley was a member of the large '96 colony in New
Haven for four years after graduation, receiving his
M.D. from the Yale Medical School in 1900. From June,
1900, to June, 1902, he served in the Presbyterian Hos-
pital in New York, where five of the eleven internes were
Yale men, and he then began his practice in Staten Is-
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land in association with his father, Dr. E. D. Coonley,
'71. In addition to his regular work he is now Attend-
ing Surgeon at St. Vincent's Hospital, S. I.
In answer to the question as to vacations, travels, &c.,
He writes as follows :— "Vacations have been spent in
Berkshires and Catskills. In the latter place last fall a
small Yale Reunion included Tutor Farr and George
Buist. Len Lampman promised to drive over from his
country place and join us, but the ladies won.
"My travels have consisted solely in covering an aver-
age of thirty-five miles of Staten Island roads per day,
with an occasional dash to Manhattan by way of varia-
tion.
" 'And other experiences' will require a personal inter-
view and free use of emphatic English. Pleasure, pity,
sorrow, and scorn have tingled through my sensitive
nervous system whenever I get time to sort over a fresh
batch of mail from '96 Harpies; Fisher flatters, enter-
tains, then pounds; Day, meek but persistent, writes
again and again, then by some sad sketch awakens pity
and repentance ;— as for Paret and Hawkes — 'Vel ! Too
much is enuf.' "
Wm. Henry Corbitt
Residence, io8 East 78th Street, New York City.
Lawyer. After September ist, 1906, will be a partner in the law firm of
Corbitt & Stern, 60 Wall Street.
William Henry Corbitt was born Feb. 17th, 1873, in New York
City. He is a son of Patrick Corbitt and Mary Theresa
McCaffry, who were married at New York City c, 1870, and
had altogether four children, three boys and one girl, two of
whom lived to maturity.
Patrick Corbitt (b. 1847, at Danbury, Conn.; d. Nov. 1889,
at New York City) spent the greater part of his life at Dan-
bury and New York, as a manufacturer and merchant. He
was the son of Patrick Corbitt, a farmer and manufacturer
of Danbury, Conn., and Charleston, S. C, and of Catherine
O'Neill, also of Charleston. The family came to America
from Ireland soon after the Revolution, and settled in South
Carolina.
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Mary Theresa (McCaffry) Corbitt (b. in 1848 at New York
City) is the daughter of Patrick McCaffry, a merchant, general
mercantile and commission broker, and United States appraiser
of New York City.
Corbitt was a member of the Class of '93 at the College of the
City of New York for three years, joining while there the
Theta Delta Chi Fraternity. He then came to Yale, entering
with us in the fall of Freshman year. He received a Second
Dispute at the Junior Exhibition and a First Dispute at Com-
mencement, and was a member of the University Club and of
Kappa Psi.
He has not been married.
Corbitt was graduated from the New York Law School
in 1898 (LL.B. ciiDi laude), entered the law offices of
Shipman, Larocque & Choate (40 Wall Street, New
York) the following July, and left in September, 1899,
to join the newly formed firm of Corbitt, Kelly &
Hoeninghaus (F. W. Hoeninghaus, '96, and J. Allison
Kelly).
It is related of this partnership that the three members
matched each other to see in what order their names
should appear as a firm; and that, Corbitt having won,
his two partners hurried off to the new offices they
had rented and preempted the only two rooms equipped
with windows to assuage their natural disappointment.
This left Corbitt the occupant of a small closet-like cell,
wherein he and his pipe used to be dimly visible, gloom-
ing over the disadvantages of Kingship. Visitors ac-
quainted with his habits always took a long breath and
held his door open some minutes before entering.
On October ist, 1902, Corbitt retired from this firm,
which then became Kelly & Hoeninghaus. He retained
headquarters with them, however, and even got a win-
dow. *'In addition to my practice," he writes, "I have
given some attention to operating in real estate, individ-
ually and as President of the Glen Realty Company. No
vacations, no meetings with classmates, no travels, no
experiences." (See Appendix.)
This no-ness is overdone. He has had plenty of ex-
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periences. "James de la Corbitt was with us last week,"
says one of Heaton's letters, "chasing the pill over our
green fields, and I almost bust watching Jeems swat the
air." He has had plenty of travels, too. "Once in a
long while," writes Willard Drown, "the fame of some
Ninety-Sixers spreads to this coast. Last week I went
to market and ordered some ducks at the fowl stand of
'O'Brien & Sportorno.' (I mean no disrespect to that
particular stand.) Upon giving my name and address,
Mr. O'Brien says, *Are you Mr. Willard Drown?'
'Yes,' says I, 'I believe I am very well acquainted with
a couple of friends of yours,* says he. *Last summer in
the Yellowstone young Harry Kip and Jim Corbitt and
I went on a five days coaching trip together. Very nice
young fellows indeed — liked them very much— say,
—they play the banjo fine.' 'Intimate friends of mine,'
says I ; 'charge those ducks.' "
Harry P. Cross
Lawyer. 32 Westminster Street, Providence, R. I.
Harry Parsons Cross was born Sept. 29th, 1873, at Wakefield,
R, I. He is a son of Elisha Watson Cross and Frances Cooper
Wright, who were married Nov. ist, 1872, at Wakefield, and
had two other children, one boy and one girl.
Elisha Watson Cross (b. Sept. 22d, 1844, at Westerly, R. I.),
a merchant of Wakefield, served in the Civil War, 1861-65 as
1st. Lieutenant, Troop C, 3d R. I. Cavalry and aide-de-camp
on staff of Col. Gooding, 5th Brigade Cavalry, Dept. of the
Gulf. He was for a short time Justice of one of the minor
courts of Westerly. He is now (Feb. '06) living at Wake-
field. His parents were John Hancock Cross, a lawyer of
Westerly, and Mary Ann Watson of South Kingston, R. I.
John Hancock Cross was the son of Judge Amos Cross and
Elizabeth Barnes. The family are of English descent and were
residents of Westerly, R. I., in 1666.
Frances Cooper (Wright) Cross (b. June 17th, 1842, at
Omaha, Nebr.) is the daughter of Stephen Allen Wright, a
banker and capitalist of San Francisco, Cal. (later of Wake-
field), and Susan Allen of South Kingston, R. I.
296 BIOGRAPHIES
Cross prepared for College at St. Paul's School in Concord.
He was in the 'Varsity Football Squad in Sophomore and
Junior years, and played Center Rush on the 'Varsity in
Senior year. He played all four years on the Track Team,
and won several Firsts and Seconds in the Hammer. He was
Floor Manager of the Senior Promenade, and a member of
the Class Day Committee, the Yale Union and the University
Club. He received a First Dispute at the Junior Exhibition
and a Second Dispute at Commencement. Psi U.
He was married (i) Dec. 17th, 1896, at Providence, R. I., to
Miss Lorania Carrington King, daughter of Frederick Augustus
King, of Providence, and sister of Frederick Augustus King,
(Jr.)> *9S> and has three children, Lorania Carrington Cross
(b. Aug. loth, 1898, at Providence), Harry King Cross
(b. June 25th, 1900, at Wakefield, R. I.), and Frances King
Cross (b. Feb. Sth, 1903, at Providence). Mrs. Cross died at
Wakefield, R. I., Jan. 3d, 1904, suddenly, of scarlet fever, caught
from her children.
He was married (2) on April i8th, 1906, at Providence, to Miss
Virginia Gammell, daughter of Robert Ives Gammell of Provi-
dence.
Cross went to California in the autumn of 1896. He
traveled East in November, was married in December,
and then went back to California again to spend the
winter, returning East in April, 1897. In October he
took up his residence in Cambridge, Mass., and entered
the Harvard Law School. Upon being graduated in
due course in 1900, he moved to Providence (November,
1900), and in February, 1901, he was admitted to the
Rhode Island Bar.
The following December he began a connection with
the law firm of Norris & Hoffman, which lasted till after
our Sexennial. "Since about that time," he writes, "I
have been practising law independently. I have n't held
any public office, nor received any honors that I remem-
ber. Probably because I did n't deserve them. I am
afraid that the life of a practising lawyer in Providence
is somewhat humdrum and devoid of interesting inci-
dents.
"I spent the summer of 1904 in Europe and since that
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time have continued to live in Providence, passing the
summer at Wakefield. ... On April i8th next I expect
to be married to Miss Virginia Gammell of this city and
to go abroad at once, returning in September. For that
reason I shall miss Decennial."
W. Redmond Cross
Partner in the Stock Exchange firm of Redmond & Co., 33 Pine Street,
New York City. Residence, 6 Washington Square.
William Redmond Cross was born June 8th, 1874, at South
Orange, N. J. He is a son of Richard James Cross and Ma-
tilda Redmond, who were married June 3d, 1872, at South
Orange, N. J., and had altogether six children, three boys
and three girls. John Walter Cross, 1900, is a brother,
Richard James Cross (b. Nov. 3d, 1845, at Liverpool, Eng-
land) is a retired banker of New York City, and is now (Dec.
1905) living at Newfoundland, N, J. He is the son of Wil-
liam Cross, a banker of London, England, and of Anna
Chalmers Wood of Glasgow, Scotland.
Matilda (Redmond) Cross (b. Aug. 30th, 1847, at New York
City; d. May 14th, 1883, at South Orange, N. J.) was the
daughter of William Redmond, a dry goods merchant, and
Sabina Hoyt, both of New York.
Cross played left Guard on the Freshman Eleven, was a substi-
tute on the 'Varsity for three years, and played Guard on the
'Varsity in Senior year. He was Captain of the Academic
Freshman Crew which beat '95 S., Captain and No, 6 on the
Freshman Crew in the spring of that year. No. 6 on the
'Varsity Crew in '94, and No. 5 on the 'Varsity in '95, He was
Captain of the Freshman Boat Club and one of the Board of
Governors of the University Club, A Second Colloquy at the
Junior Exhibition and a First Colloquy at Commencement.
He Boule. Psi U. Bones,
He has not been married.
"I WAS in the banking business in London for a year
after graduation," said Cross's sexennial letter, "coming
back to New York to go into the Manhattan Trust Com-
pany. In 1898 I became a member of the firm of Morton,
Bliss & Company, and on the formation of the Morton
298 BIOGRAPHIES
Trust Company in 1899, I became Secretary of it. I was
subsequently made Treasurer of the Morton Trust Com-
pany and Treasurer of the Cuba Company, both of which
positions I resigned last summer. I went to British
Columbia last fall on a shooting trip, and have been
traveling in Mexico, California, and Oregon this spring."
This was in 1902. His decennial postscript says,—
"Mining, shooting, and traveling in the Southwest, Brit-
ish Columbia, Old Mexico, and California. July ist, 1904,
I joined the firm of Redmond & Company, and have been
in the same place ever since."
In the "Alumni Weekly" for June 13th, 1906, there is
a picture of Redmond & Company's new building, ac-
companied by the following text: "William Redmond
Cross, '96, has had a large part in the work of planning
and erecting the new building of the firm of which he is
a member. The structure is broad and low, but simple
and classic in appearance. It is 50 by 100 feet and four
stories in height. The front is of white marble with fin-
ishings of bronze about the central windows and entrance
doors on either side. Four monolith columns of Denver
marble support the second floor. It contains only the
offices of Redmond & Company and those of the Bank of
Montreal. The interior, deep and high, gives a spacious
impression. It is finished in Breche Violette (Italian)
marble with panels of oak in some rooms and mahogany
in others. Redmond & Company use the first, and the
Bank of Montreal the second floor. The removal of Red-
mond & Company to Pine Street is another evidence of
the expansion of the Wall Street district. The firm was
organized first in 1889 under the name of Redmond,
Kerr & Company. Two years ago it was reorganized
under the present name. The partners now are : Henry
S. Redmond, F. Q. Brown, Otto J. Thomen, James C.
Bishop and William Redmond Cross." It should have
been added that de Sibour's firm were the architects.
When Cross returned from England in 1897, and en-
tered Wall Street in full London regalia, top hat and all,
he made a tremendous impression upon those of us who
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were then serving as errand boys to brokers. . We did
not know at that time how nearly we had lost him, nor
how strongly he had been tempted to settle down in Eng-
land, but we felt at once that his large and resplendent
frame lent added dignity to our own financial district.
Since his advent the New York bank clearings have in-
creased from $33,427,027,471 in 1897, to the enormous
sum of $93,822,060,202 in 1905.
Alfred L. Curtiss
Lawyer. (See Appendix.)
Residence, 49 East 60th Street, New York City.
Alfred Loomis Curtiss was born July 23d, 1874, at New York
City. He is the son of Henry Wheeler Curtiss and Addie
Beers, who were married Oct. 21st, 1868, at Fairfield, Conn.,
and had one other child, a girl.
Henry Wheeler Curtiss (b. June 12th, 1845, in Monroe,
Conn.; d. Maj^ ist, 1902, at New York City) spent the greater
part of his life at Fairfield, Conn., and at New York City. He
was a commission merchant and importer of silks, satins,
velvets, etc. He was a veteran of the 23d and 7th Regiments,
N. G. N. Y. His parents were Henry Tomlinson Curtiss, of
Fairfield, and Mary Eliza Henderson Beardsley, of Bridge-
port, Conn. The family came to America from England in
1638, and settled at Stratford, Conn.
Addie (Beers) Curtiss (b. April 30th, 1850, at New York
City) spent her early life at Fairfield, Conn. She is the
daughter of Henry Judd Beers, an importer of wines, etc., and
Priscilla Armstrong Thorp, both of Fairfield. Henry Judd
Beers was a veteran of the 7th Regiment, N. G. N. Y.
Curtiss prepared for College at the Cutler School in New York
City, and entered with the Class in the fall of '92. He was
a member of the University Club and received a Second Col-
loquy at Commencement. Kappa Psi. Psi U. Wolf's Head.
He has not been married.
In 1899 Curtiss finished his three years' course in the Co-
lumbia Law School, received his LL.B., and was admitted
to the Bar. After a summer abroad "sporting about the
golf links of England and Scotland" he entered (Sep-
300 BIOGRAPHIES
tember, 1899) the law offices of Reed, Simpson, Thacher
& Barnum. His decennial letter follows :—
"Dear Mr. Secretary :— My own stature not having
elongated to any appreciable extent, my career since 1902
has done likewise. I still maintain that I am taller than
Kingman. Up to November, 1905, I was connected with
the law offices of Simpson, Thacher, Barnum & Bartlett,
but this winter has seen me engaged as Assistant Secre-
tary with the 'Allied Real Estate Interests of the State of
New York' in their successful fight conducted from end
to end of New York State, against the Annual Mortgage
Tax Law, and for the substitution of a simple Recording
Tax. In connection therewith I have done some per-
fectly genteel lobbying in Albany, and so far the 'man
with the muck-rake' has not attacked me." (See Ap-
pendix.)
Curtiss was called upon to take Paret's place on the
Decennial Committee last spring, when Walter's sur-
geons began their fruitless explorations of his interior.
He was elected to serve again at Quindecennial.
* S. E. Damon
Member of the banking house of Bishop & Company, of Honolulu, Hawaii.
Died in Honolulu, September 27th, 1904.
Samuel Edward Damon was born June ist, 1873, in Honolulu,
Hawaiian Islands. He was a son of Samuel Mills Damon
and Harriet Baldwin, who were married Sept. 5th, 1871, in
Honolulu, and had altogether five children, four boys and one
girl, four of whom lived to maturity. One of the brothers is
Henry F. Damon, '06.
Samuel Mills Damon (b. March 13th, 1845, in Honolulu)
is a banker, and was for ten years Minister of Finance to the
Hawaiian Government. He is a son of Samuel C. Damon, a
Protestant clergyman of Holden, Mass., and for twenty-eight
3''ears Seamen's Chaplain in Honolulu; and of Julia Mills of
Torringford, Conn. The family came from England in 1633,
and settled at Reading, Mass.
Harriet (Baldwin) Damon (b. Feb. i6th, 1847, at Lahaina-
Maui, Hawaiian Islands) is the daughter of the Rev. Dwight
OF GRADUATES 301
Baldwin, '21, of Durham, N. Y., and Charlotte Fowler of
Northford, Conn. Dwight Baldwin was a doctor and an early
missionary to the Hawaiian Islands. Charlotte Fowler was
the granddaughter of Col. Douglas, who served in the Revo-
lutionary Army under General Washington.
Damon was one of the founders of the Hawaiian Club at Yale,
and served as its Vice-President in Junior year and President
in Senior year. He received a Second Colloquy at Commence-
ment and was a member of Zeta Psi.
He was married at Glasgow, Scotland, Jan. 17th, 1899, to Miss
Gertrude MacKinnon, and had four children, two sons and
two daughters, Gertrude Mary Esme Damon (b. Nov. 19th,
1899, at Honolulu), Heather Jean Damon (b. Nov. 19th, 1901,
at Honolulu), Samuel Renney Damon (b. April 19th, 1903, at
Honolulu) and Charles Gordon Damon (b. July 26th, 1904,
at Honolulu; d. April 24, 1905, at Honolulu).
On the day after Damon's death "all the banks, all the
business institutions with v^hich he had been connected
and most of the retail stores closed their doors for the
day, and all shut down during the funeral. Work was
stopped on the waterfront and the flags of the ships were
halfmasted. It was the same with the flags up town.
The consuls all lowered their national ensigns and the
leading Asiatic business places, club houses, etc., either
did likewise or shut their doors. The streets looked as
they do on Sunday. Oahu College closed at 1 1 130 in the
college department and at 12 in the preparatory depart-
ment. Down town only the newspaper offices, the courts,
the hotels and Mrs. Taylor's florist shop, where the
tributes of flowers were being prepared, showed any
special signs of activity." This paragraph is from the
"Advertiser." The following account of the tragedy ap-
peared in the "Hawaiian Star," September 28, 1904 :—
CRUEL MURDER OF S. E. DAMON.
A dastardly crime that has shocked the community to an un-
usual degree, was committed last night. S. E. Damon, son of
Hon. S. M. Damon, and a member of the banking house of Bishop
& Company, was fatally stabbed by a Porto Rican criminal named
Jose Miranda, while in the act of trying to prevent the Porto
302 BIOGRAPHIES
Rican from stealing a lamp from the scene of some repairs that
were being made to the road near the Grace place, which adjoins
the Damon property at Moanalua. The fatal wound was in-
flicted by a laiife thrust in the abdomen, the victim dying within
an hour after being attacked. ...
So wanton was the crime and so certain the facts against the
murderer that public indignation was aroused to a high pitch
and crowds gathered in the vicinity of the police station last
night, and made threats to lynch the man. . . . The High Sheriff,
by a ruse, succeeded in getting the man safely away from the
crowd over to the Oahu prison before any actual demonstration
was made. ...
The attack occurred shortly after seven o'clock last night,
while Mr. Damon was driving home from doing some work on
a boat in the bay. Repairs had been in progress on the Moanalua
road, and in a flat portion near a hill that rises on the Ewa side
of some rice fields near the Grace place, a number of lanterns
had been placed by the contractors for the purpose of warning
drivers of rigs of the rough portion of the road. Mr. Damon,
who was accompanied in the carriage by a Chinese employee,
noticed three people, two men and a woman, going from that
section in the direction of Honolulu. One of them, a man, car-
ried a lantern. This lantern had been taken from the scene of
repairs, where it had been left as a warning, so Mr. Damon
called at once to the man not to take the lantern, but to replace it.
Jose Miranda was carrying the lantern and he replied, "You
go to , no business you." Mr, Damon then got
from the rig and approached Miranda and the two other Porto
Ricans, telling the man to replace the light. Evidently Mr.
Damon thought the trio were natives and had not the slightest
apprehension of any danger of attack, for he spoke to them orig-
inally in Hawaiian and made no demonstration of violence
against them. Without further warning Miranda drew a knife
and plunged it into his body.
The deed was plainly witnessed by the woman companion of
the Porto Rican, by Mr. Damon's Chinese employee, and by
Eugene Sullivan, who, accompanied by a young Chinese boy,,
appeared upon the scene just as the assault was committed.
"I 'm stabbed," Mr. Damon is quoted as saying, and then stag-
gered back toward his carriage and got into it without assist-
ance. Sullivan went toward Miranda, who still held the knife
threateningly. "You leave me alone, I do the same to you," ex-
claimed Miranda, advancing toward Sullivan. The latter was
unarmed, and did not dare risk closing in on the Porto Rican,
so backed away a few paces. An instant later the two Porto
Rican men and the woman retreated along the road and disap-
peared in the darkness. Sullivan then hastened to the rig to
ascertain the identity of the victim of the stabbing.
To his astonishment he discovered that it was young Damon.
Sullivan realized that Damon was dangerously hurt, and getting
into the buggy drove as rapidly as possible into the city. He
drove to the police station, and from the police station the in-
jured man was taken in the patrol wagon to the Queen's Hospital.
1
A
Damon
>^ or THE
UNIVEKV
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But it was too late. At the police station the extremities of the
injured man were already cold, and by the time the Hospital was
reached he was unconscious.
The account proceeds to describe the search for the
three Porto Ricans and their swift arrest, and then con-
tinues :—
After Miranda had been locked in a cell and manacled and a
guard placed over him, the woman made a more extended state-
ment. She said in regard to the crime: "My name is Marie
Antonia Collona. I was coming into town from Puuloa. I was
with Jose Miranda. We come along the road and see a lantern
on the fence. He told me to take the light. I say no, bimeby I
get into trouble. I say you take it. Jose then took the lantern
himself and we started toward Honolulu. Two men come along
in carriage toward Moanalua, I think carriage have two white
men. He stop carriage and say to us, thinkin' we natives: 'Eh,
pehea hapai kela kukui?' (Why are you taking that lamp?)
Jose said : 'You go to , no business you.' We go on,
but carriage turn around and come back toward us. The white
man say : 'You please put the lamp back.' Jose said : 'You go to
, no business you.'
"The white man jump out of the rig and came toward Jose
saying, 'Please put that lamp back.' I saw Jose fumbling about
his waist. Then I saw knife in his hand and he went toward
white man with his hand like this (holding her hand up in a
striking attitude). I see him strike man down here in stomach,
only one time, and then we turn around to go away. I ver'
much afraid here in my heart. Just then another man come up,
no, two men. Jose say to one man, 'You let me go, you stay
from me, or I do same t'ing to you.' That 's all I know.
"No, white man no fall down. He stumble toward his buggy,
grunting and groaning."
During the evening Miranda was questioned by the police and
made a complete confession. He admitted stabbing Damon, or
"the white man who got out of the buggy," as he expressed it.
Miranda said that the reason he had stabbed him was because
Damon had gotten out of the buggy and gone toward him.
Miranda had been out of jail only ten days, after serv-
ing a sentence of two years for burglary in the first de-
gree. He knew that the police were after him again, for
another burglary which he had committed in this brief
interval. He had armed himself and had evidently
formed an intention to oppose anyone who might attempt
to stop his progress or arrest him. During his trial
these facts were used to show premeditation. On Octo-
304 BIOGRAPHIES
ber 6th the jury handed in their verdict. On October
27th he was hanged.
The broad and honorable career for which Ned Damon
was intended required careful building. He had been
graduated at the Oahu College in Hawaii before he came
to Yale, and after leaving New Haven he spent over
two years more in study in the School of Chartered Ac-
countants, Glasgow, Scotland. In January, 1899, he re-
turned to Honolulu (by way of Asia) a trained man,
ready for the duties there awaiting him.
He soon became a member of Bishop & Company (Es-
tablished 1858), the banking house with which his father
was connected. Late in 1902 he visited England and
Scotland in the interest of the Tramway Company's
minority stockholders, securing in their behalf the liqui-
dation and division of assets which he sought, against
the declared intention of the majority holders to pursue
a different course. Returning from this mission in April,
1903, he was elected a director of the Oahu Railway &
Land Company, President of the Whitney & Marsh Com-
pany, and (March, 1904) a director in the Hilo Railroad
Company. He served for awhile as a Trustee of Oahu
College, as treasurer and managing trustee of the Home
for Incurables, and but for the annulment by the Su-
preme Court of the County Act he would have served
as treasurer of Oahu County, to which office he was
elected in November, 1903, on the Republican ticket. He
was fond of yachting and of polo and was President of
the Honolulu Golf Club.
He displayed, said one of the papers, "a striking physi-
cal resemblance to his father, and in demeanor was a
grave and thoughtful man of affairs. He matured early
and bore large responsibilities before he was thirty. The
elder Damon was gradually shifting the burdens of the
bank upon his shoulders. Steadily and rapidly he was
becoming Bishop & Company."
On March 28th, 1903, when Damon arrived in New
York on his way from England to Honolulu, he was
OF GRADUATES 305
given a dinner by some '96 men at the Yale Club. He
looked just the same as ever to those of us who saw him
there that night, a straight, lithe, powerful man, with a
ready smile and very kindly eyes. . . . He was one of
our best.
Albert S. Davis
In the Statistical Department of Redmond & Co., Bankers, 33 Pine Street,
New York City.
Albert Sargent Davis was born March 2d, 1873, at Cincinnati,
O. He is a son of William Henry Davis and Mary Elizabeth
Sargent, who were married May 23d, 1872, at Avondale (now
a part of Cincinnati) and had altogether four children, three
boys and one girl. One of the brothers is Howard Lee Davis
'99 s.
William Henry Davis (b. May 25th, 1844, at Cincinnati)
has spent his entire life at Cincinnati, engaged in mercantile
pursuits, with the exception of four years at the University of
Rochester (where he received the degree of B.A. '68), and
sixteen months' service in the Army. He enlisted as a private
in Company K, 83d Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, at
the age of eighteen, rising to the rank of Sergeant. He is a son
of George F. Davis, a merchant and manufacturer of Brighton
(now a part of Boston), Mass., and Nancy Wilson, of Marble-
head, Mass. The family came over from England in 1642, and
settled in Massachusetts.
Mary Elizabeth (Sargent) Davis (b. Jan. 20th, 1851, at Cin-
cinnati; d. Feb. i8th, 1895, at Cincinnati) was the daughter of
Lemuel Hamilton Sargent, a salt manufacturer and merchant
of Virginia, and of Carrie Babb, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., both of
whom moved to Cincinnati early in life.
Davis prepared for College at Andover, and was a member of
the Andover Club and the Cincinnati Club. He wrote for the
Yale Literary Magazine and in Senior year received an
election to Chi Delta Theta. He received a Second Colloquy
at Commencement. Zeta Psi.
His engagement has been announced and the marriage is ex-
pected to take place this summer. (See Appendix.)
Davis writes that he was "in the publishing and adver-
tising business continuously and continually until June,
306 BIOGRAPHIES
1905, when I entered the employment of Redmond &
Company, the bankers, then at 41 Wall Street, now 33
Pine Street, where I am at present in the Statistical De-
partment. . . . My only considerable breakaway was in
the summer of 1904, when I went for a month's camping
and riding trip in the Yellowstone Park."
On April 3d, 1905, Albert's invalid sister died, and the
little home which he had kept for her for so many years
was broken up. . . .
The Sexennial Record contains a detailed account of
his doings from 1896 to 1902. "On June 24th, 1896,"
it commences, "I hurriedly left the Alumni Dinner to
catch a train for New York and start work at a desk in
the Macmillan Company, publishers. I have always re-
gretted that I did not wait for dessert." It goes on to
give full details of his earlier connections, describes his
trip to Cuba and Porto Rico on the United States Trans-
port McClellan in 1901, and tells of the efforts of Post
& Davis (of which firm he was a member, March ist,
1901, to April, 1902) to make photogravure plates by
a new process. Davis's principal connections, outside
of those mentioned, have been with the American Litho-
graphic Company and Charles Scribner's Sons.
Edward L. Davis
Secretary of the Davis, Hunt, Collister Co. (Hardware), 147 Ontario Street,
Cleveland, Ohio. Residence, 1062 Wilson Avenue.
Edward Lockwood Davis was born February i8th, 1874, in Cleve-
land, O. He is the only child of John Jay Davis and Frances
Hunt, who were married April 6th, 1864, at Aurelius, N. Y.
John Jay Davis (b. Oct. nth, 1836, at Cleveland; d. March
9th, 1901, at Cleveland) was a hardware merchant of Cleve-
land, where he spent the greater part of his life. His parents
were Thomas Davis, a farmer, and Minerva Short, both of
Cleveland. The family came to America from England in 1800,
and settled at Cleveland.
Frances (Hunt) Davis (b. Dec. i6th, 1839, at Aurelius, N. Y.)
is the daughter of Lockwood Hunt, a farmer of Aurelius, and
Laura Stuart of Richfield, Conn.
OF GRADUATES 307
Davis was, while in College, a member of the Cleveland Club and
sang Second Tenor in the College Choir. He received an Ora-
tion at the Junior Exhibition and a Dissertation at Commence-
ment. Zeta Psi.
He was married at Bay City, Mich., Oct. 19th, 1898, to Miss
Flora E. Eddy, daughter of Charles Albert and Harriet Lane
Eddy of Bay City. Mr. Eddy is in the lumber and shipping
business.
Davis has been in the hardware business in Cleveland
since 1896, — for the first four or five years with the
firm of Davis, Hunt & Company, and since then with the
Davis, Hunt, Collister Company, of which corporation
he is Secretary and Director. The other officers are
Edward P. Hunt, President, and J. H. ColHster, Vice-
President and Treasurer. The note-head reads, ''Whole-
sale and Retail Hardware Dealers. House Furnishing
Goods. Cutlery."
In order to provide our silent friend with a sporting
incentive to reply, the Secretary wrote to him offering to
give eight dollars to the Alumni Fund if an answer ar-
rived by a certain date. Unexpectedly enough, the answer
came. The Secretary does not think it was worth the
money, except as a rarity, but in order that the Class may
judge for itself he prints the text herewith :—
"The sight of your stamped envelope and your gener-
ous offer to the Alumni Fund was too much for my con-
science. So here goes. In reference to the middle
name of my mother-in-law— it is Lane. In reference to
myself and my doings recently there is not much to
say. My vacations for the past three years have been
spent in Northern Canada, canoeing, fishing, camp-
ing, etc.
''My time at home has been taken up principally try-
ing to earn enough money to keep an automobile
running, but with indifferent success. I am looking
forward with great pleasure to our reunion, and no un-
foreseen circumstance preventing, I shall be in New
Haven on Saturday, the twenty-third."
308 BIOGRAPHIES
Clarence S. Day, Jr.
Mail address, 45 Wall Street, New York City.
Residence, 43 East 68th Street.
New Haven address, care of the Yale Alumni Weekly.
Clarence Shepard Day, Jr., was born Nov. i8th, 1874, at New
York City. He is a son of Clarence Shepard Day and Lavinia
Elizabeth Stockwell, who were married June 25th, 1873, at
New York, and had altogether five children, all boys, four of
whom lived to maturity. Two of the brothers (George Parmly
Day, '97, and Julian Day, 1901) are Yale men. The fourth
went to Columbia.
Clarence Shepard Day the elder (b. Aug. 9th, 1844, at New
York City) is a banker and broker and was for many years
one of the Governors of the New York Stock Exchange. His
mother was Eveline Shepard (b. 1806, at Amsterdam, N. Y.),
and his father, Benjamin Henry Day (grandson of Benjamin
Day, Yale 1768) was a printer and publisher, who came to
New York from West Springfield, Mass., and founded (in
1833) the New York "Sun." His ancestor, Robert Day, came
over from England in 1634 and was one of the first settlers of
Hartford, Conn.
Lavinia Elizabeth (Stockwell) Day (b. Dec. 8th, 1852, at
Painesville, Ohio) is the daughter of Brutus Stockwell, a
farmer, and Elizabeth Burridge, both of Painesville, in which
town and in New York City she spent her early life. Two
of her brothers were officers in the Civil War, one in the Navy
and one in the Army.
Day prepared for Yale under a private tutor and at St. Paul's
School in Concord. In Senior year he was elected one of the
Class Historians. He received a Second Colloquy at the Junior
Exhibition and a First Dispute at Commencement. Psi U.
He has not been married.
"I ENTERED my father's office a few weeks after gradua-
tion, bought a seat on the New York Stock Exchange
the following February, and in 1898 became a partner
in the firm of Clarence S. Day & Company. In April,
1898, I enlisted in the United States Navy, with other
members of the local Naval Reserve, and was assigned —
at first as seaman and later as pay yeoman — to the old
Civil War monitor 'Nahant'; but we saw no active ser-
vice, and all hands were mustered out at League Island
OF GRADUATES 309
in September. In 1899 I began gradually to withdraw
from business. I transferred the seat on the Stock Ex-
change to my brother Julian in 1902, and in 1903 I retired
from the firm, which was then reorganized under the
name of Day, Adams & Company.
''This change in my life was due to an attack of
'arthritic' rheumatism,— that diverting variety which soon
inducts its subject into all the quaint sensations of dry
toast. The chief objection I find to this disease, apart
from its steadfast nature, is that the amount of ac-
quiescence needed, to live with it contentedly, engenders
torpor. It incapacitated me for the sort of work I had
been doing, however, and it has made it advisable for me
to live part of the time in the South and West. One year
(1904) was sj>ent 'ranching it' in Arizona. Last summer
(1905) Gregory and I had a cottage together in Glen-
wood Springs, Colorado. While traveling to and from
places like these I have seen many members of the Class.
''Following my election to the class secretaryship in
June, 1902, I was instrumental in organizing a Yale As-
sociation of Class Secretaries, and in the spring of 1906
I was elected to the Advisory Board of the 'Yale Alumni
Weekly.' " (See Appendix.)
Sherman Day
Residence, 6 East 44th Street, New York City.
Lawyer, 60 Wall Street.
Sherman Day was born Sept, 7th, 1874, in New York City. He
is the son of Henry Mills Day, Western Reserve '59 ; Yale A.B.
'59 hon., and Sarah Vallette, who were married in December,
1868, at Cincinnati, Ohio, and had one other son (Harry Val-
lette Day, '95 S.) and one daughter.
Henry Mills Day (b. Oct. 28th, 1838, at Waterbury, Conn.;
d. Oct. I2th, 1901, at New York City) at the time of his death
had been a banker and broker in New York City for nearly
forty years. His early life was spent in New Haven, Conn.,
and in Ohio, where for three years he practised law. He was
I the son of Henry Noble Day, '28, and Jane Marble, both of
310 BIOGRAPHIES
New Haven. Henry Noble Day was a clergyman, Professor of
Mental Science in Western Reserve University, and nephew of
President Jeremiah Day, Yale 1795. His ancestor came from
England in 1634, and was one of the first settlers of Hartford.
Sarah (Vallette) Day (b. Sept. 20th, 1842, at Cincinnati,
Ohio) is the daughter of Henry Vallette, a banker of Cincin-
nati, and of Julia Carley of New York. She is now (Nov., '05)
living in New York City.
Day prepared for College at the Cutler School in New York City.
He was a Captain of Co. C. of the '96 Battalion of the Phelps
Brigade, and served as Manager and President of the Yale
Athletic Association, Director of the Yale Field Corporation
and ex-officio as a member of the Yale Athletic Financial
Union. In Junior year he was Assistant Treasurer of the
University Club, and in Senior year was one of the Executive
Committee of the Board of Governors. A High Oration at
the Junior Exhibition and at Commencement. Phi Beta Kappa.
Eta Phi. Psi U. Kevs.
He has not been married.
Day became a clerk for Day & Heaton, his father's
firm, after our graduation. He left them in 1897 to enter
the New York Law School, received his LL.B. in 1899,
and for several years afterwards was associated with
Hornblower, Byrne, Miller & Potter. In reply to the
decennial request for an account of his life and works,
he wrote simply and solely, ''Nothing doing/'
The brevity of this reply has been a matter of anxious
speculation to the Class Secretary. Sherman is distinctly
not the man to hoard his words when the tongue's office
should be prodigal, and when a person who ordinarily
enters willingly and with an easy grace into the conduct
of his correspondence, turns suddenly laconic, one must
beware of attaching to his remarks a merely flippant
significance. This is no flippancy. Either he said it
"Because a cold rage seizes one at whiles
To show the bitter old and wrinkled truth
Stripped naked of all vesture that beguiles. . . ."
or else he must have meant it to bear some profoundly
esoteric construction. He may have had in mind, for
example, that weighty observation of Le Centaure as
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reported by M. de Guerin, to the effect that were a god
asked to recite his life he would put it ''en deux mots;"
and if this was his idea he has, perhaps, afforded a clue to
those troubled scholiasts, who— with a passion for exact-
ness to which Le Centaure was unhappily a stranger —
have long boggled over the problem of just which two
words a god would pick. It would be hard to find any
other pair of vocables in the language, the use of which
could so plausibly fill Olympian requirements.
In 1902 Day's humor was less godlike, or, if you will,
more human. ''Although of a pleasing and engaging
personality," he said in the middle of his sexennial let-
ter, "I am not married, and all indications are serene and
tranquil." He is nowadays of a more pleasing personal-
ity than ever, yet indications are equally serene. He
is Chairman of the House Committee at the Racquet
Club, he travels abroad from time to time,— pays fre-
quent visits to New Haven (as President of Henry
Hooker & Company, Incorporated, the carriage makers),
—and when in New York participates in the usual avo-
cations of a man of taste.
Estey F. Dayton
Salesman for the Library Bureau, 3 1 6 Broadway, New York City.
(See Appendix.)
Residence, 188 North i8th Street, East Orange, N.J.
EsTEY Fuller Dayton was born March 7th, 1873, at Torrington,
Conn. He is a son of Arvid Dayton and Urania Hannah
Marsh, who were married May 4th, 1854, at Warren, Conn.,
and had altogether four children, two boys and two girls, three
of whom lived to maturity.
Arvid Dayton (b. Sept. 14th, 1814, at Torrington, Conn.;
d. Sept. 1st, 1891, at Torrington) was an organ builder and
inventor, of Torrington. He was the son of Jonah Dayton,
a farmer, and Mary Policy Flint, both of Watertown, Conn.
The family emigrated from England to Boston, Mass., in 1639,
settling at Southampton, L. I.
Urania Hannah (Marsh) Dayton (b. Aug. 19th, 1830, near
Rochester, N. Y.; d. May 12th, 1905, at New Haven, Conn.)
312 BIOGRAPHIES
was the daughter of Riverius Chauncy Marsh, a farmer, of
Warren, Conn., and Eunice Camp, of New Milford, Conn.
Dayton prepared for College at the Torrington High School.
He was a member of the Mount Hermon Club, Vice-President
of the Yale Chess Club, and took Two Year Honors in Phi-
losophy and a First Colloquy at Commencement.
He was married at New York City, Dec. 30th, 1900, to Miss
Lucie Pinckney Lodge, daughter of the late William Benjamin
Lodge and Charlotte Anna (Pinckney) Lodge of New York
City, and has three children, two sons and a daughter, Cedric
Lodge Dayton (b. Dec. 21st, 1901, at New York City), Mal-
colm Pinckney Dayton (b. Aug. 12th, 1903, at New York City),
and Helen Marsh Dayton (b. Aug. i6th, 1905, at New York
City).
Dayton's autobiography follows:— "On leaving college
it was my intention to return for post-graduate work,
but a long illness with typhoid fever changed my plans.
After having fully recovered I left my old home in Tor-
rington, Connecticut, in the spring of 1897, and came to
New York City in search of a livelihood. My first en-
gagement was with the firm of Ackerman & Ross, archi-
tects. ... I next took a position as teacher in the New
York Public Schools, which I was fortunate in keeping
until, in January, 1900, I received and accepted an offer
to go with the New York office of the Fred Macey Com-
pany of Grand Rapids, Michigan, makers of office and
library furniture. After staying with them about sixteen
months I allied myself with the Library Bureau (New
York), with whom I still find employment." (See Ap-
pendix.)
This concern founded in 1876, is at the head of the
card system business. It has offices in eleven cities in
this country and in three in England.
"Fifty weeks of each year," added Dayton this spring,
"have been devoted to business. My two weeks vaca-
tion was spent at Lake Waramaug, Connecticut, in 1903
and 1904, and at Palmyra, New York, the former home
of Mrs. Dayton, in 1905. My avocations are chiefly do-^
mestic.
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"I regret that as yet I have no travels, meetings, or
other experiences of sufficient general interest to relate,
but, as you all can see, I have worked hard in my own
way."
Rev. L. M. Dean
806 Main Street, Westbrook, Maine.
Pastor of the Congregational Church.
Lee Maltbie Dean was born May i6th, 1875, at Falls Village,
Conn. He is a son of Lee Parker Dean and Seraph E. Maltbie,
who were married May 27th, 1874, at Canaan, Conn., and had
altogether four children, three boys (including Willard Parker
Dean, '02 S.) and one girl.
Lee Parker Dean (b. Oct. i8th, 1838, at Canaan, Conn.) has
lived in Canaan, Falls Village, and Bridgeport, Conn., and is
now (Jan., '06) residing in New York City. His early life was
spent on a farm. He later practised as an attorney at law, and
served as Town Clerk, Treasurer and Registrar for several
years, and was a member of the Connecticut Legislature, 1867-
71. His parents were Henry Dean, a farmer, and Almira
Munson, both of Canaan. Almira Munson was born at Ham-
den, Conn. The family is descended from William Dean, who
married Mehitabel Wood, at Dedham, Mass., in 1667, and who
is supposed to be the descendant of William Dean of Taunton,
England.
Seraph E. (Maltbie) Dean (b. March i8th, 1852, at Canaan,
Conn.) spent her early life at Canaan and Falls Village, Conn.
She is the daughter of Charles B. Maltbie, a physician, and
Elizabeth Higley, both of Canaan. For further details see the
"Higley Genealogy."
Dean prepared for College at the Bridgeport High School, and
entered our Class in the fall of Sophomore year. He received
a Second Dispute at the Junior Exhibition and a Dissertation
at Commencement.
He has not been married.
The year 1896-97 Dean spent in post-graduate studies at
Yale. The two following years he held a fellowship in
Indo-European Philology at the University of Pennsyl-
vania. His studies here were in Greek, Sanscrit and
Arabic. During 1 899-1 901 he was at the Andover Theo-
314 BIOGRAPHIES
logical Seminary. During 1901-02 he attended Columbia
University and the Union Seminary, in New York. At
Columbia the courses taken were chiefly in Persian.
In 1902 he became Pastor of the Congregational
Church in South Brookfield, Massachusetts. He re-
mained there until he left for Westbrook, Maine, in 1904,
to become Pastor of the Congregational Church in that
place. He does not write much to the Class Secretary,
but he is one of the men upon whom Harry Fisher can
always rely for a response.
Johnston de Forest
Partner in the law firm of de Forest Brothers, 30 Broad Street
(Johnston Building), New York City.
Residence, Town, 7 Washington Square.
Country, Wawapek Farm, Cold Spring, Long Island.
Johnston de Forest was born Sept. 5th, 1873, at Plainfield, N. J.
He is a son of Robert Weeks de Forest, '70, LL.D. '04 Hon.,
and Emily Johnston, who were married Nov. 12th, 1872, at
St. Mark's Church, New York City, and had one other son,
Henry Lockwood de Forest, '97, and two daughters.
Robert Weeks de Forest (b. April 25th, 1848, at New York
City) is a lawyer and philanthropist of New York. He was
Chairman of the New York State Tenement House Commis-
sion of 1900, and the first Tenement House Commissioner of
New York City. He is a Trustee of the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, and has been since 1888 the President of the Charity
Organization Society. His parents were Henry Grant de Forest,
Amherst, '39, a New York lawyer, and Julia Mary Weeks,
daughter of the first President of the New York Stock Ex-
change. His ancestors were Huguenots, who came to Amer-
ica from Avenes, France, via Leyden, Holland, in 1623, and
settled at New York.
Emily (Johnston) de Forest (b. Feb. 13th, 1851, at New York
City) is the daughter of John Taylor Johnston, a lawyer of
New York City, and Frances Colles of New Orleans, La,
John Taylor Johnston was the first President of the Metro-
politan Museum of Art, President of the Central Railroad of
New Jersey, etc., etc.
de Forest prepared for Yale at Andover. As owner of the cat
"Volsung" he was one of the Captains in the Yale-Corinthian
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Yacht Club. He took Two Year Honors in History, a Second
Dispute at the Junior Exhibition and a first Dispute at Com-
mencement. He was a member of the University Club and of
Psi U.
He was married Oct. 6th, 1904, at Felsenheim Chapel, St. Hu-
bert's, N. Y., to Miss Natalie Coffin, daughter of Sturgis and
Elizabeth W. Coffin of Brooklyn, N. Y. Mrs. de Forest died
April 26th, 1906, at Asheville, N. C.
"In the fall of 1896 I entered the Columbia Law School,
was graduated in due course in June, 1899, and was sub-
sequently in the same month admitted to the practice of
the law in New York. . . . Shortly afterwards I entered
the law office of Messrs. Strong & Cadwalader. I re-
mained there until May, I9(X), when I went into the office
of de Forest Brothers, and was subsequently (July,
1901,) admitted to partnership in this firm, composed of
my father, Robert W. de Forest, Yale '70, and uncle,
Henry W. de Forest, Yale 'y6.
"In the fall of 1900 I spent three months in Idaho and
Washington on business, and in December, 1900, and
January, 1901, made a trip to the Pacific Coast on the
same matter. I was admitted to the Bar Association of
New York in 1901, and have served on the Race Com-
mittee of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club, of
which I am now Chairman, since 1899."
This quotation is taken from Johnston's sexennial auto-
biography. In the spring of 1903 his engagement was
announced and a year and a half later he was married.
For the better care of his wife's health he spent the fol-
lowing months in Colorado Springs. Late in 1905, after
an intermediate stay in New Canaan, Connecticut, he
took her to Asheville, North Carolina, for the win-
ter. . . . After her death, in April, 1906, de Forest went
abroad. He will resume his practice in the fall.
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E. E. Denison
Lawyer, Marion, Illinois.
Edward Everett Denison was born Aug. 28th, 1873, at Marion,
111. He is a son of Charles H. Denison and Mary E. Bundy,
who were married March 21st, 1869, at Carterville, 111., and had
altogether four children, three boys and one girl. One brother
is a Harvard man, and the sister is a graduate of Monticello.
Charles H. Denison (b. Aug. 24th, 1837, at Seneca Falls, N.
Y.) is a banker of Marion, at which place, and at Woodstock,
111., he has spent the greater part of his life. He is a son of
Edward Denison, a farmer of Seneca Falls, and of Eveline
Hitchcock, of Syracuse, N. Y. The family originally came to
America from Ireland and England, and settled in New York
State.
Mary E. (Bundy) Denison (b. Feb. 8th, 1848, at Smithville,
Tenn.) is the daughter of Samuel H. Bundy, a physician and
surgeon of Marion (formerly of Tennessee), and of Mary A.
Smith, of Buckingham Co., Va. Her maternal great-grand-
father was a Frenchman, and came to America with Gen.
Lafayette and his army during the Revolution.
Denison was graduated from Baylor University in '95, with the
degree of B.A. He entered our Class in the fall of Senior
year and joined the Yale Union and the Southern Club. He
took One Year Honors in Political Science and Law and a
Philosophical Oration at Commencement. Phi Beta Kappa.
He has not been married.
After one year in the banking business Denison went to
Colorado for a three months' outing, for his health.
"The next two years," he wrote in 1902, "I spent in
Washington City attending the Columbian Law School.
Graduated in Class of 1899, receiving the two degrees
of LL.B. and LL.M. Was admitted to the Bar of
Illinois by examination in October, 1899. Began prac-
tising in June, 1900, here at my old home (Marion,
Illinois). Formed a partnership with W. W. Duncan,
an old lawyer, and have been busy ever since. We now
represent professionally the two banks here and the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad."
"I have been giving my whole time to the practice of
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the law," he wrote this spring. "In 1902 my partner
was elected to the circuit bench, and since then I 've
been practising alone. My work consists entirely of
corporation practice— mostly personal injury cases— for
the coal companies and railroads. Have hardly had time
for a vacation. I 've been trying to arrange matters
so I could return to New Haven some June, but could
never succeed, on account of court being held just at
that time.
"While I Ve been practically interred here since I be-
gan my work, I nevertheless follow with deep interest
the careers of all our '96 boys, especially those like your-
self, with whom I was personally acquainted."
Denison saw Douglass and Griswold Smith in St.
Louis a few years ago. "I found Smith sitting at his
desk," he wrote, "with his feet upon the table, completely
enveloped with the smoke from his briar-root, and we
had quite a reminiscent chat about the different members
of '96."
J. H. de Sibour
Partner in Bruce Price & de Sibour, Architects, 1133 Broadway,
New York City.
Residence, Woodmere, Long Island, N. Y.
Jules [Gabriel] Henri de Sibour was born Dec. 23d, 1872, at
Paris, France. He is a son of Count Jean Antoine Gabriel de
Sibour and Mary Louise Johnson, who were married May 22d,
i860, at Boston, Mass., and had altogether four children, three
boys and one girl, two of whom lived to maturity.
Count Jean Antoine Gabriel de Sibour (b. Aug. 7th, 1821, at
Carpentras, France; d. April 6th, 1885, at Washington, D. C.)
was for twenty years in the diplomatic service of France in
America, living at Boston, Mass., Charleston, S. C, Richmond,
Va., and Washington. He was the son of Count Jean Bap-
tiste Joseph de Sibour, of Carpentras, and Pauline, Countess
de Sallmard, of Chateau de Montfort, Eyzin Pinet, Isere,
France.
Mary Louise (Johnson) de Sibour (b. Aug. 9th, 1840, at
Belfast, Me.) is the daughter of the Hon. Alfred Johnson, a
lawyer of Belfast, and Anna Atkinson, of Newburj^port, Mass.
Alfred Johnson was graduated from Bowdoin College, and
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established therein the Alfred Johnson Scholarship, still ex-
isting. His father, Alfred Johnson, St., was one of the first
graduates of Bowdoin.
de Sibour prepared for Yale at St. Paul's School, Concord. He
was Secretary and afterwards President of the Yale University
Boat Club, and ex-officio a member of the Yale Athletic Finan-
cial Union. He was on the Track Team in Sophomore year,
was a member of the Junior Promenade Committee, and in
Senior year of the Cap and Gown Committee. He received
a Second Dispute at the Junior Exhibition and the same at
Commencement. He Boule. Psi U. Bones.
He was married at Washington, D. C, Nov. 5th, 1898, to Miss
Margaret Clagett, daughter of the late William H., and of
Adelle Clagett of Washington, and has two children, both boys,
Henri Jacques de Sibour (b. Dec. 26th, 1899, at Washington),
and Jacques Blaise de Sibour (b. Dec. 26th, 1905, at Washing-
ton.
"After graduation," wrote de Sibour in 1902, "I entered
the office of Ernest Flagg, architect, and remained there
for two years. From there I went to the office of Bruce
Price, architect, and remained there for one year. After
this I went to Paris and studied in the Atelier Daumet &
Esquie of the Ecole des Beaux Arts. I remained in
Paris sixteen months and returned to New York and
again went into the office of Bruce Price and am now
associated with him in the practice of architecture."
In May, 1903, Mr. Price died in Paris. The Count
has since continued the business under the old firm name
of Bruce Price & de Sibour. **I only need one line— 'a
strenuous life/ " he replied to the decennial circular.
Later he added that he had been appointed consulting
architect for the new terminal building for Hudson
Companies, New York City (architects, Clinton & Rus-
sell)—and gave the following partial list of his firm's
work in recent years :—
In New York :— the Bank of the Metropolis, Redmond
& Company's Bank at 33 Pine Street, Royal Baking
Powder Building, The Miriam Osborn Home at Harri-
son, N. Y., and the Barker, Murray, Babcock, and Bene-
dict residences.
In Washington, D. C. :— the Freedmans Hospital, the
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Home Life Building, the Gaff residence, and an Apart-
ment for the United States Security & Trust Company.
He has plans under way for :— the Moore residence,
the W. S. Hibbs & Company Building, four houses for
the Potomac Realty Company, the Howard residence,
and the Marine Barracks at Norfolk.
Clarence De Witt
Partner in the Stock Exchange firm of Meadows, Williams & Co.,
38 Wall Street, New York City.
Residence, 152 West S7th Street.
Clarence De Witt was born Dec. 26th, 1873, in New York City.
He is a son of John Evert De Witt and Naomi Hawley, who
were married Oct. 4th, 1864, at Hartford, Conn., and had alto-
gether four children, two boys and two girls, two of whom died
before maturity.
John Evert De Witt (b. Aug. 4th, 1839, at Milford, Pa.;
d. Aug. 31st, 1893, at Chester, Mass.) spent the greater part of
his life in New York City, Portland, Me., and Boston, Mass.
He was at the time of his death President of the Union Mutual
Life Insurance Company. He was the son of Cornelius Wyn-
koop De Witt, a merchant of Milford, and Charity H. Van
Gasbeeck of Kingston, Ulster Co., N. Y. The family came
from Holland in or about the year 1650, and settled in New
York City.
Naomi (Hawley) De Witt (b. July ist, 1839, at Farmington,
Conn.), now (Oct., 1905) living at Hartford, is the daughter
of David Hawley of Farmington and Hartford, and of Adeline
Rich of Bristol, Conn.
De Witt prepared for Yale at St. Paul's School in Concord. He
was President of the Freshman Boat Club and Halfback on
the Freshman Eleven. He was substitute on the 'Varsity Foot-
ball Team in Freshman and Sophomore years, and played
Halfback with them in Senior year. Eta Phi. Psi U. Keys.
He was married Jan. 8th, 1906, at West Union, Iowa, to Miss
Eleanor Vaughn Kinsey, daughter of William Kinsey of West
Union and granddaughter of the late Bishop Vaughn, and niece
of the late Cardinal Vaughn of London.
After a preliminary experience in the lumber business
De Witt entered Wall Street as a clerk in the office of
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Post & Flagg. In May, 1900, he bought a seat on the
Stock Exchange and went into business for himself, with
headquarters in Post & Flagg's offices; and in March,
1903, he became the Stock Exchange member of the
brokerage firm of Meadows, Williams & Company (Har-
old G. Meadows and Gibson T. Williams), which was
formed on that date. "A simple broker and nothing
more," says his decennial letter.
Prior to his marriage De Witt traveled, more or less,
in this country and abroad. The Secretary is informed
that he has shown a marked fondness for riding and
driving, and has taken several coaching trips in England.
One of these trips is immortalized in the Benedictian
Ode, or Chant, which, in the stanzas devoted to De Witt,
entreats the reader to
Behold him scattering his smile
On counter-smiling country-sides —
A simple broker on his rides
Through a be-knighted isle.
&c., &c.
It is to be regretted that the remaining lines are of
too intimate a nature to be printed without the permis-
sion of the author.
S. O. Dickerman
Student at the University of Halle, in Germany.
Permanent mail address, care of 140 Cottage Street, New Haven, Conn.
Sherwood Owen Dickerman was born Nov. 23d, 1874, at Lew-
iston, Me. He is a son of George Sherwood Dickerman, '65,
Yale Theo. Sem. '68, D. D. Bates, '95, and Elizabeth Mansfield
Street, who were married Nov. 29th, 1870, at Lowell, Mass.,
and had altogether four children, two boys and two girls.
Elizabeth Street Dickerman, Smith '94, Ph.D. '96, and Amy-
Eliot Dickerman, Smith '00, are sisters.
George Sherwood Dickerman (b. June 5th, 1843, at Mt.
Carmel, Conn.) is a clergyman. He has filled pastorates at
Normal, 111., West Haven, Conn., Lewiston, Me., and Amherst,
Mass., has had charge of the Congregational Church at Strat-
ton, Vt., and has of late been engaged in educational a
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reformatory work at New Haven, Conn. His parents were
Ezra Dickerman, a farmer of Mt. Carmel, and Sarah Jones of
Wallingford, Conn. The family came from England to Dor-
chester, Mass., in 1635, and in 1638 settled at New Haven,
Conn.
Elizabeth Mansfield (Street) Dickerman (b. July 22d, f843,
at Jamestown, N. Y.) is the daughter of Owen Street, a clergy-
man of Lowell, Mass., and Eliza Mansfield Rutty of Clin-
ton, Conn. Her early life was spent at Jamestown, N. Y.,
Ansonia, Conn., and Lowell, Mass.
Dickerman prepared for College at Andover. He took a Berkeley
Premium of the First Grade in Freshman Year and a Second
Winthrop Prize in Junior Year, a Philosophical Oration at the
Junior Exhibition and at Commencement, and was graduated
fourth in the Class. He was a member of the Andover Club
and the Yale Union. Phi Beta Kappa.
He has not been married. •
Dickerman held the Soldiers' Memorial Fellowship for
three years, the first of which he spent in the Graduate
School and the other two at the American School of
Classical Studies in Athens, Greece. He was then ap-
pointed an Instructor in the Greek Department at Yale,
where he remained until the end of the college year
1902-03.
'The next two years," he writes, "were spent in study
at the University of Halle in Germany. During the sum-
mer of 1903 I was in England ; the next summer in Italy.
Last September I returned to Yale for the year to fill a
vacancy in the Greek Department. This summer I plan
to return to Germany to continue work there. . . . You
will complain likely enough that this is not 'a full ac-
count,' but what am I to do? Unless, indeed, you care
for the daily records of rushes and flunks of Yale Fresh-
men and the subjects of lectures delivered by German
professors. We both know that would not help any. So
don't call names as you did on a similar occasion four
years ago, for this constitutes in my case 'all the news
that 's fit to print'."
Dickerman was appealed to by Fred Robbins (at a
'96 dinner in New Haven in 1905) to tell him "who that
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fellow was that stood in the middle of a lot of grub and
could n't get hold of any of it/'— Fred's belief that it was
Sisyphus having been rudely questioned. Dickerman,
however, declined to suppose that even a Coop Superin-
tendent could be serious in putting such a query. His
bibliography will be found in the Bibliographical Notes.
John H. Douglass
Lawyer. 814 Rialto Building, St. Louis, Mo.
Residence and permanent address, 16 Vandeventer Place.
John Howard Douglass was born at St. Louis, Mo., May 6th,
1873. He is a son of John H. Douglass and Caroline Amelia
Durfee, who were married Sept. 15th,,' 1858, at Fort Madison,
Iowa, and had altogether- four children, three boys and one
girl, three of whom lived to maturity.
John H. Douglass (b. June 20th, 1836, at Fort Madison,
Iowa; d. July 20th, 1901, at St. Louis, Mo.) was a lumber
manufacturer and merchant. His parents were Joseph
Stephens Douglass, a manufacturer of farm implements of
Skaneateles, N. Y., and Almeda Anne Knapp of Elmira, N. Y.
His great grandfather, Jonathan Douglass, was a non-commis-
sioned officer in the Militia at the battle of Bennington, and
another great grandfather served in the War of 1812, and was
afterward made Brigadier General of the New York State
Militia. The family came from Scotland, in 1769, and settled
at Pittstown, N. Y.
Caroline Amelia (Durfee) Douglass (b. Jan. loth, 1838, at
Marion, Ohio; d. May 21st, 1892, at St. Louis, Mo.) was the
daughter of Joseph Durfee, a mechanical engineer of Marion,
and Margaret Moore of Philadelphia, Pa. (later of Marion).
Douglass prepared for Yale at the St. Louis High School. He
received a First Colloquy at the Junior Exhibition and a Sec-
ond Dispute at Commencement. He was a member of the Uni-
versity Club and A. D. Phi.
He was married April 26th, 1905, at St. Louis, Mo., to Miss
Bessee Finney, daughter of the late Rev. Thomas Monroe Fin-
ney, and of Lucinda (Edmanston) Finney of St. Louis.
The Law School in St. Louis gave Douglass his LL.B.
upon his completion of the two years' course in June,
1898. He has since then practised regularly in St. Louis,
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largely in connection with Clinton Rowell, now Rowell
& Ferriss. "Gris Smith was here Christmas time," he
wrote, "and gave a good report of you all, although I
fancy that he is in love and consequently does not see
as much of the old crowd as usual. Copy his example
and give the Class less of your time." The Secretary,
however, declined to take the hint, and John finally fur-
nished him with the following diary :—
''April, 1902. Business and pleasure called me West
and I helped Billy Drown get married— seeing small
droves of Yale men while in San Francisco.
''June, 1902. Returning home found press of accumu-
lated matter which prevented me from attending Sexen-
nial reunion of '96. Confined myself to legal and other
matters with occasional vacations till Jan., 1904.
"Jan., 1904. Went East via Syracuse and with Frank
Wade went to New York for 1904 class dinner. Then
on southern trip till April, 1904. World's Fair summer
saw a bunch of '96, and made ardent love. . . .
"April 26th, 1905. Married. On bridal trip West saw
Drown, Day and others.
"Nov., 1905. Went on with my wife to see football
games at New Haven and Boston.
"June, 1906. Hope to be in New Haven."
Before our St. Louis friends began to win the '96
Long Distance Cups the Secretary used to send them
some account of each of the New York dinners. In re-
sponse to one of these Gris Smith wrote:— "You are a
Bird and I want to buy a ticket on you. Don't mention
it to anyone, but John Douglass and I had a celebration
on our own account the night of the Dinner and we had
concocted a witty and voluminous telegram to send you.
Alas, John found it in the fining of his hat the next morn-
ing." It is proper to add that when the Secretary next
found himself at the Planters' Hotel and spoke to John
of this, he was informed (i) that no "celebration" had
occurred at all, and that no telegram whatever had been
prepared, and (2) that it had been found in the lining of
Griswold's hat, not John's.
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W. N. Drown
Partner in the law firm of Drown, Leicester & Drown,
75 Sutter Street, San Francisco, Cal.
Residence, 2822 Clay Street.
WiLLARD Newell Drown was born Dec. 17th, 1874, at San Fran-
cisco, Cal. He is a son of Albert Newell Drown, M. A. Brown
*6i, and Virginia Cullen, who were married May loth, 1871,
at Richmond, Va., and had three other children, one boy and
two girls.
Albert Newell Drown (b. Dec. 9th, 1839, at Warren, R. I.)
lived in Rhode Island until the age of twenty-one, when he
moved to San Francisco where he has since resided, engaged
as an attorney at law. He is the son of Nathaniel Drown,
a merchant, and Mary Newell Burr, both of Warren, R. I.
The family came from the west of England during the early
part of the reign of Charles II., and settled at or near Ports-
mouth, N. H.
Virgina (Cullen) Drown (b. Sept. 17th, 1841, at Richmond,
Va.) is the daughter of Simon Cullen, a capitalist, and Eliza
Trent Rock, both of Richmond.
Drown prepared for Yale in San Francisco. He received a Sec-
ond Colloquy at the Junior Exhibition and a First Colloquy at
Commencement. A. D. Phi.
He was married April 9th, 1902, at Grace Church, San Fran-
cisco, Cal., to Miss Edith Josephine Preston, daughter of Col.
Edgar F. Preston, and has two children, Josephine Drown
(b. March i6th, 1903, at San Francisco) and Willard Newell
Drown, Jr. (b. May 26th, 1904, at San Francisco).
Upon his graduation from the Yale Law School (LL.B.)
in 1898, Drown returned to San Francisco to practise,
and in 1900 he entered the law partnership of Drown,
Leicester & Drown, consisting of his father, Mr. J. F.
Leicester, and himself. A fuller account of his life prior
to 1902 will be found in the Sexennial Record.
Last winter he appeared suddenly in New York,— hav-
ing journeyed East, he said, to meet his wife upon her
return from Europe. Mrs. Drown sailed for America
three weeks behind schedule, however, and during all that
time, except for a few days at his ancestral home in
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Rhode Island, Drown was in the hands of his friends.
Brown's friends are getting old and sluggish. They did
their best for him, and they aged still further in the pro-
cess, but he found things dull enough in spite of all.
These Calif ornians are exceptionally vigorous persons.
Drown's decennial letter follows, written three weeks
after the famous earthquake :—
"Had intended writing you and Ibsen before, but have been so
busy doing nothing and trying to get together that there has
scarcely been time even to dictate a line. To go back to the
morning of April i8th— there was something doing in earth-
quakes— as no doubt you have heard. It did n't seem possible
that my house was going to stand up— and I thought it was all
over. As with a drowning man, all my misdeeds passed quickly
before me — such as leading Chub Morris astray— inflicting myself
on you and John in New York — rape— homicide, &c.
"My house was n't damaged at all— with the exception of the
top of a chimney falling— and although all the pictures, orna-
xnents and furniture moved around and up and down, the damage
was but nominal. The big shake occurred at 5:13 a.m., and I
did n't take to the street, as many did, until 8:30, when quite a
severe little shock was felt. Smoke could be seen arising down
town but at that time no one thought that most of the city was
going to burn. Mrs. D. and the children left for Redwood City
with Mrs. Preston in an automobile and have been there ever
since — a very fortunate thing, as there has been no gas or elec-
tricity here, very little water, and only the bread line for food
until, within a day or so, some retail shops opened. The wildest
rumors immediately spread over town. I heard that my office
and the Occidental Hotel across the street from it had both
burned, but when I arrived there, office and building were O.K.,
and the fire had been apparently stopped at Sansome Street —
(one block below Montgomery). I stayed there until 3 p.m., and
thinking there was no further danger did n't remove a solitary
thing, but left for Redwood. Office burned at i a.m., Thursday
morning. My partner Leicester saved 400 of the books and two
typewriters (the machines) but did n't take a single paper, hav-
ing no idea that the fire would reach the City Hall. When I
tramped into town next morning (all trains and all street car
lines had stopped) City Hall and every other building was gone,
or going, all the way to Van Ness Avenue. The fire only crossed
Van Ness in one place, so as to totally destroy my sister's new
house on Franklin Street. I suppose you have seen maps of the
burned district so will enter into no further details. The things
we lost in our offices were of incalculable value — maps, books,
real estate reports, which were the result of forty years collecting
by my father, and worst of all all of our papers in about fifteen
estates and twenty suits. The originals of all the latter were
destroyed by the burning of the County Clerk's office, so all
litigation and all estates are at a stand-still. We have opened
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offices at i860 Webster Street and hope to have lots to do during
the next year. (But probably no one will have any money to
pay for the work.) Everyone seems quite cheerful and we all
think that a year or so will fix everything all right. - -
"Our Irish maid rushed in after the earthquake crying, *0h,
Misther Drown, how did it get back?' 'How did what get back?'
said I. 'The house/ says she ; 'it fell down once and turned over
once — how did it get back?' It was n't so damned funny, though.
"Give my love to all the boys and tell them I may get on for
my centennial."
Edward L. Durfee
Instructor in History in Yale College.
Residence, 95 College Street, New Haven, Conn.
Edward Lewis Durfee was born January 26th, 1875, at Palmyra,
N. Y. He is a son of Oliver Durfee and Arloa Lovilla Whipple,
who were married June ist. 1873, at Palmyra, and who had
one other son, who died before maturity.
Oliver Durfee (b. May 4th, 1852, at Marion, N. Y.) has spent
the greater part of his life at Palmyra, Lyons, N. Y., and New
York City, engaged as a bank cashier, manager of a manu-
facturing concern, Town Clerk, Treasurer, and Mayor. His
parents were Pardon Durfee, a bank cashier, of Lyons, N. Y.,
and Annie Maria Durfee, of Marion, N. Y. The family came
to America from France, via England, c. 1652, and settled at
Taunton and Fall River, Mass.
Arloa Lovilla (Whipple) Durfee (b. May 7th, 1852, at
Palmyra ; d. Sept., 1884, at Palmyra) was the daughter of Wil-
liam Henry Whipple, a railroad man, and Susan McOniber,
both of Palmyra.
Durfee prepared for College at the Palmyra Classical Union
School. He received a Philosophical Oration at the Junior
Exhibition and at Commencement, and Two Year Honors in
History. Phi Beta Kappa. Beta Theta Pi.
He was married Sept. i6th, 1903, at New Haven, Conn., to Miss
Alice Payson Judd, daughter of Edward Payson Judd of New
Haven.
Durfee wrote in 1902, as follows :— "After graduation,
pursued graduate studies in history at Yale for two and
a half years on the Eldredge Fellowship, September,
1896 to January, 1899. Was also Assistant in English
and Mediaeval History in 1898-99. Compelled to resign
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on account of illness. Spent year in business in New-
York in the office of a manufacturing concern, June, 1899
to June, 1900. Taught in the Hillhouse High School,
New Haven, and in the New Britain High School, Sep-
tember, 1900 to June, 1 90 1. Resumed graduate work at
Yale in connection with teaching in the City Schools of
New Haven, September, 1901 to June, 1902."
"During the school year 1902-03," he added this
spring, "I was Instructor in History in the Newton High
School, Newton, Mass. In the fall of 1903 I took up
my work as Instructor in History in Yale College, and
have been pleasantly employed in that occupation ever
since.
"I was married to Miss Alice Payson Judd, of New
Haven, in September, 1903, beating out my roommate,
George Buck, by about three weeks, and in consequence
compelled him to visit us on his wedding trip.
"Visits from Conklin, Jimmie Frank, Henry Robert,
all too short, have helped to hasten the flight of time,
while the big bunch of fellows here in New Haven see
each other pretty often."
In sending his regrets to the last New York dinner
"Tubby" observed, "I am sorry, but lack of money, lack
of time, and inability to squeeze into a dress-suit which
is thirty pounds too small for me, will keep me away."
This suit is now sixty-seven pounds too small, and stran-
gers to whom it is reverently shown refuse to believe
that he ever really was inside of it.
On another page will be found an account of his work
as Pitcher for the Faculty Baseball Team. We close
with a quotation from one of the New London papers of
June 2 1st, 1905 : — "The metropolitan press this morning
improperly treated facetiously the fall overboard of Dr.
E. L. Durfee, the Yale faculty member who has been
here supervising examinations for the oarsmen. He
started to go aboard the Yale launch last night, took a
misstep and went over the side head first. John Kennedy
and George St. John Sheffield called for help, and Coach
Stuyvesant Fish, Jr., of the freshmen, responded with a
b
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boat hook. Fish has been a fire fighter here. ... As Dr.
Durfee weighs more than 220 pounds the job of seeing
him safely over the deck rail was no slender one. His
accident cost him a valuable pair of eye-glasses, which
are at the bottom of the river."
J. Frederick Eagle
Partner in the law firm of Harmon & Mathewson, 40 Wall Street,
New York City. Residence, 113 East 38th Street.
John Frederick Eagle was born May 12th, 1872, at New York
City. He is a son of William Eagle and Mary J. Horner, who
were married in Ireland, in 1853, and had altogether seven
children, three boys and four girls, four of whom lived to
maturity.
William Eagle (b. June nth, 1818, at Monaghan, Ireland;
d. March 17th, 1886, at Brooklyn, N. Y.) spent most of his life
in New York City, engaged as a manufacturer. He was the
son of John Eagle, gentleman, of Monaghan.
Mary J. (Horner) Eagle (b. July ist, 1833, at Armagh, Ire-
land; d. July 3d, 1883, at Brooklyn, N. Y.) was the daughter
of David Horner, gentleman, and Anne Moellen, both of Ar-
magh.
Eagle prepared for College at Andover. At Yale he sang Second
Bass first on the Second Glee Club and afterwards on the Uni-
versity Glee Club. He was a member of the University Club
and of Kappa Psi, D. K. E., and Wolf's Head.
He has not been married.
Upon his graduation from the New York Law School
with the degree of LL.B. in 1898, Eagle commenced a
connection with the firm of Harmon & Mathewson,
which upon October ist, 1903, ripened into a partner-
ship. His associates are Benjamin S. Harmon, Charles
F. Mathewson, and Edward J. Patterson. Outside of
business hours he has been active in Yale Club aflfairs,
having served as a member of the House Committee,
member of the Council (1901-4 and 1904-7), and finally
(1903-05) as Secretary. In answer to the request for
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an account of his career he writes, "I have been prac-
tising law. (I was about to say 'law' merely, but as you
wish more extended observations I have increased the
length of the answer)."
A state of almost Lethean divorce from his not unin-
teresting past, coupled with a cautious habit which makes
him instinctively frugal in his allusions to the present,
has prevented Eagle at this time from exhilarating his
expectant friends with a more adequate autobiographical
survey. The Secretary is sorry. He has told Eagle so
repeatedly,— even urgently,— and he has told Eagle's
friends, but without other result than the securing of
two additional items: (A), He is a member of the
Committee on Arrangements for the Yale Glee Club's
New York Concerts, and (B), on March 5th, 1906, he
was one of the judges in the Joint Debate in Williams-
town between Williams and Dartmouth. We hope that
this latter evidence of authority will fall under the obser-
vation of some who were spectators of that first im-
portant public appearance of our classmate, years ago, —
when, modestly disguised as Mr. Engle, he electrified the
New Haven Bar and proved his aptitude for skilful
manipulation of the scales of Justice.
Professor J. G. Eldridge
Dean of the University Faculty, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho.
Residence, 822 Elm Street, Moscow.
Jay Glover Eldridge was born at Janesville, Wis., Nov. 8th,
1875. He is a son of William Glover Eldridge and Augusta
Maria Van Wormer (name by adoption Ward), who were
married Oct. 4th, 1866, at Delavan, Wis., and had two other
children, one son (who died before maturity) and one daughter.
William Glover Eldridge (b. Feb. 27th, 1842, at Salem, Wash-
ington Co., N. Y.) has been a contractor and builder, a Deputy
Sheriff and U. S. Deputy Marshal (in Colorado in pioneer
days), a captain on Gen. C. C. Howell's staff in Colorado, and
is now engaged in the fire insurance business. His life has
been spent at Salem and Marion, N. Y., Janesville, Wis., Oak-
330 BIOGRAPHIES
land, Cal., Buena Vista, Colo., and Penfield, N. Y. He and
Mrs. Eldridge are now (Dec, '05) living at Batavia, N. Y.
He enlisterd in Co. A. iiith N. Y. Vol. Regt., in 1861. His
parents were Elijah Eldredge (whose father, William Case
Eldredge, served with Washington in the Revolutionary War
for five years), a farmer of Salem, N. Y., and Olive Ex-
perience Short of Easton, N. Y. When the family came from
England, c. 1635, and settled at Stonington and Yarmouth, the
name was Eldred.
Augusta Maria (Van Wormer) Eldridge (b. May ist, 1844,
at Leroy, Genesee Co., N. Y.) spent her early life at Delavan,
Wis. She was a student of Madison University, now the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin. Her parents were the Rev. Aaron Van
Wormer (of Dutch descent) a clergyman of Rolla, Mo., and
later a circuit judge; and Mary Wallace (of Scotch descent)
of Hudson and Pembroke, N. Y, Her father and maternal
grandfather were graduated from Dartmouth.
Eldridge spent most of his early life in Penfield, N. Y., but be-
fore settling there lived in several places in Kansas and Mis-
souri. He prepared for College at the Fairport (N. Y.) Class-
ical Union School. At Yale he received a High Oration at
Junior Exhibition and a Philosophical Oration at Commence-
ment and One Year Honors in Modern Languages. Phi Beta
Kappa.
He was married at New Haven, Conn., Sept. 20th, 1900, to Miss
Mary Evelyn Walker, daughter of Dr. E. G. Walker and Martha
(Pittman) Walker of New Haven, and has two children, both
sons, Robert Walker Eldridge (b. Jan. 24th, 1903, at Moscow,
Idaho) and Francis Glover Eldridge (b. Dec. 4th, 1905, at
Moscow).
Eldridge remained at Yale for five years after our grad-
uation, one as a plain P.G., two teaching Freshman Ger-
man in Sheif , and two as an Instructor in German in Aca-
demic. He received an M.A. in 1899, spent the summer
of 1900 in Germany, and in 1901 was called to the Chair
of Modern Languages in the University of Idaho, where
he has been giving courses in German, French, and
Spanish. He received his Ph.D. from Yale at our Decen-
nial in return for a thesis on ''Studies in the Infinitive
after Modal Auxiliaries in the Middle High German
Epic." His decennial letter follows :—
"When I try to think back over what I have done since
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1902 it seems pretty hum-drum, though I swear I have
kept mighty busy. You know these Western chairs of
learning are apt to have settee attachments. Teaching
twenty hours a week, and administrative work besides,
keeps one going. Of course I don't really have to teach
all this (one of the finest things out here is the perfect
departmental freedom), but when you know a thing
needs to be done and that there is no one else to do it,
why, it is hard not to step in.
''Seeing that you ask so explicitly, I suppose I might
tell what I do as Dean, though it seems devoid of human
interest. In September, 1902, I was amazed at being
appointed Chairman of the Committee on Admissions
and Courses (later divided), and this led to my appoint-
ment, in 1903, as the first Dean. To be exact, the title
is 'Dean of the University Faculty', rather than any of
the separate colleges, so that my duties are in part gen-
eral, such as presiding at Faculty Meetings and Univer-
sity Meetings in the absence of the President and
performing some of his routine work. While the func-
tions of the office do not, like 'Baldy' Wright's, include dis-
cipline or attendance, I do not feel the loss, as I do have
charge of all grades and recording, the issuance of time-
tables of recitations, examination schedules, warnings,
condition notifications, and the annual catalogue (which,
by the way, will be gladly sent to any inquiring Easterner
who wishes to know what we are like). Further, it falls
to my lot to be general kick-receiver and advice-dispenser
for faculty and students.
"You ask about vacations and travels. Moscow is
situated only a mile from the Washington boundary, in
the wheat region, on the western edge of the great white
pine timber belt which runs back into the Bitter Roots,
where the Weyerhaeusers have such large holdings.
Possibly 'Dutch' has even been in Moscow, but I have
never run across him. If this should meet his eye here 's
an invitation to call. Well, this nearby forest offers great
opportunity for sport, being filled with game. One sum-
mer three faculty families of us had a fine camping trip
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into these white pines near Elk Creek Falls, a glorious
succession of cascades, one perhaps of fifty or seventy-
five feet. The trout, while not remarkably large, are
numerous, and the woods primeval and grand. Next
summer I hope to pass there again. I write this to offset
the impression that Idaho is a treeless desert (so Billy
Hess informed me), as the sagebrush on the Union Pa-
cific might lead some of the traveled members of the
Class to infer. That is in the southern part. With us
irrigation is not necessary.
"In 1903, though an ofif-year for reunions, we took the
trip to New Haven, going via Salt Lake, the Royal
Gorge, and Denver. In the summer of 1904 we put
in several weeks over in Seattle, the center of the very
interesting Puget Sound region. While there I took in
a fervid Yale-Harvard baseball game and dinner, in
which Yale won out by a sensational finish— at least the
game, I am not so sure about the dinner finish.
"Last summer my only outing was going as Prexy's
proxy down to Boulder, Colorado, where the University
of Colorado conferred the degree of LL.D. on our Presi-
dent MacLean, who could not attend in person, as our
Commencement fell on precisely the same day. I was
treated as royally as if I had been the real thing, and en-
joyed the experience. A Yale man (Dudley, ^yy, of
Denver) made the best speech at the Alumni Dinner,
though another regent, a big old Harvard crew man,
was a good second. I can boast, you see, of being the
first '96 man to receive an LL.D., though I had to re-
linquish it on my arrival home. The rest of the sum-
mer I ground Middle High German syntax, as indeed I
have for several years.
"This year was about like all the years, until we
had our big fire destroying our Administration Build-
ing, which contained some forty-six recitation rooms
and offices— big, that is, until the San Francisco fire
shortly after put our little loss in the shade. As we lost
all our University library we are looking for a Croesus
to give us a building and books. I was glad to be able
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to procure a ladder and throw my office files and desk
drawers out of the window and so to save all my Dean's
office records intact.
"Now, of course, all my thoughts are bent towards
New Haven and Decennial. I wonder if we shall all
look as ancient as the ten year grads. did to me in '96. I
am also wondering what the Committee can do to shock
the people after last year's 'kilties.' I should be loath to
show to my admiring students a photo containing myself
in any worse rig.
"Later — got an additional assistant in my department,
a 'raise', and notification of my Ph.D. from Yale, all
within three days. My wife says my thesis is poor sum-
mer reading."
Professor Hollon A. Farr
Assistant Professor of German, in Yale College and Chairman of
the Freshman Faculty, 351 White Hall, New Haven, Conn.
Usual summer address, 175 School Street, Athol, Mass.
Hollon Augustine Farr was born at Athol, Mass., Sept. 2d,
1872. He is a son of Hollon Farr and Mary Wheeler, who
were married Oct. 17th, 1849, at Athol, and had altogether
nine children, four boys and five girls, four of whom lived
to maturity. Charles Everett Farr, A.B. '98, M.D. '03, is a
brother.
Hollon Farr (b. Feb. 13th, 1819, at Athol, Mass.; d. Sept.
23d, 1901, at Athol) in early life was a manufacturer of shoe
pegs, wooden pails and tubs, afterwards a master stone mason,
and from 1885 until his death dealt in real estate. His parents
were Amariah Farr, a stone mason of Chesterfield, N. H., and
Athol, and Clarissa Farnsworth of Westmoreland, N. H.
The ancestors of the family were English settlers at Lynn,
Mass.
Mary (Wheeler) Farr (b. May 21st, 1832, at Athol, Mass.)
is the daughter of Jonathan Wheeler, a manufacturer of
wooden pails, tubs, etc., of Athol, and Hannah Davis of Royal-
ston, Mass. She is now (Oct., '05) living in her native town.
Farr prepared at Andover. In Junior year he received the Scott
German Prize. He received Two Year Honors in Ancient
Languages, a Philosophical Oration at the Junior Exhibition
and at Commencement. Phi Beta Kappa. Zeta Psi.
He has not been married.
334 BIOGRAPHIES
In 1896 Farr went to Germany on a Fellowship from
Yale. He studied at Jena, Heidelberg and Berlin,
traveled in Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Bel-
gium, Holland, and England, and in 1898 returned to
New Haven as a Tutor in German. He has continued
his work in that department, as Instructor and as As-
sistant Professor; and in addition has been concerned
with administrative duties, with the result that in June,
1906, he was appointed Chairman of the Freshman
Faculty. His letter follows : —
"It is difficult to give a full account of my life for the
past four years. Nothing out of the ordinary has hap-
pened, and I have devoted my attention solely to getting
fat and contented. In 1902 I received the degree of
M.A. from Yale, and in 1904 that of Ph.D. I worked up
some old puppet play manuscripts, which were brought
to this country from Berlin with the library of Professor
Wilhelm Scherer. In 1905 I was appointed Assistant
Professor of German at Yale, and am now dividing my
time between teaching and committee work. Have been
Campus Proctor for seven years, and am death on piano-
playing, ball-playing, bottle-nights, etc., etc. I have also
had the pleasant duty of conducting crew exams, at Gales
Ferry for the past six years. Usually one has a very
pleasant time there, and the Daly incident, which brought
such unpleasant notoriety, was the exception which
proves the rule. The newspaper prominence brought
several rather funny letters, one of which I found es-
pecially good:—
"'Prof. H. A. Farr:
" 'Dear Sir : — As I do not know the Pres. name of Yale Uni-
versity, and have seen your name in the "Evening World" as one
of the members of the faculty, I will write you a brief letter
asking for information concerning the school. Since graduating
from the of I have had a great desire to
study medicine and would like to take the course there if possi-
ble. I hope to hear from you or the President soon.'
"I enjoyed similar newspaper notoriety again in the
summer of 1905, when three of us swam across the New
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Haven harbor from Savin Rock to Morris Cove. We
thought we had 'fixed' the papers, but the next morn-
ing the cat was out of the bag, in large type 'Yale
Professor Swims the Harbor/ One member of the
Faculty reported that it was the only interesting bit of
American news he read in the Paris 'Herald' all that
summer.
"In general, however, my movements have been very
quiet. I took a trip to Germany again in 1903, and spent
the entire summer in a leisurely way, looking up
familiar scenes and visiting some new places. The sum-
mer of 1905 I spent in the Summer School at Yale. It
was so awfully hot that I am not inclined to do it again
for fear I should do something more foolish than to swim
across the harbor— perhaps I should tackle the Sound."
William P. Field
Assistant Secretary of the Carnegie Technical Schools, Pittsburg, Pa.
Residence, Neville Apartments.
William Perez Field was born at Geneva, N. Y., March 22d,
1873. He is the only son of Perez Hastings Field and Clara
Ann Eddy, who were married Dec. 23d, 1869, at Albany, N. Y.,
and had one other child, a daughter.
Perez Hastings Field (b. at Geneva, N. Y., in August, 1820;
d. by accident in Long Island Sound, Aug. 31st, 1872) spent
the greater part of his life in Geneva, engaged as a grain
merchant. He was a member of the Assembly for two years,
and held various other offices in the village. His parents were
David Field, a dry goods merchant, and Electa Hastings, both
of Geneva. The family came from England in the eighteenth
century, and settled at Deerfield, Mass.
Clara Ann (Eddy) Field (b. May 1st, 1834, at Albany, N. Y.)
is the daughter of John Randolph Eddy, a farmer of Orwell,
Ohio, and Alice Ann Moshier of Rockaway, N. Y. She is now
(Oct., '05) living at Hector, N. Y.
Field prepared for Yale at St. Austin's, Staten Island, N. Y., and
at the Hill School, and entered with the Class. He was a
member of the University Club.
He has not been married.
336 BIOGRAPHIES
After traveling for three months for the nursery firm
of R. G. Chase & Company of Geneva, on January ist,
1897, Field entered the employ of the New York Cen-
tral Railroad, at first in the Passenger Department and
later in the Cashier's Department. In 1900, following
Top' Loughran's speech at the New York dinner, Field
fell ill and took an extended trip through the West. He
spent the summer of 1901 in Canada and part of the fol-
lowing winter in the South.
"I continued in the service of the New York Central &
Hudson River Railroad Finance Department until Jan-
uary 1st, 1904," says his decennial letter. "I then came
to Pittsburg as Private Secretary to Mr. Hamerschlag,
who had recently been appointed Director of the Carne-
gie Technical Schools, which Mr. Carnegie had given
the funds to establish in the fall of 1900. My duties
have been clerical in character and as I have experienced
nothing startling to write about, will conclude with these
few lines about the establishment of this institution,
which may be of interest.
''During the year 1904 a down-town office was main-
tained. In the early spring, a group of men versed in
scientific subjects was engaged to deliver a course of
lectures in and about Pittsburg, to ascertain the public
sentiment toward technical education. At the same time,
an architectural program had been drawn up, giving floor
areas of the different departments, which made it pos-
sible to institute a competition for the selection of an
architect. The prize was awarded to Palmer & Horn-
bostel of New York City, who at once began the prepa-
ration of working drawings. In the meantime the
Director's time was taken up with outlining the curricu-
lum, the selection of men to form the nucleus of a Fac-
ulty and the purchase of equipment.
"Working drawings were received early in 1905, the
contract was let April ist, and on April 3d ground was
broken for the first buildings, which were ready for
occupancy early in September. The four separate schools
of the institution were established during the last year.
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on the following dates : School of Applied Science, Day
Courses, October i6th; School of Applied Science,
Night Courses, November 20th; School of Apprentices
and Journeymen, January 29th; Margaret Morrison
Carnegie School for Women, March 5th.
"The total first year enrollment amounted to 759. At
present about one-tenth part of the building scheme is
completed, which will eventually contain thirty-two acres
of land given by the City of Pittsburg."
* Charles Louis Fincke, M.D.
Died in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 19th, 1906.
Charles Louis Fincke was born March 29th, 1873, at Brooklyn,
N. Y. He was a son of Col. Charles Louis Fincke and Clara
Hutchinson, who were married Dec. ist, 1868, at Brooklyn,
N. Y., and had three other children, one boy (Clarence Mann
Fincke, '97) and two girls.
Charles Louis Fincke the elder (b. June i6th, 1844, at Little
Falls, Herkimer Co., N. Y. ; d. Nov. nth, 1890, at Asheville,
N. C) was a resident of Brooklyn and by occupation a broker.
• He was Colonel of the 23d Regt. N. Y. N. G. His parents
were Charles Fincke, a banker of Brooklyn, and Anna Nancy
Mann of Herkimer Co. The family came from Mannheim,
Germany, in 1700, and settled in the Mohawk Valley, New
York State.
Clara (Hutchinson) Fincke (b. Dec. 22d, 1844, at New York
City) is the daughter of Samuel Hutchinson, a merchant of
Brooklyn, and Elizabeth Jaycocks of Hyde Park, Dutchess
Co., N. Y. She is now (Oct., '05) living in Brooklyn.
Fincke prepared at the Hill School, and while at College served
as Treasurer of the Hill School Club in Junior year. He
played on the Class Base Ball Team, and received an Oration
at the Junior Exhibition and at Commencement. D. K. E.
He was married at Brooklyn, N. Y., April 25th, 1901, to Miss
Mattie L Brown, daughter of Joseph E. Brown, and had two
children, Charles Louis Fincke, Jr. (b. March 5th, 1902, at
Brooklyn) and Margaret Epes Fincke (b. April 12th, 1904, at
Brooklyn).
Fincke died at his home in Brooklyn, N. Y., on March
19th, 1906. His illness lasted only two weeks. The
338 BIOGRAPHIES
cause was blood-poisoning which developed from a
wound received in the performance of his professional
duties.
At the '96 Decennial Meeting in A-2 Osborn, John
Hollister read a paper about Louis, which was after-
wards published in full in the "Alumni Weekly" (XV.
39. p. 898), and from which the following extracts are
here reprinted:—
He attended for three years the Long Island College Hospital
of Brooklyn and graduated in '99 as Valedictorian of his Class.
After graduation he won in a competitive examination the first
place as interne at the Brooklyn Hospital. His record there was
such that the hospital staff appointed him clinical assistant and a
little later associate visiting physician, opportunities which come
to few, as so many excellent men are anxious to obtain them.
Louis also was appointed on the teachers' staff of the Long Island
College Hospital and there it was that the younger students
found out how simple and exact he was in his knowledge and how
clear cut in his teaching. He was also assistant pathologist at the
Long Island College Hospital and at Hoagland Laboratory. Further
he was connected with the dispensary of the Polhemus Memorial
Clinic, teaching here especially general medicine. He was a
member of the Brooklyn Medical Society, and served as Secretary
of the Brooklyn Pathological Society. He wrote a book upon
the principles of medicine, used as a text-book in the college and
highly valued by the students, the greatest test of the worth of
such a work.
All of this Louis did, not hoped to do or thought that some
day possibly he would do, but did, and within four years after
leaving the hospital. He sought no position of honor or oppor-
tunity by outside influence; all were given him because those in
authority wanted Louis.
Last March, Louis had one day some autopsy work to do and
infected a slight abrasion on one of his hands. Blood, poisoning
followed and after sixteen days' of struggle and patient suffering,
in spite of the best care, he died from a final pneumonia. In
spite of all he had to live for and of wanting to live so much,
when he finally was told he could not live, he said, "It is all right.
It is His way."
On account of the many requests coming in from all sides, the
funeral instead of being held at the home, was held at one of
the large churches in Brooklyn and the church was filled to the
doors.
The following was one of the many notices that appeared in
the leading Brooklyn papers : "He had done much original inves-
tigation and his opinion was valued by those much older in the
profession because of the care with which he investigated a
subject submitted to him for opinion. Dr. Fincke was equipped
by temperament, by education, by his admirable character to be-
come an ornament to his profession. Few men of his years have
Fincke
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accomplished so much and he gave promise of rapidly becoming
a leader in his special line of work. His death not only is a loss
to his profession, but to the community on account of his excep-
tional qualifications."
Then came a flood of letters from not only the poor, ignorant
charity patients whom Louis loved so well to serve, but from the
men who stand highest in Brooklyn. [A number of these were
printed in the "Alumni Weekly." The following is one that came
just before his death.]
'T wish you could hear, for it would make you proud and glad,
the heartiness and vigor of the expressions of regard for Fincke's
character and admiration for his work which break out these
days whenever doctors meet. Once or twice he has expressed
some discouragement to me — temporarily handicappd as he is by
his appearance of youth and by modesty. One wishes he could
know what is thought of him and how certain is success and
promotion, provided he cares for his health, to a man of whom
the profession of Brooklyn stands in need and will stand in great
need, just this scholar and scientist, this internist and general
practitioner, this gentleman and Christian."
And after all this is said, we know no one could be more sur-
prised at its being said than Louis himself. "I am afraid I am
going to make a failure," he used to say. He did not know that
he had done so well.
H. J. Fisher
Residence address, 9 West 56th Street, New York City.
After August ist, 1906, General Manager of the Crowell Publishing
Company. (See Appendix.)
Henry Johnson Fisher was born Oct. 30th, 1873, at Marion,
Ohio. He is the only son of William Bennett Fisher and
Katherine Everett Johnson, who were married Oct. 25th, 1871,
at Marion, and had one other child, a daughter.
William Bennett Fisher (b. Dec. 27th, 1845, at Marion, Ohio)
served in the Civil War as a member of the 136th O. V. I.
His life has been spent in Marion, on a ranch in Kansas, in
California, New York City and France. He has been engaged
as a ranchman, manufacturer of carriages, and real estate
operator. His parents were Timothy Bruen Fisher, a physician
of Columbus, Ohio, and Elenora Permelia Bennett of Dela-
ware, Ohio. The family came from Germany in 1695, and
settled near Newark, N. J.
Katherine Everett (Johnson) Fisher (b. April I4tli, 1849, at
Marion, Ohio) spent her early life at Marion, and at Pitts-
field, Mass. Her parents were Richard Henry Johnson, a
merchant and banker of Richmond, Va., New York City,
340 BIOGRAPHIES
Mobile, Ala., and Marion, Ohio; and Sara Haskins Reed of
Deerfield, Mass., New York City, and Marion, Ohio. Mr. and
Mrs. Fisher are now (Oct., '05) living at New York City.
Fisher prepared at Andover, and while at Yale served as Secre-
tary and afterwards as President of the Andover Club. He
made the Record in January of Junior year, and was one of
the five Class Historians and a member of the Senior Prome-
nade Committee. He was also an Editor of the Pot-pourri.
A First Colloquy at the Junior Exhibition and at Commence-
ment. He Boule. Psi U. Keys.
He was married Feb. 27th, 1906, at the Fifth Avenue Presby-
terian Church, New York City, to Miss Alice Gifford Agnew,
daughter of Andrew Gifford and Mary Hervey Agnew of New
York City.
In the matter of circulars Fisher holds that it is more
blessed to send than to receive. There is a business-like
one-sidedness to his attitude, too, for whereas he expects
the Class Secretary to stand and deliver at his lightest
word, he has no idea of responding with equal servility
to the secretarial requests. He says that the Secretary
knows all about him without asking. He says, further-
more, that his personality, which is notoriously in-
separable from his written word, is obtruded so regu-
larly upon each member of the Class already (annually
if you subscribe to the Alumni Fund and three times a
year if you don't), that he shrinks from the further pub-
licity involved in contributing an autobiography to this
volume. Fisher is not very good at shrinking.
He left New York the Saturday after graduation on
the Umbria. "Wheeled with Foote, Ford, Pardee, and
Cheney through England. Later, on the Continent for
a month. Went to work September 21st, 1896, with
Hartley and Graham, 313 Broadway, New York, Arms
and Ammunition— $6 per. Remained there until Feb-
ruary, 1899, with exception of three months during
Spanish unpleasantness." (Enlisted July 27th, 1898, in
Troop A, New York Volunteer Cavalry. Arrived at
Ponce, Porto Rico, on transport Massachusetts, August
3d. Was attached to the headquarters of the army.
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Acted as escort to General Miles with Troop B, Second
United States Cavalry. Detailed as Orderly to Surgeon-
Major Daly to conduct hospital supplies across the moun-
tains to the west coast to General Schwan's headquarters.
Sailed from Ponce on the transport Mississippi^ Sep-
tember 3d, arriving in New York September 8th.
Mustered out November 28th).
In February, 1899, Fisher obtained a position with
the Frank A. Munsey Company, publishers of "Munsey's
Magazine," and several other periodicals. He became
a director and later the Vice-President of this concern,
with which he remained until this summer. (See Ap-
pendix.) His duties were always of an exacting, and
sometimes of an exciting nature, for at Munsey's every-
thing is marked "Rush." A sample : "Dear Clarence : —
Up against it for fair getting things New-Yorkized on
The Boston Journal' (sleepy fellow). Return to New
York uncertain. You will have to take charge of the
notices. I give you full authority— where I got it I for-
get." A month later: "I am feeling like a Fourteenth
Street remnant sale and expect to hie myself to Dunn
McKee at Saranac tonight for a three days' rest." That
was the usual course. Whenever they needed somebody
to do four men's work and do it quick, they sent Fisher,
because he was willing to come nearer killing himself
before he dropped than anybody else. He had some
close shaves.
He was married this year, however. George Hollister
was his best man ; Thorne and Neale and Redmond Cross
were ushers. He is still a member of Squadron A, and
in 1903 he broke his own collarbone and his horse's neck
in Central Park.
Carroll H. Fitzhugh
602 German National Bank Building, Pittsburg, Penn.
Carroll Hamilton Fitzhugh was born Jan. 22d, 1873, at Pitts-
burg, Pa. He is a son of Charles Lane Fitzhugh and Emma
i
342 BIOGRAPHIES
Shoenberger, who were married Sept. 14th, 1865, at Cincin-
nati, Ohio, and had two other children, both sons, one of
whom died before maturity.
Charles Lane Fitzhugh (b. Aug. 22d, 1838, at Oswego, N. Y.) is
a West Point man (ex '63). He served through the Civil War,
remained in the Regular Army for several years afterwards,
and later became President of the Shoenberger Steel Co., of
Pittsburg, which city has been his principal place of residence.
He is now (April, '06) living in Washington, D. C. His
parents were Henry Fitzhugh, a merchant of Oswego, and
Elizabeth Barbara Carroll of the Genesee Valley, New York
State. The family came from Bedford, England, in 1671, and
settled in Virginia.
Emma (Shoenberger) Fitzhugh (b. July 23d, 1842, at Cin-
cinnati, Ohio) is the daughter of George R. Shoenberger, an
iron manufacturer of Cincinnati, and Sarah Hamilton of
Lancaster, Pa.
Fitzhugh prepared for Yale at the Belmont School (Belmont,
Mass.) and at St. Paul's. He was a member of the University
Club and of A. D. Phi. A First Colloquy at the Junior Ex-
hibition and at Commencement.
He was married at Allegheny, Pa., April 22d, 1897, to Miss May
Marshall Bell, daughter of Mrs. A. W. Bell, and sister of
Arthur Wellington Bell, '97, of Alleghany.
"Fitzhugh always reminds me of Stevenson's essay on
Idlers," says one of his friends. *'He idles so gracefully
that one could neither imagine nor desire his doing any-
thing else." Some eighteen months of law, to be sure,
followed upon his graduation from Yale, but then he re-
ceived no degree for it, nor did he take examinations for
the Bar. The record otherwise is clean. It trails from
Florida to California, from Mexico to Canada, from
Europe to Japan.
If Fitzhugh were likely ever to open his copy of this
book, or, opening it, to do anything quite so crudely
commonplace as to read his own biography, the Sec-
retary would feel qualms over publishing the appended
letter which came from Sicily this spring. But because
in no other way can a picture of the present day Carroll
be thus vividly drawn for his friends he has decided to
print it.
OF GRADUATES 343
"Your latest inquisitional demand," it reads, "reached
me this morning, and I have been busy ever since tearing
down the votive tablets which I had erected to the classic
gods of Sicily, at first with the hope that you might for-
get about me this time— or at least that your challenge
to stand and deliver might be lost in the mail— and later
with the growing belief, unhappily premature, that one
of these contingencies was actually to be realized.
"All these hopes were blighted by the arrival of an
envelope this morning addressed in your still small char-
acters, containing, of course, a printed form with blanks
to be filled out with genealogical details of the most
confoundedly uninteresting description, except perhaps
to me.
"I am hastening to acquire merit in your eyes by the
promptness of my reply, for I don't believe that it will
have any other. In the next quarter of an hour I shall
have made up my mind as to whether or no it can really
help to lighten your secretarial labors and enhance the
value of your decennial compilation if I oblige you with
the maiden names of my grandmothers, great grand-
mothers, etc., etc., etc.
"Surely anybody who feels enough interest in me to
thirst for such preliminary details of my existence as
these should be more than satisfied with the news that
I am in the best of health, and enjoying myself very
much at present in this agreeable island. This fragment
of my personal history is official, and I make you a pres-
ent of it.—
"Clarence, I scarcely expect to be believed, but, during
the short lapse of time which is represented by the above
dash, the genealogical blank has completely disappeared,
leaving my origin shrouded in mystery, so far as you
are concerned, and preventing me from filling in those
business-like blanks, which I was almost resolved to
treat with the consideration which they perhaps deserved.
Of course you will protest that this is really too thin,
and that I am attempting to stretch the long arm of coin-
cidence beyond the furthest limit of its elasticity; but
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it is a fact nevertheless. The document is gone, and I
am as innocent and as ignorant of its disappearance as
though it had been my letter of credit. You must look
at the date of this letter— February 23d — and try to
believe that in writing so near that anniversary when the
heroic episode of the cherry tree and hatchet is foremost
in every patriotic mind, I could not tell a lie. However,
I shall reerect my votive tablets to the Sicilian gods."
Michael Flaherty, Jr.
Lawyer, and City Clerk of Derby. Derby, Conn,
Michael Flaherty, Jr., was born Nov. 7th, 1873, at Derby,
Conn. He is a son of Michael Flaherty and Margaret Byrne
Geraghty, who were married Aug. 6th, 1865, at Birmingham,
England, and had six other children, three boys and three
girls, four of whom lived to maturity.
Michael Flaherty the elder (b. at Lisnoren, County Gal way,
Ireland, in March, 1834) is a wine and liquor merchant of
Derby, Conn., at which place and at Wolverhampton, England,
most of his life has been spent. He is also a large holder of
real estate. His parents were Hugh Flaherty, a farmer, of
Lisnoren, and Mary Finnerty of Aughterard, County Galway,
Ireland.
Margaret Byrne (Geraghty) Flaherty (b. April 25th, 1838,
at Cong, County Galway, Ireland ; d. Oct. 13th, 1904, at Derby,
Conn.) spent her early life in Birmingham, England. She was
the daughter of John Geraghty, a farmer, of Cong, and Mary
Byrne of Headford, County Galway, Ireland.
Flaherty prepared for Yale at the Derby High School. He re-
ceived a First Colloquy at the Junior Exhibition and a Second
Colloquy at Commencement.
He has not been married.
In his speech at the banquet of the Royal Academy last
May, Mr. Kipling told a legend of the original tribal
story-teller, or biographer, "a masterless man who had
taken no part in the action of his fellow, who had no
special virtues, but was afflicted— that was the phrase—
OF GRADUATES 345
with the magic of the necessary words." Briefly, the tribe
took that man and killed him, and Mr. Kipling showed
that it was much the safest thing for them to do.
Our classmate Flaherty is one of those Ante-Cadmeans
in whom these ancient tribal feelings still work strongly.
He does not like correspondence, and he seems to hold
the unfortunate Secretary, who is obliged by his position
to pretend to the exercise of this dangerous magic, in
profound distrust. His decennial letter, consequently, is
limited to the statement that he is a "lawyer, and City
Clerk of Derby."
As for the law part, he was admitted to the Connecticut
Bar in 1898 and received his LL.B. from the Yale Law
School in 1901. His appointment to the City Clerkship
was in 1905. He is said to own the ''Bassett House"
(hotel) property on the corner of Elizabeth and Fourth
Streets, and to be a man of standing in his community.
Arthur E. Foote
Advertising Manager for James Pyle & Sons, 436 Greenwich Street,'
New York City,
Residence, Dongan Hills, Staten Island, N. Y.
Permanent mail address, 19 Howe Street, New Haven, Conn.
Arthur Ellsworth Foote was born at New Haven, Conn., Jan.
3d, 1874. He is a son of Sherman Frisbie Foote and Mary
Hutton Rice, who were married Oct. 2Sth, 1871, at New Haven,
Conn., and had one other child, a son.
Sherman Frisbie Foote (b. Nov. 27th, 1841, at New Haven),
is a manufacturer of New Haven, where he has spent the
greater part of his life. His parents were Jonathan Foote, a
merchant of New Haven, and Sarah Reynolds Stevens of West
Haven. His ancestor, Nathaniel Foote, came from England in
1635 (or earlier) and was one of the founders of the Wethers-
field (Conn.) colony in 1636.
Mary Hutton (Rice) Foote (b. Dec. 4th, 1846, at New
Haven) spent her early life at Brooklyn, New Haven, and
Paris. Her parents were George Rice, a merchant, and Sarah
Cornelia Thomson, both of New Haven.
Foote prepared at the Hillhouse High School and at Andover.
He won the singles in the Tennis Tournament in the spring of
346 BIOGRAPHIES
'93, and in Sophomore year won the Yale and the New Eng-
land Championships. He played regularly in the Inter-Colle-
giate Tennis Matches, and for two years was Secretary and
Treasurer of the Inter-Collegiate Tennis Association ('93-'95).
He was Assistant Manager of the Yale University Football
Association in Junior year, and ex officio a member of the
Yale Athletic Financial Union, and a Director of the Yale
Field Corporation. He was Chairman of the Junior Promenade
Committee and an editor of the Pot-pourri. A Second Col-
loquy at the Junior Exhibition and at Commencement. Eta
Phi. D. K. E. Keys.
He was married at New Haven, Conn., May 5th, 1900, to Miss
Edith Burr Palmer, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Charles Ray
Palmer, '55, and has three children, two sons and one daughter,
Ray Palmer Foote (b. May 15th, 1901, at Dongan Hills, Staten
Island, N. Y.), Margaret Ellsworth Foote (b. Oct. 29th, 1903,
at Dongan Hills), and Alfred Sherman Foote (b. April 13th,
1906, at Dongan Hills). It will be noted that there is just 2
years, 5 months and 14 days between Margaret and each of
her brothers.
Foote traveled in Europe during the summer of 1896,
and then entered the perfumery business chez Maison
Bruno, Court Grasse, Alpes Maritimes, France. From
May, 1897, to July, 1898, he lived in London and worked
in the London office of the Crown Perfumery Company.
In December, 1897, he took a trip to Spain. After leav-
ing London he spent a year and a half in the New York
office of the same company, and then, in December, 1899,
entered the advertising department of the publishing
house of Harper & Brothers. On December ist, 1902,
he resigned this position to become Advertising Manager
for James Pyle & Sons, the Pearline people. "My tale
is that of the 'Simple Life'," he writes. "The winter of
1902 was spent in New York City. During the spring of
1903 I moved to a permanent home on Dongan Hills,
Staten Island. The summer vacation of 1903 found
us in Nova Scotia, and the vacations of 1904 and 1905
were spent in the White Mountains with George and
Mrs. Nettleton."
This career reads tamely enough, perhaps, but Foote
OF GRADUATES 347
himself acquires a richer flavor every year. The Secre-
tary and John Sargent found him talking French to
Pius in the Yale Club Grill last spring— quite unavail-
ingly— and they took him away to dinner and the theatre.
It was Weber's Music Hall; — "je m' encanaille T cried
Arthur. It had to be Weber's because that is where
smoking is permitted, and we had to smoke because
Foote's eldest is collecting cigar bands.
F. A. Forbes
President of the A. M. Forbes Cartage Co., 375 E. Indiana Street,
Chicago, 111. Residence, 650 W. Monroe Street.
Fred Albert Forbes was born at Chicago, 111., March 26th, 1875.
He is the only son of Albert Martin Forbes and Ellen Louise
Griswold, who were married June 9th, 1874, at Chicago, and
had three other children, all girls.
Albert Martin Forbes (b. June 20th, 1840, at Willsboro,
N. Y.; d. April 21st, 1902, at Chicago) served in the Civil War
with an artillery regiment from Illinois, and thereafter lived in
Chicago, engaged in the teaming and transferring business.
His parents were Albert Galatin Forbes, an iron manufacturer
and farmer of Cannon, Conn., and Hannah Finck of Jay, N. Y.
His grandfather, John Forbes, was Captain of a Vermont
regiment during the Revolution. The ancestors of the family
were Scotch settlers in Connecticut.
Ellen Louise (Griswold) Forbes (b. June 15th, 1850, at
Whitesboro, Oneida Co., N. Y.) spent her early life at Janes-
ville. Wis. She is the. daughter of Lucius Augustus Griswold,
a merchant of New Haven, Conn., and Maria Louise Sweet of
Marcy, N. Y. She is now (Oct., '05) living at Chicago, 111.
Forbes prepared for Yale at the Harvard School in Chicago, and
while in College was a member of the Chicago Club. He re-
ceived a First Colloquy at the Junior Exhibition and a Second
Dispute at Commencement.
He was married at Chicago, 111., June 14th, 1899, to Miss Alvena
Florence Press, daughter of the late Jacob Henry Press, and
has one child, a son, Albert Martin Forbes (b. May 5th, 1902,
at Chicago).
After graduation Forbes went into business with his
father, under the firm name of Forbes & Son, Cartage
348 BIOGRAPHIES
Contractors. He is now President of the A. M. Forbes
Cartage Company of Chicago (estabHshed 1868). For
the last seven or eight years he has had constant trouble
with strikes, which have been complicated by the exist-
ence of a team-owners' association in addition to the
teamsters' union. The two have worked in together, at
times, in a way that made it hard for an independent
man like Forbes to do any business at all. Each member
of the team-owners' association had to give a large bond
not to accept business from any other team-owner's cus-
tomers. Result, an owner could go to his own customers
and demand a hundred per cent, raise on the rate any
time he wanted,— the customer was powerless. Nobody
else dared do any carting for him. For a long time
Forbes refused to join this association, but when his
drivers joined the teamsters' union he had to give in. He
has not been a tractable member.
When the Secretary visited Chicago last year he found
that there had been so much violence and rioting that
Forbes went armed at all times and avoided going to
public places altogether— theatres, etc. They lunched to-
gether, however, with Nod Mundy, at a convenient res-
taurant. Forbes said that he had seen one of his men
killed outside that very place. The man had three police-
men with him, too. "Along came the mob. Somebody
jerked the driver off the seat, and— down and out for
him. The policemen were held back. Sometimes they
preferred to let themselves be held back."
All this is under-statement, for there was much worse
to tell, of fights and acid throwing and of shooting. But
Forbes asked not to have it printed. He said it would
make him "appear too much like a wild western brigand,"
and that he "would not like to have the boys get a wrong
impression."
It made a decided impression on the Secretary. Not
only did he find it difficult to digest his food, but upon
leaving the restaurant he was unexpectedly confronted
with a choice of entering Forbes' buggy,— the companion
of a marked man!— or accompanying Mundy in his first
OF GRADUATES 349
motor, which he had purchased the day before. He
finally chanced it on the motor, and having persuaded
Mundy to steer an erratic course for the railroad station,
he thankfully took the next train for Colorado.
W. B. Ford
Secretary and Treasurer of the Menzies Shoe Company, Detroit, Michigan.
Residence, 1017 Fort Street.
Walter Buhl Ford was born at Detroit, Mich., Sept. 22d, 1873.
He is a son of James Henry Ford and Frederica Buhl, who
were married Nov. 14th, 1872, at Detroit, Mich., and had two
other children, one a daughter, who died before maturity, and
the other a son, Frederick Clifford Ford, Yale 1907.
James Henry Ford (b. Nov. 2d, 1849, at Lowell, Mass.; d.
May 2ist, 1902, at Battle Creek, Mich.) was in the iron business
in Detroit. His parents were John Nealy Ford, a foundryman
of Nottingham, N. H., and Charlotte Elvira Clifford of San-
bornton, N. H. The family came from Ireland and England in
the eighteenth century, and settled in New Hampshire.
Frederica (Buhl) Ford was born Nov. 24th, 1850, at Detroit,
Mich., where she now (Dec, '05) resides. She is the daughter
of Frederick Buhl, a furrier, and Matilda Beatty, both of
Detroit.
Ford prepared for College at the Detroit High School. He was
a member of the Renaissance and University Clubs. Played
Guitar on the University Banjo Club in Senior year and as a
postgraduate, and was a member of Kappa Psi, Psi U, and
Wolf's Head.
He has not been married.
Ford traveled abroad with Fisher, Foote, Pardee, and
Cheney, the summer after graduation, entering the Yale
Law School in the fall. He received the degree of LL.B.
in 1898, returned to Detroit, and in 1899 began work for
the Detroit Stove Works. Late in 1903 he left them to
become Secretary and Treasurer of Menzies Shoe Com-
pany of Detroit (H. D. Menzies, President), "Manufac-
turers of Men's, Boys' and Youths' Shoes, River Drivers',
Cruisers, Hunting Boots, The American Boy Shoes," etc.
350 BIOGRAPHIES
His first decennial letter said merely that he had been
^'making shoes." His second added the following:— "My
prevnous answer to your last question about covered the
ground I am sorry to say. I have n't traveled or taken
any trips, except some sailing voyages around the lakes.
I have seen but two or three '96 men. My amusements
are simple. Baseball Saturday afternoons and sailing in
siunmer. Nothing particular in winter. What experi-
ences I have had have been comparatively tame, but if
anything does happen to me before you go to press I '11
let you know."
Nothing happened, apparently, even at Decennial.
Ford had been put dowTi for a speech at the Qass Dinner,
but he did n't know it, and never showed up after the
baseball game at all. It was while the toastmaster was
kx)king for him that the disorder broke loose which sud-
denly ended that repast. Stragglers from the campus
later on foimd Ford at the Graduates* Club, peacefully
dining in retirement, and testing a rashly extensive collec-
tion of cures for hoarseness. "It *s the effect of this im-
accustomed sea air / believe," he said the next morning,
summoning a waiter. Bond, whose home is in New Lon-
don, and who was equally hoarse, thought it was the sea
air too.
Clarence W Fowler
Teaching at present, in New York Gty.
Permanent mail ad<&eai, 294 Liberty Street, Xewborgji, N. Y.
Clabfxce Vernon Fowler was bom at Newburgh, N. Y., Oct
17th, 1873- He is the only child of William Harrison Fowler
and Anna Augusta Chandler, who were married April 12th,
1870, at Newburgh.
William Harrison Fowler (b. March 24th. 1846, at Mari-
borough, Ulster Co., N. Y.) before his retirement on March
16th, 1904, was engaged in the fancy dry goods business. Most
of his life has been spent at Marlborough, Middle Hope, and
Newburgh, N. Y., at which latter dty he now (March, '06)
resides. His parents were David Fowler, a builder, and later
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a farmer, and Elisabeth Devoe, both of New York. The an-
cestors of the family were Welsh settlers on Long Island.
Anna Augusta (Chandler) Fowler (b. Aug. 24th, 1844, at
Bethlehem [Newburgh], N. Y.) is the daughter of Ford
Chandler, a farmer, and Caroline Hedges, both of Bethlehem.
Fowler prepared for College at Siglar's Preparatory School, and
while in Yale was a member of the Siglar Club and of Beta
Theta Pi. He received an Oration at the Junior Exhibition
and at Commencement.
He was married at Haworth, N. J., Dec. 14th, 1898, to Miss
Portia Robert, daughter of Gen, Henry Martyn Robert, U. S. A.
of Philadelphia, Pa., and sister of H. M. Robert, Jr., '96, and has
had two children, Portia Darrow Fowler (b. June 3d, 1900,
at Haworth; d. Sept. 4th, 1905, at Dinard-St. Enogat, Bre-
tagne, France) and Corinne Fenner Fowler (b. May i6th,
1903, at No. 172 Front St., Plainfield, N. J.).
"I STARTED the study of medicine at the College of Phy-
sicians and Surgeons in 1897, in pursuance of convictions
formed before entering Yale," wrote Fowler in 1902.
". . . My future financial interests then became cen-
tered around the d'Auria Pumping Engine Company,
and that was, and still is, a thing of the future, so that
my life, since dropping medicine, has been characterized
by the endeavor to solve the problem of how best to fill
in the time. I took a short law course for the use I
might make of it in business, but with no idea of practis-
ing it. I was in New York Law School during the year
1898-99 and part of 1899- 1900. After that, the d'Auria
Pumping Engine Company being still in the embr)'onic
stage, i.e. J all of its energy directed towards developing
and promoting, I started on the career of an Instructor,
and am most happily and delightfully situated with Mr.
Leal, a Yale man, and one of the best Prep. Schools in
the country."
This school is in Plainfield, New Jersey. In 1901
Fowler studied abroad, in France and Germany. During
the winter of 1903-4 he was private Secretary to William
Medlicott Fleitmann of New York City, and on May
loth, 1904, he sailed for Europe, planning to spend the
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summer in Brittany and the winter in Rome. His decen-
nial letter follows :—
"I can say that I have not lost my vermiform, nor have
I added to my alphabetical appendix, but though I have
not been so publicly honored, yet I have an easy con-
science that I have undergone a proper degree of mental
expansion in the time allotted me. The only 'degrees' I
have taken are 'degrees of comfort', which are not ex-
pressed in capitals, though capitally worth it. I am cher-
ishing the fond hope that I shall shortly be called to fill
the Chair of Leisure, and am arranging all my studies to
that end. I have been knocking about Europe during
the past two years, which included a notable automobile
trip from Rome to Paris, over three mountain ranges.
**I am still marking time between the business and
scholastic worlds, and next fall I will be assistant to Mr.
Syms in Syms' School on West Forty-fifth Street, New
York."
James Frank
Counsel and Secretary of the Hudson Realty Company, 135 Broadway,
New York City. Residence, 1947 Seventh Avenue.
James Frank was born at Ogdensburg, N. Y., Aug. 21st, 1873.
He is a son of Nathan Frank and Mathilde Friedberger, who
were married Oct. 4th, i860, at New York City, and had alto-
gether six children, four boys and two girls. Laurence Frank,
ex, *oo, is a brother, and a sister, Ida (Frank) Guttman, holds
the degree of A.B. Vassar, '87.
Nathan Frank (b. Aug. 4th, 1830, in Germany) is a merchant
of Ogdensburg, where he has lived for the past fifty years, and
of which city he is Charity Commissioner. His parents were
Julius Frank, a farmer, and Rosa Fuld, both of Germany.
Mathilde (Friedberger) Frank (b. April 20th, 1840, at Laup-
heim, Germany) is the daughter of J. Friedberger, a farmer,
and Charlotte Elumenthal, both of Laupheim.
Frank prepared at the Ogdensburg Academy. He was interested
in debating during his college course, was a member of the
Yale Union, and served as President of the Freshman Union.
He received a Dissertation at the Junior Exhibition and at
Commencement. Beta Theta Pi.
OF GRADUATES 353
He was married at Far Rockaway (L. I.), N. Y., May 31st, 1906,
to Miss Adele Morgenthau, daughter of Maximilian Morgen-
thau of Far Rockaway.
After two years in the New York Law School (from
which he received the degree of LL.B. in 1898) and two
years of office work, Frank associated himself with
three men from Harvard, Columbia, and Ann Arbor,
under the firm name of Franc, Newman, Frank & New-
gass. He left them in 1903 and practised alone until
1905. He visited the Pan-American Exposition at Buf-
falo and was present at Bicentennial.
''I have followed the worthy example of many '96
men," says his decennial letter, "and joined the ranks of
the benedicts and am now on my wedding trip, so the
trend of my thoughts is rather of the present than of
the past. My wife was Miss Adele M. Morgenthau of
New York City, and she is already imbued with the
superlative greatness of our Class and looks forward to
attending our Decennial.
"Since I last wrote you I have continued the practice
of law with average success, until about a year ago, when
I was elected Counsel for, and subsequently Secretary
of the Hudson Realty Company, one of the large realty
corporations in New York.
"Aside from my professional duties my interest ^has
been largely centered in the work fostered by the Edu-
cational Alliance, situated in the great East Side of New
York, the general aim of which is the 'Americanization
of the newly arrived immigrant'. After several years
of active effort in the field of boys' club work I was
elected a Director of the institution, and later appointed
Chairman of the House Committee, which has complete
charge of the physical care of the building.
"I have ever looked forward to the '96 dinners and
reunions, and always hope to be counted in when muster
is called."
354 BIOGRAPHIES
Clement A. Fuller
With the law firm of Fessenden & Carter, Stamford, Conn.
Clement Austin Fuller was born at New Haven, Conn., Dec.
26th, 1873. He is a son of Austin Brainerd Fuller, '66, M.D.,
92, and Harriet Augusta Pierpont, who were married Feb.
nth, 1868, at New Haven, and had two other children, one
boy (Pierpont Fuller, '92, LL.B., '94) and one girl (Smith,
'03).
Austin Brainerd Fuller (b. May 7th, 1838, at Northbridge,
Mass.) is a physician and dentist of West Haven, Conn. His
life has been spent at Northbridge, Worcester, and Wilbra-
ham, Mass., Davenport, N. Y., New Haven and West Haven,
Conn. His parents were Levi Fuller, a manufacturer of boots
and shoes, and Lydia Bacheller, both of Northbridge, Mass.
The family came from England, in 1620, and settled at Ply-
mouth, Mass.
Harriet Augusta (Pierpont) Fuller (b. April i8th, 1846, at
New Haven) is the daughter of Elias Pierpont, a school
teacher, grocer, real estate dealer, landlord and mortgagee,
and Grace Bradley, both of New Haven. Her great-grand-
father was Joseph Pierpont, 1751, M.A., 1754.
Fuller prepared for Yale at the Hillhouse High School and
while in College was a member of the Hillhouse High School
Club and of the Yale Union. He received an Oration at the
Junior Exhibition and at Commencement.
He has not been married.
After receiving his LL.B. from the Yale Law School,
in 1898, Fuller settled in Stamford, where he proceeded
to cultivate those patulous hirsute growths which have
puzzled so many of our gladhanders at reunions. Since
December, 1898, he has been associated with the law
firm of Fessenden & Carter (Fessenden, Carter & Cum-
mings until 1900), which now consists of Samuel Fessen-
den and Galen A. Carter. For the last four years he has
been a member of the Stamford School Committee, of
which he has also served as secretary.
"Your request for a more specific statement received,"
says his decennial letter. "I should be glad to give you
more details, but there are none of any interest to the
Class at large.
J
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'*As for my travels — they have n't amounted to much
since I stopped commuting. Last summer I managed to
get as far as Salt Lake and back, studying the country
and the manners and customs of the inhabitants from a
tail end platform. The rest of my travels have been
confined to bicycle rides over southern New England and
the reasonably accessible portions of New York and New
Jersey.
"Amusements. I don't have any in particular; don't
have time for them. My time out of office hours has
been spent largely in instructing the professionals how
to teach school; mixing into politics a little, helping to
organize Hearst clubs (during the season), and, either
as a member of the ward committee or as a mere private
in the ranks, lending my aid to the great work of raising
the Town, State, and Nation out of the depths of degra-
dation to which they had sunken before I entered the
field.
"During office hours, I have been spending most of
my time as the hireling of trusts and monopolies, helping
corporate greed and predatory wealth to evade the law.
"I cannot give my 'professional record in more detail.'
There are no details to it. I have not been appointed a
judge nor raised to any other post of honor; neither have
I been disbarred or taken in hand by the Grievance
Committee. I am just a country lawyer in a rather large
country law office and have been so ever since I left the
Law School in 1898. If you are really looking for an
'interesting series of biographies', don't waste any time
on me. I can't help you."
Frederick W. Gaines
Lawyer. 21 Federal Building, Toledo, Ohio.
Frederick William Gaines was born Jan. 8th, 1873, at Cleve-
land, O. He is the son of James C. Gaines and Lucy Lorett
Reed, who were married March 13th, 1851, at Sudbury, Vt.,
and had one other child, a daughter.
James C. Gaines (b. Dec. 25th, 1828, at Castleton, Vt.;
356 BIOGRAPHIES
d. July 2d, 1902, at Cleveland, O.) spent the greater part of
his life at Castleton and Rutland, Vt., Cleveland, O., and
Pickens Co., Ga., engaged as a manager of marble quarries and
mills. He enlisted in the 1st Regiment Vermont Volunteer
Infantry in 1861. His parents w^ere James Gaines, a business
man, and Sarah Maryfield Clark, both of Castleton.
Lucy Lorett (Reed) Gaines (b. Sept. loth, 1832, at Rutland,
Vt.) is the daughter of Aaron Reed, a farmer, and Lucy
Woodward, both of Rutland. She is now (Jan., '06) living at
Toledo, O.
Gaines prepared for College in Cleveland. He received a Dis-
sertation at the Junior Exhibition and at Commencement, and
was a member of the Cleveland Club and of Zeta Psi.
He was married at Stamford, Conn., June 21st, 1898, to Miss
Fanny Olmstead, daughter of the Hon. James H. Olmstead,
of Stamford, and has two children, James Olmstead Gaines
(b. June 30th, 1903, at Toledo, Ohio) and Frederick William
Gaines (3d) (b. May 6th, 1905, at Toledo).
On October 14th, 1901, Gaines was appointed Deputy
Clerk of the United States District Court for the
Northern District of Ohio. On June 2d, 1904, he was
appointed United States Commissioner, Northern District
of Ohio, by the Honorable Francis J. Wing, United
States District Judge, with the approval of the Attorney-
General of the United States. He continues his practice
as an attorney, "except as barred by statute."
After graduation he entered the Yale Law School, re-
ceiving the degree of LL.B. in 1898. He was admitted
to the Ohio Bar at Columbus on March 17th, 1899, and
to the Bar of the United States Circuit and District
Courts for the Northern District of Ohio on December
13th, 1 90 1, at Toledo. Meanwhile he practised law in
Cleveland alone and (from April ist, 1899, to April ist,
1900) with the law firm of Ford, Snyder, Henry &
McGraw, excepting for the period August 21st, 1900, to
October 12th, 1901, between which dates he was con-
nected with the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad Com-
pany, at first in the general offices in Qeveland, and later
in Detroit, Michigan, where he held the position of con-
tracting agent.
OF GRADUATES 357
Upon such captious readers as may complain that this
accurate marshalling of dates and places is not biograph-
ically vivid, we bestow the further enlightenment of
Frederick's reply to a request for more: "While I can-
not but commend your zealousness as Secretary," he
says, "I feel that it would be useless to burden you or
others with unprofitable reading, and beg to be excused
from further descriptions of myself."
John M. Gaines
Auditor and Credit Man. With the M. Hartley Company,
315 Broadway, New York City.
John Marshall Gaines, was born May nth, 1873, at New
Haven, Conn. He is a son of Marshall Richard Gaines, '65,
B.D., M.A., and Louise Walker, who were married Aug. 20th,
1868, at Portsmouth, N. H., and had two other children, one
boy (Morrell Walker Gaines, '98) and one girl.
Marshall Richard Gaines (b. Nov. 15th, 1839, at Granby,
Conn.) served in the 60th Regt. Mass. Vol. for some months
during the year 1864. His early life was spent in teaching at
Stamford, Conn., Olivet, Mich., New Haven and Litchfield,
Conn. In 1880 he was Principal of Kimball Union Academy at
Meriden, N. H. In 1884 he was ordained as a Missionary
(A. B. C. of F. M.), and became teacher in the Doskicoka
Training School, Kyoto, Japan, returning to America after
five years successful work. In 1890 he engaged in fruit ranching
at Los Gatos, Cal. In 1893 he became Professor in the Uni-
versity of New Mexico. at Albuquerque, in 1896 President of
Tillotson College, Austin, Tex., and in 1904, Principal of
Normal & Industrial Col. Institute, Joppa, Ala., where he is
now (Oct., '05) living. His parents were John Richard
Gaines, a farmer of Granby, Conn., and Sarah May Bennett
of Belchertown, Mass. The family came from England in 1639
and settled at New Haven.
Louise (Walker) Gaines (b. Aug. 26th, 1840, at Concord,
N. H.) spent her early life at Concord, South Milton and
Portsmouth, N. H. Her parents were Asa T. Walker, a manu-
facturer of Milton and Portsmouth, and Louisa Morrell of
Falmouth, Me. Asa T. Walker was a farmer in early life.
Gaines spent his early life in New England, New York, Japan,
California, New Mexico, and Colorado. He was graduated
358 BIOGRAPHIES
first in our Class and was consequently titular Valedictorian.
He took a first DeForest Mathematical Prize in Freshman and
in Junior years, a Berkeley Premium of the First Grade in
Freshman year, and was Woolsey Scholar for the last three
years of the course. He was a member of the Colorado Club
and of Psi U., and served as Vice-President of Phi Beta
Kappa. A Philosophical Oration at the Junior Exhibition and
at Commencement.
He was married at New Haven. Conn., Oct. 12th, 1901, to Miss
Cornelia G. Welch, daughter of the Hon. Pierce N. Welch, '62.
of New Haven, and has three children, sons, John Marshall
Gaines, Jr. (b. Oct. 31st, 1902, at New Haven), William Welch
Gaines (b. June 12th, 1904, at New York City), and Pierce
Welch Gaines (b. Aug. 13th. 1905. at New York City).
Gaines held the Douglas Fellowship at Yale for three
years, while studying Mathematics, Economics, and Sta-
tistics, and he was Instructor in Political Economy during
the years 1 897-1 900. In 1900 he received his Ph.D., and
in May of that year he came to New York and joined
the Actuarial Department of the New York Life Insur-
ance Company. In 1902 he received the two actuarial
degrees of A.I.A. (Associate, Institute of Actuaries —
English), and member of the Actuarial Society of
America — the former in Montreal, the latter in New
York.
"The first of the year," he wrote in April, 1904, "I shook
the New York Life for more independent work. Am at
present a sort of organizer and auditor for the M. Hart-
ley Company, and am on a round of visits to their vari-
ous works. Very interesting and novel for me. Young
Marcellus Hartley Dodge is principal owner." John is
now Auditor for the M. Hartley Company, the Union
Metallic Cartridge Company, and the Remington Arms
Company, and is Treasurer of the Bridgeport Gun Imple-
ment Company. His field is really that of a specialist
in organization. "Mostly work, day and night," says his
decennial letter. Some horrid hours in New York & New
Haven trains. One short vacation — most enjoyable —
with the Yale Forest School."
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He is seen often at the Yale Club, ready for a game of
dominoes or bridge, or for a quiet smoke, as the case
may be. A list of his writings is given in the Bibli-
ographical Notes.
W. S. Gaylord
Actuary. Home Life Insurance Company, 256 Broadway, New York City.
Residence, Bard Avenue, West New Brighton (Staten Island), N, Y.
Permanent mail address, 264 Washington Street, Norwich, Conn.
William Standish Gaylord was born March 14th, 1874, at
Meriden, Conn. He is a son of William Luther Gaylord and
Juliet Foster Hyde, who were married June 12th, 1861, at
Norwich, Conn., and had two other children, both girls.
William Luther Gaylord (b. Oct. 14th, 1831, at Woodstock,
Conn.; d. Dec. 26th, 1882, at Chicopee, Mass.) was a clergy-
man. He attended Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard Uni-
versity, for several years, and was graduated from Union
Theological Seminary. He lived at Ashford and Meriden,
Conn., Fitzwilliam, N. H., and Chicopee, Mass. His parents
were Horace Gaylord, a farmer of Ashford, Conn., and Mary
A. Davis of Pomfret, Conn. His great-grandfather, William
Gaylord, was graduated from Yale in 1730. The family came
from England in 1630, and settled at Dorchester, Mass.
Juliet Foster (Hyde) Gaylord (b. March 26th, 1833, at Nor-
wich, Conn.; d. March 17th, 1875, at Meriden, Conn.) was the
daughter of Augustus Hyde and Fidelia Welthea Foster, both
of Norwich.
Gaylord while in College was elected to Zeta Psi and to Phi Beta
Kappa. He received a High Oration at the Junior Exhibition
and at Commencement.
His engagement has been announced to Miss Mary E. Coonley,
Wellesley, '99, daughter of Dr. E. D. Coonley, '71* and Amelia
Durland of Port Richmond, Staten Island, and sister of Fred-
erick Coonley, '96. (See Appendix.)
"My first year in business," wrote Gaylord in 1902, "was
spent in selling bicycles, and since that time I have been
in the office where I am now." The office referred to
was that of David Parks Fackler, Consulting Actuary,
35 Nassau Street, New York City. In 1902, as a result
360 BIOGRAPHIES
of his work and study there, Gaylord was admitted as a
member of the Actuarial Society of America.
"Since 1902," he wrote this spring, "I have left previ-
ous office and come to the Home Life, but have spent
most of my time getting engaged. My fiancee (by the
way) is Miss Mary E. Coonley, sister of Fred Coonley,
'96, and daughter of Dr. E. D. Coonley, '71. She herself
is a Wellesley, '99, girl." (See Appendix.)
This statement, it will be observed, is mostly girl. It
gives neither the date of his change of employment nor
the nature of his new connection. It is a sample of what
one may expect from freshly converted gynarchists.
Gaylord supplemented it, however, by stating in person
that he was an actuary for the Home Life Insurance
Company, and by sending the following note : "Possibly
last night's conversation makes this letter superfluous,
but for the sake of record I '11 just drop you a note, and
say that mail had best be sent to me here. I find that
I came here on November loth, 1902, to show the exact-
ness characteristic of a true actuary. For any other in-
formation regarding myself that will bear the test of pen
and ink, address, yours sincerely," etc.
Bill's work and experience is not exclusively actuarial ;
his training in that direction is rather a foundation than
a goal.
Emile Godchaux
Partner in the law firm of Foster, Milling, Godchaux & Sanders,
Godchaux Building, New Orleans, La.
Emile Godchaux was born at New Orleans, La., Jan. 29th, 1874.
He is a son of Leon Godchaux and Justine Lamm, who were
married at New Orleans, in 1854, and had altogether ten
children, seven boys and three girls. Walter Godchaux, '98,
is a brother. Another brother was graduated from the Boston
School of Technology, and a third is now a member of the
Class of 1909 at Yale.
Leon Godchaux (b. June loth, 1824, at Herbeville, France;
d. May i8th, 1899, at New Orleans, La.) came to America in
1841, and settled at New Orleans as a merchant and sugar
OF GRADUATES 361
planter. His parents were Paul Godchaux, a merchant of
Blamant, France, and Michelette Lazard of Metz, France.
Justine (Lamm) Godchaux (b. April i8th, 1838, at Metz,
France) spent her early life at Metz, and at New Orleans,
She is the daughter of Isaac Lamm, a merchant, and Ann
Alexandre (daughter of Alexandre Alexandre), both of Metz.
Godchaux prepared for College at Exeter, and as an under-
graduate was a member of the Exeter Club and of the South-
ern Club. Kappa Beta Phi.
He was married at Montgomery, Ala., on March 14th, 1901, to
Miss Mabel V. Goetter, daughter of Joseph Goetter, deceased.
For two years Godchaux attended the Yale Law School,
graduating with the degree of LL.B. in 1898. He came
out strong at the Law School, saw more of the fellows
than he had in college, and, as his friends expressed it,
"began for the first time to do himself justice."
Since December, 1898, he has been practising law in
New Orleans. "In 1899 was a member of the law firm
of Horner & Godchaux, which was dissolved in July,
1900. Practised on my own hook until February, 1901,
when the firm of which I am now a member was formed.
The firm name is Foster, Milling, Godchaux & Sanders,
and the composition of the firm is as follows : Murphy
J. Foster, United States Senator from Louisiana; Robert
E. Milling, Godchaux, and Jared Y. Sanders, Speaker
of House, State Legislature. I have taken no part in
politics. Have let the other members of the firm do
that." At the time he wrote this extract (1902) he was
also Secretary of the Leon Godchaux Co., Ltd., and of
the Leon Godchaux Clothing Co., Ltd.
"I have been in New Orleans about a week," wrote
Henry Baker, later on, "attending the American Bankers'
Convention and incidentally having a very good time in
this interesting old southern city. I have seen quite a
good deal of Godchaux. He has settled down to hard
work, has been very successful, and is very much in love
with his wife, whom he first met two days after his grad-
uation from the Yale Law School. Godchaux is cer-
362 BIOGRAPHIES
tainly a splendid fellow." (The rest of Baker's letter,
by the way, is about being at the theatre with his High-
ness the Crown Prince of Siam.)
There appears to be no recent news about Godchaux
in addition to the above. He telegraphed the Secretary
(July, 1906), "Regret have no further personal data of
interest to the Class at large." He is said to be growing
quite pleasantly opulent. In 1905 Mrs. Godchaux and
he were members of Secretary Taft's investigating party
to the Philippines, as those of us will remember who saw
his face in the many newspaper photographs of that
assemblage.
Richard J. Goodman
Partner in the law firm of Newberry & Goodman, so State Street,
Hartford, Conn. Residence, 834 Asylum Avenue.
Richard Johnston Goodman was born March 23d, 1875, at Hart-
ford, Conn. He is a son of Aaron Cossett Goodman and Annie
Matilda Johnston, who were married April 9th, 1857, at New
York, and had altogether five children, two boys and three
girls, four of whom lived to maturity.
Aaron Cossett Goodman (b. April 23d, 1822 at West Hart-
ford, Conn.; d. July 29th, 1899, at Hartford) spent the greater
part of his life in New York and Hartford, engaged as a book
publisher, and later as President of the Phoenix Mutual Life
Insurance Company of Hartford. He was the son of Aaron
Goodman, a farmer of Hartford, and Alma Cossett of Granby,
Conn. The family came from England in 1632, and settled at
Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Annie Matilda (Johnston) Goodman (b. July 7th, 1835, at
New York) is the daughter of Robert Rhea Johnston, a manu-
facturer and farmer, and Mary Sears Hatch, both of New
York. She is now (Jan., '06) living at Hartford.
Goodman prepared at the Hartford High School, He served as
Lieutenant in the Senior Military Company, was a member of
the Hartford Club and of the Yale Union, and took Two-
Year Honors in Natural Sciences. He received a Second Dis-
pute at the Junior Exhibition and a Dissertation at Com-
mencement.
He has not been married.
After a few months at his home in Hartford, Goodman
entered the Yale Law School (January, 1897,) and was
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graduated with the degree of LL.B. in 1899. During his
last year at the school he was in the New Haven offices of
Case, Ely & Webb. In September, 1899, he opened an
office of his own in Hartford, and in January, 1905, he
formed the law firm of Newberry & Goodman with Leslie
W. Newberry. His decennial letter follows :
'The summer of 1901 I spent in Europe (I forgot to
tell you this for the last 'Record'). After the Sexennial
I returned home and plodded along in the usual way; I
stayed in Hartford most of the summer; in November
I was appointed a lieutenant in Company K, First In-
fantry, C.N.G., and in December was made Captain of
the Company. On February ist, 1903, we were sent to
Waterbury, Connecticut, to do riot duty at the time of
the street-car strike there. I commanded Company K,
and was assigned to protect the car barns. This was the
first assignment, so far as I know, ever given an officer
in this State for duty of this character. In April, 1903,
I was elected a member of the Common Council of Hart-
ford, and was re-elected to the position in 1904. I spent
part of the summer of 1903 in England. In January,
1904, I was elected a member of the Republican Town
Committee of Hartford, which position I still hold. In
September, 1904, I was present at and took part in the
army manoeuvers at Manassas, Virgina. Through all
this time, in spite of politics and military, I have been
practising law with some little success.
"I have been present at various mid-winter dinners in
New York with various results. If I undertook to detail
all of my meetings with classmates it would take more
space than I think I am entitled to. I did run into Harry
Fisher at the inauguration of President Roosevelt in 1905.
Harry was sitting on a beautiful horse in a beautiful Hght
blue uniform. I happened to run across him at that time
as I had been fortunate enough to pull the leg of the
Governor of Connecticut, and was present at the inaugu-
ration as an aide on the staff of the Chief Marshal of
the parade, General Chaffee.
"Aside from the above I think of nothing worthy of
note. I find that politics is politics and that 'war is hell.' "
364 BIOGRAPHIES
William S. Gordon
Partner in the law firm of Lavelle & Gordon,
220 Broadway, New York City.
William Spoohnt Gordon (whose name at matriculation was
Solomon Ephraim Spoohnt) was born Jan. 26th, 1874, at
Odessa, Russia. He is a son of Nathan Spoohnt and Anna
Gordon, who were married in 1867, at Moghilev (the capital
of the province of that name), Russia, and had altogether four
children, three boys and one girl, two of whom lived to
maturity.
Nathan Spoohnt (now Nathan Spoohnt Gordon) was born
at Moghilev, Russia about 1826. He is a retired coal merchant
and has lived principally at Moscow, Vienna, and Odessa.
He served for twenty-five years in the Russian Army, taking
part in two campaigns, in which he received several medals
and other distinctions.
Anna Gordon (whose surname has been adopted by her
husband and children) was born March 9th, 1848, at Moghi-
lev, at which place, and at Odessa she spent her early life. She
came to America with her husband in 1905, and they are now
(Mar., '06) living in New York City.
Gordon after coming* to this country entered the Lancaster, Pa.
High School and came from there to Yale. He received a
First Dispute at the Junior Exhibition and at Commencement.
He has not been married.
"After graduation," wrote Gordon in 1902, "I entered
the Columbia University Law School, but remained in
that institution only until January, 1897, when I found
it more convenient to attend the New York Law School,
where I graduated with the class of 1898 and received
the degree of LL.B. During the same year I was ad-
mitted to the New York Bar and opened an office for the
practice of law at 35 Nassau Street in the City of New
York. During the summer of 1899 I made an extended
tour in Europe, visiting England, France, Germany, Rus-
sia, Austria, and Switzerland. Since my return from
Europe I have traveled considerably in this country."
(jordon's offices are now at 220 Broadway, and he has
been for the past year or two a partner of George A.
Lavelle, under the firm name of Lavelle & Gordon.
OF GRADUATES 365
W. H. Gorman
To be addressed in care of the Class Secretary.
William Hardy Gorman was born in Nashua, N. H., March
29th, 1873. He is a son of Rev. Thomas Lovett Gorman and
Isabel Hardy, who were married March i6th, 1872, at Dresden,
Germany, and had altogether four children, two boys and two
girls.
Thomas Lovett Gorman, a Unitarian Minister, was born in
September, 1831, at Ottawa, Canada. Nashua, N. H., and Co-
lumbus, Ohio, were his principal places of residence; a num-
ber of years were spent in traveling. In after life he became
interested in the real estate business, in which he was engaged
at the time of his death, which took place July 27th, 1891, at
Columbus.
Isabel (Hardy) Gorman was born in 1846 at Leicester,
Leicestershire, England, and died Jan. 19th, 1888, at Columbus,
Ohio. She was the daughter of William Hardy (a Leicester
manufacturer) and Ann Wright.
Gorman prepared for College at the Columbus (Ohio) High and
Latin School. He spent three years at Williams College, then
traveled for a year, and on returning entered Yale and was
graduated with our Class after one year's residence. He re-
ceived a First Dispute at Commencement.
He has not been married.
Upon his return to Columbus after graduation Gorman
took up the management of his father's real estate, which
included a number of house and business parcels. He
was at that time contemplating a course in law, but in
October, 1898, he was taken ill and he has not recovered.
The trouble is mental. Members of the Class wishing
to communicate with the family may obtain their address
from the Class Secretary.
George W. Govert
Partner in the law firm of Govert, Pape & Govert, Blackstone Building,
Quincy, 111. Residence, 15 17 Spring Street.
George Wood Govert was born June 24th, 1874, at Jacksonville,
111. He is the son of Willam Henry Govert, 111. '67; LL.B.
I
366 BIOGRAPHIES
Michigan '70, and Rosa Fannie Wood, who were married Sept.
25th, 1873, at Jacksonville, and had two other children, both
girls.
William Henry Govert (b. Sept. loth, 1844, at Fort Madison,
la.) is a lawyer of Quincy, 111., of which city he was City
Attorney 1874-6. He was State Attorney for Adams Co., 111.,
1876-84. His parents were John Bernard Govert, a merchant
of Fort Madison, and Anna Schoney of Hanover, Germany.
The family came originally from Hanover and settled at Fort
Madison.
Rosa Fannie (Wood) Govert (b. Oct. 6th, 1848, at Jersey-
ville. 111.) is the daughter of George Clinton Wood, a Presby-
terian clergyman of New York City, who was graduated
from Williams in the twenties; and Frances Emmeline Bulke-
ley, of Williamstown, Mass.
Goverf was graduated with the degree of B.A. from Illinois Col-
lege in *95, and entered our Class in the fall of that year. He
received an Oration at Commencement.
He was married at Hannibal, Mo., June 19th, 1902, to Miss
Agnes Worrell, daughter of Stanley Edward Worrell, a manu-
facturer, and Virginia Buswell (Warner) Worrell, both of
Hannibal, and has one child, a boy, George Wood Govert, Jr.
(b. Dec. 24th, 1904, at Quincy, 111.).
As Govert's 1902 report did not arrive in time for publi-
cation in the last "Record" it is here printed for the
first time: "The summer of '96 I spent in Colorado in
camp among the wild animals I had n't known, and the
year following in Quincy, growing accustomed again to
the ways of the civilized man. By the fall of '97 I had
so far outgrown the tin-can habit as to enter the Law
Department of the University of Michigan in safety,
and by lapse of the required time graduated in 1900,
rolled up diploma number three, and marched for the
present drilling grounds. The firm of Govert & Pape,
being short a member by reason of the elevation of Judge
Carter to the Supreme Bench of Illinois, gathered me in,
and in January of 1901 my name was added to that of
the firm. The other members are my father and Theo-
dore Pape, now and for many years past Corporation
Counsel for Quincy. The positions I have held have not
OF GRADUATES 367
been numerous enough nor of sufficient importance to
create any stir. Have done a little talking on various
occasions, have been editorially termed an honor to my
parents, after making an harangue at a Chamber of Com-
merce dinner, and have become pretty well acquainted
with the great American cross-roads schoolhouse during
campaigns. Occasionally I have got out into the moun-
tain country— one summer in Montana, where the glaciers
grow and the tin can has not been heard from, and
another in the Olympics of Washington, where we ran
our own pack train, mastered the diamond hitch, and
chased the elk until they could n't rest."
He added, this spring: 'It has been chiefly a matter
of plugging at the law, getting ahead a little, learning to
be thumped without feeling hurt, and gaining a firmer
grip upon the future. In the summer of 1903 camped
in Montana near the Divide, and put in part of last sum-
mer in the Wisconsin woods. Shall be on the trail again
in a few weeks, and am already preparing my war bag."
Theodore M. Gowans
Assistant Secretary of Gowans & Sons (Inc.).
Residence, 162 Park Street, Buffalo, New York.
Theodore Meech Gowans was born July 19th, 1874, at Buffalo,
N. Y. He is a son of John Gowans and Emily Fitch Hoyt,
who were married Feb. 4th, 1858, at Brewster, Putnam Co.,
N. Y., and had altogether seven children, four boys and three
girls.
John Gowans (b. May 5th, 1834, at Buffalo, N. Y.) of Buf-
falo is a soap manufacturer of the old firm of Gowans & Sons.
His parents were Peter Gowans (also a soap manufacturer) of
Crieff, Scotland, and Mary Strachen of Perth, Scotland. They
came to America from Scotland in 1828, and settled at Buf-
falo, and their other son, James Strachen Gowans, served in
the Civil War.
Emily Fitch (Hoyt) Gowans (b. Aug. loth, 1837, at South
East, Putnam Co., N. Y.) is the daughter of Asa Hoyt, a
farmer and trader of South East, and Sarah Penny of Patter-
son, Putnam Co., N. Y.
368 BIOGRAPHIES
Gowans was prepared for College by a private tutor. He re-
ceived a Philosophical Oration at the Junior Exhibition and a
High Oration at Commencement. He served as Second Vice-
President of the Buffalo Club in Junior year, and was a
member of the University Club, Phi Beta Kappa and Psi U.
He was married March i8th, 1903, at St. Louis, Mo., to Miss
Daisy Chesley Bond, daughter of Young Hance Bond, a phy-
sician and surgeon of St. Louis, and Dean of the Medical
School of the St. Louis University. He has one child, a son,
Benjamin Bond Gowans (b. March 15th, 1904, at Buffalo,
N. Y.).
Except for a three- weeks honeymoon-trip in the spring
of 1903 Gowans has nothing to report but the fact that
he has continued work with Gowans & Sons, Incorpo-
rated, of which concern he is now Assistant Secretary.
Perhaps if he and the Class Secretary had not had a
chance to talk things over together in Buffalo last fall
he would have been more communicative this spring.
He looks much the same, in spite of all his unreasonably
hard work.
The following extracts, reprinted from his sexennial
letter, will serve to complete the biography. "When we
were graduated," he wrote, "I came home to Buffalo
and loafed around the Tennis Club till August. Then
started in to work for Gowans & Sons as under floor
cleaner and barrel roller. I worked for two years in
overalls, going through the different parts of the fac-
tory work, till I got so that I could run the place, and
did— for two months— while my brother was in Europe.
When he came home we thought it would be a good idea
for me to know some law, so, in September, 1898, I
entered the Buffalo Law School, at the same time clerk-
ing in the law firm of Moot, Sprague, Brownell & Marcy.
I was graduated in 1900, and took a trip to Paris. Left
Paris for home the last of September, and went to St.
Louis to visit my brother-in-law. Stayed in St. Louis
till Christmas, 1900, and then came back here to work.
Went into the factory for another year, and am now in
the office keeping books and ^learning the business.' "
OF GRADUATES 369
Henry Grant
Teaching at the Horace Mann School, 120th Street and Broadway,
New York City. Residence, 402 West 124th Street.
Permanent mail address, "The Trilliums,"
Hamilton, Madison Co., N. Y.
AsAHEL Henry Grant was born Nov. 9th, 1875, at Stirling, N. J.
He is a son of Henry Martyn Grant and Mary Jeannette Put-
nam, who were married August 19th, 1863, at Cortland, N. Y.,
and had three other children, all boys, two of whom lived to
maturity.
Henry Martyn Grant (b. June 3d, 1836, at Urumiyah,
Persia; d. Feb. 13th, 1892, at Eau Claire, Wis.) was a Con-
. gregational clergyman (graduate of Union Theological Semi-
nary, N. Y., in the Class of '63). He spent the greater part of
his life in the states of New York, Missouri, and Massachusetts,
and at Charleston, S. C. He was the son of Asahel Grant, a
physician of Utica, N. Y., and Judith Lathrop Campbell of
Cherry Valley, N. Y. Asahel Grant left his practice in Utica
to go as a missionary to Urumiyah. The family came from
Dorchester, England, in 1630, and settled at Dorchester, Mass.
Mary Jeannette (Putnam) Grant (b. April loth, 1836, at
Dryden, N. Y.) is a daughter of Hamilton Putnam (son of
Dr. Elijah Putnam), a merchant and magistrate, and Jeannette
Cleveland (daughter of Gen. Erastus Cleveland), both of
Madison, N. Y. She is now (Jan., '06) living at New York
City.
Grant prepared for Yale at Andover and entered with the Class.
He received a First Dispute at the Junior Exhibition and a
Second Dispute at Commencement.
He was married at Hamilton, Madison Co., N. Y., Oct. 28th,
1898, to Miss Mary Evelyn Wickwire, daughter of Charles
E. Wickwire, a farmer of Hamilton, and Secretary of the
Hamilton Dairy Co., and has one child, a daughter, Evelyn
Putnam Grant (b. March ist, 1904, at Pittsburgh, Pa.).
With the exception of a short time with the publishing
house of Dodd, Mead & Company, Grant has been con-
stantly engaged in teaching. He spent one year with the
Bridgewater State Normal School, Bridgewater, Massa-
chusetts, one year as Instructor in Latin at the Waban
School, Waban, Massachusetts, and three years as Pro-
fessor of Latin and Greek in the Westerleigh Institute,
370 BIOGRAPHIES
West New Brighton, Staten Island, New York. The
next four years (1901-1905), he spent in Pittsburgh,
two as Professor of Latin in the Pittsburgh Academy,
the largest preparatory school in Pennsylvania, and two
in the Shadyside Academy. In June, 1905, he resigned
the latter position to accept his present appointment as
teacher of Latin in the Horace Mann School of New
York. His summers have been spent in rest and study,
mainly at Hamilton, New York.
As the Secretary knew that Grant was doing post-
graduate work in the Department of Classical Philology
at Columbia, he wrote to him for further information
concerning that and for some details of his duties as a
teacher, receiving the following reply: "My post-grad-
uate work has been, in general, Roman Epigraphy, ad-
vanced work in Prose Composition, and work in Education.
The most important work is done with Professors James
C. Egbert, and Nelson G. McCrea. In the past five years
I have been teaching Latin to youngsters of assorted sizes
and ages, from twelve or thirteen years in first-year classes
to the last year of preparatory school work. At present
I have only third and fourth-year classes— Caesar, Cicero,
Prose Composition. The Horace Mann School, as you
probably know, is the Observation School of Teachers'
College, the school of Education of Columbia — so I am
supposed to present an object lesson in teaching my divi-
sion of the subject to Teachers' College students, and
then in turn to observe and criticise their practice teach-
ing.
"My work has been badly broken into the past year by
illness, so that since returning to work I have had to let
most of my graduate work go, for the present. I am at
last feeling quite well again and expect to do some work
this summer. If I am 'talking for publication' I wish
you would make as little of my humdrum history as pos-
sible— if you will let it go at facts and dates I shall ap-
preciate it. It is of so little interest to me, I cannot be-
lieve it can be of any to others."
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OF GRADUATES 371
Harris R. Greene
Mechanical Engineeir, 299 Broadway, New York City.
Residence, Summit, N. J.
Permanent mail address, 1406 Chapel Street, New Haven, Conn.
Harris Ray Greene was born Nov. 4th, 1873, at Worcester,
Mass. He is a son of Harris Ray Greene, Brown '54, and
Maria Antoinette Seamans, who were married Oct. 9th, 1856,
at Springfield, Mass., and had altogether five children, two
boys and three girls, three of whom lived to maturity. A
brother was in Yale, '90.
Harris Ray Greene the elder (b. Aug. i6th, 1829, at North
Kingstown, R. I.; d. Aug. i8th, 1892, at Wickford, R. I.)
was a Baptist clergyman and educator, the author of many
text books, Principal of the Oread Institute, Worcester, Mass.,
etc. Besides Worcester his principal places of residence were
Cambridge, Mass., and Brooklyn, N. Y. His parents were
James Greene, a farmer, and Lucy Sherman (a descendant of
Roger Sherman), both of North Kingstown. The family came
from England in 1636, and settled in Rhode Island.
Maria Antoinette (Seamans) Greene (b. June 24th, 1833,
at Springfield, Mass.) is the daughter of Otis Arnold Seamans,
a lawyer, and Emelia Steele, both of Springfield. She is now
(Oct., '05) living at New York City.
Greene prepared for College under a private tutor. He received
a First Colloquy at the Junior Exhibition and at Commence-
ment, and sang tenor in the College Choir and in the Apollo
Glee and Banjo Club.
He was married (i) at New Haven, Conn., Jan. 24th, 1901, to
Miss Edith Rebekah Maltby, daughter of Theodore Augustus
Maltby of New Haven, and has one child, a daughter, Edith
Maltby Greene (b. Nov. 6th, 1901, at New Haven). Mrs.
Greene died three hours after this daughter's birth, while
giving birth to a second child (still-born).
He was married (2) Sept. 19th, 1904, at New Haven, to Miss
Alice Thomas Ailing, daughter of Albert H. Ailing of New
Haven.
After a short experience in the brokerage business,
Greene decided to fit himself for consulting engineering
work. With this end in view he obtained a position with
the Babcock & Wilcox Company of New York City,
makers of Patent Water-Tube Steam-Boilers. "I have
been connected with the Babcock & Wilcox Company/'
372 BIOGRAPHIES
he wrote this spring, ''the Fitzgibbons Boiler Company,
the W. N. Best American Calorific Company (Oil and
Coal-Tar Burners and Furnaces, ii Broadway, New
York), and the Parson Manufacturing Company (Com-
bustion Engineers). My occupation is that of a Me-
chanical Engineer, especially furnace and boiler effi-
ciencies. My time has been spent in work and evening
study along the line of my profession and in the social
sciences. My vacations have been brief and hurried."
Greene's writings have been confined to collaboration
upon engineering catalogues, technical and descriptive.
In reply to a request for details he wrote, "I cannot but
feel that my work has been far from brilliant and original
enough to warrant any interest to the reader.
"I 'm trying to 'pull out' this little game of life (little
only because it 's short) the best I can. Some few things
I have thought out, over others I am still at sea. My
ideas towards social conditions have greatly changed with
experience, and I find myself far more conservative as I
grow older. I have had a hard struggle, and the end is
not yet, but I have been blessed with good health. If
this continues I can succeed, I am sure."
Professor Herbert E. Gregory
Silliman Professor of Geology in Yale University and Associate Editor of
the American Journal of Science.
Address, Yale Station, New Haven, Conn.
Herbert Ernest Gregory was born Oct. 15th, 1869, at Middle-
ville, Barry Co., Mich. He is a son of George Anthony
Gregory and Jane Ann Bross, who were married Dec. 27th,
1845, at North Adams, Hillsdale Co., Mich., and had alto-
gether thirteen children, five boys and eight girls, twelve of
whom lived to maturity.
George Anthony Gregory (b. Aug. 20th, 1822, at East Sparta,
Livingston Co., N. Y.) spent his boyhood at his birthplace
and at Akron, Erie Co., N. Y. At the age of fourteen he was
a deckhand on one of the Lake Erie steamboats. He after-
wards worked in a machine shop, and at twenty was engaged
as a farmer, in which occupation he continued for many years.
OF GRADUATES 373
He has lived at Moscow, Hillsdale, and Middleville, Mich.,
and Crete, Neb. He is now (Jan., '06) living at Council
Bluffs, la. His parents were James Gregory, a farmer of
East Sparta, N. Y., and Margaret Brewer, of Shamokin, Pa.
The family came originally from Scotland, and settled at
Norwich, Conn.
Jane Ann (Bross) Gregory (b. March 8th, 1828, at Monte-
zuma, Cayuga Co., N. Y.; d. Oct. 14th, 1881, at Crete, Neb.)
was the daughter of Luke Bross and Theodocia Britain of
Kensington, Philadelphia, Pa.
Gregory was graduated at Gates College in 1890 with the degree
of B.S. He taught for some years, took his B.A. at Gates in
1895 and entered '96, the following fall. He received a Phil-
osophical Oration at Commencement and was elected a mem-
ber of Phi Beta Kappa.
He has not been married.
Gregory was a graduate student for three years at Yale
and Harvard, receiving his Ph.D. from Yale in 1899.
As he also did some work at Amherst in 1893, it will be
seen that he has had a varied collegiate experience. His
faculty positions have been as follows : Assistant in Bi-
ology 1896-98; Instructor in Physical Geography 1898-
1901 ; Assistant Professor of Physiography 1901-04;
and, since March 21st, 1904, Silliman Professor of Ge-
ology. In 1903 he became one of the nine members of
the University Library Committee, succeeding Professor
Dana. He has also served upon the committees on Im-
provement of Instruction (''Snap Course Committee")
and on Biological Instruction. Since 1904 he has been
an associate editor of the "American Journal of Science,'*
and he is a Fellow of the National Geographic Society,
the Geological Society of America, and the Association
of American Geographers.
Prior to Sexennial his summers were spent working
for the United States Geological Survey in different parts
of the country. His post-sexennial diary is as follows :
"1902: Summer vacation spent in Europe in company
with C. H. Warren, 'g6 S., some general travels but
mostly study of glaciers and climbs in the Alps. 1902-3 :
Taught classes in Yale and was Principal of New Haven
374 BIOGRAPHIES
Evening Schools. 1903 : Summer spent in Tennessee
and adjoining States, lecturing at the Summer School of
the South (Knoxville), conducting geological excur-
sions, making geological investigations. 1903-4: Taught
at Yale and had charge of Government investigations in
underground water in Connecticut. 1904: Summer, lec-
tured at Summer School of the South, June and July.
Worked on Connecticut geology August and September.
1904-5 : Taught at Yale, October to February. Trip
to Bermuda in March. April to July spent at Yale In-
firmary, guarded by Keller, Schevill, and Oviatt. 1905 :
Summer at Glenwood Springs, Colorado, with Day, re-
cuperating. 1905-6: Taught one class October to Febru-
ary 15. Then trip to Arizona and California, for health
and recreation."
When Greg arrived in Colorado in 1905 he brought
with him a brand-new pipe and a signed appeal from
some of the New Haven crowd that the Secretary would
teach the bearer how to smoke. It took some months to
do it, but done it was. "I toiled after it, sir, as some
men toil after virtue," replied Charles Lamb, when Dr.
Parr asked him how he had acquired his power of
"puffing out smoke like some furious enchanter." Thus
it was with Greg. Little by little, and day by day, strug-
gling patiently with each weak moment, he clothed him-
self in that protecting habit which will be for him an
irreplaceable solace in all the years to come.
F. L. Griffith
Broker and President of the Columbus Stock Exchange.
Office 20 East Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio.
Residence, Station A, Route s, Columbus.
Frank Libby Griffith was born Oct. 15th, 1873, at Taylorsville,
111. He is a son of William Chenowith Griffith, State Normal
School, Bloomington, III., '68; and Elnora Libby, State Normal
School, Bloomington, 111., '71, who were married Dec. 25th,
1871, at Ottawa, 111., and had four other children, all boys,
three of whom lived to maturity.
OF GRADUATES 375
William Chenowith Griffith (b. May Sth, 1845, at Marshall,
111.; d. Jan. 13th, 1892, at Indianapolis, Ind.) was Professor
of Mathematics, State Normal School, Bloomington, 111., from
1870-1874, and from 1874-1892 was engaged in the loan busi-
ness at Indianapolis. His parents were Warden H. Griffith, of
Marshall, 111., and Elizabeth Black. The family came origin-
ally from Wales, and settled at Baltimore, Md.
Elnora (Libby) Griffith (b. Sept. 8th, 1851, at Ottawa, 111.)
is the daughter of Francis Libby, a farmer of Ottawa, and
Jane Brown. She is now (Jan., '06) living at Indianapolis.
Griffith prepared at the Indianapolis High School. He was a
member of the Yale Union, served as Vice-President of the
Freshman Union, and received a First Colloquy at the Junior
Exhibition and at Commencement.
He was married at Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 17th, 1899, to Miss
Flora Adeline Schneider, daughter of Theophilus Huffman
Schneider of Columbus, and has one child, a son, Robert Libby
Griffith (b. Dec. 13th, 1904, near Columbus).
Griffith writes: "After devoting three years to the
establishment of the 'Daily Law Reporter/ directly after
I returned from a trip to Europe, subsequent to gradua-
tion, I succeeded in placing said paper on a paying basis.
I sold the same for cash in 1900, and with my money
purchased stock in the Ohio Trust Company of Colum-
bus and became Assistant Secretary and Treasurer of
same, also Director. It is the biggest trust company in
Columbus." (During this period Griffith was also em-
ployed by the United States Fidelity & Guaranty Com-
pany to look after its local court bond business.) "In 1902
I resigned to enter the more congenial brokerage busi-
ness. I was instrumental in forming the Columbus Stock
Exchange, of which I was a charter member. All my
time has been devoted to the strictly local securities dealt
in on the Columbus Stock Exchange only, and in 1905
I was elected President of the Exchange, an office which
I now hold." His headquarters are with Messrs. White
Wagner & Co.
"My home is on the edge of the golf links of the
Arlington Country Club. I am the only scratch man
376 BIOGRAPHIES
on our golf team and for two years have held the local
championship in golf. Last year I became the winner of
the Club Tennis Tournament, although I have practically
laid aside my racquet.
"I am a member of the Columbus Club, the Ohio
Club, and the Arlington Country Club, also a member of
the newly formed *Sun Fish Club,' a very exclusive
fishing club that is building a club house at Buckeye
Lake, a large body of water near Columbus, Ohio. Last
fall I won the Ohio State Handicap Golf Tourney, defeat-
ing Harold Weber, semi-finalist in the National Cham-
pionship of same year, by eleven up and ten to go.
"I hope," he adds, "that you will find this complete.
It certainly sounds conceited enough." It does not sound
conceited to the Secretary. Anything that Griff does he
does mightily. In college he was inordinately fond of
tennis, but even that passion was as nothing compared
with his post-graduate love of golf, and it is not sur-
prising that his letters should be full of it. Last fall, ten
minutes after the Secretary had arrived at Griff's new
home (at 9 p.m.) for an overnight visit, he was taken
forth again by his host and led over to the golf club.
Bobum Griff, his son and heir, is already in training ; and
over the family mantel, on which are several silver tro-
phies, hangs a huge reminder of the game in the shape
of a "driver" six or seven feet long, by way of ornament.
Or maybe it is a "niblick."
Maltland F. Griggs
Lawyer. 32 Liberty Street, New York City.
Residence, Ardsley-on-Hudson, New York.
Maitland Fuller Griggs was born Feb. 12th, 1872, at Granby,.
Conn. He is a son of Joseph Fuller Griggs and Helen M.
Bagg, who were married at West Springfield, Mass., in 1868,.
and had one other child, a son.
Joseph Fuller Griggs (b. at Somers, Conn, in 184S ; d. July
24th, 1878, at Hartford, Conn.) spent the greater part of his
life at Springfield, Mass., holding various clerical positions.
OF GRADUATES 377
He was the son of Joseph Maitland Griggs of Springfield,
Mass., and Elvira Fuller of Somers, Conn. Joseph Maitland
Griggs was General Passenger Agent of the Boston & Albany-
Railroad.
Helen M. (Bagg) Griggs (b. Dec. 20th, 1842, at West
Springfield, Mass.; d. Sept. 6th, 1905, at Hartford) was the
daughter of John Bagg, a farmer, and Elvira Brown, both of
West Springfield.
Griggs prepared at the Hartford High School and was in busi-
ness for a few years before entering College. He was Class
Deacon, a member of the Sophomore German and Junior
Promenade Committees, editor of the "Lit," President of the
Hartford Club, and {'g4-g6) Waterman Scholar. He served
on the Executive Committee of the Yale Union, was Chair-
man of the Membership Committee of the Y. M. C. A. and led
the Junior Year Class in Bible Study. A Philosophical Ora-
tion at the Junior Exhibition and a High Oration at Com-
mencement. Phi Beta Kappa. A. D. Phi. Bones. Chi Delta
Theta.
He was married at New York City, Nov. gth, 1898, to Miss
Carolyn Cowles Lee, daughter of Charles Northam Lee of
Farmington, Conn., and has three children, a girl and two
boys Dorothy Maitland Griggs (b. July 29th, 1899, at Mon-
mouth Beach, N. J.), Maitland Lee Griggs (b. Sept 13th,
1902, at New York City), and Northam Lee Griggs (b. March
6th, 1905, at Ardsley-on-Hudson, N. Y.).
"In July, 1896," wrote Griggs in 1902, "I entered busi-
ness and upon the study of law at the New York Law
School, continuing at both together for two years. In
June, 1898, was admitted to New York Bar, and in the
fall of that year was married. Entered upon active and
independent practice of law in January, 1899, at 32 Lib-
erty Street, and have pursued it without interruption —
hardly for vacations— at the same place.''
**Have pursued the practice of the law, with only slight
interruption for vacations. No travels or noteworthy
events," he wrote this spring. He has in some respects
so important a practice that he was asked to amplify this
answer.
"I have just returned from a trip West," he responded,
"and find your second communication asking for partic-
378 BIOGRAPHIES
ulars about myself, and as any word will probably relieve
your mind more than no word at all, I will attempt to
enlarge a little on my previous history as written to you.
I am sorry that it cannot be interesting talk, as you sug-
gest. As to the courts in which I have practised, I would
say that I have been in court very little, most of my
practice being in the nature of counsel work, and work
in the Surrogates' Court. I do not think there have been
any particularly interesting experiences. In fact, Clar-
ence, I fear that the record of an old, settled down, mar-
ried man like myself, would be quite uninteresting. I
will say that during the last year a great deal of my
time and nervous energy has gone into the building of a
country house at Ardsley-on-Hudson, which house is one
of the first examples in this section of the country of a
complete fire-proof country house built of concrete rein-
forced with steel. I doubt if this would be of any general
interest, but it may be of some to you. It is too bad that
we have so few chances of seeing each other, but I find
that a steady commuter is apt to see very little of his
friends."
Richard C. Haldeman
Electrical Engineer. Harrisburg, Pa.
Residence, 219 South Front Street.
Richard Cameron Haldeman was born July 13th, 1874, at Har-
risburg, Pa. He is a son of Richard Jacobs Haldeman, '51,
and Margaretta Brua Cameron, who were married in 1869, at
Harrisburg, Pa., and had two other children, one boy (Donald
Cameron Haldeman, '93) and one girl.
Richard Jacobs Haldeman (b. May 19th, 1831, at Harris-
burg, Pa.; d. Oct. ist, 1885, at Harrisburg) was a representa-
tive for the 15th District of Pennsylvania in the United States
Congress, and held the offices of Secretary of the United
States Legation in France, and Secretary of the United States
Legation in St. Petersburg, Russia. Most of his life was spent
at Harrisburg; Paris, France; Heidelberg and Berlin, Ger-
many. His parents were Jacob Miller Haldeman, an iron
master of Harrisburg, and Eliza Ewing Jacobs of Cornwall
Furnaces, Pa. The family came from Neufchatel, Switzer-
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OF GRADUATES 379
land, in 1722, and settled in Rapho Township, Lancaster, Co.,
Pa.
Margaretta Brua (Cameron) Haldeman was born at Middle-
town, Pa., at which town and at Harrisburg and Washington,
D. C, she spent her early life. Her parents were Simon
Cameron, a United States Senator, printer, contractor and
banker, and Margaretta Brua, both of Harrisburg. She is
now (Mar., '06) living at Harrisburg.
Haldeman prepared for Yale at Andover. He received a Second
Dispute at the Junior Exhibition and a First Dispute at Com-
mencement. He was a member of the University Club and of
D. K. E.
He has not been married.
Haldeman went abroad the summer after graduation, en-
tered Johns Hopkins University in the fall, and left there
in 1898 with the degrees of Electrical Engineer and Doc-
tor of Philosophy. He then began a connection with the
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company of
Pittsburgh, which lasted until December, 1905. His
work with this concern was of an arduous description —
long hours, and, at times, great strain. Especially was
this the case when he was called upon to assist at or to
superintend some protracted experiment, requiring his
presence for thirty or forty hours at a stretch.
The Secretary had an evening with him in Pittsburgh
a little while before he left Westinghouse, found him
surprisingly reduced in weight since 1896, and asked for
some particulars. "Saluting aloofly his fate he made
swift with his story," like the man in Kipling, and his
story was in its way quite as interesting as that other
fellow's and exhibited much the same cheerful deter-
mination. It is probably a good thing for Dick that he
left that employment. With the training he now has he
can easily command a choice of positions less likely to
wear him out before his time.
He signalized his freedom last winter by descending
upon New York just after Drown's historic invasion, but
he did not stay so long as Drown. At Decennial he be-
came conspicuous by accepting a challenge at the Gradu-
380 BIOGRAPHIES
ates' Club one evening that he could not raise an addi-
tional thousand dollars from '96 for the Alumni Fund
within ten minutes. A crowd of '96 men were singing
in the front room when he began operations, and before
the ten minutes were up they were singing louder than
ever and Dick had the pledges for the thousand in his
hand. The thing was subsequently declared off because
of a dispute about the conditions involved, but it was an
illuminating incident.
Elbert B. Hamlin
Partner in the law firm of Hamlin and Conklin, 59 Wall Street,
New York City. Residence, The Yale Club.
Elbert Bacon Hamlin was born Nov. 21st, 1874, at Troy, N. Y.
He is a son of Teunis Slingerland Hamlin, Union '67, D.D. '86,
and Frances Bacon, who were married Feb. 4th, 1873, at
Ypsilanti, Mich., and had one other child, a son, Francis Bacon
Hamlin, now in the Class of 1909. (See Appendix.)
Teunis Slingerland Hamlin (b. May 31st, 1847, at Glenville,
N. Y.), after teaching for a brief period became a clergyman
and is now one of the best known Washington preachers. He
is President of the Board of Trustees of Howard University,
Washington, D. C, and was for a time President of the Uni-
versity. He also writes for periodicals. He was appointed by
both Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt one of the five gov-
ernors of the National St. Elizabeth's Hospital for the Insane
in Washington. His parents were Solomon Curtis Hamlin,
a farmer of Glenville, N. Y., and Ypsilanti, Mich., and Chris-
tiana Slingerland of Albany, N. Y. The family came from
England in 1639, and settled at Barnstable, Mass.
Frances (Bacon) Hamlin (b. May 31st, 1847, at Marine
City, Mich.) is the daughter of James Harvey Bacon, a lumber-
man of Marine City, Vassar, and Ypsilanti, Mich., and Amanda
Ward of Marine City and Vassar.
Hamlin prepared at the Westminster School (Dobb's Ferry,
N. Y.). He received a Second Colloquy at the Junior Exhibi-
tion and at Commencement. Played the role of the "Re-
cruiting Sergeant" in the Third Joint Play, and was a member
of the University Club and of D. K. E.
He has not been married.
Hamlin was graduated from the New York Law School
with the degree of LL.B. in 1898, and after some ex-
OF GRADUATES 381
perience in the offices of Manice, Abbott & Perry he
began practice in New York City under his own name.
His cases occasionally get into the newspapers, but not
his receiverships, which have ranged from bucket-shops
to bathing-suits. He is an usher in the Brick Church,
he served on the Floor Committee of the Presidential
Inaugural balls in 1900 and 1904, and he is a mem-
ber of the Library Committee at the Yale Club, where
he has lived since May, 1901. During the year 1904-5 he
gave a course of lectures on Commercial Law to the
Young Men's Christian Association. His decennial letter
follows :
"From 1902 to 1906: How long a time and how little
really accomplished ! Still, it seems but last month since
we were writing for that 1902 book. The story of the
last four years with me is one of incessant but pleasant
work, for which, and for the health to do it, I 'm very
grateful.
*ln 1902 I moved my law office to 59 Wall Street,
where I still am. My business grew, so that from time
to time I was able to enlarge my facilities. In May, 1906,
Conklin and I formed a partnership at 59 Wall Street,
and are now congenially associated in comfortable quar-
ters with some half dozen assistants. My waking— and
sleeping— hours have been absorbed with work. I've
had one vacation of six weeks, when, in the summer of
1905, I took an automobile trip through France and Eng-
land. I Ve been interested in some commercial enter-
prises, including the St. Nicholas Ice Skating Rink in
New York, which two associates and I acquired in 1905,
and through which I have been trying to promote inter-
collegiate hockey. For amusement I 've been addicted
almost solely to automobiling, having owned four of
the creatures to date, and having made some study of the
mechanics involved, in many tours through New York
and the New England States. My longest single ride
was 1500 miles, through seven States. And now to work,
for this is enough of T— too much, in fact; and we 've
got only five years in which to accomplish something
worth while for the next book."
382 BIOGRAPHIES
Paul D. Hamlin
Secretary and Treasurer, Sargent Lumber Company,
Room 67, 163 Randolph Street, Chicago.
Residence, 87 Rush Street.
Paul Delano Hamux was born June 24th, 1873, at Smethport,
Pa. He is a son of Delano Richmond Hamlin, and Alice
Eugenia McCoy, who were married May 3d, 1871, at Smeth-
port. and had one other child, a daughter.
Delano Richmond Hamlin (b. Aug. loth, 1847, at Smethport ;
d. May 31st, 1884, at Smethport), a lawyer, was the son of
Byron Delano Hamlin, also a lawj'er of Smethport, and Har-
riet Richmond Holmes of Guilford, N. Y. The family came
from England in or before the year 1675, and settled in Barn-
stable, Mass.
Alice Eugenia (McCoy) Hamlin (b. Feb. 26th, 1849. at
Smethport) is the daughter of William Young McCoy, a doc-
tor, who was bom at Basking Ridge, N. J., and died at Smeth-
port; and Charlotte Darling, of Gill, Mass.
Hamlin prepared for Yale at St. Paul's School in Concord, and
while at Yale was a member of the St. Paul's Club. He re-
ceived a First Colloquy at the Junior Exhibition and at Com-
mencement
He was married at Chicago, 111., Oct. 30th, 1900. to Miss Sallie
Shoenberger of Chicago, daughter of George K. Shoenberger.
Mrs. Hamlin died suddenly at Chicago, March i6th, 1904, of
blood poisoning.
Hamlin studied law for six months or so after leaving
college, principally because so many of his people have
been professional men that it seemed the only thing to do.
He found, however, that it did not appeal to him, and
he gave it up. After traveling for a while he served
from May ist to November ist, 1898, as Secretary and
Treasurer of the Newark Natural Gas & Fuel Company
(Newark, Ohio). He resigned from this position be-
cause of an attack of typhoid fever, traveled for some
months, and on May ist, 1899, went into the Garden
City Wire & Spring Company of Chicago, controlled
by the Chamleys. A little over two months later the
American Steel & Wire Company absorbed this plant
and closed it up. Off started Hamlin again upon further
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travels, which lasted until he became Secretary and Treas-
urer of the Sargent Lumber Company of Chicago on
May 1st, 1900. He is now one of the Directors of this
concern and of James C. Woodley & Company, and Vice-
President of the Maywood Lumber Company.
His decennial letter says : "I have traveled a good deal
in this country at odd moments. Was married most
happily October 30th, 1900; a widower March i6th,
1904."
With the exception of Arnold Scudder, Mundy, and
Charnley, there are none of the old crowd whom Hamlin
sees at all often nowadays. His tastes and inclinations
have led him in other directions and into other and more
stimulating circles. Chicago, with her unresting hordes,
would seem an improbable sort of place to afford any
satisfaction to a man like Paul who is obviously not inter-
ested in "the unseemly obstacle race which they dignify
by the name of a career"; but this cartoon view of the
city is wholly superficial. Chicago is as many-sided as
is any other port of call for travelers. And if Hamlin
wished to (which he does n't) he could show you the way
to a cosmopolitan little set whose conversation has noth-
ing whatever to do with the wheels of commerce.
George B. Hatch
Lawyer. 15 William Street, New York City. (See Appendix.)
George Bates Hatch was born Aug. 29th, 1874, at Hanover,
N. H. He is a son of John Eddy Hatch, Dartmouth, '69, and
Caroline Bates, who were married at Cincinnati, O., and had
one other son.
John Eddy Hatch (b. July 5th, 1846, at Strafford, Vt. ; d. Dec.
1st, 1880, at Strafford) was a patent attorney of Cincinnati, O.
He was the son of Royal Hatch of Strafford, and Marian
Chandler. Royal Hatch was a manufacturer, merchant, farmer,
and Justice of the Peace. The family came from England in
the year 1626, and settled at Falmouth, Mass.
Caroline (Bates) Hatch (b. at Cincinnati, O. ; d. 1876, at
Cincinnati) was the daughter of George Henery Bates, a mer-
384 BIOGRAPHIES
chant and steamboat owner, and Caroline Augusta Perry, both
of Cincinnati.
Hatch was one of our representatives on the Track Team when
in College (1894-5-6) and played in the Yale-Oxford and Yale-
Cambridge Games. He won first place in the 120 yard hurdles
against Harvard in 1895, and won one other first, two seconds,
and a third at other meets. In Junior year he was a substi-
tute on the 'Varsity Football Team. He received a Second
Colloquy at Commencement, and was a member of the Cin-
cinnati Club and of D. K. E.
He has not been married.
"No travels since 1902," writes Hatch, "except vacation
each summer canoeing in Canada. The usual business
experiences. Stump speaker for Republicans each cam-
paign till last fall, when I was on Jerome's campaign
committee."
Hatch rather overdid himself in behalf of District
Attorney Jerome, and has had to take things easy all
this year in order to build himself up again. His sex-
ennial letter, giving an account of his life up to 1902, is
here reprinted:
"After leaving New Haven I spent the summer hunt-
ing and fishing in the region between the Ottawa River
and Hudson Bay, and in the fall entered the Harvard
Law School. There, with 200 others, including a hand-
ful from our own Class, I toiled three years, working
half the summers and spending the other half in the
woods. In my second year I became an editor of the
"Harvard Law Review," and the last year had charge of
the Note Department of that magazine. I graduated
(LL.B. cum laude) in 1899, took a trip in the woods of
Northern Maine, and then started as the bottommost
clerk in the office of Anderson & Anderson, Attorneys,
35 Wall Street, New York.
"After a profitable year there, the position of Managing
Clerk for Mitchell & Mitchell was offered me, and I ac-
cepted. I got a six weeks' vacation between places, and
used it to see the Paris Exposition and to climb a hill or
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two in Switzerland. Then I returned to a most enjoyable
year's work.
"The end of this year (1901) seemed the psychological
moment to hang out a shingle of my own, and I did, in
the company of my friend and law-school classmate,
Philip J. McCook, Trinity, '95." (See Appendix.)
Hatch has lived in the summers with the Yale colony
on Staten Island, which numbers among its members
Ben Gilbert and Norman A. Williams, Fay, '93, Smythe
and Sumner, '97, etc.
Franke S. Havens, Ph. D.
Chemical Engineer.
3500 Gray's Ferry Road, Philadelphia, Pa.
Franke Stuart Havens was born at Hartford, Conn., Dec. 17th,
1871. He is the only son of Francis Wayland JHavens and
Eliza Wright Brainerd, who were married May i8th, 1870,
at Haddam, Conn., and had one other child, a daughter!
Francis Wayland Havens (b. Dec. 2d, 1845, at Wethersfield,
Conn.) has spent the greater part of his life at Hartford, where
he now (Jan., '06) resides, engaged in the insurance business
and as a journalist. In 1898 he was Grand Master of Masons
in Connecticut. His parents were Hiram Havens, a manufac-
turer of W^ethersfield and Hartford, and Mary Welles Adams
of Wethersfield. Captain Elijah Wells, who took part in the
battles of Bunker Hill and Trenton, and Jabez Arnold, who
took part in the battle of Bunker Hill, are ancestors in direct
line. The family came to Boston, Mass., c. 1636 from England,
and in 1637 settled at Hartford, Conn.
Eliza Wright (Brainerd) Havens (b. Sept. 24th, 1843, at
Haddam, Conn.) is the daughter of Martin Brooks Brainerd,
a farmer of Haddam, and Mary Robertson Baldwin of Mans-
field, and, at the time of her marriage, of Willimantic, Conn,
Havens served as Lieutenant in the Senior Military Company
while in College, took Two Year Honors in Natural Sciences,
and was on the Executive Committee of the Hartford Club.
He belonged to the Yale Union and to Beta Theta Pi, and was
one of the three '96 undergraduates elected to Sigma Xi. A
Second Dispute at the J-unior Exhibition and an Oration at
Commencement.
He has not been married. (See Appendix.)
386 BIOGRAPHIES
Havens was for three years assistant to Professor Gooch
at the Kent Laboratory at Yale. "After receiving degree
of Ph.D. in 1899/' said his sexennial letter, "I took a
position with the New York Silk Conditioning Works.
Afterwards was elected Secretary and Managing Direc-
tor of same Company and built present new conditioning
house for them. Resigned September, 1901, to take a
position as Chemical Expert for Franklin H. Kalbfleisch
Chemical Company and Erie Chemical Works, with head-
quarters at 35 Burling Slip, New York City. Residence
removed to Hartford, Connecticut . . ."
He has written a number of chemical research articles
and some special articles for textile journals. In answer
to the request for his decennial biography he replied,
"Mostly working. Four last years with F. H. Kalbfleisch
Company of New York, Manager Export and Alum de-
partments. Now resting in Philadelphia. Assistant to
the President of Harrison Brothers & Company, Incor-
porated. Travels — no long distance cups, but very thor-
ough. If there 's any square mile between the Dakotas
and Maine or Florida and Northern Canada (provided
it 's not under water), that I have n't covered, I would
like to have some one come and tell me about it so that I
can go there." He added later, "If you care to do so you
may publish in the class notices that I have been elected
First Vice-President of the National Bauxite Company,
and that my address is as above. Our Company has
deposits of aluminum ore equalled by none except the
Pittsburgh Reduction Company. Am just starting on
a trip West, so I am writing this in haste to give you
address as promised." (This position he holds in addi-
tion to that with Harrison Brothers.)
* Emory Hawes
Lawyer. Died November 14th, 1904, in New York City.
Emory Hawes was bom Jan. 31st, 1875, at New York City. He
was a son of Granville Parker Hawes, Bowdoin, '60, and
OF GRADUATES 387
Euphemia Anderson Vose, who were married March 15th,
1870, at New York City, and had two other sons, James Ander-
son Hawes, '94, and one who died before maturity.
Granville Parker Hawes (b. July 3d, 1838, at East Corinth,
Me.; d. Dec. 29th, 1893, at New York City), whose father was
a farmer and justice of East Corinth, was a Judge of the City
Court of the City of New York and a School Commissioner.
He served as a volunteer in the Civil War, holding the rank
of General by brevet. His ancestors came over from England
in 1620, on the ship "Mayflower," and settled at Yarmouth,
Mass.
Euphemia Anderson (Vose) Hawes (b. July 12th, 1841, at
New York City) is the daughter of Charles L. Vose, a mer-
chant and foreign shipper, and Sarah Anthony Anderson,
both of New York City.
Hawes prepared at Cutler's School in New York City. He
served as Treasurer of the Freshman Union, took a College
Prize of the First Grade in English Composition in Sopho-
more year, and, as one of the speakers at the Junior Exhibi-
tion, received a Second Ten Eyck Prize. In Sophomore year
he was offered an editorship on the "Courant," which he de-
clined, and later he declined a nomination for an editorship on
the "Lit." He was a member of the University Club, D. K. E.,
and Chi Delta Theta.
He was unmarried.
In the fall of 1896 Hawes began the study of the law, at
first in the New York Law School, where he remained
for about two years, and later in the offices of Messrs.
Butler, Notman, Joline & Mynderse, and of Messrs.
Curtis, Mallet-Prevost & Colt. He was admitted to the
Bar in due course and up to 1902 had an office with the
Hon. Theron G. Strong; but owing to a severe illness
which left him in delicate health, he never engaged
actively in the practice of his profession. This illness
also necessitated his withdrawal from Squadron A of
New York, in which he had enlisted at the outbreak of
the Spanish-American War.
Besides Squadron A, he was a member of the Union
League Club, the St. Nicholas Society, the Yale Club, the
Society of Colonial Wars, and the Society of Mayflower
Descendants.
388 BIOGRAPHIES
The last two years of his life were spent chiefly in
travel and in literary work. He was unable, however,
to conquer his malady, and on November 14th, 1904, he
died of heart trouble, in New York City.
Hawes was a sensitive, reserved sort of man, who never
knew many of us intimately, and who avoided, more
often than he sought, companionship, so that the news of
his death and of the painful struggle which preceded it,
came to the Class as a surprise. . . . *'It may interest you
to know," wrote his brother, "that one of the last things
he asked for, the day before he died, was to have his Yale
class flag brought down to the room he was lying in and
hung over his bed."
Professor Herbert E. Hawkes
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Yale College,
Residence, 45 Huntington Street, New Haven, Conn.
Herbert Edwin Hawkes was born Dec. 6th, 1872, at Templeton,
Mass. He is a son of George P. Hawkes and Abigail Elizabeth
Sparhawk, who were married March 3d, 1857, at Templeton,
and had altogether four children, three boys and one girl, the
daughter dying before maturity.
George P. Hawkes (b. March 7th, 1824, at Templeton;
d. Sept. 21 St, 1903, at Templeton) held various Templeton
town offices, and in 1867 represented the town in the Massa-
chusetts State Legislature. He was a volunteer in the Civil
War, and became Captain of the 21st Massachusetts Regiment
in 1861, which regiment he commanded during the greater
part of the war. . In 1865 he was commissioned Brigadier
General. His parents were Benjamin Hawkes, a cabinet maker,
and Mary Ballard, both of Lancaster, Mass., afterwards of
Templeton. The family came from England to America in
163-, and settled at Saugus, Mass.
Abigail Elizabeth (Sparhawk) Hawkes (b. March 7th, 1829,
at Lockport, Pa.) is the daughter of Samuel Sparhawk, of
Norton, O., and Mary Hudson, of Putney, Vt., and Framing-
ham, Mass.
Hawkes prepared for Yale at Williston Seminary, and spent a
good deal of his time in College helping other men through
the course. He received an Oration at Junior Exhibition and
Hawes
UNlVERSirV
or
OF GRADUATES 389
a High Oration at Commencement, and was elected to Phi
Beta Kappa.
He was married at Huntington, Mass., July 8th, 1896, to Miss
Nettie May Coit, daughter of Edwin Hall Coit, a farmer, and
Emily Adams, both of Huntington, and has two children, John
Ballard Hawkes (b. March 17th, 1898, at New Haven, Conn.),
who is our Class Boy, and Elizabeth Stanley Hawkes (b. May
2ist, 1903, at New Haven).
In 1900 Haw^kes received his doctor's degree from the
Yale Graduate School, in v^hich he had been enrolled as
a student of Mathematics since graduation. He w^as ap-
pointed an instructor in Mathematics in the Academical
Department in 1898 and an assistant professor in 1903.
"The year 1901-02 v^as spent in study and a little travel,
chiefly in Gottingen, Germany. During the year 1902-03,
ov^ring to Professor Richards' illness and consequent ab-
sence, I conducted his courses. On May 21st a daughter,
Elizabeth Stanley, was born, and on the 30th of that
month I was operated on for appendicitis." [Some ex-
pensive excitement that month.] "In the fall (1903)
received promotion to Assistant Professor of Mathe-
matics. Since then there has been no startling event.
Have served seven years on the Freshman Committee,
and three years on the Committee on Admission, repre-
senting the Department of Mathematics on the latter.
My teaching usually consists of about half of Freshman
divisions, and the other half of upper class and graduate
courses."
Hawkes has omitted to mention his service upon the
famous "Snap Course" Committee. Everybody on the
Faculty knew that snap courses existed, and said they
ought to be abolished, but when it came down to partic-
ulars no one would admit that his course was a snap.
The situation had existed for some time before the com-
mittee was appointed on which Hawkes and Gregory
served. This committee, proceeding in a cold, clear,
mathematical fashion, as novel as it was effective, ulti-
mately produced a chart on which was graphically dis-
390 BIOGRAPHIES
played the tell-tale distribution of low-stand men. It
brought out the situation so \'ividly that there was no
repl\-ing to it. The dead-lock was broken.
The work which Hawkes did last winter in testing the
results of *96's college experience has already received at-
tention in educational circles, owing to the printing of
ad\-ance sheets in the ''Alumni Weekly." He carefully
avoided asking opinions on questions which could be
settled only by men upon the ground, and sought in gen-
eral to collect data rather than suggestions. The value
of the results will be increased, it is hoped, by a continu-
ance of the inquin- among other decennial classes.
In the BibHographical Notes will be found a list of
Hawkes 's wTiting^. His principal topic seems to be hyper-
complex numbers. He is a member of the American
Mathematical Society and of the Deutsche Mathema-
tische \'ereinigung.
His son, the Class Boy, is in good health and spirits.
His picture will be found in some of the decennial snap-
shots. 'Tlebe** generally speaks of him as "the boy
John," and generally shakes his head over him \dth a
mixture of pride and foreboding. The neighbors say
that John is a holy terror.
Carlos C. Heard
Lawyer. 11-12 MM<wiir Bwifcting. BuUeford, Maine.
15 UBMMi Street.
Carlos CLAvrojr Heasd was bom July 5th, 1875, at Biddeford,
Mc He is the son of Carlos Heard and Harriet .AJbcrta
Lunt, who were married Sept lOth, 1874, at Biddeford, and
had two other diildren, girls.
Carlos Heard (b. July 25th, 1845, at Porter, Oxford Co., Me.)
^>ent the first twent>--three years of his life in his birthplace;
and then moved to Biddeford where he still lives. He was
Alderman of Biddeford in 1868; Representative in the Legis-
lature 187^-80; Street Commissioner 1887, '88, *Sg; Mayor
1896-97; City Treasurer 1898-99. He is now President of the
Biddeford Sayings Bank, and is engaged in the wholesale and
retail hardware business. He is a son of James Heard, a
OF GRADUATES 391
farmer of Porter, Me., and Eunice McKenney of Limington,
Me. The family came to America from England in 1636. and
settled at what is now Dover, N. H.
Harriet Alberta (Lunt) Heard (b. at Biddeford in 1852;
d. at Biddeford, in Aprit 1898) was the daughter of Cj-ms
K. Lunt, a master mechanic of Biddeford, and Harriet Grares
of Topsham, Me.
Heard entered G)llege with the Qass and was elected to member-
ship in Phi Gamma Delta.
He was married at Biddeford, Me., July 15th, 1903, to Mrs. Isa-
bella Falconer Bardsley (nee Paterson) of Saco, Me., daughter
of George F. and Jeannette MacGregor Paterson, both of whom
were bom in Edinburgh, Scotland. George F. Paterson is
Chief Engineer of the Laconia Division of the Pepperell Manu-
facturing Company's Cotton Mills, Biddeford.
He.\rd went into the wholesale and retail hardware busi-
ness in Biddeford in July, 1896, and kept at it for two
years. Then he changed to law and studied with the
Mayor, Nathaniel B. Walker (Yale, '77, L.S.), until, in
June, 1900, he was admitted to the Bar.
He has since then practised with Mr. Walker in Bidde-
ford. March, 1899, ^^ was elected a member of the
Board of Assessors of Taxes, served as Chairman of the
Board the third year, and was re-elected for three years
more in 1902. He was Secretary of the Gtizens* Execu-
tive Committee in 1 900-1 901. He is now Cit}* Assessor
of Taxes, President of the Association of the Descend-
ants of John Heard, member of the York Count\' Bar
Association, Counsel for the Biddeford Savings Bank,
and local counsel for the .^tna Indemnity Company of
Hartford, Loftis Brothers & Company of Chicago, and
Bradstreet's.
"Been practising law steadily since 1900," he writes,
"and this, together with my work as Assessor of Taxes
for past eight years, has kept me in the harness all the
time. In 1905 took business trip through Missouri, Illi-
nois, and Kansas. Ordinarilv I can be found at mv *Law-
shop.' "
392 BIOGRAPHIES
Wm. Wilson Heaton
Partner in the Stock Exchange firm of Day & Heaton, 6 Wall Street,
New York City. (See Appendix.)
William Wilson Heaton was born Aug. 7th, 1874, at Bergen
Point, N. J. He is the son of William Weaver Heaton and
Sarah A. Wilson, who were married at Salem, Ohio, in June,
1869, and had one other child, a daughter.
William Weaver Heaton (b. May 30th, 1845, at Salem, Ohio)
was educated at Andover, Mass. In 1866, after a year's resi-
dence at Cincinnati, he moved to New York, where he has
since resided. He has for thirty-five years been a member of
the New York Stock Exchange, and has served a number of
terms on its Board of Governors. He is a son of Jacob
Heaton, a merchant of Salem, and Mary Haldeman, of Bucks
County, Pa. Jacob Heaton served for three years in the
United States Army as Captain and Commissary of Sub-
sistence, being appointed in May, 1861, and retiring in 1864.
He was on the staff of General Crittenden and of General
Garfield. Jacob Heaton's family came from Wales to Amer-
ica, and Mary Haldeman's from Holland, in the year 1682,
and settled near Philadelphia, Pa.
Sarah A. (Wilson) Heaton (b. Sept. 25th, 1846, at Salem)
is the daughter of Uriah Wilson, a merchant, and Julia A.
Webb, both of Salem.
Heaton prepared for Yale at the Morse School in New York, and
while in College was a member of the Apollo Glee and Banjo
Club. He received a Second Colloquy at the Junior Exhibition
and at Commencement, and belonged to the University Club
and D. K. E. He took part regularly in the Varsity Foot-
ball practice, was a member of the Squad, and won a prize
offered for the best long-distance kicking.
He was married at Fall River, Mass., Sept. 26th, 1901, to Miss
Mary Whitman Chase, daughter of Simeon Borden Chase
of Fall River, and has two children, a girl and a boy, Mary
Heaton (b. Oct. 21st, 1902, at New York City) and Chase
Heaton (b. Oct. 21st, 1904, at New York City).
Heaton started as a clerk with Day & Heaton, stock-
brokers, 6 Wall Street, New York, in July, 1896. In
May, 1900, he became a member of the Stock Exchange,
doing a commission business on his own account. He
OF GRADUATES 393
married in September, 1901, and in October, upon the
death of the senior member of the firm, Henry Mills
Day, he was taken into partnership with Day & Heaton,
together with H. Vallette Day, '95, S. In May, 1898, he
enlisted as a private in Troop A, New York Volunteer
Cavalry, saiHng for Porto Rico in July and returning to
New York in September.
"You are about as far off from Wall Street," said one
of his letters to the Secretary, then in the West, "as I feel
when I 'm in Boston and buy a daily paper with one inch
about the New York markets and a pageful of quotations
for odd lots of AUouez Mining. You probably think be-
cause a letter never, or rather almost never, reaches you
from 'Wilson Bill' that his memory is short and he for-
gets all about you, and you are not to be blamed in such
a belief, for I admit that as a correspondent I am the ex-
treme limit. But as for the memory, in spite of the
swiftly flying seasons it stays green as alfalfa (if that
is spelled correctly) .... So you are ranching it. Well,
by the gods, it is a fine life, and were the income derived
therefrom as good as that now coming from eighths and
sixteenths I should be tempted to take up my bed and
sneak for a ranch myself, family and all. Better times
are upon the Stock Exchange again. Things are boom-
ing. This country has grown big and you can't sit down
hard on its growth. It is going to grow bigger too, and
with it will follow a growth of wealth which is within
the grasp of all who will take a share and not try to get
it all at once. One or two things trouble my views, 'the
only partial suppression of unionism in labor' and the
high prices of commodities — ^but I guess these are only
obstacles and are surmountable.
"I am going to be here at Mamaroneck until October,
when I shall open my palatial residence on 36th Street,
and that means that football is coming and my life will
recommence. I shall throw off my Rip Van Winkle sleep
of the summer time. Harvard has good material, but I
don't know how much insides. We will hope for the best,
and we '11 probably get it."
394 BIOGRAPHIES
It is a pleasure to see a man enjoy himself as much as
Bill does at our reunions. At Decennial, in particular, he
was observed to be leaping through the campus bonfire
with a happy indifference which would have made the
solemn performance of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-
nego seem positively priggish by contrast.
Hon. Gilbert L. Hedges
Lawyer. Oregon City, Oregon.
Gilbert Lawrence Hedges was born Jan. 19th, 1874, at Oregon
City, Ore. He is a son of Joseph Hedges and Ellen Judith
Allen, who were married Sept. 14th, 1854, at Canemah,
Clackamas County, Ore., and had altogether nine children,
seven boys and two girls, seven of whom lived to maturity.
One of the sons, Joseph E. Hedges was graduated from Yale
in the Class of '91.
Joseph Hedges (b. Dec. 26th, 1827, near McConnellsville, O. ;
d. Aug. 9th, 1895, at Canemah) was an undertaker, carpenter,
contractor and builder. He was the son of Isaac Hedges, a
farmer of Morgan County, O., and Mary Fonts. The family
settled originally in Virginia.
Ellen Judith (Allen) Hedges (b. June 20th, 1839, at Pal-
myra, Mo.; d. Sept. 24th, 1896, at Canemah) was the daughter
of William R. Allen, a physician.
Hedges prepared for Yale at Andover. He was a member of the
Class Baseball Team, a substitute on the Varsity, and a mem-
ber of the Andover Club and of the Yale Union. He received
a First Colloquy at the Junior Exhibition and a First Dispute
at Commencement.
He was married Oct. 3d, 1904, at Oregon City, Oregon, to Miss
Dorothy Hinsdale Chase, daughter of James W. and Sarah A.
Chase of Oregon City. Mr. Chase is a retired machinist.
Hedges received his LL.B from the Yale Law School in
1898 and returned to Oregon City to practise. He was
elected a representative in the lower house of the Oregon
State Legislature for 1900-02. It was said at the time
that he had left no non-voting constituent unkissed
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throughout his baiUwick, and that the ground was cov-
ered in all directions with his sedulous ear prints.
'There is very little to add to my former biographical
sketch," he wrote this spring. "I have continued to prac-
tise law here. At one time I was associated with Hon.
William Galloway, under the firm name of Hedges &
Galloway. This partnership continued for two years
(1902-04), or until Mr. Galloway was elected Circuit
Judge, a position which he now holds.
"I visited the Fair at St. Louis in 1904, and spent some
days there, meeting, among other acquaintances, Joe O.
More, Yale, '96." (See Appendix.)
Owing to Hedges' continued absence from what Pratt
calls our midst, Fisher has long been nursing a plan to run
a transcontinental private car (or perhaps it is a special
train which his vaulting ambition hopes some day to
compass) to the Class's midwinter dinner. It seems as
though nothing short of that would serve to bring Pete
East. When he does arrive he will be expected to refute
current stories (concerning his legislative experiences)
which have described him and his fellow law-givers as
" — inserting of their boot heels into one another's eyes
As a further illustration of their meaning,"
like the members of the Austrian Reichsrath. Cruel
slanders, of course, as applied to Oregon.
Edward C. Heidrich, Jr.
Assistant Manager of the Peoria Cordage Co.
President of the Interstate Bank & Trust Co., Peoria, III.
Office, 1506 S. Washington Street. Residence, 208 Perry Street.
Edward Charles Heidrich, Jr., was born Nov, 9th, 1873, at
Dayton, Ky. He is a son of Edward Charles Heidrich and
Augusta Johanna Meyer, who were married Nov. 23d, 1869,
at Indianapolis, Ind., and who had one other son and four
daughters.
Edward Charles Heidrich the elder (b. June 29th, 1844, at
396 BIOGRAPHIES
Steinthalleben, Germany) is President and Manager of the
Peoria (111.) Cordage Co., at which place, and at Cincinnati,
he has spent the greater part of his life. His parents were
Theodore Heidrich, a manager of storage and transfer ware-
houses, of Cincinnati, and Maria Krause of Steinthalleben.
Augusta Johanna (Meyer) Heidrich (b. Aug. 9th, 1853, at
Kelbra, Germany) spent her early life at Indianapolis. She is
the daughter of Theodore Meyer, a managing farmer, and
Frances Werther, both of Indianapolis.
Heidrich prepared at the Peoria High School, and while in Col-
lege was a member of the Track Team, winning third place
in the Two Mile Bicycle Race in the Yale-Harvard Games
('94). He was also a member of the College Choir and re-
ceived an Oration at the Junior Exhibition and at Commence-
ment.
He has not been married.
Heidrich went abroad with Schuyler, Bulkley, and Ed
Davis after graduation, in November entered the Uni-
versity of Berlin, "made some small excursions through
Germany together with H. Farr, and spent the Christmas
holidays in Russia. Returned May ist, 1897, and since
then have been engaged more or less closely in the manu-
facture of Binder Twine & Cordage, at Peoria, 111."
He is now Assistant Manager of the Peoria Cordage
Company, and President of the Interstate Bank & Trust
Company (paid-up capital, $200,000). His decennial
letter follows :
"In review, my life during the past four years looks
monotonous. I am trying to succeed to the position of
Manager of the Peoria Cordage Company, and that
undertaking has" kept me comparatively close to the office
and has permitted of very little travel, even for the pur-
pose of business. Our busy season is at its height in
June, and consequently I have been unable to be present
at any of the reunions, but manage to get down every
year during the fall to see the football games, and con-
sider it great luck to be able to meet so many of the
fellows at the Club in New York.
"The topic, business, is such a broad one and the ex-
periences of the different fellows in business are probably
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so diverse that it is a difficult subject on which to com-
ment. A man in business, and especially in manufactur-
ing to-day, has the satisfaction of feeling that he is in,
and part of, the spirit of progress of the present epoch
and to a certain extent he can feel satisfied with the
work he is undertaking, because business seems to be the
one thing that the world is trying to accomplish at the
present time. But, on the other hand, one comes in con-
tact with so many unprincipled men with their crooked
practices that he wishes there might be some path in life
where the status of mutual dealings was on the same ex-
alted plane on which he found intercourse with his fellows
during his college life. We are in the unenviable posi-
tion of being a small 'independent' factory outside of a
large trust, which has almost a monopoly of the business,
and consequently experiences come thick and fast. How-
ever, it is a good game and keeps the interest at a high
pitch and renders impossible any chance for monotony
or for the proverbial rut.
"The former President of our Bank withdrew from
the institution after having involved its affairs to such
an extent that a bad run had set in, and men of experi-
ence decided there was nothing could possibly save the
institution. I was advised that it was a useless task to
undertake to stop the run, but the instruction I had re-
ceived under Mike Murphy taught me to believe that the
*game is not up until the tape has been crossed,' and so I
jumped in and oddly enough we soon re-established con-
fidence and the Bank is now doing very well and prom-
ises to soon regain all it lost. If any one is looking for
an opportunity to work under great tension, I would ad-
vise him to get control of a Bank during a run. (Please
do not illustrate these remarks with a cut of one of
Aristophanes' songsters.)"
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W. L. Helfenstein
Life Insurance and Banking, Shamokin, Pa.
Special Agent, Provident Life & Trust Co. of Philadelphia.
President First National Bank of Trevorton, Pa.
William Leonard Helfenstein was bom Jan. 14th, 1872, at
Shamokin, Pa. He is a son of Charles Philip Helfenstein, '41,
and Caroline Hill Perkins, who were married Nov. 6th, 1855,
at Newmarket, N. H., and had altogether nine children, five
boys and four girls, four of whom lived to maturity. One of
the brothers is John Philip Helfenstein, '80.
Charles Philip Helfenstein (b. Sept. 12th, 1817, at Carlisle,
Cumberland Co., Pa, ; d. Feb. 14th, 1900, at Shamokin) was
engaged in the development of anthracite coal fields, living
during different periods of his life in Dayton, O., New Haven,
Conn., Milwaukee, Wis., and Shamokin. He was the son of
John Philip Helfenstein, a merchant of Lancaster and Carlisle,
Pa., Dayton, O., and Milwaukee, Wis. ; and Elizabeth Leonard,
of Carlisle, Pa, The family came from Germany in 1772, and
settled at Philadelphia.
Caroline Hill (Perkins) Helfenstein (b. March 4th, 1837,
at Bustleton, Philadelphia, Pa.) is the daughter of Jeremiah
Colcord Perkins, a lumberman of Exeter, N. H., and Esther
Ann Colcord, of Salem, Mass. She is now (Nov., '05) living
at Shamokin.
Helfenstein prepared for Yale at the Hill School (Pottstown,
Pa.) and while at College was a member of the Hill School
Club and of the University Club. He received a First Dispute
at the Junior Exhibition and at Commencement,
He was married at Brooklyn, N. Y., May 8th, 1900, to Miss
Edith E. Miller, daughter of the late Charles Miller of New
Haven, Conn., and has one son, Charles Philip Helfenstein
(b, Nov, 23d, 1902, at Harrisburg, Pa,). Mrs. Helfenstein died
Aug, 8th, 1903, at Harrisburg, Pa.
"After graduation," wrote Helfenstein in 1902, "I spent
three months in England and on the Continent on a
cycling tour. In the spring of 1897 became interested in
lumber business, and later in the river coal business, and
had my headquarters at Port Trevorton, Pennsylvania.
In the fall of 1899 I joined with my father and brother
in the building and promoting of independent telephone
OF GRADUATES 399
lines throughout our section of the State, and became a
director of the Shamokin Valley Telephone Company of
Shamokin, the Penn Telephone Company of Selings-
grove, and the Schuykill Valley Telephone Company of
Ashland. On the consolidation of the independent com-
panies throughout the State under the name of the
United Telephone and Telegraph Company, I accepted
the position of District Superintendent with the new
company. Was located for a time at Pottsville, Pennsyl-
vania; later on transferred to Harrisburg.
"I have been interested in the starting of a National
Bank at Herndon, Pennsylvania, and am a Director of
same."
His decennial letter follows: "Resigned as Superin-
tendent of the United Telephone & Telegraph Company
in the fall of 1903, after the death of my wife on August
8th, of that year. Returned to old homestead in Shamo-
kin, with my little son, Charles Philip, who was bom No-
vember 23d, 1902, at Harrisburg. During spring of 1904
I connected myself with the Provident Life & Trust Com-
pany of Philadelphia, representing them as Special Agent
in four adjoining counties. Since 1902 I have had to do
with the establishment of two national banks in Penn-
sylvania, and the organization of two independent tele-
phone companies in the State of Mississippi. In January,
1906, I was made President of the First National Bank
of Trevorton, Pennsylvania."
Helf gives his occupation as "Life Insurance and Bank-
ing." He is also part owner of the "Trevorton Times,"
and contributes occasional editorials to its columns.
William Lester Henry
Teaching Latin and German at Lawrenceville School
Lawrenceville, N. J.
Permanent mail address, Plattsburg, N. Y.
William Lester Henry was bom June 26th, 1874, at Plattsburg,
N. Y. He is a son of Lester Rutherford Henry and Flora
400 BIOGRAPHIES
Amanda Reynolds, who were married Sept. 8th, 1856, at Mor-
risonville, N. Y., and had one other child, a boy.
Lester Rutherford Henry (b. June 14th, 1835, at Schuylers
Falls, N. Y.; d. Dec. 2d, 1883, at Plattsburg, N. Y.) was en-
gaged in the wholesale and retail grocery business at Platts-
burg. He was the son of James Henry, a farmer, and Mary
Lobdell, both of Schuylers Falls, N. Y. The family came
originally from Ireland.
Flora Amanda (Reynolds) Henry (b. Aug. 14th, 1833, at
Schuylers Falls) is the daughter of Charles Reynolds, a potter,
and Laura Bullis, both of Schuylers Falls.
Henry prepared for Yale at the Pittsburg Public High School.
He received a Philosophical Oration at the Junior Exhibition
and at Commencement, took Two Year Honors in Ancient
Languages, and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
He has not been married.
During part of the first year out, Henry was in the em-
ploy of Funk & Wagnalls, the New York publishers. In
the fall of '97 he returned to Yale, intending to take up
work in Latin and Greek in the Graduate School, but
left in January, 1898, to accept a position as teacher in
the Riverview Military Academy at Poughkeepsie. This
lasted until June, 1901. Since then he has been in the
Lawrenceville School as Instructor in Latin and German.
"It has been a very uneventful life I have been leading
here at Lawrenceville getting boys ready for Princeton
and Yale," he wrote this spring. "Classes come and go,
and there are enough boys in each who are sufficiently
impressionable and responsive so that one feels that his
work is not in vain.
"My interests apart from teaching have been about the
same as in college — reading and the theatre — in fact
could not live without the excitement dramatic.
"My summers have been spent at home, which has been
all that I wanted as a change each year. But this summer
I am to tempt fate and spend the time abroad.
"I 'm afraid that I am lazier than ever before ; perhaps
it grows on a teacher. Proof — 'Robbie' Root has been
only five miles away, at Princeton, all this year, and
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we Ve not sought one another out. Age is really creep-
ing on apace, too, when I find a youngster whom I pre-
pared for college teaching here along with me."
There are about two hundred pounds of Henry nowa-
days, they say, and every pound of it gets excited when
a good football game is on.
Rev. Wm. Milton Hess, Ph.D.
Recorder in the Dean's Office, Yale College. (See Appendix,)
William Milton Hess was born at Philadelphia, Pa., June 26th,
1870. He is the son of Jacob Hess and Maria Shaffer, who
were married in 1869, and had one other child, a daughter.
Jacob Hess is in business in Philadelphia, in which city he
was born in 1846. The record of his ancestry goes back to
Germany and Denmark.
Maria (Shaffer) Hess was born in Philadelphia in 1848,
and died in February, 1892.
Hess prepared at the Eastburn Academy, Philadelphia. He re-
ceived a College Prize of the Second Grade in English Com-
position in Sophomore year, and took Two Year Honors in
Philosophy. He worked with the Rescue Mission for Men
for two years, was Chairman of the Citizens' Mission Com-
mittee of the Y. M. C. A. ('94-'96), and served as Vice-Presi-
dent of the Y. M. C. A. for the P. G. Department ('96-'97)-
He received an Oration at the Junior Exhibition and a High
Oration at Commencement, and was a member of the Yale
Union and of Phi Beta Kappa.
He was married Oct. 24th, 1900, at the Church of the Redeemer,
New Haven, Conn., to Miss Josephine Webb, daughter of
Charles Henry Webb.
Since 1900 Hess has been Recorder in the Dean's office,
in which position he comes into frequent and unquiet
contact with great numbers of the undergraduates. For
four years of this time he was also a lecturer, and then
instructor, in philosophy, doing for the college at large
what he used once to do for those clouded intellects in
'96 which he alone seemed able to clarify (at so much
402 BIOGRAPHIES
a cloud) for examination purposes. There was plenty of
tutoring done in our day, and digests were common
enough, but the remembrance of Hess's unofficial class in
philosophy sweltering faithfully over the task of reducing
all abstractions to a comprehensible vernacular, still stands
out above other cramming experience. It was a grateful
class; and that June, when all was done, they gave the
man to whom they owed their degrees a silver cup.
Prior to 1900 Hess was a Yale P.G. and a Theolog.,
receiving his B.D. in 1900 and his Ph.D. in 1899. His
preaching, while subordinate to his educational work,
continues to be a part of his occupation. He has "done
a good deal of supplying," he says, **in churches in Mas-
sachusetts and Connecticut."
In Gilbert and Sullivan's ''Castle Adamant" one of the
characters who wants Lady Blanche to countenance some
special plan begs her just for once to wink at it, and the
forbidding dowager replies, after some show of reluc-
tance :—
"....Well, well, well, I'll try -
Though I've not winked at anything for years."
At Decennial, when our stern Recorder indulgently
showed up in uniform, these words of Mr. Gilbert's
sprang instantly to mind. (See Appendix.)
Fritz W. Hoeninghaus
Partner in the law firm of Kelly & Hoeninghaus,
108 Fulton Street, New York City.
Residence, Town, 21 West 52d Street.
Country, "Stonehill, Greenwich, Conn.
Fritz Wilhelm Hoeninghaus was born March i8th, 1874, at
Bridgeport, Conn. He is a son of Friedrich Hoeninghaus and
Sarah Taylor Beardsley, who were married May 27th, 1873,
at Bridgeport, and had one other child, a son.
Friedrich Hoeninghaus (b. at Crefeld, Germany) is a com-
mission merchant. He has spent the greater part of his life
at his birthplace and at New York City, and is now (Dec. *05)
living in Paris. He is a son of Friedrich Wilhelm Hoening-
haus, a lawyer of Crefeld.
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Sarah Taylor (Beardsley) Hoeninghaus (b. at Bridgeport,
in 1853) is the daughter of Sydney B. Beardsley, a lawyer and
judge of Bridgeport, and Eliza Daskam of Norwalk, Conn.
Hoeninghaus spent his early life at Bridgeport and at New York
City. He was a member of the Apollo Glee and Banjo Club,
the University Banjo Club, the University Club, and D. K. E.
He was married at Williamstown, Mass., Sept 21st, 1901, to
Miss Lillie Sanford Procter, daughter of Harley Thomas
Procter of New York City, and sister of William Procter,
'94 S. and Rodney Procter, '03 S., and has one child, a son,
Frederic William Procter Hoeninghaus (b. Aug. 23d, 1902,
at New York City).
A WEEK after graduation Hoeninghaus sailed for New
Orleans with Cy Mackey, and went from there to a
ranch near Wilcox, Arizona, to learn something about
cattle punching. He returned to New York in Septem-
ber to enter the Columbia Law School. "I remained
there," he wrote in 1902, "until about the first of May,
1898, when the war broke out and I enlisted with a great
many other Yale men in Troop A, First New York Vol-
unteer Cavalry. After spending about a month at Camp
Black near Hempstead, Long Island, we were sent to
Camp Alger, Virginia, where we were stationed until
early in August, when we sailed for Porto Rico on the
transport Massachusetts. We sailed from Newport News
and arrived at Ponce about five days later. The fighting
was practically over by the time we got there, and the
troop was split up in numerous small detachments which
were sent all over the island for various purposes, such
as escort duty, carrying messages, etc. In September we
returned to New York on the transport Mississippi, and
after sixty days' furlough were mustered out in Novem-
ber.
'T had a slight disagreement with the Dean of the Co-
lumbia Law School as to whether or not I should take
the examinations covering the work embraced during my
second year, and entered the New York Law School, tak-
ing the Bar examinations in January, 1899, and being ad-
mitted to the Bar of New York State in the following
404 BIOGRAPHIES
month. I then served clerkships with Merrill & Rogers,
and Underwood, Van Vorst, Rosen & Hoyt, and in Sep-
tember, 1899, formed the partnership of Corbitt, Kelly &
Hoeninghaus with Jim Corbitt, '96, and J. Allison Kelly."
On October ist, 1902, Corbitt withdrew and the firm
name was changed to Kelly & Hoeninghaus, as it now
stands."
"I left Squadron A, in which I was Corporal, in June,
1904," the Baron wrote this spring, ''and was commis-
sioned First Lieutenant in the Twelfth Regiment, N.Y.
N.G. Attended the maneuvres at Manassas, Virginia, in
the autumn of that year with my regiment. Received
my commission as Captain of Company H, Twelfth Regi-
ment, this spring. It takes one or two nights a week.
Officers of the Twelfth are mostly ex-Squadron A and
Seventh Regiment men, ex-army officers, or men from
civil life. No enlisted man can receive a commission. This
is merely the custom, as there is no rule or law forbidding
it. Other Yale men in the regiment as officers are Major
Nelson B. Burr, '93 S. ; Captains, W. S. Terriberry, '93,
H. Rogers Winthrop, '98, Edwin A. Strong, Reginald L.
Foster; First Lieutenants, Frederic Kernochan, '98, Cor-
nelius Vanderbilt, '95 ; Second Lieutenants, Henry S.
Kip, '96, Morris Kellogg, Thomas R. Fisher, '99 S.,
Bayard Livingston, Jr., '04, and N. H. Cowdrey, '98."
George Clay Hollister
Member of the New York Stock Exchange. (See Appendix.)
Residence, "Little Hillanddale," Mamaroneck, N. Y.
George Clay Hollister was born Sept. 8th, 1871, at Grand
Rapids, Mich. He is a son of Harvey James Hollister and
Martha Clay, who were married June 6th, 1855, at Cleveland,
Ohio, and had two other sons (Clay H. Hollister, Amherst, '86
and John Chamberlain Hollister, Yale, '96) and one daughter.
Harvey James Hollister (b. Aug. 29th, 1830, at Romeo,
Mich.) has lived principally at Grand Rapids (connected with
the First National Bank, then Old National Bank). He is a son
of John Bentley Hollister, a civil engineer of New York, and
OF GRADUATES 405
Mary Chamberlin of Sangerfield, N. Y. The family came
from Glastonbury, England in 1642, and settled at Wethers-
field, Conn.
Martha (Clay) Hollister (b. June 30th, 1833, at Putney, Vt.;
d. Dec. 24th, 1901, at Grand Rapids, Mich.) spent her early
life at Deerfield, Mass. She was the daughter of George Clay,
a contractor, and Sarah B. Goodhue of Vermont.
Hollister prepared for Yale at the Boston Latin School. While
in College he was a member of the Freshman Committee on
the Boys' Club, served as Chairman of the Boys' Club in
Sophomore year, made the "Courant" in December of Junior
year, and became its business manager in the following Febru-
ary. He received a First Dispute at the Junior Exhibition and
a Second Dispute at Commencement. A. D. Phi.
He was married at Mamaroneck, N. Y., June ist, 1899, to Miss
Martha Swift, daughter of Samuel and Lucy Davies Swift,
and has had three children, one boy, unnamed (b. Aug. 15th,
1902, at Mamaroneck; d. Aug. i6th, 1902, at Mamaroneck),
and two daughters, Martha Hollister (b. July 30th, 1904, at
Mamaroneck) and Anita Hollister (b, Feb. 12th, 1906, at New
York City).
After one year in the lumber business in Norfolk, Vir-
ginia, Hollister moved to New York in September, 1897,
to enter the Stock Exchange house of Dominick &
Dickerman (now Dominick & Dominick). In June, 1899,
he married Mr. Dickerman's niece and on July ist, 1900,
he formed the partnership of Halsted & Hollister with
E. Bayard Halsted, a member of the Exchange. "Since
1902," he wrote this spring, "I have been occupied with
my business on the Stock Exchange, up to April 30, 1904,
as a member of the firm of Halsted & Hollister; then,
having bought a seat on the Exchange, alone, until Octo-
ber, 1905, when, with Mr. Atwood Violett and Mr. Gilbert
C. Greenway, Jr., '97 S., I formed the firm of Atwood
Violett & Co." While alone Hollister made his head-
quarters with Foster & Adams (D.C.Adams, '95). (See
Appendix.)
''In 1902 I took a short trip in Europe. Since April,
1905, I have made my home in Westchester County."
This home is "Little Hillanddale," Mamaroneck, New
York, and one hears many paeans about it at the Yale
406 BIOGRAPHIES
Club from reluctantly returning guests. Prior to estab-
lishing themselves in Mamaroneck, the HoUisters lived
at 515 Madison Avenue, where the class reception was
given in 1903.
"What have we here?" observed a '96 Trinculo who
chanced to ^ee the manuscript of this book. "Do you call
this a proper biography of George? Why, Day, you '11
certainly have to add to this. And you have n't said any-
thing about Mrs. HoUister." The Secretary explained
that he did not think that Mrs. HoUister would care to
go down to posterity quite so publicly and that anyhow
this was all that George had seemed willing to furnish.
"Oh, well," said his friend, ''at least insert that story of
their visit to the home of some people they knew down
in Florida, don't you remember?— that time when George,
on one of his morning walks, found, fought, and ulti-
mately shot an immense alligator, concealed in some
bushes near the house!" "I never heard of this," ex-
claimed the Secretary. "Well, it was a very exciting
moment for George, I assure you," replied the other.
"I should explain that when the combat was at an end,
his hosts, who had maintained their coolness admirably,
immediately had the horrid saurian dragged into view;
and they say that George would have arranged upon the
spot to have it stuffed and mounted as a trophy but for
his tardy discovery that it had already undergone that
very process."
John C. HoUister, M.D.
Office, 100 State Street, Chicago, 111.
John Chamberlain Hollister was born March 2'7, 1873. at
Grand Rapids. Mich. His parentage and antecedents are given
in the biography of his brother George.
Hollister prepared for Yale at the Boston Latin School, and
while in College sang First Bass on the Freshman Glee Club,
and on the Apollo Glee and Banjo Club. He served as Treas-
urer of the Y. M. C. A. in Senior vear, received a Second
OF GRADUATES 407
Dispute at the Junior Exhibition and a First Dispute at Com-
mencement. A, D. Phi.
He was married May 17th, 1902, at St. Paul, Minn., to Miss
Jane Bowen, daughter of Captain E. C. Bowen, U. S. A., of
Elbridge, N. Y., and Minerva Simpson of St. Paul, and has
one child, Isabelle Hollister, who was born in Chicago, 111.,
July 29th, 1903.
Hollister spent last winter in Germany. His letter is
dated at Berlin, in April, and as he sent in no report for
our Sexennial it covers the whole ten years. "All right !"
it says. "Here goes I Have been trying to get this off to
you for months. When I left college I threw down beg-
ging requests for me to study medicine at Johns Hopkins^
Harvard, and P. & S. in New York, and went to Chicago,
where I had visions of being the whole thing and winning
all the prizes. These soon faded, and I found that instead
of getting all medical knowledge in three years it would
take me four. Was d— popular the first month of my
course, and was elected class president. Soon got into
trouble over class jollities and was cussed on all sides,—
and if it had n't been for a friend of giant strength, who
licked every man that he heard call me names, I would
have been killed myself. This Southern pal and Tommy
Vennum and myself had a flat in Chicago in a tough
neighborhood. Tom enjoyed the neighborhood, but pre-
tended he did n't.
"Well, after two years of cutting up dead people, and
examining the fragments through the microscope, we
pounded, and pinched, and looked at, and listened to, and
gave poison to live people for another two years ; and then
I entered St. Luke's Hospital, knowing absolutely every-
thing worth knowing about medicine. But what a revela-
tion was to come in that interne's life ! A service in a
hospital simply cannot be described— the experiences and
all they mean— human nature and how it appears with-
out mental and physical clothing— no one knows who
has n't lived it, and no one could describe it who was not
a born writer. From the time I entered the hospital to
408 BIOGRAPHIES
the present day my medical knowledge has steadily de-
creased— I knew everything then, and I know almost
nothing now. Two of the happiest years of my life were
spent in the hospital — ambulance service (we all hated
it), out-patient department, accident ward in the nighty
new babies at night, sick children — the poor little cubs ! — •
complaining men and women in the white tiled suites,.
and uncomplaining heroes in the charity wards (though
not always, for one of the most splendid characters I
have ever known was the inspiring and beautiful, but
desperately sick wife of a very wealthy man).
"And the funny things that happened. They outnum-
ber the tragical two to one in a hospital. Never shall
forget when one of the nurses gave a half ounce of an
extract instead of an infusion to one of three men in a.
small ward, and when we internes found it out we washed
out the wrong man's stomach ! Of course there is an
element of tragedy there— but even the dignified attend-
ing physician nearly died laughing the next day.— No,
not all is tears and mourning and desperate work in a
hospital— not all is in the operating room and suffering-
there 's a lot besides.
"Within a few days after leaving the old hospital I was
married, and we started for Japan and China on our wed-
ding trip. Made an excuse to my bank account for going
so far by deciding to look into the Yale medical business
in China for old Louis Fincke, for we had some notion
in our heads that we could do medical stunts among the
pigtails. . . .
"Well, we did n't stay in China, but came back to Hve
in Chicago, where we have been ever since, and where
we '11 probably stay. Have been fortunate enough to
have been for three years the assistant of Dr. L. L.
McArthur. I have an associate surgeon job at St. Luke's
Hospital, a surgical out-patient department job, and a
chance to air my knowledge about how people are made
in the Medical School in class room work.
"About seven months ago I thought I ought to learn
more about these Dutchmen who have done so much for
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medicine, so came over here to Germany, and have been
here ever since. Have discovered that Germany is ahead
of us in but two or three Hnes, and away behind us in the
others. They know a lot about theory and abstract things
and almost nothing about application. They know a
dozen ways of performing an operation, and all by name,
and yet, with some glorious exceptions,, they are abso-
lutely crude in the performance itself. They are thorough
thinkers, but far more superficial than we are when they
do anything. . . .
"So there is a lot of what I have been doing, and some
of what I Ve thought. As for my pleasures— I can
imagine no better fun than a midnight 'perforation to fix
up.' Second to that is playing golf with some good pal
whom I can just beat. . . ."
Frank T. Hooker
Record and Securities Clerk, Secretary's Office, N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R.,
New Haven, Conn.
Frank Thomas Hooker was born July 14th, 1868, at Macedon,
N. Y. He is a son of William Hooker and Amy J. Gibbs, who
were married Nov. 6th, 1866, at Macedon, and had four other
children, all boys, two of whom lived to maturity.
William Hooker (b. March 13th, 1838, in Parish of Alding-
ton, Kent Co., England ; d. Sept. loth, 1895, at Ontario, Wayne
Co., N. Y.) lived in England until the age of eighteen, when
he came to America (June 3d, 1856) and settled at Newark,
Wayne Co., N. Y. He afterwards lived in Poughkeepsie, and
was graduated from Eastman's Business College of that city.
He then went to Chicago as expert bookkeeper for a business
house. He was later engaged in farming at Macedon and
Ontario, N. Y. For fifteen years prior to his death he was
an Elder in the Presbyterian Church. His parents were
Stephen Hooker, of the Parish of Aldington, and Fannie
Norley of Bethersden, Kent Co., England.
Amy J. (Gibbs) Hooker (b. May 22d, 1846, at Wichford,
Warwickshire, England) was brought to America at the age
of three years. She spent her early life at Palmyra, Wayne
Co., N. Y. Her parents were Joseph Gibbs, a carpenter of
Wichford, and Amy Harris, of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England.
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She was re-married Oct. 8th, 1903, to Edmund Davis, of
Ottawa, O., and is now (Feb., '06) living at Newark, New
York.
Hooker spent his early life in Ontario, N. Y., and prepared for
Yale at Andover. He was a member of the Andover Club, and
received a Second Dispute at the Junior Exhibition and a First
Dispute at Commencement.
He was married at Eaton, Madison Co., N. Y., Dec. 22d, 1896,
to Miss Frances H. Canfield, daughter of George W. Canfield,
a farmer and fruit evaporator, and Harriet (Bloomfield) Can-
field, all of Eaton. He has one child, a daughter, Sylvia Marie
Hooker (b. Sept. 18th, 1898, at New Haven).
Hooker is now Record and Securities Clerk in the office
of the Secretary of the New York, New Haven & Hart-
ford Railroad Company. After one year in the Graduate
School and two years with the Bradstreet Mercantile
Agency, he became Manager of the Mutual Mercantile
Agency's Boston office and was so unfortunate as to in-
vest his savings in the Mutual's stock. He got started
again as credit man for another agency, served as district
manager for the International Mercantile Agency in
1902-03, and then entered upon his present duties.
''Our daughter Sylvia," he writes, "was subjected to a
very severe operation at the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hos-
pital, New York, June, 1904, and was under treatment
there until October. Is now fully recovered. On ac-
count of her health we removed from the city to the shore
and are living at 'Old Savin Rock,' where I spend my two
weeks' vacation, as well as other leisure hours, in bathing,
boating and fishing." (See Appendix.)
L. P. Hoole, M.D.
974 St. Mark's Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Lester Page Hoole was born May 29th, 1873, at Brooklyn, N. Y.
He is the only child of William Henry Hoole and Celia
Augusta Dame, Mt. Holyoke, '69, who were married Aug. 24th,
1871, at Exeter, N. H.
OF GRADUATES 411
William Henry Hoole (b. July 31st, 1844, at New York City;
d. Jan. 8th, 1902, at Brooklyn) was a wholesale hat merchant
He spent the greater part of his life in New York City and
Brooklyn. His parents were John Hoole, a manufacturer of
Manchester, England, and Mary Barnes.
Celia Augusta (Dame) Hoole (b. Oct. 9th, 1846, at Fal-
mouth, Me.) spent her early life at Falmouth and Exeter,
N. H. She is the daughter of Charles Dame, a clergyman of
Falmouth, and Nancy Jenness Page, of Acton, Me. She is
now (Oct., '05) living at Brooklyn.
Hoole prepared at the Adelphi Academy in Brooklyn, and while
in College was active in organizing the Basket-ball Team. He
received a Second Dispute at the Junior Exhibition and at
Commencement.
He has not been married.
Hoole entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons
in New York in the fall of 1896. He received the degree
of M.D. in 1900, and after a competitive examination
entered St. John's Hospital (Brooklyn) as interne. His
father's illness, however, forced him to leave before his
term. In January, 1902, his father died, leaving little
besides some small insurance, and then his mother's health
broke down. ''A patient," he writes, "was rarer than
hen's teeth. We rented our house and I bought out an
M.D. deep in debt. He stuck me, but I began to see
patients oftener than once a year. Since then I have
grown, like the baby's kitten, 'every day and sometimes
twice a day.' Plenty of motion for what I get, but I get
it C.O.D.— no trust and no bad bills. My mother is now
better, and we have a ground-floor flat on edge between
swelldom and poverty—live on the latter and among the
former. In some three or four hundred years I can take
a vacation, but not yet. No 'trips or travels' except from
one victim to another. Yours volubly, L. P. Hoole."
In addition to his service at St. John's he was for
a while an interne at the Mothers' and Babies' Hospital.
He has been on the visiting staff of the Bedford Hospital
and the Bushwick Dispensary, the associate staff of the
Bushwick Hospital, and is a member of the Brooklyn
Medical Society, the Kings County Medical Society, the
412 BIOGRAPHIES
New York State Medical Society, and the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows. He is also treasurer of St. Paul's
Chapel (of the Central Congregational Church), and is
a member of and physician to the National Provident
Union, the Star of Hope, the Companions of the Forest,
the Shepherds of Bethlehem, etc.
Charles Vernon Hopkins
Of Catskill, New York.
Charles Vernon Hopkins was born Dec. nth, 1872, at Catskill-
on-Hudson, N. Y. He is a son of Henry Hopkins and Mary
Elizabeth Cornell, who were married at New York City in
1857, and had two other sons and one daughter. One of the
sons, Samuel Cornell Hopkins was graduated from Yale in
1882.
Henry Hopkins (b. at New York City, c. 1820; d. 1872 at
Catskill) was the son of Caleb Hopkins of New York and
Keturah Hill of Catskill. The family came from England in
1620, and settled at Plymouth, Mass.
Mary Elizabeth (Cornell) Hopkins (b. Sept. 1833, at New
York City; d. Nov. 1887, at Catskill) was the daughter of
Samuel Mott Cornell of New York and Emeline Howland, of
New Bedford, Mass.
Hopkins prepared for Yale at St. Paul's School in Concord. He
rowed No. 6 on the Academic Freshman Crew in the fall of
'92, and was Secretary and Treasurer of the St. Paul's Club
in Junior year. He was a member of the University Club
and of Psi U.
He has not been married.
Hopkins seems to have given up his old plan of taking
orders in the Episcopal Church. He lives quietly at Cats-
kill, taking long country walks or motor trips, goes now
and then to New York during the winter months, and
visits EngHsh and American resorts when the humor
strikes him. His health— for a time uncertain— is nowa-
days excellent. His reading is principally concerned with
the literature of reminiscence, such as Grant Duff's
Diary. He is rather a devotee of Trollope.
J
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"I have been here since April," he wrote in 1904 from
England, the year in which he was presented to the King.
"... I have rather a late breakfast and then do an
errand or so and then go to the Row to see the people,
all interesting in a mild way, then lunch, and generally
read in the afternoon and after tea go out to Stanhope,
between 5 130 and 7, to see the people again. It looks
like a large garden party, as lots of beautifully dressed
women and perfectly attired men assemble there, whose
coats are my envy and despair, especially as my tailor has
gone back on me and made me some of the worst clothes it
has ever been my misfortune to wear. . . . The Levee
was most interesting, especially to those arriving before-
hand. I went over early, wearing the regulation Court
dress, which made me feel rather as if gotten up for
private theatricals. We assembled in a long low room
divided by columns, with settees between and along the
sides, white walls covered with red silk, and red carpet,
and rather interesting portraits and battle-scenes, etc.
There were lots of military and naval officers in full
uniform, and of all ages, almost, from the nursery to the
grave, and of all ranks— from subalterns to Admirals.
It was a fine sight, and one heard scraps of interesting
conversation. Then we were all sent up-stairs through
a long room into another large room on the south side of
St. James' Palace, overlooking St. James' Park, and I
was lucky in standing near a window opposite the entrance
gate and so saw the King arrive in state. Then the thing
began. It takes about ten seconds. You walk in through
a crowd of people; your name is called; you bow, H. M.
bows and you sidle off and out. Then I sat in an ante-
room for a while and watched the people come out. It is
not a very dreadful process, and one worth doing, I think.
I did another interesting thing, and as a St. Paul's boy you
will appreciate it : I saw the procession of boats at Eton on
the occasion of the King and Queen's visit there, which I
dare say you saw an account of in the papers a week or
ten days ago. There were nine eights and one ten-oared
barge, all in their 4th of June costume. I was merely an
414 BIOGRAPHIES
outsider, but could hardly have seen better if I had been
of the Royal party. They embarked farther down stream
than where I was and then got into line, with the ten-oar
leading, and then rowed up past the Royal stand, and, as
they passed their Majesties, tossed their oars and cheered;
and then went farther up and turned and floated down
past the Royal party, and when opposite some stood up
(those with open rowlocks) and held their oars and
cheered and waved their hats; the others just tossed their
oars, sitting, and cheered, etc. Then they waited around
for a while, and then the Royal party embarked in the
state barge, manned by eight watermen in scarlet and
gold, and rowed down the river accompanied by the
crews. It was a pretty sight, with the lovely surround-
ings of the Eton playing fields, and I was pleased to find
that the boys looked very much as the boys at school,
though of course the top hats and black coats and jackets
give a little different effect.
"I hope Arizona is doing you good and that your Chi-
nese cook has n't murdered you, but I should think it
would be rather lonely so far from the Bowery."
Walter S. Hoyt
With the United States Leather Company.
Office, T2 Gold Street, New York City.
Walter Stiles Hoyt was born June 26th, 1873, at Stamford,
Conn. He is a son of Oliver Hoyt and Maria Corse, who
were married Oct. 19th, 1852, at New York City, and had alto-
gether eight children, six boys and two girls, four of whom
lived to maturity. Theodore R. Hoyt, Wesleyan, '84, is a
brother.
Oliver Hoyt (b. Aug. 20th, 1823, at Stamford, Conn, ; d. May
5th, 1887, at Stamford), the well known New York leather
merchant and philanthropist, served as Connecticut State
Senator 1877-79; was President of the Board of Trustees of
Wesleyan University, etc., etc. His parents were Joseph Blach-
ley Hoyt, a farmer, and Maria Blachley Weed, both of Stam-
ford. The family came from England in 1628, and settled
in Salem, Mass.
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Maria (Corse) Hoyt is the daughter of John Barney Corse,
a leather merchant of New York City, where she was born.
She is now (April, '06) living in Stamford.
Hoyt prepared at the King School in Stamford. He shot on the
Yale Gun Club Team for two years, served as President of
the Gun Club in Senior year, and was one of the Board of
Governors of the University Club and Rear Commodore of
the Yale-Corinthian Yacht Club (sloop "Bob")- He was a
Cup man, a member of the Renaissance Club, and he made Eta
Phi, D. K. E., and Keys. He received a Second Dispute at
the Junior Exhibition and at Commencement.
He was married Nov. 7th, 1900, at New York City, to Miss
Lillian Adele Johnson, daughter of Edward Hibberd Johnson,
and has two children, a daughter Edna Hoyt (b. Jan. 8th,
1902, at New York City) and a son, Walter Stiles Hoyt, Jr.
(b. Oct. 1st, 1904, at Stamford, Conn.).
Hoyt has been continuously connected with the New
York ofHces of the United States Leather Company, of
which his brother is President. He is at present in the
selling department. He is a very busy man.
"Not to the staring Day
For all the importunate questionings he pursues
In his big, violent voice,
Shall those mild things of bulk and multitude, . . .
Yield of their huge unutterable selves,"
sings Mr. Henley, referring to trees of all families, but
Hoyt's in particular. Last fall the Secretary found Hoyt
in Chicago, in the Pompeian room of the Auditorium
Annex, and there and then commenced his campaign for
a decennial reply. The correspondence continued for sev-
eral months — at first concerning itself with the ante-
cedent data, and then with the middle name of Hoyt's
daughter Edna, who has n't any,— so that when the time
finally arrived to secure some account of the subject's
recent life Hoyt's patience was exhausted, and he merely
answered, "If any more of these come, the axe for yours."
It were a pity to let the record stand with so menacing
a close. The Secretary begs to add, therefore, that, in
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forwarding him some earlier information, Walter ex-
plained that he was "busy as the deuce," and that "only
absence on pleasure bent throughout the Sunny South"
had prevented him "from contributing to the reunion
record of our famous Class." This communication was
written in green ink.
A. E. Hunt, Jr.
Permanent mail address, 80 1 Clay Avenue, Scranton, Pa.
Alexander Everett Hunt, Jr., was born June 24th, 1874, at
Scranton, Pa. He is a son of Alexander Everett Hunt and
Frances Elizabeth Gay, who were married June 25th, 1862, at
Seneca Falls, N. Y., and had altogether four children, three
boys and one girl, three of whom lived to maturity.
Alexander Everett Hunt the elder (b. at Paulina, N. J., in
1835) has spent the greater part of his life at Scranton, where
he is now (Oct., '05) living. He is a merchant. His parents
were Wilson Hunt and Margaret Everett, both of Paulina,
N.J.
Frances Elizabeth (Gay) Hunt (b. Aug. 29th, 1837, at Seneca
Falls) is the daughter of John Sedgwick Gay, a merchant of
Seneca Falls, and Laura Bostwick Hoskins, of Auburn, N. Y.
Hunt came to College from Scranton and entered with the Class.
He received a First Colloquy at Commencement, and was a
member of the University Club and of D. K. E. In Senior
year he served on the Picture Committee.
He has not been married.
Hunt has invariably given the Class Secretary the scan-
tiest possible information about his career, thus leaving
the burdens of the necessary correspondence to his
friends. His reason, if he has one, is mere conjecture,
for his silence cannot be laid to lack of "sympathy" or in-
terest. "It may be argued with great plausibility," says
Mr. Hardy, "that reminiscence is less an endowment than
a disease," and Hunt, like Mr. Hardy's Sergeant, may
perhaps be a man to whom all memories are an incum-
brance.
He was at first associated with the Hunt & Cornell
OF GRADUATES 417
Company, in the wholesale hardware business, and with
the Dickson Manufacturing Company's Locomotive
Works, both Scranton concerns. At our Sexennial he
was connected with the Descubridora Mining & Smelting
Company, Descubridora, Province of Durango, Mexico.
Then, or soon afterwards, he became the secretary of
Thomas H. Watkins— formerly President of the Penn-
sylvania Coal & Coke Company, and in 1903 a member of
the Coal Strike Commission, sitting in Philadelphia. He
has continued this connection. He has traveled in Mexico
and the Southwest for the Mexican Mining Company
and other similar concerns, but his headquarters nowa-
days are in New York. In 1904 he was a member of the
executive committee of the Yale Alumni Association of
Scranton. (See Appendix.)
James A. Hutchinson
Bond Salesman for Mackay & Company, i6 Nassau Street, New York City.
Residence, 115 East 6th Street, Plainfield, N. J.
James Abbott Hutchinson was born May 20th, 1874, at Lynn,
Mass. He is a son of William Henry Hutchinson and Jane
Howard Howes, who were married Jan. 13th, 1859, at Lynn,
and had two other sons and one daughter. One of the sons
is a graduate of Boston University.
William Henry Hutchinson (b. at Lynn in 1835 ; d. March
23d, 1902, at Lynn) was a merchant of Lynn. His parents
were Nathaniel Chickering Hutchinson, a merchant of Milton,
N. H., and Rebecca Jane Lyons, of Marblehead, Mass.
Jane Howard (Howes) Hutchinson (b. Aug. 24th, 1838, at
Augusta, Me.) is the daughter of Samuel Howes, a merchant
of Augusta, and Sarah Brooks, of Farmington, Me. She is
now (Oct., '05) living at Lynn.
Hutchinson prepared for Yale at the Lynn High School. He
received a Second Colloquy at the Junior Exhibition and a
First Colloquy at Commencement.
He was married May nth, 1905, at Plainfield, N. J., to Miss
Mary Knowlton Whiton, daughter of John Milton Whiton
(an ex-member of one of the early Sheffield classes) of Plain-
field, and niece of James M. Whiton, '53, and has one child,
a son, James Abbott Hutchinson, Jr. (b. Jan. 25th, 1906, at
Plainfield.) (See Appendix.)
418 BIOGRAPHIES
Hutchinson "went into newspaper work after gradu-
ation (Boston 'Financial News'), but after eight months'
labor the paper 'busted.' . . . Attracted by the unpaid
dividends of the United States Leather Company I next
turned my attention to sole leather and entered the em-
ploy of William F. Mosser & Company. I passed through
the successive stages of office boy, letter copier, figuring
clerk, 'buffer' for the head of the house, salesman, etc.,
and finally was sent to their Western Office in Chicago."
"In 1902," he wrote this spring, "I represented W. F.
Mosser & Company in Chicago. Left them in the fall of
1902 and started with Vermilye & Company (bankers) in
their Boston office. Traveled on the road for them
through New England States and in 1904 was trans-
ferred to the New York office, traveling through New
York State. Mackay & Company succeeded Vermilye &
Company in April, 1905. Was taken off the road and
given New York City as a territory. Married May nth,
1905, and took up residence in Plainfield, N. J.
"Aside from business have traveled but little in last
four years. Vacations— a week or two each .year, spent
usually in Maine, fishing."
The Yale Club version of Jim's change from leather to
finance has it that one afternoon in Chicago he got talk-
ing about the bond business with some man from the
East, and this man happened to refer to a vacancy as
bond salesman which Vermilye & Company were then
trying to fill. "There is a tide," etc. Jim felt at once
that this was meant for him, and without delay called
up Boston on the long distance telephone. "This is
Hutchinson," said he; "I 'm the man you want for that
position." They wanted to know who "Hutchinson"
was, and whether he had had any experience and all that,
but Jim, having ascertained that the position was still
open, merely told them to wait until he arrived, and took
the next train for Boston. (See Appendix.)
OF GRADUATES 419
* Gerard Merrick Ives
Soldier. Died in the service, August 9th, 1898, in New York City.
Gerard Merrick Ives was born Feb. 19th, 1872, at Rome, Italy.
He was the son of Chauncey Bradley Ives and Maria Louisa
Davis, who were married Oct. 4th, i860, at Brooklyn, N. Y.,
and had altogether seven children, four boys and three girls,
four of whom lived to maturity. A brother, Frederick Merwin
Ives, B.S., C.E., M.D., was graduated from the University of
Pennsylvania.
Chauncey Bradley Ives (b. Dec. 14th, 1810, at New Haven,
Conn.; d. Aug. 2d, 1894, at Rome, Italy), the sculptor, spent
his early youth at New Haven, studied in Boston and Phila-
delphia, lived from 1844 to 185 1 in Florence, and from that
time on in Rome. He was elected a member of L'Accademia
de' Quiviti in 1859. The colossal statues of Sherman at the
Capitol at Washington, and of Trumbull, at the State House,
Hartford, are his work. His parents were Jared Ives, a
farmer, and Surveyer-in-Chief of the State of Connecticut, of
New Haven, and Sylvia Bradley, of Boston, Mass. Thelveses
came originally from England, and settled at New Haven.
Maria Louisa (Davis) Ives is the daughter of Benjamin
Wilson Davis, a wholesale and retail wine and liquor dealer
and grocer, and Louisa Ann Philip (daughter of Maria Marks,
and sister of the Rev. Joseph Dean Philip, M.A., St. John's
College, Cambridge, a clergyman of the Episcopal Church),
both of Brooklyn. The mother of Benjamin W. Davis,
Jeannette Price, of Merthyr-Tydvil, Glamorganshire, Wales,
widow of William Davies, of Brecon, Breconshire, Wales,
emigrated in May, 1819, and settled in New York. Gottfried
Wilhelm Philippe, father of Louisa Ann Philip, emigrated
from Samrad, near Elbing, East Prussia. Mrs. Ives is now
(Feb., '06) living at New York City.
Ives passed his boyhood in Rome, attending the Roman public
schools and the Federico Cesi, or Technical School. In Sep-
tember 1889 he came to America and entered Lawrenceville
School, to prepare for Yale, although he would rather have
gone to West Point. He was one of our Freshman Wrestlers
and received an election to Psi U.
He was unmarried.
Ives joined Squadron A of New York at the first rumor
of a war with Spain, abandoning the plans which he had
formed at that time to go into business. A few weeks
420 BIOGRAPHIES
later, finding it improbable that he would reach the front
through the Squadron, he withdrew from that organiza-
tion, and succeeded in being enlisted at Tampa in Roose-
velt's Rough Riders, with Jim Tailer, '96.
In the "Sexennial Record" (pp. 331-41) are pubHshed
several of his letters home, from camp. They "are char-
acteristically free from criticism and complaint," wrote
his biographer, "and give no indication of the causes of
his last illness and death. The daily tasks of those who
remained at Tampa after the departure of the unmounted
troopers proved too great a burden, even for those who
had been long accustomed to labor, privation, and ex-
posure. The work of grooming, feeding, watering, and
otherwise caring for the horses of the regiment devolved
upon those troopers who remained at Tampa. Real or
feigned sickness depleted the ranks until Gerard was one
of five men caring for ninety horses. The heavy rains of
the season flooded the camp and rendered the quarters
unsanitary and uninhabitable. Many of the men, accus-
tomed to the luxuries of life, derived little nourishment
from the rations which army regulations provide.
"Gerard's frame at last failed to respond to the call.
His friends prevailed upon him to obtain sick leave, to
secure accommodations in the town of Tampa and to
summon a local physician. Though symptoms of typhoid
fever were pronounced, he seemed sufficiently strong to
travel North alone.
"He left Tampa on August 4th, 1898, reached his home
in New York City on August 6th, and died on August
9th."
Following is the text of a letter received by the Class
Secretary :
"Sydney, Nova Scotia,
"March 23rd, 1900.
"To the Ninety-Six Class Committee of Yale College :
"Gentlemen : I am prompted to write this in sympathy with and
in commemoration of the loss of one of your classmates in our
late war. I speak of Gerard Ives of the Rough Riders, who saw
his short-lived hope of serving at the front frustrated for lack of
equipments, a lack which many of us then felt sorely. Even now
I speak with difficulty of a period fraught with such bitter disap-
pointment.
Ives
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"Ives joined Roosevelt's regiment in Tampa, on the eve of its
departure for Cuba, and was assigned to Troop K, a detach-
ment of which had been left in miy charge. It is fitting that he
receive in death some recognition from a comrade for whom he
ever showed the greatest kindness and consideration.
"Among the many trials which attended the attempts to instill
some sense of order into unruly men ; to get the most distasteful
and unpalatable kind of work done, that is, the care of the picket
line, by men, none of whom were in good health, and more than
one-half of whom were always on the sick list ; it was more than
relief to feel that I could always turn to Ives as one who appre-
ciated the difficulties, and who would do his best to ease them.
When illness compelled me to leave camp, it was to Ives I turned
for aid and support, and, though my burdens had then devolved
on him, right readily did he render them. During the week spent
in the town of Tampa, he paid me many visits, and did the com-
missions which a sick man will impose, with cheerful readiness.
I little thought when he helped to carry me on to the train bound
Northward, that the parting would be our last through his death.
Two weeks later the most stalwart man in Troop K has ceased to
be. It is a noble end. God rest his soul.
"Very sincerely,
"William Tudor, Jr.,
"Harvard, '96."
Frederick S. Jackson
Lawyer. Offices, i Madison Avenue, New York City.
Frederick Stephen Jackson was born July loth, 1873, at Water-
bury, Conn. He is a son of Charles Jackson and Bridget
Walsh, who were married Aug. 17th, 1857, at Waterbury, and
had altogether eight children, seven boys and one girl, of whom
one of the boys and the girl died before maturity.
Charles Jackson (b. Oct. 17th, 1835, at Mitchelstown, County
Cork, Ireland; d. May 25th, 1901, at Waterbury) was a sculp-
tor, and at one time City Councilman of Waterbury. He was
the son of Timothy Jackson, an innkeeper, and Catherine
Curry, both of Mitchelstown.
Bridget (Walsh) Jackson (b. April 2d, 1832, at Rossbog,
County Tipperary, Ireland) came to America at the age of
twenty. She is the daughter of Michael Walsh, a gentleman
farmer and Overseer of the Poor, and Alice Hennessy, both
of Rossbog. She is now (Oct., '05) living at Waterbury.
Jackson prepared at the Waterbury High School. He received
a Philosophical Oration at the Junior Exhibition and a High
Oration at Commencement. He was a member of Phi Beta
Kappa.
He has not been married.
422 BIOGRAPHIES
Jackson entered the Yale Law School in the fall of 1896
and was graduated with the degree of LL.B. in 1899. He
was admitted to practice in Connecticut in 1898. After
leaving the law school he went to New York City, entered
the offices of Sackett, Bacon & McQuaid (later Sackett &
McQuaid) and in January, 1900, became a member of
the New York Bar. His connection with Sackett & Mc-
Quaid ended in 1904. Since that time he has practised
under his own name. This year he moved his offices up>-
town to No. I Madison Avenue, on Twenty-third Street,
two blocks from the beautiful court-house occupied by the
Appellate Division. He rooms with Addie Pratt over on
the west side, near old Dr. Vincent.
"Too unromantic to recite," was his first reply to the
request for a decennial installment of his autobiography.
Having been asked to expand this, on the ground that ro-
mance was not exactly a prime factor, he added the fol-
lowing paragraph :
"Don't see how I can expand my answer much without
appearing ridiculous. Fact is, I have been practically
nowhere of any account since 1902— or before that, for
that matter— except one business trip to Louisiana, where,
of course, I saw Godchaux. Have spent nearly every
summer commuting from Jersey with Ad. Pratt and some
other fellows. About the only amusements I go in for
are tennis and riding, although I was once among the
enthusiasts of golf. My temper and style of play were
about on a par at that, so I have given it up as a bad job."
Frank M. JefFrey, M.A.
emy,
Way, St. Louis, Mo.
Permanent mail address, 296 Prospect Street, Torrington, Conn.
Frank Mason Jeffrey was born Aug. 9th, 1874, at Torrington,
Conn. He is the only child of Joseph Henry Jeffrey and Kate
Elizabeth Mason, who were married Oct. 9th, 1873, at Tor-
rington.
Joseph Henry Jeffrey (b. March 22d, 1846, at Birmingham,
England) came to America in 1859, and has since resided at
OF GRADUATES 423
Waterbury, Conn., and Torrington, engaged as a mechanic.
His parents were Job Henry Jeffrey, a chain maker, and Mary
Ann Warr, both of Birmingham.
Kate Elizabeth (Mason) Jeffrey (b. Oct. i8th, 1850, at Tor-
rington) is the daughter of George Henry Mason, a mason,
and Lucy Bissell, both of Torrington.
Jeffrey prepared for Yale at the Torrington High School, and
while in College took Two Year Honors in Ancient Lan-
guages. He received a Philosophical Oration at Junior Ex-
hibition and at Commencement. Phi Beta Kappa.
He was married Aug. 20th, 1902, at Torrington, Conn., to Miss
Alice Dayton Woodward, daughter of the late Andrew J.
Woodward, and Lillie Dayton Woodward (now Mrs. Frank A.
Pickett) of Torrington, Conn., and has two children, daugh-
ters, Catherine Mason Jeffrey (b. Aug. 31st, 1903, at Torring-
ton) and Eleanor Dayton Jeffrey (b. March 30th, 1905, at
St. Louis, Mo.).
Since the summer of 1898 Jeffrey has been teaching at
the Smith Academy in St. Louis, where he is Instructor
in Latin and History, and Treasurer of the Athletic Asso-
ciation. Prior to that he taught for the six months ending
June, 1898, in the Rectory School at New Mil ford, Con-
necticut, and studied for a year and a half in the Graduate
School at Yale. In 1900 Yale gave him his M.A.
His decennial letter follows :
"In August, 1902, I was married and spent a large part
of the summer at Freeport, Long Island, after which I
came to St. Louis. Remained there till following June.
Spent the summer of 1903 in Torrington. Returned to
St. Louis in September, attended the Yale meeting at the
World's Fair, meeting there a number of Yale men,
among them Louis C. Jones. The summer of 1904 was
also spent in Torrington. The summer of 1905 in Leba-
non, Illinois. Since then have remained here, but shall
spend the summer of 1906 mostly in Torrington. At the
meeting of the Western Federated Yale Clubs at St.
Louis I met a number of other '96 men. Since coming to
Smith Academy I have held practically every position in
the Academy except that of principal, my teaching having
ranged from arithmetic and grammar in my first year, to
424 BIOGRAPHIES
college preparatory Greek and Latin. The thing I take
greatest pleasure in, in regard to my work, is the increas-
ing number of desirable boys whom we send to Yale.
Smith Academy is beginning to be looked upon almost as
a Yale preparatory' school."
The boys who go to Smith's are not— or at least have
not always been— of the ultra submissive variety. Tales
have been heard of outbreaks there which no inexpert
man might hope to quell. Jeff says, however, that he
has had no trouble. He sits on one of the usual plat-
forms facing a large roomful of these youths, apparently
wholly at his ease, and prepared at all times, in the words
of the old rule, to benefit or injure, please or displease,
command or obey, serve or resist, indulge, spare, pardon,
threaten, persuade, and the like, as all good teachers
shotdd.
Frederic B. Johnson
Sales, Corrcspoadcnce, and ElxecutiTe dcftartments of the Library Bureau,
316 Brottdway, New York Gty. (See Appendix.)
Readcnce, Franklin Street, Englewood, N. J.
Frederic Burn Johnson was born March 2d, 1876, at Union-
ville. Conn. He is the son of Frederic Waterman Johnson
and Celia MacDonald, who were married at Bridgeport, Conn.,
c 1870, and had one other child, a daughter.
Frederic Waterman Johnson (b. Aug. 24th, 1849, at Union-
villc; d- Feb., 1882, at Unionville), a machinist and mill-wright
by trade, was Superintendent of a machine shop and a paper
mill. His parents were Daniel Blair Johnson, a carpenter
and builder of Oswego, N. Y., and Harriet Newton Wood-
ruff, of Avon, Conn.
Celia (MacDonald) Johnson (b. Jan. 20th, 1851, at Wood-
stock, New Bnmswick) is the daughter of James MacDonald,
a farmer, saddler, and merchant, of Aberdeen, Scotland; and
of Eleanor Kirk of Antrim (or Beffast) Ireland. She is now
(Nov., '05) living at Unionville.
Johnson spent his youth in Unionville, Conn., and prepared for
College at the Unionville High School. At Yale he took a
First Disputfe at the Junior Elxhibition, and a Dissertation at
Commencement-
He was married Dec 25th, 1899, at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., to
Miss Cora Bailey Neher, daughter of Charles Edwin Neher.
OF GRADUATES 425
Johnson entered the employ of the Library Bureau of
Boston on the 28th of July, 1896, and was one of their
local and traveling representatives for two years. In
October, 1898, after an intervening three months in Hart-
ford, he was transferred to New York to represent them
(under the direction of their New York manager) in a
part of New York City and in Connecticut and Western
Massachusetts. Since July, 1900, his work has been al-
most entirely in the New York office and since September
of that year he has lived in Englewood, New Jersey. His
letter follows: (See Appendix.)
"I have worked for the Library Bureau all the last ten
years, and have had experience in almost all departments
of the business in one capacity or another. I started with
them in Boston as floor salesman, and have worked mostly
at the selling of goods and ideas. Have been a traveling
salesman, city salesman, head store salesman, etc. For
the last three or four years I have given little time to
selling goods by personal contact and solicitation, but
have been handling a large correspondence, writing rough
drafts for advertising matter, devising a cost system, or,
rather, cutting down a system for a large factory to suit
a small one, supervising and directing about thirty young
men and as many young women on one of the largest card
index contracts in operation, and looking out for the
proper execution of contracts taken by others for the
equipment of public libraries, banks, vaults, etc.
"The card index contract work has been at times very
interesting— for while there is a lot of routine about it,
there are new things coming up frequently. The work is
in the nature of an information exchange. The informa-
tion is confidential up to a certain point, and its proper
distribution involves the handling (not once, but several
times) of eight or ten million cards a year, card by card.
We not only prepare the cards for filing, but we file them
in over three hundred different offices, removing canceled
cards, and maintaining a very high degree of accuracy by
the exercise of constant care and watchfulness. It is a
contract where our mistakes are likely to cost other people
money in good-sized lumps, so the job is worth while.
426 BIOGRAPHIES
"You ask me what I find most interesting; and I am
glad to say that I find men the most interesting things to
me in all creation : to meet men, especially fine men, and
to influence them, and to be influenced by them, to direct
the effort of intelligent people, to feel that I am rubbing
shoulders with the progressive men of my time, and keep-
ing step with them, is great fun. I like to organize, to
systematize office and factory detail, and to trace the ef-
fect back to its cause, and to find out what a thing costs,
and what it is worth.
"1 have run across the small man and the mean man-
some of them in high places, and wondered how they got
there, but I can't say that I envied them. I have grown a
bit— in some ways at least— since I left College, and hope
not to stop till I stop for good. Still have a willing and
receptive attitude of mind.
"One of the pleasantest things I have done is to build
a house. It is a real home, though not pretentious, and
any '96 man, or any other man with a modicum of Yale
spirit, is welcome there at all times."
Henry S. Johnston
Residence, 221 West 49th Street, New York City.
Lawyer, 71 Broadway, or in the Corporation Counsel's Office in
44 E^ist 23d Street.
Henry Selden Johnston was born April 7th, 1874, at Brook-
lyn, N. Y. He is a son of Henry Phelps Johnston, '62, and
Elizabeth Kirtland Holmes, who were married Oct. 26th, 1871,
at Cleveland, Ohio, and had three other children, all boys,
John Holmes Johnston, '99 S., Rev. Donald Kent Johnston, '03,
and one who died in childhood. Johnston's other Yale rela-
tives include an uncle, Rev. William C. Johnston, '60, and two
first cousins, James Walker, '94, and C. H. Walker, '99. He is
also a descendant of the Rev. Thomas Buckingham of Say-
brook, one of the founders of Yale College.
Henry Phelps Johnston (b. April 19th, 1842, at Trebizond,
Turkey) is an author, and a Professor of History at the Col-
lege of the City of New York. His parents were Thomas P.
Johnston, a minister and missionary, and Marianne Cassandra
OF GRADUATES 427
Howe of Granville, Ohio. The ancestors of the family were
Scotch settlers in Iredell County, N, C.
Elizabeth Kirtland (Holmes) Johnston (b. Nov. 19th, 1848, at
Hadlyme, Conn.) spent her early life at Lebanon, Conn. Her
parents were Joseph Holmes, a manufacturer of Lebanon, and
Maria Selden of Hadlyme.
Johnston prepared for College at Andover. He played quarter-
back on the Freshman Eleven; took the First Prose Prize
offered by the "Courant," and was elected to the Courant Edi-
torial Board in December of Junior year. He received a
First Colloquy at the Junior Exhibition and at Commence-
ment. D. K. E.
He has not been married.
Johnston took the three year course at the Columbia Law
School (New York), being graduated in 1899 with the
degree of LL.B. He practised for one year in the Law
Department of the Metropolitan Street Railway Co., and
one year with Charles D. Cleveland. In May, 1901, he
formed a partnership under the name of Johnston & Bene-
dict with Elliot S. Benedict, Harvard, '96, which lasted
until 1904. Meantime, in June, 1902, Johnston had be-
come one of the Junior Assistant Corporation Counsel of
New York City, under Mayor Low, a position in which
he has been retained through subsequent administrations.
His work is done in the Tenement House Department,
of which Robert W. de Forest, '70, was the first Commis-
sioner. In addition to his official duties he has a law
office at 71 Broadway. Until 1905 he was chairman of a
committee of the Charity Organization Society, in charge
of the Society's wood-yard work.
In the summer of 1900 he traveled in Europe with H.
A. Perkins, spending a month in Iceland, and three years
later he was elected to the Arctic Club, as a member of
the "Perkins Icelandic Expedition of 1900." Most of
his other vacations have been spent at the old homestead
in Hadlyme, Connecticut. Basso Wells went up with him
one year "for the shooting," a criminally reckless arrange-
ment, owing both to Basso's contented inexperience in
the matter of firearms and his intemperate lust of adven-
>.Ml iji ii Jtaiw
428 BIOGRAPHIES
ture. In 1905 Mallon visited him. "Would that you were
with us upon Johnnie's farm," he wrote. "Johnnie is a
farmer and a hunter. He asked me down here to shoot
a few ducks and partridges. I could not hit a flock of
barn-doors, but I have had a fine old time. The most
beautiful river valley I have ever seen. We have done a
little hunting, some boating, a little swimming and walk-
ing, and have managed to enjoy every minute. Johnnie
seems to have the time of his life up here. ... It is now
four p.m., Sunday. I am sitting in front of the house
and he is leaning over a picket fence talking to 'Grey,' a
fwenty-three-year-old horse, and planning vast improve-
ments on the farm. He has just called over, 'Don't tell
Day I am not a good farmer,, for he thinks I am.' Please,
dear Day, he is a most excellent farmer."
Rev. Albert Corey Jones
Rector, St. Mark's Church, Mystic, Conn.
Albert Corey Jones was born June 5th, 1873, in New Haven,
Conn. He is a son of Edward Lewis Jones and Charlotte
Amelia Corey, who were married Nov. 22d, 1866, at New
Haven, and had one other son, Edward Clinton Jones, '95,
and two daughters.
Edward Lewis Jones (b. June 13th, 1844, at New Haven) is
a merchant of New Haven. His parents were David Lewis
Jones, a shoemaker of Orange, Conn., and Sarah Clinton of
New Haven. The family came from Wales in 1748, and settled
at Stratford, Conn.
Charlotte Amelia (Corey) Jones (b. June ist, 1846, at
Seymour, Conn.) spent her early life at Orange, Conn. She
is the daughter of John F. Corey and Melinda Camp, both of
Seymour.
Jones spent his youth in New Haven, and prepared for College
at the Hillhouse High School. He received a First Dispute
at the Junior Exhibition and a Second Dispute at Commence-
ment, and was a member of the Hillhouse High School Club.
He was married June 28th, 1905, at Grace Church, Noank, Conn.,
to Miss Katherine Spicer Chesebro, daughter of Walter Scott
and Prudence (Spicer) Chesebro. (See Appendix.)
OF GRADUATES 429
Jones spent two years at the Yale Divinity School and
one year at the Berkeley Divinity School. From July,
1899, to January, 1901, he was Assistant Minister at St.
Paul's Church, Cleveland, Ohio. During 1901 he offi-
ciated as Rector of St. Philip's Church at the same place.
Since February, 1902, he has been Rector of St. Mark's
Church at Mystic, Connecticut.
"As my parish includes Gales Ferry and parts adjacent
thereto," he wrote this spring, **I have been self-appointed
chaplain to the Yale crews for a term of five years, with
no visible results. Most of the Class have passed through
my bailiwick in Panhard or Mercedes cars, but few have
ever run up the lane that leads to the Rectory. Please,
some one, throw off a package of old newspapers."
Louis Cleveland Jones, Ph.D.
Chemist for the Solvay Process Co., Syracuse, N. Y.
Louis Cleveland Jones was born Dec. 24th, 1871, at Oak Hill,
N. Y. He is a son of Daniel Sutherland Jones and Julia Ellen
Cleveland, who were married Feb. ist, 1866, at Oak Hill, and
had one other son and one daughteK
Daniel Sutherland Jones (b. at Oak Hill in 1839) served for
three years as a volunteer in the Civil War. He has spent
the greater part of his life at his birthplace and at East
Durham, N. Y., where he is now living, engaged as a farmer,
and holding the office of Magistrate. His parents were Daniel
Jones, a farmer and local Magistrate, and Angelina Doolittle,
both of Oak Hill. The direct ancestor was Morgan Jones,
(father of Daniel Jones), of Llandovery, Wales, who left Ox-
ford University and came to America about 1800, and settled
at Rensselaerville, Albany Co., N. Y.
Julia Ellen (Cleveland) Jones (b. 1845 at Oak Hill, N. Y.)
is the daughter of Ezra Allen Cleveland, a farmer, and Ruth
Utter, both of Oak Hill.
Jones spent his early life at Oak Hill, N. y., and prepared at the
Starkey Seminary. He took Two Year Honors in Natural
Sciences at Yale, and received an Oration at the Junior Ex-
hibition and a High Oration at Commencement. Phi Beta
Kappa.
rH*,.-.
430 BIOGRAPHIES
His engagement has been announced to Miss Ursula Northrup,
daughter of Judge Ansel Judd Northrup, Hamilton, '58, and
Eliza Sophia Fitch, of Syracuse. Mr. Northrup, who is an
author, was Judge of Onondaga Co., 1882-94. He has been
a United States Commissioner since 1897. (See Appendix.)
Jones was a post-graduate student in chemistry at Yale
and an assistant to Professor Gooch in the Kent Chemical
Laboratory three years. Received his Ph.D. in June,
1899, and since that time has been with the Solvay Process
Company of Syracuse as chemist. He is also connected
with the By-Products Coke Corporation and is Assistant
Chief Chemist of the Semet-Solvay Company. "In
1903," he wrote this spring, "I attended the International
Congress of Chemists in Berlin, as a delegate of the
Company, and spent the summer traveling in Europe —
Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Eng-
land, and Wales— studying electro-chemical manufacture,
also coal tar products, and glass manufacture. 1904 was
spent in Alabama establishing sulphate of ammonia plant
for the Company. 1905-6, spent considerable time in
Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia studying coal and
coal geology. My horse-back experiences in these States
and in Tennessee, with Spellman's tongue or H. D.
Baker's pen would 'fill a house,' but I refrain."
A request was sent to Jones for some information in
regard to his bibliography (which will be found in the
Bibliographical Notes), in reply to which he wrote as
follows :
"About the time that the articles on boric acid were
published, the 'embalmed beef scandal was up. At that
time there was no quick and accurate chemical method for
determining by analysis the amount of boric acid or its
compounds in any material. Chemists generally deter-
mined all other constituents of a substance, and called the
residue boric acid. The principles of the method de-
scribed in my papers have been so well received that in
the original or some modified form the method is now in
general use. The papers were reprinted in the English
OF GRADUATES 431
chemical journals, 'Chemical News' and The Journal
of the Society of Chemical Industry,' also translated into
German and French by the German and French chemical
papers. This is, however, no very extraordinary distinc-
tion, since all the publications by students of Professor
Gooch are similarly received in Europe.
"Since coming to Syracuse my work has been such (as
is true with all industrial chemical work) that the
publication of descriptions of important improvements is
out of the question. My investigations of the glass man-
ufactures and the electro-chemical works in Europe are
of a similar nature, and I can only say that in these two
branches we in America have little to learn from them."
Warren S. Jordan
Lawyer, 984 Main Street, Peekskill, N. Y.
Warren Southard Jordan was born July 4th, 1872, at Peekskill,
N. Y. He is a son of Warren Jordan and Ann E. Royce, who
were married May 9th, 1870, and had two other children, one
son and one daughter.
Warren Jordan (b. at Croton-on-Hudson, April 24th, 1833;
d. March 9th, 1906, at Peekskill) was the principal hardware
merchant in Peekskill, Vice-President of the Peekskill Savings
Bank, Trustee of the Peekskill Military Academy and of St.
Paul's Church (of which he was a member for nearly half
a century), Water Commissioner, President of the Dunder-
berg Club, etc. His parents were Edmund Jordan and Jen-
netta Lent of Croton. Edmund Jordan, who was a member of
the old Quaker family of Jordans, well known in that section
of the county, died when his son was six years old, and the
boy lived on his grandfather's farm until (at the age of 21)
he went to Peekskill to make his way.
Ann E. (Royce) Jordan (b. at Peekskill, c. 1836) is a
daughter of William Royce, a storekeeper of Peekskill, who
was also Postmaster of that city for several years.
Jordan prepared for College at the Peekskill Military Academy.
He received a Second Colloquy at the Junior Exhibition and
a First Colloquy at Commencement.
432 BIOGRAPHIES
He was married at Peekskill, N. Y., Nov. 15th, 1900, to Miss
Florence Anne Hyde, daughter of Frank Hyde of Peekskill.
He has two children, one son and one daughter, Warren
Southard Jordan, Jr. (b. Oct. 20th, 1901, at Peekskill), and
Priscilla Jordan (b. Aug. 9th, 1904, at Peekskill).
"Immediately after graduation," wrote Jordan in 1902,
"I became an adjunct to the law office of Thomas D.
Husted, '83, and in the fall of the same year entered the
New York Law School. In October, 1898, I was ad-
mitted to practice, and for a year made New York City
hum keeping up with my progress, for I was out for my-
self. I found, however, that the life of a young attorney
in New York was not sufficiently strenuous, so I came to
Peekskill and have since resided here." He added that
he had taught German for one year at the Clinton Clas-
sical School, but did not give the date.
Jordan was not heard from directly this spring, but he
is known to be practising in Peekskill, as before. He
sees Herbert Strong occasionally, and when Squadron A
goes up to camp he has a glimpse of other '96 men.
Professor Albert G. Keller
Assistant Professor of the Science of Society, Yale University.
(See Appendix.)
Residence, 55 Huntington;' Street, New Haven, Conn.
Albert Galloway Keller was born April loth, 1874, at Spring-
field, Ohio. He is a son of Jeremiah Keller and Laura Steven-
son Smith, who were married Jan. 22d, 1867, at Springfield,
Ohio, and had one other child, Samuel Smith Keller, A.B.,
Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio.
Jeremiah Keller (b. Oct. i6th, 1839, at Frederickton, Ohio;
d. May i8th, 1905, at Chicago, 111.) enlisted at President Lin-
coln's first call, served later on as Lieutenant Commander in
the "Mosquito Fleet," took part in Banks' Red River Expedi-
tion, and was thereafter invalided home. He was afterwards
engaged as an insurance adjuster, business manager, etc., in
New York City and the Central West, but never recovered
in mind or body from the hardships of his service. He was
OF GRADUATES 433
the son of Adam Keller, a millwright, who lived in succes-
sion at Somerset, Pa., Frederickton, Ohio. Burlington, Iowa,
and Mansfield, Ohio, and Sarah Huyple, of Pennsylvania, who
was of Dutch descent. The family came from Baden, Germany,
about 1750, and settled in Lancaster Co., Pa., thence moving to
Somerset about 1796.
Laura Stevenson (Smith) Keller (b. May 3d, 1843, at Green-
field, Ohio; d. Aug. 26th, 1875, at Springfield, Ohio) was the
daughter of Samuel Smith, a tanner and farmer of Greenfield
and Springfield, and Sarah Galloway, of Gettysburg, Pa.
Keller spent most of his boyhood in Milford, Conn., and pre-
pared for Yale at the Hillhouse High School. He took the
Hugh Chamberlain Greek Prize in 1892 for the best entrance
examinations in Greek; won a Berkeley Premium of the
First Grade in Freshman year, and was made 3d Freshman
Scholar. In Sophomore year he took a First Lucius F. Robin-
son Latin Prize, and a College Prize of the Second Grade in
English Composition. In Junior year he took a First
Winthrop Prize. He received a Philosophical Oration at the
Junior Exhibition and at Commencement, and was graduated
third in the Class. Phi Beta Kappa.
He was married at Philadelphia, Pa., July i6th, 1898, to Miss
Caroline Louise Gussmann, daughter of the late Charles Fer-
dinand Gussmann and Caroline Wilhelmina (Fackler) Guss-
mann, and has two children, a daughter, Caroline Keller (b.
Dec. 7th, 1899, at New Haven, Conn.) and a son, Deane Keller
(b. Dec. 14th, 1901, at New Haven).
For the three years 1896-99 Keller was a Graduate Fel-
lov^ at Yale, studying under Professor Sumner. He was
appointed an assistant in Social Science in 1899, an in-
structor in 1900, and an assistant professor in 1902,
becoming an editor of the "Yale Review" that same year.
The summer of 1896 he spent in Maine. "Rest of time
in immediate environs of New Haven." His decennial
letter, or diary, runs as follows :
"Summer of 1902 in cottage at Woodmont, Conn.
Went to Washington and made collection of ethnograph-
ical slides for Yale University in July. Ran entrance
exams, at Philadelphia. Uneventful summer.
"Carried on regular academic work for the year
1902-03. Taught Anthropology in Shefif., too. Served
434 BIOGRAPHIES
on Faculty committee on Members and Scholarship. Ad-
vised in the founding of the Elihu Club. Sumner pro-
posed Junior course in Anthropology. Got out 'Queries
in Ethnography' during last weeks of year. Anthro-
pology Club founded. Summer in New Haven. Spent
it mostly on Darwin. Great enlightenment. Ran exams,
in Philadelphia. Began writing 'Colonization.' Read a
lot of novels. Got ready for the Junior Anthropology.
''1903-04: Regular work in Academic and Sheff.
Summer: Ran exams, at Philadelphia. Short trip for
wife's health in Berkshires. Uneventful. Regular
tennis.
"1904-05 : Regular work as usual. Working all the
time on Colonization and Commercial Geography. End
of year got idea of commercial museum; result of con-
ference with Anson, and Giiford Pinchot, '89. Went to
Washington and got connected. Bishop, 1903, later se-
cured Portland exhibit for Museum. Ran exams, in
Pittsburgh. Began house. Summer in New Haven as
usual. (No vacations since 1896.) Read a lot of novels
as usual in summer. Progressively involved in details of
college work. Edited Keltic's 'Africa' early in 1904.
Summer school.
"1905-6: Regular college work, and on books. Pub-
lished chapter on Portuguese in Brazil in 'Yale Review.'
Baltimore, Xmas time, assisting in launching American
Sociological Society (humbly).
"Experienced little elation, little sorrow, during the
four years. Humdrum existence. Uneventful, vacation-
less, vocation-ful. No travels, no illness. Met the regu-
lar crowd here and few others. Attended to business.
Moved into house April 14, 1906, as per changed address
above. Wrote Day a sour article on the Professor. Got
some ideas and tried to give some. Have worked hard to
make a real department of Anthropology. Regular asso-
ciation with Billy Sumner leading to better appreciation
of him as a scholar and man, and much advantage to self."
(See Appendix.)
OF GRADUATES 435
W. C. Kellogg, M.D.
Physician, Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat and Skin,
2d Floor, Leonard Building, Augusta, Georgia.
William Crissey Kellogg was born April 6th, 1874, at Green-
wich, Conn. He is a son of George Kellogg and Polly Mills
Benedict, who were married Nov. 19th, 1863, at New Canaan,
Conn., and had two other children, one boy and one girl.
George Kellogg (b. Oct. 17th, 1840, at New Canaan) is an
architect and a coal and lumber merchant of New Canaan.
He has lived at Greenwich, Conn., Ocean Grove, N. J., and
Mt. Vernon, N. Y. His parents were Matthew Kellogg, a
farmer, and Electa Crofoot, both of New Canaan. The family
came from England in 1651-2, and settled at Norwalk, Conn.
Polly Mills (Benedict) Kellogg (b. March 24th, 1841, at
New Canaan) is the daughter of Caleb St. John Benedict, a
boot and shoe manufacturer, and Hannah Elizabeth Crissey,
both of New Camaan.
Kellogg spent his boyhood at Ocean Grove, N. J., Mt. Vernon,
N. Y., and New Canaan, Conn., and prepared for College at
the Dwight School in New York City. He was a member of
the Yale Union, and received a First Colloquy at the Junior
Exhibition, and a First Dispute at Commencement. Beta
Theta Pi.
He was married Sept. i8th, 1902, at Binghamton, N. Y., to
Miss Loubelle Kniffin, daughter of Daniel McNiel and Carrie
(Dyer) Kniffin, of Auburn, N. Y.
"In October, 1898," runs Kellogg's sexennial autobiog-
raphy, "I entered the Medical School at Johns Hopkins
and graduated from there in 1900. The summer of 1898
I spent in Germany, studying Pathology in the University
of Greifswald and traveling through Germany, France,
England, and Holland. In June, 1900, immediately after
getting my M.D. degree, I went to the Barnes Hospital,
United States Soldiers' Home, Washington, D. C., and
served as Assistant Resident Surgeon until September,,
1901 ; when I came to Augusta, Georgia, and entered
practice with Dr. T. E. Oertel, as Specialists in Eye, E^r,
Nose, Throat, and Skin diseases. In October, 1901, I
was appointed Assistant in Pathology in the Medical De-
436 BIOGRAPHIES
partment of the University of Georgia, which is situated
here in Augusta."
Kellogg is now Professor of Physiology in this Medical
School and is also Secretary of the Richmond County
Medical Society. "Since 1902," he writes, "I have been
in Augusta almost continuously, with practically no
Vacations, avocations, meetings with classmates, travels,
or other experiences.' I have a very good practice in
eye, ear, nose and throat work here, but ..." [The
"but" precedes an account of a fire which destroyed most
of his belongings.] "I miss the old familiar faces sadly
down here. I had hoped to be in New Haven this Com-
mencement, but my work would not permit my leaving
town at this time. I expect to come North in August
for a couple of weeks and if I do I shall surely hunt up
the Yale Club and knock about a bit there. As there are
but two other Yale men in this town, one of whom is old
and feeble, I endeavored to send another one to Yale for
the sake of company ; but he miscarried, went to Harvard,
and captained his Freshman football team !"
Robert Kelly, Jr.
With the Holophane Glass Co. (See Appendix.)
Robert Kelly, Jr., was born May 15th, 1875, at New Haven,,
Conn. He is a son of Robert Kelly, '70, and Mabel McClellan
Silliman, who were married Sept. 2Sth, 1873, at New Haven,
and had altogether seven children, three boys and four girls,
six of whom lived to maturity.
Robert Kelly the elder (b. Dec. 26th, 1849, at New York
City) was admitted to the New York State Bar three years
after graduation from Yale, having studied at the Columbia
Law School. He never practised law, however, but immediately
engaged in the iron business, and afterwards in the manu-
facture of hosiery. He was at one time manager of the New
York House of Refuge. He is now General Manager of the
Land & Improvement Co. and Vice-President of the National
Bank of West Superior, Wis. The greater part of his life
has been spent at New York City and Superior, Wis. His
parents were Robert Kelly, B.A. Columbia, a financier and
OF GRADUATES 437
philanthropist of New York City; and Arietta A. Hutton of
Rhinebeck, Dutchess Co., N. Y. The family emigrated from
England, Ireland, and Holland in 1797, and settled at New
York City.
Mabel McClellan (Silliman) Kelly (b. Aug. 21st, 1854, at
New Haven) is the daughter of Benjamin Silliman, 'zT^ Pro-
fessor of Science at Yale College, and Susan Forbes, both of
New Haven.
Kelly's youth was spent in New York City, in Yonkers, and in
West Superior, Wis. He prepared for Yale at the Yonkers
High School, and he received a Dissertation at the Junior Ex-
hibition, and a First Dispute at Commencement. Zeta Psi.
He has not been married.
Outside of his war service at Chickamauga as Sergeant
of the 3d Wisconsin Volunteers (May- July, 1898), Kelly
has stuck very closely to work. From graduation until
June, 1900, he was foreman and Superintendent of the
West Superior (Wisconsin) plant of the United States
Cast Iron Pipe & Foundry Company. On the latter date
he became a foreman and Superintendent for the Illinois
Steel Company of South Chicago, and on March 15th,
1902, he left them to become Superintendent of the Holo-
phane Glass Company's works at Newark, Ohio. His
decennial letter follows :
"Since Sexennial, I have lived in Newark, O., with
occasional jaunts to New York, Chicago, etc., looking
after the manufacture of Flolophane glass. Our business
has grown appreciably and present prospects are bright.
"Life in this thriving Ohio town has its advantages,
though the doings of a citizen of average prominence are
subject to a more or less microscopic inspection by the
local sewing circles, Tuesday Afternoon Euchre Club,
the Monday Talk Club, and kindred societies, whose
chief aim is the prevention of feminine ennui. A con-
servative estimate of the population of Newark would be
20,000 detectives and six hacks. The chief amusements
are roller skating and dancing in winter, and baseball
and dancing in summer. A necessary accompaniment to
all is an abundance of chewing gum for the women, and.
438 BIOGRAPHIES
a superabundance of chewing tobacco (termed 'scrap' in
the vernacular) for the men. It is noticeable that ladies
of Newark display remarkable dexterity in the manipula-
tion of their skirts, acquired in dodging expectorants.
"However, one wakes up in the morning to the singing
of the robin and oriole, and not to the dull roar of a city.
Upon looking out of the window one can really tell
whether the day bids fair or not, for though we have fac-
tories, we are in a rich natural gas belt and there is no
smoke nuisance. The country about us is healthy, as well
as fertile and beautiful. If the placid serenity of our life
palls a little, we have only to jump on a train and in a
few hours we can indulge in the pleasures and excitement
afforded by a big city ; appreciating them much more than
the residents, to whom things are humdrum that give us
enjoyment.
"In fine, Clarence, I am quite happy. Both my health
and credit are still good. What more can mortal ask?
The next time you come through this part of the country,
I hope you will stop off. I have commodious quarters,
and assure you a warm welcome."
Tom S. Kingman
Lawyer. 80 Wall Street, New York City.
Residence, 50 West 37th Street.
Tom Sidney Kingman was born July 20th 1874, at New York
City. He is a son of Thomas Sewall Kingman and Anna
Helena Jenks, who were married July 23d, 1867, at Brookville,
Pa., and had altogether six children, four boys and two girls,
four of whom lived to maturity.
Thomas Sewall Kingman (b. April 5th, 1843, at North
Bridgewater [now Brockton], Mass.; d. Oct. loth, 1903, at
South Orange, N. J.) was a merchant. He lived at North
Bridgewater until he was twenty years of age. He afterwards
lived in Boston, New York, and South Orange. His parents
were Abel Washburn Kingman, a physician, and Clarissa
Alden, both of North j^ridgewater. Abel Kingman's ancestors
came from Weymouth, England in 1635, and settled at Wey-
mouth and Duxbury, Mass. Clarissa Alden was a lineal de-
scendant of John Alden of Plymouth.
OF GRADUATES 439
Anna Helena (Jenks) Kingman (b. April 24th, 1847, at
Brookville, Pa.) is the daughter of David Barclay Jenks, a
lawyer, and Sidney Jack, both of Brookville. She is now
(Feb., '06) living at South Orange, N. J.
Kingman spent most of his boyhood in Orange, N. J., and pre-
pared for College at the Newark Academy. He was a member
of the University Club, of Kappa Psi, and of D. K. E.
He has not been married.
Kingman entered the New York Law School in the fall
of 1896 and the offices of Dill, Seymour & Kellogg the
following December. In 1898, after getting his degree of
LL.B., he became associated with this firm, then styled
Dill, Seymour & Baldwin, and remained with them until
May 1st, 1900. He has practised under his own name
since that date. His cable address ("Incorporate") in-
geniously describes his specialty.
"My occupation," he writes, "you know. Hand on the
plough, Mr. Secretary, and all the rest is said. My prac-
tice has been chiefly in matters pertaining to corporation
organization and management, and the creatures of statute
occupy my chosen field, from the Incorporated Gentlemen
of Leisure,' as the Court dubbed one innocent holding-
company because it claimed to have been over-taxed,
down to the hard-working industrial.
"I have no secret processes, except the 'Little Hill-
anddale' cocktail, and as I look back over the last four
years, I find them entirely devoid of the interestingly pub-
lishable."
Tom's ancient title of Councillor has been changed of
recent years to Chancellor, and it is as Chancellor that he
generally presides over the awards of the '96 long dis-
tance cups. His speeches at Sexennial and at the 1903
dinner are still quoted and remembered— the former, in-
deed, has found its way into the fiction pages of a maga-
zine. He broke his arm last spring— horse fell with him
—but it did not prevent his attending Decennial, plaster
cast and all.
440 BIOGRAPHIES
Troy Kinney
Artist. Permanent mail address, The Yale Club, New York City.
(See Appendix.)
Troy Kini«:y was born Dec. ist, 1871, in Kansas City, Mo. He
is the only child of William Crane Kinney and Mary Candace
Troy, who were married May 2Sth, 1869, at Nashville, Tenn.
William Crane Kinney (b. Feb. 3d, 1838, near Adrian,
Mich.), a Chicago real-estate and loan broker, served as
1st Lieutenant Co. E., 93rd 111. Vol. Infantry, 1862-65. He was
an Alderman in Nashville 1866-69, and an Alderman in Chi-
cago 1888-91. His parents were Sylvanus Kinney, a farmer
of Lenawee Co., Mich., and Hannah Crane. The family came
from England in the i8th century, and settled near Hartford,
Conn.
Mary Candace (Troy) Kinney (b. Aug. 20th, 1845; d. April
nth, 1891, at Chicago, 111.) spent her early life at Jackson-
ville, 111. She was the daughter of Edward Troy, a Methodist
minister, and Mary Stratton, of Virginia.
Kinney prepared for College at the Harvard School in Chicago.
He entered our Class in January, 1893. He rowed No. 4 in the
Sophomore Fall Crew, was Captain and No. 6 on the Sopho-
more Spring Crew, and was Captain and Stroke of the Junior
Crew in both the fall and spring Regattas. He also rowed
No. 6 on the '95 Freshman Crew, while a member of that
Class, and in 1894 was on the Varsity Squad. He was a
member of the Cup Committee, the Cap and Gown Committee,
the Chicago Club, the Southern Club and D. K. E.
He was married June 9th, 1900, at Chicago, to Miss Margaret
West, daughter of John Ackroyd and Margaret McMillan
West of Peoria, 111., and has one child, a son, John West Kin-
ney (b. March 7th, 1903, in New York City).
"After Commencement went direct to Baltimore to posi-
tion in art department of the 'Herald.' This position was
unsatisfactory; after a month or so went over to the
'American' (nothing of Hearst's), where I presently grav-
itated into writing both news and Sunday stuff as well as
making drawings.
"My father was in Chicago and wanted me to come
there, he and I being all there were left of our family;
so in October, '96, I went, after two weeks' walking trip
OF GRADUATES 441
in Virginia. It was now my plan to get in as much time
as possible in art school without sacrificing paying con-
nection with newspapers. Accordingly sold drawings and
articles to Chicago Sunday papers, attending Art Insti-
tute irregularly. In 1897 joined Palette and Chisel Club,
an organization devoted mostly to purposes of study,
composed of men in practical art work. In fall of '97,
vacation ; was given a good time by Neil Mallon, Tommy
Paxton, and others, including '95 men, in Cincinnati, and
other Yale men in Louisville. In latter city was blown off
to luncheon by Mason Brown, then Assistant City Attor-
ney, or words to that effect. Walking trip through East-
ern Kentucky.
"Rejected on account of defective sight by army and
navy at time of Spanish war. Work drifted into com-
mercial designing— posters, etc. Married, June 9th, 1900,
Miss Margaret West, a painter; most of work from our
studio since has been the collaborative effort of both.
Same year (1900) Mrs. Kinney and I did a number of
decorations in Grand Opera House, Chicago. In 1901
were given our first considerable chance in illustration.
The Thrall of Leif the Lucky,' which is said to have been
the first book of recent times to be illustrated in full color.
Since that book's publication our time has been almost
wholly occupied with illustration.
"Moved to New York in 1902. Son born in March,
1903; case presided over by one of the best obstetricians
in his profession. Dr. A. W. Bingham.
"Not much time for anything but regular work. Have
accumulated a few sketches made in hurried trips to the
country. Ceiling decoration for Cafe des Ambassadeurs.
Lately have done some etching and aquatinting, having
had opportunity to learn essentials of the technique of
acid, copper, and printing from Mr. George Senseney.
Find etching perhaps the most fascinating branch of pic-
torial work so far— but still the thing one is doing seems
to be the most interesting.
"College associations strengthen. A certain number
of good-natured fellows, both local and out-of-town men,
442 BIOGRAPHIES
drop into studio occasionally, and a sociably-disposed
crowd is generally to be found at the Yale Club. All
told, the 'little old town' is just about an ideal place to
live in."
Henry S. Kip
With the Stock Exchange firm of Herrick, Hicks & Colby, 7 Wall Street,
New York City.
Residence, 205 West 57th Street
Permanent mail address, Rhinebeck, New York.
Henry Spies Kip was born June 29th, 1874, in New York City.
He is a son of William Bergh Kip and Sarah Ann Spies, who
were married at New York about 1870, and had three other
children, one daughter, and two sons (William Ruloff Kip,
ex '97 S. and Garrett Bergh Kip, '01).
William Bergh Kip (b. at Rhinebeck, Dutchess Co., N. Y.,
in 1845; d. Aug. i6th, 1888, at New York City) was a New
York lawyer (graduate of the Albany Law School, '67). His
life was spent principally at his birthplace and at New York
City. His parents were Henry James Kip, a farmer, and Sarah
Ann Bergh, both of Rhinebeck. The family came from Holland
in 1650, and settled in New Amsterdam.
Sarah Ann (Spies) Kip (b. at New York City, c. 1845),
daughter of Adam W. Spies, a merchant, and Sarah Ann
Morrison, both of New York City, is now the wife of John
Blake Baker, of New York.
Kip prepared for College at St. John's School, Sing Sing (now
Ossining), N. Y. He played piccolo on the Second Banjo
Club, and banjo on the University Banjo Club. A First Col-
loquy at the Junior Exhibition and at Commencement. Kappa
Psi. Psi U.
He was married at the Church of the Incarnation, New York
City, Oct. 25th, 1902, to Miss Frances Coster Jones, daughter
ol the late Alfred Renshaw Jones and Sarah Post Anthon
(now Mrs. Lewis Quentin Jones). He has one son, Henry
Spies Kip, Jr., (b. at New York City, Feb. 12th, 1905).
Kip went around the world with Murray Shoemaker after
graduation, taking about a year to make it. On his return
to New York he enlisted in Squadron A, and when the war
broke out he joined the Ninth New York Volunteers as
J
OF GRADUATES 443
Battalion Adjutant and First Lieutenant, and proceeded
with them to Chickamauga, "where I spent a very hot
and stupid summer. While in the service of the Ninth
Regiment I was detailed as acting ordinance officer for
a while, and elected regimental treasurer and chairman
of the committee on hospital work. Saw no active service
in the Ninth Regiment, only this camp life, and was mus-
tered out with the regiment after about five months' ser-
vice."
The winter of 1898-99 he spent upon the Nile, and in
the following fall he entered the New York Law School,
from which he was graduated with the degree of LL.B.
in 1 90 1. After securing offices with Hatch, Debevoise &
Colby he started in January, 1902, upon a second trip
around the world, returning just in time for our Sexen-
nial. "I ran across a number of Yale men in the East,
and in Manila I was put up at the University Club, which
was a very attractive little place, with a good Yale repre-
sentation. In the Yellowstone National Park we ran
across Jim Corbitt, who joined our party (my brothers
and myself) and went through the park with us. In
the fall of 1902, as your records show, I married, and in
February, 1905, our boy was born. I have played a little
polo from time to time with Squadron A at Van Cortlandt
Park and at Newport in summers. I am particularly
rotten at the game. Was promoted out of Squadron A in
December, 1904, and commissioned a Second Lieutenant
in 'A' Company, of the Twelfth Regiment, and I am still
serving with that organization."
For the last eight years Kip has been President of the
Rhinebeck Republican Club and this spring he was ac-
tively concerned in the opposition to the bill extending the
corporate existence of the Rhinebeck-Rhinecliff Railway.
This spring, too, he laid aside the law and entered Wall
Street in connection with the Stock Exchange house of
Herrick, Hicks & Colby. He told us all about it at the
Club one afternoon. The Secretary recalls that his face
was all cut up and scarred, not because of any Stock Ex-
change initiation, it appeared, but merely a motor acci'
444 BIOGRAPHIES
dent. There was a glass screen in front, the car was un-
expectedly checked, and Henry swallowed his cigar and
went through the screen. What cut him up so, however,
he disgustedly explained, was being pulled back in.
James Hoyt Knapp
Partner in the Woolens Commission house of Kunhardt & Stockton,
817 Broadway, New York City.
Mail address, P.O. Box 40, Station O, New York City.
Residence, 67 Glenbrook Road, Stamford, Conn.
James Hoyt Knapp was born Oct. 13th, 1873, at South Norwalk,
Conn. He is a son of James Henry Knapp and Mariette Hoyt,
who were married Oct. 12th, 1859, at Danbury, Conn., and had
altogether six children, three girls and three boys (including
Howard Hoyt Knapp, '82; LL.B. '84), four of whom lived to
maturity.
James Henry Knapp (b. May 9th, 1832, at New York City)
is a manufacturer of South Norwalk, at which place and at
Danbury he has spent the greater part of his life. He is the
son of James Knapp of New York City, and Martha Bailey.
Jonathan Knapp (or Knap), father of James Knapp, served
as a Captain in the Revolutionary War.
Mariette (Hoyt) Knapp (b. Feb. 9th, 1836, near Danbury;
d. Oct. nth, 1894, at South Norwalk) was the daughter of
Starr Hoyt of Bethel, Conn., and Sally Maria Nichols of Dan-
bury. Starr Hoyt was at one time engaged as a manufacturer,
and later was head of a boys' school.
Knapp prepared for College at Andover. He was President of
the Freshman Football Association, rowed No. 5 on the Fresh-
man Crew, and No. 7 on the Sophomore Crews; was Substi-
tute on the Varsity Crew of 1894, and served as coach of the
Freshman Crews of other classes. He Boule. Psi U. Wolf's
Head.
He was married at South Norwalk, Conn., Nov. 24th, 1900, to
Miss Ethel Ferris, daughter of Frank A. Ferris, and has had
one child, a son, born in June, 1902, who died the day after its
birth. (See Appendix.)
Knapp was in a woolen mill at Lawrence, Massachu-
setts, from July, 1896, until January, 1897. He then went
to New York to enter the woolens commission house of
Kunhardt & Stockton on Worth Street. He had a thor-
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ough salesman's training with this concern, traveled for
them to Philadelphia and to Baltimore, served for two
years as Western agent, with headquarters in Chicago,
and on October ist, 1903, was admitted to partnership.
He lives in Stamford and his place of business is now at
817 Broadway, New York.
Jim does not regard hospitably the class circulars which
literally clog, he says, his mails, and has been known to
seek relief from his choler by threatening the softly coo-
ing Secretary with fantastic forms of violence. Especially
did he roar when the "Hawkes Questionnaire" was issued,
opening an apparently unlimited range of possibilities in
the way of inquiries. He attends the '96 dinners pretty
regularly, and he is one of the men on whom the Toast-
master depends to "keep the game a-going," although his
zeal is sometimes misdirected. At our last gathering he
was overheard trying to pump a cocktail into Colgate.
■"No, no, thanks, Jim," said Rus; "I had a lemonade out
at Orange before I started."
Edgar C. Lackland, Jr.
Permanent mail address, 4429 Westminster Place, St. Louis, Mo.
(See Appendix.)
Edgar Conrad Lackland, Jr., was born at St. Louis, Mo., June
17th, 1874. He is a son of Edgar Conrad Lackland and Elise
Meta Kayser, who were married Dec. isth, 1864, at St. Louis,
and had altogether five children, three boys and two girls.
One of the brothers is a graduate of Amherst.
Edgar Conrad Lackland the elder was born and has spent
the greater part of his life at St. Louis as a merchant. He
was at one time Major and Quartermaster Missouri Militia,
and a Deputy Sheriff (Posse Comitatus). His parents were
Rufus James Lackland, President of the Boatmen's Bank of
St. Louis, and Mary Susanah Cable of Rochester, N. Y., and
Louisville, Ky. The family came originally from England and
settled in Maryland.
Elise Meta (Kayser) Lackland (b. March i6th, 1847, at St.
Louis) is the daughter of Henry Kayser, a civil engineer, and
Emily Lassen, both of St. Louis. Her parents lived in Copen-
446 BIOGRAPHIES
hagen, Denmark, where her father was at one time Governor-
General of Denmark and Judge Advocate of the Army.
Lackland sang in the Glee Club and the College Choir while at
Yale, and served as President of the Glee Club in Senior year.
He was Captain of Company B., '96 Battalion, Phelps Brigade;
served on the Board of Governors of the University Club;
was a member of the Renaissance Club, and a Cup man. Eta
Phi. Psi U. Keys.
He has not been married. (See Appendix.)
Lackland returned to St. Louis after graduation, re-
ceived the degree of LL.B. from the Washington Univer-
sity Law School in 1898, and thereafter practised in that
city, for a time in the office of Seddon & Blair. His
varied activities during these years ranged from the Pres-
idency of the Thornton Construction Company to that
indicated by a letter received from him in 1902, which
was headed, "Missouri Anti-Saloon League, Inter-
church-Omnipartisan," with a long list of reverend
superintendents and field secretaries, followed by Otto's
name as State Attorney. "From the heading of this let-
ter," he said, "you may readily gather that I too am some-
what annoyed by joints, only, perhaps, of a different
nature. My name appearing on a letterhead of this sort
may seem somewhat of an anomaly, so to dispose of any
such impression let me say that with their spiritual and
moral affairs I have nothing to do, being simply their
adviser in event of any legal complication."
In or about 1903 Lackland was elected a member of the
St. Louis House of Delegates by the Reform forces. He
was one of the leading figures in the H— Y — P Club at
the World's Fair in 1904. "So impressed did the men
become with their vocal eiTorts," said the "Alumni
Weekly," in describing one of these gatherings, "that
about twenty gathered on the balcony, led by Edgar Lack-
land, and as the strains of 'Violets' from the Exposition
orchestra died away they started up a good yodling song
which quite outdid the Swiss performers." The follow-
OF GRADUATES 447
ing winter Lackland fell ill with pneumonia, so seriously
that, as he said to one of his fellows, "I had my pall-
bearers all picked out." Fortunately he pulled through.
His decennial letter follows:
"Paul Smith's, New York.
"Dear Clarence :
"Tucked away here in the woods for the last year,
I 'm afraid I Ve grown careless about answering com-
munications. I 've been up against it since a year ago
last November, when I had a distressingly severe attack
of pneumonia, which left me in such a susceptible con-
dition that I have had to stay up here to ward off the
'bugs.' I hope to get my degree in the fall and come to
the 'great city' to locate. As a diversion I was admitted
to the Bar of this State during the winter. I might
incidentally add that my practice up here has not been
sufficiently lucrative to permit me to get down to Decen-
nial. It breaks my heart not to be with you accompanied
by my kilties or an elephant. My kindest regards to all
the boys and best wishes for a rousing old time.
"Yours in the wilderness,
"Otto Lackland."
Leonard Bronk Lampman
Residence, Coxsackie, New York.
Broker, 40 Wall Street, New York City.
Leonard Bronk Lampman was born Dec. 22d, 1872, at Jamaica,
N. Y. He is the son of Rev. Lewis Lampman, *66, D.D.,
N.Y.U., '93, and Adelaide Bronk, who were married Dec. 5th,
1871, at Coxsackie, N. Y., and had one other child, a daughter.
Lewis Lampman (b. at Coxsackie, N. Y., in 1843) is a Pres-
byterian clergyman of Newark, N. J., and a member of the
Board of Directors of Union Theological Seminary, N. Y.
He is a son of Obediah Lampman, a merchant and farmer, and
Elizabeth Vandenberg, both of Coxsackie. His ancestors came
originally from Germany and Holland, and settled at Cox-
sackie.
448 BIOGRAPHIES
Adelaide (Bronk) Lampman (b. at Coxsackie in 1843; d. Jan.
7th, 1904, at Newark) was the daughter of Leonard Bronk,
a lawyer, and Maria Ely, both of Coxsackie.
Lampman spent his youth at Jamaica, N. Y., and at Newark,
N. J. He prepared for Yale at the Newark Academy, and
entered College with the Class.
He has not been married.
Some time prior to Sexennial Lampman left the practice
of the law to enter Wall Street as a broker, a vocation for
which he felt himself "much better fitted." He was con-
nected for a while with the Stock Exchange firm of F. T.
Adams & Co. at 10 Wall Street. "Am now out for my-
self," he writes, "but have my headquarters with Kings-
ley, Mabon & Co." In answer to the question as to how
he has been spending his time these last few years he
replies, "Trying to earn an honest living as a broker."
"It is said that a man's marriage, as things are now
arranged," writes one of his friends, "threatens every
other personal relation that he sustains, however inno-
cent, but it is not always understood that great social
popularity is even more of a menace. Look at Len Lamp-
man. He has *some other date' every time. Popular?
Why the only masculine parallels to Len's popularity are
those inhabitants of Kabakon Island— you remember the
verses ? — where
*. . . when you are tempted to wed,
You look over your feminine chums,
And you simply decide
Which you wish for a bride
And you say to her "Come !" and she comes !' "
The only corroboration the Secretary has of this, is a
little packet of reply postals, one for each year, whereon
Lampman has scribbled his excuses for not attending the
Class dinners.
The following excerpt from the "Sexennial Record"
summarizes his life as a lawyer: "After graduation at
Yale I studied at the Columbia and New York law
schools and was admitted to the New York Bar in June,
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1899. For a time I was connected with the office of
Sheehan & Collins, Attorneys for the Brooklyn Heights
R. R. Co., and did some trial work for the road in the
Municipal District Courts. Later I was Managing Clerk
for Hon. Nathaniel A. Prentiss, Referee in Bankruptcy."
Frederick C. Lee
Architect. Mail Address, Care University Club, New York City.
Frederick Clare Lee was born at Chicago, 111., Nov. 30th, 1874.
He is a son of Elisha Lee and Fanny Blackburn, who were
married June i8th, 1868, at Rock Island, 111., and had alto-
gether four children, all boys. Frank Lee, '94 S., is a brother.
Elisha Lee (b. April 12th, 1830, at Salisbury, Conn. ; d. Nov.
14th, 1894, at Washington, D. C.) was the owner and General
Manager of the Orinoco Line of Steamers, Trinidad, B. W. I.
His life was spent chiefly at Trinidad, and in Australia, South
America, and California. His parents were Elisha Lee, a
farmer and merchant, and Elmira Scoville, both of Salisbury.
The family came from England in 165-, and settled at Farm-
ington. Conn.
Fanny (Blackburn) Lee was born at Versailles, Ky. She
is the daughter of Henry Clay Blackburn, a planter of Ver-
sailles, and Susan Childs, of Pittsfield, Mass. She now (Oct.,
'05) lives abroad.
Lee prepared at Exeter and at the Gunnery School in Washing-
ton, Conn. He was a member of the Class Baseball Team,
serving as Captain in Freshman year, and was successively
Secretary and Treasurer, and Vice-President, of the Exeter
Club. He was a member of the Senior Promenade Committee,
Kappa Psi, Psi U, and Wolfs Head.
He was married at Grand Rapids, Mich., Feb. 22d, 1902, to Miss
Mary Ella Widdicomb, daughter of John Widdicomb of Grand
Rapids.
''After leaving college," wrote Lee in 1902, "the follow-
ing autumn, I entered the office of L. C. Holden and
worked there until December. In January, 1897, went to
Paris to study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. After study-
ing at it for some time then I studied in it. Returned to
450 BIOGRAPHIES
America, June, 1899, for Triennial, and worked part of
the summer in New York, in the office of Lord & Hew-
lett. In October of that year went to Paris again for two
years' more study, supplementing it by traveling in Italy,
France, and England. Returned to New York and
worked in the offices of York & Sawyer, and Lord &
Hewlett, and was present at the Bicentennial. Was mar-
ried in February, 1902, at Grand Rapids, and have been
traveling abroad since then. Am expecting to return in
the autumn of this year."
This letter was received too late to be published in the
"Sexennial Record," owing to Lee's absence in Europe.
This year, as soon as the decennial circulars were mailed,
he inopportunely went to Europe again. It seems a little
unworthy of Jim to act like this, but the trouble is that
he has a London hotel on his hands. It belongs to his
family, and the name of it is, "The Dysart, Henrietta
Street, Cavendish Square, London, W. Telegraphic and
cable address : 'Dorhawk, London.' Telephone, No. 676
Mayfair." The Secretary has a photograph of it, with
Jim's autograph in one corner, and a man (who looks
something like Knapp) pronouncing Cavendish the wrong
way in the other.
Knowing Lee to be sudden and extensive in his move-
ments, the Secretary dined with him on three several
occasions last winter and spring, purposing to secure an
oral autobiography. The first time, however, Lee said
he was sailing for Europe the next morning at seven
o'clock and would rather wait until he returned in Janu-
ary. The second time Pius was present. The third time,
owing to "an important engagement," Lee had barely
time to gulp his meal and none to talk, and he left the
poor old Secretary feeling like T. Carlyle, "all bilious-
ness and fret and palpitating haste and bewilderment."
It is disturbing to a leisurely person to be hurried at any
time, let alone at table. But that 's Jim all over. He is
one of these strong, hearty, brisk fellows— intolerably
brisk — and what cares he?
As for facts, he is an architect, and when he is not else-
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where he practises in New York. He is said to have been
in Count de Sibour's offices for a while and to have built
a row of suburban stations for one of the Eastern rail-
roads. Outside of this the Secretary does not know
whether his principal designs are for ale-houses or
chateaux.
Chas. B. Lenahan
Lawyer. 35 Bennett Building, Wilkes-Barre, Penn.
Residence, 66 West South Street.
Charles Bernard Lenahan was born July nth, 1874, at Wilkes-
Barre, Pa. He is a son of Patrick Lenahan and Elizabeth
Duffy, who were married Dec. 31st, 1855, at Wilkes-Barre,
and had altogether thirteen children, four boys and nine girls,
twelve of whom lived to maturity. Two of the brothers are
graduates of the University of Pennsylvania.
Patrick Lenahan (b. March ist, 1826, at Newport, Ireland;
d. Dec. 21 st, 1898, at Wilkes-Barre, Pa.) came to the United
States in 1846, settled at Appalachicola, Fla., and moved (in
1848) to Wilkes-Barre, where he was in business as a mer-
chant. He served in the Civil War as ist Lieutenant 8th Penn.
Volunteers. He was the son of John Lenahan, Captain of a
merchantman, and Mary O'Donnell, both of Newport, Ireland.
Elizabeth (Duffy) Lenahan (b. Aug. 31st, 1836, at Plains,
Luzerne Co., Pa.) is the daughter of Bernard Duffy, a farmer,
and Mary MacDonald, both of Plains, Pa. She is now
(May, '06) living at Wilkes-Barre.
Lenahan came to Yale in spite of the fact that two of his
brothers were graduated at U. of P. He received a Disserta-
tion at the Junior Exhibition and a First Dispute at Com-
mencement.
He was married at Pittsburg, Pa., Nov. 6th, 1901, to Miss Helen
Gertrude Moran, daughter of P. Moran of Pittsburg, and
has two children, daughters, Eleanor Lenahan (b. Aug. 29th,
1902, at Wilkes-Barre, Pa.) and Elizabeth Lenahan (b. Jan.
25th, 1904, at Wilkes-Barre).
Lenahan spent a few months in Europe with Commo-
dore Whitaker during the summer of 1896, and upon his
return to Wilkes-Barre studied law in his brother James's
office. In June, 1897, he was admitted to the Bar of
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Luzerne County, and later to the Supreme Court of Penn-
sylvania. His letter follows :
"My life during the past four years has been unevent-
ful. I am engaged in the general practice of the law,
ready to take anything that comes along from a replevin
suit to determine the title to a cow, to a murder case. Dur-
ing my career at the bar I have twice appeared as counsel
for men charged with murder and succeeded in hanging
them both. Since then murderers have given me a wide
berth. You may conclude from this that I had the inter-
ests of society more at heart than those of my clients.
But I assure you it was not my fault. The men were
guilty and I could not make the jury believe otherwise.
"With my brother I represented Johnnie Mitchell and
the mine workers, during the great coal strike of 1902.
The down-trodden working man appealed to me (for a
retainer) and we certainly flayed the heartless coal trust.
During this period I came into contact with Neale, who
has developed into a coal baron, and who is now closely
crowding 'Divine Right' Baer as the leader of the fight
against the poor coal miner, who, through his poverty,
was driven to the dire necessity of retaining as counsel
your humble servant. For several months I traveled
from one magistrate's office to another, endeavoring to
save my muchly persecuted clients, whose only offense
consisted in playfully placing sticks of dynamite under
the coat-tails of some strike breaker to see how high in
the air he would ascend, or in cutting off a little piece of
his flesh as a souvenir. The magistrates, who are of
course owned by this great octopus, which is gnawing at
the very vitals of society, had the hardihood to hold the
poor miner for court, merely because he wished to have
some innocent amusement. But this is history.
'T have given up farming and poultry raising. My
friends all warned me that my enthusiasm would soon
wane. I had the finest lot of white Plymouth Rock
chickens in the city. One morning I awoke and found
them all dead. Weazel, dog, or human beast, I do not
know. As for my truck farm, at the end of the season
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I took inventory and discovered I had a pretty expensive
experiment on my hands. My wife could purchase the
entire city market for less than it cost me to raise a
bushel of potatoes. So I buried my overalls and have
made a firm resolution to never again perform manual
labor.
"Last year I was appointed a member of the law ex-
amining board. ... I am now sufficiently graft proof to
become president of the Pennsylvania Railroad or one of
the rejuvenated insurance companies.
"But, after all, Day, the most eventful and happy por-
tion of my career since Sexennial, has been my domestic
life. I am following Roosevelt's advice, and as I enter
my home, after my day's work is done, I always hear the
pattering footsteps of my little children running to get
the first kiss from 'daddy.' "
Ralph Waldo Lobenstine M.D.
105 West 73d Street, New York City.
Ralph Waldo Lobenstine was born July 24th, 1874, at Leaven-
worth, Kans. He is a son of William Christian Lobenstine
and Rose Bayha, who were married in October, 1861, at
Wheeling, W. Va., and had altogether six children, four boys
and two girls, five of whom lived to maturity. Edwin L.
Lobenstine, '95, is a brother.
William Christian Lobenstine (b. Nov. 8th, 1831, at Eisfeld,
Saxe-Meiningen, Germany), son of John A. Lobenstine, a
manufacturer of Saxe-Meiningen, and Elizabeth Fiedler of
Thiiringia, is a merchant and capitalist of New York City,
at which place and at Leavenworth and Chicago he has chiefly
resided since he came to America in 1848, excepting the six
years 1881-88, which were spent traveling with his family.
Some years after the death of the first Mrs. Lobenstine (see
below) he was married (at Philadelphia, on Oct. 12th, 1880)
to Belle H. Wilson, daughter of Robert Edmund Wilson,
a clergyman of Hammondsport, N. Y., and Mary Strong of
Vienna, N. Y. They have one child, a daughter. Belle H.
(Wilson) Lobenstine was born Dec. 3d, 1845, at Hammonds-
port, at which place and at Clyde, N. Y., she spent her early
life.
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Rose (Bayha) Lobenstine (b. in 1838, at Wheeling, W. Va.;
d. in 1876 at Leavenworth, Kans.) spent her early life in
Wheeling and Leavenworth. Her parents were Lewis and
Louise Bayha, both of Wheeling, W. Va. Lewis Bayha was a
manufacturer.
Lobenstine spent his youth at Leavenworth, Kans., Philadelphia,
and New York, and prepared for Yale at the Columbia Gram-
mar School (N. Y. City). He received an Oration at the
Junior Exhibition and at Commencement.
He was married at Flushing, N, Y., March 8th, 1906, to Miss
Anne Munroe Williams, daughter of David Sage Williams and
the late Mary Louise Munroe. Mr. Williams is United States
Commissioner at Ocala, Fla.
In 1900 Lobenstine received his M.D. degree from the
College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. 'There
was nothing eventful during these years," he wrote. "Work
was the thing to do and work I did, being in Dr. Ellsworth
Eliot's Quiz. I then received a surgical appointment at
St. Luke's Hospital in New York, and was there until
January i, 1902. The life was full of interest and of
great value. After leaving there I went to Paris, Gottin-
gen, Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden and Vienna, for the pur-
pose of seeing surgery as done abroad, and to study
further in medicine and pathology in the latter place.
The past six weeks I have been traveling (loafing) in
Switzerland and England."
This was in 1902. On July ist of that year he entered
the Sloane Maternity Hospital and served as Resident
Obstetrician until September ist, 1904. "During this
time," he writes, "I was also instructor in Obstetrics at
the College of Physicians and Surgeons. After leaving
the 'Sloane,' I took up private work, although much of
my time is still given to my hospital duties. Not the least
of my experience has been the 'act of getting married'—
successfully performed March 8, 1906."
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John Longacre
Insurance Broker, with Longacre & Ewing, Bullitt Building, Philadelphia.
John McClintock Longacre was born Oct. 30th, 1873, at Phila-
delphia, Pa. He is a son of James Madison Longacre and
Augusta McClintock, who were married Nov. 23d, 1865, at
Philadelphia, and had three other children, one boy and two
girls.
James Madison Longacre (b. May i8th, 1833, at Philadel-
phia; d. Jan. 13th, 1903, at Philadelphia) was an insurance
broker of Philadelphia. His parents were James Barton Long-
acre, a painter and engraver of Philadelphia, and Elizabeth
Stiles of New Jersey. The family came from Sweden, c. 1640,
and settled at Kingsessing (Philadelphia), Pa.
Augusta (McClintock) Longacre (b. April 20th, 1S43, at
Carlisle, Pa.) is the daughter of the Rev. John McClintock,
D.D., LL.D., University of Pennsylvania, '35, a clergyman,
editor and educator of New York City, and Caroline Augusta
Wakeman of Jersey City, N. J., whose direct ancestor, John
Wakeman (d. 1661), was one of the earliest Treasurers of
New Haven Colony.
Longacre prepared at the Penn Charter School, and entered our
Class from '95 in June, 1894. He was a member of the '95
Freshman Crew, wrestled with Skim Brown at the Freshman
Rush, and rowed No. 6 on the Varsity Crew of 1893. The
following year he joined our Class, and in 1895-96 was again
on the Varsity. He was also for two years a member of the
Varsity Football Squad. D. K. E.
He has not been married.
"Even my churlishness is not proof against such a letter,"
says Longacre. "I am glad you do not lend your honeyed
pen to the Alumni Fund— why, damme, I 'd have bought
a dormitory. Having fallen into a grievous habit of not
reading the literature I receive about the needs of the
University I fear I must unwittingly have passed over
your just claims.
"With a contrite heart and an abiding sense of shame
I now hand you the documentary evidence required. For
further details I refer you to my official biographer. Col.
W. D. Mann. I wish you would come over to Phila-
delphia some time and let me show you the Liberty Bell
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and the Mint and Franklin's Tomb and Israel Durham.
Just give me fair warning."
The documentary evidence states that Zeus is, and has
been for ten years, an insurance broker connected with
the firm of Longacre and Ewing (established 1868),
Fire, Marine, and Life Insurance. In June, 1898, he en-
listed in Battery A., Pennsylvania Light Artillery, camped
at Gretna, Pennsylvania, and at Newport News, Vir-
ginia, served in Porto Rico, and returned September
3d. . . . He attends an occasional football game, but
gets over to New York very seldom, he says, and prac-
tically sees nothing of the few men in the Class he cared
most for. The deprivation is mutual. There is more
than one asylum of the finer wit, where "no votaries of
the grossly obvious need apply," that would gladly wel-
come Zeus, if only upon the strength of his particularly
eligible shade of hair.
Many people confuse cause and effect in the matter of
red hair and cleverness. In "Virgin Soil" for instance,
which was one of the books in Billy Phelps's course, there
is an old woman who says to Neshdanoff, "I 'm as clever
as you are, in spite of your red hair," indicating her own
(or the author's) belief that the cleverness was an effect.
As a matter of fact it is the other way round : cleverness
is the cause. Obviously the greater the cause the more
brilliant the effect; although, in Zeus's case, one almost
would suppose that he employed artificial means to crim-
son it, like Mrs. Carter, or those Goths whom the Roman
commander, Jovinus, found "comas rutilantes ex more"
near the Moselle.
Horace A. Loomis
Partner in E. P. Loomis & Sons, Merchants in Apples, Triangle Building,
Rochester, N. Y.
Residence, Brighton, Monroe Co., N. Y., now a part of Rochester,
Address R.F.D., No. 4, Rochester, N. Y.
Horace Arthur Loomis was born Aug. 8th, 1874, at Brooklyn,
N. Y. He is a son of Edward Payson Loomis and Emma
Keeny Stoughton, who were married July 29th, 1863, at South
OF GRADUATES 457
Windsor, Conn., and had five other children, two boys (Edward
Nathaniel Loomis, '91, and Robert Payson Loomis, '99) and
three girls.
Edward Payson Loomis (b. April 14th, 1839, at Coventry,
Conn.; d. May i6th, 1899, at Brooklyn, N. Y.) was a school
teacher during his early life, and afterwards a produce mer-
chant of New York, having his residence in Brooklyn, where
he spent most of his life. He was greatly interested in church
work. His parents were Albemarle Loomis, a farmer of North
Coventry, Conn., and Sarah Kingsbury Hubbard, of Vernon,
Conn. The family came from Braintree, Essex Co., England,
in 1638, and settled at Windsor, Conn.
Emma Keeny (Stoughton) Loomis (b. Aug. 19th, 1843, at
South Windsor, Conn.) is the daughter of Horace Kilbourne
Stoughton, a farmer and brickmaker of Wapping, Conn., and
'Hannah Elizabeth Keeny, of Glastonbury, Conn. She is now
(Nov., '05) living at Maplewood, N. J.
Loomis prepared at the Adelphi Academy in Brooklyn. He was
one of the Freshman • temporary Deacons, President of the
Yale Gymnastic Association, and a member of the Gymnastic
Team. In June of Sophomore year he made the "Courant,"
and later was elected to the Chairmanship. A First Dispute
at the Junior Exhibition and a Second Dispute at Commence-
ment. A. D. Phi.
He was married Feb. 3d, 1904, at the Church of the Saviour,
Brooklyn, N. Y., to Miss Emily Betts, daughter of Edward
Richmond Betts, '66, of Brooklyn.
Loomis lived in Brooklyn for two years, in business with
E. P. Loomis & Co. of New York and Rochester, Mer-
chants in Apples. The business then fell to Edward N.
Loomis, '9!, and himself, and a year later they admitted
Robert P. Loomis, '99, to partnership.
The winter of 1901-02 "Hort" went to the Adiron-
dacks and to Florida because of ill health. His decennial
letter brings the biography up to date. "I have spent six
months of each year in business with E. P. Loomis & Co.
Married in 1904, followed by a trip to California. Win-
ter of 1905 in Italy. Winter of 1906 in the Adirondacks,
balance of time at my home in the country on the out-
skirts of Rochester, where I am leading the life of an ag-
riculturalist—not a farmer. For the difference write me a
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personal letter, and I '11 gladly explain. The trips and
country life are all a part of my fight against a case of
tuberculosis— which happily acts as though I had con-
quered, but it will take several years to make sure."
Hort's letters never show discouragement. "I enjoy
the simple life hugely," said one of them, "living out of
doors and away from the rush and bustle of the city.
One situated as I am has to give up a good deal, but there
are many recompenses, and I would urge upon any who
are grieved because of ill health to give Loomis a chance
to write them of their golden opportunities."
Christopher K. Loughran
Lawyer, Kingston, N. Y.
Office, 278 Wall Street. Residence, 296 Fair Street.
Christopher Kiersted Loughran was born at Kingston, N, Y.,
Dec. 27th, 1875. He is a son of Dr. Robert Loughran and
Helen Kiersted, who were married Oct. 23d, 1871, at Kings-
ton, N. Y., and had altogether seven children, five boys and
two girls, five of whom lived to maturity.
Robert Loughran (b. Aug. 30th, 1834, at Walton, Delaware
Co., N. Y. ; d. April nth, 1899, at Kingston, N. Y.) was a
physician and surgeon. He also served as Member of As-
sembly, 1871 ; Supervisor of Ulster Co. for ten years ; and
Alderman, and was Surgeon in the 20th Reg., N. Y. S. M.,
Lieutenant Colonel by brevet. His parents were William
Loughran, a weaver, and Jane Livingston, both of Armagh,
County Armagh, Ireland, who came to America, and settled
at Walton, Delaware Co., N. Y.
Helen (Kiersted) Loughran (b. June 17th, 1845, at Durham,
Green Co., N. Y.) is the daughter of Christopher L. Kiersted,
a farmer of Kingston, and Elizabeth Palen of Palenville,
Green Co., N. Y. She is now (March, '06) living at Kingston.
Loughran prepared for Yale at the Kingston (N. Y.) Academy.
He received a Second Colloquy at Commencement, and was a
member of Psi U.
He has not been married.
"Score me one for promptness and brevity," wrote
Loughran to his ex-friend the Secretary, enclosing much
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abbreviated replies. His ex-friend remonstrated vainly
at the brevity: there are times when any class secretary
must yearn for the assistance of a thumb-screw.
"Truly," says Assistant Tormentor Shadbolt in "The
Yeoman of the Guard," "truly, I have seen great resolu-
tion give way under my persuasive methods. In the nice
regulation of a screw— in the hundredth part of a single
revolution— lieth all the difference between stony
reticence, and a torrent of impulsive unbosoming that the
pen can scarcely follow." Brave old days ! Would that
they could come again, in Ulster County.
Loughran studied in the New York Law School after
graduation, received his degree in 1898, and returned to
Kingston to begin practice. He took the stump in the
1900 campaign, served as Secretary of the Republican
County Central Committee in 1904, and on January ist,
1906, was elected Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
of Ulster County; "which position," he says, "I hope to
continue for some time. Still doing law business."
He sailed for Europe on the morrow of election day
in 1904, after "electing Roosevelt right in Parker's own
county," and was absent nine months, visiting Persia and
many other distant lands. There is a passage somewhere,
in Meredith perhaps, which describes just such a speci-
men as Pop must have been of the singular race of
tourists. One pictures him in the midst of an elder
civilization — bald, alert, garbed in some motley com-
promise of East and West and mounted on a sadly in-
congruous camel — curiously viewing a turbaned people
at their tasks— they him.
Harry B. Lovell
With Harvey Fisk & Sons, Bankers, 62 Cedar Street, New York City.
Residence, 112 Crescent Avenue, Plainfield, N. J.
Harry Borden Lovell was born June 27th, 1873, at New York
City. He is a son of Leander Newton Lovell and Phebe
Borden Durfee, who were married Jan. i6th, 1867, at Fall
River, Mass., and had altogether eight children, five boys (in-
cluding Arthur Lovell, '92, M.A. '98; Gilbert Lovell, '00, Hart-
I.
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1
ford Theological Seminary, B.D. '03; Richard L. Lovell, '07
S.) and three girls (including Phebe D. Lovell, Vassar, '98).
Leander Newton Lovell (b. Nov. 15th, 1835, at Fall River,
Mass.) has spent the greater part of his life at Fall River,
New York City, and Plainfield, N. J., as a merchant, and as
director and president of various corporations. He is Vice-
President of the Plainfield School Board. His parents were
Leander Perkins Lovell, a merchant, and Ariadne Borden, both
of Fall River. The family came from England in 1630, and
settled at Plymouth, Mass.
Phebe Borden (Durfee) Lovell (b. Oct. 15th, 1842, at Fall
River) spent her early life at school in New York City. She
is the daughter of Matthew Chaloner Durfee, a merchant and
banker, and Fedelia Borden, both of Fall River.
Lovell prepared for Yale at Dr. Leal's School, Plainfield, N. J.,
and entered with the Class. He was one of the charter mem-
bers of Kappa Beta Phi.
He was married June nth, 1904, at Taunton, Mass., to Miss
Beatrice Walter Swasey, daughter of Albert Edgar Swasey,
an architect of Taunton.
In the fall of 1896 Lovell became a clerk with the firm
of Borden & Lovell. He went West in the interests of
the firm in the spring of 1901, spending four months in
Cherokee County, Kansas, as Assistant Manager of the
Eastern Coal and Coke Company, an experience which
is described at some length in the "Sexennial Record."
He made another trip in 1903 which is described below.
It should be stated that Borden & Lovell (L. N. Lovell,
C. A. Greene, and L. D. Lovell), control the Borden
Mining Company's Georges Creek Cumberland Coal, the
Lovell Coal Mining Company's Pilgrim and Ivy Ridge
Coals, and the Eastern Coal & Coke Company's fields in
Kansas. Harry was with them for nine years. His letter
follows :
"In the fall of 1903 business took me to Decatur, Ala-
bama, situated on the banks of the Tennessee River.
There I occupied myself in the construction of an electric
light and power house. Everything was new to me. The
work was new, the place was new, at least to me, and the
habits of the natives more than strange. Experience, it
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is said, is a good teacher, and I think I proved that. Now
I hope I know enough not to get tangled up with a
switchboard. I have found out that the best way to make
a nigger work is to cuss him good and hard and beat
him over the shins. In addition I have found out that
corn whiskey has a pleasant taste but its after effects
would make Anson more of a 'Ball of Fire' than Bent
ever was. All this I learned in the course of six weeks.
During this time in my off moments I did some riding
about the country, which I enjoyed immensely.
"One morning I had the pleasure of being one of the
reviewing party at the inspection of the local company.
The drill was good fun, but nothing compared to the
banquet following. I have a hazy recollection that a few
generals, colonels, and myself swore eternal friendship
and devotion to the flag, meanwhile holding each other
up to show how closely knit are North and South in this
great country. . . .
"June nth, 1904, was a very important date in my
life, as on that day I became a Benedick, supported by my
good old friend. Nod Mundy.
"On November ist, 1905, I left the coal business to
enter the employ of Harvey Fisk & Sons. I have found
the business very pleasant and can say truthfully that it
beats the coal business all hollow.
"Outside of the events I have mentioned I have pursued
the even tenor of my way, with now and then a dinner of
Squadron A., or a Yale Club smoker. It is my good
fortune to be on the Executive Board of the Plainfield
Yale Club. We have bully times- when we meet, as ten
minutes is given to business and at least three hours to
pleasure."
Robert Lusk
Partner in law firm of Bailey & Lusk, 51 Cole Building, Nashville, Tenn.
Residence, 2216 State Street.
Robert Lusk was born Aug. 29th, 1873, at Center Grove, Tenn.
He is a son of Alfred Hume Lusk and Elizabeth Clardy, who
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were married Nov. 13th, 1872, at Center Grove, and had one
other son, William C. Lusk, '96 S., and two daughters, both of
whom died before maturity.
Alfred Hume Lusk (b. April 29th, 1849, at Nashville, Tenn. ;
d. May 24th, 1888, at Nashville), a graduate of the Kentucky
Military Institute, was an attorney at law. His parents were
Robert Lusk, a banker, and Matilda Fairfax, both of Nashville.
The family came from the north of Ireland in 1759, and settled
in Maryland.
Elizabeth (Clardy) Lusk (b. May 18, 1853, at "Stock Hill,"
a farm in Kentucky) spent her early life at Clarksville, Tenn.
Her parents were William Duncan Clardy, a tobacco stock
farmer of Christian Co., Ky., and Louise Oldham of Mont-
gomery Co., Tenn. She is now (Oct., '05) living at Nashville.
Lusk prepared at the University School in Nashville. He served
as Treasurer of the Southern Club in Senior year, took One
Year Honors in Political Science and Law, and was given a
First Colloquy at the Junior Exhibition. Psi U.
He was married April 15th, 1903, at Nashville, Tenn., to Miss
Binnie Briggs, daughter of Dr. Charles S. Briggs of Nashville.
(See Appendix.)
In June, 1898, after a two years' course in the Vanderbilt
University Law School in Nashville, Lusk received his
LL.B., and in September he began practice. On January
1st, 1902, he formed the law partnership of Bailey & Lusk
with his cousin, Thomas J. Bailey, Harvard, '87, for-
merly of the Clarksville Bar. For the past four years he
has served as Secretary of the Bar Association of Ten-
nessee. He writes : "Have continued the practice of the
law at the same old stand, 51 Cole Building. Married in
April, 1903. Spent summer of 1903 in Northern Wis-
consin fishing and a part of the following summer the
same way." [Previous summers had been spent in Nova
Scotia, the West, on the Lakes, and in Canada.] "Moved
into my own home, 2216 State Street, in May, 1905.
With the exception of Yeaman in Louisville and C. S.
Day, Jr., in Nashville, have met none of '96 for the
past three years."
"I am almost ashamed to send you this," he added on
a separate enclosure, "after my recent behavior. But,
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as Ballentine says, forget it. I have been hoping (some-
times praying) that I might after all get on to New
Haven in June. How are you ? I see that you have been
put on the Advisory Board of the 'Alumni Weekly.'
Now for yellow journalism. When I think of that rot
about me that you and Berry once succeeded in palming
off upon the poor 'Weekly' I fear for the future of that
much valued paper. Berry, of course, from now on, will
be too busy to assist you much, and there is some conso-
lation in that thought. Hope you were present at his
wedding. I would have been on hand myself but could
not get off. What are your plans for Decennial ? Where
will you room ? I expect to go to Hot Springs with Mrs.
Lusk sometime in June and occupy your brother's cot-
tage, and if I can get away I will come on from there to
New Haven. I think Decennial will make me feel
younger, and not older— that is if I can get there." He
got there all right, and he went to the Hutch, and he was
assigned to the Secretary as a roommate, and the first
thing he took out of his suit-case was a quart of Ten-
nessee Corn Whiskey. . . .
Robert S. McClenahan
(M. A. honorary, Tarkio College, 1906.)
Secretary of Assiut College and Professor of Ethics and Biblical Instruction,
Assiut, Egypt.
Robert Stewart McClenahan was born June 5th, 1871, at
Wyoming, Iowa. He is a son of James Urie McClenahan,
Monmouth College (111.) B.A., M.A., and Margaret Ann Lori-
mer, who were married Oct. ist, 1867, at Morning Sun, Iowa,
and had four other children, William L. McClenahan, B.A.
Tarkio College, B.D. Princeton; John W. McClenahan, B.A.
Tarkio, B.D. Princeton; Frank M. McClenahan, B.A. Tarkio
and B.A. Yale, '00; and one boy who died before maturity.
James Urie McClenahan (b. at Fairview, Ohio, in 1836;
d. Oct. 25th, 1879, at Olathe, Kans.) left Monmouth College,
111., in 1862 to enlist in a regiment of Ohio volunteer infantry,
under Thomas in the Army of the Cumberland. After the war
he resumed his studies, was graduated at Monmouth, and be-
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came a minister of the United Presbyterian Church, residing
at various times in Guernsey County, Ohio, at Monmouth, 111.,
Davenport, Wyoming, and Winterset, Iowa, and Olathe, Kans.
His parents were Robert McClenahan, a farmer of Fairview,
Ohio, and Mary Stewart of Washington County, Pa. The
family came from County Down, Ireland, in 1812, and settled
in Guernsey County, Ohio.
Margaret Ann (Lorimer) McClenahan (b. Feb. 25th, 1841,
at Richmond, Ohio) spent her early life in Guernsey and Jef-
ferson Counties, Ohio. In 1863 she left her home at Antrim,
Ohio, and went to Vicksburg and Memphis, under a two year
appointment by the Christian Commission for Educational
Work among the Freed Slaves. She is the daughter of
William Lorimer, a United Presbyterian minister of Musk-
ingum County, Ohio, and Emily Mitchell of Richmond, Ohio.
She is now (May, '06) living at Chicago, 111.
McClenahan spent his youth in different parts of the West, and
prepared for College at the High School in Olathe, Kans. He
took his B.A. degree at Tarkio College in 1893, and entered
Yale in the fall of our Senior year. He took One Year
Honors in Ancient Languages, received a High Oration at
Commencement, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
He was married at Bellevue, Neb., Sept. ist, 1897, to Miss Mar-
garet Jeannette Wallace, daughter of William Wallace of
Bellevue, and has had three children, all sons, William Urie
McClenahan (b. Feb. 8th, 1899, at Assiut, Egypt), James
Lorimer McClenahan (b. Dec. 4th, 1901, at Assiut; d. Dec.
29th, 1901, at Assiut), and Robert Wallace McClenahan (b.
March 12th, 1903, at Assiut).
The account of McClenahan's first six years is best given
by reprinting part of his sexennial autobiography. "I
was Instructor," he wrote, "in Greek and Latin in Phil-
lips Andover the first year after graduating from Yale,
although in the fall of '96 I had been elected by the
Board of Foreign Missions of the United Presbyterian
Church to the work of Instruction in Assiut College,
Assiut, Egypt. I have indicated the date and place of
marriage" (September ist, 1897). "Sailed for Egypt
in October, 1897, and at once entered upon the missionary
educational work in this country. No small part of the
time since then has been spent in acquiring the Arabic
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language. I am Treasurer of this institution. We have
here the only Protestant Christian college in Egypt— the
first one since the days of Origen— with some 5 lO students,
of whom some 420 are boarders, coming from all over
Egypt. These young men go out from this institution to
become the leaders of Egypt's ten millions of people in
every department of government, social, religious, and
educational life. They are in great demand for the vari-
ous departments of the government, especially, and yet
we feel that their greatest influence is as moral and spiri-
tual leaders for the people. Seventy-three per cent, of the
graduates (since 1865) have become ministers or teachers."
McClenahan's decennial letter follows :
"Since 1902 I have been continuing in connection with
Assiut Training College, at Assiut, Egypt. Nothing start-
ling has occurred in these four years. I spent the months
of July and August, 1903, with my family, traveling in
Syria and Palestine. In the fall of that year I was made
Chairman of the Board of Education of the Protestant
Church in Egypt. In May, 1905, I came with my family
to the United States on leave of absence for one year.
Spent from July to September 15 in Colorado, September
30 to February 10, 1906, in Chicago, and during the latter
period used the opportunities of taking some graduate
studies in the University of Chicago, with Hebrew as
major.
'T was in New York on business in March, and acci-
dently discovered through Farr, '96, that I was a member
of $.B.K., although I had never been notified of the fact.
It was one of the most pleasant surprises of my educa-
tional career, and 'Yale' on my ^.B.K. key, which should
have been on my watch guard these last ten years, is now
there for keeps.
"Finally, my brethren, as we would say in Arabic,
may Allah lengthen your days, multiply your joys, and
increase the number of your children. Your Egyptian
scarab, Robt, S. McClenahan."
A later letter was dated at Hooper, Colorado, where he
stayed until June ist, intending a return to Egypt in
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August. '1 am here with my family during April and
May, as my wife's parents live here. I am living the
strenuous life in a mild way, with a big wood pile, saw
and axe, a Winchester rifle, shot-gun, wild duck, coyotes,
and trout fishing later on, to take their places in the pic-
ture of your imagination of my environment. I have
two very sturdy boys of seven and three years with me,
and my 'gude wife' is enjoying with me the splendid
Colorado air and sunshine. I met Tom Archbald on the
train between Louisville, Ky., and Nashville, Tenn.,—
the first Yale '96 man I Imd seen since our graduation.
He and Colgate and Stokes, and perhaps others, have
been in Egypt in these ten years, but have not gone
farther south than the Delta— the lower regions, as we
call that part of the Nile valley. I had met the parents
of Stokes and of George McLanahan, and a few Yale
men not of the immortal '96.
"No, Day, I am not a 'reverend!'" (This in answer
to another of the Secretary's questions.) "I am as guilt-
less of it as you are, but have preached a half dozen
times, and last week conducted the funeral services of a
ranchman. There was not a 'reverend' within seventeen
miles, and one of the other ranchmen said I was nearer it
than any one about here and it was up to me. I asked
him if I should lead in prayer, and he said *it would n't
do no harm.' "
*H. E. McDermott
Died in New Haven, Conn., October 3d, 1898.
Henry Edwin McDermott was born at St. John, New Bruns-
wick, Nov. 27th, 1873. He was the surviving son of John
Young McDermott and Mary Jane Rowling, who were mar-
ried Feb. 7th, 1872, at St. John, and had altogether three chil-
dren, two boys (one of whom died before maturity) and one
girl.
John Young McDermott (b. June 9th, 1844, at Londonderry,
Ireland) is in the insurance business at New Haven, Conn.,
and is a director in several public institutions. He formerly
served for five years in the New Brunswick Royal Artillery,
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UNIVERSITY
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McDermott
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after leaving Coleraine, Ireland, where he spent his early days.
His parents were Samuel McDermott, a school principal,
and Martha Crawford, both of Londonderry. The family went
from Scotland to Ireland in 1657, and settled at Belfast, after-
wards moving north to the County of Londonderry.
Mary Jane (Rowling) McDermott (b. Oct. i6th, 1850, at
St. John, N. B.) spent her early life at St. John, N. B., and
Boston, Mass. She is the daughter of John Richies Rowling,
a florist of Norwich, England, and Mary Smith of Carlisle,
England, who settled in St. John, N. B.
McDermott prepared for Yale at the Hillhouse High School.
He received a Berkeley Premium of the First Grade in Fresh-
man year, took Two Year Honors in Natural Sciences, and
was Captain of the Senior Military Company. He received an
undergraduate election to Sigma Xi, a Philosophical Oration
at the Junior Exhibition and at Commencement. Phi Beta
Kappa. Beta Theta Pi.
He was unmarried.
During the year 1896-7 McDermott pursued Graduate
studies in the Department of Physiological Chemistry at
Yale, acting in addition as Laboratory Assistant. For
this work, one year later, he was awarded the degree of
M.A. The year 1897-8 he spent in the Yale Medical
School, trying to do two years' work in one. An operation
for appendicitis in the spring of 1898, added to his ex-
haustion from overwork, left him in a seriously weakened
physical condition. The following fall, nevertheless,
he entered upon the duties of an appointment he had
received as Assistant in the Department of Physiological
Chemistry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of
Columbia University, New York City. He soon found
himself unable to continue, returned to New Haven, and
died there of prussic acid poisoning on October 3d.
The poison was undoubtedly taken with intention, the
act being attributable to melancholia, due to a reaction
after discontinuing the stimulants and strong tonics given
him subsequent to his operation. These circumstances,
combined with McDermott's energy and brilliance, made
his death conspicuously tragic.
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Wm. Adams McFadden
With the Simmons Hardware Co., St. Louis, Mo.
Residence, The Missouri Athletic Club.
William Adams McFadden was born May 8th, 1873, at Cin-
cinnati, Ohio. He is the son of Francis T. McFadden and
Elizabeth Adams, who were married at Cincinnati, and had
one other child, a daughter.
Francis T. McFadden (b. Aug. i6th, 1842, at Zanesville,
Ohio; d. Aug. loth, 1892, at Cincinnati) spent most of his life
at Cincinnati and New York City. He was the eastern repre-
sentative of the "Chicago Tribune," "St. Louis Globe Demo-
crat" and other western newspapers. The family came to
America about the year 1800 and settled at Pittsburg.
Elizabeth (Adams) McFadden (b. May 6th, 1846, at Cin-
cinnati) is the daughter of William Apthorpe Adams, a lawyer,
and Mary Cassily, both of Cincinnati. She is now (Dec, '05)
living at Cincinnati.
McFadden entered our Class in September, 1893, and was elected
an editor of the "Courant" the following February. (The issue
for December 7th, 1895, contains the famous Hair Brush
Poem.) He was a member of the Cincinnati Club, of Phi
Gamma Delta, and of the Yale-Corinthian Yacht Club as
owner of the sloop Merope.
He has not been married.
A GRANITE quarry and a patent fireproof bathtub were
the nuts that McFadden picked out to crack after leaving
Yale. The former nut had no edible kernel, but the
bathtub did— at least for Mac— and he returned to Cin-
cinnati an educated hustler.
Cincinnati, however, has slow and obstinate business
notions. Finding that one of the real estate deals he had
planned would take years to put through, Mac determined
to use the interim in placing his ancestral greenhouses
upon a paying basis. They were not built that way,
originally, but Mac had energy to spare. ''Rosebank"
soon became a widely-known establishment. His whole-
sale shipments of orchids and other high-priced plants
went to many States, and he maintained a store in Cin-
cinnati besides.
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Two or three years ago the Secretary, visiting Cin-
cinnati on his way East, found that McFadden was look-
ing rather thin and tired, and the explanation proved to
be that he had become involved in some vexatious litiga-
tion by a competitor. Paxton was his lawyer. "You
ask about Tom Paxton, and comment on his growing
corpulence and prosperity," wrote McFadden in April,
1905. "Tom is only my Assistant General Counsel; it is
his partner, George Warrington, that is Counsel General
Extraordinary, and he is so damned prosperous that he 's
got the gout. So you can imagine where I am. George
and I are at present introducing to the Cincinnati courts
a new line of litigation, entitled 'Railroad Finance as
applied to Horticulture, or The Story of the Second
Mortgage Bonds.' All other litigation before the courts
has been put over until next fall. The judges have agreed
to forego their vacations, and give their entire attention
during the summer months to this mystery. It 's going
to be hot for somebody, probably the judges. But as
the stock of litigation now on hand may not last over, it
will be necessary to arrange for a new line, to be started
next October, and I wish you would be good enough to
suggest some novelty in this line, or get Johnny to do it.
I want something good and lively, that will give employ-
ment to my entire legal staff. The object is to keep them
in practice. Whether I win or lose I don't care, but the
rot of stagnation is dangerous. Could n't you persuade
Fisher to come out here and let me sue him for something
or other, probably misuse of the mails, or conspiracy to
extort money, or something of that sort? I believe we
could get up a good case against Fisher, and probably
land him in the Pen."
The results of all this legal work were not of any net
financial benefit to "Rosebank." A few months after this
letter was written, Mac ended it. He closed up and closed
out, and left for St. Louis with a sense of freedom and
relief he had not known for years, to embark in the hard-
ware business with the Simmons Hardware Co.— a Yale
concern. "Come down and watch me selling hardware,"
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he wrote the Secretary. "What the deuce are you, a the-
atrical troupe or a personally conducted excursion, that
you can't change your route? I suspect that you are a
Cook tourist, one of those fellows that go around the
world with a red book in one hand, and their mouth open.
I want you to distinctly understand that you unemployed
rich are without any rights whatsoever, since Lawson
took you in hand, and you better be good and do just as
we workers, who are the bone and sinew of the country,
tell you.
"I Ve come to be an advocate of the eight hour law.
I 'm looking for a good strong union to join. I go to
work at 7:30 a.m. and quit at 6 p.m. I 'm making lots
of money— for the boss— at least I think I am, for he
seems to have plenty, and I never see him doing any
work,— but I 'm also getting more real money for myself
than I have for several years. The work, too, I find tre-
mendously interesting, and the bosses are thoroughly fine
fellows— typical Yale men."
McKee Dunn McKee
"Gardener and health-seeker." Residence. Biltmore. N. C.
Permanent mail address, 1753 Rhode Island Avenue, Washington, D. C.
McKee Dunn McKee was born Oct. 21st, 1873, at Washington,
D. C. He is a son of David Ritchie McKee a«d Frances Eliza-
beth Dunn, who were married May nth, 1871, at Washington,
and had two other children, both sons, Lanier McKee, '95, and
David Ritchie McKee, Jr., 1903.
David Ritchie McKee (b. Sept. 17th, 1842, at Wheeling,
W. Va.) is manager of the New York Associated Press at
Washington. He is a son of Redick McKee, a merchant of
Wheeling, San Francisco, and Washington, and Eliza Ritchie,
of Cannonsburg, Pa. The family is of Scotch descent. The
ancestors emigrated from the north of Ireland in 1750, and
settled at what is now McKeesport, Pa.
Frances Elizabeth (Dunn) McKee (b. Dec. 6th, 1849, at
Madison, Ind.) is the daughter of William McKee Dunn,
a lawyer of Madison (afterwards of Washington), and Eliza-
beth Frances Lanier of Madison, William McKee Dunn was an
OF GRADUATES 471
honorary graduate of Yale '35, B.A. Indiana University '32,
Prof. Math, and LL.D. Hanover College 'jy, and served as
congressman 1859-63.
McKee prepared at Exeter. He played on the Second Banjo
Club in Freshman year, and afterwards on the University
Glee and Banjo Club for three years. A High Oration at the
Junior Exhibition and at Commencement. He was a member
of the Renaissance Club and a Cup Man. Phi Beta Kappa.
Eta Phi. D. K. E. Bones.
He was married Dec. 27th, 1902, at Washington, D. C, to Miss
Henrietta Bates, daughter of Paymaster General Alfred Elliott
Bates, U. S. A., of Washington, and has one child, a son, Elliott
Bates McKee (b. Nov. 26th, 1904, at Washington).
To Dunn McKee belongs the credit of starting the
annual winter dinners of '96 at the old Yale Club in Mad-
ison Square. He spent the first year out of college in
Washington, came to New York in 1897, and remained
there off and on until 1902— at first with the Wall Street
firm of Bertron & Storrs, and until 1900 with the Com-
pressed Gas Capsule Company. In 1900 he visited
Alaska with his brother, and upon his return in the fall
of that year he became interested with Neale and Thorne
in a coal mining deal in Pottstown, Pa. During part of
the year 1901-02 he lived in the Adirondacks. The
"Sexennial Record" contains a full account of his service
in the war with Spain, as a private in Troop A., N. Y.
Volunteer Cavalry, and later, down in Cuba, as a Second
Lieutenant in the United States Volunteer Signal Corps
and aide-de-camp to General Randolph.
McKee is now President of the Two Kings Mining
Company of Chihuahua, Mexico; he gives the following
•account of his life since 1902 :
"Spent a couple of months at Saranac Lake and then
went out to Silver City, New Mexico, where we visited
ranches, went camping, did some hunting and fishing, and
were out doors all the time. Acquired a few interests in
valuable (?) mining properties. Spent two months of the
spring of 1904 in California with classmate Loomis and
472 BIOGRAPHIES
bride. Came East in June, stopping en route at Denver
and the Fair at St. Louis. No classmates visible, though
I saw a lot at New Haven the end of the month. Spent a
couple of months in the Berkshires and then became a stu-
dent (oldest living undergraduate) at the School of Mines
at Golden, Colo. Returned to Washington to meet my
week-old son, and then gave up books and took my family
to Denver for the winter. Came East in June, 1905, and
after depositing family at seashore went up to the Buck
Run Colliery near Minersville, Pa., where classmates
Neale and Thorne are digging coal. Remained there as
purchasing agent until Christmas, when I came South to
Asheville, and in April took a house on the Vanderbilt
estate near Biltmore. I am at present engaged in raising
vegetables and flowers and incidentally gathering bunches
of health." (See Appendix.)
Cyrus F. Mackey
General Superintendent of the Franklin Roller Mill & Foundry Co.,
Franklin, Pa.
Residence, 1138 Elk Street.
Cyrus Fay Mackey was born July ist, 1872, at Franklin, Pa.
He is a son of Charles William Mackey and Lauretta Barnes
Fay, who were married May 9th, 1867, at Columbus, O., and
had one other son (William C. Mackey, '00) and four
daughters.
Charles William Mackey (b. Nov. 19th, 1840, at Franklin)
is a corporation lawyer and promotor of Franklin. For the
last twenty years he has had an office and spent a large
portion of his time in New York City. He served in the
Civil War as ist Lieutenant in the loth Penn. Reserves, until
July nth, 1863, when he was honorably discharged. His
parents were Charles Washington Mackey, a manufacturer of
Franklin, and Julia Ann Fagundus, of Lycoming Co., Pa. The
family came from Inverness, Scotland, in 1765, and settled at
Port Deposit, Md.
Lauretta Barnes (Fay) Mackey (b. Dec. 8th, 1840, at Co-
lumbus, O.) is the daughter of Cyrus Paige Fay, a merchant
of Columbus, and M\^ra Barnes, of Athens, O. Cyrus Paige
Fay was Treasurer of the Columbus & Xenia R. R.
OF GRADUATES 473
Mackey prepared at Andover. He served on the Board of Gov-
ernors of the University Club in Senior year, received a
Second Dispute at the Junior Exhibition and a First Dispute
at Commencement. Kappa Psi. D. K. E. Wolfs Head.
He has not been married.
In August, 1903," writes Mackey, "I returned from Cali-
fornia and immediately started in the employ of The
Franklin Rolling Mill and Foundry Company, where I
have been ever since. Nothing of interest has transpired
since my return East." This Company has its head-
quarters in Franklin, Pa., and Cy is its General Superin-
tendent. Charles W. Mackey is President. They make
"high grade rolled steel and malleable and gray iron
castings," and are "sole owners of the tripartite steel
pole for all overhead construction."
The "Sexennial Record's" account of Mackey's earlier
experiences said that he began with a trip to Arizona with
Baron Hoeninghaus, and had "a very pleasant time for
three months, two of which were spent in hospital." His
letter continued as follows : "I left the Post about the first
of November, going directly to my home in Franklin.
Loafed there for a few weeks and then got a position
with the Franklin Steel Casting Co. Remained with that
company for about two years as Assistant Superintend-
ent. But the work was very hard and not altogether to
my liking. So in the fall of 1898 I left Franklin and
came out here to California to engage in the fruit busi-
ness with the Fay Fruit Co., Los Angeles, California.
With the exception of a trip East in the summer of 1900
I have been here ever since. Have been holding down
the position of Inspector most of the time. . . ."
George X. McLanahan
Lawyer. Bond Building, Washington, D, C.
Residence, 2031 Q Street.
George Xavier McLanahan was born July 29th, 1872, at New
Hamburg, N. Y. He is the son of George William McLanahan
474 BIOGRAPHIES
and Helen Spencer Day, who were married April 26th, 1871,
at Catskill, N. Y., and had one other child, a daughter.
George William McLanahan (no occupation) was born at
No. 6 College Place, New York, in which city and in Washing-
ton, D. C, where he now (Jan., *o6) resides, he has spent the
greater part of his life. He has also lived much abroad. His
parents were James Xavier McLanahan, a lawyer of Cham-
bersburg. Pa., and Ann Matilda McBride (daughter of James
McBride and Hannah Savage) of New York City. James X.
McLanahan was a graduate of Dickinson College, and a grand-
son to Senator Andrew Gregg of Pennsylvania. His family
came from County Antrim, Ireland, about 1700, and settled at
Antrim, Franklin Co., Pa.
Helen Spencer (Day) McLanahan (b. Sept. 22d, 1848, at
Catskill, N. Y.) is the daughter of S. Sherwood Day, '27, a
banker of Catskill, N. Y., and Cornelia Spencer (daughter of
Joshua A. Spencer) of Utica, N. Y.
McLanahan prepared at Andover. He made the Record at Easter
of Sophomore year, and was subsequently elected Chairman
of the Board of Editors. In this capacity he instituted the
inter-appointment baseball games. He bestowed the name
"Oriental Bill" upon Professor Williams, and was one of our
Class Historians. A Second Colloquy at the Junior Exhibi-
tion. Psi U. Wolf's Head.
He was married Nov. 8th, 1898, at New Haven, Conn., to Miss
Caroline Suydam Duer, daughter of Denning Duer of New
Haven, and has two children, a son and a daughter, Duer
McLanahan (b. Aug. 19th, 1899, at Catskill-on-Hudson, N. Y.)
and Helen McLanahan (b. March 6th, 1901, at New York
City). (See Appendix.)
McLanahan is Vice-President of the Yale Alumni As-
sociation of Washington, D. C, Chairman of the College
Department of the Inter-State Young Men's Christian
Association (for the District of Columbia, Delaware,
Maryland, and West Virginia), Director of the Union
Trust Company of the District of Columbia, member for
Washington of the new Alumni Advisory Council, and
Chairman of the Executive Committee of the local An-
dover Association. "Winters in Washington," he writes,
"practising law. Summers spent at Watch Hill, R. I.
Fall of 1904 went to Newfoundland (not New Jersey-
Redmond!) caribou shooting with Alfred Belo. Fall of
1905 shot a moose in Pokemonche River, N. B., with Tex
OF GRADUATES 475
Belo. Spare time spent buying wedding presents for class-
mates, and filling out blanks kindly furnished by Paret,
Fisher, Hawkes, and Day." He built his house at Watch
Hill in 1902 and has numbered Peck, Mallon, and other
'96 men among his guests.
He entered the Harvard Law School after graduation
and received his degree there in 1899. Meantime he had
passed the New York Bar examinations (October, 1898),
married (November, 1898), and attended the Columbia
Law School, New York, from the fall of 1898 until the
following March. At Harvard he belonged to the Wil-
liston Law Club and to the Choate Club (Phi Delta Phi
fraternity).
In October, 1899, he began to practise in the offices of
Curtis, Mallet-Prevost & Colt at 30 Broad Street, New
York, and remained there as Managing Clerk until taken
ill in May, 1901. In July he sailed with Mrs. McLanahan
for England for a three months' stay in Scotland. Re-
turning in October, he moved to Washington, D. C, to
take the course in the School of Comparative Jurispru-
dence and Diplomacy of the Columbian University, now
the George Washington University. He received the de-
gree of LL.M. in 1902 and that of D.C.L. in 1903. On
January ist, 1905, he announced that he was prepared to
practise before the Supreme Court of the United States,
the Court of Claims, the Government departments, the
Courts of the District of Columbia, and the Courts of the
State of New York, and also to appear before committees
of Congress.
He wrote this summer, "Surprised not to get a birth-
day present from you yesterday. You are a poor sort of
secretary. Why don't you keep track of the great '96
dates?"
Geo. S. McLaren
Partner in the law firm of Clark, Hall & Peck, 152 Orange Street,
New Haven, Conn.
George Sutherland McLaren was born May 25th, 1865, at
Greenock, Scotland. He is a son of James Watson McLaren
476 BIOGRAPHIES
and Catherine McFarlane, who were married in November,
1855 at Glasgow, Scotland, and had altogether nine children,
five boys and four girls, eight of whom lived to maturity.
James Watson McLaren (b. Nov. ist, 1833, at Glasgow;
d. May 6th, 1896, at Thompsonville, Conn.) spent most of his
life at Thompsonville where he was manager of some carpenter
shops and a Justice of the Peace. He was at one time a sea-
man in the British Navy, and afterwards a First Mate in the
China Trade. His parents were James McLaren and Jessie
Winning Moffat, both of Glasgow. James McLaren was the
owner of the Glasgow Chemical Works.
Catherine McFarlane (b. at Camfbleton, Scotland, in May,
1835) is the daughter of Edward McFarlane. a proprietor of
job dyeing works, of Cambleton, and later of Greenock. She
is now (Feb., '06) living at Worcester, Mass.
McLaren spent his youth in Thompsonville, Conn., and prepared
for Yale at Andover. He was on the Freshman Committee in
charge of the Boys' Club, and subsequently served as Super-
intendent of that Club. A First Colloquy at the Junior Exhibi-
tion and at Commencement.
He was married Feb. i8th, 1903, at Thompsonville, Conn., to
Miss Christina Miller Higgins of Thompsonville, daughter of
William Higgins.
McLaren entered the Yale Law School after graduation,
planning to take the three year course. In December of
his second year, however, he secured a position assisting
the administrator of an estate to close it up. This added
considerably to his work, and in 1898, after passing the
bar examinations, he broke down in health, left the law
school, and in January, 1899, secured desk room in the
New Haven offices of the state agent of the Home Life
Insurance Company of New York. "I was a stranger to
the business world of this city," he wrote in 1902, "and
knew less than half a dozen business men. I debated for
a long time whether to go into a law office or fight it out
alone from the start. I decided upon the latter course
because I knew I would have to do it some time, and I
have not regretted the decision. It was in July, 1899,
that I resolved to practise law solely, and rely upon that
for support. I succeeded, but it was after going through
experiences I would rather not put in writing."
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His decennial letter follows : "As to the way my time
has been spent since the Sexennial I can only say that I
devoted it exclusively to the general practice of law until
the seventh of last June (1905), when I was taken into
the above firm. Now our specialty is real estate law. As to
pastimes I have no particular bent. I keep closely to my
work, — now by force of necessity, because we are over-
whelmed with work, and formerly by necessity also, be-
cause I had to hustle to get in the filthy lucre. Now it
comes along regularly and I have no anxiety on that
account. I can think of nothing that is specially interest-
ing to you or the boys. I might say that in just seven
years from the time I was admitted to the bar I made
good. I had to hoe it out alone in what is conceded to be
one of the hardest cities in the country for young lawyers,
there being so many turned out of the law school here
that the profession is choked up with them all the time.
As to the future, I can give you no information in addi-
tion to what I told you when I saw you in December.
Mr. Clark's estate is not yet settled, and of course we
have not reorganized, but I am satisfied I am out of the
wet and on the ground floor in good solid fashion.*'
Neil B. Mallon
Residence, 2373 Madison Road.
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Chief Inspector in the Engineer Department of the Board of Public Service.
Neil Bernard Mallon was born Dec. 4th, 1874, at Cincinnati, O.
He is a son of Patrick Mallon and Sophia Pitchers Beadle,
who were married in June, 1852, at Easton, N. Y., and had
altogether four children, three boys and one girl. Guy Ward
Mallon, '85, is a brother.
Patrick Mallon (b. March 17th, 1823, at Dungannon, Ire-
land; d. Dec. 6th, 1896, at Cincinnati) spent the greater part
of his life at Easton, and Troy, N. Y., and Cincinnati, O., as
a farmer, school teacher, attorney and judge. He was the
son of John and Mary Mallon, both of Dungannon. John
Mallon was a farmer. Patrick Mallon came to America in
1829, and settled at Easton, N. Y.
L
478 BIOGRAPHIES
Sophia Pitchers (Beadle) Mallon (b. April 28th, 1835, at
Easton; d. Nov. 9th, 1894, at Cincinnati) was the daughter of
Thomas Beadle, a farmer and storekeeper of Easton, and
Phoebe Anna Starbuck of Nantucket, Mass.
Mallon prepared for Yale at Taft's School along with Dwight
Rockwell. He was President of the Cincinnati Club in Senior
year, served as Manager of the Class Baseball Team, and re-
ceived a Second Colloquy at Commencement. Psi U.
He has not been married.
Mallon's sexennial autobiography ran as follows :
"After touring Europe in the summer of '96 with Berry,
Vaill, . Haldeman, et al., I returned to Cincinnati and
entered the Cincinnati Law School for a three years'
course. By using the certificate received from E. J.
Phelps as the equivalent of one year's study in law, I was
admitted to the Ohio Bar in June, 1898. The following
February I went to Newark, Ohio, to take charge of the
gas company (Newark Gas Light & Coke Co.). I re-
mained there until March, 1900, when I returned to Cin-
cinnati and was employed by The American Process En-
graving Co. until February, 1901, when, on account of
a destructive fire and the opportunity of a better position,
I left that company and became Secretary and Treasurer
of the Ohio Bell Pure Air & Cooling Co."
In 1902 Mallon started in with the contracting firm of
H. E. Talbott & Co. of Dayton, Ohio, overseeing con-
struction work in Saulte Ste. Marie, Dayton, South Bend,
etc. 'T am up here in the woods in Ontario at Sault Ste.
Marie," he wrote in 1902, ''putting in concrete for foun-
dations." He did not explain why th€ woods required
that particular treatment. 'T am in the town of Misha-
waka, Indiana, "he wrote in November, 1903, "putting
up the bridge which will be the pride of the County. The
company sent me here to take charge of the office and
help to a certain extent with the construction. I have
been treated finely since I have been with this firm and
they do place quite a little responsibility on me, but I am
kicking, as usual, when pay day comes around. That
OF GRADUATES 479
reminds me, you ought to hear me swear. Am a dandy at
it. Have been around Dagoes so long now, where it is a
necessity, that I am quite a star."
When the work at Mishawaka was completed Talbott
& Co. asked Neil to start another job for them in Ken-
tucky, in the mountains. He was unwilling to do this,
because of his stomach trouble and of the impossibility of
getting "anything fit to eat in such a place," and so he
resigned his position (April 30th, 1904) and returned to
Cincinnati as a representative of the Dodge Manufactur-
ing Co. of Mishawaka, makers of pulleys, shaftings, and
power transmission goods. He became ill again, went to
Gloucester, Mass., for the summer, and in the fall decided
to go to Colorado, to the town of Florence, to look after
the local oil-well plans of some Eastern capitalists. Dur-
ing the following winter his trouble increased, and in
March, 1905, came the crisis. His life was despaired of.
Relatives hurried West and took him to Rochester, Min-
nesota, to be operated on by the famous specialists at that
place. The operation (gastroenterotomy) was a success.
Mallon recuperated rapidly, and in June was able to go
to New Haven for the 1905 Commencement, "where,"
he wrote, "several sips of Velvet seemed to make me for-
get age." He spent the summer at Gloucester again,
with his brother-in-law, visited Johnnie Johnston at Had-
lyme, and returned to Cincinnati for the fall elections.
"The gang was beaten," he wrote, "and a Democratic mayor
and the entire ticket was elected. The mayor was my
brother's partner, so it brought the election near home.
I did not ask nor in any way seek a political position, but
about January 20th, 1906, one was offered to me and I
took it. The title sounds fine— 'Chief Inspector.' The
city is constantly laying new sewers and improving its
streets with granite, asphalt, brick, etc. All this work is
done by contractors, and on each one of these jobs there
is placed an inspector by the city to guard its interests.
Over all these inspectors I preside, to see that they 'tend
to duty, and I am the court when there is a fight as to
whether the contractor is doing right. The work con-
480 BIOGRAPHIES
sists in visiting as many of these jobs as possible, and
thus I am out all day, and I must say all is very pleasant.
But do not think I am going to stay in politics/'
F. W. Mathews
Special Agent for Maine, New Hampshire, Eastern Massachusetts and Rhode
Island, for the ^Etna Insurance Co. of Hartford, Conn.
Office, ^5 Kilby Street, Boston, Mass.
Residence, Newton Center, Mass.
Frederick Whitney Mathews was born April 21st, 1873, at
Waldoboro, Me. He is the son of Webster Lincoln Mathews
and Susan Ann Sides, who were married Nov. 26th, 1868, at
Belfast, Me., and had one other child, a daughter.
Webster Lincoln Mathews (b. May loth, 1833, at Waldo-
boro; d. March 2d, 1880, at Waldoboro) served as selectman
and school agent in his native town, where he spent his entire
life with the exception of a short stay in California. His
parents were Nathaniel Mathews, a blacksmith, and Hannah
Ewell, both of Waldoboro. The family came originally from
the north of Ireland, and settled at Woburn, Mass.
Susan Ann (Sides) Mathews (b. Oct. loth, 1843, at Waldo-
boro) is the daughter of Isaac Sides, a ship carpenter, and
Susan Kaler, both of Waldoboro. She is now (Feb., '06)
living at Waldoboro, where her great-grandfather first settled
on his arrival from Hanover, Germany.
Mathews prepared for Yale at the Tabor Academy, Marion,
Mass. He was associated with P. R. Allen as (jlass Sta-
tistician and publisher of the Senior Class Book, and he re-
ceived a First Colloquy at the Junior Exhibition and at Com-
mencement.
He was married at Martin's Point, Friendship, Me., July Sth,
1899, to Miss Clara Louise Dudley of Hartford, daughter of
James F. Dudley.
Mathews ''made a study of fire protection, insurance
law, etc., for six months. On January ist, 1897, became
Inspector for ^Etna Insurance Co. of Hartford, covering
Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
January ist, 1898, was appointed Assistant Special Agent,
for the same field and company. Headquarters in
Boston."
OF GRADUATES 481
"I have worked steadily from 1902 to date," he wrote
this spring, "with the exception of time from February,
1904, to November, 1904, when I was away most of the
time ill with nervous prostration. Was at Pinehurst,
N. C, and other Southern places for a few weeks in the
spring of 1904. Rest of time and all my vacations have
been spent in Maine.
"See very few '96 men up this way. Occasionally, P.
Allen, Twombly, C. Collens. I think of nothing more of
interest just now."
The fact that Fred has been "forced to live in a
Harvard hotbed," as he puts it, all these years, has had a
depressing effect upon his correspondence. His class-
mates are prepared to administer restoratives if he will
come among them for that purpose before it is too late.
H. W. Mathews
The Mansfield, 12 West 44th Street, New York City.
Harry Willard Mathews was born June 19th, 1875, at New
Haven, Conn. He is a son of John L. Mathews and Henrietta
C. Douglass, who were married Oct. 24th, 1867, at North
Craftsbury, Vt., and had altogether three children, all boys, one
of whom died before maturity. Charles Herbert Mathews, '93
L. S., is a brother.
John L. Mathews (b. Sept. 8th, 1844, at Lee, Mass. ; d. March
i8th, 1898, at New Haven, Conn.) enlisted in the Civil War as
a drummer boy, worked his way up, and won distinction in
a number of engagements. After the war he engaged as a
wholesale paper dealer at New Haven, where he spent the
greater part of his life. His parents were Elijah Mathews,
a paper manufacturer of Holyoke, Mass., and Maria McCarty
of Hudson, N. Y. The family came from England in 1742
and settled at Salem and Boston, Mass.
Henrietta C. (Douglass) Mathews (b. Sept. i8th, 1842, at
Waterbury, Vt. ; d. Jan. 12th, 1903, at New York City) spent
her early life at North Craftsbury and Holyoke. She was the
daughter of Henry Douglass, a lawyer (afterwards a farmer)
of North Craftsbury, and Ruby Cilley of Tunbridge, Vt. The
Douglass family settled in New London, Conn., in 1736, com-
ing from Scotland.
482 BIOGRAPHIES
Mathews prepared for Yale at the Hopkins Grammar School,
and received a Second Dispute at the Junior Exhibition and
at Commencement.
He has not been married.
Mathews lives in New York nowadays, a half block or
so from the Yale Club, but he does not belong to that un-
polished institution and he does not see very much of the
Class. This is due in part to his being away a great deal
on hunting and fishing and camping trips. He "remained
in New Haven for two years after graduation, holding
down a minor position with The Edward P. Judd Co.,
booksellers. Removed to New York in September, 1898,
and entered the publishing business of the Macmillan
Company." In 1902 he was threatened with typhoid and
had to give up work and go to Elizabethtown, Essex Co.,
New York, to rest and recuperate. In January, 1903, he
ended his connection with Macmillan's, went abroad for
a six months' trip, and has since then spent about half his
time on a farm in Northern Vermont, at Waitsfield, with
one of his relatives. His expeditions are made in all
directions. *T have had a glorious time," he wrote from
Canada last fall ; "three weeks solid of canoeing with
good hunting and fishing on the side." One trip of his
got into print this year, illustrated with several photo-
graphs wherein Harry is depicted striking tents and strug-
gling with canoes, His winters are spent in New York
City. (See Appendix.)
"As regards papers, etc.," he writes, "I have never
kept any track of such things as book reviews and most
of my other stuff has not been over my own signature, so
what is the use of mentioning it? They date back six
or seven years. A few short stories, a good deal of
dramatic work for one of the weeklies, book reviews now
and then. This is the sum total.
"Forty-fourth street is as dirty and muddy as when
you saw it last, and the new Circus Maximus on the Sixth
Avenue corner blocks traffic so that even the rubber-neck
OF GRADUATES 483
wagons have deserted us on their daily rounds. I hope to
go abroad next spring, but this time I shall confine myself
to England, with a Friday to Monday at Paris."
Rev. F. H. Mathison
Church of the Good Shepherd, Shelton, Conn.
(See Appendix.)
Frederick Huntington Mathison was born Dec. 5th, 1873, at
Bridgeport, Madison County, N. Y. He is a son of Rev.
Robert Lauder Mathison, Wesleyan, '53, and Catherine Susan
Roberts, who were married June nth, 1862, at New Hartford,
Conn., and had altogether seven children, three boys and four
girls, five of whom lived to maturity. Rev. Edward Thomp-
son Mathison, '93, is a brother.
Robert Lauder Mathison (b. at Middletown, Conn.) is an
Episcopal minister, and is now (Oct., '05) living at Rome,
N. Y. His parents were Robert Mathison, a druggist, and
Rebecca Desborough, both of Middletown. Robert Mathison
was, like his son, a graduate of Wesleyan University. The
family came from Scotland in the eighteenth century, and
settled at New York City.
Catherine Susan (Roberts) Mathison (b. May 17th, 1842, at
Granby, Conn.) spent her early life at New Hartford, Conn.
She is now living at Shelton, Conn. Her parents were John
Eno Roberts, a merchant of Riverton, Conn., and Deborah
Blakeslee of Hartland, Conn. John Eno Roberts was an officer
in the Mexican War.
Mathison prepared at the Hillhouse High School. He received
a First Colloquy at the Junior Exhibition and at Commence-
ment.
He has not been married.
Mathison studied for two years in the Berkeley Di-
vinity School (Episcopal). "During my theological
course," he wrote in 1902, "I was associated with mis-
sion work in Bridgeport (five months) and in Shelton,
Connecticut, where I organized a church and have re-
mained as Rector. One of the results of this latter work
is the building of a stone church which is now in process
484 BIOGRAPHIES
of erection." And this year, 1906, he was able to add, "I
have organized a parish, and erected a church edifice. I
have visited Egypt and Palestine, climbed Mount Sinai,
and entered the city of Petra, preached and lectured and
in some small ways worked for humanity, and am now
out of commission for six months resting up from my
labors."
His travels in the Far East, in 1905, were part of a
long vacation granted him by the parish because of de-
pleted health. On his return he added to his regular
duties the preparation and delivery of some illustrated
lectures on the lands he had visited, devoting the proceeds
to his church— the Church of the Good Shepherd. Early
this year (1906) he was attacked by what seems to be a
sort of partial paralysis, which has affected his vocal
chords and facial muscles. Absolute rest and quiet have
been prescribed for him and he has, as he says, given up
all occupation for the present. (See Appendix.)
Chas. W. Miller
Lawyer. Weleetka, Indian Territory.
Charles Weston Miller was born April ist, 1876, at Irvine, Ky.
He is a son of Merriman M. Miller and Bettie Anderson, who
were married Dec. 25th, 1874, at Irvine, and had two other
children, both girls.
Merriman M. Miller (b. Nov. 24th, 1846, at Nicholasville,
Ky.) is a merchant in Lexington, Ky., and his life has been
spent at Nicholasville, Irvine and Lexington. His father was
Merriman Miller, a farmer of Nicholasville. The family on
coming to America settled in Virginia.
Bettie (Anderson) Miller (b. April 8th, 1851, at Lancaster,
Ky.) is the daughter of Alexander Anderson, a farmer of
Lancaster.
Miller was graduated from Centre College, Ky., in 1895 with the
degree of B.A., and entered our Class the following fall. He
took One Year Honors in Political Science and Law, made a
still-remembered speech at the Southern Club Banquet, and re-
ceived a Dissertation at Commencement.
He has not been married.
OF GRADUATES 485
In 1898 Miller received his LL. B. from the University
of Virginia and began practice in Lexington, Kentucky.
He was a Revenue Agent in 1900, Democratic Election
Commissioner 1900-01-02, and in 1903 he was appointed
City Solicitor by Mayor Duncan to fill out the unexpired
term of the former incumbent, deceased. He ran for the
State Legislature one year and in 1904 he served as Li-
cense Inspector.
Despite all these leaves of local laurel. Miller proved
to be so little inclined this spring to communicate even
his address to the Class Secretary, that appeal for assis-
tance had to be made to certain of his fellow-townsmen
whom the Secretary had met and known across the
Rockies. One of these finally called upon him with a "45"
in one hand and a bottle of Bourbon in the other, a pro-
cedure which was attended with all the pleasing conse-
quences of Moses' blow upon the rock— if Miller will
pardon so watery a comparison. Information flowed.
The Secretary selects for publication the following ex-
cerpt from a local paper :
"Former City Solicitor C. W. Miller left this week for
Weleetka, Indian Territory, for the purpose of making
final arrangements for permanently locating there to prac-
tise his profession.
"It will be recalled that Mr. Miller in May joined a
party of Lexington capitalists, who visited this growing
western town for the purpose of investing in town lots,
and was so pleased with his [sic!] phenomenal growth
and prosperity that he himself bought a number of lots
and decided to locate there. He announced to friends be-
fore leaving, that on this trip he would secure a law office
and arrange to leave Lexington for good in the early
autumn. With Mr. Miller's popularity and knowledge
of the workings of municipal politics as 'she is taught' in
Lexington, his friends predict here that he won't be a citi-
zen of Weleetka long before he is Mayor of the town."
486 BIOGRAPHIES
William S. Miller
Attorney for the Northern Trust Company of Chicago.
Residence, 465 Dearborn Street.
William Southworth Miller was born Sept. 27th, 1873, at
Evanston, III. He is a son of Henry Giles Miller, Hamilton
'48, and Sarah Caroline Mason, who were married April 21st,
1857, at Chicago, 111., and had seven other children, one son
(Henry G. Miller, '95) and six girls, three of whom died be-
fore maturity.
Henry Giles Miller (b. Feb. 2d, 1824, at Westmoreland,
Oneida Co., N. Y. ; d. Dec. nth, 1899, at Eureka Springs,
Ark.), spent the greater part of his life at Chicago, practising
law. His parents were Abner Miller, a farmer of Westmore-
land, N. Y., and Sally Lyman, of Middletown, Conn. The an-
cestors of the family were English settlers in Connecticut.
Sarah Caroline (Mason) Miller (b. May 17th, 1833, at Par-
sippany, N. J.) is the daughter of Roswell B. Mason, a civil
engineer of Chicago, and Harriet Lavinia Hopkins, of Par-
sippany. She spent her early life at Bridgeport, Fairfield Co.,
Conn.
Miller made the Yale News in Freshman year, played Catcher
on the Freshman Nine, Catcher (and Captain) of the Sopho-
more Nine, and Catcher on the Senior Nine. He was a mem-
ber of the Sophomore German Committee, the Junior Prome-
nade Committee, and the Yale Shooting Club Team, on which
he shot for four years, serving in Senior year as its Captain.
He was Assistant Manager, and afterwards President, of the
University Baseball Association, and ex-officio a member of
the Yale Athletic Financial Union, and a Director of the Yale
Field Corporation. He was Secretary of the University Club,
a member of the Executive Committee of the Chicago Club
and of the Yale Union. A Second Dispute at the Junior Ex-
hibition and a First Colloquy at Commencement. Eta Phi.
Psi U. Keys.
He was married Aug. 24th, 1904, at St. Paul's Episcopal Church,
Winona, Minn., to Miss Susan Talmadge Whipple, daughter
of William Jay Whipple, a newspaper man of Winona, and has
one child, a son, William Whipple Miller (b. Feb. 17th, 1906,
at Chicago, 111.).
Miller attended the Northwestern University Law
School for two years with Cahn and Vennum, served for
a year and a half as clerk in the offices of Hoyne, Fol-
OF GRADUATES 487
lansbee & O'Connor, later Follansbee & FoUansbee, of
Chicago, and early in 1900 was inducted into his present
post of Attorney to the Northern Trust Company. "Have
lived a very quiet life and have confined my travels to
short jaunts during my annual two weeks' vacations," he
wrote in 1902. "Spent all my time in Chicago," he added
this year, "working, getting married, and supporting my
wife and child. Absolutelv nothing interesting to re-
port."
He has been for some years a director in the Chicago
State Pawners' Society,— "because I get lower rates," he
once explained. He attends the local Yale dinners pretty
regularly, and at the Chicago dinner of 1903 he was pre-
sented with a silver loving cup as Captain of the victori-
ous Chicago Yale Alumni Baseball Team of 1902. The
local Harvard and Yale Alumni, it seems, have annual
baseball games, and in 1902 the score was heavily against
Yale at the end of the seventh inning, but— Bill was Cap-
tain!
The Northern Trust Company, although now erecting
a building of its own, has long had its offices on the
first and second floors of the "Rookery." Miller is on
the second, and as often as the Secretary goes there
he absentmindedly takes the elevator, only to be reminded
on the way up that he cannot enter any of the Trust Com-
pany's offices except from below. He then begins all over
again, threads his way deviously past much banking para-
phernalia, and storms the sacred flight of stairs that leads
to where they keep the sanctums. There, at last, with
those who raised him to this careful height, sits Bill, with
a telephone and a stenographer going full tilt beside him,
and a welcome on his face that makes up for all of one's
weary mileage. His den is a regular Mecca for '96. In-
deed, one wonders how he can possibly find the time to
take so many of us out to lunch or home to dinner, and
to transform for us his strident city into so grateful an
oasis.
488 BIOGRAPHIES
Joseph O. More
Lawyer, Commonwealth Trust Building, 421 Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo.
Joseph Oudinot More was born at Fontainebleau, France, May
9th, 1868, of French parentage.
More came to this country at an early age, and spent his youth
in Boston, Salem, Dorchester, and Andover, where he pre-
pared for Yale. He also studied at Williston. He received a
First Colloquy at the Junior Exhibition and a Second Dispute
at Commencement. He was a member of the Yale Union and
took an active part in its debates.
In 1898 More was graduated from Yale Law School
and some time thereafter he went out to St. Louis to be-
gin practice, having selected that city as one destined to
grow and prosper. He is said to have grown and pros-
pered himself, even more than St. Louis, since his arrival.
Drown saw him in 1905 in San Francisco, and wrote that
he must have weighed fully 230 pounds at that time.
The Class will be glad to hear of More's success, know-
ing the man and the pertinacity of purpose with which
he has overcome so many handicaps.
Professor W. Conger Morgan
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of California.
Residence, 2440 Hillside Avenue, Berkeley, Cal.
William Conger Morgan was born June 21st, 1874, at Albany,
N. Y. He is a son of William Morgan and Josephine Amelia
Conger, who were married May 24th, 1871, at Reidsville,
Albany Co., N. Y., and had one other child, a son.
William Morgan (b. Sept. i6th, 1842, at Albany, N. Y. ;
d. Nov. 7th, 1898, at Albany) was a real estate and insurance
agent of Albany. His parents were Richard Morgan of
Gloucestershire, England, who came to America, c. 1830, and
settled at Albany, and Elizabeth Pritchard. Richard Morgan
was a metal worker.
Josephine Amelia (Conger) Morgan (b. March ist, 1839,
OF GRADUATES 489
at Reidsville, N. Y. ; d. April 22d, 1904, at Albany) was the
daughter of William Conger, a farmer of Reidsville, and Han-
nah Babcock, of Albany Co., N. Y.
Morgan was one of the men elected while still undergraduates
to the Society of Sigma Xi. He received One Year Honors
in Philosophy, Two Year Honors in Natural Sciences, a Phil-
osophical Oration at the Junior Exhibition and at Commence-
ment, and sang in the Freshman Glee Club, the Apollo Glee
and Banjo Club, and the College Choir. Phi Beta Kappa.
Yale Union.
He was married at Albany, N. Y., June 21st, 1900, to Miss Char-
lotte Elisabeth Lansing of Albany, daughter of Richard
Lansing, and has had two children, both boys, one who died
at birth (at Berkeley, Cal., Nov. 19th, 1904), and Robert
Lansing Morgan (b. June 7th, 1906, at Berkeley).
"Remained in New Haven as Silliman Fellow, studying
chemistry in Kent Laboratory, taking Doctor's degree at
end of three years. Accepted professorship of chemis-
try at Washburn College, Topeka, Kansas, at close of my
study at New Haven, and resigned this in 1901 to come
to my present position in the College of Chemistry of the
University of California.
"Recent vacations : 1902, tramped through the Yosemite
Valley and neighboring Sierra Nevada with my wife;
1903, Eastern trip; 1904, Eastern trip- 1905, Summer
School, University of California, Berkeley, together with
camps and tramps in the mountains of California. Ex-
pect to spend this present vacation at home fixing up my
new place.
"Avocation : Trying to make a University man's salary
meet a human being's expenses— a task which I am about
to give up on the ground that several different kinds of
perpetual motion machines are needed and the world of
mechanics is not yet sufficiently advanced to permit of
the solution of this problem.
"I was sorry not to see you in Berkeley, but it was due
to a combination of conditions that we missed each other.
Better luck next time."
I
490 BIOGRAPHIES
The Bibliographical Notes in another part of this vol-
ume contain a formidable list of Morgan's writings, which
range from "Notes on the Space Isomerism of the Tolu-
quinoneoxime Ethers" to "A Fossil Egg from Arizona."
This latter title hints at the way in which even a hungry
and disappointed scientist may wrest a victory from ali-
mentary defeat.
Charles S. Morris
Permanent mail address, care 408 Crown Street, New Haven, Conn.
Or, care of the Pfister Hotel, Milwaukee, Wis.
Charles Southerton Morris was born July loth, 1873, at New
Haven, Conn. He is a son of William G. Morris and Margaret
Watson Moore, who were married June 29th, 1869, at New
Haven, and had altogether three children, all boys (including
William Greenwood Morris, '90).
William G. Morris (b. Aug. 26th, 1841, in New York City)
has spent most of his life in New Haven in the picture frame
business. His parents were Isaac Morris, a worker in iron,
and Mary Southerton, both of the Isle of Wight, England.
Margaret Watson (Moore) Morris (b. Sept. 14th, 1839, at
Westfield, N. J.) is the daughter of Thomas Moore, a weaver,
and Mary Ellis, both natives of Ireland. Her early life was
spent in New Haven.
Morris prepared for Yale at the Hillhouse High School. He
was on the Varsity Football Squad, and served in Junior
year as Secretary of the Football Association. A Second
Dispute at the Junior Exhibition and a First Colloquy at Com-
mencement. University Club. Psi U.
He has not been married.
After graduation Chub studied for a time at the Yale
Law School and then left for the West. He is known to
have done a good deal of football coaching and to have
lived for a while in Kansas City. At Sexennial he re-
ported that he was in Milwaukee in the advertising busi-
ness. The following fall he coached the Northwestern
University Football Team at Evanston, Illinois.
The only information received about him for this vol-
ume was that he was still in Milwaukee and that he was
now connected with the Chicago & Northwestern road.
OF GRADUATES 491
Samuel I. Motter
Partner in the law firm of Motter & Shultz, Donnell Court, sth and Francis
Streets, St. Joseph, Mo.
Residence, loth and Charles Streets.
Samuel Isaac Motter was born Nov, 7th, 1874, at St. Joseph,
Mo. He is the son of Joshua Motter, Pennsylvania Col-
lege, '64, and Augusta Barrow, who were married Dec. 2d,
1873, at New York Cit\% and had one other child, a daughter.
Joshua Motter (b. Nov. ist, 1848, at Williamsport, Md.) is
a member of the firm of Tootle, Wheeler & Motter, jobbers
and manufacturers, of St. Joseph. His parents were Isaac
Motter, a farmer of Williamsport, Md., and Mary Snively of
Greencastle, Pa., whose ancestors came from Switzerland in
the seventeenth century, and settled at Schnaeble, in Southern
Pennsylvania. Isaac Motter served in the Maryland Legisla-
ture for a number of terms.
Augusta (Barrow) Motter (b. April 19th, 1852, at St. Jo-
seph) is the daughter of John E. Barrow (b. at Baton Rouge,
La.), a merchant and New York stock broker, and Catherine
Gingery of New York City, formerly of St. Joseph. John E.
Barrow served as midshipman when Texas was fighting for
independence before it became a part of the United States,
and he was the last surviving member of the Texas Navy.
Motter prepared at the St. Joseph (Mo.) High School, and
entered our Class from '95 in September, 1894. He sang on
the Apollo Glee and Banjo Club and the College Choir, and
was a member of the Southern Club and of Phi Gamma Delta
('95 election).
He has not been married.
Motter's name has been transferred from among the
non-graduates to the regular list, now that the Corpora-
tion has awarded him his Bachelor's degree. He entered
the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor after leaving
Yale and was graduated from there with the degree of
LL. B. in 1899. The following October he was admitted
to the Missouri Bar, and he then commenced practice in
St. Joseph. On January ist, 1901, he was appointed as-
sistant prosecuting attorney for Buchanan County, and
two years later he formed his present partnership of
Motter & Shultz (Orrillis E. Shultz), with offices in
Donnell Court, 5th and Francis streets.
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"I am in receipt of the notice concerning the '96 din-
ner," he wrote, a year or two ago. "Nothing I can think
of would give me more pleasure than being with you on
that occasion, but since I am no longer a contented holder
of public office and have given up the prosecution of crim-
inals for livelihood, I am more thoroughly convinced of
the truth of the trite saying, that the 'law is a jealous
mistress' and find I have not the leisure I once had. I
regret very much that it will be impossible for me to get
away this month, but I am looking forward to a time in
the near future, when I can be with you to assist in cele-
brating the glorious deeds of the Class of '96."
Norris H. Mundy
Partner in the firm of W. A. Havemeyer & Co., Agents of th.e American
Sugar Refining Co., 25 E, Lake Street, Chicago, 111.
Norris Havemeyer Mundy was born Aug. 12th, 1874, at Chicago,
111. He is a son of Norris Woodruff Mundy, Union Col-
lege ^dy, and Annie Amelia Havemeyer, who were married
Nov. 6th, 1872, at New York City, and had two other children,
Roswell Flower Mundy, Cornell '94, and Floyd Woodruff
Mundy, Cornell '98, and Yale ex '98.
Norris Woodruff Mundy (b. Feb. 8th, 184S, at Watertown,
N. Y.) has resided principally at Watertown, N. Y., and at
Chicago, where he was for many years the Western Agent
for the American Sugar Refining Co. His parents were
Pearson Mundy, a grocerman, and Maria Donner Woodruff,
daughter of Norris M. Woodruff, all of Watertown.
Annie Amelia (Havemeyer) Mundy (b. Oct. 27th, 1849, at
New York City) is the daughter of the late Albert Havemeyer
of New York, a refiner of sugar and President of Havemeyer
& Co., and Henrietta W. Sherman, who was born in Virginia
of English parentage. Mrs. Mundy is a niece of ex-Mayor
William Frederick Havemeyer of New York, who died Nov.
30th, 1874, and a granddaughter of William F. Havemeyer,
the first sugar refiner in America.
Mundy prepared for Yale at St. Paul's School in Concord, and
while in College was a member of the St. Paul's Club and the
OF GRADUATES 493
Chicago Club. He was also a member of the Fourth Division
from its inception, and served as first President of the Society
of Kappa Beta Phi.
He has not been married. (See Appendix.)
MuNDY ''entered the office of the Freight Auditor of the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific RaiWay Co., and re-
mained eighteen months. Then accepted the Vice-Presi-
dency of the Manierre-Yoe Syrup Co., refiners and pre-
servers, of Chicago. Traveled in Europe for five weeks
in 19CX)." This was his sexennial report. On January
1st, 1904, he resigned the Vice-Presidency of this com-
pany (retaining his directorship), to enter the firm of
W. A. Havemeyer & Co., brokers in Sugars and Syrups
and western agents of the American Sugar Refining
Company. This firm is one of the oldest in the business,
and the retirement of W. A. Havemeyer and W. A.
Havemeyer, Jr., has left H. E. Havemeyer and Mundy
in sole charge. During the teamsters' strike their ap-
parently prosaic routine suddenly developed possibilities
of a romantic nature, and Mundy can, if he will, narrate
fascinating stories of the stealthy loading of sugar ships
at midnight.
He is full of stories, anyway. He makes them, as
duller men make history. While this book was in prepara-
tion the Secretary heard one about a dinner Nod gave, to
celebrate his installation in a pleasant set of apartments
with Paul Hamlin and two other fellows. It seems that
the principal ornament of the dining-room was a large
deer's head, conspicuously placed, and at the solicitation
of some of the girls who had come to the house-warm-
ing, Mundy described his thrilling pursuit and capture
of the animal in Manitoba. ''Who"— says the author of
"The Decay of Lying,"— "who was he who first, without
ever having gone out to the rude chase, told the wonder-
ing cavemen at sunset how he had dragged the Mega-
therium from the purple darkness of its jasper cave, or
slain the Mammoth in single combat and brought back
494 BIOGRAPHIES
its gilded tusks, we cannot tell, and not one of our modern
anthropologists, for all their much boasted science, has
had the ordinary courage to tell us. Whatever was his
name or race, he certainly was the true founder of social
intercourse." Fired by some such convictions, Mundy
spun a yarn no portion of which was either based upon
fact or limited to probability. The company were much
impressed.
"Well, Nod," broke in Hamlin lazily, as he drew to a
close, "all that you say may of course be perfectly true,
but,"— pointing significantly at the head,— "I can't help
noticing that every time you tell the story that old buck
winks."
The guests laughingly looked up at the head.
And — the buck did wink! . . .
It was afterwards discovered that this effect could be
produced at will by means of a small electrical contriv-
ance; but, at the time, each guest thought that his own
eyes and not the deer's had played him false, and, through
fear of ridicule, uncomfortably forbore to voice his
wonder.
James B. Neale
President of the Buck Run Coal Co., &c.
P. O. Address, Minersville, Pa.
Telegraph and Telephone, Pottsville, Pa.
James Brown Neale was born Oct. 4th, 1872, at Kittanning, Pa.
He is a son of Alonzo Potter Neale and Martha Elizabeth
Colwell, who were married March loth, 1870, at Kittanning,
and had altogether five children, four boys and one girl, three
of whom lived to maturity.
Alonzo Potter Neale (b. Dec. 26th, 1846, at Kittanning;
d. Aug. I2th, 1881, at Kittanning) was in the iron business.
His parents were Samuel Stanhope Neale, a doctor, and Mar-
garet Brown, both of Kittanning. The family came originally
from Ireland, and settled at Burlington, N. J.
Martha Elizabeth (Colwell) Neale (b. Jan. 12th, 1847, at
Mahoning Furnace, Pa.) spent her early life at Kittanning.
Her parents were John Alexander Colwell, who was engaged
OF GRADUATES 495
in the iron business, and Rebecca Pritner, both of Kittanning.
She is now (Dec, '05) living at Sewickley, Pa.
Neale prepared at Andover. He made the Yale News. in Sopho-
more year, served later as its Financial Editor, and was also
Business Manager of the Yale University Glee and Banjo Clubs,
Treasurer of the University Club, and a member of its Execu-
tive Committee, President and Manager for two years of the
Class Baseball Club, and a member of the Junior Promenade
and Class Supper Committees. He Boule. D. K. E. Bones.
He has not been married.
On July 22d, 1896, Neale ''began working on surveying
squad of the Pennsylvania Coal Co. Was, later on, at
various times, assistant mining boss, time-keeper and
clerk for same company." From January ist, 1899, to
June, 1 90 1, he acted as clerk, Superintendent, and later
General Manager of four coal properties, which were in
the latter month bought up by neighboring railroads.
(For particulars see p. 156, Sexennial Record.) Just be-
fore this purchase took place Jim became President of the
newly organized Buck Run Coal Co., three miles from
Minersville, Pa., and started in to build its breaker and
open up its mines. His headquarters continued to be at
Scranton. (Since August ist, 1897, Neale has been liv-
ing with Brinck Thorne.)
''After Sexennial," he wrote in May, "I returned to
the anthracite coal field, where Brinck Thorne and I had
recently opened up a colliery. This colliery began ship-
ping coal on March 12, 1902, and was thrown in idleness
at an early stage, about the 12th of May, 1902, by the gen-
eral strike throughout the anthracite field. This strike
lasted until the last of October, and during the summer
and fall I spent my time either at the colliery or in making
reports on coal properties in some of the Southern states.
After the strike was declared off, I was very busy operat-
ing our colliery and trying to build up a community here
in this very lonely place. In order to get labor it was
necessary to build houses for the workmen and a school
for their children. Our coal company is called the
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'Buck Run Coal Company' and the community here
now is known as Buck Run. It is located five miles
from the nearest town of any size, and is, therefore,
necessarily very much self-contained.
"In the spring of 1903 Thorne and I gave up our house
in Scranton and took up our permanent residence here.
In the summer of 1903 we obtained control of another
colliery called the 'Darkwater Coal Company,' located
about eight miles east of Buck Run. [Neale is Treas-
urer and Director.] These two properties have occupied
the large bulk of our time. In fact up until 1905 we did
nothing else but attend to them save for an occasional
trip to the South or West to report on coal properties. On
January i, 1905, we bought an interest in the Sonman
Shaft Coal Company located at Portage, Pa., on the main
line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, in the heart of the
Central Pennsylvania soft coal field. [Neale is Vice-
President and Director.] We are now managing that
property also and consequently make frequent trips to
that part of the state.
"I have taken no trips excepting to go to various
weddings and to show up in New Haven every spring
and fall. I am intensely interested in my work here and
thoroughly enjoy all sides of it.
"Now, Clarence, that is about all I have to say and I
guess any more would be trash. Looking forward with
great pleasure to seeing you in New Haven, I am,
"Very truly yours,
"James B. Neale."
Professor George H. Nettleton
Assistant professor in English in the Sheffield Scientific School.
Residence, 339 Prospect St., New Haven, Conn.
George Henry Nettleton was born July i6th, 1874, at Boston
Mass. He is the son of Edward Payson Nettleton, '56, and
Mary Ellen Tucker, who were married Dec. 15th, 1869, at
Chicopee Falls, Mass., ancK had one other child, a daughter.
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Edward Payson Nettleton (b. Nov. 7th, 1834, at Chicopee
Falls; d. April 17th, 1889, at Boston, Mass.) was Captain
(afterwards promoted to Colonel) of the 31st Mass. Volunteer
Reg. during the Civil War. He was by profession a lawyer,
at one time being Corporation Counsel and head of the Law
Department of the City of Boston; and Judge Advocate Gen-
eral on the Governor's staff. His parents were Alpheus Nettle-
ton of Chicopee Falls, and Deborah Williams Belcher of
Taunton, Mass. Alpheus Nettleton was a Massachusetts Gen-
eral of Militia for many years.
Mary Ellen (Tucker) Nettleton (b. March 17th, 1838, at
Chester, 111.) spent her early life a£ Hannibal and St. Louis,
Mo., and Holliston, Mass. Her parents were Joshua Thomas
Tucker, a clergyman of Chicopee Falls, and Mary Olard Stibbs
of St. Louis. She is now (Oct., '05) living at New Haven,
Conn.
Nettleton prepared at Andover. He received a Berkeley Premi-
um of the Second Grade in Freshman year, and a Phil-
osophical Oration at the Junior Exhibition and at Commence-
ment, In Sophomore year he was elected to the Yale Courant.
He resigned in Junior year and was elected an editor of the
"Lit." (in charge of Notabilia). He was a member of the Yale
Union, of the Cap and Gown Committee, and of Phi Beta
Kappa, Chi Delta Theta, Kappa Psi, Psi U., and Keys.
He was married at Bridgeport, Conn., Dec. i6th, 1902, to Miss
Mary Clark Treat, daughter of the late Amos Sherman Treat
and Mary A. (Clark) Treat, and has two children, Edward
Treat Nettleton (b. Oct. 14th, 1903, at New Haven, Conn.)
and Mary Treat Nettleton (b. Oct. 20th, 1904, at New Haven).
"In the fall of 1896," said Nettleton's sexennial report,
"I came back to Yale for post-graduate work in English.
In January, 1897, I went abroad to study French and
tutor Leonard M. Thomas (afterwards Yale 1901), liv-
ing for five months in Geneva and coming home in Au-
gust via Italy and Spain. For the next few years I con-
tinued my graduate work, finally obtaining my Ph.D. in
1900. Meantime in January, 1899, I was appointed an
instructor in English in the Sheffield Scientific School.
The summer of '99 I spent abroad, partly studying at the
British Museum, partly touring through Holland and
England."
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"Since 1902," he wrote this spring, ''I have been con-
tinuing my work at Yale, teaching English in Sheff.
[He was appointed an Assistant Professor in March,
1906.] The very even tenor of my way leaves little
to chronicle for a class record. The summer of 1902 I
spent largely in tramping in Switzerland with Stokes.
Since our marriage in December, 1902, my wife and I have
spent part of my college vacations in Bermuda, Canada,
Florida, the Adirondacks, and — for the last two years —
in the White Mountains, with Arthur Foote and his wife.
. . . My other literary work," he continues, after giv-
ing a list of his writings which will be found in the Bib-
liographical Notes, ''has been confined to answering
every third letter from Clarence Day and every other
letter from Paret. I have spent most of my time lately
preparing for Decennial. My hardest experience was
getting Birely into the sample 'clown costume' exhibited
at the last class dinner in New York— the next hardest
was getting him out of it. ... No more at present. As
young John Marshall Gaines, Jr., remarked to me after I
had played for him one selection on the harpsichord,
'No more pianny, please.' "
"Hippy" has ranked of recent years among the first
score or so of tennis players in this country. He has also
made a number of addresses and speeches in different
cities. "Dr. Nettleton's notable address concerning the
social problem in Sheff." was editorially referred to in
the Alumni Weekly for February 28, 1906.
Judge Edward K. Nicholson
Of Shaw & Nicholson, Sanford Building, Bridgeport, Conn,
Residence, 915 Howard Avenue.
Edward Kramer Nicholson was born April 14th, 1872, at Essex,
Conn. He is a son of George W. Nicholson and Elvira Bell,
who were married June 5th, 1867, at Matawan, N. J., and had
one other child, a son.
OF GRADUATES 499
George W. Nicholson (b. Nov. 6th, 1842, at Baltimore, Md.)
is a Baptist minister, living at Bridgeport, Conn. He has lived
at Baltimore, Md., Trenton, Jersey City, and Perth Amboy,
N. J., Nashua, N. H., Saratoga Springs, N. Y., and Essex,
Conn. His parents were Henry Nicholson, a blacksmith, and
Eliza Beck, both of Baltimore, where the family originally
settled on their arrival from England.
Elvira (Bell) Nicholson was born at Matawan, N. J. She
is the daughter of George W. Bell, a druggist, and Laura M.
Bray, both of Matawan.
Nicholson spent his youth in Connecticut, New Hampshire, New
York and New Jerse^^ and prepared for Yale at the Jersey
City High School. He received a Dissertation at Commence-
ment, and during his post-graduate course served as Secre-
tary of the Political Science Club,
He was married Dec. 19th, 1900, at Saratoga Springs, N. Y.,
to Miss Mary L. Thomas, daughter of Cassius B. and Sarah
Keith Thomas of Saratoga Springs, and has two children, a
girl and a boy, Sylvia Nicholson (b. Dec. 29th, 1901, at Bridge-
port, Conn.) and Edward Kramer Nicholson, Jr. (b. Jan. 4th,
1903, at Bridgeport).
Nicholson remained in New Haven as a post-graduate
for two years, doing work for which in June, 1900, Yale
gave him the degree of Ph.D. Meantime he had begun
reading law in a Bridgeport office in 1898, and in January,
1900, he was admitted to the Connecticut Bar. The fol-
lowing May he formed his present partnership (Shaw
& Nicholson) with Samuel C. Shaw, '91, with offices in
the Sanford Building in Bridgeport.
"There is but little to report," he writes. 'T have
'pursued' the practice of law with the most eager pur-
suit of which I have been capable, have been elected
Deputy-Judge of the City Court of Bridgeport (March,
1905), have made some money, some enemies, some
friends, have neither set the world on fire, nor been seri-
ously burned by the fires of other people. My vacations
have been short and without exciting incidents. I re-
gret to send you such a tame account but conditions com-
pel it."
The Bridgeport papers occasionally break forth into
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astonished headlines concerning our classmate. We close
his biography with a sample :
"JUDGE NICHOLSON STILL 'STINGING' SALOON
KEEPERS WHO VIOLATE LAWS
" Heavy Fines Imposed Upon Several Yesterday and Appeals
Were Taken in All Cases — More Trials Coming in the Near
Future and Liquor Law Will Be Enforced.
" Judge Nicholson continued his work of handing out ' jolts '
to the saloon keepers who persist in keeping open Sundays, by
imposing fines in the city court yesterday morning. In addition
to finding John Beck guilty of a second oflfence, he also found
Bessie Wood guilty of keeping open last Sunday and imposed a
fine of $100 and costs from which an appeal was taken and
allowed in bonds of $150" etc., etc.
Theodore Woods Noon
Educational work in Latin, Greek, and History.
Permanent mail address, 10 Appian Way, Cambridge, Mass.
Theodore Woods Noon was born Nov. 6th, 1874, at South Wal-
pole, Mass. He is a son of the Rev. Samuel Henry Noon and
Mary Woods Atkinson, who were married in March 1870, at
Cambridge, Mass., and had altogether five children, three boys
and two girls, four of whom lived to maturity. Brothers:
Samuel Atkinson Noon, Wesleyan, '92, Henry Shore Noon,
Yale, '94. Sister: Grace Agnes Noon, Stanford, Cal., '04.
Samuel Henry Noon (b. at Leicester, Eng., in 1841) of Cam-
bridge, is a Methodist-Episcopal preacher and a member of
the New England Conference. He has lived at Andover,
Weston, Barre, Leicester, and Brookfield, Mass. His parents
were James Noon, a wool-comber of the town of Leicester,
County of Leicester, Eng., and Rebecca Shore of Warwick,
England. The family came to America in 1846.
Mary Woods (Atkinson) Noon (b. at Weston, Mass., in
1847) is the daughter of Kinsman Atkinson and Dorothy
Myrick Woods (of Ashburnham, Mass.). Kinsman Atkinson
(b. at Buxton, Me., in 1807), a Methodist preacher, was
graduated from Harvard in the Class of '34. His ancestors
came from Bury, England, and settled at Newburyport, Mass.
Noon prepared for Yale at the Gloucester (Mass.) High School.
He received One Year Honors in Ancient Languages, an Ora-
i
OF GRADUATES 501
tion at the Junior Exhibition and at Commencement, and in
Sophomore year took a Third Lucius F. Robinson Latin
Prize.
He has not been married.
"The Historian Gibbon," seriously observes our class-
mate Noon, "in his inimitable 'History of Rome' speaks
of some leaders who were statesmen, of others who were
generals, and of others who were orators or poets. Here
and there all these qualities were unified in the life and
character of one man. In this day of intense speciali-
zation, it has been my purpose, while having a specialty,
to be conversant with the leading questions in Law,
Classics, and Theology, thereby enabled to render more
effective service. I have spent some time since 1902 as
Fellow at the University of Chicago (1902-1903), Boston
University School of Law (1903-1904), The New York
Law School (1905-1906). I have kept up systematic
walks on the German plan — doing the White Mountains
one summer, the Black Forest (Schwarzwald) in South-
ern Germany another summer. After a brief sojourn
abroad this fall I shall return to take up educational work,
having put myself by this course in sympathy with many
of the great questions and problems of to-day. Greet-
ings to Ninety-Six!"
"Noon has gotten to be a very handsome person,"
wrote McLanahan, in describing to the absent Secretary
the '96 doings at the 1905 Commencement. "I was about
the only man in the Class who recognized him. Ts not
this Mr. McLanahan?* said he, and I— to the admiration
and envy of Brinck, Neale, Allen, Sheldon and other
would-be glad-handers— answered, T surely am, Teddy.'
In fact I made such a killing by my winning ways with
my classmate, that Allen announced in a loud voice so
all could hear, 'Don't be a snob George; don't try to sit
next to me,' " etc., etc.
' "The two years following graduation," wrote Noon at
our Sexennial, "I spent in resident study at Yale in the
502 BIOGRAPHIES
Department of Classical Philology. In the fall of 1898
I accepted a Professorship at Willamette University,
Salem, Oregon. . . . The summer vacation of 1899 was
spent in missionary and educational work in one of the
counties of that state. During the following University
year I was at the University of California in Berkeley
as a member of the Classical Faculty. . . . Last summer
I traveled in Germany, England, and Scotland; and I
am now finishing my work as Fellow in Ecclesiastical
History at the University of Chicago."
During his course at Chicago he interested himself in
mission and sociological work in connection with the
Chicago stock yards, and he "instituted and participated
in a series of Cross Country Runs." He has practically
completed the wbrk for the degrees of B.D. and Ph.D.
and LL.B. and some, or all, of them will doubtless be
awarded to him in the near future.
Louis C. Oakley
Division Claim Agent, N. Y. Central & Hudson River R, R.,
Corning, New York.
Permanent mail address, Owego, N. Y.
Louis Curtis Oakley was born Feb. 26th, 1872, at Owego, N. Y.
He is a son of Timothy Bradner Oakley and Prudence Curtis,
who were married May 25th, 1871, at Owego, and had alto-
gether five children, three boys and two girls, four of whom
lived to maturity.
Timothy Bradner Oakley (b. Feb. 28th, 1844, at Geneva,
N. Y.) is an attorney at law of Owego. His father was
Conkling Lewis Oakley, a surgeon of Geneva and Owego, and
a lineal descendant of Miles Oakley (or Oakleigh), (b. 1623),
a member of Parliament in 1658, who came to New Amster-
dam from Oakley Grove, Oakley Parish, Eng., in 1661, and
settled at Westchester, N. Y., in 1664, of which town he was
mayor in 1675. Timothy Bradner Oakley's mother was Mary
Bradner Halsey of Blooming Grove, N. Y., daughter of Cap-
tain Zephaniah Halsey of the Continental Horse Guards.
Prudence (Curtis) Oakley (b. Jan. 7th, 1852, at Owego) is
the daughter of George Rodney Curtis, a farmer, and Sarah
Mary Walter, both of Owego.
OF GRADUATES 503
Oakley prepared for Yale at the Owego (N. Y.) Academy and
entered with the Class. He received a Second Dispute at the
Junior Exhibition and a First Dispute at Commencement.
He has not been married.
After one year's work in New Haven for the Gas Com-
pany Oakley entered the Yale Law School. He received
his degree in 1899, practised in New Haven for about a
year, and on July ist, 1900, left for Penn Yan, N. Y.,
where he continued practice and engaged in the real es-
tate business. March 24th, 1902, he went to Buffalo to
begin work as Assistant Claim Agent of the Western
Division, N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R. His decennial letter
follows :
On the Choo-Choo Cars,
About Evensong, July 4, 1906.
My dear Day :—
Thank you for a kindly interest in a filament of an
octopus tentacle. Your rush letter found me hastening
on the endless grind — paying compound interest for my
week at New Haven in a new handicap in the pursuit of
an always-receding horizon on ever-tiring legs. But it
was worth it — n times, — and then some. Perforce rumi-
nant of delights infrequent, the concept of Bandmaster
Bond— saltant, vibrant, gracile, with life athrill, — parts
the unwonted fissure in a face long chary of smiles. (A
pair of Slovaks in the seat ahead spit speech based on the
letter "z'" which sounds like washing windows, but it 's
little I reck.) I went to the Decennial and it 's the best
game I was ever to. The memory of it is a bath and a
benediction— a psychic Manhattan cocktail for many an
arid morn.
Not much has happened to me since the Sexennial
Record went to press. In May, 1904, by a judicious mix-
ture of promotion and expatriation I went to the Penn-
sylvania Division of the New York Central as Division
Claim Agent, with jurisdiction over about 750 miles of
track, part of which runs through an area where the per-
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pendicular motif is dominant, and where if a native gets
through Long Division, they send him to Congress.
Most of my v^ork is investigation of personal and fatal
injuries, for some of which we pay. There appears to
be a rooted belief on the part of the foreign element
among the miners that the human form divine was pri-
marily intended for the derailing of a G-4 engine. De-
sire to demonstrate this theory becomes ungovernable
after consumption of malt, vinous and spirituous liquors,
to be used as a beverage on the premises in quantities less
than one gallon (for one drink). Thus far we have not
had a single engine damaged — but the mortality among
the proletariat around pay-day is alarming. Hence we
infer that a single track was never meant for a dormitory.
But I must digress lest I babble and sin by excess.
I have kept my fingers crossed when Dan Cupid
aimed my way until acute ankylosis has set in, and now,
if the dimpled little devil chose to look me-ward, I doubt
if I could pry them apart. That will be about all.
Yours,
Louis C. Oakley.
Done into a screed under my hand and
seal as 37 pulls into Snow Shoe, Pa.
Edwin Oviatt
Journalist P. O. Box, 175, New Haven, Conn.
Edwin [Sidney] Oviatt was born April 22d, 1874, at New
Haven, Conn. He is a son of Sidney Benjamin Oviatt and
Emma Eliza Mackay, who were married Nov. 24th, 1869, at
Brooklyn, N. Y., and had two other children, one boy and one
girl, of whom the latter died before maturity.
Sidney Benjamin Oviatt (b. July 26th, 184S, at Orange,
Conn.; d. Oct. 24th, 1903, at New Haven) was in the real
estate and insurance business. The greater part of his life was
spent at New York City and New Haven. His parents were
Sidney Fenn Oviatt, a railroad man of Orange, Conn., and
Mary Ann Riggs of Newark, N. J., and Orange, Conn. The
OF GRADUATES 505
family came from England or Wales in 1639, and settled at
Milford, Conn.
Emma Eliza (Mackay) Oviatt (b. Aug. 12th, 1842, at New-
York City) is the daughter of Hay Stevenson Mackay, a
lawyer (whose father, ^neas Mackay, was a school teacher
in Edinburgh, Scotland), and Clarissa M. Rogers (b. at
Herkimer, N. Y.), both of New York City. Hay Stevenson
Mackay served as a private in the War of 1812, and two of
his sons served in the Civil War. Mrs. Oviatt is now (Oct., '05)
living in New Haven.
Oviatt prepared at the Hillhouse High School. He sang Second
Bass on the Freshman Glee Club and College Choir. He took
a College Prize in English Composition (Second Grade) in
Sophomore year, and was President of the Hillhouse High
School Club. In Sophomore year he made the Courant (from
which he afterwards resigned) and the Record, and in Junior
year he was elected Editor of the "Lit." (in charge of Book
Notices). A First Dispute at the Junior Exhibition and a
Second Dispute at Commencement. Chi Delta Theta. D. K. E.
He was married at New Haven, Conn., April 22d, 1898, to Miss
Fanny Sely Thompson, daughter of Emma J. (Darrow)
Thompson of New Haven, and the late Edward A. Thompson.
(See Appendix.)
"Enclosed is the statistical paper with a brave show of
ancestral and military family honors. Nothing like hav-
ing a martyr and a lord in your family, eh? old man.
Seems pretty small business to mention the same, but my
uncles have taken the trouble to spend some time in
Scotland looking up the family and should their work go
for nought? I believe them implicitly. If they said
I had a hen with four teeth as an ancestor I would be-
lieve them."
Thus wrote Oviatt: his biography follows:— In 1896
he was associated with George W. Cable in magazine
work at Northampton. He went from there to New
York (in 1897) and from New York to New Haven,
where he had a night-editorship on the Morning News,
with Burton Hendrick '95. Then came three years on the
Nezv Haven Register and then, in January, 1901, he left
regular newspaper work for free lance writing. "Have
been in and out of New Haven in journalism (free lance)
506 BIOGRAPHIES
since Sexennial," says his 1906 account. "In 1905 I
was appointed Connecticut correspondent (politics and
state questions) to the New York Tribune. Have done
more or less magazine fiction work. Summers spent out
of town; in 1902, Easthampton in old family house on
Lake Pocotopug; 1903, White Mountains July- August;
1904, Easthampton. In 1904 went abroad with my wife
—April to July— in Italy and Switzerland. November,
1904, came down with typhoid that laid me up for six
months, until June, 1905."
His illness was a close call. If the Secretary remem-
bers rightly his weight dropped to not much over a
hundred pounds, approaching incorporealism. He has
been up to one hundred and seventy-eight since, however,
so that he deserves no sympathy, except from those who
think it piteous to see a small round man panting woe-
fully after trolleys. For the list of his writings, maga-
zine work, etc., see the Bibliographical Notes. See also
Appendix.
Alfred D. Pardee
Coal Mining. Philadelphia Manager of Calvin Pardee & Co.
and Pardee Brothers & Co.
Office, 447 Drexel Building, Philadelphia.
Alfred Day Pardee was born at Hazleton, Pa., Feb. i6th, 1873.
He is a son of Calvin Pardee, B.S. Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute *6o, and Mary Byrne, who were married June 4th,
1867, at Germantown, Pa., and had altogether nine children,
four boys and five girls, eight of whom lived to maturity.
Ario Pardee, A.B. Princeton '97, is a brother. Ario Par-
dee, Jr., C. E. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute '58, Israel Piatt
Pardee, E.M. Lafayette '74. and Frank Pardee, A.B. Lafayette
*79, are uncles.
Calvin Pardee (b. July 17th, 1841, at Hazleton, Pa.) an-
swered th€ first call for volunteers in 1861, left the army on
Surgeon's Certificate of Disability in October, 1862, and is now
a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the
United States. He is an anthracite coal operator, and has been
extensively engaged in industrial enterprises, serving for some
time as President of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co. His
mother was Elizabeth Jacobs of Hazleton, and his father was
OF GRADUATES 507
Ario Pardee, a civil and mining engineer and anthracite coal
operator of Hazleton, and a liberal donor to Lafayette Col-
lege, having given "Pardee Hall" to that institution. In 1861
Ario Pardee fully armed and equipped two companies of Penn-
sylvania Volunteer Infantry.
Mary (Byrne) Pardee (b. Jan. 27th, 1847, at Philadelphia,
Pa.) is the daughter of William Byrne, a lawyer of Phila-
delphia. She and her husband now (March, '06) live at
Whitemarsh, Montgomery Co., Pa.
Pardee prepared for Yale at Andover. He was Secretary and
Treasurer of the Freshman Baseball Club and a member of
the University Club. He Boule. Psi U.
He has not been married.
After a summer in Europe with Ward Cheney, Pardee
was made Secretary and Treasurer, and six months later
Vice-President, of the C. Pardee Works at Perth Amboy,
N. J. In the fall of 1897 he took charge of the mining
department of Calvin Pardee & Co.'s mines in Luzerne
County, Pennsylvania. He enlisted with the First Troop,
Philadelphia City Cavalry, U. S. V., in the spring of
1898, and served through the war, taking part in Gen-
eral Miles's expedition to Porto Rico, and all but coming
to blows with the enemy at Guaymas on August 13th, the
day on which word came of the signing of the protocol.
''Since the war," he wrote in 1902, "I have been
actively engaged in mining — both placer and quartz, —
in Idaho and Shoshone Counties, Idaho, and in anthra-
cite coal mining, at Lattimer Mines, Luzerne Co., Penn.,
where I am a member of the firm of Pardee Bros. & Co.
In the summer of 1900 a station on the Clearwater Branch
of the Northern Pacific Railway was named after me.
It is the town of Pardee, Idaho."
"Since Sexennial," he wrote this year, "my time
(with the exception of two hunting trips to Wyoming
and Idaho, and one to Ontario, Canada) has been spent,
mainly, between Philadelphia, the coal fields of South-
western Virginia and Eastern Kentucky, and the anthra-
cite fields of Pennsylvania. As requested, I give you,
below, my record:
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"Philadelphia Manager of Calvin Pardee & Co. and
Pardee Brothers & Co., operating Harwood and Latti-
mer, Milnesville and Hollywood Mines, Luzerne Co.,
Pa. Vice-President and General Manager of the Black-
wood Coal & Coke Co., Blackwood, Wise Co., Va. Vice-
President and General Manager of the Roaring Fork
Railroad Co., Blackwood, Wise Co., Va. Vice-President
of the Cranberry Furnace Co., Johnson City, Tenn. Vice-
President of the C. Pardee Works, Perth Amboy, N. J.
Director of the North Pennsylvania Railroad Co., Phila-
delphia, Pa. Director of East Tennessee and Western
North Carolina Railroad Co., Johnson City, Tenn. Direc-
tor of the Cranberry Iron & Coal Co., Cranberry, N. C.
Director of the Prescott Manufacturing Co., Phila-
delphia, Pa.
'T am not married and have taken no degrees or had
any writings published. The organizations to which I
have belonged and to which I now belong are :
"Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club, Oyster Bay,
L. I. University Club, New York City, N. Y. Hunting-
ton Valley Country Club, Abington, Pa. (Philadelphia).
White Marsh Valley Hunt Club, White Marsh, Pa. (Phil-
adelphia). White Marsh Polo Club, White Marsh, Pa.
(Philadelphia). Philadelphia Gun Club, Eddington, Pa.
(Philadelphia). Philadelphia Barge Club, Philadelphia,
Pa. Germantown Cricket Club, Germantown, Pa. ( Phila-
delphia). Racquet Club, Philadelphia, Pa. Markham
Club, Philadelphia, Pa. First Troop Philadelphia Cav-
alry, Philadelphia, Pa. Comus ("Mardi Gras" Club),
New Orleans, La. Holston Club, Bristol, Tenn. Yale
Club, New York City, N. Y."
Hon. Walter P. Paret
Partner in the law firm of Beard & Paret, 45 Broadway, New York City.
Walter Palmer Paret was born June 2d, 1872, at Bergen Point,
N. J. He is a son of John Paret and Emily L. Story, who
were married at Bergen Point, and had altogether eleven chil-
dren, six boys and five girls, nine of whom lived to maturity.
OF GRADUATES 509
John Paret (b. at New York City, in 1835 ; d. July 29th, 1899,
at EUenville, Ulster Co., N. Y.) was a wholesale clothing
merchant. The greater part of his life was spent at Bergen
Point and New York City. His father was John Paret, also
a wholesale clothing merchant. The family came from France
in 1780, and settled at New York City.
Emily L. (Story) Paret (b. Feb. ist, 1841, at New York
City) is the daughter of Rufus Story, a sea merchant, of
Bergen Point, and Eliza Rue of New York City. She is now
(Dec, '05) living at Essex Fells, N. J.
Paret prepared at the Hopkins Grammar School. He rowed
No. 3 on the Academic Freshman Crew in the fall of 1892,
No. 2 on the Junior Fall Crew, and No. 6 on the Junior
Spring Crew. He served on the Class Supper Committee,
received a Second Colloquy at Commencement, and was a
member of the Renaissance Club, Kappa Psi, D. K. E., and
Wolf's Head.
He has not been married.
In 1899 Paret was given the degree of LL.B. by the Law
School of Columbia Univer.sity, and on December ist,
1900, after some experience in another office, he and
Bill Beard formed the law firm of Beard & Paret, with
offices at 115 Broadway, New York City, and later at 45
Broadway. Paret's residence meantime was in Essex
Fells, New Jersey, and early in 1903 he was elected its
Mayor, by a majority of 43. "At first it was quite diffi-
cult to handle the meeting," he wrote concerning the
primary at which he presided, "but by having two of the
opposing factions ejected, the meeting was brought to
order and business resumed, with the result that my nomi-
nation for Mayor was successfully carried through. (Ex-
cuse these blurs — my dog just jumped plumb on the
desk)."
In addition to serving as Mayor until 1905 (when he
changed his residence to New York), and practising
law with Beard, "Pol" raised a '96 Fund to provide our
impoverished Class with its running expenses and did
a large part of the work of preparation for the '96 De-
cennial. His letter follows :
510 BIOGRAPHIES
"In the summer of 1903, having been ill, I took a trip
abroad with my brother. We went over in a slow ship,
nine days, direct to Liverpool, having a very delightful
trip over, a Yale man of '84 named Jackson and myself
winning in the shuffleboard contest. From Liverpool we
went to Chester and then direct to London, which we
made our headquarters for about three weeks, making
frequent trips into the country. Returned on the Lu-
cania at the rush season, and this voyage proved some-
what unpleasant, on account of the hordes of people on
board and the violent vibration of the ship in her en-
deavor to keep up her reputation for speed.
"This trip did a great deal for my health, I became in-
terested in politics and was eventually nominated for
Mayor of Essex Fells, New Jersey. On looking back on
my duties as Mayor I remember very many pleasant
things and but few disagreeable ones. The Council was
composed mostly of business men from New York, so
that I made many delightful friends and, of course,
obtained more or less valuable experience. My duties
were light, involving the presiding at the Council, —
meeting but once a month, with possibly a special meet-
ing called in the interval, — and the general supervision
of the various committees, such as lights and roads ; laws
and legislation ; finance and audit ; health and poor ; fire
and drainage, etc. My term lasted for two and one-half
years and I was greatly pleased by the earnest request
to run for a second term, but on account of my family
leaving the place, I decided to withdraw my name. Dur-
ing both years the tax rate was kept the lowest in the
State, with the exception of two other cities. The most
important events, probably, during my administration,
were the establishing of a public school, which has grown
and thrived so that now a special building has been built
for it, and the number of pupils has doubled ; and the es-
tablishment of a Fire Department, which latter proved
very effective and met with hearty support, especially as
it brought about the general reduction of insurance rates.
"In May, 1905^ I had the rare opportunity of going
J
OF GRADUATES 511
abroad in a steam yacht belonging to one of our class-
mates. We sailed from New York direct to Southamp-
ton, arriving there in eleven days, without urging the
ship at all. We experienced no serious bad weather, and
the whole trip was a most entertaining experience."
Rev. Charles E. Park
"First Church in Boston," 405 Marlborough St., Boston, Mass.
Residence, after Oct. i, 1907, 209 Beacon Street.
Charles Edwards Park was born March 14th, 1873, at Ma-
habaleshwar, India. He is the son of the Rev. Charles Ware
Park, Amherst, '67, and Anna Maria Ballentine, who were
married June i6th, 1870, at Amherst, Mass., and had five other
children, all girls.
Charles Ware Park (b. Sept. 8th, 1845, at North Andover,
Mass.; d. Nov. 24th, 1895, at Pittsfield, Mass.) lived in India
as a missionary from 1870-81. He subsequently had charge of
parishes in New Haven (1885-6), Derby, Conn. (1886-94), and
Pittsfield, Mass. (1895). His parents were the Rev. Calvin Em-
mons Park, a clergyman of West Boxford, Mass., and Harriet
Turner Pope of Portland, Me. Calvin Emmons Park was a
graduate of Brown University. The family came from Eng-
land in 1630, and settled at Newton, Mass.
Anna Maria (Ballentine) Park (b. Dec. i6th, 1844, at
Ahmednagar, India) is the daughter of Henry Ballentine,
a missionary, of Schodack, N. Y., and Elizabeth Darling, of
Hermiker, N. H. Her three brothers, William, John, and
Henry Ballentine, were all Amherst graduates. She is now
(Oct., '05) living at Wellesley, Mass.
Park left India at the age of eight, and spent his youth chiefly in
Connecticut. He prepared for college at Andover and at the
Derby High School. A First Dispute at the Junior Exhibition
and a Second Dispute at Commencement. Zeta Psi.
He was married Sept. 19th, 1903, at Geneva, 111., to Miss Mary
Eliot Turner, daughter of Walter D. and the late Maria Le B.
Turner, and has one child, Charles Ware Park (b. May 19th,
1905, at Hingham, Mass.). Walter D. Turner is President
of the U. S. Wind Engine and Pump Co. of Batavia, 111. He
resides in Geneva.
After two years at Chicago University, devoted to the
study of theology, Park spent two years more as minister
512 BIOGRAPHIES
of the First Unitarian Society of Geneva, Illinois, and
then removed to Hingham, Massachusetts. "I am still
ministering to the spiritual needs of the Second and
Third Parishes in Hingham," he wrote this spring.
"Like the man in the poem I 'keep the even tenor of my
way,' striving to earn, approximately, the salary I receive,
and striving to do nothing to disgrace the class of '96."
"Rumor is for once correct," he wrote afterwards, in
July ; "I have accepted a call to the 'First Church in Bos-
ton/ and will begin Oct. i, 1906. My parsonage is at
209 Beacon St., but I sha'n't live in it for a year at least,
and can't tell what my address will be during my first
year there other than just 'Boston, Mass.' "
The Boston Sunday Post for July 15th, 1906, contained
a huge portrait of Parky, with little ones of "John Cot-
ton, 1633" (in a wig) and "Rev. John Wilson, 1632" on
either side. "For 276 years," it said, "the First Church
has lived in Boston. Hundreds of changes have come
about in the creeds of the world since the church was
organized in the year that Boston was founded. John
Wilson, John Cotton, John Norton and John Davenport
were some of the first ministers, who bore all of the
austerity that the Puritanical ministers of those days
affected.
"Two centuries after, there is coming in the person of
the Rev. Mr. Park a minister who is totally opposed to
many Puritanical ideas of his early predecessors. He is
liberal, young, and fond of life in the open air. An ar-
dent yachtsman, he is at the present moment cruising
along the New England coast with members of the East-
ern Yacht Club on their return from their annual Bar
Harbor cruise. Baseball and golf are sports of which
he is also excessively fond. . . .
"The new athletic pastor comes as a stranger almost.
He is a man whose birthplace was in faraway India, and
who has, without money or favor, fought his way single-
handed in the world, and is now due to step in among
men. and women whose pride of ancestry is accompanied
in almost every case by possession of wealth, and to
enter an atmosphere and circle that comes but rarely to
OF GRADUATES 513
any minister. Since going to Hingham six years ago
he has made wonderful changes in the New North
Church, of which ex-governor Long is a member. The
whole-hearted energy of Mr. Park, who is but thirty-
three years of age, caused a wonderful improvement in
the parish. He brought many young people into the fold,
increasing the membership very materially, and wound up
a most successful ministry by completing a parish house
that cost in the neighborhood of $8,000, every cent of
which is paid. His unusual success there came to the at-
tention of the trustees and board of directors of the
Boston church about a year ago, when an invitation was
extended to him to become the minister of the oldest
church in Boston. He firmly declined at that time, de-
spite the fact that the offer made was of the most tempt-
ing nature, but a few weeks ago he placed his resignation
in the hands of the Hingham parish committee, and asked
to be released in September. He may assume the more
important Boston work early in October."
Frank M. Patterson
Lawyer. 27 William Street, New York City.
Permanent mail address, The Yale Club.
Frank Miner Patterson was born June 29th, 1873, at Albany,
N. Y. He is a son of Patrick John Patterson, and Julia
Corcoran, who were married at Albany, and had altogether
eight children, four boys and four girls.
Patrick John Patterson, son of John Patterson, was born
in 1833, at Tuam, Ireland. He died July i6th, 1889, at Albany,
where he had spent the greater part of his life. The business
of manufacturing confectionery, which he started at Albany
in i860 is still conducted by his estate.
Julia (Corcoran) Patterson is now (Feb., '06) living at
Albany, where she has resided since girlhood.
Patterson prepared for College at the Albany High School, and
entered our Class from '95 in September, 1893. He was a
member of the Yale Union, received a First Colloquy at Com-
mencement, and was the author of a story concerning an
antlered doe in the "Courant" for Jan. nth, 1896.
He has not been married.
514 BIOGRAPHIES
"After graduation," wrote Patterson in 1902, "I coached
the University of Missouri football eleven, succeeding
in that position Pop Bliss, '93. At the end of that season
I traveled through the West and Southwest, going as far
South as the City of Mexico. In February, 1897, I re-
turned East and began the study of law in the office of
Hon. Amasa J. Parker at Albany, N. Y., with whom I
remained until September, 1899. I" June of that year I
had graduated from the Albany Law School, and in Sep-
tember I removed to New York to assume the managing
clerkship of the firm of Hornblower, Byrne, Miller
& Potter. In January, 1901, I associated myself in the
practice of the law with the firm of James, Schell &
Elkus."
Shortly after Sexennial he left this firm and he has
since then "been busy in law and politics, practising in
my own name with personal office staff and representing
as counsel divers estates and business houses of New
York City. Received the honorary degree of Master of
Laws from Union University at the Commencement Ex-
ercises, June, 1904. Was engaged with the Democratic
National Committee in organization work of last presi-
dential campaign. Acted as one of the vice-presidents
of the Citizens' Independent Democracy of New York
City, which supported George B. McClellan for Mayor
in the last city campaign."
In the fall of 1904 the Secretary fussily enquired of
Pat why his first name was appearing in the public prints
not as Franklin but as Frank.
His reply follows :
"Clarence Day, Jr.,
"Hill's Ranch, Tucson, Arizona.
''My dear Clarence: Your letter of the 24th instant
has just come to hand and contents noted. I am now in
the midst of the campaign but thought it best to get off
this letter to you in reply to yours. As you will see from
the letterhead, I am acting as Corresponding Secretary
of the Parker & Davis College Men's Club, which was
OF GRADUATES 515
organized in the States of New York, New Jersey, and
Connecticut. [William B. Hornblower was the Pres-
ident.]
"I dropped the 'lin' oi¥ my name in order to save time
the rest of my life and because most of my friends of
long standing have been accustomed for years to the
shorter name. I think it best, therefore, to officially enter
my name in the college book as Frank.
"1 am glad to hear that you are enjoying Arizona and
only wish that I could be out there with you. My natural
trails are close to the soil, but circumstances compel me
to seek the city."
Hon. Thomas B. Paxton, Jr.
Partner in the law firm of Paxton & Warrington, United Bank Building,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Residence, 341 Lafayette Avenue.
Thomas Barbour Paxton, Jr., was born July 15th, 1872, at Cin-
cinnati, O. He is the son of Thomas Barbour Paxton and
Mary Adelaide Wharton, who were married Nov. 4th, 1863, at
Cincinnati, and had one other child, a daughter.
Thomas Barbour Paxton (b. June 3d, 1835, near Loveland,
Clermont Co., O.) attended Parker's Academy and Ohio Wes-
leyan University, at Delaware, O., in 1853-4-5, and was gradu-
ated from the Cincinnati Law College in 1858. He has since
resided in Cincinnati, where he has served as Alderman, as
Trustee on several boards, and in 1873 as County Solicitor.
He is now a member of the State Game & Fish Commission.
His parents were Thomas Paxton, a farmer of Clermont Co.
(whose father was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Revolution) ,
and Rebecca Barber of Mount Pisgah, Clermont Co. The
family came from Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland, in
1735, and settled at Marsh Creek, Lancaster Co. (now Adams
Co.), Penn.
Mary Adelaide (Wharton) Paxton (b. Nov. 4th, 1841, at
Huntsville, Ala.) spent her early life at her birthplace and in
Richmond, Madison Parish, La. She is the daughter of Wil-
liam Archer Wharton, M.D., Transylvania College (Lexing-
ton, Ky.) 1840, P.O. 1842-3, of Huntsville, Ala.; and Anne
Buchanan Harbin, of Lexington, Ky.
516 BIOGRAPHIES
Paxton prepared for College in Cincinnati. He served on the
Supper Committee of the Cincinnati Club, and was a member
of the University Club and of Psi U.
He has not been married.
The matrimonial tides that have swept over so large a
portion of our Class have left Paxton high and dry, or
high at any rate— ready with unabated zest to flavor all
games with gayety. Travelers report that he still pos-
tures admirably when the humor takes him, and still ex-
hibits a wit as apprehensive as when he made the Beta's
stage his setting. But in his letters none of this appears.
Shyness, slyness, or both perhaps — who knows? — have
made him dumb. Art cannot cure him. His resolution
is as weighty as his person, his past is like Pandora's
box. You may as bootless spend your vain commands as
send precepts to the leviathan, to come ashore.
"He studied law at the University of Cincinnati, taking
his degree in June, 1899. He has practised in Cincinnati
ever since, and is now a member of the firm of Paxton
& Warrington, which consists of T. B. Paxton, J. W.
Warrington, T. B. Paxton, Jr., and G. H. Warrington '95.
He has traveled more or less but does n't give the par-
ticulars." This is the sexennial account. For Decennial
he wrote : 'In November, 1905, I was elected a member
of the House of Representatives in the LXXVII General
Assembly of Ohio."
The Secretary had thought of going to Cincinnati in
behalf of the Class, himself, this spring ; but the memory
of his last visit, though graced by a luncheon Tom be-
stowed, was still too wrenched and angry from an excur-
sion with one DeCamp over the city's seven tedious hills.
Howard S. Peck
Partner in M. L. Peck & Son, Insurance Agency, Bristol, Conn.
Residence, 14 Prospect Place.
Howard Seymour Peck was born May 17th, 1874, at Bristol, Conn.
He is a son of Miles Lewis Peck and Mary Harriet Seymour,
OF GRADUATES 517
who were married Oct. i8th, 1871, at Bristol, and had one other
son (Josiah Henry Peck '95) and three daughters (including
Hilda Margaret Peck, Vassar, '03, and Rachel Keziah Peck,
Vassar, '05). Tracy Peck, Professor of Latin at Yale Col-
lege, a great uncle of H. S. Peck, was graduated in the Class
of '61.
Miles Lewis Peck (b. July 24th, 1849, at Bristol), of Bristol,
is Treasurer of the Bristol Savings Bank, President of the
Bristol & Plainville Tramway Co., President of the Liberty
Bell Co., and an insurance agent. Most of his life has been
spent in Bristol. His parents were Josiah Tracy Peck, an
insurance agent of Bristol, and Ellen Lewis Barnard of Troy,
N. Y., and Bristol. The direct ancestor of the family came to
Hartford, Conn., from England in 1634 with Thomas Hooker.
He was one of the original proprietors of Hartford, and Deacon
of the First Church of Hartford.
Mary Harriet (Seymour) Peck (b. July 22d, 1849, at Bristol)
is the daughter of Henry Albert Seymour, a jeweller of New
Hartford and Bristol, and Electa Churchill of New Hartford.
She is now (Oct., '05) living at Bristol.
Peck prepared for Yale at the Bristol High School, and entered
with the Class. He was a member of the Yale University
Drum Corps in the fall of 1892, in which corps he was one of
the fife players.
He was married Oct. i6th, 1900, at Bristol, Conn., to Miss
Florence Edna Roe, daughter of the late Charles Roe, whose
death occurred in July, 1905. He has two children, a son and
a daughter, Seymour Peck (b. Nov. 5th, 1901, at Bristol) and
Nancy Peck (b. June 30th, 1904, at Bristol).
Peck has been taken into partnership with his father,
since Sexennial, and their insurance agency is now run
under the firm name of M. L. Peck & Son. He has been
and still is a clerk in the Bristol Savings Bank, besides.
"Took a trip to New York last fall," he writes. "Was
there three days. Stayed with one Dwight Rockwell.
Did not see much of him. He was too busy making
money. Took in a championship ball game between New
York and the Athletics, also the Vanderbilt cup race.
Dropped in the Yale Club and found Publius. He was
sober. So was I."
This concise staccato pervades Howard's answers
throughout. "Have you held political office?" "Close
518 BIOGRAPHIES
second." "Have you done any teaching?" "One dog.
Failure." . . . "Please give your daughter's date of
birth." "June 30, 1904. She is a peach."
It is not clear whether Peck absents himself from class
functions from a sense of caution or a wish to hoard.
Or may it be, perhaps, a compassionate determination
on his part no longer to invite a possibly fatal competition
with his prowess?
Philip C. Peck
Partner in the law firm of Edmonds & Peck, 31 Nassau Street,
New York City.
Philip Curran Peck was born Feb. 7th, 1874, at Hudson, N. Y.
He is a son of Willard Peck, Hamilton, '64, and Mary Lang-
ford Curran, who were married June i6th, 1869, at Utica,
N. Y., and had two other children, one boy (Darius E., '98)
and one girl.
Willard Peck (b. March 2d, 1844, at Hudson, N. Y.) is a
practising lawyer of Hudson, where he has spent the greater
part of his life. His parents were Darius Peck, Hamilton, '29,
a lawyer and county judge of Hudson, and Harriet Willard.
of Troy, N. Y. The family came from England in 1638, and
settled at New Haven, Conn.
Mary Langford (Curran) Peck Cb. March 9th, 1846, at
Utica, N. Y., is the daughter of Edward Curran, a leather
merchant of Utica, and Mary Langford of Westmoreland, N. Y.
Peck prepared at Williston. He played on the Class Baseball
Nine for four years, took a College Prize in English Composi-
tion (Second Grade) in Sophomore year, and was one of the
Class Historians. He made the Record in June of Sopho-
more year, and a year later was elected an editor of the "Lit."
(in charge of Memorabilia), of which magazine he was busi-
ness manager. He received a Second Ten Eyck Prize as one
of the speakers at the Junior Exhibition, and a Townsend
Premium in the DeForest Prize Speaking of Senior year,
a Dissertation at the Junior Exhibition and a First Dispute
at Commencement. Chi Delta Theta. Kappa Psi. D. K. E.
Wolf's Head.
He has not been married.
Peck returned to Hudson, New York, after graduation,
and studied law in his father's office. In June, 1898, he
OF GRADUATES 519
came to New York City to enter the office of Walter D.
Edmonds, Williams, '74, at 31 Nassau Street. In No-
vember, 1898, he was admitted to the State Bar, and on
April 2d, 1906, Mr. Edmonds announced the new part-
nership of Edmonds & Peck. Their practice is chiefly
that of the law of patented inventions and trade-marks.
The Yale Club Grill, so pleasantly described by Pius
in the "Sexennial Record," has long been his favorite
haunt, for he is as notably clubbable as he is sturdily
misogamistic. "I marveled at Ben Gilbert's sudden
turn," he wrote in 1905. "Certainly he has, to use
Berry's expression, 'bartered away his freedom,' and
such a freedom it was, knowing the ends of the earth as
limits. ... I am just back to town from Staten Island,
where I have had a very enjoyable summer, playing
much tennis and getting full of health. I was at the
Yale Club last evening, and realized more than ever that
the Class of 1896 is getting on, although I don't feel so
very old myself. The place is full, aye, overflowing,
with recent graduates who lap up drinks with almost
puerile avidity. . . . Berry was about— 'Yes, sah!'—
looking as plump as a partridge and with 'old ladies' on
his mind. How goes it with you in the West?" His
decennial letter follows:
"As I cast my eye backward on the four years last
past, I discern no glittering episodes that have illumined,
no startling upheavals that have twisted, the even tenor
of my life into something bizarre, or perchance romantic.
In fact there is not even a dull lurid glow peering from
out the vacant shadows whereby I might pluck for you
a few leaflets from the story of my life.
"My traveling for the most part has consisted in
rapid flights above, on, and below ground in little old
New York. Phil Allen and I have tried to go to Europe
for several seasons — ^but in vain.
"To use the words of a 'famous son of dear old Yale'
(the phrase hath a familiar sound)— I am 'unblest as yet
by spouse and untrammeled with prattling progeny.'
"In the summer I have played the role of the bright-
520 BIOGRAPHIES
eyed Jersey commuter, and then again in Staten Island,
for I find it highly healthful to get next to Nature and
the tennis racquet, when the song of the turtle-dove is
heard through the land. Such a life I find precludes a
certain embonpoint that has overtaken so many of our
'dear classmates/
"Vacations I have usually spent by the shores of the
loud-sounding sea as it rolls along the Rhode Island
coast, and as for meetings with classmates, why, I *m so
fortunately situated in this hustling metropolis that I
meet them all the time."
Hon. Charles A. Pelton
Partner in the law firm of Willcox & Pelton, Deep River, Conn.
Residence, Clinton, Conn.
Charles Alfred Pelton was born Oct. isth, 1872, at Clinton,
Conn. He is a son of Alfred Clark Pelton and Laura Grinnell
Parks. They had one other child, a son, who died before
maturity.
Alfred Clark Pelton, who has his home at Providence, R. I.,
is the captain of a schooner. He has been a seafaring man
all his life. During the Civil War he served in the United
States Navy. His parents were Alfred Pelton, a sailor, and
Hetty Ann Wilcox, both of Clinton. The family came origin-
ally from England, and settled at Boston, Mass.
Laura Grinnell (Parks) Pelton was born at Clinton, where
she also died. Her parents were Edwin Parks, a farmer, and
Mary Merrills, both of Clinton.
Pelton prepared for College at the Morgan School in Clinton.
He received an Oration at the Junior Exhibition and at Com-
mencement.
He was married June i8th, 1902, at Clinton, Conn., to Miss Edith
Vail Parker, daughter of the late Charles R. Parker of New
York City.
"Well, I don't say anything," remarks the old King in
"The Jumpers," "but I just sort o' walk around thinking
my own thoughts." It is an epitome of Pelton, past and
present. ... In 1898 he was graduated from the Yale
OF GRADUATES 521
Law School with the degree of LL.B. He commenced
practice in Middletown, Conn, (with office in Clinton on
Saturdays), at first in M. E. Culver's office and after-
wards with F. D. Haines, the prosecuting attorney for
violations of the liquor laws. This lasted until 1900,
when he became associated with Washington F. Willcox
of Deep River, Conn., with whom he has continued to
practise under the firm name of Willcox & Pelton.
"I was elected to the Connecticut General Assembly
for 1901," he wrote in 1902, "and went there with the
intention of making my name famous as an orator and
statesman. But on the very first day Jerry Woodruff
made a speech, and it had such an effect on me that I
kept my mouth shut during the rest of the session. My
town gave me another try this year as a member of the
Constitutional Convention, but I did not take an active
part."
His decennial letter follows: "I have continuously
practised law at Clinton and Deep River, Conn. Have
worked hard and have not taken any time off to attend
Class reunions, etc. Have occasionally met classmates
and have made resolution that in future if possible will
again get into touch with Class. Have traveled only on
business trips and then only to nearby cities and states,
with the exception of two weeks each summer on vaca-
tions in Adirondacks and White Mountains."
Professor Henry A. Perkins
Professor of Physics in Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.
Residence, 27 Marshall St.
Henry Augustus Perkins was born Nov. 14th, 1873, at Hart-
ford, Conn. He is a son of Edward Henry Perkins, of the
Class of '59, and Mary Evelyn Dwight, who were married at
Bernardstown, Mass., and had one other child, Edward Carter
Perkins, '98.
Edward Henry Perkins (b. Dec. 2d, 1837, or 1838, at Hart-
ford, Conn.; d. April 2Sth, 1876, at Hartford) was a partner
in the Geo. P. Bissell Bank of Hartford. He was much inter-
522 BIOGRAPHIES
ested in phiknthropical work, conducting a mission chapel,
etc. His parents were Henry Augustus Perkins, President of
the Hartford National Bank, of Hartford, and Sarah Emmons
of East Haddam, Conn. The famil}^ came from England about
1750 and settled at Norwich, Conn.
Mary Evelyn (Dwight) Perkins (b. June 28th, 185 1, at Deer-
field, Mass.) is the daughter of William Dwight, a physician
of Bernardstown and North Amherst, Mass., and Helen M.
Clark of Richmond, Mass.
Perkins prepared at the Hartford High School, and was a mem-
ber of the Hartford Club and the Yale Union. He received
a Townsend Premium in the DeForest Prize Speaking of
Senior year, a Philosophical Oration at the Junior Exhibition
and a High Oration at Commencement. Phi Beta Kappa.
A. D. Phi.
He was married at New York City, April 8th, 1903, to Miss Olga
Flinch, daughter of Alfred Flinch, now of Philadelphia, where
he is on the editorial staflf of "Lippincott's." He has one child,
Henry Augustus Perkins, Jr. (b. June 17th, 1904, at Hartford,
Conn.).
Perkins spent the summer after graduation "idling by
the seashore and cruising along the coast in the good ship
Jeannette, a twenty-six foot yawl." He entered Colum-
bia in the fall with Hewlett Scudder, and in 1899, after
being graduated with the degrees of E.E. and M.A. (the
latter being the result of some special work under Dr.
Pupin on the telephone system that has since made him
famous), he began work as an assistant engineer in the
Hartford Electric Light Company. On May ist, 1900,
he abandoned this field of effort and went to Iceland
with Johnny Johnston. In a previous summer (1898)
Perkins had done some climbing in Switzerland, making
the ascent of Mt. Blanc, the Matterhorn, and Rimfisch-
horn, &c.
In the fall of 1900 he "decided to study for a Ph.D. at
Yale with a view toward teaching." He was awarded
the Sloane Fellowship the following June, and after a
year's work as assistant in the classes in physics, he re-
ceived (in June, 1902) the honor of an appointment to
his present Professorship in Trinity College. His de-
cennial letter follows :
OF GRADUATES 523
"During the summer of 1902 I made my second trip to
Iceland, with H. Scudder, Jr., and rode nearly four hun-
dred miles on horseback through the interior of the
island. Returned late in August and began work for my
new position as Professor at Trinity. Became engaged
during the autumn to Miss Olga Flinch. Married April
8, 1903. Wedding journey to Washington, Virginia Hot
Springs and Warm Springs. Delectable spot!
"Sailed for Europe with Mrs. Perkins July 2, 1903;
visited London, Paris, and Hamburg; spent two weeks
in Copenhagen visiting wife's relatives; took a two
weeks' driving tour in Norway; week's visit on estate
in Island of Fyen ; more travel in Denmark, and so home.
"Following winter started housekeeping at No. 50
Forest Street. Later bought No. 27 Marshall Street and
moved in September, 1904. Son born June 17, 1904.
Spent August and September in Bristol, R. I.
"Winter of 1904-5 uneventful. Spent New Year's in
Quebec with Scudder. Indigestion afterward. Scudder
very high liver.
"Following summer in Bristol again ; and three weeks'
trip to Newfoundland with Scud. Caught many trout
and some salmon, but black flies bit better than fish.
Brought back pure blooded native dog, carried in arms,
puppy when we started, but extraordinarily rapid growth
before we reached Bristol. Now looking for a new home
—for the dog.
"If you want more details I can supply them, but I
fancy the above impressionistic sketch will be all that you
really need. My life as you know has been uneventful,
and the small events that interest me would, generally
speaking, not interest the Class. If it were not for three
months of a partially natural existence in summer, I
should rebel against this insane modem way of living,
and with my family seek a quiet home in the country,
where we are all better and happier. And perhaps I may
yet do so. At present, however, the laboratory exercises
a certain (perhaps unholy) charm. I enjoy my friends,
an occasional spree at the theater and other joys of a dd-
524 BIOGRAPHIES
cadent race, showing that I am neither wholly savage
nor wholly civilized, a sort of half-breed, in fact, a sallow
compromise. But here 's to the wholly savage!"
Louis H. Porter
Residence, Stamford, Conn.
Partner in the law firm of Porter & Barnes, 140 Nassau Street,
New York City.
Louis Hopkins Porter was born March i6th, 1874, at New York
City. He is a son of Timothy Hopkins Porter, '48, and Maria
Louise Hoyt, who were married Nov. 2d, 1870, at Stamford,
Conn., and had two other sons, Blachley Hoyt Porter, '97
(who died while at College), and Arthur Kingsley Porter, '04.
Several uncles and cousins were graduated at Yale, among
them W. S. Hoyt, '96.
Timothy Hopkins Porter (b. Feb. i6th, 1826, at Waterbury,
Conn.; d. Jan. ist, 1901, at Stamford, Conn.) studied for the
ministry, and then went into business in Wall street (New
York) as a banker and broker. His principal residence was
at Stamford, Conn. His parents were Timothy Porter, a far-
mer of Waterbury, Conn., and Polly Ann Todd of Cheshire,
Conn. The family came from England prior to the year 1654
and settled at Farmington, Conn.
Maria Louise (Hoyt) Porter (b. May 6th, 1844, at New
York City; d. Dec. 13th, 1891, at Stamford, Conn.) was the
daughter of Joseph Blachley Hoyt, a tanner and leather mer-
chant of Stamford, and Catherine Krom of Shokan, N. Y.
Mrs. Porter was a graduate of Vassar.
Porter prepared at Andover. He received a Second Ten Eyck
Prize as one of the speakers at the Junior Exhibition, and a
Townsend Premium in the DeForest Prize Speaking of Senior
year. He served as Secretary of the Yale Union, was a mem-
ber of the Executive Committee of Phi Beta Kappa, and was
graduated fifth in the Class. A Philosophical Oration at the
Junior Exhibition and at Commencement, Two Year Honors in
History, and Two Year Honors in Political Science and Law.
He was married Sept. 28th, 1901, at New York City, to Miss
Ellen Marion Hatch, daughter of the late Richard Edward
Hatch, and Ellen Merrill Hatch of New York City, and has
two children, a girl and a boy, Louise Hoyt Porter (b. Jan. ist,
1904, at Stamford, Conn.) and Louis Hopkins Porter, Jr.
(b. Dec. 19th, 1904, at Stamford).
OF GRADUATES 525
In 1898, after two years at the New York Law School,
Porter was graduated with the degree of LL.B., and
commenced practice in the offices of Wheeler & Cortis
of New York. He formed in 1899 a partnership with
Grosvenor Nicholas, '96 S., which lasted until the fall of
1901. After its dissolution Porter married and went
abroad. His 1906 letter follows:
'In January, 1902, in company with my wife and
brother, I sailed on a trip around the world. We trav-
eled eastward. At Penang, in the Malay Peninsula, my
wife came down with typhoid fever, and was in the
government hospital nearly three months. We returned
across the Pacific, reaching home in August, 1902. We
have since lived quietly here in Stamford, Conn. I re-
sumed my suspended law practice, continuing by myself
until January, 1905, when I formed a partnership with
Earl Bryant Barnes, which continues still without change.
My vacations have been either fishing in Canada or
studying ornithology around Stamford. My business
experiences have been those which usually fall to the lot
of the struggling young lawyer."
Porter is a Director of the Yale & Towne Manufactur-
ing Company, a Director of the Foster Pump Works,
and President of the North American Mercantile Agency
Company.
Addison S. Pratt
Partner in the law firm of Pratt & Koehler, 47 Cedar Street,
New York City.
Residence, 131 West 78th Street.
Addison Strong Pratt was born at Chaumont, N. Y., May 4th,
1873. He is a son of Ezra Baldwin Pratt, M.D., and Mary
Elder Strong, who were married June 27th, 1872, at Harris-
burg, Pa., and had altogether five children, two boys and three
girls, three of whom lived to maturity.
Ezra Baldwin Pratt (b. Oct. 14th, 1845, at Durham, Greene
Co., N. Y.) is a physician and surgeon of Fairport, N. Y., and
was at one time President of the Board of Education of Fair-
port. He was a Medical Cadet during the Civil War. His
526 BIOGRAPHIES
parents were Edmund Pratt, a farmer and tradesman, and
Eunice Hull Pratt, both of Durham, N. Y. The family came
from England in 1630, and settled near Saybrook, Conn., and
Boston, Mass.
Mary Elder (Strong) Pratt (b. Feb. 6th, 1851, at Otisco,
N. Y. ; d. Sept. 14th, 1879, at Brownville, N. Y.) spent her
early life at Monroe, Mich., and Syracuse, N. Y. Her father
was Addison K. Strong, D.D., a Presbyterian clergyman, who
lived at various times at Aurora, Syracuse, Carmel, and Cort-
land, N. Y., Monroe, Mich., Galena, 111., Harrisburg, Pa., and
Hoboken, N. J. Her mother was Madorah J. Elder of Horner,
N. Y.
Pratt prepared at the Fairport (N. Y.) Classical Union School.
He received a Berkeley Premium of the Second Grade in
Freshman year, was Scott-Hurtt Scholar 1894-96, and took the
James Gordon Bennett Prize in Senior year. A Philosoph-
ical Oration at the Junior Exhibition and at Commencement,
Two Year Honors in Political Science and Law. Phi Beta
Kappa.
He has not been married. (See Appendix.)
During his course at the Yale Law School Pratt had
charge of the seating arrangements of the big football
games, published the 1898 programmes, and was con-
cerned in other small activities in New Haven until, in
November, 1898, he moved to New York City, having
received his LL.B. the previous June. He began with
some private tutoring in New York, and from December,
1898, to March, 1899, he was connected with the foreign
department of Bradstreet's, leaving them to enter the law
offices of Ward, Hayden & Satterlee. They soon made
Pratt their managing clerk and he remained with them
until he struck out for himself in May, 1901, with Wil-
liam D. McNulty (M.L., Yale, 1898), under the firm
name of McNulty & Pratt. His decennial letter follows :
**Took a trip to Pacific coast from May to August,
1902, and saw Billy Drown and Jim Ballentine in San
Francisco; Chauncey Wells, Spinello, and Morgan in
Berkeley; and Hedges at Portland, Oregon. Have vis-
OF GRADUATES 527
ited Colorado on business a number of times, and saw
Clarence Day on one such occasion.
"In 1904 dissolved partnership with William D.
McNulty and formed the partnership of Pratt & Koehler
(Jerome H. Koehler, '98). Have managed to squeeze
out of clients enough to pay office expenses and personal
living expenses, but not enough to support any one else."
It will be seen that Pratt is quite as much of a traveler
as his peripatetic ancestors could expect. His trips to
Colorado are largely in connection with the affairs of the
South Canon Coal Company of Denver and New York.
He sees a good deal of Jackson and Vincent in New
York and is said to be interested in Republican politics.
Rev. Walter F. Prince
Rector of St. Ann's on the Heights.
16 South Elliott Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Walter Franklin Prince was born April 22d, 1863, at Detroit,
Me. He is a son of Walter Marshall Prince and Elmira Jane
Pray, who were married Aug. 20th, 1854, at Detroit, Me., and
had altogether five children, four boys and one girl, four of
whom lived to maturity.
Walter Marshall Prince (b. Dec. 24th, 1831, at New Vine-
yard, Me.; d. July 6th, 1896, at Detroit, Me.) was a farmer of
Detroit. He was prominent in local church and town life.
His parents were John Prince, a farmer, and Judith Haskell,
both of New Gloucester, Me. Judith Haskell's grandfather,
Nathaniel Haskell, was a Captain in the Revolutionary Army,
serving throughout the War. The family came from Glouces-
ter, England, c. 1645, and settled at Gloucester, Mass,
Elmira Jane (Pray) Prince (b. April 23d, 1832, at North
Berwick, Me.) spent her early life at North Berwick and De-
troit. Her parents were Thomas Pray, a farmer, and Betsey
Brackett, both of North Berwick. Thomas Pjay was for many
years prominent in local church and political affairs. His
father, Samuel Pray, was a Revolutionary soldier. Mrs.
Prince is now (Nov., '05) living at Detroit.
Prince studied at the Maine Wesleyan Seminary and the Drew
Theological Seminary before entering Yale, and joined our
528 BIOGRAPHIES
Class in November, 1892. He received Two Year Honors in
History, Two Year Honors in Philosophy, an Oration at the
Junior Exhibition and a High Oration at Commencement. Phi
Beta Kappa.
He was married at Newport, Maine, April 9th, 1885, to Miss
Lelia M. Colman, daughter of Jeremiah Colman.
Before coming to Yale, Prince was graduated at the
Drew Theological Seminary in Madison, N. J., the lead-
ing institution of its kind in the Methodist-Episcopal
Church. (He has since become an Episcopalian.) His
B.D. degree was given him by Drew in 1896. In 1899
he received a Ph.D. from Yale for three years' post-
graduate work.
"Immediately after having been 'doctored' by Yale in June,
1899," he writes, "I gave up, for the time being, parochial work,
and became Field Secretary of the Connecticut Temperance
Union. Previously my campaign in Berkhamsted, Conn., which
changed that supposed safe rum town to a no-license one, had
attracted attention, and I had contributed many articles to the
'Connecticut Citizen,* organ of the C. T. U. Now I became
co-editor and furnished most of the leading articles, some of
which were copied widely and used as campaign documents.
My duties were in part to make addresses on temperance and
no-license (local option). Not as radical as some, I nevertheless
believed firmly in limiting the area wherein liquor can be sold,
and the number of saloons in a city by high license or percentage
to number of inhabitants.
"I resigned toward the end of the year, and in January, 1900,
I was elected Assistant Secretary of the Law and Order League.
In that capacity I attended to part of the correspondence, as-
sisted in preparation of cases, instructed detectives in the rules
of permissible procedure, conducted raids, smashed doors, seized
contraband articles, made arrests, etc. At times I was in entire
charge of the League, once for three months, during which time
seventy-five cases were brought into the courts, all successfully.
In the meantime I was called upon to deliver many addresses
on such subjects as 'Law Enforcement,' 'Civic Righteousness,'
etc. These addresses and other matters led me to every city and
many of the towns of the State. There was legislative work, too,
to be done, and I got accustomed to appearing and arguing be-
fore legislative committees. For example: When New York in
1901 repealed the Horton law allowing prize-fights, Connecticut
became the happy hunting ground of pugilism. It entertained
twice the number of 'top notch' fights that Kentucky, its nearest
competitor, did. I formed a bill, and got it introduced into the
Legislature of 1901, defining a prize-fight, so as to discriminate
OF GRADUATES 529
it from boxing (the first attempt to do so in a law), in order to
shut out the former, while permitting the latter. From lack of
familiarity with pugilism, various statements of its friends passed
unchallenged by me before the Committee, and I was looked upon
as a quasi-clerical theorist. During the next two years, while
assisting in local struggles against prize-fighting, I attended many
fights. Consequently, when I went before a Legislative Com-
mittee in 1903 to urge my bill I was able to speak from observa-
tion, to correct the statements of the ring advocates, and to
satisfy the Committee. The law was instantly and completely
successful in stopping prize-fighting in Connecticut.
"In the spring of 1903 the Law and Order League was suc-
cessful in getting a State Police Department started, which ab-
sorbed most of the functions of the League; whereupon both
Secretary and Assistant Secretary resigned. The position of
Superintendent of the Brooklyn Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children was at once offered me. I remained in this
position one year, during which the number of children cared
for by this society was thirty-seven per cent, more than the year
before, while 7,647 more meals were given children, four times
as much in fines inflicted upon offenders, and three times as
large a sum collected on account of children cared for in insti-
tutions. Every department of the work showed improvement;
nevertheless some disagreement on a question of administration
arose between me and certain directors too busy to look into the
exact facts; so I resigned, leaving them to find out the facts at
their leisure, which they have done. With the record of a suc-
cessful year behind me, and with a complimentary set of reso-
lutions by the Directorate in my pocket, I accepted a position as
Assistant Minister at St. Ann's Church. That is to say, after
officiating during the summer of 1904, I was elected in Septem-
ber. In this position I have since been, and, the Rector hav-
ing resigned, I am now *Minister-in-Charge.'
"St. Ann's is the Mother of Episcopal Churches in Brooklyn,
being forty years older than any other. Hers is the largest edi-
fice in the Diocese, and her rank and influence are recognized
throughout the Church. ... I have been preparing a history of
St. Ann's, which will be issued next year. An historical col-
lection of St. Ann's relics was started by my efforts a few
months ago, and is attaining considerable growth and attracting
the attention of churchmen.
"I have spent my vacations in hill climbing, mineralogical ex-
cursions, searches for Indian relics, and the like, principally.
Please make all this as laconic as you can."
The Secretary has tried to cut it down, but if Prince
will keep on doing things, they must be chronicled. Even
as it is, there is no mention of his work as Secretary of
the Committee of Nine for the Suppression of the Raines
Law Hotels in Brooklyn, or of his organizing the largest
adult Bible-class in the Diocese of Long Island. Mrs.
530 BIOGRAPHIES
Prince, by the way (who was formeriy Connecticut State
Superintendent of the Home Department of Sunday
Schools), has organized the first Episcopal Sunday School
Home Department in Brooklyn.
Morris H. Reed
Residence, 1852 Clay St., St. Joseph, Mo.
Partner in the Quentin-Knight Millinery Co., 114, 116 North 3d St.
Morris Houghton Reed was born Feb. 21st, 1875, at St. Joseph,
Mo. He is the son of Morris Adelbert Reed and Margaret
Rogers Kimball, who were married Oct. i6th, 1872, at Bath,
Me., and had one other child, a daughter.
Morris Adelbert Reed (b. Nov. 9th, 1838, at Watertown,
N. Y.), a lawyer of Watertown, is now (Jan., '06) living in
St. Joseph. His parents were Lewis Reed, a farmer of Water-
town, and Angeline Spinning of Rutland, Jefferson Co., N. Y.
The family is of English descent.
Margaret Rogers (Kimball) Reed (b. April nth, 1844, at
Bath, Me.; d. July ist, 1904, at St. Joseph) was the daughter
of Otis Kimball, a merchant and bank cashier of Bath, and
Clarissa Ann Houghton of Boston, Mass.
Reed prepared for College at the St. Joseph High School. He
sang Second Tenor in the College Choir and in the Apollo
Glee and Banjo Club.
He was married at St. Joseph, Mo., Feb. nth, 1899, to Miss Ada
E. Connett, daughter of William C. Connett, who was the
owner of a farm near Lexington, Ky., and who died Dec. 19th,
1883, at St. Joseph. He has two children, Dorothy Reed
(b. Dec. 14th, 1901, at St. Joseph) and Morris Houghton Reed,
Jr. (b. Nov. 24th, 1903, at St. Joseph).
Reed attended the University of Michigan haw School at
Ann Arbor for three years, graduating in 1899. From
that time until January ist, 1902, he was Assistant At-
torney for the St. Joseph & Grand Island Railway Co.
and the Kansas City & Omaha R. R. Co. He then gave
up law and went into the wholesale millinery business
in St. Joseph. His firm is the Quentin-Knight Millinery
OF GRADUATES 531
Company and his partners are Otto H. Quentin and
Owen B. Knight.
''Engaged in the wholesale millinery business exclu-
sively, since 1902," he writes. 'That 's the whole story.
Eat, sleep, and work, mostly work. Yes, and drink— a
little. I owe you an apology for not answering your
questions sooner, but what little time I can take from my
business I must give to my family, and I have a boy about
three who can ask almost as many questions as you do
and shows the same persistency in having them answered,
too."
Thomas E. Reynolds
Cost Clerk for the Holmes & Edwards Silver Company.
Mail address, 167 Maple St., Bridgeport, Conn.
Thomas Edward Reynolds was born at Meriden, Conn., July
2d, 1872. He is a son of Michael Gill Reynolds and Mary
Campbell, who were married April 27th, 1868, at New Haven,
Conn., and had altogether five children, three boys (one of
whom died before maturity) and two girls.
Michael Gill Reynolds (b. in Sept., 1838, at Drumsna, County
Leitrim, Ireland) left Drumsna about 1863, and upon coming
to America lived for short periods at New Haven and Wal-
lingford, Conn., and Marshall, 111., finally settling at Meriden,
where he has spent the last thirty-five years. He was in the
retail grocery business for twenty-five years, retiring in 1905,
since which time he has been in the fire insurance business.
Before Meriden became a city he was its Town Assessor for
four years. Since 1896 he has been a member of the Board of
Apportionment and Taxation of the City of Meriden. His
parents were Thomas Reynolds, a farmer and public road con-
tractor of Drumsna, and Mary O'Byrne of Roscommon, County
Roscommon, Ireland.
Mary (Campbell) Reynolds (b. in July, 1847, at Loughtown,
County Leitrim, Ireland) came to this country in 1865. She
is the daughter of Owen Campbell, a farmer of Loughtown,
and Cecilia Guckinen of Gowell, County Leitrim, Ireland.
Reynolds prepared for Yale at Meriden and at the Mt. Holly
Academy, N. J. He was a member of the Yale Union.
He has not been married.
532 BIOGRAPHIES
After two years, more or less, in the fire insurance busi-
ness, Reynolds became paymaster in the office of the J. D.
Bergen Company of Meriden, Connecticut, a position
which he held from January, 1901, until April, 1902, when
illness intervened. Later he was employed in Buffalo by
the John Hancock Insurance Company and the New York
Life until June, 1904. Lautz Bros. & Company (the Buf-
falo soap people) then engaged him to travel for them in
Ohio and West Virginia. In 1905 he covered much of
the territory north of Virginia and Kentucky for Swift &
Company of Chicago, and also for the Bloch Bros. To-
bacco Co. of Wheeling, West Virginia, the makers of the
"Mail Pouch" brand. Later he had a further experience
in St. Louis which culminated in another illness, necessi-
tating a convalescence at his uncle's, in Marshall, Illinois.
Reynolds has had a pretty difficult pull. It will be
noticed that the first three years after our graduation are
unaccounted for. He was ill those years too. He has
had excellent traveling positions which he has had to give
up in order to live a more settled life. His health has
been a constant handicap.
He turned up at the Class headquarters at Decennial
for an hour or two on the night before the game, but he
was unable to stay over. Most of the fellows were out
that night, unfortunately, so that Reynolds saw very few
besides the Secretary. He said that he was in business in
Bridgeport, acting as cost clerk for the Holmes & Ed-
wards Silver Company, and that his health had improved,
but he did not look robust.
Eugene M. Richmond
Permanent mail address, Bayswater, Long Island, N. Y.
Exporting and Importing.
Eugene McJimsey Richmond was born Feb. 12th, 1873, at Larch-
mont Manor, N. Y. He is the son of James Richmond and
Anne Kathleen Beetham, who were married June ist, 1869,
at New York City, and had one other child, a daughter.
OF GRADUATES 533
James Richmond (b. May 4th, 1845, at New Brunswick,
N. J.; d. Nov. 17th, 1885, at Brooklyn, N. Y.) spent his early
life at New Brunswick and Peekskill, N. Y. He later lived at
Larchmont Manor, New York City, and Brooklyn, N. Y. He
was engaged as an importer. His parents were Frederick
Richmond, a physician, and Cornelia Runyon, both of New
Brunswick. The family came from "Mount Gurwood," Scot-
land, about the middle of the seventeenth century, and settled
at New Brunswick.
Anne Kathleen (Beetham) Richmond (b. Jan. 22d, 1850, at
New York City) is the daughter of Peter Post Beetham, who
was in the marble and building stone business, of New York
City, and Emily Butman of Salem, Mass, She is now (Dec,
'05) living at Brooklyn, N. Y.
Richmond spent his youth principally in Brooklyn, and prepared
for College at the Adelphi Academy in that city. While at
Yale he served as Editor of the Yale "Courant," to which he
was elected in the spring of Junior year.
He has not been married.
Richmond has been connected successively with the im-
port house of J. S. Plummer & Company, New York, the
export department of C. v. Pustau & Company of New
York, the Wall Street office of Arnhold Karberg & Com-
pany, whose headquarters are in Hamburg and Shanghai,
and (at present) with J. H. Ellis of Havana, Cuba. It
will be seen that he has had a wide exporting and import-
ing experience.
''After graduation," said his 1902 account, "I spent
five months recuperating, preparing to hit the world and
set it ablaze. . . . But though this sphere of ours has
been a far more expert pugilist than my hot ambition
imagined, there have been no knock-outs as yet on either
side — just a little brisk exercise, that 's all."
''Let me see," reads his decennial postscript, "If I
recollect rightly, back in 1902 I was taking boxing-lessons
of a very experienced teacher. You may remember I be-
came acquainted with him almost directly after gradua-
tion. I ^m still in the ring! The posts have pushed
farther apart of late, though. Only one remains in New
York. All the others are in the South, as for example
534 BIOGRAPHIES
New Orleans, and Havana, Cuba. The exercise, like-
wise, is the same old game, though over so large as area
it takes all the 'spar' time catching up. It thus happened
that I lost Decennial in the rush."
Fred O. Robbins
Instructor in the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University, and
Superintendent of the Yale Cooperative Corporation.
Residence, 215 Livingston St., Aew Haven, Conn.
Fred Oscar Robbins was born Feb. 12th, 1870, at Greenville, N. H.
He is the son of George Clarence Robbins and Elma Ardelia
Hodgman, who were married Jan. nth, 1868, at Fitchburg,
Mass., and had altogether four children, one boy and three
girls.
George Clarence Robbins (b. July 26th, 1847, at New Ipswich,
N. H.) is a merchant of Greenville, N, H. He has held all the
prominent town offices. His parents were Lewis Robbins, a
farmer of New Ipswich, and Emily Winship, of Mason, N. H.
His life has been spent at New Ipswich and Greenville.
Elma Ardelia (Hodgman) Robbins (b. July 6th, 1849, at
Mason, N. H.) is the daughter of Edwin Joseph Hodgman,
a farmer of Mason, and Lovinia Coolidge Foster of Weston, Vt.
Robbins prepared at the Ashburnham (Mass.) Academy. He re-
ceived a Berkeley Premium of the Second Grade in Freshman
year, took an Elocution Prize in Reading, pla3^ed Clarionet in
the University Orchestral Club, and sang Second Tenor on the
Freshman Glee Club, the Apollo Glee and Banjo Clubs, and the
University Glee Club. A High Oration at the Junior Exhibi-
tion and at Commencement. Phi Beta Kappa. D. K. E.
He was married at West Haven, Conn., Aug. loth, 1898, to Miss
Mary Clark Loveridge, daughter of the late Remus Clark
Loveridge and Narcissa Garland (Baldwin) Loveridge of
New Haven, Conn. He has two children, one son and one
daughter, Adelaide Robbins (b. Sept. 9th, 1900, at New Haven)
and Clarence Loveridge Robbins (b. Aug. 22d, 1903, at New
Haven).
During the year 1896-97 Robbins taught at the Condon
School in New York, in company with Sturges. The
Condon School then failed. In 1897-98 he pursued
OF GRADUATES 535
graduate studies in New Haven, and in September, 1898,
he was appointed an Instructor of French in the Academic
Department. He spent the summer of 1899 in France
and Switzerland.
In September, 1900, he left the Academic Department
and became an Instructor of French in the Sheffield
Scientific School and Superintendent of the Yale Co-
operative Corporation. His decennial letter follows:
"For nearly two weeks I have been laboring to compile
a chronological recapitulation of my career since 1902.
I thought I had been doing something all these years,
but the other evening on reading over this recapitulation
I fell asleep— so methinks it won't be worth while to my
'dear classmates.' Notwithstanding this apparent mo-
notony, I have been a happy and prosperous 'old grad.'
My teaching is a recreation from my work at the Coop. ;
my Coop, work is a recreation from my teaching. These
recreations yield me a comfortable living. In the summer
I manage to get into the country — generally New Hamp-
shire—with my family." He adds that he sometimes
plays golf and bridge, and that it is a matter of complete
indifference to him whether the cow, cat, and children are
in the hammock, lake, and garbage-pail respectively, or
not.
At our Decennial Robbins was the first man nominated
for the Quindecennial Committee. The only remaining
facts to chronicle are that he is a Director in the American
College Stores Corporation and that he acts as one of the
division officers in Sheff.
Wolcott P. Robbins
Lawyer, 5 Nassau Street, New York City.
(See Appendix.)
Residence, iS5 East 72d Street.
Wolcott Phelps Robbins was born Oct. 25th, 1875, at New York
City. He is a son of Horace Wolcott Robbins, Newton Uni-
versity, '58, and Mary Ayres Phelps, who were married Sept.
27th, 1865, at Paris, France, and had one other son (George
536 BIOGRAPHIES
Phelps Robbins, '91) and three daughters. An uncle, George
D. Phelps, Jr., was graduated from Yale in the Class of '60.
Horace Wolcott Robbins (b. Oct. 21st, 1842, at Mobile, Ala.;
d. Dec. 14th, 1904, at New York City) was an artist (landscape
painter). After leaving College he began the study of art in
this country (under Frederick E. Church and James M. Hart)
and abroad. At the outbreak of the Civil War he joined the
22d N. Y. Regt., and served with it at Harpers Ferry, Va., in
1862. In 1878 he was elected a member of the National Acad-
emy of Design. Later he was its Secretary for ten years, and
afterwards its Vice-President. He was the son of Horace
Wolcott Robbins, a manufacturer of iron of Baltimore, Md.,
and Mary Eldridge Hyde of Norwich, Conn., and his ancestor,
John Robbins, gentleman, was one of the original settlers of
Wethersfield, Conn., in 1635-6.
Mary Ayres (Phelps) Robbins (b. Feb. 12th, 1842, at New
York City) is the daughter of George Dwight Phelps, a New
York merchant (b. at Simsbury, Conn.), and Mary Ayres of
New Brunswick, N. J. Her ancestor, William Phelps of
Tewkesbury, Eng., came to America in the ship "Mary and
John," in 1630, landing at Nantasket, Mass. One of her
husband's ancestors, Henry Wolcott, was a fellow passenger
of William Phelps on this voyage.
Robbins prepared for College at Cutler's School in New York
City and entered with the Class. He was a member of the Uni-
versity Club, He Boule, and Psi U. An Oration at the Junior
Exhibition and a Dissertation at Commencement.
He was married Oct. 22d, 1902, at the Church of the Incarnation,
New York City, to Miss Elizabeth Keteltas Clark of New
York City, daughter of the late Col. Henry Clark of New
Rochelle, and has one child, a boy, Geoffrey Wolcott Robbins
(b. Aug. 4th, 1905, at New York City).
Robbins' autobiographical notes are as follows: "Trav-
eled abroad June-September, 1896. Studied at New
York Law School 1896-98, obtaining degree of LL.B.
Entered office of Hornblower, Byrne, Taylor & Miller,
August, 1898. April ist, 1899, became connected with
the firm of Taylor & Seymour. October ist, 1901, opened
an office for the general practice of the law at 59 Wall
Street, New York City. Was married October 22, 1902.
Since then have lived continuously in New York, except
for occasional vacations."
OF GRADUATES 537
On May ist, 1904, Robbins formed the law partnership
of Simpson, Clark & Robbins (David Bennett Simpson
and A. Ludlow Clark), with offices at 5 Nassau Street.
On the death of Mr. Clark, March 12th, 1905, the firm
dissolved. With the exception of this period Wolcott
has practised alone. (See Appendix.)
There is one member of '96 who is slowly preparing
for himself the public shame— and worse— which must
in self protection be allotted to any Yale man who prosti-
tutes Yale ties. Time and again has he approached class-
mates in different towns and cities with moving stories
of misfortune, which subsequent inquiry has failed to
verify, and many a ''temporary" loan has he secured in
payment for his tears. Silence ensues. Victims who are
dissatisfied with silence, can secure by mail a further
hard-luck tale. Their money, however, they do not see
again.
The matter is mentioned here because Wolcott Rob-
bins made this man pay up. No further testimonial to
his energy will be needed by those who have tried in vain
to follow in his wake!
Henry M. Robert, Jr.
Instructor at Betts Academy, Stamford, Conn.
Permanent mail address, Haworth, N. J.
Henry Martyn Robert, Jr., was born Jan. 21st, 1874, at Mil-
waukee, Wis. He is the son of Gen. Henry Martyn Robert,
U. S. A., West Point, '57, and Helen M. Thresher, who were
married Dec. 17th, i860, at Dayton, O., and had four other
children, all girls, three of whom lived to maturity.
Henry Martyn Robert, the elder (b. May 2d, 1837, at Robert-
ville, S. C.) is Brigadier General Chief of Engineers, U. S. A.,
President of the Board of Engineers and of the Board of
Fortifications, author of "Robert's Rules of Order," etc. He
was graduated fourth in his class at the United States Military
Academy at West Point. Different periods of his life have
been spent at San Francisco, Gal., Portland, Oregon, Mil-
waukee, Wis., Washington, New York, and Philadelphia, at
which latter city he is now (Feb., 1906) living. His parents were
538 BIOGRAPHIES
Joseph Thomas Robert, a clergyman and educator of Robert-
ville, and Adeline Elizabeth Lawton of Lawtonville, S. C, a
sister of Quartermaster-General Alexander Robert Lawton,
U. S. A., who was at one time Minister to Austria. The family
came from France in 1685, and settled at Santee, S. C.
Helen M. (Thresher) Robert (b. April 3d. 1837, at Roxbury,
Mass.; d. Oct. loth, 1895, at Arrochar, S. I., N. Y.) was the
daughter of Ebenezer Thresher, a clergyman, editor, and manu-
facturer, of Stafford, Conn., and Dayton, O. ; and of Elizabeth
Fenner, who was born in England, but who afterward lived
in Philadelphia and Washington.
Robert studied at the Columbian University and at Vanderbilt
University, and entered our Class in September, 1893. He re-
ceived an Oration at the Junior Exhibition, a First Dispute at
Commencement, served as Treasurer of the Yale Union, and
was a member of Beta Theta Pi.
He has not been married.
Robert entered the New York Law School in the fall of
1897. In 1899 he moved to Philadelphia and took up
some work with the d'Auria Pumping Engine Company
(No. 972 Drexel Building). Mr. d'Auria is Robert's
brother-in-law, and the enterprise which bears his name
is an aflfair of the future for which much intermediate
development will be required.
Robert's reply to the decennial questions as to marriage,
bibliography, and so forth, was as follows : "In answer
to all of your questions — No. Until 1904 I was with the
d'Auria Pumping Engine Company, Philadelphia. In
September, 1904, I became an instructor in West Jersey
Academy, Bridgeton, N. J. I taught there one year, and
since last fall I have been teaching Mathematics and
Science at Betts Academy, Stamford, Conn." (Arthur
Walter '96 also teaches at Betts.)
E. L. Robinson
Instructor in Greek at the Smith Academy, St. Louis.
Residence, 5436 Vernon Avenue.
Permanent mail address, Lebanon, Conn.
Edwin Loomis Robinson was born March 2d, 1870, at Lebanon,
Conn. He is a son of Harlow Robinson and Elizabeth Maria
OF GRADUATES 539
Loomis, who were married Jan. ist, 1846, at Lebanon, and had
altogether ten children, four boys and six girls, nine of whom
lived to maturity.
Harlow Robinson (b. March 26th, 1820, at Ashford, Conn.; d.
April I St, 1900, at Lebanon) was a farmer and Selectman of
the Town of Lebanon, where he lived during the greater part
of his life. His parents we're William Robinson, a farmer, and
Hannah Robbins, both of Chaplin, Conn. The family came
from Leyden, Holland, and settled at Barnstable, Mass., in 1631.
Elizabeth Maria (Loomis) Robinson (b. Feb. 4th, 1826, at
Lebanon) is the daughter of Ariel Loomis, a farmer, and Abi-
jah Williams, both of Lebanon. She is now (Oct., '05) living
at Lebanon.
Robinson prepared for Yale in Lebanon, and entered with the
Class. He received a Philosophical Oration at the Junior Exhi-
bition and at Commencement, and was a member of Phi Beta
Kappa.
He was married July 30th, 1901, at Hinsdale, N. H., to Miss
Gertrude Emily Leach, daughter of Martin Snow Leach of
Hinsdale, and has two children, a boy and a girl, Albert Leach
Robinson (b. Sept. 25th, 1902, at St. Louis, Mo.), and Irene
Hall Robinson (b. Dec. 17th, 1905, at St. Louis).
For one year Robinson taught at the Rugby Academy in
St. Louis. Since then he has been in the Department of
Greek and History at the Smith Academy of that city.
He writes : "I have been at work teaching Greek for the
most part, and some other branches to a certain extent,
from September to June of each year, including charge
of an Assembly Room of eighty- four. Have spent the
summer from June to September of each year at Hins-
dale, New Hampshire, or Lebanon, Connecticut, for the
most part. Have seen very few classmates since 1902,
except at Alumni banquets, etc. . . . Nothing very ex-
citing is happening in connection with my fate except
that exactly at 4^ minutes past eleven o'clock on a cer-
tain morning in October, 1904, my capillary growth be-
gan to turn gray. Is that specific enough for you ?"
A feeling of vague discomfort afflicted the Secretary as
he stood in Robinson's class-room one afternoon, after
his boys had gone. There was a row of Greek endings
540 BIOGRAPHIES
on the black-board, meaningless, but survivingly hostile
in appearance, and there was a sense as of an oppressive
arch-enemy of youth pervading the place — nameless until
Robinson said something about the Aorist, and thereby
opened a door to troops of dismal memories. Greek as
she is taught! They used to cram it down our throats
like kegs of nails! Excellent discipline no doubt, and
boys are hopeful, so that it may do them no harm to make
the pursuit of knowledge incomprehensibly arduous and
repugnant. But Robinson's lectures are somewhat more
of a stimulus, let us hope, — and somewhat less of a pun-
ishment.
J. Dwight Rockwell
New York address, The Yale Club, New York City.
James Dwight Rockwell was bom Oct. 2d, 1872, at Dryden,
N. Y. He is the only child of Erastus Saunders Rockwell and
Mary Mehetabel Dwight, who were married Feb. 3d, 1870, at
Dryden.
Erastus Saunders Rockwell (b. Feb. 4th, 1844, at Hartwick,
N. Y.) is a lawyer. He has lived at Mount Upton and Dryden,
N. Y., Tiffin, 6., Washington, D. C, and Porto Rico. His
parents were Erastus Rockwell, a manufacturer of woolen
goods, of Hartwick, N. Y., and Esther Saunders of Croton,
Delaware Co., N. Y. The family came originally from Eng-
land, and settled in New England.
Mary Mehetabel (Dwight) Rockwell (b. Jan. 12th, 1846, at
Dryden, N. Y. ; d. Jan. 15th, 1906, at New York City) was the
daughter of Jeremiah Wilbur Dwight, a dry-goods merchant,
and Rebecca Ann Cady, both of Dryden.
Rockwell prepared for College at Taft's School and entered with
the Class. He is said to have been Salutatorian of his Class
at Taft's, the only other member being the Valedictorian,
Neil Mallon.
He has not been married. (See Appendix.)
Rockwell entered the New York offices of the United
States Express Company after graduation, and remained
there for about one year. In 1897 he became connected
OF GRADUATES 541
with a firm in the refrigerating trade, and in 1899, after
some experiences in insurance, he went into the chemical
business with Edward E. Brownell, '95 S., organizing as
the Phinotas Chemical Company, manufacturers of dis-
infectants. "He extended and developed their business
to such an extent," writes one of his friends, "that their
product was known and used very extensively. In 1904
he went to Cuba and established a branch of the business
there, and in 1905 he went to the Isthmus of Panama and
established another branch, his product being used in the
United States works now in progress. On his return from
Panama he wrote an article on the conditions existing
there under this government, which was published in
'Harper's.' He is unmarried, and will in the future
probably make his home in the West, as he has sold out
his interest in the Phinotas Chemical Company, owing
to his ill-health."
"The article in 'Harper's Weekly,' " wrote Dwight him-
self in 1905, "was my first offence in that line, and was
cut down about fifty per cent, by the heartless wretch who
does the editing work for the aforesaid paper. Yester-
day I received a letter from .Colonel Gorgas, the chief san-
itary officer of the Isthmus, and Governor pro tern., tell-
ing me that he had seen this article and that he considered
it about the fairest one he had seen yet. Therefore I am
somewhat conceited, but expect my head will go down to
its normal size without the use of poultices. ... I cannot
say that my experiences in Panama, where I spent six
weeks, are worthy of repetition to you. There is nothing
of particular interest there, and it is so hot that one would
not be interested in things worthy of interest if there
were any. . . ."
Rockwell's description of conditions on the Isthmus
goes into some detail, as the following excerpt shows :
"But these city police are well meaning, and they know abso-
lutely nothing about graft. As one of the American Canal Zone
police put it, and he had had experience in the States, 'They
don't even know enough to get their peanuts for nothing.' In
fact, there is very little room for graft. Prostitution is licensed
by the government, and there is no form of gambling except the
542 BIOGRAPHIES
Panama Lottery, which does a flourishing business, and has the
sole concession by the government. It is odd that this lottery is
located on the ground-floor of the bishop's private residence, but
it is said that the bishop is one of the largest stockholders. Every
one has a ticket. One chance costs twenty cents, or ten cents
our money, and poor families go without food to save the price
of one or more tickets, while the rich will regularly set aside
a certain sum each week to be invested in this lottery. Tickets
worth $10,000, Panamanian money, are issued each week, but only
about $6,000 is returned in prizes. The 'bank' keeps the $4,000."
Reference is made above to Rockwell's retirement from
active business in the spring of this year on account of
ill-health. His breakdown was precipitated by his
mother's death in January. In May, 1906, he went to
St. Luke's Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota, and when his
condition permitted he went from there to the home of
his aunt at Fargo, North Dakota. "Of course I cannot
attend the reunion, and it seems a great deprivation," he
wrote from St. Luke's. "It is not distance that keeps
me away, you may be sure. I hope you will be good
enough to remember me to such of my friends as you
may meet in New Haven, and that you will all have the
best kind of a time."
Robertson T. Root
At the Fifth Avenue Bank, 44th St., New York City,
Residence, 39 Park Avenue, Bloomfield, N. J.
Robertson Tyler Root was born May 29th, 1875, at Bloomfield,
N. J. He is a son of Joseph Henry Root and Jean Gilmore
Kavin Christie, who were married July 20th, 1869, at New
Haven, Conn., and had altogether six children, four boys and
two girls, two of whom lived to maturity. The author, Edward
C. Root, 1900, is a brother.
Joseph Henry Root (b. Nov. 29th, 1833, at Newbury, Mass.)
is a teacher. Most of his life has been spent at his birthplace,
at New Haven and Greenwich, Conn., and at Bloomfield, N. J.,
where he now resides. His parents were Martin Root, a phy-
sician of Newbury, and Jerusha Barbour of Bridport, Vt.
The family came from Great Britain in 1635, and settled in
Connecticut.
Jean Gilmore Kavin (Christie) Root (b. March 7th, 1834, at
North Providence, R. I.) spent her early life at Thompson,
OF GRADUATES 543
Conn. She is the daughter of Peter Christie, who served in
the British Navy, of Wigtown, Scotland, and Mary Hutchison,
of Parish of Borgue, Gallowayshire, Scotland. Peter Christie
studied law, but never practised.
Root spent his youth at Bloomfield, N. J., and prepared for Yale
at the Greenwich (Conn.) Academy. He played on the Class
Baseball Team, and served in Senior year as its Captain. A
First Dispute at the Junior Exhibition and a First Colloquy
at Commencement.
He was married April 29th, 1903, at Greenwich, Conn., to Miss
Helen Henry White, daughter of the late Captain P. J. White,
a veteran of the Civil War and a lawyer of Sulphur Springs,
Tex., and Mrs. Mary Henry White. They have two children,
Dorothy Root (b. July i8th, 1904, at No. 250 West 84th St.,
New York City) and Robertson Tyler Root, Jr. (b. Sept. 12th,
1905, at No. 39 Park Avenue, Bloomfield, N. J.).
The counting-room of a fashionable New York bank,
armied with ready clerks, presents a scene which to the
leisurely observer may sometimes unexpectedly transfuse
the meaning of old sayings. It is a place, for instance,
where one may get a new Hght upon **the struggle of
stalwart achievement not to feel flattered at the notice of
sterile elegance, not to be sneakingly glad of its amiabil-
ity, but to stand up and look at it with eyes on the same
level. God, Who made us so much like Himself, but out
of the dust, alone knows when that struggle will end."
The quotation is from Mr. Howells.
If Mr. Howells cares to see the other side of the medal
he is advised to go to the Fifth Avenue Bank. There will
he find Stalwart Achievement waiting for its prey behind
essential bars. "Amiability"? Well, if Sterile Elegance
comes in without it and tries any of her funny business
with those clerks, or gets mixed up in making her de-
posit, it very rapidly becomes necessary to send for Mr.
Root !
That is Robbie's job. He is the smoother. He has
been with the Bank ever since graduation and his reward
is that he may occupy a desk in the Vice-President's
private office near the door and straighten people out.
544 BIOGRAPHIES
Explanations invented, cheques corrected, change
counted, nerves soothed, and all irritation skilfully al-
layed. Courtesy and tact supplied gratis, in quantities
to suit. Spretae injuria formae alleviated while you
wait.
A drooping mustache and beard have deepened the
apparent melancholy of Robbie's countenance within the
last few years. The melancholy is deceptive. Tall and
sallow, he reminds one more than ever of an ancient
Iberian. This is deceptive, too. In reality he is still
the same old baseball enthusiast that we all remember,
a fervid spectator of all the big League games, and the
father of babies that are, he frankly and frequently ad-
mits, about the finest in the world.
Rev. Robert L. Ross
St Stephen's M.-E. Church, Marble Hill, Kingsbridge, New York City.
Robert Lawson Ross was born May 13th, 1869, at Newburgh,
N. Y. He is a son of George Monroe Ross and Caroline
Lawson, who were married Sept. 30th, 1868, at Newburgh, and
had altogether five children, four boys and one girl.
George Monroe Ross (b. May ist, 1842, at Edinburgh, Scot-
land) is a retired merchant of Newburgh. He served in the
Civil War from April, 1861, to July, 1865, enlisting as a private
in the 8th N. Y. Militia for three months ; at the end of which
time he re-enlisted in the Bemis Heights Battalion, 77th N. Y.
S. Vol. Reg. as ist Lieutenant, and rose to the rank of Captain.
He was wounded at Spottsylvania and Winchester. He was
a member of the Board of Education of the City of Newburgh
1892-96, and Water Commissioner of that City 1896-05. He is
the son of John Ross, a carpenter of Edinburgh, who emi-
grated to Troy, N. Y., in 1843.
Caroline (Lawson) Ross (b. May Sth, 1846, at Channing-
ville, Dutchess Co., N. Y.) spent her early life at New Bruns-
wick, N. J., and Newburgh, N. Y. She is the daughter of
Robert Lawson, a contractor of Newburgh, and Hannah Budd
of Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Ross spent his youth at Newburgh, N. Y., and prepared for Yale
at the Siglar School. He was a member of the Yale Union,
served as Treasurer of the Chess Club, and represented
Yale in the Inter-Collegiate Chess Tournament in 1894 ^^^
OF GRADUATES 545
1895. He was a member of the Freshman Debating Society
(see "cuneiform inscriptions'^ and of the Yale Union, and re-
ceived a First Colloquy at the Junior Exhibition,
He was married at Newburgh, N. Y., May 20th, 1895, to Miss
Cora Taylor, daughter of the late Charles Taylor and Mary C.
(Barton) Taylor, and has one child, a daughter, Gertrude
Monroe Ross (b. Aug. 30th, 1897, at Highland Mills, N. Y.).
Ross was admitted on trial in the New York Conference
of the Methodist-Episcopal Church in April, 1895 (hav-
ing been granted absence on leave by the Yale faculty),
and then took a course in the Drew Theological Seminary,
at Madison, N. J. In April, 1897, he was received in
full connection in the New York Conference, and has
since then had the following pastoral appointments : 1895-
96, Kerhonkson; 1897-98, Highland Mills; 1899-1900,
New Paltz; 1900-01, Liberty; 1902-04, Fishkill-on-Hud-
son, N. Y. ; 1904 , Kingsbridge, N. Y. City. He
writes :
"I suppose that your last communication and mine
criss-crossed about yesterday. Your last came this morn-
ing, and I threw my Sunday evening sermon to one side
and got right to work on your statistics. I am afraid
that they are fearfully dry, for my life has been so un-
eventful in big things that there is n't much to make
interesting stuff for a class record. I am trying to do
solid work, but it is the kind that is not known unless
you read the statistics of this Conference. And at the
best, it is not the work that makes big headlines for
the newspapers.
"My manner of life since 1902 has been simply that of
the routine work of the pastorate, with the annual vaca-
tion thrown in. In 1902 I became pastor of the church
at Fishkill-on-Hudson, the third church in importance
and strength in the Poughkeepsie district, and worked
that field for all I was worth until I came to St. Stephen's
Church, in New York City. Here I have been grappling
with the hair-raising problems of a suburban church in
New York. I found the field thickly strewn with the
546 BIOGRAPHIES
bones of some very worthy predecessors, but determined
that my bones should not fertilize this particular field if
Yale spirit could be worth anything to a man in the
Methodist ministry. For some months I labored to get
a new pipe-organ in the church, one-half the cost of
which was given by my friend Mr. Carnegie— at least
he was my friend at that critical juncture of money-rais-
ing. My more recent avocation (for it has been a real
side-interest from my regular work) has been the raising
of $12,000 on the church debt. I am now dreaming about
the $6,000 that remains on the debt, and shall keep on
dreaming until the hot weather is over, then get down in
earnest on this balance. This little item will reveal the
fact that the financiers of the class are not all found
down in Wall Street. Vacations have been spent down
in Massachusetts and in Ocean Grove, with the prospect
of a camp up along the Canadian lakes this summer. I
am sorry to say that I have not met with the Class as a
body in the last four years, though I have often planned
doing so. I come across one of the boys now and then
down-town, — for example, met Estey Dayton one Satur-
day afternoon in Cushman's with his arms stacked ceil-
ing-high with bread, cake, and pie for his Sunday dinner.
He appeared to be quite well. Stumbled across G. A.
Smith in Yonkers one day, hilarious over his recent ap-
pointment to his school principalship in that town. Also
had the pleasure of a little call from Clarence Day, who
was exploring this part of the city in an 'auto.'
"I wonder if we could n't get 'affluent Andrew' to
endow a fund to pension worthy and worn-out class sec-
retaries? I should be willing to serve as trustee of such
a fund, and know of some very deserving cases."
C. J. Rumrill, M.D.
Randolph, Vermont.
Clinton Joseph Rumrill was born Jan. 7th, 1871, at Springfield,
Vt. He is a son of Edwin Joseph Rumrill and Susie Cynthia
OF GRADUATES 547
Newton (nee Simmonds), who were married in March, 1870,
at Claremont, N. H., and had altogether eight children, four
boys and four girls, seven of whom lived to maturity.
Edwin Joseph Rumrill (b. May nth, 1850, at Claremont,
N. H.) is a railroad bridge builder of Royalton, Vt. Hie
parents were Joseph and Cordelia Rumrill, of Springfield, Vt.
Joseph Rumrill was a farmer.
Susie Cynthia Rumrill (b. Nov. 23d, 1844, at West Hartford,
Vt. ; d. Feb. 15th, 1894, at Royalton, Vt.) was the daughter of
Horace Simmonds, a carpenter of West Hartford, and Cynthia
Burnham Austin of East Bethel, or Royalton, Vt.
Rumrill prepared for Yale at the St. Johnsbury (Vt.) Academy,
his residence during his course being at Royalton, Vt. He re-
ceived a First Colloquy at the Junior Exhibit-ion.
He was married at Campton Village, N. H., June 8th, 1901, to
Miss Marion Belle Emerson, daughter of Erastus Fairbanks
Emerson, and has one child, a daughter, Arene Emerson Rum-
rill (b. May 7th, 1902, at Randolph, Vt.).
"No, I have not written anything for publication," said
Riimrill. *'In fact I have merely existed, but soon I hope
my cocoon will mature and I may step out into more
active and more successful fields of work, and then I will
gladly let all my Class hear from me. I should like once
more to get into the spirit of things, but one thing or
another has kept me out so far. I watch your doings
with interest. Some day I will see you all at a reunion
or at some dinner and then I can tell you what I have
done."
His sexennial account of his career is here reprinted :
"I went to Hayti, West Indies, February, 8th, 1896, and
stayed there until May 15th, 1897, when I returned to
United States to study medicine. In the West Indies I
was business manager and head assistant for a surgeon
who had a large practice in Port au Prince, Hayti. While
there I studied medicine as hard as I could, using our
clinics as illustrations of things I studied. I left the
Island only with regret, for I had many friends there
among the 'blacks.'
"Arriving in this country I began preparations to enter
548 BIOGRAPHIES
the Yale Medical College, but went finally to the Dart-
mouth Medical College, owing to proximity. Received
my degree in February, 1900, and in October came to
Randolph, Vermont, and began the practice of medicine
in partnership with Dr. L. A. Russlow. Have since re-
mained here."
S. B. Sadler
Lawyer. Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Sylvester Baker Sadler was born at Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 29th,
1876. He is a son of Wilbur Fisk Sadler and Sarah Ellen
Sterrett, who were married in January, 1871, at Carlisle, Pa.,
and had three other children, all boys, Lewis S. Sadler, ex '95,
is a brother.
Wilbur Fisk Sadler (b. Oct. 14th, 1840, at York Springs, Pa.)
is an attorney at law of Carlisle, Pa., where he has spent the
greater part of his life. He served as President Judge of the
9th Judicial District from 1884 to 1894, and in 1904 was re-
elected to the same office for the term of ten years. His
parents were Joshua Sadler and Harriet Stehley, both of York
Springs. The family came from England in 1720, and settled
in York County, Pa.
Sarah Ellen '(Sterrett) Sadler (b. Sept. 3d, 1841, at Manor
Hill, Pa.; d. Jan. loth, 1895, at Carlisle, Pa.) spent her early
life at McVeytown, Pa. Her parents were the Rev. David
Sterrett, a Presbyterian minister of Carlisle, and Mary Ann
Woods of Lancaster County, Pa., both of whom were of Scotch
descent.
Sadler entered from Dickinson College in September, 1893. He
received One Year Honors in History, a High Oration at the
Junior Exhibition and at Commencement, and was a member
of the University Club, Phi Beta Kappa, and Psi U.
He has not been married.
Until Leo Arnstein skipped '97's Junior year and entered
'96, thereby taking the four-year course in three, Sadler
was the youngest member of our Class. He was one of
our brightest men besides, acquiring knowledge with an
ease which was equalled only by the generosity he dis-
1
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played in its timely distribution. His campus name was
Rody.
As for what he has been doing with himself since grad-
uation, "that remains buried in the obscurity of the un-
known," as Turgenev's attorney was in the habit of say-
ing when asked whether he accepted bribes. The facts
on file declare him to be a lawyer of Carlisle, — where
Indians learn football,— and a graduate (LL.B., 1898)
of the Dickinson College School of Law. (Dickinson
College gave him an M.A. in that same year.) He takes
occasion to assure the Secretary from time to time that
he has not been married, but he really might almost as
well go ahead for all the difference it could make in his
attendance at Class affairs, for he is never among those
present. "As to any writings of mine," says his letter,
*T lay claim only to a volume on ^Pennsylvania Criminal
Procedure,' published by the Lawyers' Cooperative Pub-
lishing Company of Rochester, N. Y., and eleven volumes
of 'Pennsylvania Supreme Court Reports,' published by
the same firm in 1905. If at all possible I will be with
you in June." He was n't.
A. G. C. Sage
Residence, 718 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
Member N. Y. Stock Exchange. Office, 2 Wall Street.
Andrew Gregg Curtin Sage was born June 30th, 1873, at Brook-
lyn, N. Y. He is a son of William Henry Sage, '65, and Jane
Gregg Curtin, who were married at Philadelphia, Pa., and had
two other sons (Henry William Sage, '95, and DeWitt Linn
Sage, '97) and one daughter.
William Henry Sage (b. Jan. 9th, 1844, at Ithaca, N. Y.)
upon leaving College entered his father's firm, H. W. Sage &
Co., lumber dealers, in which business he is still engaged. He
has been a liberal donor to Cornell, and in 1897 was elected
Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees
of that University. His parents were Henry Williams Sage and
Susan Lynn. H. W. Sage was sixth in descent from David
Sage, who was born in 1639, in Wales, and was (in 1652) one
of the first settlers of Middletown, Conn., his residence being
at the "Upper Houses" (now Cromwell). The first of the
550 BIOGRAPHIES
line to leave Connecticut for Ithaca was Charles Sage, the
father of H. W., who was afterwards (1838) shipwrecked on
the coast of Florida, and killed by the Indians.
Jane Gregg (Curtin) Sage (b. Jan. 17th, 1846; d. Nov. 23d,
1893, at Ithaca, N. Y.) spent her early life in Pennsylvania.
Her parents were Governor Andrew Gregg Curtin and Kather-
ine Wilson, both of Pennsylvania.
Sage spent his youth in Brooklyn and in Ithaca, N. Y. He was
Major Commanding the '96 Battalion of Phelps Brigade in
Freshman year, made the Record in January of Sophomore
year, and served as President of the University Club in Senior
year. He was a member of the Renaissance Club, Eta Phi, Psi
U. and Keys.
He has not been married.
Upon their election to the "Yale Record's" editorial board
it was customary for the successful humorists of our day
to sport upon their watch-chains small gold owls, in sig-
nificant contrast to other more obvious birds, such as
magpies. The effect was sometimes instantaneous. No
sooner was a man lawfully entitled to make motley his
only wear, it seemed, than chill Wisdom flapped against
his waistcoat and he lost all stomach for jesting. A new
look came into his eyes. His contributions stopped. He
spent his editorship sifting the competitive gibes of
younger aspirants, and he chose his successors in a spirit
of pure revenge.
Sage is a case in point. Before he made the "Record"
his wit was famous. He resembled that gentleman whom
Mr. Tuckham described as having a head like a fireworks
manufactory — perfectly pyrocephalic. Then came the
owl, and then, alas, the factory closed down : though
Andy flashes still, in private, as the Secretary had amused
occasion to observe in a South Carolina inn not long ago.
''Went abroad after graduation, returning in October.
Entered the Harvard Law School, remained there until
March, 1897, ^^^ then took a position as clerk in the office
of Dominick & Dickerman, bankers and brokers. New
York. In September, 1899, I left them to enter the office
OF GRADUATES 551
of Moore & Schley. Bought a seat on the New York
Stock Exchange in September, 1898, and since that time
have been a broker. Have not been before the public in
any way, good or bad."
Thus far Sage's sexennial letter. His office nowadays
is with Jim Tailer's firm, but since October, 1904, he has
only intermittently attended to business, chiefly because of
an illness or two, followed by prolonged and careful con-
valescence. He has been abroad (with Sherman Day),
at Palm Beach, shooting in Canada and the South, and
so forth ; and although he is now all right again, he finds
it difficult to settle back into harness. In answer to the re-
quest for his bibliography he said that he had ''not even
written any compromising letters," and to the question,
"Are you married?" he replied, "Still in the maiden class,
and in favor of race suicide." ... "I doubt whether I
could get any more details," he went on, "without get-
ting hold of the family Bible. I don't take much interest
in pedigrees, except of dogs and horses I own, but I Ve
given you more information as it is than they have at
police headquarters. How are you these days, anyway?
I thought of you the other night when I went to the
Court Inn. I should think your old book about '96 would
be quite as humorous and fully as good reading for the
young as the New York City Directory."
James D. Sawyer
Manager of Sales, American Locomotive Company, in Broadway,
New York City.
Residence, 950 Madison Avenue.
James Denison Sawyer, the Class Boy of Yale, '72, was born at
Buffalo, N. Y., March i6th, 1875. He is a son of George Pliny
Sawyer, '72, and Ida Wilcox, who were married May 4th, 1874,
at New Haven, Conn., and had altogether four children, two
boys and two girls, three of whom lived to maturity.
George Pliny Sawyer (b. Jan. 26th, 1852, at Buffalo, N. Y.)
is a merchant, capitalist, etc., of Buffalo. His parents were
James Denison Sawyer, a merchant and banker of Buffalo,
552 BIOGRAPHIES
and Charlotte Olivia Field of Massachusetts. The ancestors
of the family were English settlers in Connecticut.
Ida (Wilcox) Sawyer (b. April loth, 1855, at Augusta, Ga.)
is the daughter of Daniel Hand Wilcox, a merchant, and
Frances Ansley, both of Georgia, and later of New Haven.
She is a sister of D. Urquhart Wilcox, '95 S.
Sawyer prepared for College at the Westminster School, Dobbs
Ferry. At Yale he served as Treasurer of the Buffalo Club
during Sophomore year, and as Vice-Commodore of the Yale
Corinthian Yacht Club, in which he was owner of the catboat,
"Arrow." A. D. Phi.
He was married April 4th, 1904, at Bayonne, N. J., to Miss Sallie
Shannon Walsh, niece of Mrs. Solon Humphreys, and has one
child, a son, James Denison Sawyer, Jr. (b. Jan. i8th, 1905, at
New York City).
"Et j'en dirais bien plus si je me laissais faire," says
de Musset, in "Apres une Lecture." So with Sawyer.
But his idea is that the Class is not interested enough in
its individual members — in Sawyer, for instance— to
make it desirable for him to accede to the secretarial re-
quests. This is a pity, firstly because it is a mistaken idea,
and secondly because Denny seems in a fair way to be-
come a magnate, and we are missing the inside view
which we otherwise might be getting of that stately
progress.
He went abroad the summer after graduation and upon
his return to Buffalo entered the employ of M. H. Birge
& Sons. In August, 1899, he "came to Dunkirk with the
Brooks Locomotive Works, and upon the formation of
the American Locomotive Company in June, 1901, was
made assistant to the vice-president." In 1904 he moved
to New York and he is now Manager of Sales at
the Company's New York headquarters. Besides his
Buffalo clubs he belongs to the Country Club of St. Louis,
the Racquet and Tennis of New York, the Ardsley, the
University, etc. All this information comes from other
sources, for in the space upon the Class blank designed
to contain an account of his life since 1902 Sawyer him-
self penned merely the cryptic words "Ha, ha!"
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Rev. L. R. Scarborough
Pastor of the Baptist Church, Abilene, Texas.
426 Cypress Street.
Lee Rutland Scarborough was born July 4th, 1870, at Colfax,
La. He is a son of George Washington Scarborough and
Martha Elizabeth Rutland, who were married June 20th, 1850,
in Bienville Parish, La., and had altogether nine children, five
boys and four girls, five of whom lived to maturity.
George Washington Scarborough (b. April 13th, 1831, in
Lawrence Co., Miss.; d. June 29th, 1899, at Cameron, Tex.)
was a Baptist minister. He was at one time engaged in farm-
ing, and held the office of Recorder and Justice of the Peace
while in Louisiana. He was a veteran of the Civil War,
having served for four years on the Confederate side. He lived
in Bienville, La., McLennan Co. and Jones Co., Tex., and at
Cameron, Tex. He was the son of Irvin Scarborough, a Louisi-
ana farmer, and Frances Cannon of Georgia. Irvin Scar-
borough was born in Georgia, in which state his ancestors
settled after leaving England.
Martha Elizabeth (Rutland) Scarborough (b. Oct. 6th, 1828,
at Nashville, Tenn.) spent her early life in Kentucky, Louisi'
ana, and Texas. She is the daughter of William Battle Rut-
land, a merchant of Nashville, and Nancy Little of Franklin,
Tenn. She is now (Oct., '05) living at Abilene, Tex.
Scarborough was graduated at Baylor University in the Class of
'92, and entered Yale in September, 1895. He took One Year
Honors in History, One Year Honors in Political. Science and
Law, and received a Philosophical Oration. He was a member
of the Southern Club, the Yale Union, and Phi Beta Kappa.
He was married Feb. 4th, 1900, at Abilene, Tex., to Miss Neppie
Warren, daughter of Caleb Parker Warren, a money lender,
and Mary Ann Warren, both of Abilene. He has three chil-
dren, two sons and a daughter, George Warren Scarborough
(b. March 25th, 1901, at Cameron, Tex.), Emma Lee Scar-
borough (b. May 19th, 1903, at Abilene), and Lawrence Rutland
Scarborough (b. Aug. 8th, 1905, at Abilene).
After finishing his year at Yale, Scarborough returned
to the Southwest and spent three years traveling over
West Texas and New Mexico, preaching the Gospel. In
1899 he went to Kentucky to study theology at the Louis-
ville Seminary, and in 1900 he became pastor of the Bap-
554 BIOGRAPHIES
tist Church in Cameron, Texas, where he remained from
June, 1900, to August, 1901. Since the latter date he has
been pastor of the Baptist Church in Abilene, and he now
is also Trustee and Financial Secretary of Simmons Col-
lege, of that place, of which Oscar Henry Cooper, '72,
is President.
"Have held thirty-five revival meetings," he writes, "in
which about two thousand people have made profession
of Christ. Have raised more than fifty thousand dollars
for missions and Christian education. Have raised funds
and built Anna Hall, a girl's boarding-hall in Simmons
College."
Rudolph Schevill, Ph.D.
Instructor in Spanish, Yale College.
(See Appendix:)
P. O. Address, Yale Station, New Haven, Conn.
Rudolph Schevill was born June i8th, 1874, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
He is a son of Ferdinand August Schwill and Johanna Hart-
mann, who were married June i8th, 1863, at Cincinnati, and had
altogether eight children, five boys and three girls, six of whom
lived to maturity. Ferdinand Schevill, '89, is a brother.
Ferdinand August Schwill (b. Nov. 3d, 1837, at Koenigsberg,
Germany; d. Sept. 28th, 1898, at Cincinnati) came to America
in 1850 and settled at Cincinnati. He also resided at various
times in South Carolina, Colorado, and Ohio. He was a
chemist and druggist, then an agriculturist, and finally a busi-
ness man. His parents were Otto Karl Schwill and Elise
Drabner, both of Koenigsberg, where the father was engaged
in the shoe business. The family is of Huguenot descent, and
prior to 1685, in which year they left France for Germany, the
name was spelled Cheville. The change from Schwill to Sche-
vill, recently made by the living members of the family, was
adopted in order to assist in preserving the correct pronuncia-
tion.
Johanna (Hartmann) Schwill (b. April 23d, 1843, at Heidel-
berg, Germany) spent her early life at Heidelberg and Cin-
cinnati. She is the daughter of William Valentine Hartmann,
a miller, and Johanna Juliana Elizabetta Weiss, both of Heidel-
berg. She is now (Oct., '05) living in New York City.
Schevill received a Berkeley Premium of the Second Grade in
Freshman year, a College Prize in English Composition of the
OF GRADUATES 555
First Grade in Sophomore year, the Scott French Prize in
Junior year, and One Year Honors in English in Senior year.
He received a Philosophical Oration at the Junior Exhibition
and at Commencement, and was a member of the Cincinnati
Club, the Yale Union, and Phi Beta Kappa.
He has not been married.
Schevill's post-graduate studies were conducted in Paris
and in Munich, and it was from the University of Munich
that in 1898 he received his Ph.D. After traveling
through Italy, France, Germany and England he re-
turned, in the spring of 1899, to Yale, spent half a year
in the Graduate School, and then taught for a year at
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. During
the year 1900-01 he was an instructor in the Sheffield
Scientific School, and since 1901 he has been an instructor
in the Spanish Language and Literature in Yale College.
Looking forward to its plans for establishing a Colonial
School, the College Faculty had been anxious to have one
of its members trained in practical Spanish for use in
such business instruction as might be needed ; and when,
in 1903, funds were forthcoming for the purpose, Sche-
vill (who had already been several times in Spain) was
sent abroad for sixteen months. His own account of this
trip is as follows :
''My year's leave of absence was intended to give me an
opportunity to see something more of Spain, and inci-
dentally to become acquainted with some of the conditions
of Spanish America.
"My stay in Spain (of about eight months) was used
for my own special work, research in Spanish literature,
while I tried to devote my travels through South America
to learning something about economic, mercantile and
social conditions in the repubUcs which I saw. The results
serve me chiefly in my course on commercial Spanish, the
relations between the United States and 'them benighted
republics as sich.' I traveled around down there for
about eight months, seeing a good part of the Argentina,
especially the great Esfancias or cattle-ranch life, the
556 BIOGRAPHIES
wheat fields, sheep ranches, etc., the managements of
which are the great national industries. Then I crossed
the Andes on mule's back into Chile and a glorious trip
it was. In Chile I stayed about six weeks, meeting a lot
of interesting people and trying to learn something about
the development of the West Coast, national resources,
traffic, etc. Thence into Peru, where the United States
has a good commercial hold, as well as a moral one in the
good will of the people, which is not the case with other
republics. In Ecuador I stopped only a short while, as
my trip was altogether too precipitous. It is the most
backward of all the countries and the wildest, but has a
future. I crossed the Isthmus and saw Teddy's Canal
and am wondering whether '96 will live to see it finished.
It is a great thing for national defense, but can hardly
be a paying proposition for thirty or forty years to come.
Then I went up into Mexico via Jamaica and Vera Cruz.
That 's the best government of all the republics — thanks
to Diaz. I hope to have the department profit by what I
saw. I am trying to build up our side of the library and
awaken an interest among the boys in things Spanish.
It appears to be growing slowly. Perhaps there will be
a solid interest when the Hand beckons."
* George H. Schuyler
Lawyer. Died February 22d, 1904, in New York City.
George Hayward Schuyler was born Jan. 8th, 1875, at Pana. III.
He was the son of Henry Newton Schuyler and Harriette
Adelaide Hayward, who were married Feb. 25th, 1874, at Pana,
111., and had one other child, a daughter.
Henry Newton Schuyler (b. Feb. 4th, 1844, at Glen, N. Y.)
is a banker of Pana. He has served as Mayor of Pana seven
terms; has been a delegate to every Republican State Con-
vention since 1875 ; was Presidential Elector in 1896, and dele-
gate to the Republican National Convention in 1904. He is
the son of George S. Schuyler, a farmer, and Clarissa Van
Schaick, both of Glen, N. Y. The family came originally from
Holland and settled at Albany, N. Y.
Schuyler
OF GRADUATES 557
Harriette Adelaide (Hay ward) Schuyler (b. at Hillsboro,
111. ; d. at Pana, 111., Nov. loth, 1877) was the daughter of John
S. Hayward, a capitalist and real estate owner of Boston, Mass.,
and Harriette F. Comstock, of Hartford, Conn.
Schuyler spent his youth at Pana and prepared for Yale at
Northwestern University. He rowed No. 2 on the Academic
Freshman Crew in the fall of 1892, and was a member of Zeta
Psi.
He was unmarried.
Schuyler took a four months' European tour in 1896,
before returning to Pana, where he then engaged in the
banking business with his father. In October, 1897, he
entered the Harvard Law School, being graduated with
the degree LL.B. in 1900, and commencing practice in
New York the following October. November, 1901, he
was admitted to the New York Bar, and on December ist,
1901, he was retained by the Legal Aid Society, a semi-
charitable institution. This connection continued until
the end of 1902, and gave him an experience in which he
took a strong and sympathetic interest. On January ist,
1903, he opened offices of his own.
His death occurred on February 226., 1904. On the 17th
he had spoken of not feeling well, and on the 19th his
case was diagnosed as an attack of appendicitis and he
was taken to a private hospital, where an operation was
performed. His father, who at the first notice of his ill-
ness had hastened to his bedside, was with him during
his last hours. The burial was at Pana.
Schuyler was always quiet in manner and deliberate in
word and action. His ambitions to achieve distinction
were made evident rather by his patience and his industry
than by any particular sign of effort. He was a strong,
healthy, outdoor sort of fellow. "My summers," he wrote
in 1902, "have been spent largely in sailing and cruising
off the New England coast, and one summer I traveled
horseback and hunted in the Rockies north and east of
Yellowstone Park and toured the Park." At the Yale
Club, where he had his rooms, he was often to be seen
558 BIOGRAPHIES
in riding clothes, ruddy from an afternoon on the bridle
path.
His father, who idolized George, and who looked to
him as the companion of his elder years, had already
taken him into partnership in his banking business under
the firm name of H. N. Schuyler & Son. One of our
men who was in Pana a year ago or thereabouts, and
who saw that this name was still in use, went in and intro-
duced himself to Mr. Schuyler. He said afterwards that
even George^s death had not made him feel so sorry as
did the father's loneliness, and the sad welcome that he
received as George's friend.
Alexander Scott
Teaching. To be addressed in care of the Class Secretary.
Alexander Scott was born in Little Derry, County Derry, Ire-
land, Oct. 31st, 1865. He is a son of Robert Scott and Matilda
Love, who had altogether eleven children, six boys and five
girls, ten of whom lived to maturity.
Robert Scott (b. at Little Derry, c. 1822-23; d. at Whitins-
ville, Mass., in Feb., 1885) was a farmer, and for a time a
teamster. The greater part of his life was spent at Little
Derry. His father was also a farmer, of Londonderry; his
mother's maiden name was Shannon. His ancestors, who came
over to Ireland from Scotland some two hundred years back,
include several notable men, who were involved in the religious
wars of the period.
Matilda (Love) Scott (b. Oct. 31st, 1825, in Londonderry;
d. in Jan., 1887, in Whitinsville) was the daughter of John
Love, a farmer of Londonderry, who was (about 1875) Chief
of the Royal Irish Constabulary. Her mother's maiden name
was McAllister.
Scott prepared for College at the Cushing Academy, Ashburn-
ham, Mass. He entered with the Class, and received a Second
Colloquy at Commencement.
He has not been married.
The case of Scott has attracted some attention among us,
as that of the one man in the Class who frankly and em-
OF GRADUATES 559
phatically regrets that he ever went to Yale. An ac-
quaintance with the circumstances, however, brings (as
always) some understanding of the attitude, Scott put
money into his college course as into a safe investment.
He wished to teach, and he thought that it would be
financially profitable to go through college first. After-
wards he found that, in his case, it was not working out
that way. This was a disappointment ; indeed, as he had
contracted debts in order to get his education, it was
more than a disappointment. It was upon facing the fact
that he had been handicapped instead of helped by his
experience, and upon confronting the many appeals for
Yale subscriptions— to the Alumni Fund, the '96 Gate-
way, the Class Reunions, &c.— which began to fill his
mail that he said he was sorry he had ever gone to Yale,
and the more astonishment this heresy provoked the
more emphatically did Scott advance it.
His career since graduation has been one long struggle
to pay off his college debts. "I have taught school,
worked on a farm, and worked at carpentry," he writes.
"Studied for a short time at the Massachusetts Agricul-
tural College. Was successful as a teacher, but not in
securing and holding good positions, because of lack of
diplomacy— and I would not be used." Up to 1901 or
1902 he lived in or near Boston. In 1903 the Secretary
found that he had moved to Port Angeles, Washington,
and in 1906 he left there for Southern California.
Williarn L. Scoville
Lawyer. Paddock Building, Boston, Mass.
William Langdon Scoville was born July 28th, 1873, at Mont-
pelier, Vt. He is the son of Edwin Nelson Scoville and Martha
Priscilla Kelsea, who were married at Lisbon, N. H., and had
two other children, both daughters. One of the daughters,
Florence M. Scoville, was graduated from Smith ('93) with
the degree of Litt.B., and a cousin, Charles Otis Scoville, is a
Yale graduate, A.B. '87, B.D. Middletown '90.
560 BIOGRAPHIES
Edwin Nelson Scoville (b. June 21st, 1838, at Berlin, Vt;
d. Sept. 19th, 1885, at Montpelier, Vt.) was a retail furniture
dealer. The greater part of his life was spent at Berlin and
Montpelier. His parents were Joseph Langdon Scoville, a
farmer of Berlin and Montpelier, and Betsey Ward Davis of
Barnard, Vt.
Martha Priscilla (Kelsea) Scoville (b. Dec. 19th, 1841, at
Lisbon, N. H, ; d. July 28th, 1890, at Montpelier) was the
daughter of Wilhelm Kelsea, a farmer of Lisbon. Her mother
was also of Lisbon.
Scoville prepared for College at St. Johnsbury, Vt., and entered
our Class from '95 in Sept., 1893. He was a member of the
Yale University Drum Corps in the fall of 1892, and later of
the Yale University Orchestral Club.
He has not been married.
Scoville studied law for one year in the office of James
Alfred Merrill, Yale, '85, at Rutland, Vt. The fall of
1897 he came to Boston and spent one year in the Boston
University Law School. Joined the First Vermont Vol-
unteers as Corporal in "A" Company on May i6th, 1898,
and after going through the usual experiences at Chicka-
mauga, was mustered out on November 3d. The next
two years were spent at the Harvard Law School, and in
September, 1900, he was admitted to the Bar. Since then
he has been practising in Boston. "I am, as you say,
counselling away here," he wrote in 1904, "the same as
last season (and the season before that). I see some of
the gang occasionally but none of the men whom I knew
very well."
His decennial letter, freely expurgated, ran as follows :
"My story since the last report has been unmarked by
white stones. I have spent my life in the meantime in
the burg of beans and booze, both of inferior quality.
'Spent' is good. It is impossible to avoid spending here,
and it is nearly impossible to pass anything, in marked
contradistinction from conditions in Derby as indicated
by Flaherty's joke, which I understand has passed the
age limit and been retired from active service. The only
thing one can pass here is a jack-pot, for want of openers.
OF GRADUATES 561
It is, however, a misdemeanor, punishable by fine and
imprisonment, or by the whipping-post, in the discretion
of the Court, to pass openers for bets.
"I have written nothing except dunning letters, writs,
declarations, answers, briefs, etc., and other literature
designed to make the dishonest disgorge.
"I have found out where you got your blazing red
head. A bald-headed man in Montpelier, where I first
cursed a suffering world with my physical presence, was
asked by a red-headed drummer, who dealt in rum, how
he came to be unprovided by his Maker with hair (for
it was tradition that he was born that way). The bald-
head replied that his Maker was short of hair when he
happened, had nothing but that d red hair. I take it
you were not so particular, and that your occurrence was
equally unexpected. This story does not account, how-
ever, except by very vague and uncertain inference, for
either the string on your eye-glass, which I regard as
highly un-American in tone, or your mastodonic inso-
lence."
Hewlett Scudder, Jr.
Electrical Engineer, care of the General Electric Co., Schenectady,
New York.
Permanent mail address, 21 East 22d Street, New York City.
Hewlett Scudder, Jr., was born Aug. 9th, 1875, at Northport,
N. Y. He is a son of Henry Joel Scudder, Trinity, '46, and
Emma Willard Willard, who were married at Troy, N. Y.,
and had altogether five children, three sons, all of whom were
college graduates, and two daughters, one of whom died before
maturity.
Henry Joel Scudder (b. at Northport, N. Y., in Sept., 1825;
d. Feb. 1 6th, 1886, at New York City) was a member of Con-
gress, and a lawyer of New York City. His parents were
Henry Scudder, a farmer of Northport, and Elizabeth Hewlett
of Cold Springs Harbor, L. I., N. Y. The family are of Eng-
lish descent.
Emma Willard (Willard) Scudder (b. at Troy, N. Y., in
May, 1835; d. at New York City, May 23d, 1893) was the
daughter of John Hart Willard, Head of the Troy Female
Seminary.
562 BIOGRAPHIES
Scudder prepared for College at St. Paul's School in Concord. He
received a High Oration at the Junior Exhibition and at Com-
mencement, and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
He has not been married.
For three years Scudder took postgraduate work (with
H. A. Perkins) at Columbia University, New York City,
receiving in 1899 the degrees of Master of Arts and
Electrical Engineer. During 1899- 1900 he was assistant
to Professor H. M. Howe of Columbia, in metallurgical
work. Several of the intervening summers had been spent
in travel abroad, and at the close of his year with Profes-
sor Howe he decided to take a longer tour through Eng-
land, France, the Riviera, Egypt and Southern Italy. "Ire-
turned that summer (1901)," he wrote at Sexennial, "and
spent some time doing the Wild Woods Act with Perkins.
The autumn of 1901 I was generally looking around for
different matters, and at present am engaged in electrical
investigation in Hartford, Connecticut. This summer
Perkins and I hope to go to Iceland for a general fishing
and hunting trip." "Since Sexennial," he wrote this
spring, "I have lived a peaceful life in Schenectady, N. Y.
— fourteen miles from Troy— with the General Electric
Company. Those years of my existence have been enliv-
ened by two trips to Newfoundland— one with Perkins.
But I have not gotten married, though I have helped
many others so to do, and still have hopes."
As this told the Class nothing about his work the Secre-
tary ventured to ask for some details. "You are one of
the worst I have seen in some time," came the answer;
"but as I suppose it is part of the job, and as I hope to see
you next week, I shall endeavor to tell you something as
to the character and scope of my work in the Railway
Engineering Department of the General Electric Com-
pany,
"This work consists in the main in making engineering
estimates on proposed new trolley lines, and on the con-
version of existing steam roads to electric roads; as an
example, the New York Central and Hudson River Rail-
OF GRADUATES 563
road changing their terminal in New York to an electric
road.
'This may give you a dim idea of the work. It consists
in estimating on the size and kind of the various things
which go to make up electric roads, power houses, loco-
motives, trolley cars, etc., and also on costs of same.
This work I have been doing for about a year. Before
that I was in the company's experimental department."
L. P. Sheldon
European Representative of Wm. Salomon & Co., Bankers, 25 Broad Street,
New York City.
Foreign office address, 10 Rue Lafitte, Paris, France.
Residence, 50 Rue Pierre Charron.
Lewis Pendleton Sheldon was born June 9th, 1874, at Rutland,
Vt. He is a son of Charles Henry Sheldon and Susan John-
son Pendleton, who were married Dec. 12th, 1867, at Gorham,
Me., and had four other children, one boy (Richard, '98 S.)
and three girls.
Charles Henry Sheldon (b. Oct. nth, 1841, at Troy, N. Y.)
has spent most of his life at Rutland and West Rutland, Vt., en-
gaged in the marble business, and at New York City, where he
now (Dec, '05) resides, and where he is lessee of the Carnegie
Music Hall. His parents were Charles Sheldon of Rutland,
a pioneer in the Vermont marble business, and Janet Reid
(Sheldon) Sheldon of Troy, N. Y. The family came from
England in 1651, and settled at Deerfield, Mass., in 1652.
Susan Johnson (Pendleton) Sheldon (b. May 25th, 1842,
at Camden, Me.) is the daughter of George H. Pendleton, a
merchant and builder of Camden, and Susan Wealthon John-
son of Windon, Conn.
Sheldon prepared at Andover, and served on the Executive Com-
mittee of the Andover Club at Yale. He was a member of the
Track Team all four years of his course, winning his" points
in the broad and high jumps, and in Senior year in the
hurdles. In Senior year he was also Captain of the Team,
and a member of Executive Committee of tRe Inter-Collegiate
Athletic Association. He was an editor of Pot-pourri, held
the Daniel Lord, Jr., Scholarship (1895-6) and received a Dis-
sertation at the Junior Exhibition and at Commencement. He
Boule. D. K. E. Keys.
564 BIOGRAPHIES
He was married Nov. 30th, 1901, at New Haven, Conn., to Miss
Mary Trowbridge Denton of Paris, France, daughter of the
late Huntington Denton, and has one child, a son, Huntington
Denton Sheldon (b. Feb. 14th, 1903, at Greenwich, Conn.). (See
Appendix.)
After two instructive years in Hartford, Conn., with the
Pope Manufacturing Company, Sheldon went to Paris
(in October, 1898) "to represent the concern in the Co-
lumbia Automobiles and Chainless Columbia Wheels in
France, England and Germany. In France I was inter-
ested in the manufacture of these articles, being assistant
manager of the A. Clement Company, and later manager
of the operating company 'Electromotion.' During my
stay on the other side I was also interested in the promo-
tion of a number of American specialties, and on my re-
turn to New York in October, 1901, I became interested
in the promotion of certain enterprises in the hands of
Mr. L. D. Sweet, 26 Broadway, New York, where I am
at present located." This was written in 1902. Pos-
sessed of an adventurous nose Sheldon was led into many
green commercial fields. The Secretary remembers meet-
ing Vaill one day in 23d Street, looking for a place to buy
music for an automatic piano player, and when they
finally found the "Perforated Music Roll Company,"
near Fifth Avenue, it turned out that Sheldon was the
president. "No man's pie is freed from his ambitious
finger," said Vaill politely to the clerk.
Until early in 1905, Sheldon's principal work was in
connection with the famous Selden Patent. The exist-
ence of this patent has been the excuse for a legal com-
bination of motor-car manufacturers which has done
much to regulate the trade, and it was Lew's idea that
this arrangement could be applied to other lines of busi-
ness. He planned to make himself a specialist in com-
petition. But in February, 1905, he decided to accept an
offer from the banking house of William Salomon & Co.
of New York and Chicago, the firm of which Alonzo
Potter, '94, is a member. He traveled for them in this
OF GRADUATES 565
country in the fall of 1905, and on April loth, 1906, he
sailed for Paris to become their European representative
and to take up his residence abroad.
Charles P. Sherman, D.C.L.
Instructor in the Yale Law School, New Haven, Conn., and Librarian of the
Law School Library in Hendrie Hall.
Charles Phineas Sherman was born at Springfield, Mass., June
8th, 1873. He is a son .of Phineas Augustus Sherman and
Frances Beckwith Lyman, who were married Feb. 7th, 1872,
at Chelsea, Mass., and had one other son.
Phineas Augustus Sherman (b. Aug. 23d, 1841, at Rochester,
Mass.) is a contractor and builder of Springfield, formerly of
New Bedford. He holds the degree of D.D.S. from the Balti-
more College of Dental Surgery ('85), and is a member of
the City Library Association of Springfield. His parents were
John Sherman, a Methodist Episcopal Clergyman, of Rochester,
Mass., who was a descendant of Philip Sherman (b. at Ded-
ham, Eng., 1610; d. at Portsmouth, R. I., in 1687), who came
to America in 1634, the first secretary of the Colony of Rhode
Island; and Selina White of Acushnet, Mass., whose father,
Phineas White, served in the War of 1812, and was a direct
descendant of Peregrine White.
Frances Beckwith (Lyman) Sherman (b. Jan. 19th, 1849, at
Springfield) is the daughter of Moses Lyman, a leather mer-
chant, and Nancy Ferre Sykes, both of Springfield. Nancy
Ferre Sykes's grandfather (d. March 9th, 1832, at West Spring-
field, aetat. ^2) served in the Revolutionary War, 1776-79.
Sherman prepared at the Springfield (Mass.) High School. He
received a Dissertation at the Junior Exhibition and an Oration
at Commencement.
He has not been married. (See Appendix.)
In 1898 Sherman received the degree of Bachelor of
Laws from the Yale Law School, and was admitted to
the Connecticut Bar. The following year, having finished
postgraduate studies for which he received in June, 1899,
the degree of Doctor of Civil Law, he commenced
to practise in New Haven, with offices in the First Na-
566 BIOGRAPHIES
tional Bank Building. His residence also has been in
New Haven, excepting for a short time, when it was West
Springfield, Mass. In 1904 he was admitted to the Mas-
sachusetts Bar and to the Bar of the Supreme Court of
the United States.
When Prof. Albert SprouU Wheeler, Instructor in Ro-
man Law at the Yale Law School, died, in January, 1905,
Sherman was appointed as his successor; and when the
Law School Librarian resigned in January, 1906, that
position was added to the instructorship. "Mr. Sherman's
famiharity with foreign languages and his scholarly
tastes," said Dean Rogers in his last report, "are such as
to make him very useful in the position of Law Librarian.
The services which he will render as Librarian are in
addition to his services as Instructor in Roman Law."
In addition to work done in collaboration with Prof.
George E. Beers, Sherman has recently translated into
English Prof. Fernand Bernard's "First Year of Roman
Law" (La premiere annee de droit remain) for use by
his classes.
Murray M. Shoemaker
Lawyer, First National Bank Building, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Murray Marvin Shoemaker was born Sept. 6th, 1874, at Sara-
toga Springs, N. Y. He is a son of Murray Colegate Shoe-
maker, '64, and Frances Barnum Marvin, who were married
June 3d, 1869, at Saratoga Springs, and had altogether four
children, three boys and one girl, two of whom lived to ma-
turity.
Murray Colegate Shoemaker (b. Sept. 18th, 1844, at Tiffin,
O. ; d. April 8th, 1885, at Oxford, O.) spent the greater part
of his life at Cincinnati as an attorney at law. His parents
were Robert Myers Shoemaker, a railroad president of Cin-
cinnati, and Mary Colegate Steiner of Frederick, Md. The
family came from Germany and Great Britain, 1672-1730, and
settled in New York and Maryland.
Frances Barnum (Marvin) Shoemaker (b. Oct. 4th, 1841, at
Ballston Spa, N. Y.) is the daughter of James Madison Marvin,
a congressman, of Saratoga Springs, N. Y., and Rhoby Harris
Barnum of Ballston Spa.
Shoemaker spent his youth chiefly in Ohio, and at Yale was a
OF GRADUATES 567
member of the Cincinnati Club, the University Club, Kappa
Psi, and D. K. E. He received a First Dispute at the Junior
Exhibition and a Second Dispute at Commencement.
He has not been married.
Shoemaker spent one year making a tour around the
world and in the fall of 1897 began the study of law. In
1898 he entered the Albany Law School, was graduated
in the Class of 1899 (without degree), and was admitted
to the New York Bar. He practised for two years in
Saratoga Springs, N. Y., and in October, 1901, he went
back to Cincinnati to practise there. In May, 1906, he
was elected a vice-president of the Cincinnati Yale Club,
and he has served as Deputy Secretary of the Society of
Colonial Wars in the State of Ohio.
"The years between my Sexennial and Decennial," he
wrote this year, ''were particularly devoid of any eventful
happenings. I made several trips to New York during
that time and never failed to see some of my classmates.
I have done nothing startling, either on the credit or debit
side of the ledger and I do not know that I could write
anything that would be of much interest to my classmates.
Few of our men come to Cincinnati. We are out of the
direct east and west trans-continental line here; those
traveling pass us either to the north or the south; and
consequently my opportunities for meeting many of the
fellows have been very limited. Once in a while some
one drifts in on business, never on pleasure, and unless
I go away from home I seldom see any of the fellows. I
appreciate our reunions all the more; indeed, I wish we
might have them oftener, but I suppose that is impossible,
as the outside interests of most of our men multiply as the
years go on."
Dorland Smith, M.D.
Surgeon (Eye and Ear only), 836 Myrtle Avenue, Bridgeport, Conn.
IEdward] Dorland Smith was born April 29th, 1875, at Peru,
N. Y. He is a son of Oliver Keese Smith and Mary Sarah
568 BIOGRAPHIES
Borland, who were married Sept. 2d, 1872, at Macedon, N. Y.,
and had altogether four children, three boys and one girl, two
of whom lived to maturity.
Oliver Keese Smith (b. Feb. 27th, 1849, at Peru) has spent
his life at Peru as a farmer and stock-breeder. He is the son
of Stephen Keese Smith, a lumber and commission merchant,
and Jane Keese, both of Peru. The family came originally
from Manchester, England, and settled at Dartmouth, and
Barnstable, Mass.
Mary Sarah (Borland) Smith (b. Oct. i8th, 1844, at Starks-
boro, Vt. ; d. Jan. 27th, 1897, at Peru) was the daughter of
Edward Mott Borland, a prominent member of the Society
of Friends, Orthodox, of Scipioville, Macedon, and Palmyra,
N. Y., and Susannah Leggett Batley of Auburn, N. Y. She
attended Wells College, Aurora, N. Y., but was obliged to
leave a few months before receiving her degree, on account of
illness.
Smith prepared for College at the Plattsburgh (N. Y.) High
School. He took Two Year Honors in Natural Sciences at
Yale, and received a First Bispute at the Junior Exhibition
and an Oration at Commencement.
He has not been married.
Smith entered the Yale Medical School after our gradu-
ation and received the degree of M.D. in 1899. From
January, 1900, until July, 1901, excepting for one illness
of five months' duration, he performed the duties of
House Surgeon in the Bridgeport Hospital. After four
months of general practice in Bridgeport he became as-
sociated with Dr. F. M. Wilson, Harvard, '75, of that
place, with whom he still conducts his practice. His
specialty, formerly surgery of the eye, ear, nose and
throat, is now eye and ear only. In the Bibliographical
Notes will be found mention of two of his more impor-
tant pamphlets. In reply to the question as to the ways
in which he had been spending his time since Sexennial
he said: "Studying and practising Surgery of the Eye
and F^r, and playing at Golf. Am Assistant Surgeon
at Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, New York City,
and Attending Ophthalmic and Aural Surgeon at the
Bridgeport Hospital."
OF GRADUATES 569
George Arthur Smith
Principal, School No. 2, School Street, Yonkers, New York.
Residence, 21 Morsemere Place.
George Arthur Smith was born March 26th, 1871, at East
Northfield, Mass. He is a son of Homer Morgan Smith and
Carrie Sybil Holton, who were married March 31st, 1868, at
Springfield, Mass., and had altogether four children, two boys
and two girls, three of whom lived to maturity.
Homer Morgan Smith (b. April ist, 1843, at Winchester,
N. H.) is a retired business man and owner of a farm. He
has spent most of his life in the New England States, and is
now living at East Northfield and Springfield, Mass. His
parents were John Cook Smith, a farmer of Winchester, N. H.,
and Chloe Day of West Springfield, Mass. The family is of
English descent.
Carrie Sybil (Holton) Smith (b. Oct. 2d, 1847, at North-
field, Mass.) is the daughter of Theodore Holton, a manufac-
turer and farmer, and Mary Ann Doolittle (whose direct an-
cestor came over in the "Mayflower"), both of Northfield.
Smith prepared for Yale at Norwich Academy. His residence
during Freshman year was at Winchester, N. H., and during
the remaining three years of his course at East Northfield,
Mass. He received a Second Colloquy at the Junior Exhibi-
tion and at Commencement and was a member of the Yale
Union.
He was married March 7th, 1900, at Brooklyn Heights, N. Y.,
to Miss Mary E. Dudley Burk, daughter of Carl Burk.
He has three children: Caroline Dudley Morgan Smith (b.
Dec. 27th, 1900, at Litchfield, Conn.) ; Mary Theodora Smith
(b. Jan. 5th, 1903, at Litchfield) ; and Homer Morgan Smith
(b. Oct. isth, 190S, at Yonkers, N. Y.).
For four years Smith was Instructor in German and
Director of Athletics at the Cascadilla School in Ithaca,
New York. In 1900 he resigned this position to become
Superintendent-Principal of Schools in Litchfield, Conn.,
where he remained until 1903. "In the summer of 1903,"
he writes : "I was elected Head of the German Depart-
ment in Yonkers High School, which position I held until
I was elected last summer Principal of School No. 2, with
enrollment of 1300 pupils, having twenty-seven teachers
570 BIOGRAPHIES
(also Principal of Yonkers Evening High School, with
sixteen teachers). Was Chairman of the Modern Lan-
guage Conference for Secondary Schools at the Forty-
third Annual Convention of the National Educational
Association at St. Louis in June, 1904. Last summer
(1905) I took my family abroad, where for several weeks
I attended lectures at the University of Heidelberg. We
also visited Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, and many
cities in Germany. I saw a duel by students in Heidel-
berg. In Lucerne in Switzerland we had a glorious time
mountain climbing, etc.
''Shall doubtless spend this summer upon my farm in
New England, where I shall turn my children out to
pasture. I regret to say that I do. not meet many class-
mates, although I should enjoy meeting them. I am
always exceedingly busy in my work save in the summer."
Griswold Smith
.1 East loth Street, New
Member of brokerage firm of Sutro, Tweedy & Co., 33 Wall Street.
Residence, 41 East loth Street, New York City.
- - - - - . - - 33 Wa
Law office, 60 Wall Street. (See Appendix.)
[William Dickinson] Griswold Smith was born June x8th,
1873, at St. Louis, Mo. He is a son of Huntington Smith
(U. S. Naval Academy, '68) and Laura Isabella Griswold, who
were married Nov. 15th, 1871, at Terre Haute, Ind,, and had
altogether four children, all boys, one of whom is now a Yale
undergraduate.
Huntington Smith (b. March 15th, 1847, at Louisville, Ky.)
was graduated at Annapolis and served in the Navy until 1875.
He then resigned and settled at St. Louis, where he now re-
sides, without other occupation than the care of his estate.
His parents were the Hon. Hamilton Smith, Dartmouth, '27,
who was born at Durham, N. H., Sept. 19th, 1804, and who
lived in Louisville, Ky., and Cannelton, Ind. (of which latter
town he was the founder) ; and Louise Elizabeth Rudd of
Springfield, Ky. Hamilton Smith was by profession a lawyer,
and in later years was president of a development company.
The family came from England about 1645, and settled at
Dover, N. H.
Laura Isabella (Griswold) Smith (b. July 9th, 1848, at
OF GRADUATES 571
Benson, Vt. ; d, Aug. 9th, 1904, at Castleton, Vt.) was the
daughter of the Hon. William Dickinson Griswold, Middle-
bury '36, a lawyer and railroad president of Terre Haute, Ind.,
and Maria Mosby Lancaster, of Taylorsville, Ky.
Smith entered our Class in September, 1893, coming from the
Christian Brothers' College in St. Louis. He sang in the
College Choir and the University Glee Club, and was a member
of Zeta Psi.
He has not been married.
Smith's two-year course in the Law Department of
Washington University, St. Louis, was interrupted in
April, 1898, by his enlistment in Battery A, Missouri
Volunteers. After a preliminary experience in camp at
Chickamauga he sailed for Porto Rico (in July) where he
"participated in the campaign as a driver in the second
section, until the cessation of hostilities." In the latter
part of September he returned to the United States, was
invalided, and in December was mustered out. Meantime
he had passed his bar examinations and been awarded
the degree of LL.B.
For a few months he practised law in Washington,
D. C, but in March, 1899, he was offered a position
with the law firm of Rowland & Murray (later How-
land, Murray & Prentice) of New York City. He
came North in June. In July, 1900, he took the New
York Bar examinations, and he remained with Judge
Rowland's firm until July, 1902.
"I left New York in the summer of 1902," says his
decennial letter, "and returned to my home in St. Louis,
where I formed a law partnership with Kent Koerner,
Esq., of that city, under the firm name of Smith & Koer-
ner. In January, 1904, I formed the partnership of
Holmes, Blair, Smith & Koerner (J. M. Holmes and
Albert Blair). In December, 1903, I was selected as
Secretary and Attorney for the Citizens' Industrial Asso-
ciation of St. Louis, 'an association formed to combat the
illegal, oppressive, and anarchistic tendencies of labor
unions, standing for the enforcement of law and preser-
572 BIOGRAPHIES
vation of constitutional rights.' The Association had
about 300 scattered members when I took hold, and when
I resigned had succeeded in increasing its membership
to about 6,000, and the work of the society had resulted
in a vastly improved labor situation in St. Louis. I re-
signed in the spring of 1905 and returned to the general
practice of law, as a member of Holmes, Blair, Smith &
Koerner. I was so affected and stimulated by success
in winning the Long Distance Cup at the '96 Dinner of
1905 that I returned to New York again in the fall of
1905, and formed a partnership with Victor Sutro, '97,
and Laurance Tweedy, '99, in the stock and bond broker-
age business, which is my present occupation. I may be
able to return to the law some day, so I still keep my name
on the rolls and have my name as "Attorney-at-law"
artistically, though chastelv, printed on a door at 60 Wall
Street."
One further extract from a letter dated December 21,
1904 : "In answer to your inquiry, the Citizens' Industrial
Association has started a monthly magazine, a copy of
the first issue of which I am sending you under separate
cover. You will notice the classic influence of Bill
Phelps in my nobly worded editorial.
"Billy Starkweather was among other welcomed ac-
quaintances in my office this summer. He looks youthful
and baby faced and has been on the wagon for a year or
more. He tells me that he is doing very well in Cleve-
land, but like Henry Baker and myself can't find the
requisite nerve to indulge in matrimony."
Nathaniel W. Smith
Assistant Attorney, N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. Co.
Office, N. Y., N. H. &. H. R. R. Office Building, Providence, Rhode Island.
Residence, 269 Thayer Street.
Nathaniel Waite Smith was born Nov. i8th, 1873, at Provi-
dence, R. I. He is a son of Nathaniel Wait [sic] Smith and
Emily Frances Cole, who were married April 27th, 1870, at
Providence, and had one other child, a son.
J
OF GRADUATES 573
Nathaniel Wait Smith (b. Dec. i8th, 1842, at Barrington,
R. I. ; d. Jan. 7th, 1875, at Providence) was a wholesale drug
merchant of Providence. His parents were Nathaniel Church
Smith, a farmer, and Sally Bowen, both of Barrington. The
family came from England in 1620 and 1638, and settled at
Plymouth and Weymouth, Mass.
Emily Frances (Cole) Smith (b. Aug. 29th, 1845, at Warren,
R. I.; d. Oct. 29th,* 1901, at Bellows Falls, Vt.) spent her early
life at Warren and Portsmouth. She was the daughter of
Edmund Cole, an inn-keeper of Warren, and Olive Maria
Wheeler of Rehoboth, Mass.
Smith spent the latter part of his youth at Bellows Falls, Vt.,
and prepared for College at the Bellows Falls High School.
He made the News in Sophomore year, and received a First
Dispute at the Junior Exhibition and at Commencement. A. D.
Phi.
He was married Sept. 23d, 1905, at Willow Dell, Matunuck, R. I.,
to Miss Ellen Howard Weeden, daughter of William Babcock
Weeden of Wakefield, R. I. (See Appendix.)
Smith received his LL.B. at the New York Law School
in 1898, and was admitted to the New York Bar. He
then went to Providence to practise with Messrs. Ed-
wards & Angell. He was admitted to the Rhode Island
Bar in 1899, and to practise in the United States Courts
in 1901. On May ist, 1903, Edwards & Angell took him
into partnership.
The following January (1904), however, the New
York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company in-
duced him to resign from the firm and to enter their
employ as Assistant Attorney. The Rhode Island busi-
ness of the railroad now occupies his entire time. His
work is understood to be in connection with the Claims
Department, and with appearing on behalf of the Rail-
road before legislative committees. (See Appendix.)
"Last year (1905)/' he writes, *I was appointed As-
sistant Judge Advocate General, with rank of Lieutenant
Colonel, on the Rhode Island military staff, but the duties
are not arduous. P. Allen is the man of '96 I Ve seen
most — but he wanders about too much and too fast to be
574 BIOGRAPHIES
seen in any one place often. Now and then I get together
with a few of the men and I '11 be at New Haven for the
Decennial, D.V. There 's nothing extraordinary or un-
usual to note.— I 'm busy, well and happy."
Winthrop D. Smith
Partner in KoUer & Smith (card index and filing systems), 298 Broadway,
Xew York City.
Winthrop Davenport Smith was born in New York City, Sept.
I2th, 1874. He is a son of Eugene Smith, '59, and Katherine
Wadsworth Bacon, who were married Feb. 21st, 1872, at New
Haven, Conn., and had altogether four children, two boys and
two girls.
Eugene Smith (b. April 24th. 1838, at New York City, was
Valedictorian of his Class at Yale, The greater part of his life
has been spent at Wilton, Conn., and New York City, where he
now (Mar., '06) resides, engaged in the practice of the law.
His parents were Mathew Smith of New York, and Mary Ann
Davenport of Wilton, Conn. Mathew Smith was in the print-
ing press business ; the firm name is now R. Hoe & Company.
Katherine Wadsworth (Bacon) Smith (b. May 30th, c. 1850,
at New Haven, Conn.) is the daughter of Leonard Bacon, '20,
D.D., a clergyman of New Haven. Her mother was a Miss
Wadsworth.
Smith prepared for Yale at the Dwight School in New York
City. (It is given as "Berkeley" in error in the Senior Year
Class Book.) He rowed Stroke on the fast '96 Freshman
Crew (which beat the 'Varsity), was Stroke on the Sopho-
more Crew in the fall and spring Regattas, and was substi-
tute on the 'Varsity in 1894. He received an Oration at the
Junior Exhibition and a Dissertation at Commencement. Psi
U. Bones.
He was married by the Rev. A. P. Stokes, Jr., '96, Jan. 3d, 1903,
at New York City, to Miss Mary Virginia Agate, daughter
of the late Frederick K. Agate of New York, and step-daughter
of Prof. Michael Idvorsky Pupin of Columbia University.
Smith worked for one year with Hartley & Graham of
New York, dealers in guns and ammunition. In June,
OF GRADUATES 575
1897, he left them to take a position in Baltimore with
the purchasing department of the Baltimore, Chesapeake
& Atlantic Railway Company, and in 1899, upon the ab-
sorption of this road by the Pennsylvania Railroad, he
entered the lubricating business as Baltimore and Wash-
ington salesman for a Baltimore house. This lasted until
1900.
He then returned to New York and became Assistant
Manager in the local office of the Fred. Macey Co., Ltd.,
of Grand Rapids, Michigan, manufacturers of card index
systems and office furniture. The Manager was Winfield
R. Koller, and on November 12th, 1903, he and Smith
sent out a signed notice which read : "The undersigned
desire to announce that we have severed our connections
with the Fred. Macey Co., Ltd., as New York Manager
and Assistant Manager, respectively, and have formed
the partnership of Koller & Smith, of Port Richmond,
N. Y., with New York office at 141 Broadway. We are
prepared to furnish a complete line of card index cabinets
and supplies, filing devices, sectional cabinets, sectional
bookcases and office furniture," etc. In short, the new
firm's specialty was "business systematizing," and the
supplying of equipment for this purpose.
Koller & Smith moved their offices this spring, and
Winthrop, who is tremendously absorbed in his business
anyhow, was almost too busy to answer the "genea-
logical" questions. His letter follows : "Your scathing
remarks about my not filling out the blank and sending it
in, touched me to the quick. I have really been intending
to do this for a long time but the questions are of such a
far-reaching nature, that some of them I have not been
able to answer and have been intending to take the matter
up with my oldest living ancestors in the hope of being
able to do so. Rather than wait further, however, I fill
it out to the best of my ability and enclose it herewith."
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Henry Spalding
Lawyer, 6i8 North American Building, Philadelphia.
Henry [Alexis] Spalding was born May 6th, 1874, at New
Haven, Conn. He is a son of Warren A. Spalding and Myra
A. Sanborn, who were married March 14th, 1868, at Gilmanton,
N. H., and had altogether five children, three boys and two
girls. Clarence G. Spalding, '98 S., is a brother.
Warren A. Spalding (b. Dec. 9th, 1845, at Windsor, Vt.) is
a druggist of New Haven. His parents were Abial Spalding,
a superintendent of railroad work, and Lucia L. Blanchard,
both of Windsor, Vt. The family came from England in 1619,
and settled in Virginia.
Myra A. (Sanborn) Spalding (b. June 24th, 1847, at
Randolph, Vt.) is the daughter of Oilman Sanborn, a clergy-
man, and Clarissa M. Osgood, both of Randolph. Her an-
cestors were English settlers of Andover, Mass.
Spalding prepared for Yale at the Hillhouse High School. He
took One Year Honors in History while in College, and was
interested in debating, being a member of the Yale Union.
A Dissertation at the Junior Exhibition and at Commence-
ment.
He was married Nov. 4th, 1903, at the Church of the Messiah,
Universalist, Philadelphia, Pa., to Miss Florence Cuthbert
Dessalet, daughter of John C. Dessalet of Philadelphia, and
has one child, Sarah Spalding (b. Oct. 17th, 1904, at Phila-
delphia).
For the first three years after leaving Yale Spalding
studied law at the University of Pennsylvania, being
graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1899.
He then began practice in Philadelphia, where he has
since remained. At Sexennial he was associated with
Joseph W. Fell, and David Newlin Fell, Jr., but since
1903 he has been with the latter only. In common with
the other members of the Class now resident in Phila-
delphia he finds very little to say about himself for the
Class reports.
The Secretary regrets that there is nothing that he
can add of his own knowledge to make the biography
more complete, but, as one of Spalding's fellow citizens,
Mr. Lorimer, has observed, the first essential of a quiet
funeral is a willing corpse.
OF GRADUATES 577
Chas. F. Spellman
Junior Partner in the law firm of Spellman & Spellman, Springfield, Mass.
Office 31 Elm St,
Residence, 95 Magnolia Terrace.
Charles Flagg Spellman was born Nov. 30th, 1874, at Spring-
field, Mass. He is the son of Charles Clark Spellman, ex ^(i'j,
and Jennie Hannah Flagg, who were married Oct. 4th, 1872, at
Springfield, and had one other child, a girl.
Charles Clark Spellman (b. Dec. 3d, 1843, at Wilbraham,
Mass.) studied at Yale for two years in the Class of '67. He
is an attorney at law of Springfield and has held many public
offices— Senator and Legislator for the State, etc. His parents
were Solomon Clark Spellman, a store keeper and attorney at
law, and Martha Jane West, both of Wilbraham. The family
is of English descent.
Jennie Hannah (Flagg) Spellman (b. Jan. 3d, 1852, at
Springfield) is the daughter of Charles W. Flagg, an ice dealer
of Springfield, and Hannah Submit Tildon of Wilbraham.
Spellman prepared for College at Williston and entered with our
Class. He received a First Dispute at the Junior Exhibition
and at Commencement.
He was married Nov. 3d, 1903, at Springfield, Mass., to Miss
Alice Helena Malley, daughter of James Malley of Springfield.
Immediately after graduation Spellman began reading
law in his father's office. He spent the summer of 1897
traveling in Europe, was admitted to practice in October,
and in January, 1898, became the junior member of Spell-
man & Spellman. He was once a candidate for the Mas-
sachusetts lower house on the Democratic ticket, but
failed of election.
Rendered sceptical by the baselessness of earlier ru-
mors, the Secretary disbelieved the news of Spellman's
marriage until he received this authentic confirmation:
"Pray pardon a most thoughtless act of a most negligent
cuss, in not sending to the Secretary of Yale, '96, the glad
news of my marriage. But news or no news, I am mar-
ried. I know I am, and I can feel it in my bones. Say
Clarence, honestly, it is great to be a married man— you
may have more troubles then when single, but even then,
578 BIOGRAPHIES
it is worth it. You and Hammy should profit by my ex-
perience and go and do likewise."
"I have stuck to business," he wrote this spring, "try-
ing hard to get a living, and I am still on top of water.
Vacations have been short and whenever I could take
them."
* Marius J. Spinello
Instructor at the University of California.
Died at Berkeley, California, May 24, 1904.
Marius Joseph Spinello was born in Sant' Arsenio, Province
of Salerno, Italy, Oct. 28th, 1871. He was a son of Giovanni
Battista Spinello and Maddalena Pessolano, who were married
at Sant' Arsenio about 1864, and had altogether three children,
two boys and one girl.
Giovanni Battista Spinello (b. at Sant* Arsenio, c. 1828;
d. May 24th, 1893, at New Haven, Conn.) was a decorator.
He served with honor in the Sicilian campaigns of 1847-48.
He was the son of Gabriele Spinello, a merchant, and Mar-
gherita Episcopo, both of Sant' Arsenio.
Maddalena (Pessolano) Spinello was born in 1832, at Sant'
Arsenio. She is the daughter of Antonio Pessolano, a mer-
chant, and Elisabetta Costa, both of Sant' Arsenio.
Spinello came to the United States with his parents in his boy-
hood, and to New Haven in 1887. While employed with his
brother as a barber he was prepared for Yale under the Rev.
J. Lee Mitchell (Harvard, '84, Yale, Ph.D., '96), then pastor of
the Grand Avenue Congregational Church. In College he was
a member of the Yale Union and received a First Dispute at the
Junior Exhibition and at Commencement.
He was married at Syracuse, N. Y., June i8th, 1902, to Miss
Alice Frederica Boon, daughter of William Boon of Syracuse.
For our sexennial volume Spinello wrote as follows : "I
taught Latin, French and Greek for three years in St.
John's Military School, Manlius, New York. In 1899
I received the degree of M.A. from Yale, was made a
University scholar, and went back to New Haven for
postgraduate work. With the permission of the faculty
OF GRADUATES 579
I spent the following year partly in Bonn and Rhein and
partly in Paris . . . where I matriculated as a regular
student at La Sorbonne and took a course in Paleography
at L'Ecole des Chartes, and another in old French and
Provengal under Paul Meyer. At the school of Hautes
Etudes I studied old Spanish under Morel-Fatio. At the
College de France I followed a course in comparative
literature given by Gaston Paris, another in Spanish
Drama given by Morel-Fatio and another in Dantesque
literature given by the same professor."
As originally printed, the preceding extract contained
an error in regard to which the Secretary received in
January, 1903, this characteristic note :
"Dear Clarence: Am I indebted to you for my copy of the
'Sexennial Record'? And how much? I am not in a great
hurry to obtain an answer to these questions— take your time!
The editor was right in adding to my autobiography that little
remark : I was a bit mixed up on the dates . . . But, my dear .
fellow, you obliged me so much with your 'haste thee, nymph,'
that I hurried to jot down those few facts: 'ergo in errorem
incidi,' as my great-grandfather Tullius would say. It does not
matter. . . . Quatuor autem abhinc annos, noli timere, plus curse
habebo ne in diverticula abiturus sim.
"Be as good as you always were, stick to pipe collecting, and
believe me when I say that Chauncey, Zeus and I are doing our
best to justify the pretenses of old '96 as the greatest class that
ever graduated from the 'stamping ground' of the venerable elms.
"Yours in '96,
"Marius J. Spinello."
"Only a severe and dangerous illness," said Chauncey Wells
in his "Alumni Weekly" account of Spinello's life, "prevented
Spinello from taking his degree at the end of his year abroad.
However, he returned to America late in 1901 to undertake some
private tutoring in the South until a university position should
offer. This came to him from the University of California in
the spring of 1902. He was married in early summer and came
to California as assistant in Romance languages.
"His career in his two years at Berkeley was of an astonishing
brilliancy. He won the confidence and affection of Professor
Felicien Paget, his chief, and he was entrusted not only with
the courses in Italian, his native tongue, but with advanced
French. And when Professor Paget's failing health forced him
to give up his teaching, he selected Spinello to carry on his work,
because of his fluency in French speech, his sound philological
training, his literary appreciation and above all his irresistible
enthusiasm. Of these qualities it is not too much to say that
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they effected a remarkable change of the Romance department;
French was taught as French, Italian as Italian, and not only
as the French or Italian language but from the view-point of a
Latin. Spinello won an instructorship at the end of his first
year, an advance in salary at the end of his second, and the
promise of a professorship. But his more personal qualities had
won him a hold on the affections of the people of Berkeley such
as perhaps no newcomer has ever enjoyed. Professor Paget died
in his arms. The neighbors, the milkman, the gardener, loved
him. Within two hours of his shocking accident almost every
family in the community had sent to the hospital, where he lay,
offers of sympathy and help. He will long be remembered for
his thoughtfulness, his loyalty, his courage and cheer.
"At the notable dramatic festival at the dedication of the Greek
theatre in Berkeley last September, Spinello had entire charge
of the production of 'Phedra.' Under his coaching the actors
must have played their parts well, if they had been stuffed with
bran. It was a signal triumph. Two of us, his fellow collegians,
were among the first to congratulate him. He lifted us fairly
off our feet with an eager, boyish hug, crowing hrek-ek-ek-ex.
Even after his fatal accident, when they had drawn him, ter-
ribly mangled, from under the car wheels, he looked up at his
wife with a brave smile and a word of comfort. He greeted
the unseen with a cheer."
The accident which caused Spinello's death occurred
at nine o'clock on the morning of May 24th, 1904. The
out-bound **Key Route" train was just leaving the Berke-
ley^ station. He tried to board it. Running at top speed
he leaped and caught the gate bar of the third car, but
missed his footing. His feet swung inwards under the
wheels. Overcome by the pain he fell to the ground only
to have another set of trucks pass over him. The train
was stopped. After some delay two doctors arrived and by
the time the ambulance came to take him to the East Bay
Sanatorium they had finished the temporary operation of
severing the crushed portions of his legs and tying the
ends of the arteries. Mrs. Spinello followed in a car-
riage. She had accompanied her husband to the station
that morning and had witnessed the whole sickening ca-
tastrophe.
Marius did not lose consciousness. He bore up bravely
even when placed upon the operating table. But as he
grew weaker and the pain intensified he did beg the
surgeons to let him die. The end came that afternoon at
Spinello
OF GRADUATES 581
about half past three. The shock and the loss of blood
had been too great.
In another part of this volume (see 'Tot-pourri") will
be found a letter about Spinello from Louis Jones, and in
the Bibliographical Notes is a list of his writings, and a
statement concerning the Memorial Library established
at the University of California in his honor. The sub-
scriptions to the latter came largely of course from Cali-
fornians, but the little circular descriptive of the project
brought many responses from '96 men and others in the
East. "How proud and pleased," wrote Wells, "the dear
boy would be to know it."
Albert J. Squires
Lawyer. Batavia, New York, Office, Room 5, Walker Block.
Residence, 4 Walker Place. •
Albert Jefferson Squires was born Aug. 3d, 1869, at East
Aurora, Erie Co., N. Y. He is a son of Lyman Cook Squires
and Alice M. Grant, who were married July 14th, 1868, at East
Aurora, and had altogether four children, all sons.
Lyman Cook Squires (b. Feb. 27th, 1823, at South Dansville,
Steuben Co., N. Y.; d. April 22d, 1888, at East Aurora) was a
dentist. Most of his life was spent at Dansville, East Aurora,
and Utica, N. Y. He was the son of Phineas Squires, a shoe-
maker of South Dansville, and Jane Buchanan. Phineas
Squires was born in Connecticut. The family came from Eng-
land in the seventeenth century, and settled in New England.
Alice M. (Grant) Squires (b. Dec. 21st, 1842; d. Oct. 2d,
1903, at Batavia, Genesee Co., N. Y.) spent her early life in
Genesee County. She was the daughter of Thomas and Jane
Grant. Thomas Grant was a farmer of Canterbury, Eng.
Squires prepared for College at Exeter, "whence," says the Senior
Year Class Book, "he brought to Yale numerous souvenirs of
his athletic prowess." He was a member of the Exeter Club,
and received a Dissertation at the Junior Exhibition and at
Commencement.
He has not been married.
After graduation Ajax entered a law office in Buffalo,
and except for a term of service in 1898 with the 74th
582 BIOGRAPHIES
Regiment, N.Y.N.G., he studied law there and in Batavia
until he was admitted in October, 1899, to the New York
Bar. He then settled in Batavia to practise for himself
and by himself. Since 1901 he has also served as Clerk
of the Board of Education. He is a Mason, a Republican
delegate upon occasions, &c. "For about eleven months
of each year," he writes, "I, with the aid of an assistant,
take care of the clerical duties connected with the Board
of Education, collect the school tax, take school census,
etc. I also' have a fair amount of such law practice as is
usually to be found in the rural farming sections. The
twelfth month I spend in the wilderness as far from the
railroad, telephone and telegraph as a canoe and a strong
pair of legs will take me in the time at my command.
Regarding some of these trips, perhaps, at some later
date, I will go into detail."
The New York contingent is always expecting Ajax
to appear at one of the winter dinners, and is always dis-
appointed. A while ago, in sending his own regrets,
Oakley gave some information about Squires, which is
here printed:
"I 'm sorry not to be there myself," he wrote. "The
corporation that pays me throws in an annual pass, but no
leisure to enjoy same. Thus does Providence send us
nuts when our teeth are gone. Ball, Buck, Conley and
Young constitute the band of the Faithful in these parts,
with Ajax Squires just down the road a piece, bigger
than ever, practising law, raising Penciled Wyandotte-
fowls, and elevating politics in the Imperial County of
Genesee on the side. Said politics are reported to be
99 44/100 pure as we go to press. Each and every mem-
ber of the foregoing galaxy is pursuing fame and for-
tune, and gaining part of a lap on same ever and anon, or
about as often as that. Young says it 's the blight of his
golden prime to miss the Windfest of the Lay Jawsmiths.
He hopes to be among those present next year, as do all
resident absentees. Failing that, we may back Ajax in
a pie-eating contest by wire against any available candi-
date. He weighs over 200 at present, and has shown
great form in private trials."
J
OF GRADUATES 583
Hon. Edmund G. Stalter
City Counsel of Paterson, N. J., with offices in the City Hall.
Professional address, 152 Market Street.
Residence, 16 Clark Street.
Edmund Gerald Stalter was born at Paterson, N. J., Jan. 8th,
1875. He is a son of Charles P. Stalter and Matilda Higginson,
who had one other child, William W. Stalter, who served as
Lieutenant during the Spanish-American War, and who now
(April, '06) holds the rank of Captain.
Charles P. Stalter (b. March 21st, 1848, at Paterson, N. J.)
is a manufacturer of machinery, of Paterson. His parents were
Jeremiah Stalter, a manufacturing machinist, and Sarah Van
Riper, both of Paterson. The family came from Scotland and
Ireland with the London Company, and settled in Paterson
and Pompton Township, N. J.
Matilda (Higginson) Stalter (b. March sth, 1849, at Pater-
son) is the daughter of William W. Higginson, a farmer of
Paterson, and Anne Dallas of Providence, R. L
Stalter prepared at the Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N. H.
He sang on the Second Glee Club in Sophomore year and
thereafter on the University Glee Club. He received a Second
Dispute at the Junior Exhibition and a First Colloquy at Com-
mencement.
He was married at Paterson, N. J., May 29th, 1900, to Miss Lou
Eugene Ward, daughter of Zebulon Marcy Ward, a Paterson
lawyer.
Stalter is now Corporation Counsel of the City of
Paterson, New Jersey. It would be interesting to trace
the steps that led to this elevated habitat. They are. in
so far as they are known, as follows :—
First came two years in the Yale Law School, from
which he was graduated with the degree of LL.B. in
1898. He returned home, and, the following fall, as he
wrote in 1902, "mixed up in the politics of my ward and
did campaigning for the candidate for Assembly and
Congress. Next year was a delegate to the County Con-
vention, and, after a little mixup in regard to nomina-
tions, somehow or other my name was suggested and I
was put on the ticket, and was subsequently (November,
1899) elected. Next fall (1900) was reelected and
584 BIOGRAPHIES
again in 1901. Have served on committees on municipal
corporations, judiciary, federal relations and revision of
laws, being chairman of the latter."
He was elected once more in 1902 to serve in the Legis-
lature of 1903, but he does not appear to have held office
the following year. In 1905 he became Corporation
Counsel, or "City Counsel," as it is styled upon his letter-
head.
At the time of the Secretary's questionings, "Collier's
Weekly" had just published an article which seemed un-
pleasantly to identify Paterson with anarchists. There
was talk of a libel suit, and Stalter suddenly found him-
self serving as a storm center for the newspaper and
legislative violence which the discussion pro and con
provoked. It required "the bitter clamour of two eager
tongues," and plenty of it, to evoke from him for Class
purposes even the following superfluously apologetic and
unin forming note at such an exciting time :
"My dear Clarence: After many futile attempts and
after dozens of gentle reminders from Drown et als., and
*Day'ly telegrams I at last have stolen time enough to fill
out one of the blanks you have sent me, and which I trust
will be in time and before Godchaux sends his. I am
deeply and sincerely sorry to have been so dilatory, but I
have been for the last four months so abso-bluming-lutely
(as Drown would say) busy that I really could not
help it."
Wm. J. Starkweather
Lawyer, American Trust Building, Cleveland, Ohio.
Residence, 8i6 Prospect Street
William Judd Starkweather was born June 7th, 1874, in Cleve-
land, Ohio. He is the son of William Judd Starkweather and
Leafie Sims, who were married Nov. 3d, 1868, at Cleveland, and
had one other child, a daughter, who died before maturity.
William Judd Starkweather (b. Dec. 14th, 1845, at Cleveland,
Ohio; d. July loth, 1899, at Cleveland) was in the real estate
business in Cleveland, and was interested in the street railways
of that city. His father was Samuel Starkweather, a lawyer
OF GRADUATES 585
of Pawtucket, R. I., who was Judge of the Superior Court, and
Mayor of Cleveland in 1854.
Leafie (Sims) Starkweather (b. Nov. 3d, 1849, at Lockport,
N. Y.) is the daughter of Elias Sims, a Cleveland contractor,
and Cornelia Vosburgh of New York.
Starkweather entered our Class from '95 in the fall of our
Sophomore year. His residence in 1892 was registered as
New York City, and during the remaining three years of his
course as Cleveland, Ohio. He was a member of the Cleveland
Club at Yale, and played on the Champion Senior Baseball
Nine. A. D. Phi. ('95 election.)
He has not been married.
The replies to what Starkweather styles "the chaste but
fervent epistles" of the Class Secretary are not infre-
quently monosyllabic, and this time it was so with Judd's.
He did not feel at all well. He had a cold. His words
were as in the stifled voice of one speaking thickly
through many rolls of blankets. They averred merely
that he was unmarried, that he was practising law, and
that he had not "written, compiled, or contributed to"
anything whatever.
At Sexennial he reported himself to be "engaged in
looking after the legal necessities which are always at-
tendant upon the rapid and vast accumulation of wealth
by others; and, when time permits, giving ^ word of
cheer or encouragement to the students who abound in
my office." Presumably this is still the benevolent sphere
of his activities. His advice we must suppose is valued
for the eminently practical quality it had even in our un-
dergraduate years, when, some cogent remedy being de-
manded for the cribbing scandals, Judd counseled the
Faculty to end them once and for all "by giving low-
stand men the choice of seats."
After graduation, and after a brief connection with the
old bond and brokerage house of Denison, Prior & Co.
of Cleveland, Starkweather entered the Law Depart-
ment of Western Reserve University, graduating with
the degree of LL.B. in 1898. He was a member of
Troop A, Ohio N.G., and when the war broke out he
586 BIOGRAPHIES
enlisted (May 9th, 1898) as Sergeant in Troop C, ist
Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. The Regiment ar-
rived at Camp George H. Thomas, Chickamauga Park,
Ga., on May 15th; at Lakeland, Fla., July 15th. A
month later (Aug. 19th) Starkweather was sent to the
hospital at Lakeland with a case of typhoid. He re-
ceived a furlough in September, was mustered out of
the service at Cleveland on Oct. 22d, and thereafter com-
menced the practice of law in that city.
Although importantly occupied these days, it must not
be inferred that our old "wife-beater" goes without his
lawful rest and recreation. Class postals have been re-
ceived from him from many ports of pleasure, and in an-
other part of this book a clairvoyant artist has depicted
him at ease in one of the balmiest of all. The seashore
and the South, sometimes California too, have learned to
watch for and to wait his welcome step ; and New York,
it may be added, regards these favored climes with grow-
ing envy.
Douglas Stewart
Assistant to the Director, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Douglas Stewart was born July 15th, 1873, at Pittsburgh, Pa.
He is a son of David Alexander Stewart and Nancy Scott, who
were married July 12th, i860, at Pittsburgh, and had alto-
gether four children, three boys and one girl, three of whom
lived to maturity.
David Alexander Stewart (b. Sept. 23d, 1831, at Hagers-
town, Md.; d. Dec. 14th, 1888, at Pittsburgh) was Freight
Agent at Pittsburgh of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Chairman
of the Carnegie Steel Co., and President of the Pittsburgh
Locomotive Works. His parents were John Henderson Stewart
(of Hagerstown, Md., Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia, Pa.) and
Mary Scott. John Henderson Stewart was employed in the
United States Mint.
Nancy (Scott) Stewart (b. July 2d, 1840, at Pittsburgh) is
the daughter of Thomas Scott, President of the Merchants
and Manufacturers' Bank, and Sarah Adams, both of Pitts-
burgh. She is now (Jan., '06) living at Pittsburgh.
Stewart prepared at the Shady Side Academy in Pittsburgh. He
OF GRADUATES 587
was a member of the Yale University Orchestral Club, the Uni-
versity Banjo Club, and the University Club. A Second Col-
loquy at the Junior Exhibition and a First Colloquy at Com-
mencement. A. D. Phi.
He was married at Allegheny, Pa., April 22d, 1902, to Miss
Agnes Caldwell Dickson, daughter of Dr. John S. Dickson of
Allegheny.
"The social law against 'talking shop,' " says a contem-
porary essayist, ''is an indication of the very widespread
opinion that the exhibition of unmitigated knowledge is
unseemly outside of business hours. When we meet for
pleasure we prefer that it should be on the humanizing
ground of not knowing. Nothing is so fatal to conversa-
tion as an authoritative utterance."
The contemporary essayist is doubtless entirely right,
but Stewart appears to have taken these, or other similar
injunctions, overmuch to heart. He is Cufator, or rather
Assistant to the Director (W. J. Holland, Ph.D., LL.D.),
of the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh; but although
this is an interesting profession, and one of the few
which are not overcrowded, Stewart seems curiously un-
willing to discuss it. In the fall of 1905 the Secretary
went to the length of visiting Pittsburgh in person, in
search of information. He found and lunched with
Douglas, and even tamely accompanied him to a local
exhibition of "paintings by American artists." It was
without result. As soon as the Curator conveniently
could he retreated to his den, and turned the Secretary
over to Carroll Fitzhugh, who hurried him down-town in
a trolley, walked him off his legs, and then urbanely
enough contrived to lose him — in an unspeakable net-
work of dirty streets raging horridly with traffic.
"Your message reached Stewart in his winter quarters
with the mummies, looking up his genealogical record,"
wrote another Pittsburgh classmate later on. "He says
that he has written you unusually promptly considering
his late associations."
There was a plan afoot at Decennial to point out to
588 BIOGRAPHIES
Stewart a certain leathery classmate who has of recent
years acquired the sobriquet of "Rameses" at the Yale
Club, and see whether he would attempt to add him to his
collection of Egyptians, but no Stewart arrived. We
were obliged to picture him regretfully, either as travel-
ing (as usual) in foreign parts, or else hiding in some
musty corner of the Museum surrounded by assorted
antiquities, and, after the manner of Father Adam, be-
stowing upon them labeled nomenclature of his own
invention and at his own sweet will.
Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr.
Secretary of Yale University.
Residence, 73 Elm Street, New Haven, Conn.
Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr., was born April 13th, 1874, in New
Brighton, Richmond Co., N. Y. He is a son of Anson Phelps
Stokes and Helen Louisa Phelps, who were married Oct. 17th,
1865, at New York City, and had altogether nine children, four
boys and five girls. The oldest son is a graduate of Harvard,
the second, James Graham Phelps Stokes, of '92 S., and a
younger brother is now in the Class of '09.
Anson Phelps Stokes, the elder (b. Feb. 22d, 1838, at New
York City) was a partner in the firm of Phelps, Dodge & Co.,
merchants, and the firm of Phelps, Stokes & Co., foreign
bankers of New York City. He has been a member of the
Executive Committee of the Civil Service Reform Association
from its commencement, and was first President of the Reform
Club. He is Vice-Commodore of the New York Yacht Club,
and is the author of "Joint Metallism" and the inventor of the
Globuloid Naval Battery. His parents were James Boulter
Stokes, a merchant and banker, and Caroline Phelps (daughter
of Anson Green Phelps), both of New York City. His grand-
father, Thomas Stokes, and his grandmother, Elizabeth Ann
(Boulter) Stokes, who were married at St. Margaret's Church,
Lowestoft, Eng., Aug. 21st, 1793, came to America from Lon-
don, Eng., in 1798, and settled at New York City.
Helen Louisa (Phelps) Stokes (b. Aug. 20th, 1846, at New
York City) is the daughter of Isaac Newton Phelps, a banker
(of the firm of L N. & J. J. Phelps, and later of Phelps, Stokes
& Co.) of New York City, and Sarah Maria Lusk (daughter
of Sylvester Lusk), of Enfield, Conn.
OF GRADUATES 589
Stokes spent his youth after 1884 in New York City, and pre-
pared for Yale at St. Paul's. He was Freshman and Sopho-
more Fence Orator, Class Deacon, Prize Speaker at the Junior
Exhibition, winner of the DeForest Prize Medal, a member of
the Sophomore German Committee, Floor Manager of the
Junior Prom, Chairman of the News (which he made in
Freshman year), and Secretary and Treasurer of the Yale
Co-op, (1894-6). An Oration at the Junior Exhibition and a
High Oration at Commencement. Phi Beta Kappa. He Boule.
D. K. E. Bones.
He was married at Bernardsville, N. J., Dec. 30th, 1903, to Miss
Carol Green Mitchell, daughter of the late Clarence Mitchell,
a graduate of Columbia University and a lawyer of New York
City, whose family lived for several generations in Charles-
ton, S. C. Her mother was the daughter of the Rev. Dr.
Lindley, one of the first of the American Board's Missionaries
to the Zulus of South Africa. They have one child, a son,
Anson Phelps Stokes, 3d (b. Jan. nth, 1905, at New Haven,
Conn.). (See Appendix.)
In its issue for February 15th, 1905, the "Alumni
Weekly" printed the following editorial:
"Secretary Stokes last year declined an offer of the Presidency
of Trinity College, and it was announced last week that, after
long consideration and with full appreciation of the opportunities
for usefulness in the place, he had refused an election as Head
Master of St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., to succeed Dr.
Coit. It is a fact welcome to Yale men that educators outside of
Yale University set so high a value on their Secretary; it is a
fact more grateful still that his loyalty to Yale has reinforced
his judgment in reaching the decision which retains for the Uni-
versity an almost invaluable officer. . . ."
There is a good deal more, of course, that could be
written or quoted, but the Class Secretary contents him-
self, by request, with publishing merely Anson's own let-
ter (couched in the third person).
"After graduation he spent a year traveling around
the world with Frederick E. Stockwell, a graduate of
Brown University. On returning he entered the Episco-
pal Theological Seminary at Cambridge, Mass., from
which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of
Divinity in 1900. (In this same year he also received the
degree of Master of Arts from Yale.) He was admitted
590 BIOGRAPHIES
to Deacon's Orders in the Protestant Episcopal Church
by Bishop Potter of New York about Easter of this year.
In the spring of 1899 he was elected Secretary of Yale
University, but did not take up the duties in residence
until his graduation from the Divinity School. On com-
ing to New Haven he bought the Foster property, next
door to the Graduates' Club on Elm Street, and refitted
and enlarged the old house built in 1767. His work in
New Haven has been divided between the University and
St. Paul's Church, the University taking the main part
of his time. His Church duties have been confined
mainly to preaching on Sunday evening, except during
the Winter of 1903-04, when, in the absence of a rector,
he was acting minister in charge of the Parish, In his
work at the University he has been particularly interested
with movements to bring graduates into closer touch with
their Alma Mater, with the raising of increased endow-
ment, and with the purchase of the Hillhouse property,
this property having been purchased by a committee con-
sisting of Gifford Pinchot, Lewis S. Welch, and A. P. S.,
Jr. He was one of the founders of the Yale Foreign Mis-
sionary Society and has always been a member of its
Executive Committee. He has also held various outside
positions, being a member of the following boards : New
Haven Y.M.C.A., Foote Boys' Club, Lowell House (set-
tlement) Association, New Haven Hospital, Wellesley
College Trustees, Mount Hermon Boys' School, and
Organized Charities. He has had much outside preach-
ing to do, especially at schools and colleges, and has de-
livered a good many addresses on various occasions. . . .
He is spending the winter of 1905-06 abroad, studying
Ethics and Philosophy at Berlin and Oxford, and taking
a needed rest."
Herbert G. Strong
With the Strong Manufacturing Co., Winsted, Conn.
Residence, 8i Walnut Street.
Herbert Gillette Strong was born Dec. 20th, 1871, at Winsted,
Conn. He is a son of David Strong and Emmerette L. Colt,
OF GRADUATES 591
who were married June 7th, 1866, at Torrington, Conn., and
had altogether five children, all boys, three of whom lived to
maturity. Frederick Clark Strong, ex '90 S., is a brother.
David Strong (b. Aug. 17th, 1825, at East Hampton, Conn.)
served in the Civil War as 1st Lieutenant, Co. I, 24th Regt.
Conn. Vol., 1862-63. He has been engaged in the manufactur-
ing business at both East Hampton and Winsted, Conn., at
which latter place he now resides. He is President of the
Strong Manufacturing Co., the Winsted Hosiery Co., and the
1st National Bank. He has served as Selectman and Warden
(Mayor) and twice in the State Legislature. His parents were
John Caverly Adams Strong, a farmer of East Hampton, and
Deborah Lister Clark of Chatham, Conn. The family came
from England in 1630, and settled at Dorchester, Mass., later
moving to East Hampton.
Emmerette L. (Colt) Strong (b. Nov. 21st, 1841, at Torring-
ton, Conn.) is the daughter of Henry Colt, a farmer of Tor-
rington, and Chloe Catlin of Harwinton, Conn.
Strong prepared for College at Andover, and was a member of
the Andover and Hartford Clubs. He received a Second
Colloquy at Commencement.
He was married April 14th, 1903, at the Second Congregational
Church, Winsted, Conn., to Miss Sarah Beach Hunt, daughter
of Charles Kellogg Hunt, of Winsted.
A BICYCLE tour with Austin Baldwin in France and Eng-
land, followed by a wheelless extension in Switzerland
and Germany, preceded Strong's start with his present
concern, the Strong Manufacturing Company, in the No-
vember after our graduation. His work is mainly pho-
tography, photographing a full line of goods for use by
salesmen and the office, "with a day off now and then for
trout fishing in the season. In 1898 I was put on the
road as salesman ... a five weeks' trip made four times
a year."
"Have been too busy for travels," he wrote this June,
"so have had none worth mentioning except business
trips and these are better left out. I often see Whalen,
Scudder, Jordan, and Loughran while on these trips.
Though I have not attended as many Class dinners as I
hope to in the future, I am still in touch with some im-
portant part of '96. I might say that a part of my vaca-
592 BIOGRAPHIES
tion is a few hours off now and then spent in doing up
Dud Vaill at golf."
There is, it is averred, a publication extant which under
the philosophic title *'The Sunny Side" devotes itself to
the interests of the undertaking business. What it is
like we cannot say, but it is bound to be an informing
and thought-stirring journal if its gossipy columns con-
tain matter similar to Birdie's tales of a traveler, gath-
ered upon the rounds he makes "selling shrouds." ^ These
stories may be heard in detail when one chances to fall in
with him, but that is not an every-day happening with
most of us, and the Secretary was hoping that his bibli-
ography would indicate that they had been preserved.
Perhaps it will next time.
^ That is Familiar Colton's phrase, and inaccurate, for of course there is
no money in shrouds. It is really coffin-handles.
T. Shepard Strong, Jr.
Consolidated National Bank, 56 Broadway, New York City.
Residence, The Yale Club.
Permanent mail address, Setauket, Long Island, N. Y.
Thomas Shepard Strong, Jr., was born June 20th, 1874, at
Roslyn, L. I., N. Y. He is a son of Thomas Shepard Strong,
'55, and Emily Boorman, who were married Sept. 29th, 1870,
at Scarborough, N. Y., and had altogether nine children, eight
boys and one girl, of whom the girl and three of the boys have
died. James B. Strong, '96 S., is a brother.
Thomas Shepard Strong, the elder (b. Aug. loth, 1834, at
Setauket, N. Y.) is a retired lawyer. He has spent the greater
part of his life at New York City, and at Setauket, where he
now (Oct., '05) resides. His parents were Selah Brewster
Strong, '11, of Setauket, and Cornelia Udall of Islip, N. Y.
Selah Brewster Strong was a Judge of the Supreme Court
of the State of New York, and at one time Judge of the Court
of Appeals. He served in the War of 1812, and was later
Judge Advocate General. The family came from England in
1630, and settled at Nantasket, Mass.
Emily (Boorman) Strong (b. Dec. 3d, 1841, at New York
City) is the daughter of Robert Boorman, a merchant, and
Sarah Ann Hodges, both of New York City, formerly of
England.
OF GRADUATES 593
Strong spent his youth in New York City and Long Island. He
entered Yale with the Class, and received a Second Dispute at
the Junior Exhibition and a First Colloquy at Commencement.
He has not been married.
Strong went to work in Wall Street in April, 1897.
For ten months he was in the office of Clarence S. Day
& Co., and from February, 1898, until September, 1902,
he was connected with E. & C. Randolph, both Stock
Exchange firms. He then entered his present position
of Loan Clerk in the Consolidated National Bank. (See
Appendix.) His letter follows:
"In reply to yours of the i6th I would be very glad to
give you some interesting facts about myself, but when
working for a bank you get very little time for trips and
travels. I -have spent my vacations in North Halley,
Canada, Thousand Islands, and on the Upper Saranac
Lakes. I spend quite a little of my free time trying to
play golf, but regret to say my efforts are not very suc-
cessful; I also play some tennis and in the evenings I
often play bridge. As I have lived at the Yale Club for
the last two years I have seen more or less of most of
the '96 men who live in or near New York. About a
year ago I was in an auto which caught fire. We decided
it was 23 for ours and the only thing we saved was the
sparking-plug, which I discovered in my hand when the
excitement was over."
David Stuart
With the Stock Exchange firm of W. T. Hatch & Sons, 96 Broadway,
New York City.
Residence, 124 Remsen Street, Brooklyn.
David Stuart was born at Brooklyn, N. Y., March loth, 1874.
He is a son of Andrew Stuart and Rebecca Maria Hatch, who
were married at Brooklyn, May 30th, 1873, and had one other
child, Walter Hatch Stuart, '97.
Andrew Stuart (b. at Birkenhead, England, in 1840) is a
banker of Irish descent, who has spent the greater part of his
life in England, where he now (Jan., '06) resides. His father.
594 BIOGRAPHIES
David Stuart, came from abroad to New York City with his
three brothers, James and Joseph, who were bankers, and
George H. Stuart of Philadelphia.
Rebecca Maria (Hatch) Stuart was born Feb. 7th, 1846, at
Brooklyn, where she now (Jan., '06) resides, at 124 Remsen St.
She is the sister of Henry Prescott Hatch, '74, and the daugh-
ter of Walter Tilden Hatch, '37 (a banker and broker, who
founded the firm of W. T. Hatch & Sons, now of No. 96
Broadway, New York City) and Rebecca Taylor, daughter
of Nathaniel William Taylor, '07, D.D., LL.D., of New Haven,
Conn. Walter Tilden Hatch was born at Haverhill, Mass., in
October, 1818, and came to New York when a child. The Rev.
Nathaniel William Taylor's grandfather, the Rev. Nathaniel
Taylor, 1745, was a Fellow of Yale College for twenty-six years.
His ancestors came over from Warwick, England, in 1635.
Stuart prepared for Yale at the Polytechnic of Brooklyn and the
Brooklyn High School. He received a First Colloquy at the
Junior Exhibition and at Commencement, and was a member
of the University Club and of D. K. E.
He has not been married.
Stuart has been in the banking business with his uncle's
firm continuously since 1896. "With what firms con-
nected and in what capacity?" asked the Secretary, and
David responded, "With W. T. Hatch & Sons, members
of N. Y. Stock Exchange. A damned clerk: I write
'damn' but never say it. ... I have stuck pretty closely
to Wall Street, but have taken occasional trips into the
wilds, canoeing and otherwise, through Maine, Nova
Scotia, and the Adirondacks. I am still a member of
Squadron A, N.G.N.Y., having never missed a drill
since my date of enlistment on Jan. 26, 1898. I have
recently been appointed a sergeant in Troop One, Squad-
ron A, and only last week passed my examination for
that position. I have done nothing worth recording."
Last June, when '96 was waiting outside of the Presi-
dent's house for Dr. Hadley's decennial welcome, some
of us were startled to see Mrs. Stuart, David's mother,
step quietly forth, accompanied by a suave and witty
looking Chinaman in blue silk. It looked for a moment
as though there had been a coup d'etat and these were our
OF GRADUATES 595
new masters. But only for a moment, of course, for
then the President appeared and made his speech. When
we left, Mrs. Stuart and Sir Chentung Liang Cheng (it
was the Chinese Ambassador, it seems) were still con-
versing interestedly upon the porch.
Rev. Philemon F. Sturges
St. Peter's Rectory, Morristown, New Jersey.
Philemon Fowler Sturges was born Nov. 3d, 1875, at Utica,
N. Y. He is a son of Edward Sturges and Anna Sutherland
Fowler, who were married at Utica, and had two other children,
one boy and one girl.
Edward Sturges (b. Feb. 2d, 1828, at Mansfield, Ohio ; d. Oct.
28th, 1899, at Geneva, N. Y.) was a lumber dealer. He lived
in France and Germany, and at Utica and Geneva, N. Y. His
parents were Ebenezer Perry Sturges, a r^rchant of Mans-
field, and Amanda Buckingham. The family came originally
from England, and settled in Connecticut.
Anna Sutherland (Fowler) Sturges was born in Elmira,
N. Y., in 1846. Her early life was spent in Utica. She is the
daughter of Philemon Halsted Fowler, a Presbyterian clergy-
man, and Jeannette Hopkins, both of Utica.
Sturges entered our Class from Hobart College in the fall of
our Junior year, at which time he was a resident of Geneva,
N. Y. He was made President of the Berkeley Association at
Yale, was elected to the University Club, and received an
Oration at Commencement.
He was married June 4th, 1902, at New York City, to Miss Marie
Nott Potter, daughter of the late Rev. Dr. Eliphalet Nott
Potter, and has one child, Philemon Fowler Sturges, Jr.
(b. Aug. I2th, 1903, at Morristown, N. J.).
After teaching French and German for a year in New
York City, at the Condon School, Sturges entered the
Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge, Mass., com-
pleting the course and receiving his Bachelor's degree in
June, 1900. He served as Assistant to Dr. Rainsford,
at St. George's Church in New York, from that time until
596 BIOGRAPHIES
February, 1903, when he became the Rector of St. Peter's
Church in Morristown, New Jersey.
"Really, Clarence Day," he wrote this spring, "it seems
to me that every few months some one wants a full
personal account of my life, amusements, food, etc., for
a class record. If this form of persistent persecution
continues I will soon be compelled to report that I am
in the Morris Plains Insane Asylum. Since 1903 I have
been right here in Morristown, eating three meals per
diem and trying to keep peace and quiet amid my flock
of brokers and life insurance officials. This simple ex-
istence resulted in my being ordered last June to the
Adirondacks for a year to recuperate. Now I am at it
again. I think that is all of a momentous nature in the
story of my life."
His congregation find Sturges so exactly the man they
want that when, in 1905, his health required the long
precautionary absence he refers to, they themselves sup-
plied him with an Adirondack cottage ; and the encomi-
astic comment upon his sermons is beginning to spread
beyond the confines of Morristown and of Paul Smith's.
This summer when one of his youngest parishioners,
a boy of five, happened for a time to be a good deal in
the Class Secretary's company, an incident occurred
which illustrated the sturdy, if not too precise, confidence
Phil's teachings have inspired. We were cruising around
the broad "parazza" of a country house in search of can-
nibals, aboard a vessel which adults called a hammock,
and the question under discussion was whether cannibals
might not properly be classified as fairies. The parish-
ioner, who sometimes found his own inventions almost
too thrilling, rather hoped they could. "But what dif-
ference does it make?" asked the Secretary; "would n't
you believe in them just the same if they were fairies?"
"N-no," he answered, confidentially; "you see I don't
really believe in any fairies excepting Cxod."
OF GRADUATES 597
L. A. Sulcov
Teacher, Box 56, Arnold P. O., St. Louis Co., Minn.
Permanent mail address, Lancaster. Pa.
Lewis Aaron Sulcov was born October 8th, 1874, at Kiev, Rus-
sia. He is a son of Henry Joshua Sulcov and Annie Tishler,
who were married May 22d, 1863, at Moghilev, Province of
Moghilev, Russia, and had altogether five children, two boys
and three girls.
Henry Joshua Sulcov (b. Sept. 24th, 1844, at Sklov, Russia)
in early life (while in Sklov) was a maker of caps, and later
a baker. He came to America in October, 1881, and settled
at Lancaster, Pa., where he still resides, and is by trade a
varnisher. His father was Aaron Sulcov, who died while a
young man and who had no occupation and his mother was
Sarah Tempkin, both of Sklov.
Annie (Tishler) Sulcov (b. March 14th, 1845, at Sklov,
Russia) spent her early life at Kiev. She is the daughter of
Joshua Herschel Tishler, a furniture carver, and Behla Zalton,
both of Sklov.
Sulcov prepared for College at the Lancaster High School and
entered with the Class. He received a Second Colloquy at
the Junior Exhibition and a Second Dispute at Commence-
ment.
He was married Sept. ist, 1903, at Lancaster, Pa., to Miss Anna
Finkelstine, daughter of Benjamin H, Finkelstine of Lancaster,
and has one child, a son, Ralph Waldo Sulcov (b. June 15th,
1904, at Duluth, Minn.).
Whether from mere lack of interest in the Class, or
some antipathy he has conceived towards biographical
research, Sulcov never answers any '96 circulars. The
few following details of his career are the results of in-
dependent investigation.
He took up newspaper work after graduation, and was
for a time connected with the "Lancaster (Penn.) Morn-
ing News." In 1899 ^^ entered the New York Law
School, from which he was graduated with the degree of
LL.B. in 1901. In April, 1902, he was admitted to the
New York Bar. Part of his legal work was as managing
clerk for Blumenthal, Moss & Finer, 35 Nassau St.,
New York City. In September, 1903, he was married
598 BIOGRAPHIES
and went out to Duluth, Minnesota, to engage in teach-
ing school at Arnold. A recent clipping from the "Du-
luth News" spoke of him in the role of a deputy ex-
aminer :
"L. A. Sulcov yesterday conducted the first of a series
of examinations under the direction of the State High
School Board at the Central High School when twelve
seniors and three teachers of rural schools in the county
entered for teachers' certificates. Beginning Tuesday
morning the examinations will continue throughout the
week," etc.
Eliot Sumner
Assistant Engineer of Motive Power, Pennsylvania R. R., Jersey City, N, J.
Permanent mail address, care of Pennsylvania R. R.
Eliot Sumner was born in New Haven, Conn., Oct. 13th, 1873.
He is a son of William Graham Sumner, '63, and Jennie
Whittemore Elliott, who were married April 17th, 1871, at New
York City, and had two other children, both boys, Graham
Sumner, '97, and one who died in infancy.
William Graham Sumner (b. Oct. 30th, 1840, at Paterson,
N. J.) spent the first three years after his graduation abroad,
studying. In April, 1866, he was elected tutor at Yale. Dec. 27th,
1867, he was ordained a Deacon in the Protestant Episcopal
Church, resigning his tutorship in 1869 to become assistant
to the Rector of Calvary Church, New York City. From Sept.,
1870, to Sept., 1872, he was Rector of the Church of the Re-
deemer at Morristown, N. J. In June, 1872, he was elected
Professor of Political and Social Science in Yale College, which
position he now holds. From 1873 to 1876 he served as Alder-
man of the City of New Haven. His parents were Thomas
Sumner, who was born at Walton-le-Dale, Lancashire, Eng.,
May 6th, 1808, and came to the United States in 1836; and
Sarah Graham, who was born in Oldham, Eng., in 1819, and
was brought to the United States in 1825 by her parents.
Jennie Whittemore (Elliott) Sumner is the daughter of
Henry H. Elliott of New York City.
Sumner prepared for Yale at the Hopkins Grammar School.
He made the Record at Easter of Sophomore year, and in
Senior year was elected Class Secretary, a position which he
resigned at Triennial. He received a First Colloquy at Com-
mencement, and was a member of Eta Phi, D. K. E., and Keys.
He has not been married. (See Appendix.)
OF GRADUATES 599
Sumner is in the motive power department of the Penn-
sylvania Railroad. His service began September ist,
1896, as a special apprentice in the shops at Altoona, Pa.,
where he remained for four years, until September ist,
19CX), taking the Pennsylvania's practical course for col-
lege graduates. The following February he was ap-
pointed Inspector at the West Philadelphia shops. In
October, 1901, he was transferred to Renovo, Pa., as As-
sistant Master Mechanic, and in December, 1902, he
reached his present grade of Assistant Engineer of Mo-
tive Power. His service since then has been in Buffalo
(Dec, 1902, to Nov., 1903), Altoona, where he suc-
ceeded I. B. Thomas, '92 S. (Nov., 1903, to April, 1905),
and Jersey City (April, 1905, to date). People say that
he attends very strictly to business. He managed to get
on to Decennial, nevertheless, and was interestedly ob-
served to be making up for lost time, as he expressed it,
in a variety of energetic ways that did credit to his
physique. In January, 1906, he was elected a vice-presi-
dent of the Yale Alumni Association of Central Penn-
sylvania.
James B. Taiier
Partner in the Stock Exchange firm of Taiier & Robinson, 2 Wall Street,
New York City.
Residence, 43 West 47th Street.
James Bogert Tailer was born May 19th, 1874, in New York
City. He is a son of Henry Austin Taiier, Columbia '52, and
Sophia Clapham Pennington, who were married at Baltimore,
Md., and had altogether four children, three boys and one girl.
Henry Austin Taiier (b. April 15th, 1833, at New York City)
is a lawyer of New York City. He is the son of Edward
Neufville Taiier, a New York merchant, and Ann Bogert.
Sophia Clapham (Pennington) Taiier (b. at Baltimore, Md.,
in 1838) is the daughter of Josias Pennington, a lawyer, and
Catherine Clapham, both of Baltimore.
Taiier prepared for College at St. Mark's School, and while at
Yale served as Treasurer of the St. Mark's Club and as a mem-
ber of its Supper Committee. He received a First Colloquy
600 BIOGRAPHIES
at the Junior Exhibition and a Second Colloquy at Commence-
ment, and was a member of the University Club, the Renais-
sance Club, Eta Phi, and D. K. E.
He was married at Islip, Long Island, N. Y., June 29th, 1899, to
Miss Clara W. Moss, daughter of Cortlandt D. Moss, of New
York City, and has had two children, both sons, James Pen-
nington Tailer (b. July 3d, 1901, at Woodmere, Long Island,
N. Y. ; d. July 4th, 1901, at Woodmere) and James Bogert
Tailer, Jr. (b. Nov. 12th, 1902, at New York City.)
In current discussion upon the subject it is affirmed con-
cerning the life at Yale that it moulds her students to a
common type, repressing individual development. If
this be true, Jim Tailer is an exception. Although he
made as many friends during his course as he seemed to
wish, belonged to several societies, and was exposed with
reasonable thoroughness, apparently, to the moulding
process, it left him quite unstamped. Some of his ac-
quaintances assert that it did have at least a deterrent
effect, enough to prevent his setting up an undergraduate
dogcart, or becoming J. Bogert Tailer instead of Jim;
but it does not seem fair to assume that nothing but Yale
could have saved him from either of these not wholly
intolerable contingencies. The truth is that Jim had been
civilized before he came, while his classmates were more
in the nature of raw material— and very raw he some-
times made them look.
The fact that Tailer's college course gave him merely
an educational finish, instead of that vital experience
which it brings to unformed or more impressionable
youth, explains perhaps his postgraduate non-partici-
pation in Class affairs. He does not "hold himself aloof.'^
He neither seeks nor avoids. But, as at Yale, he waits
in a pleasant and quite friendly isolation for the rest of
us to grow up.
There being no new biographical facts to chronicle
(except his firm name, as given above), his sexennial
autobiography is here reprinted : "My life has been very
humdrum since graduation, so there is little I can tell you.
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Por two years I loafed around, traveling in Europe dur-
ing the summers. I joined Roosevelt's regiment in May,
1898, and served through the war as Corporal in Troop
K. In June, 1899, I was married, and in October I
joined the New York Stock Exchange and I have been
a broker ever since. This is about all. I am sorry I can-
not add a few sensational incidents, but unfortunately
there have n't been any."
Tailer enlisted in the Rough Riders at San Antonio,
Tex. Left San Antonio, May 27th, and went into camp
at Tampa, Fla. Sailed from Tampa, June 5th ; landed at
Siboney, June 226.. In action at Las Guasimas, June
24th; San Juan, July ist; in trenches before Santiago.
Sailed from Santiago in August for Montauk Point.
Mustered out of the service at Camp Wikoff, September
27th, 1898.
Huntington Taylor
Secretary and Treasurer of the Northwest Paper Co., Coquet, Minnesota.
Huntington Taylor was born at South Norwalk, Conn., July
26th, 1875. He is a son of James Monroe Taylor, A.B.
Rochester '68, D.D. Rochester '86, D.D. Yale '01, LL.D. Rut-
gers, and Kate Huntington, who were married Sept. loth,
1873, at Rochester, N. Y., and had altogether four children,
three boys and one girl.
James Monroe Taylor (b. Aug. sth, 1848, at Brooklyn, N. Y.)
was a clergyman of South Norwalk, Conn., for nine years and
of Providence, R. I., for four years. For the past twenty years
(since 1886) he has been President of Vassar College. He is
temporarily residing at Florence, Italy. His parents were
Elisha E. L. Taylor, D.D. (b. Delphi, N. Y.), a clergyman of
Brooklyn, and Mary Jane Perkins of Hamilton, N. Y. The
ancestors of the family were English settlers in New Jersey.
Kate (Huntington) Taylor (b. April 19th, 1850, at Rochester,
N. Y.) is the daughter of Elon Huntington (b. Shaftsbury, Vt.,
1808; d. 1899), a merchant and banker of Rochester, N. Y.,
and Anjeanette Cole of Shaftsbury.
Taylor spent his youth in South Norwalk (eight years), Provi-
dence, R. I. (four years), and Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and pre-
pared for College at the Riverview Military Academy in
602 BIOGRAPHIES
Poughkeepsie. He played on our Class Baseball Team, was
Captain of Company B in the '96 Battalion of Phelps Brigade,
and a member of the Senior Promenade Committee. D. K. E.
He was married at Glens Falls, N. Y., Sept. i8th, 1900, to Miss
Jane Walker, daughter of the late Thaddeus H. Walker, and
has two children, a girl and a boy, Margaret Elizabeth Taylor
(b. Oct. 19th, 1901, at Cloquet, Minn.) and Albert Walker
Taylor (b. April 5th, 1903, at Cloquet). (See Appendix.)
Taylor's 1902 letter summarizes his early career:
"Spent summer after graduation traveling in Europe.
Went to work as office boy in the fall of '96 in dry-goods
commission house in New York and spent the next two
years in learning that cotton and woolen goods are largely
made of the same material and that books should be kept
accurately. Went to Cloquet, Minn., in October, 1898,
and spent the next fifteen months in pushing lumber and
keeping time with the Northern Lumber Co. Went with
the Northwest Paper Co. of Cloquet in January, 1900."
At the time this was written Taylor was Assistant Treas-
urer of the Company. Later on he was made the Treas-
urer, and, in 1905, Secretary and Treasurer. The other
officers now are R. M. Weyerhaeuser, '91 S. ( a brother
of "Dutch"), President; R. D. Mussef, Vice-President;
and C, I. McNair, General Manager. The company
manufactures print and manila wood-pulp papers, has a
daily capacity of 200,000 lbs., and runs four mills — the
Northwest, the Livingston, the Knife Falls, and the
Brainerd.
From Taylor's letters one gathers that he sometimes
wishes Cloquet were not quite so distant. "My regards
to the goodly company," he said in one of them, "who
would appreciate more fully their good luck in getting
together if they lived in a remote wilderness." He sent
word to the last New York dinner that he was frozen in
at that time of year but hoped to be with us in June, a
hope which was turned into a disappointment to him and
to his Class. His vacations take him off for a while every
summer, sometimes in rather interesting ways; as in
OF GRADUATES 603
1903, when he went down the Mississippi River as far
as Rock Island with a raft of logs, or in 1905, when he
traveled down the Lakes to Detroit in one of the ore
boats, and took an automobile trip in Michigan. In 1904
he was in the Adirondacks, and this year he intended
taking a trip to the Pacific coast.
A. R. Thompson
Residence, 51 Imlay Street, Hartford, Conn.
Special Agent of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co., 36 Pearl
Street, Hartford.
Arthur Ripley Thompson was born Jan. 22d, 1872, at Hartford,
Conn. He is the son of Charles Edward Thompson and Abby
Frances Allen, who were married Sept. 14th, 1868, at Hartford,
and had two other children, both daughters.
Charles Edward Thompson (b. Feb. 26th, 1847, at Rockville,
Conn.) has spent the greater part of his life at Hartford, where
he is now (Oct., '05) Assistant Cashier of the Connecticut
Mutual Life Insurance Company, President of the City Mis-
sionary Society, and Treasurer of the Asylum Hill Congrega-
tional Church. He was at one time President of the Young
Men's Christian Association of Hartford, and Lieutenant
Colonel of the 1st Reg. Conn. N.G. His parents were John
Terry Thompson, a manufacturer of Rockville, and Sarah
Maria Blodgett of East Windsor, Conn. The family came
originally from Scotland, and after about a year in the North
of Ireland, came to America in 1718, and settled at Melrose,
Conn.
Abby Frances (Allen) Thompson (b. Oct. i8th, 1848, at
Danielsonville, Conn.) spent her early life at Rockville and
Hartford, where she is now living. Her parents were Charles
Allen, a foundryman and merchant of Canterbury, Conn., and
Harriet Robinson Sharpe of Pomfret, Conn.
Thompson prepared for Yale at the Hartford High School. He
was Secretary of the Hartford Club, took a College Prize in
English Composition of the Second Grade in Sophomore year,
and was elected Class Poet and a member of Chi Delta Theta
in Senior year. A First Dispute at the Junior Exhibition and
at Commencement. A. D. Phi.
He was married Sept. 3d, 1902, at Sidney, Maine, to Miss Helena
Hortense Bowman, daughter of Frank Bowman, and has one
604 BIOGRAPHIES
child, a daughter, Marjorie Thompson (b. Aug. 17th, 1903, at
Hartford, Conn.) (See Appendix.)
During the year 1896-7 Thompson represented the Amer-
ican Real Estate Company of New York in Syracuse,
N. Y. The following year, 1898, he spent six months in
Alaska and the Northwest. He has pubHshed two books
for boys, "Gold Seeking on the Dalton Trail" (Little,
Brown & Co., Boston, 1900) and "Shipwrecked in
Greenland" (Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1905). Since
some time before Sexennial he has been Special Agent
of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company —
"and don't leave out the 'Connecticut,' " he adds,— in
Hartford. Vacations at Sidney, Maine, and one impor-
tant trip to Rhode Island to attend Nat Smith's wedding.
The Secretary had some correspondence with Thomp-
son this spring about a contribution to the book in verse.
He was inclined to demur: ''You can't produce vapor-
ings until the Muse gets up steam, and even then the
result depends a great deal on whether her condenser
works properly. Really, it 's an awful task, and may
prove impossible." But the sonnet which is printed in
the front of this volume arrived in due course.
His decennial letter follows :
"Dear Clarence:
"I hardly know what I can give you of an autobio-
graphical nature in response to your request for more. I
am living the simple life, except when Harry Fisher gets
after me for the Alumni Fund. In the process of round-
ing up candidates for life insurance my travels take me
through the hills and valleys of Northern Connecticut, and
sometimes I make an excursion after Indian relics, which
are still to be found in these parts if you know where to
look.
"At home my leisure is devoted to reading, writing, and
arithmetic, those elemental studies which one never out-
grows. Just now the problem which most interests me in
arithmetic is how to build a house 'within the appropria-
OF GRADUATES 605
tion.' As a preliminary move I have bought a sHce of
cornfield which overlooks Keney Park and commands a
wide view east, west and south. The castle thereof is
still in the air, but ought to materiaHze in a year or two,
and we shall want to have all the fellows at the house-
warming. I am entirely happy— even without an auto-
mobile."
Frederick M. Thompson
Lawyer. 50 Pirie Street, New York City.
Residence, Van Dyck Studios, 939 Eighth Avenue.
Frederick Maurice Thompson was born April 12th, 1875, at
Philadelphia, Pa. He is the son of Robert Rllis Thompson,
University of Pennsylvania '65, M.A., Ph.D., S.T.D., and Mary
Jane Neely, who were married April 30th, 1874, at Phila-
delphia, and had two other children, both girls.
Robert Ellis Thompson (b. at Anaghnoon House, County
Down, Ireland, in 1844) is a Presbyterian clergyman. He
was Professor of History and Political Economy at the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania 1880-82, and is now (Oct., '05) Presi-
dent of the Central High School of Philadelphia, which posi-
tion he has held since 1892. His parents were Samuel Thomp-
son, a landed proprietor, of Anaghnoon House, County Down,
and Catherine Thompson Ellis, of Hilmore and Leansmount,
County Down, They came to America about 1856, and settled
at Philadelphia.
Mary Jane (Neely) Thompson (b. April 30th, 1844, at Phila-
delphia; d. July 6th, 1893, at Eaglesmere, Pa.) was the daughter
of Robert Neely and Catherine Hawkins, both of Coleraine,
Ireland, and later of Philadelphia.
Thompson's residence while in College was registered as Mel-
rose, Pa., in Freshman year, and Philadelphia during the re-
maining three years of his course. He received a Second Dis-
pute at the Junior Exhibition and at Commencement.
He was married March 31st, 1898, at New York City, to Miss
Agnes Maud Murray, daughter of Frank Murray, of New York
City, and has one child, a son, Frederick Murray Thompson
(b. Sept. 20th, 1899, at Catskill, N. Y.).
From the date of his admission to the New York Bar in
the June term, 1899, Thompson has practised law in New
606 BIOGRAPHIES
York City. The preceding years were spent as a student
in the New York Law School, which (in 1899) gave him
his LL.B. On May ist, 1902, he formed a partnership
with Robert E. Swezey, Esq., under the firm name of
Swezey & Thompson, with offices at 44 Pine Street.
His decennial letter follows: "In 1904 the firm of
Swezey & Thompson, of which I was a member, was dis-
solved. In May, 1905, I removed to my office at 50 Pine
Street, where I am now.
"During 1904 I had the pleasure of meeting Beard and
Paret upon the professional field of battle in a small case.
Modesty prevents me from saying more than that I licked
'em.
"I have been counsel for several mining companies in
the West and have consequently traveled over a large
part of the United States, particularly Arizona and Cali-
fornia, but have not had any adventures of note (that I
am willing to make public).
"I have become a member of the National Arts Club.
"Can't think of anything else just now."
Samuel Thorne, Jr.
Lawyer, 54 Wall Street, New York City.
Residence, Rye, N. Y.
Samuel Thorne, Jr., was born June 30, 1874, at Saugatuck, Conn.
He is a son of Samuel Thorne and Phebe Smith Van Schoon-
hoven, who were married Oct. 6th, i860, at Troy, N. Y., and
had altogether six children, four boys and two girls, five of
whom lived to maturity. Edwin Thorne, '82 S., and William
V. S. Thorne, '85 S., are brothers.
Samuel Thorne (b. Sept. 6th, 1835, at Millbrook, N. Y.) has
spent most of his life at Millbrook and New York City, en-
gaged as Director and President of Railroads, Director of
Banks and of a Trust Co., etc. His parents were Jonathan
Thorne, a leather and coal trader of New York City, and Lydia
Anne Corse. The ancestors of the family were English settlers
in Long Island (1635).
Phebe Smith (Van Schoonhoven) Thorne spent her early
life at Troy, N. Y. Her parents were William Henry Van
OF GRADUATES 607
Schoonhoven, a lawyer of Troy, and Margaret BrinckerhoflF,
of Redhook and Lithgow, Dutchess Co., N. Y.
Thorne spent his youth in Millbrook, N. Y., and in New York
City, and prepared at Cutler's School, New York. He made
the News in Sophomore year, was a member of the Uni-
versity Banjo Club and of the Class Supper Committee, and
received an Oration at the Junior Exhibition and at Com-
mencement. D. K. E. Bones.
He was married June i6th, 1903, at Boston, Mass., to Miss Ethel
Mary Cheney, daughter of the late Arthur Cheney, and Emme-
line L. Cheney of Boston, and has one child, a son, Samuel
Thorne, 3d (b. May 28th, 1904, at New York City).
After graduating with the degree of LL.B. from the
Harvard Lav^ School (1899), ^^^ after a summer abroad,
Thorne entered the law office of Stimson & Williams,
55 Liberty St., New York, in October. In August, 1901,
he was appointed a deputy assistant in the office of
District Attorney Philbin of New York County, and was
reappointed by District Attorney Jerome in January,
1902. He resigned this position July ist, 1905, to become
an attorney in the office of Joline, Larkin & Rathbone,
54 Wall St., New York. Prior to his connection with the
District Attorney's office he conducted several raids on
gambling-houses for the Committee of Fifteen. In April,
1906, he was appointed to the Finance Committee of the
Republican County Committee.
That about covers his career excepting as to vacations,
as to which he says : "Trip in West thro' Yellowstone
Park and in Rockies of Canadian Pacific in 1903, with
nothing to be desired in the way of companionship.
Summer and early fall of 1905, four weeks' camping trip
through Province of Ontario, Canada, with G. B. Hatch,
'96, as Generalissimo of expedition, and two other lads.
Nobody knows just how fine a chap George is until they
have been with him in the woods."
Thorne is one of the bulwarks of the Alumni Fund, an
interested attendant at the Northfield Conferences (held
this year, so far as Yale was concerned, at Lakeville),
608 BIOGRAPHIES
etc. The Secretary asked him up to dinner in the country,
along about the time of our Decennial, and after giving
him some old Scotch and soda sought further informa-
tion about those raids, but Sam only said that the whisky
carried him back to a little place called Oban on the west
coast of Scotland ; and he persisted, albeit entertainingly
enough, in remaining at or near Oban for the rest of the
evening, shooting roebuck.
S. B. Thorne
Of the Buck Run Coal Co., Minersville, Pa.
Samuel Brinckerhoff Thorne was born Sept. 19th, 1873, at New-
York City. He is a son of Jonathan Thorne and Harriet Smith
Van Schoonhoven, who were married Dec. loth, 1868, at New
York City, and had two other children, one boy (Dr. Victor C.
Thorne, '94 S.) and one girl, who died before maturity.
Jonathan Thorne (b. April 5th, 1843, at New York City) is
a veteran of the Civil War, having been a member of the 7th
Regt. N. Y. S. N. G. He is a leather merchant of New York
City, at which city and Thorndale, Dutchess Co., N. Y., he has
spent the greater part of his life. His parents were Jonathan
Thorne, a leather merchant, and Lydia Anne Corse, both of
New York City. The family came from England in 1635, and
settled in Long Island.
Harriet Smith (Van Schoonhoven) Thorne was born at
Troy, N. Y., where she spent her early life. She is the daughter
of William Henry Van Schoonhoven, a lawyer of Troy, and
Margaret Brinckerhoff, of Redhook and Lithgow, Dutchess
Co., N. Y.
Thorne prepared at the Berkeley School in New York City. He
played Fullback on our Freshman Eleven and Halfback on the
'Varsity, which, in Senior year, he captained. He played on
our Class Baseball Teams, was Catcher on the 'Varsity in 1896,
Vice-President of the Yale Gymnastic Association, a member of
the Junior Promenade Committee, and President of the Inter-
Collegiate Football Association ; his touchdown from the forty-
five yard line in the Princeton Game is still remembered. A
Dissertation at the Junior Exhibition and a First Dispute at
Commencement. He Boule. D. K. E. Bones.
He has not been married.
Once every few years some unusual traveler through the
Minersville mountains returns with eye-witness tales of
OF GRADUATES 609
Brinck and Jim. They are pictured as stamping sootily
about, continually inciting hordes of low-browed bonds-
men to rend more and more coal from out the bowels of
good Mother Earth. The range hums with black and
grimy toil. The flavor is plutonian. On top of these
stories, however, perhaps a New York wedding bell will
ring, and Brinck and Jim themselves immaculately enter
town, to usher some new bridegroom down the fatal
aisle. On such occasions they do not look as though they
had ever seen a mine. Or if it is n't a wadding it 's a
christening, and then they come as godfathers — great,
hearty, well-groomed godfathers, ready stoutly to under-
take whatever amount of spiritual responsibility the
clergy may impose. It is hard to reconcile their metro-
politan appearances with the stories out of Minersville.
Officially Thorne is President of the Darkwater Coal
Co., Treasurer of the Buck Run Coal Co., and Director
of the Sonman Shaft Coal Co. His life, as told by him-
self, is as follows : "Spent one year at Lafayette College
studying mining engineering. Entered Pennsylvania
Coal Company on Surveying Corps summer of '97,
worked in several departments for the ensuing three years
and was Comptroller in the spring of 1901. Then I
accepted position of General Manager of the Temple
Iron Company. . . . Principal occupation in last-named
capacity was 'wrastling' with grievance committees of
down-trodden miners.
"I remained with the Temple Iron Co. in Scranton as
General Manager until after the close of the 1902 anthra-
cite coal strike, when I left to join Neale at the Buck
Run Colliery, which he was opening up in Schuylkill Co.,
Pa. Since that time I have been living with him at the
mine, which is in the hills about five miles back of Miners-
ville, our nearest town. We are operating another mine
about seven miles from here called the Darkwater Coal
Co. Keep house in a very pretentious single-story mansion
surrounded with lots of fresh, wholesome mountain air,
have formed no entangling alliances of a matrimonial
character, and extend a hearty invitation to any and all
members of the Class to come up and sample a bit of
610 BIOGRAPHIES
simple life in the coal region. The door is always un-
locked. Telephone and cable address, Pottsville, Pa."
A. C. Tilton, Ph.D.
21 Mendota Court, Madison, Wisconsin.
Chief of the Departments of Maps, MSS., and Public Documents in the
Library of the State Historical Society.
Asa Currier Tilton was born April 25th, 1872, at Raymond,
N. H. He is a son of Sewall Dearborn Tilton and Laura A.
Currier, who were married May 17th, 1871, at Raymond, N. H,
and had one other son.
Sewall Dearborn Tilton (b. Dec. 9th, 1824, at Deerfield,
N. H. ; d. May 20th, 1891, at Raymond, N. H.), a farmer, spent
most of his life at Ra)rmond, where he held various local offi-
ces, and was a Colonel on the Governor's Staff. During the
Civil War he was Captain of the nth N. H. Regt. His father
was Elbridge Tilton, a farmer, and his mother was Melinda
Dearborn, both of Deerfield. The family came from England
in 1634 and settled at Lynn, Mass.
Laura A. (Currier) Tilton (b. Nov. loth, 1830, at Raymond,
N. H. ; d. April 14th, 1891, at Raymond) was the daughter of
Asa Currier, a farmer of Raymond, and Lydia Richardson of
Springfield, N. H.
Tilton prepared for Yale at Exeter. He received Two Year
Honors in History, a High Oration at the Junior Exhibition
and at Commencement, and was a member of the Yale Union
and of Phi Beta Kappa.
He has not been married.
Tilton taught for one year, studied abroad for two (in
Berlin, in Leipzic, and at the British Museum in London,
including tours through Austria, Italy, Switzerland, etc.),
and in 1899 returned to Yale to take his Ph.D. This was
given him in June, 1900, and was followed by his ap-
pointment to the position of Instructor in History at the
University of Wisconsin, at Madison. He retained this
position until February, 1905, when he was engaged by
the State Historical Society of Wisconsin as Chief of
the Departments of Maps and MSS. and Public Docu-
ments, in the Society's library in Madison. On another
OF GRADUATES 611
page will be found a partial bibliography of his writings
in German and in English, including a descriptive list of
the works on English History in the library of the So-
ciety, an article on its collections on the History of the
Middle West, a Roster of the Yeas and Nays of the Ohio
House of Representatives in 1809-10, German-Indian
Vocabularies in Maximilian of Wied's "Travels in North
America" turned into English-Indian for Thwaites'
''Earlv Western Travels," etc.
A. E. Von Tobel, M.D.
284 E. Main Street, Meriden, Conn.
Albert Eugene Von Tobel was born Aug. 8th, 1875, at Harwin-
ton, Conn. He is the only child of Joseph Von Tobel and Eliza
Marilla Catlin, who were married March i8th, 1873, at Har-
winton,
Joseph Von Tobel (b. at New York City in 1851) is a ma-
chinist of Torrington, Conn. He has also lived at Warren and
Harwinton, Conn. His parents were John Henry Von Tobel,
a shoemaker of Harwinton, and Apolonia Hitz of Switzerland.
The family came from Switzerland in 184-, and settled at New
York City.
Eliza Marilla (Catlin) Von Tobel (b. March 15th, 1853, at
Harwinton) is the daughter of George Warren Catlin, a farmer
of Harwinton, and Marilla Hubbard of Newington, Conn.,
who was a descendant of George Hubbard, who settled in
Middletown (then called Mattabesett) in 1650. George W.
Catlin served in the Civil War as Private, Co. F, 28th Reg.
Conn. Vol.
Von Tobel prepared for Yale at the Torrington (Conn.) High
School. He received Two Year Honors in Natural Sciences,
a High Oration at the Junior Exhibition and a Philosophical
Oration at Commencement. Phi Beta Kappa.
He was married at Torrington, Conn., Nov. 27th, 1900, to Miss
Edith Belle Davey, daughter of William T. Davey, a shoe
dealer of Torrington.
Von Tobel writes that he has been "working away at the
old stand, keeping the death rate up in this section of
612 BIOGRAPHIES
the State, with an occasional auto trip to relieve the mo-
notony." He entered the Yale Medical School in the fall
of 1896, took the three years' course and received his
degree in 1899. Directly after being graduated he ''lo-
cated in Meriden and began practising at once." He is
a member of the Meriden City Medical Society, Surgeon
on the staff of the Meriden hospital, &c. The only re-
maining information in the class files is that his office
hours are eight to ten, one to three, and seven to eight-
thirty.
Thomas A. Tracy
Newspaper Man. Bristol, Conn.
Office, 13 Riverside Avenue. Residence, 152 Curtiss Street.
Thomas Andrew Tracy was born June 2d, 1873, at Bristol, Conn.
He is a son of James Tracy and Catherine Mary Baggott, who
were married May 7th, 1865, at Bristol, and had altogether ten
children, five boys and five girls, nine of whom lived to ma-
turity.
James Tracy (b. at West Meath, Ireland, in April, 1834)
came to America at the age of eighteen and settled at Bristol,
where he has spent the greater part of his life. He was for a
time engaged as a stationary engineer, and of recent years as
a butcher. His parents were Michael Tracy, a farmer, and
Mary Morehead, both of West Meath.
Catherine Mary (Baggott) Tracy (b. April 21st, 1844, at
Limerick, Ireland) came to New York State at the age of
seventeen, removing thence after one year's residence to Bristol,
where she has since lived. Her parents were John Baggott, a
farmer, and Catherine Ryan, both of Limerick.
Tracy entered our Class from '95 in January of Freshman year.
He received a Second Colloquy at the Junior Exhibition and at
Commencement.
He has not been married. (See Appendix.)
Tracy's autobiography runs as follows: "After gradu-
ation I studied law in the office of Newell & Jennings,
Bristol, Conn., for one year, then accepted the manage-
ment of the Bristol "Herald," a weekly newspaper pub-
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lished in that town. In August, 1899, accepted a position
with the Parmalee Library Association of Chicago, trav-
eling through Illinois, Iowa and Missouri. After a year
and a half returned East and took a position on the staff
of the New Britain 'Daily News.' I remained with
that paper till March, 1901, when I accepted, a position
on the editorial staff of the Bristol Tress,' the news
organ of the hustling town of Bristol, with which paper
I am still connected."
This was his 1902 installment. In May, 1906, he
wrote : "Have continued the straight and narrow path,
having been employed by the Bristol Press Publishing
Company during all this time. Have enjoyed life
thoroughly. Sorry that I cannot attend the Decennial,
as I expect to have two months at Denver, Colo., this
summer."
There has been private debate at some of the '96 din-
ners as to the practicability of sending a committee on
elections to Bristol, empowered to return with Tom,
dead or alive. His unfailing absence is said to have no
better explanation than an unwillingness, in his own
words, "to frequent the lanes of temptation."
R. B. Tread way
Right of Way Agent, Attorney in the Land Department of the Chicago &
Northwestern Railway Co., Room 506, 215 Jackson Boulevard, Chicago.
Residence, 223 Wisconsin Avenue, Oak Park, 111.
Ralph Bishop Treadway was born at Sioux City, Iowa, April
loth, 1874. He is a son of William B. Tredway and Thalia
Martha Bishop, who were married Jan. loth, 1866, near Blairs-
town, Iowa, and had one other child, a son, who died before
maturity.
William B. Tredway (b. Jan. 27th, 1835, on a farm near Jor-
danville, Herkimer Co., N. Y. ; d. Sept. ist, 1899, at Sioux City,
Iowa) was educated at Oxford Academy. At the age of eigh-
teen he moved west to Sioux City, returning to Herkimer, how-
ever, to study law. In 1856 he again went to Sioux City, where
he spent the rest of his life, engaged, until 1888, in farming
and stock raising. During the Civil War he shipped supplies
from Sioux City up to Forts Sully and Bento. At various
614 BIOGRAPHIES
times he held the offices of County Supervisor, School Treas-
urer, and School Director. His parents were Bela Root Tread-
way (b. in Springfield, Otsego Co., N. Y., in 1796), a farmer
of Herkimer County, N. Y., and Philothaeta Marshall, daughter
of John Marshall. The family came from Rutland Co., Eng-
land, in 1653, and settled at Watertown, Mass.
Thalia Martha (Bishop) Tredway (b. May 8th, 1839, at
Bristol, Conn.) was taken to Iowa at the age of two years and
spent her early life at Mussatine, Cedar Rapids, and Blairs-
town, all in Iowa. In 1864 she went to Sioux City, where she
lived until 1899. She now (Oct., '05) lives at Oak Park, 111.
Her parents were Homer Bishop, a clock manufacturer, farmer
and merchant, and Martha Smith, both of Bristol, Conn.
Treadway prepared for College at Exeter. He rowed No. 7 on
the Freshman Crew, and in the same position for the next
three years on the 'Varsity, which, in Senior year he captained.
He was a member of the Sophomore German Committee, the
Junior Promenade Committee, and the Class Day Committee,
and served as President of the Exeter Club in Senior year.
In the fall of Sophomore year he was on the 'Varsity Football
Squad. A Second Colloquy at the Junior Exhibition and a
Second Dispute at Commencement. Beta Theta Pi. Bones.
He was married at Oak Park, 111., July 6th, 1904, to Miss Clare
Hart Conklin, daughter of the late George L. Conklin, and
Clara H. Conklin of Oak Park.
We had no race with Harvard in 1896, and Captain
Treadway took his crew abroad to row at Henley, where
they were welcomed, beaten and feasted quite delight-
fully. Returning to Sioux City on the Big Muddy, Tread
set to work reading law, managing a farm, and acting
as Director of the local Y.M.C.A.'s Physical Department.
"In the fall of '97," he continues, "I left my native heath
and came to Oak Park, Illinois, as Supervisor of Physical
Culture in the schools of that place, at the same time con-
tinuing my law study in the night school of the Chicago
College of Law. This programme I continued during
the years 1898-99. In 1899 I attended our triennial
celebration, and after a short visit home returned to
Chicago, and entered the law office of Jackson, Busby &
Lyman, discontinuing my teaching. In the fall of 1899
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I took the State Bar examinations and was admitted to
practice. In January, 1900, I became managing clerk
for above firm, and continued in this capacity until May,
1902, when I joined the Land Department of the Chicago
& Northwestern road in the capacity of Right of Way
Agent— which is a 'study, travel, business and profes-
sional occupation* all rolled into one."
His decennial postscript is as follows: "I have been
continuously in present place and occupation, which has
caused me to travel on business over practically all of
Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota, and
Wisconsin. I have had no vacations in time stated except
when in attendance at three weddings, one of which car-
ried me to Sault Ste. Marie for four days, another to
New York and Boston, where I met a lot of the fellows,
and the third, my own, gave me two whole weeks oif (the
itinerary we have never divulged). I 'm thinking seri-
ously of having the ceremony performed again — in the
hope that it will get me another two weeks. On the
whole I have decided that I am considerably more of a
'grind' than before graduation. I have n't seen many
of '96 this way. Occasionally one doing a trans-conti-
nental stunt will wave as he goes by. Golf, tennis, and
basket ball, in season, are my pastimes and recreations.
"My work is extremely varied both in character and
locality, and very interesting ; and further deponent saith
not, except Good Greeting to all."
* Edward Livingston Trudeau, Jr., M.D.
Died May 3d, 1904, in New York City.
Edward Livingston Trudeau, Jr., was born May i8th, 1873, at
New York City. He was a son of Edward Livingston Trudeau
(M, Sc, Columbia, '99 Hon.; LL.D., McGill University, '03
lion.) and Charlotte G. Beare, who were married June 29th,
1871, at Little Neck, N. Y., and had altogether four children,
three boys and one girl, three of whom lived to maturity (in-
cluding one boy who is now a member of the Class of 1909).
Edward Livingston Trudeau, the elder (b. Oct. sth, 1848, at
616 BIOGRAPHIES
New York City) was taken to Paris, France, at the age of
three years. He returned to New York at the age of seventeen,
immediately going to Saranac Lake, N. Y., where he has since
become famous as a physician, and as the founder (in 1894)
of the Saranac Laboratory for the Study of Tuberculosis.
He is a graduate (1870) of the College of Physicians and
Surgeons of New York. His parents were James Trudeau, a
physician of New Orleans, La., and Cephise Berger of New
York City. The family came from France, c. 1838, and settled
at New York City.
Charlotte G. (Beare) Trudeau (b. Oct. 24th, 1843, at Bay
Side, N. Y.) is the daughter of Henry M. Beare, D.D., a clergy-
man, and Charlotte Grosvenor, both of New York City.
Trudeau spent most of his youth at Saranac, N. Y., and pre-
pared for College at St. Paul's School in Concord. He was
Pitcher on our Freshman Nine, and thereafter played the same
position on the 'Varsity. He Boule. Psi U. Bones.
He was married Dec. 28th, 1903, at St. Chrysostom's Church,
Chicago, 111., to Miss Hazel Martyn, daughter of Mrs. Edward
Jenner Martyn of Chicago. A daughter, Alice Livingston
Trudeau, was bom Nov. loth, 1904, at Chicago.
In 1902 Trudeau wrote as follows : "Since graduation
I have done very little but study medicine. I had the
honor of being president of my class at the College of
Physicians and Surgeons, and upon the completion of
my course in 1900 got third place in the competitive ex-
aminations for places on the House Staff of the Presby-
terian Hospital."
Trudeau was not looked upon as being much of a
student until he took up the study of physiology at Yale
with Professor Chittenden, but from that day forth his
work in medical studies may fairly be described as bril-
liant. His term of service at the Presbyterian Hospital,
during the last year of which he was House Surgeon,
ended in December, 1902, and from there he went to the
Adirondacks to assist his father in taking care of the
medical practice in the St. Regis Lake region. In the
fall of 1903, he spent a month or so in Paris, and upon
his return he became assistant to Dr. Walter B. James,
Yale, '79, in New York City.
Trudeau
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The "Alumni Weekly's" account of his career closed as
follows: "He contracted pneumonia about two weeks
before his death, and was recovering from it when an
attack of embolism ended his life. Funeral services were
held at his New York residence and later in the Adiron-
dacks. A large number of friends were present at the
services in both places. The following classmates ac-
companied the family to Paul Smith's and took charge
of the interment in the churchyard of St. John's in the
Wilderness : William M. Beard, Alexander Brown, Jr.,
Redmond Cross, Henri de Sibour, Maitland Griggs, J. B.
Neale, Winthrop Smith, Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr.,
Samuel and Brinckerhoff Thorne. The funeral service
was conducted by Mr. Stokes.
"Dr. Trudeau came from many generations of distin-
guished medical men, and showed brilliant promise in
his chosen profession, his attractive personality making
him a particularly welcome visitor in the sick room. He
was a man of fine Christian character, very loyal to his
friends and with a high sense of service. He was a
vestryman of the Episcopal Church at Saranac, and was
devoted to the Adirondacks, where most of his life was
spent, and where he had the reputation of being one of
the best shots in the woods."
A set of three memorial windows was placed in the
church at Paul Smith's during 1905. The inscription
in the narrow panel at the base reads as follows : "I will
lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my
help." "This window is placed by his friends in loving
memory of Edward Livingston Trudeau, Jr. Born May
i8th, 1873. Died May 3d, 1904." The design was by
Mr. Edward P. Sperry of the Gorham Manufacturing
Company of New York, and the work was executed
under his supervision in the Company's studios. "In
the central window, which is much the largest, is to be
seen the figure of a young man in the garb of a pilgrim,
walking by the side of a lake amidst picturesque forest
and mountain scenery, thoroughly typical of the Adiron-
dacks. The face is uplifted and gazing at the distant
618 BIOGRAPHIES
hills; in the right hand is grasped the pilgrim's staff,
around which is twined a serpent, the emblem of Dr.
Trudeau's profession. At his feet is a mountain brook,
and, everywhere, the forest, through which are seen
glimpses of mountains and lake aglow with the rays of
the rising sun. The marvelous richness of color and
fidelity to nature, showing the play of light, has been
exquisitely managed, creating a window that is a distinct
success in every detail."
*'The window seems particularly appropriate," writes
one of the fellows. "The whole atmosphere suggests
the woods and Ned's fondness for them and for every-
thing connected with them. He was a true lover of out-
door life, and no one enjoyed following the deer and
studying their habits more than he. Although the artist
did not know Ned and had no intention of reproducing
his features, the face of the pilgrim bears a striking re-
semblance to our sterling classmate."
H. A. Truslow
Assistant Manager, Armstrong Cork Co., Eastern Branch, 57 Murray Street,
New York City.
Residence, Summit, New Jersey.
Henry Adams Truslow was born April 9th. 1874, at Santiago,
Cuba. He is a son of James Linklater Truslow and Amelia
Louise Adams, who were married Sept. 29th, 1870, at Brook-
lyn, N. Y., and had altogether five children, four boys and one
girl. Thomas H. Truslow, '96 S., and Edmund Truslow, '99,
are brothers.
James Linklater Truslow (b. Dec. 27th, 1849, at New York
City; d. Sept. 26th, 1899, at Summit, N. J.) was a member of
the firm of Truslow & Co., Mfrs. of Corks, and Vice-President
of the Armstrong Cork Company. His parents were James
Linklater Truslow, also a member of the firm of Truslow &
Co., of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Amanda P. Buckmaster of New
York City. The family came from England, c. 1777, and
settled at Bedford, Westchester Co., N. Y.
Amelia Louise (Adams) Truslow (b. April i8th, 1850, at
Santiago, Cuba) is the daughter of William Newton Adams,
a merchant (member of the firm of Moses Taylor & Co.) of San-
tiago and New York City, and Carmen Michelena, of Caracas,
OF GRADUATES 619
Venezuela. She spent her early life at Santiago and Norwich,
Conn. She is now (Dec, 'os) living at New York City.
Truslow spent most of his youth in Brooklyn and in Summit,
N. J. Prepared for College at St. Paul's and while at Yale
was elected a member of Zeta Psi. He received a Second Col-
loquy at Commencement.
He was married at Overbrook, Philadelphia, Pa., April i8th, 1900,
to Miss Jane Kent Auchincloss, daughter of William S. Auchin-
closs, and has four children, all sons, James Linklater Trus-
low (b. Feb. 2ist, 1901, at Summit, N. J.), Frederick Kent
Truslow (b. Nov. 9th, 1902, at Summit), William Auchin-
closs Truslow (b. Aug. 19th, 1904, at Summit), and Francis
Adams Truslow (b. May 4th, 1906, at Summit).
In the fall of 1896, after a few months in Europe,
Truslow entered the employ of Truslow & Company,
Manufacturers of Corks in New York City. He was
elected a director of the Armstrong Cork Company, of
Pittsburgh, Pa., in February, 1900, and in February,
1902, he was appointed to his present position, that of
Assistant Manager of the Armstrong Cork Co/s Eastern
Branch, with offices in New York. "As to your request
for the story of my life since the 'Sexennial Record' was
published," he writes, "I fear that there is nothing of
general interest to tell. I have been fully occupied with
my business and have had no time for travel or many
outside interests. With the exception of a rather severe
attack of typhoid fever during the summer of 1904 there
has been little to interrupt the even tenor of my way."
An ovation awaited Truslow at Decennial when he
was found to be the father of four boys, all headed Yale-
ward. Gris Smith was "barker" for the occasion and Ed
Davis was selected to adorn the chariot wheels.
Howland Twombly
Of law firm of Boyden, Palfrey, Bradlee & Twombly, 60 State Street,
Boston, Mass.
Residence, Newton, Mass.
Rowland Twombly was born April 13th, 1875, at Boston, Mass.
He is a son of Alexander Stevenson Twombly, '54, M.A.,
620 BIOGRAPHIES
D.D., and Abby Quincy Bancroft, who were married Dec. 23d,
1858, at Boston, and had altogether five children, all boys, of
whom three (besides Rowland) are Yale graduates, viz., Ed-
ward Twombly, '81, Henry B. Twombly, '84, and Clifford S.
Twombly, '91. The other brother is a graduate of the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology.
Alexander Stevenson Twombly (b. March 14th, 1832, at
Boston) is a clergyman, artist, author, and a veteran of the
Civil War. His life has been spent at Cherry Valley and
Albany, N. Y., Stamford, Conn., Boston and Newton, Mass.,
at which latter place he now (Feb., '06) resides. His parents
were Alexander Hamilton and Mary Perley Twombly, both of
Boston. Alexander Hamilton Twombly was engaged in mer-
cantile and shipping pursuits. He was a Director of the Chicago
& Northwestern R. R., and served as a Representative and
Senator in the Massachusetts Legislature. The ancestors of
the family came from England with a grant of land in 1656,
and settled at Dover, N. H.
Abby Quincy (Bancroft) Twombly (b. March 21st, 1833, at
Boston) is the daughter of Jacob Bancroft, a merchant, and
Martha Howland Gray, both of Boston. Her grandfather,
Captain Robert Gray, discovered the Columbia River, and was
the first American Captain to carry the United States flag
around the world.
Twombly spent his youth chiefly in Newton, Mass. He was one
of the temporary Deacons in our Freshman year, Recording
Secretary of the Y. M. C. A., a member of the Junior Prome-
nade Committee, and a regular player on the Class Baseball
Team. He won a Second Ten Eyck Prize as one of the
speakers in the Junior Exhibition, served on the Supper Com-
mittee in Senior year, and received a High Oration at the
Junior Exhibition and at Commencement. Phi Beta Kappa.
A. D. Phi. Wolf's Head.
He has not been married.
Excepting for a year in the publishing business (1896-
97) with the Boston house of Silver, Burdett & Young,
Twombly has been a student and practitioner of law.
He was graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1900
and in the fall of 1901 formed a law partnership with
two Harvard men, Albert Boyden, and Edward C.
Bradlee. To this firm John G. Palfrey was afterwards
admitted, and the name now is Boyden, Palfrey, Bradlee
& Twombly.
OF GRADUATES 621^
"I owe you an apology," writes Twom, "for not hav-
ing answered your long-winded questions, but at the
psychic moment, as I was about to bend all my energies
to the task, Hawkes' equally verbose inquiries arrived.
I 'm sorry there is n't more to tell you. Allen and I own
some live-stock— to wit, horses— together, he having the
fee of the two front legs, and I the hind ones and tail—
which we ride continuously whenever we get a chance.
I also sail a boat, but how in thunder that can interest
anybody, even you, old friend of all the world, probably
can't say.
"I have stayed at home consistently, except a couple of
weeks in Florida last winter, and an occasional sortie to
suburbs like New York, etc.
"Allen is about the only '96 man I see. CoUens is in
the vicinity. Mathews I see once in a while on the
street. Smith is in Providence— but they all are mar-
ried—enough said."
Yale could hardly have celebrated her Bicentennial in
1901, it seemed to many of us, had it not been for
Twombly's zobo band, a picture of which is printed on
another page. His other approach to fame in recent
years was the time when Ball was rumored to be about
to name his child "Rowland," in Twombly's honor.
The child, however, was a girl.
D. L. Vaill
President and Treasurer of the Geo. Dudley & Son Co., Leather
Manufacturers, Winsted, Conn.
Dudley Landon Vaill was born Aug. 30th, 1873, at West
Winsted, Conn. He is a son of Theodore Freylinghuysen
Vaill and Alice Dudley, who were married June nth, 1868,
at Winsted, Conn., and had altogether three children, two boys
and one girl, two of whom lived to maturity.
Theodore Freylinghuysen Vaill (b. March 27th, 1832, at East
Lynn, Conn.; d. Feb. 8th, 1875, at Winsted, Conn.) attended
Union College, but did not graduate. He served in the Civil
War as Adjutant, with the rank of ist Lieutenant and Captain
in a Connecticut Regiment. Most of his life was spent at Litch-
622 BIOGRAPHIES
field and Winsted, Conn., engaged as teacher and editor. His
parents were Herman Landon Vaill, M.A., '26, a clergyman of
Litchfield, and Flora Gold of Cornwall, Conn. The family came
from England 1630-40, and settled at Southold, Long Island.
Alice (Dudley) Vaill (b. April 6th, 1842, at Winsted) is the
daughter of George Dudley, a manufacturer, and Electa Camp,
both of Winsted, where she now (Jan., '06) resides.
Vaill prepared for College at Andover. He made the Record in
January of Junior year, and received a Second Dispute at the
Junior Exhibition and at Commencement. D. K. E.
He was married at Winsted, Conn., June 28th, 1900, to Miss
Leila Strobridge Holmes, daughter of Charles Beecher Holmes
of Winsted, and has three children, Mary Vaill (b. Oct. 21st,
1902, at Winsted), Charles Beecher Holmes Vaill (b. July ist,
1904, at Winsted), and Theodore Vaill (b. Sept. 19th, 1905,
at Winsted). (See Appendix.)
Still wearing a hat that somebody left for him at one
of the Class dinners a few years ago, Vaill continues to
make his periodical descents upon New York to visit the
leather market in the "Swamp." His bag is always full
of *'Dr. Hinkle" tobacco, and his talk ranges from Pepys'
Diary to the Litchfield County Choral Union, of which he
is now the official auditor. A choral union's need of at
least one auditor seems never to have occurred to these
Connecticut Narcissi until Vaill joined their one-time
tuneful ranks, and showed them how, in chapel, he had
made a joyful noise unto the Lord. Dudley is also a
member of the School Board, trustee of the local sav-
ings bank, and Vice-President of the Winsted Burying
Ground Association. His letter follows :
"To a man who has no notion of appealing to posterity
after the fashion of Pepys, whom you invoke, and who
consequently has failed to provide the necessary data in
passing, it looks somewhat difficult to give with satis-
factory detail— satisfactory to the avid secretary, that is
—an account of his trifling activities since this time ten
years ago. It is all the harder because the whole busi-
ness could be disposed of so comfortably in such a
modest allotment of time, if you would only let me;
but a model secretary must of course be humored, so
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without making the vain effort to recall quite all the in-
significancies for which you clamor, I submit this entirely
commonplace story, which has no electrifying incidents
to enliven it and is undistinguished in quite every way.
"To go back to the point where we found the process
of converting us into alumni finally accomplished, every-
body one knew seemingly started immediately for England
with the Henley races as objective. My particular party
included Berry, Haldeman, and Mallon, and others not
of our Class. We were together through various parts
of the Old World that summer, meeting everywhere
other traveling squads from New Haven, and doing
about the sort of things all the rest were doing. It was
a notable season for Europe, doubtless. Successive de-
partures for home left me alone, finally, and with the
exception of some weeks when Hopkins crossed my path
I wandered alone until the end of the year, acquiring
a gradual consciousness that the order of things was
changed— which grew more acute later.
"In January, 1897, back in the U.S.A. I went into
the office of the George Dudley & Son Co., manufac-
turers of leather in Winsted, Conn., became in due course
Treasurer of that corporation, and still later its President
also. There seems to be little variety to inject into the
annals of that connection, which naturally has claimed
the major share of my attention since it began.
"In 1900 I was married— you have the statistics cor-
rectly I think— and spent the summer in England. In
1903 the inevitable house building was gone through
with, a most absorbing business, and in various years
sundry young Vaills have joined the population. That
seems to be about all there is to relate— little enough to
gratify your secretarial longings, but it must serve. You
are to understand a comfortably unexciting existence,
with small matters doing duty as events, perhaps; with
books and country quiet; with the unavoidable propor-
tion, too, of things that would be better otherwise.
There is little leisure about it, and not much in the way
of vacations.
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"There are frequent little journeys about, chiefly to
New York, and almost always some of the Class to
chance upon and gossip with. Once in a while, too,
some of them stray or are decoyed into this locality, and
that is really eventful. I get to New Haven for a game
about every year and feel it a distinction never to have
missed the winter dinner yet, so I 'm fairly well in
touch with the Class. I wax aged, doubtless, and bald,
and it is much to be deplored, of course, but it is com-
forting to find that these processes are endured in such
goodly company."
Thomas G. Vennum
Lawyer. Watseka, 111.
President First National Bank, Freeland Park, Indiana.
Thomas Gaylord Vennum was born Jan. 31st, 1873, at Watseka,
111. He is a son of Thomas Vennum, De Pauw, '53, and Lucia
Ann Tuller, who were married April 7th, 1862, at Detroit,
Mich., and had altogether five children, three boys and two
girls, four of whom lived to maturity. A brother was grad-
uated from the University of Illinois in the Class of '93.
Thomas Vennum (b. Dec. 25th, 1833, at Washington, Pa.;
d. June 29th, 1898, at Watseka, 111.) was a successful and much
respected banker of Watseka, at which place, and at Milford,
111., he spent his life. He held the office of Circuit Clerk for
twelve years, and was also a Legislator, but declined other po-
litical honors. His parents were Christopher Columbus Ven-
num, a farmer, and Rosana Paul of Washington, Pa. The
family came originally from Wales, and settled at Washington.
Lucia Ann (Tuller) Vennum (b. Aug. 4th, 1836, at Browns-
ville, Mich.) spent her early life at Jonesville and Allegan,
Mich. She is the daughter of Henry Champlin Tuller, a
farmer and business man of Jonesville, Mich. Her mother's
maiden name was Gregg. She is now (Dec, '05) living at
Watseka.
Vennum came to Yale from Eureka College and entered with
the Class. He was elected a member of A. D. Phi, and was
one of the charter members of Kappa Beta Phi.
He was married at Watseka, 111., Oct. 26th, 1898, to Miss
Josephine A. Norris, daughter of Loraine and the late Emulus
W. Norris, and has three children, one son and two daughters.
I
OF GRADUATES 625
Lucia Loraine Vennum (b. Aug. 27th, 1899, at Watseka, 111.),
Thomas Vennum (b. Nov. 27th, 1901, at Watseka), and Jo-
sephine Vennum (b. Jan. 25th, 1906, at Watseka).
It was on a western trip from Chicago to San Francisco
that the Secretary first heard those stories of Vennum's
home-made banknotes, which suddenly revivified for
some of us the engaging tale of Fortunatus' purse. Ven-
num was described as traveling largely about his native
land, distributing crisp five and ten dollar bills bearing
in one corner his own signature, and innkeepers were
alleged to be competing for these, much as they normally
do for gold. Desirous of seeing these wonders at their
fountain-head, the Secretary took advantage of an old
invitation to send word to Tom that he was coming to
Watseka.
"Dee-lighted," said his answer; "I have turned your
letter over to my good wife and she reports that she
already has the 'spare bed room' dusted and cleaned and
ready for your coming; she says she will have you sleep
in the same bed occupied not long ago by Governor
Deneen, when he spent the night with us, and in addition
she proposes to have floating from the house-top a blue
banner with the mystic numerals ' '96' emblazoned there-
on. We live seventy-five miles from Chicago on the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad and I will be glad
to meet you in the city and give you a personal escort
down when you arrive. I had lunch with Billy Drown
and Jimmy Ballentine in Frisco and it did my heart
good to see the boys again for the first time since the
palmy days of '96."
Vennum received the degree of LL.B. in June, 1899,
from Northwestern University in Evanston. He is now
a lawyer et prceterea multa, to wit, President of the
First National Bank of Freeland Park, Indiana, Secre-
tary of the Iroquois County Title & Trust Company, and
Vice-President of the First National Bank of Milford,
111. He has farm lands besides, which take a part of his
time, and he could, if he would, be somebody in political
626 BIOGRAPHIES
life. The Secretary carried away with him, as memen-
toes of his visit, a quantity of the famous banknotes for
distribution at the New York dinner; where, he regrets
to say, their production caused a truly pitiable display of
excitement and cupidity.
Wesley G. Vincent, M.D.
172 West 79th Street, New York City.
Wesley Grove Vincent was born at Cottage City, Mass., Dec.
6th, 1871. He is the only son of Francis Pease Vincent and
Minnie Estelle Killian, who were married Aug. 14th, 1867, at
Edgartown, Mass., and had one other child, a daughter, who
died before maturity.
Francis Pease Vincent (b. Nov. 4th, 183 1, at Edgartown,
Mass.) served with the 3d Regt. Mass. Vol. Infantry during
the Civil War (1861-5), enlisting as a private, and being
honorably discharged at the expiration of his term, as Chief
Bugler. He served as Postmaster of Cottage City from 1873
to 1888, holding several commissions under Presidents Grant,
Hayes, and Arthur ; was County Commissioner of Dukes County,
Mass., for six years, five of which he was Chairman of the
Board; was Collector for four years, and at present (Nov., '05)
is Town Clerk, which position he has held for a number of
years. He was Official Enumerator of the United States
Census in 1890 and in 1900, and of the State Census in
1895. His parents were Samuel Gifford Vincent, a contractor
and builder, and Harriet Dyer Pease, both of Edgartown.
Samuel GiflFord Vincent was a member of the Massachusetts
Legislature in 1855, Town Treasurer of Edgartown for twenty-
five years, and Selectman, Assessor, and Overseer of the Poor
for many years. The family came from England in 1630, and
settled at Edgartown.
Minnie Estelle (Killian) Vincent (b. Dec. 8th, 1850, at Rox-
bury, Mass.) spent her early life at Roxbury and Edgartown.
Her parents were Thomas Killian, a shoe manufacturer, and
Elizabeth Lawleys, both of Roscommon, Ireland, later of Rox-
bury, Mass.
Vincent prepared for Yale at Exeter. He made the University
Glee Club in Freshman year, and sang First Bass both with
them and with the College Choir. He served as Assistant
Superintendent of the Co-op in Sophomore year, as Super-
intendent in Junior and Senior years, and received an Oration
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at the Junior Exhibition and a Dissertation at Commencement.
D. K. E.
He was married at New York City, Oct. 12th, 1904, to Miss Ethel
Boorum Gresham, daughter of John Heslop Gresham, a sta-
tioner and lithographer of New York City.
After four years in the Yale Medical School Vincent
received his M.D. degree, bade farewell to the Coop., and
entered the N. Y. Post-Graduate Hospital as interne.
"When my sexennial report was made," he writes, "I
was House Surgeon at the N. Y. Post-Graduate Hospital.
Finished my service there July i, 1902, and began prac-
tice at 138 W. 8ist Street on August ist. Soon after
getting comfortably settled the house changed hands and
I was forced to find another location. On October ist,
1902, I moved to y2 W. 82d Street, where I took a two
year lease. In October, 1904, I leased my present apart-
ment at 172 W. 79th Street.
"Upon leaving the Post-Graduate Hospital staff I at
once became clinical assistant in surgery in the out-patient
department of the P.-G. Hospital, and also received ap-
pointment as Assistant Attending Physician to St. Bar-
tholomew's Clinic, having one half of the entire medical
service. At the Post-Graduate my rank was raised in
October, 1902, to Instructor in Surgery, and for the past
two years I have been one of the attending surgeons dur-
ing part of the summer. In the fall of 1902 I became
one of Dr. Geo. M. Edebohls' assistants in private prac-
tice and was advanced to first assistant the following
year.
"Now as to vacations— In July, 1902, I took only a few
days, mostly spent in hunting up a location and attending
to other details incident to beginning private practice.
During August, 1903, I spent two weeks at Cottage City,
Mass. My vacation in 1904 was taken as a wedding trip,
about two weeks being spent at the Chamberlin, Fortress
Monroe, with side trips to Norfolk, Virginia Beach and
other neighboring towns. Last summer ill-health com-
pelled me to take a little longer rest, about a month in all
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being divided between Cottage City, Mass., and Norfolk,
Conn.
"I think I have attended all class dinners since Sexen-
nial except the last one, when a professional engagement
had to take precedence and steal that evening's pleasure
from me. I often meet classmates who live in or near
N. Y., and among them I must especially mention *Ad'
Pratt, who, I find, has a very pleasant faculty of obtain-
ing from my delinquent patients money which my most
polite and carefully written 'please remits' have failed
to dislodge.
''Upon reading this over, Clarence, I find that the pro-
noun T comes in very frequently, but I fail to see how
your mandate could be carried out otherwise."
Frank E. Wade
Of the law firm of Mackenzie & Wade, 541 Onondaga Co. Savings Bank
Building, Syracuse, N. Y.
Residence, 512 James Street.
Frank Edward Wade was born Oct. 6th, 1873, at Malta Bend,
Mo. He is a son of William Henry Wade and Mary Knott,
who were married Jan. isth, 1867, at Clifton, O., and had alto-
gether six children, three boys and three girls, four of whom
lived to maturity.
William Henry Wade (b. Nov. 3d, 1835, at Cedarville, O.),
a farmer, enlisted in the Civil War as Lieutenant on call for
three months' service, and served throughout the War. He was
mustered out Lieutenant Colonel. He was for many years a
member of the Missouri Assembly, and from 1884-90 was a
member of Congress. His father was Isaac Smith Wade, who
was born at Wadesville, Va., and who lived in Ohio and Mis-
souri, and his mother was Eleanor Lamb of Chillicothe, O.
Mary (Knott) Wade (b. Nov. 2d, 1840, at Clifton, O. ; d. in
Aug., 1890) was the daughter of William E. Knott, a paper
manufacturer of Clifton (previously of New Jersey), and
Lydia Price of Clifton and Springfield, Mo.
Wade prepared for College at the Drury College Preparatory
School and entered our Class in September, 1893. He was a
member of the Track Team for two years, a member of the
Football Squad, and served in Senior year as Treasurer of the
Yale Gymnastic Association. He belonged to the Yale Union
and to A. D. Phi.
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He was married June 4th, 1904, at Chicago, 111., to Miss Margaret
Burnet Silsbee, daughter of Joseph Lyman Silsbee of Chicago.
Wade attended the St. Louis Law School 1896-7, and
the Syracuse University Law School (where he received
his LL.B.) 1897-8. In the fall of each of these years he
coached football teams— in '96 at De Pauw and in '97
and '98 at Syracuse. The summer of '98 he spent "on
Long Island as Sergeant Major, Co. A., 203d New York
Volunteers, considering my folly." Of a regiment of
1 100 men, 755 had typhoid. "I am henceforth indifferent
to the Declaration of Independence," he wrote George
Nettleton, "and shall free no more peoples."
In 1899 Wade gave up his alleged hope of living in
Missouri and became a resident of Syracuse, N. Y. He
was admitted to the Bar in February ; the following May
he formed his present law-partnership with William A.
Mackenzie, Jr., Princeton, '92. In reply to the usual
questions as to his activities since 1902 he says, "All this
time has been employed in the earnest pursuit of those
on whom the honest vocation of the law might be profit-
ably practised. Our travels have been incident thereto,
and, alas ! it takes much wayfaring as well as waylaying,
for those we seek are indeed hard to overtake."
The tale of Wade's cement mine, or well, or whatever
it is, has been circulating about the Class with details of
various nature for some years. The facts can be ascer-
tained from him only in a briefly modest way— but it
appears that a casual visit to an old quarry, joined to his
usual keenness of mind and promptness of action, re-
sulted in his getting possession of some deposits of under-
ground stuff considered desirable by cement people, and
that their opinion as to its desirability made the outcome
of prolonged and nerve-racking negotiation a matter of
profit to Felix. The size of the profit has been the
subject of rumor for a long time. The "Sun" said
$75,000, but Wade is indefinite on that point, and we have
all grown into a settled belief that it was millions.
To some of his classmates who have noted on his flit-
k
630 BIOGRAPHIES
ting but frequent visits to the Yale Club the significant
development of that well-stroked iron jaw, the stories of
his pertinacity, of his vanquishing all conceivable ob-
stacles by sheer determination, by attrition of hostile
forces, come without surprise.
William H. Wadhams
Lawyer, 2,2 Liberty Street, New York City.
William Henderson Wadhams was born at Annapolis, Md.,
Dec. 7th, 1873. He is a son of Albion Varette Wadhams and
Caroline Elizabeth Henderson, who were married Feb. 28th,
1870, at Annapolis, and had altogether three children, two
boys and one girl, two of whom lived to maturity.
Albion Varette Wadhams (b. Jmie 8th, 1847, at Wadhams
Mills, N. Y.) is an officer in the U. S. Navy, having served on
all the foreign and home stations and at various Navy Yards.
He is now (Nov., '05) stationed at the Navy Yard in Norfolk,
Va. His parents were William Luman Wadhams, a manu-
facturer of Wadhams Mills, and Emeline Loretta Cole of West-
port, N. Y. The family came from England in 1650, and
settled at Goshen, Conn.
Caroline Elizabeth (Henderson) Wadhams (b. June 19th,
1849, at Jackson, Miss.) spent her early life at New Orleans,
La. She is the daughter of Isaac James Henderson, a Pres-
byterian minister of Natchez, Miss., and Mary Ann Mussina of
Galveston, Tex.
Wadhams spent part of his youth in Washington and five years
in Europe. He prepared for College at Andover. In June of
Sophomore year he made the Record, of which he afterwards
served as Financial Editor. He took a College Prize in English
Composition of the First Grade in Sophomore year, an Elo-
cution Prize in Declamation, wrote for the Lit, sang on the
College Choir, joined the Yale Union, and for two years was
a member of the Track Team. A High Oration at the Junior
Exhibition and at Commencement. Phi Beta Kappa. Psi U.
He was married at Andover, Mass., April 26th, 1900, to Miss
Caroline Drummond Reed, daughter of Edwin Reed, an author,
of Andover, and has two children, a son and a daughter,
Dorothy York Wadhams (b. May 3d, 1901, at New York City)
and William Henderson Wadhams, Jr. (b. June 3d, 1905, at
New York City).
OF GRADUATES 631
In 1899, after spending the last year of his course in a
New York office, Wadhams was graduated from the
Harvard Law School. When Supreme Court Justice
John Proctor Clarke, '78, was elected, he became his law
secretary, dissolving the partnership of Latting & Wad-
hams (which had followed upon his connection with
Curtis, Mallet-Prevost & Colt) . He writes : "It is easy
to answer all your inquiries except the last. I cannot
think of anything of importance or of general interest
which I have done or accomplished since 1902. On
February ist, 1906, I resigned my position as law secre-
tary and removed my office to No. 32 Liberty Street,
where I am continuing the general practice of the law.
This has meant continual work in library, office and
court, but has not involved anything of especial interest
to any others than my clients.
"My Vacations' have been short, my 'meetings with
classmates' have been chiefly at the Yale Club, my 'trav-
els' have been confined to short business trips, and my
'other experiences' have been incidents of a happy busy
life as the father of a family, a practising attorney and a
citizen of New York."
Wadhams has taken a regular interest in State and city
politics. He has done his share in campaign stump-
speaking, acted as a delegate at county, city and State
conventions, and served on various Republican commit-
tees, among others the XIII Congressional District Com-
mittee which elected Herbert Parsons, '90. This was the
district which Frank Harrison, '95, had carried, two
years before, on the Democratic ticket. During the year
1903-4 he gave a series of lectures on Commercial Law
before the members of the Young Men's Christian As-
sociation of New York City. (See Appendix.)
A. G. Walter
Instructor in Mathematics, Betts Academy, Stamford, Conn.
Arthur Gillender Walter was born at New Haven, Conn., Nov.
nth, 1868. He is a son of James Watkins Walter and Jeannette
632 BIOGRAPHIES
Lucretia Downs, who were married Feb. 15th, 1868, at New
Haven, and had altogether four children, all boys, three of
whom lived to maturity.
James Watkins Walter (b. Oct. 7th, 1836, at Antigua, British
West Indies) has lived in New Haven since he was two years
old. For twenty-five years previous to his retirement he was
a member of the police force of that city. His parents were
Jacob Daniel Walter, a sugar merchant of Antigua, and Eliza-
beth Gillender of New York City. The family came from Wal-
dorf, Germany, in 1784, and settled at Antigua.
Jeannette Lucretia (Downs) Walter (b. Feb. 3d, 1846, at New
Haven; d. May 14th, 1882, at New Haven) was the daughter
of Calvin Downs, a carriage blacksmith of New Haven, and
Jeannette Williams of Branford, Conn.
Walter prepared for Yale at Betts Academy, Stamford, Conn.,
and while in College received a Second Dispute at the Junior
Exhibition and at Commencement.
He was married at New York City, Oct. 7th, 1901, to Miss Wini-
fred Estelle Fitch, daughter of the late Joseph Fitch, and
Eliza Guild (Stanton) Fitch of Stamford, Conn., and has two
children, both daughters, Jeannette Downs Walter (b. Aug.
i8th, 1903, at New Haven, Conn.) and Elizabeth Stanton
Walter (b. Oct. 14th, 1905, at Stamford).
The study of mathematics is one of those ambitious pur-
suits which, upon obtaining the run of a man's mind,
must needs strive for empire. The man then becomes
what we call a devotee ; his identity is merged in his
subject, and to all practical intents he is as much lost to
his fellows as were Lot's wife and the malmseyed Duke
of Clarence in years gone by— years which, lest the Kappa
Beta Phi crowd should scent some new historic scandal,
we hasten to add were an entirely respectable number
of centuries apart. In "The Ways of Yale" Professor
Beers gives a classical instance of this absorption. "Bar-
low also asserted," says he, "that he was present once at
morning chapel when Tutor Cosine, whose duty it was
to conduct the exercises, began his prayer as follows : *0
Thou who dost cause the planets to revolve in their ellip-
tical orbits,— the force of the attraction varying inversely
as the square of the distance . . .' "
OF GRADUATES 633
Now, there, unless we very much mistake, is old Dame
Warning herself — not rumbling on distant hill-tops, but
visibly parading up and down in the sight of our class-
mate Walter. Excepting one year (1898-9) of gradu-
ate study at Yale, for which he received the M.A. de-
gree, Walter has taught mathematics at Betts Academy
in Stamford ever since we were graduated. Ten years
of disintegrating abstract thought— can the robustest
loyalty survive? He may seem to be the same kindly
old person, and it is true that he still attends reunions,
still responds more generously than most to any appeal
that comes from his Alma Mater, but who knows whether
his principal reason for participation may not be merely
the addition or subtraction it involves ? Is it not ominous
to observe that he apparently cannot write his Class Secre-
tary a decent letter? ''Nothing doing," he falters, "save
teaching at the same place and in the same subjects ; and
assisting in the care of the kids." Poor little kids ! They
probably love this man; and the first thing they know
he will be putting rhomboids under the beds, or secretly
dropping logarithms in their milk.
Professor Chauncey Wetmore Wells
Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, Cal.
Residence, 2243 Piedmont Way, Berkeley.
Chauncey Wetmore Wells was born May 25th, 1872, at Balti-
more, Md. He is a son of Lewis Gray Wells and Mary Ellen
Wetmore, who had four other children, one girl and three boys
(Hubert W., '89, Philip P., '89, and Ernest H., '93).
Lewis Gray Wells (b. June 17th, 1841, at Columbus, Ga.) is
a merchant and manufacturer of Louisville, Ky. He has also
lived at Stratford, Conn., Benicia, Cal., Madison, Wis., Grand
Rapids, Mich., and Baltimore, Md. His parents were Lewis
Wheeler Wells, a merchant of Stratford, Columbus, and Balti-
more, and Affa Gray of Boston, Mass. The family came from
England, c. 1636, and settled at Wethersfield, Conn.
Mary Ellen (Wetmore) Wells (b. at Middletown, Conn., in
1834 ; d. at Baltimore, Md., in April, 1874) was the daughter of
Chauncey Wetmore, a farmer, and Rebecca Hubbard, both of
Middletown, Conn.
634 BIOGRAPHIES
Wells prepared for Yale at Andover and entered our Class in
September, 1893, after a previous connection with the Class of
1893. He won the Courant Poetry Prize in Sophomore year,
and in Junior year was elected Chairman of the "Lit." (in
charge of "Editor's Table"). He was a member of our Ivy
Committee, of the Yale Union, Chi Delta Theta, and Psi U. A
Dissertation at the Junior Exhibition and a First Dispute at
Commencement,
He was married Sept. 8th, 1897, at Burlington, N. J., to Miss
Mary Rebecca Prescott, daughter of William Wallace Pres-
cott, a music publisher of New York, who was born and died
in New Haven, the home of his family. Her mother is Rosetta
H. Prescott of Troy, N. Y., who is now living with Mrs. Wells*
sister, Mrs. Prescott Le Breton, in Buffalo, N. Y.
One year as Assistant in Rhetoric and four years as In-
structor, were spent by Wells at Yale, coaching debating
teams "on the side." In June, 1901, he accepted an
assistant professorship of English Composition at the
University of California.
"I am the same old jog-trot theme reader," he writes.
In the summer of 1905 he taught for six weeks in the Col-
umbia University Summer School. The Secretary saw him
twice that year— in New Haven, just before Commence-
ment, and at his home in Berkeley in the fall— a cosy,
bookish sort of a house with a view of the Golden Gate
from an upper window, where he extracted from him
the promise of some verses for Decennial. "If ever I
promise you or any other man a copy of verses again,"
wrote the bard the following spring, a month after the
earthquake, "may all my chimneys be shaken down and
consumed! . . . That is the trouble, my dear Clarence.
Here am I, with a desire to produce, but with merely the
poor stuff which a taste more and more fastidious forbids
me to write. Some of it of course is laziness— though
I slave at my task, — and a skillful putting off for which
I have coined the word procrastidigitation. But alas and
alas!— the east window of my mind closed somewhere,
in Senior year, I think, and I Ve only a north and west
exposure. There are soft lights sometimes, and winter
OF GRADUATES 635
nights there are bleak winds that stir the blood, but no
more."
The Secretary wishes he dared to quote the letter in
full, but confines himself to the answers to questions
for the Record : "No, I have no bibliography. . . . Greg-
ory called on Sunday morning en route for the East. . . .
We are all top o' ground out here, and glad to be. Prac-
tically all the Yale men I know are in relief work, up to
the eyes in it. The University had a chimney or two
topple over and she loses the income on her San Fran-
cisco investments, but the regents have promised not to
cut down Zeus and me. Jim Ballentine luckily is living
on this side of the bay, and Bill Drown will not starve,
though they are both temporarily unsettled in their pro-
fessions. Here 's wishing we might be in New Haven
this June."
T. B. Wells
Editorial Staff, Harper's Magazine, Franklin Square, New York.
Thomas Bucklin Wells was born April 5th, 1875, at Paines-
ville, Ohio. He is a son of Thomas Bucklin Wells, *S9, M.A.,
D.D,, and Annie Elizabeth Jonas, who were married August
nth, 1869, at Quincy, 111., and had altogether four children, two
boys and two girls, three of whom lived to maturity.
Thomas Bucklin Wells, the elder (b. Dec. 31st, 1839, at Co-
lumbia, S. C. ; d. Aug. 4th, 1891, at sea, while returning to
America from Japan) received his preparation for Yale at
Heidelberg and Paris, and after graduation became a Clergy-
man of the Episcopal Church. He was Rector of St. James'
Church at Painesville for seventeen years, and of St. Mark's
Church at Minneapolis, Minn., for eleven. His parents were
Thomas Wells, M.D., Ph.D., a physician of Columbia, S. C,
and New Haven, Conn., and Jane E. Bucklin of Providence,
R. I.
Annie Elizabeth (Jonas) Wells (b. Nov. 17th, 1842, at
Quincy, 111.) is the daughter of the Hon. A. E. Jonas, a lawyer
of Quincy. She spent her early life at Quincy and at New
Orleans, La. She is now (Nov., '05) living at Minneapolis,
Minn.
Wells spent his youth in Painesville, Ohio, and in Minneapolis.
He received a Second Dispute at the Junior Exhibition and at
i
636 BIOGRAPHIES
Commencement, was a member of D. K. E., and served as
Vorleser of the Botocudo Club.
He was married at Greenwich, Conn., June 21st, 1902, to Miss
Harriet Sheldon, daughter of George P. Sheldon, Yale, '67,
of Greenwich and New York City.
One night last winter the Secretary was introduced to
a girl who had just had a couple of stories accepted by
Harper's. "And now I cannot think of Mr. Wells,"
said she, happily, "excepting as one with an aureole, a
halo." (Those were her very words.) "You know the
top of his head naturally gives one that impression," she
continued. "Sometimes it is positively luminous. It is
just like a halo — really."
The Secretary drew that girl aside and told her the
definition of a Decennial Record and the importance of
her imparting this new view about Wells to the Class
at large, perhaps in rhyme. "I wish I could do it," she
wrote him later on. "I have been trying all the week to
think of something. My interviews with him are all the
most delicious copy. I have learned that I cannot depend
on my mind to work while I 'm there— this is not an
aphorism— so I make up all my speeches before I go, but
he never gives the right cue. He says the most unex-
pected things. . . ."
After graduation Wells became a reporter on the
"N. Y. Journal." The series of his remarkable adven-
tures in this paper's service came to an end in 1898 at
Camp Wikoflf, where he contracted typhoid fever. Upon
recovering he "entered commercial life" for a few un-
congenial weeks, and then started in with Harper &
Brothers, the publishers. He now holds an honored posi-
tion on the editorial staff of Harper's Magazine, and
knows, probably, more interesting people than any '96
man in New York. He spends his summers at Green-
wich or abroad. (K.M.)
It is seldom that he gets around to see any of us nowa-
days. Surviving bachelors in the Yale Club grill miss
his late entrances for dinner, his pulling up a chair to
OF GRADUATES 637
the big table (heedless of the reek of postprandial Num-
ber Sixes), and his critical examination of the steaks.
Not their quality, be it understood— the sizeableness of
his order was ever Wells' first concern. In Consule
Aquilo, when Eagle was on the House Committee, Basso
is remembered to have carried a too diminutive broil
across the room, and, thrusting it under Smoke's indig-
nant nose, to have insisted upon holding him specifically
accountable for the outrage. Those days, which so sub-
dued the Bird of Prey's horse laugh, are gone. Basso
is married. His recreations are not the old recreations,
and more than these, old or new, the bald and wrinkled
editor prizes rest.
George C. Weston
Lawyer. 1120 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
Residence, 4719 Leiper Street, Frankford, Phila.
Permanent mail address, Honesdale, Pa.
George Childs Weston was born at Honesdale, Pa., Dec. 24th,
1872. He is a son of William Wesley Weston and Annie E.
Foster, who were married Oct. ist, 1857, at Honesdale, and had
altogether six children, three boys and three girls, five of whom
lived to maturity.
William Wesley Weston (b. Nov. 7th, 1827, at Ellenville,
Ulster Co., N. Y. ; d. Sept. 9th, 1901, at Honesdale) was a mer-
chant and manufacturer, and for twenty-five years President
of the Wayne County Savings Bank. His father, Horace
Weston (b. at Simsbury, Conn.), was engaged as a Methodist
minister in pioneer labors in Ulster Co., until his health failed,
when he settled in Ellenville and established a mercantile and
manufacturing business. Caroline Elizabeth Briggs of Dan-
bury, Conn., was William Wesley Weston's mother. The an-
cestors of the family were early English settlers in Boston.
Annie E. (Foster) Weston (b. July 8th, 1834, at Honesdale;
d. Sept. 15th, 1876, at Honesdale) was the daughter of Isaac
Post Foster, a merchant and tanner, and Mary Howell, both of
Southampton, N. Y. Isaac Post Foster was the sixth genera-
tion from Christopher Foster, who, with his wife, came from
England in 1635.
Weston prepared for Yale at Reid's School in Hartford and at
638 BIOGRAPHIES
Andover, and while at Yale was a member of the Andover
Club, the Hartford Club, and D. K. E.
He has not been married.
"Engaged in practice of law at above address" is all that
the formerly complaisant Weston had to say about him-
self this time. In 1902 he was perhaps less busy than
now ; at all events he was more communicative, and his
letter will be found on page 202 of the "Sexennial
Record." The facts are these: In October, 1896, he
registered as a law student in the office of Hon. Frank
P. Kimble, Honesdale, Pennsylvania. He read law there
until he was admitted to the Bar of Wayne County,
May 1st, 1899, and he has practised in Philadelphia ever
since.
Weston's only Ninety-Six neighbors nowadays are
Skim Brown, Longacre, Pardee, and Spalding. The
banality of reminding an audience that Philadelphia is
the City of Brotherly Love, and then, with a dreadful
facetiousness, proceeding to express astonishment at
some discovered incongruity between that title and the
actions of its inhabitants, is an offense which the Secre-
tary has no desire to commit. But it may be permitted
us, after duly considering that particular combination of
names, to contemplate as quietly as may be what possi-
bilities a Philadelphia '96 Dinner would necessarily pre-
sent.
F. E. Weyerhaeuser
Lumber Business. National German-American Bank Building,
St. Paul, Minn.
Residence, 684 Summit Avenue.
Frederick Edward Weyerhaeuser was born at Rock Island, 111.,
Nov. 4th, 1872. He is a son of Frederick Weyerhaeuser and
Elizabeth Sarah Bladel, who were married Oct. nth, 1857, at
Rock Island, and had altogether seven children, four boys (in-
cluding Rudolph M. Weyerhaeuser, '91 S.) and three girls.
Frederick Weyerhaeuser (b. Nov. 21st, 1834, at Niedersaul-
heim, Germany) is a lumber merchant and manufacturer, of
OF GRADUATES 639
St. Paul, Minn., formerly of Rock Island, 111., at which places
he has spent the greater part of his life. His parents were
John Weyerhaeuser, a farmer of Niedersaulheim, and Margaret
Gabel of Partenheim, Germany. He came to America in 1851
and settled at North East, Pa.
Elizabeth Sarah (Bladel) Weyerhaeuser (b. April 20th, 1839,
at Niedersaulheim) is the daughter of Philip Bladel, a ma-
chinist, and Anne Marie Apollonia Kissel, both of Erie, Pa.
Her early life was spent at Erie.
Weyerhaeuser prepared for Yale at Andover. He was Treas-
urer of the Freshman Football Association, made the News in
Sophomore year, served on the Alumni Weekly Board, of
which in Senior year he was Chairman, was a member of the
Senior Promenade Committee, and received a High Oration
at the Junior Exhibition and at Commencement. Phi Beta
Kappa. He Boule. D. K. E. Bones.
He was married Dec. 3d, 1902, at Saginaw, Mich., to Miss Har-
riette Louise Davis, daughter of Charles H. and Edith M.
Davis of Saginaw, and has two children, Virginia Weyer-
haeuser (b. Nov. i6th, 1904, at St. Paul, Minn.) and Frederick
Weyerhaeuser, 3d (b. April 2d, 1906, at St. Paul).
A LAST year's visitor to Weyerhaeuser's office in St. Paul
reported that it was ''like an auditorium— big enough to
hold horse-shows in, — a magnificent place." In a secluded
part, at an oppressively important-looking desk, sat
Dutch.
From such a desk the decennial questions obtained
brief consideration. Weyerhaeuser gave the Secretary
no particulars as to his career or as to the numerous
firms and corporations with which he is commandingly
connected; and, rack his brains as he will, the Secretary
can give practically none to the Class. A search among
old papers exhibits some letter headings, e.g., "Weyer-
haeuser & Co., Lumber, Lath and Shingles"; "Office of
F. Weyerhaeuser" (with the names of F. Weyerhaeuser
and F. E. Weyerhaeuser in the corners) ; etc. All we
know is that he seems to be a Big Gun in the lumber
business, and that he is said to resemble in appearance
a Methodist bishop.
Weyerhaeuser has raised something over $50,000 for
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Yale this last year. When the work began in 1905 he
wrote as follows of its inception :
"Dear Clarence: Replying to your letter of Aug, 17th (1905),
I give you briefly the history of the appointment of a committee
to raise funds for a Chair of practical lumbering at Yale Forest
School. A meeting of the National Lumber Manufacturers'
Association was held at Chicago May loth. Mr. Gifford Pinchot,
with whom you no doubt are acquainted, addressed the meeting
on the subject of forestry. Enough interest was aroused to call
for the appointment of a committee to offer some resolution
having in view the raising of a fund to be used in forestry work.
My brother, R. M. Weyerhaeuser ('91 S.), was appointed on
this committee, which offered a resolution providing for the ap-
pointment by the Association of a committee to secure funds for
the endowment of a Chair of 'Applied Forestry and Practical
Lumbering* at the Yale Forest School, Yale University, New
Haven.
"President N. W. McLeod, of the Association, appointed the
committee, consisting of myself, Chairman.
Wm. Carson, Burlington, Iowa. John L. Kaul, Birmingham, Ala.
J. T. Barber, Eau Claire, Wis. R. A. Long, Kansas City, Mo.
J. B. White, Kansas City, Mo. I. C. Enochs, Jackson, Miss.
C. I. Millard, St. Louis, Mo. R.H.Downman, New Orleans, La.
Everett G. Griggs, '90 S., Tacoma, Wash.
"Mr. N. W. McLeod has since been made a permanent member
of the committee.
"The committee met in Chicago July 26th and adopted plans
of organization and methods for raising funds. We are just
getting in shape now to begin canvassing and have some few
thousand dollars promised, although no effort has been made
so far. It is our hope to raise $150,000, although this may not
be accomplished.
f "In connection with the endowment of the Chair, a small com-
/ mittee of practical lumbermen will be appointed to work with the
/ forest school„agiakg. sudi..sygg£Sj;ipiis...as,,Sgei]i_adyiRablg^ to tbfJIL-_
I from a practical standpoint and help create
a widespread interest
iroughout the country."
Robert E. Whalen
Of Buchanan, Lawyer & Whalen, Counsellors at Law,
79 Chapel Street, Albany, N. Y.
Resiaence, 248 Lark Street.
Robert Edwin Whalen was born July 29th, 1874, at Ballston,
Spa, Saratoga Co., N. Y. He is a son of Seth Whalen and
Debby Anna Murphy, who were married Feb. 25th, 1862, at
Burnt Hills, Saratoga Co., N. Y. and had altogether five chil-
OF GRADUATES 641
dren, four boys and one girl, of whom Robert alone lived to
maturity.
Seth Whalen (b. Jan. 22d, 1835, at West Milton, Saratoga
Co., N. Y.; d. Nov. 26th, 1886, at Ballston Spa, N. Y.) spent
the greater part of his life at Ballston Spa. He served as
School Commissioner, County Clerk of Saratoga County, and
Chairman of the Democratic County Committee. His parents
were" Seth Whalen, a farmer of West Milton, and Hannah
Stone of Huntington, Conn. The family came from Ireland in
1737, and settled at West Milton.
Debby Anna (Murphy) Whalen (b. Oct. loth, 1834, at Pres-
ton Hollow, Albany Co., N. Y. ; d. June 12th, 1883, at Ballston
Spa) spent her early life at Burnt Hills. She was the daugh-
ter of Robert Williams Murphy, a merchant of Preston Hollow,
and Romelia Wheeler, of Chatham, Columbia Co., N. Y.
Whalen spent his youth in Albany and entered with the Class.
He received a College Prize in English Composition of the
Second Grade in Sophomore year, and a High Oration at the
Junior Exhibition and at Commencement. Phi Beta Kappa.
He has not been married.
"'Law— days, nights, and Sundays. No time for any-
thing else— not even to fall off the wagon, on which I Ve
had a continuous ride since graduation." Thus writes
Whalen this spring. He was Valedictorian of his Class
('98) at the Albany Law School (receiving no degree
owing to his taking two years' work in one) ; entered the
office of Buchanan & Lawyer, one of the oldest and most
prominent firms in Albany; and was soon admitted to
a new partnership, composed of Charles J. Buchanan,
West Point, ''ji; George Lawyer, Hamilton, '85; Wha-
len, and LeGrand Bancroft ; the firm name being changed
to Buchanan, Lawyer & Whalen.
Vaill and Birdie Strong have tried from time to time
to mitigate with fishing trips the rigors of Rabbi's high-
geared career, but the grindstone has an apparently un-
controllable attraction for his eager old nose. Only once
in a long while do they drag him off, and then he is too
conscience-stricken to have any luck. He sometimes
accepts for one of the New York dinners, but instead of
Rabbi there arrives merely one of his hurried postals
642 BIOGRAPHIES
with the famiHar "Can't make it. Thine in sorrow,
Whalen."
In answer to the question as to whether anything by
him had been pubHshed, he replied, "Nothing but a few
rambHng discourses handed out from the stump in a
futile effort to save the country during the campaign of
1904."
Morris M. Whitaker
Naval Architect and Technical Writer.
With Motor Boat Publishing Co., 1133 Broadway, New York.
Residence, 51 Quincy Street, Brooklyn.
Permanent mail address, Sacketts Harbor, N. Y.
Morris Mortimer Whitaker was born at Boston, Mass., Feb.
24th, 1873. He is the only child of Ezra Jabez Whitaker and
Cornelia Sophia Clark, who were married Aug. 15th, 1865, at
Adams, N. Y.
Ezra Jabez Whitaker (b. May 12th, 1839, at North Adams,
Mass. ; d. Aug. 20th, 1895, at Sacketts Harbor, N. Y.) was a Chief
Engineer in the United States Navy, entering the service in i860.
He was on board the "Minnesota" in the battle between the
"Monitor" and "Merrimac," on board the "Lackawanna" at the
battle of Mobile Bay, etc., etc. During the latter part of the
War he was stationed on the Blockade in the Gulf, and off
Charleston, S. C. ; and after its close, and up to the time of his
retirement in 1895, he served in all parts of the world. His
parents were Ezra Douglass Whitaker, a book dealer and
banker of North Adams, and Amanda M. Jones of Rutland, Vt.
The family came from England in 1658, and settled at Reho-
both, Mass.
Cornelia Sophia (Clark) Whitaker (b. Oct. 1st, 1843, at
Hounsfield, N. Y.) is now (Oct., '05) living at Sacketts Harbor,
N. Y. Her parents were Morris and Lodemia Clark, both of
Hounsfield, N. Y. Morris Clark was a farmer.
Whitaker prepared for college at the Brooklyn Polytechnic, and
entered our Class from Williams in January, 1893. Kappa
Beta Phi.
He was married Dec. 28th, 1898, at Brooklyri, N. Y., to Miss
Mary Louise Southard, daughter of Francis E. Southard of
Duxbury, Mass., and the late Mary (Souther) Southard.
"JuNE-Nov. '96 ; Traveling in Europe.
"Nov., '96-June, '97; Iron ship worker, Newport News,
Va.
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"Sept., '97- June, '98; Course in Naval Architecture,
Cornell.
"June, '98- Sept., '99; Draughtsman, Newport News,
Va.
"Sept., '99 -Nov., 1900; Supt, constructed yacht Ar-
rozv, Nyack, N. Y.
"Nov., 1900- Apr., '01 ; In England, taking course, Uni-
versity College, London. No degree.
"Apr., 'oi-Nov., '01 ; Sacketts Harbor, N. Y., taking it
easy."
Thus far his diary. In November, 1901, Whitaker
formed the Canada Launch Works (Limited), at To-
ronto, Canada, of which he was at first President and
later Managing Director. "I have to hustle these days,"
he wrote in 1903, "in a way that would make my former
self very, very tired." He stayed in this Company, build-
ing launches, "until it foundered" (October, 1905), and
then came to New York as technical editor for the Motor
Boat Publishing Co. "Do designing of boats besides.
No vacations to speak of. Going to take a good one some
day. No travels except on biz. See a chap once in a blue
moon. Existence just work and more work with noth-
ing on the side."
J. W. Wickenden
Mining Engineer.
Mail address, care of Thos. L. Wickenden, 906 Citizens' Building,
Cleveland, O.
Joseph Wallace Wickenden was born May 27th, 1873, at St.
Catherine's, Canada. He is a son of Wallace Joseph Wickenden
and Margaret Lloyd, who were married Feb. 21st, 1869, at
Portsmouth, Eng., and had altogether four children, two boys
and two girls. (See Appendix.)
Wallace Joseph Wickenden (b. at Portsmouth, Eng., in 1847;
d. at St. Catherine's, in 1883) was a civil engineer. He was
graduated from the Government Dockyard College at Ports-
mouth. His parents were Joseph Wickenden, Division Super-
intendent in Government Dockyard, Portsmouth, and Effie
Fleming, both of Portsmouth.
644 BIOGRAPHIES
Margaret (Lloyd) Wickenden (b, June 19th, 1845, in Shrop-
shire, Eng.) is the daughter of Thomas and Alice Lloyd of
Shropshire. Thomas Lloyd was a forester (timber merchant).
Wickenden spent part of his youth in Buffalo, and while at Yale
was a member of the Buffalo Club. He received an Oration at
the Junior Exhibition and a Dissertation at Commencement.
He has not been married.
Idaho Springs, New Windsor, Goldfields, Montrose, and
other Colorado mining centers have been the scene of
Wickenden's activities since he left the University of
Chicago, and that at Boulder. His decennial letter fol-
lows:
"Dear old man :
"Yours of the 2d at hand, and very glad to have it
indeed. Mistrusting myself as a prompt correspondent,
I at once made up my mind not to leave it unanswered.
So voila tout, as our erstwhile Harley Roberts was prone
to remark. Moving about as I have in the mining
regions has often made me seem to neglect replying,
whereas often my mail is old when I get to it. What
you wish, I presume, is a summary, something to indi-
cate on what lines the several men, particularly those
away from N. Y. and vicinity, are working, etc.
"After leaving the East, I took up a special course in
the University of Chicago, but soon saw that the only
place to actually learn mining engineering at that stage
was the mine. So I came to Colorado and into the
mines, a tenderfoot of the tenderest type. My pedal
extremities are now more calloused, to speak mildly, or
'euphemistically/ as Prof. Kitchel in the Freshman
Greek course would say. I have since followed mming,
ore treatment (milling in its various ways), and the
mechanical equipment and drainage of mines (not for-
getting that part of a tenderfoot's creed which says,
*Thou shalt go broke,' in various side enterprises of my
own). Was connected last year with the Gunnison
Tunnel Reclamation Project, or, as it is officially known,
OF GRADUATES 645
the Uncompahgre Project, and lived down in the Black
Caiion of the Gunnison, when the undertaking began.
"It has been some time since I have been East, and,
take my word for it, it makes a yearning that is an aggra-
vation to the flesh. I would like, and in fact expect,
to return East soon, either permanently or to make it a
headquarters, and become in touch with mining com-
panies whose headquarters are there— N. Y. City or
thereabouts.
"I am indeed sorry, old man, not to have met you when
you were out here, but will be sure to look you, and '96
men generally, up when I come East. '96 is and always
will be near and dear to me, in every way, and I am sorry
not to have been nearer and contributed more to the fel-
lowship among our men.
"Yours for '96,
"J. W. WiCKENDEN."
Norman Williams, Jr.
Of Chalmers & Williams, Mining Machinery, Chicago.
Residence, 300 Schiller Street.
Norman Williams, Jr., was born Feb. 23d, 1873, at Chicago, 111.
He is a son of Norman Williams, University of Vermont '55,
and Caroline Sherill Caton, who were married Dec. nth, 1869,
at Ottawa, 111., and had altogether five children, two boys and
three girls, three of whom lived to maturity.
Norman Williams (b. Feb. ist, 1835, at Quebec, Can.; died
June 19th, 1899, at Little Boars Head, N. H.) went from his
home in Woodstock, Vt., before the outbreak of the Civil War,
to Chicago, where he spent the greater part of his life. He
started as a lawyer, and afterwards became President of the
Santa Fe R. R. and of the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern R. R., and
Vice-President of the Chicago Telephone Co., etc., etc. His
parents were Norman Williams, University of Vermont 1810,
a lawyer of Woodstock, Vt., and Mary Ann Wentworth. The
family came from England in the seventeenth century and set-
tled at Portsmouth, N. H.
Caroline Sherill (Caton) Williams (b. April 14th, 1845, at
Ottawa, 111.) is the daughter of John Dean Caton, a lawyer
and naturalist of Ottawa and Chicago, and Laura Sherill of
Utica, N. Y. John Dean Caton was Chief Justice of the
646 BIOGRAPHIES
Supreme Court of Illinois for twenty-five years. Mrs. Williams
is now (Nov., ,'05) living in Chicago and abroad.
Williams prepared for Yale at King's School in Stamford. He
received a Second Dispute at the Junior Exhibition and a First
Colloquy at Commencement, served in Senior year as a mem-
ber of the Board of Governors of the University Club, and was
a member of Eta Phi, D. K. E., and Keys.
He was married at Chicago, 111., Dec. 3d, 1902, to Miss Joan
Chalmers, daughter of William J. and Joan P. Chalmers of
Chicago, and has one child, Joan Williams (b. Dec. 19th, 1905,
at Chicago).
Having in obedience to family traditions spent one un-
availing year (1896-7) at the Northwestern University
Law School, Williams fled to foreign soil to recuperate
and cultivate oblivion, which took about two years, at
home and abroad— mostly abroad. He spent the year
1 899 -1 900 working for the Western Electric Company,
and took another two years' worth of Europe after that.
In 1902 he suddenly settled down, went into the ma-
chinery business in Chicago, and, to the Class Secretary's
vast relief, acquired a permanent address.
When Joan Williams was born, the Secretary wrote
for particulars. Williams replied (after giving the facts
needed), "If you desire to have six pages of legal cap
filled out by the little stranger, I shall be very glad to
take a day off and give you such further information as
you may ask." This illustrates the man's exaggerated
fear of questions, and explains the Secretary's recourse
to the columns of the "Commercial Chronicle" for an ac-
count of the new firm. In the issue for June 30, 1905,
this paper said :
"Following close upon the withdrawal from Chicago of the
manufacturing department of the AUis-Chalmers Company, yet
entirely independent of that concern, the firm of Chalmers &
Williams announce that they have entered the field as manu-
facturers of their own mining machinery. The firm is com-
posed of Thomas S. Chalmers and Norman Williams, Jr., and
for the past two years they have been doing business as a mining
supply house, with present quarters in Suite 1553, Railway Ex-
change Building, Chicago.
OF GRADUATES 647
"Chalmers & Williams have selected Chicago Heights, twenty-
seven miles south of Chicago, as a location for their plant, which
they expect to have in operation within the next six weeks. The
original plant consists of a machine shop and foundry 100x200
feet, pattern shop 42x42 feet, power plant 75x42 feet, and black-
smith shop 80x42 feet, while sufficient ground has been secured
on the north to allow for such future additions as the growth of
business warrants. The plant will be equipped in a thoroughly
up-to-date manner, and perfect facilities in the hands of skilled
artisans will result in the production of a very superior grade of
various types of machinery used in the development and opera-
tion of mines of all kinds.
"As an indication of the prominent position Chalmers & Wil-
liams mean to assume in the mining machinery trade, it may be
mentioned that their heads of departments will be experts of
high reputation and proved ability. The personnel includes Mr.
Knute Posse, for 15 years with Fraser & Chalmers and Allis-
Chalmers Co., in the mining sales department ; Mr. W. B. Easton,
formerly general manager of Fraser & Chalmers. ..." etc., —
a noticeable point being that all the men seem to be old employees
of the elder concerns."
"My delay in answering the questions on the enclosed
blank," wrote Williams later, "has been due not so much
to negligence as to caution. You may not be aware of
the fact, but most of the questions are similar to those
asked by the Bertillon system at our best penitentiaries.
... I was very sorry not to have seen you while in
Chicago, but was out of town myself part of the time and
did not know that you had been here until after you left
town. I would like to have taken you out to Chicago
Heights and shown you an 'up-to-date plant.' I shall
hope to do this when you are next in Chicago, but until
then, am enclosing print which will give you an idea of
what we have."
The print referred to shows a number of long build-
ings bearing the firm name in letters so large that Bruno's
end of it alone covers fourteen wide double windows.
Nice clean curly smoke issues symmetrically from the
chimneys, and a neighboring avenue is reliably pictured
as being lined with beautiful Noah's Ark maples.
648 BIOGRAPHIES
Walter F. Wood
Cotton Broker. N. Y. Cotton Exchange, New York City.
Residence, 28 Dwight Place, Englewood, N. J.
Walter Fargo Wood was bom Sept. 23(1, 1873, at Jersey City,
N. J. He is the son of Theodore F. Wood and Mary Elizabeth
Kutzemeyer, who were married Aug. 2d, 1866, at Jersey City,
and had one other child, a daughter.
Theodore F. Wood (b. Oct. 15th, 1844 ; d. Feb. 20th, 1901, at
New York City) spent most of his life at Jersey City and
Orange, N. J. and at New York City. He was Second Vice-
President and Director of the United States Express Co. His
parents were William K. Wood, an employee of the United
States Express Co. of Jersey City and Eunice Sayre of Sugar
Loaf, N. Y.
Mary Elizabeth (Kutzemeyer) Wood (b. March 2d, 1847)
spent her early life at Jersey City. She is the daughter of
Henry Kutzemeyer, a merchant of Bremen, Germany, and Mary
Ann Smith. She is now (Oct., '05) living at New York City.
Wood prepared for College at the Newark Academy. He re-
ceived a Second Colloquy at the Junior Exhibition and at Com-
mencement, and was a member of the University Club and of
PsiU.
He was married at Worcester, Mass., Sept. 17th, 1898, to Miss
Minnie Helen Gile, daughter of Col. William A. Gile of
Worcester, and has two children, a son and a daughter, Walter
Fargo Wood, Jr. (b. Dec. ist, 1899, at New York City) and
Elizabeth Wood (b. May Sth, 1903, at New York City).
In the spring of 1904, Wood, leaving the lav^^ and New
York City behind him, v^ent to Great Harrington, Mass.,
to "engage in farming." This bucolic interim reached its
climax in August, 1905, v^^hen he was operated upon
for a severe case of appendicitis. Thereafter, although
he remained one more winter at Great Barrington, he
took frequent trips to New York and ceased to farm.
In April, 1906, he became a cotton broker, purchased a
membership in the New York Cotton Exchange, and in
May took up his residence in Englewood, N. J. His
business headquarters were with Atwood Violett & Co.
Wood's 1902 letter, describing his earlier career, was
OF GRADUATES 649
as follows : "After leaving College I spent the summer
of 1896 in travel in Europe. Returning to America, I
entered the employ of the United States Express Com-
pany in New York City in the Money Order Department
of that Company. I remained in that Company's employ
until April of 1897, when I entered the office of Tracy,
Boardman and Piatt, Lawyers, at No. 35 Wall Street,
New York City. In the fall of 1897 I entered the New
York Law School, still retaining my position in their
office. I passed my New York Bar examinations in
June of 1899. From January, 1899, to January, 1901,
I was Managing Clerk for Tracy, Boardman and Piatt
and its successor, Boardman, Piatt & Soley. From Janu-
ary, 1901, to October, 1901, I practised general law in
their office. I opened an office for myself in the practice
of law at 256 Broadway, New York, in October of last
year, and am still continuing that practice."
William S. Woodhull
Lawyer. ^ ^4 Nassau Street, New York City.
Residence, 230 West 107th Street.
William Sayre Woodhull was born Dec. 12th, 1875, at Newark,
N. J. He is a son of William Perry Woodhull and Sarah R.
Sayre, who were married April ist, 1873, at Newark, and had
altogether four children, two boys and two girls, of whom
three are still living,
William Perry Woodhull (b. July 13th, 1849, at New Bruns-
wick, N. J. ; d. June 9th, 1906, at New York City) spent most
of his life at Newark and Orange, N. J. and at New York
City, engaged as a wholesale woolen merchant. His parents
were William Miller Woodhull, a wholesale woolen merchant,
and Mary Caroline Howell, both of Newark. The family came
from England in 1648, and settled at Setauket, L. I.
Sarah R. (Sayre) Woodhull (b. April 9th, 1851, at Newark)
is the daughter of William Randolph Sayre (b. in New York
City), a dealer in masons' and builders' materials, and Cath-
erine Littell (b. in Sparta, N. J.), both of Newark.
Woodhull spent his youth chiefly in Orange, N, J., and entered
with the Class. He was a member of the Track Team, served
as Secretary of the Athletic Association, and received an
V^ or THE *"
UNIVERSITY
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650 BIOGRAPHIES
Oration at the Junior Exhibition and a Dissertation at Com*
mencement. Ivy Committee. Zeta Psi.
He was married March 2Sth, 1903, at South Orange, N. J., to
Miss Anne Louise Horn, daughter of Frederick William
Horn of South Orange, and has one child, a daughter, Anne
Patterson WoodhuU (b. Dec. 28th, 1903, at New York City).
In June, 1898, Woodhull was graduated from the New
York Law School with the degree of LL.B., and he has,
since that date, practised in New York City. He was
employed for a time in the law offices of J. Culbert and
Edwin L. Kalish of the former firm of Sherrill & Lock-
wood; later he became managing attorney for the law
firm of Rollins & Rollins.
"Since 1902," he writes, "I have continued the practice
of the law in the City of New York, and during that time
have been associated in the capacity already referred
to with Messrs. Rollins & Rollins, Attorneys, at No. 34
Nassau Street in said city. I married Anne Louise Horn
of South Orange, New Jersey, March 25th, 1903. After
residing for six months at the Algonquin Apartment
Hotel on West 44th Street, my wife and I commenced
housekeeping at the residence address already furnished.
The necessity of strictly attending to the demands of my
office has in large measure restricted the extent of my
travels, which during the period of time in question con-
sisted briefly of a trip with my wife to Montreal and
Quebec in 1903, a portion of the summer of 1904 spent at
Lakeville, Connecticut, and a portion of the summers of
1903 and 1905 at Stonington, Connecticut. The oppor-
tunities which I have had to meet my classmates, save
those whom I am accustomed daily to see, have been the
annual Class dinners at the Yale Club, which I have at-
tended with great pleasure. Although the size of my
family does not approach that of certain other members
of our Class, I venture to say that the quality thereof
cannot be excelled."
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Hon. Robert J. Woodruff
Of the law firm of Chase & WoodruflF, 868 Chapel Street, New Haven, Conn.
Residence, Orange, Conn.
Robert Jeremiah Woodruff was born July 6th, 1874, at Orange,
Conn, He is a son of Stiles Denison Woodruff and Elizabeth
M. Clark, Mt. Holyoke '60, who were married Oct. i6th, 1862,
at Orange, and had three other children, two sons and one
daughter. Frank Clark Woodruff, '88 S., is a brother.
Stiles Denison Woodruff (b. Nov. 27th, 1837, at Orange,
Conn.; d. April nth, 1906, at Orange), a farmer and seed
merchant, enlisted as a corporal in Co. G. 27th Regt. Conn.
Vol., was taken prisoner at Chancellorsville, and was confined
in Libby Prison. He represented Orange in the Connecticut
General Assembly 1879-80, and held town offices all his life. His
parents were Jeremiah Woodruff, a farmer and stock-breeder
of Orange, and Charlotte Nettleton of Milford, Conn. The
family came from Alsop, near Derby, England, in 1639, and
settled at Farmington, Conn.
Elizabeth M. (Clark) Woodruff (b. Feb. 5th, 1839, at Orange,
Conn.; d. March 8th, 1906, at Orange) was the daughter of
Bryan Clark, a farmer, and Maria Treat, both of Orange.
Woodruff spent his youth in Orange and entered with the Class.
He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta.
He was married at the Orange Congregational Church, Orange,
Conn., Nov. 12th, 1902, to Miss Bertha Grace Clark, daughter
of Henry M. Clark of Orange, and has one child, a daughter,
Dorothy Whiting Woodruff (b. Sept. 4th, 1903, at Orange).
Woodruff took the full three years' course at the Yale
Law School, was admitted to the New Haven County
Bar in 1898, received his LL.B. in 1899, and opened an
office in New Haven in the fall. At about the same time,
in October, 1899, he was elected Tax Collector of Orange,
Conn., where he had (and still has) his residence. A
year later (Nov., 1900) he was elected Representative
from Orange in the Connecticut General Assembly, and
in company with five other Yale men he served on the
Judiciary Committee of that body. In April, 1901, he
was appointed to his present position of Prosecuting At-
torney of the Court of Common Pleas for New Haven
County.
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652 BIOGRAPHIES
"When not doing his unmerciful worst as Prosecuting
Attorney," writes one of his friends, "he is practising
law as a member of the firm of Chase & Woodruif
(Prentice W. Chase), which was formed April, 1903."
(He was formerly, from January, 1902, on, associated
with Frederick L. Averill, Y. L. S., '95.) "They have
palatial offices, with deputy sheriff attachment, from
which Jerry recently attempted to raid the alleged Al.
Adams of New Haven. In leisure hours he is Second
Lieutenant of Troop A, fondly and familiarly known as
the 'Milkmen,' and if he lives long enough he will be
Captain. As though this were not enough recreation he
has also his model farm in the town of Orange, on which
'telescopes and hens' eggs' seem to be the chief products."
L. R. Yeaman
Lawyer. Louisville Trust Co. Building, Louisville, Kentucky.
And Assistant to the City Attorney, Room 35, City Hall.
Lewis Rogers Yeaman was born at Louisville, Ky., Dec. 17th,
1872. He is the son of Harvey Yeaman and Nannie Rogers,
who were married in October, 1871, at Louisville, and had one
other child, a daughter, who died before maturity.
Harvey Yeaman (b. Sept. 23d, 1833, at Brandenburg, Ky. ;
d. Aug. nth, 1876, at Trinidad, Colo.) was a lawyer, and
resided at various periods during his life in Elizabethtown,
Owensboro, and Louisville, Ky. He was the son of Stephen
Minor Yeaman, a lawyer, and Lucretia Helm, (sister of John
L. Helm, twice Governor of Kentucky), both of Elizabeth-
town. His brother, George H. Yeaman, a New York City
lawyer and ex-Congressman from Kentucky, was at one time
United States Minister to Denmark. The family came from
Scotland about the year 1745, and settled on Long Island.
Nannie (Rogers) Yeaman (b, Sept. ist, 1850, at Louisville,
Ky. ; d. Sept. 20th, 1884, at Louisville) was the daughter of
Lewis Rogers, a physician, and Mary E. Thurston, both of
Louisville. She was of English and French descent.
Yeaman prepared for College at Andover. He was a member of
the Andover Club and the Southern Club at Yale, and received
a First Colloquy at Commencement. Psi U.
He was married at Denver, Colo., March 25th, 1899, to Miss Mary
OF GRADUATES 653
Josephine Gregg, daughter of the late Isaac and Josephine
Gregg, all of Philadelphia, Pa.
In the fall of 1896 Yeaman went to Denver, and there
commenced the study of law in the office of Yeaman &
Gove — his uncle, Caldwell Yeaman, being the senior
member of that firm. In 1897 he was admitted to the
Colorado Bar, successfully defended his first case, and
then entered the Boston University Law School, from
which he was graduated in 1898 with the degree of LL.B.,
having completed the regular three years' course in one.
He went abroad that summer to recuperate.
The two years 1898-1900 were spent in Denver, as-
sociated with Yeaman & Gove. In 1900, however, he
began to long for the "fields of blue grass, the peculiar
hospitality and the peerless whisky of Kentucky. Ac-
cordingly in June, 1900, I determined to return to Louis-
ville, and in the fall of that year became associated with
Col. St. John Boyle."
"In my 1902 installment," he wrote this spring, "I
stated that I was associated with Col. St. John Boyle in
the practice of law. Shortly after that letter was written
the firm of Boyle & Yeaman was formed, and that firm
continued until January, 1906, when the partnership was
dissolved by the death of Col. Boyle. I have continued
to practise alone in the same offices. In March, 1905, I
accepted a position as the assistant to the City Attorney.
In Louisville the City Attorney is concerned only with
civil business. I believe the corresponding officer in New
York is called Corporation Counsel. This position I
have since held in addition to my private practice, and
the experience has been and will be of value."
Yeaman has made several futile efforts to attend an-
other New York dinner, but something always prevents
him. "It will be impossible," he wrote, in January, 1905 ;
"on the thirty-first of this month the trial of an important
case, in which I am concerned, comes off in the circuit
court; and on the second of Februarv I have a case set
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for argument in the Court of Appeals. These engage-
ments have completely wrecked my plans and annihi-
lated my hopes for a share in the good time which a '96
dinner means. Graduates who live at this distance have
few tastes of that sort of thing; and I am particularly
disappointed this time because I had my mouth all fixed
for it."
E. H. Young
Adjuster in the Liability Department of the Travelers' Insurance Co.
Business address, i Madison Avenue, New York City.
Permanent mail address. Orient, Long Island, N. Y.
Ezra Hallock Young was born at Franklinville, N. Y., Feb. 4th,
1873. He is a son of John Henry Young and Ellen Beecher
Hallock, who were married Dec. 2Sth, 1868, at Franklinville,
and had two other children, one boy and one girl. The Rev.
Joseph Newton Hallock, D.D., '57, is an uncle, and Thomas
Young, '62, is a cousin.
John Henry Young (b. Oct. 9th, 1840, at Orient, N. Y.)
served in the Civil War (1862-5) with Co. H. 127th N. G. S.
N. Y. He is engaged in farming at Orient, where he has spent
the greater part of his life. His parents were John B. Young,
a farmer, and Mary Brown, both of Orient. The family came
from England in 1640, and settled at Southold, Long Island.
Ellen Beecher (Hallock) Young (b. Aug. 29th, 1847, at
Franklinville; d. March 5th, 1900, at New Haven, Conn.) was
the daughter of Ezra Hallock, a farmer, and Lydia Emily
Young, both of Franklinville.
Young spent his youth chiefly in Orient, N. Y. He prepared for
Yale at the Hopkins Grammar School. He received a Second
Dispute at the Junior Exhibition and was a member of Zeta
Psi.
His engagement has been announced to Miss Grace Stephenson,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Stephenson of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
and sister of C. S. Stephenson, '95 S. (See Appendix.)
During the school year 1896-7 Young was instructor in
French at the Woodbridge School, Madison Avenue, New
York. "In September, 1897," he wrote, ''I accepted a
position at the Trinity School in West 91st Street, New
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York, and remained there for four years. I resigned in
July, 1 901, to take a position in the Adjuster's Office of
the Travelers* Insurance Company of Hartford, at their
New York branch."
In 1902 he entered the claim department of the Lacka-
wanna Steel Co., of Buffalo, where he had George Shel-
don, ex '99, as his assistant. "We 're running the De-
partment on Yale principles," he wrote (Jan., 1903),
"as Arthur Scranton, '82, is General Manager, and Moses
Taylor, '93, Vice-President. Ask Jim Neale and Brinck
Thorne if they 're the only two men in Scranton now;
as near as I can find out all Scranton is up here at the
Steel Plant. I hate to miss the New York dinner. Knee-
land wanted to attend, but owing to his engagement did
not dare face Pius and the Old Guard."
On June 9th, 1903, Young passed the examination for
admission to the New York Bar. He left the Steel Com-
pany, spent some months in Minnesota on a stock farm,
and in 1904 returned to New York City and reentered
the Travelers' Insurance Company as an adjuster in the
Liability Department.
Biographies of Affiliated Members
Charles S. Adams
With the Knickerbocker Trust Company, 66 Broadway, New York City.
Residence, i68 Lincoln Place, Brooklyn, N, Y.
Charles Siedler Adams, son of William Menzies Adams and
Ellen Holloway Franklin, was born Oct. 13th, 1874, at Brook-
lyn, N. Y.
Adams entered with the Class, and was a member during
Freshman year of the Yale University Orchestral Club. He
left us in June 1893, and entered Columbia, from which uni-
versity he was graduated in 1896. He led the Banjo Club
there during Senior year.
He was married April 12th, 1899, at Grace Church, Brooklyn
Heights, N. Y., to Miss Emma L. A. Parsons, daughter of
Hosmer Buckingham Parsons, of Brooklyn, and has two
children, a son and a daughter, Franklin Parsons Adams (b.
June 6th, 1900, in Brooklyn) and Clelia Emma Adams (b.
April 13th, 1904, in Brooklyn).
Although Adams' attachment to Yale is now subordi-
nate to that which he feels towards his Alma Noverca,
Columbia University, he avers that "the literature of '96
will always be interesting and the doings of the few men
I know of that Class most entertaining." We leave the
interpretation of the latter clause to the men concerned.
Adams reports that he is in the banking business with the
Knickerbocker Trust Company of New York City, as he
was when our last record was issued. His residence is
in Brooklyn.
Wm. J. Armstrong
Assistant Manager of the Decatur Coal Company, Decatur, Illinois.
Residence, 331 North Edward Street.
William Jerome Armstrong was born Sept. i6th, 1874, at Deca-
tur, 111. He is the only son of the Hon. William Clinton Arm-
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strong and Ida Ella Gorin, who were married Oct. i6th, 1873,
at Decatur, 111., and had three other children, all girls.
William Clinton Armstrong (b. July 29th, 1845, near Nash-
ville, Tenn.) was at one time in the drug business, but is at
present (Oct. '05) a stockholder and General Manager of
the Decatur Coal Co. and of the Decatur Milling Co. He
resides at Decatur, at which place, and at Macon, 111. he has
spent most of his life. His father was William Armstrong,
who was engaged in farming near Richmond, Va., afterwards
moving to Tennessee, and then to Macon, 111. The family-
came from Scotland in 1790, and settled near Jamestown, Va.
Ida Ella (Gorin) Armstrong (b. Aug. 30th, 1855, at Decatur,
111.) is the daughter of Jerome R. Gorin, an attorney and
banker of Virginia, and Eleanor Fawcett of Fort Dearborn
(now Chicago), 111. Jerome R. Gorin was admitted to the
Illinois Bar in 1840, was professionally associated with
Abraham Lincoln and Richard Oglesby, and served two terms
in the State Legislature.
Armstrong prepared for College at Andover and entered with
the Class. He left us in June, 1893, to go into business with
his father in Decatur, 111.
He was married April 15th, 1903, at Milwaukee, Wis., to Miss
Sarah Garrett Durborrow of Philadelphia, Pa., daughter of
Henry G. Durborrow of Oxford, Pa., who is connected with
the State Board of Agriculture at Harrisburg.
Armstrong lives at Decatur, Illinois, where he is inter-
ested in mining bituminous coal as Assistant Manager of
the Decatur Coal Company. At Sexennial (when he
was assistant cashier of this company) he wrote as fol-
lows : "After leaving Yale I took up the study of law
for two years, but before taking my examination for the
Bar I went into the coal mining business, as a member of
the office force, in which vocation I have been ever since.
I served in 1898 with the First Illinois Cavalry, en-
camped at Chickamauga, acquired much knowledge in
the high arts of polishing sabres and grooming horses,
and fought nothing but flies. Was mustered out at Fort
Sheridan with papers of good character and a mild at-
tack of yellow jaundice. Made a slight study of ento-
mology in the Huachuaca Mountains in Southeastern
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Arizona, butterflies especially. Have traveled quite ex-
tensively in America."
His decennial postscript says : "Just work, more
work, and most work. Beautiful time with labor unions,
strikes, lock-outs, etc."
G. Edward Atherton
Local Manager of the Columbian National Life Insurance Company
on). 550-555 Bullitt Building, Ph
Residence, 139 South 15th Street.
George Edward Atherton, Jr. was born Feb. 19th, 1874, at
Dorchester, Mass. He is the son of George Edward Atherton
and Emma A. Coffin, who were married Sept. 15th, 1869, at
Wakefield, Mass., and had one other child, a daughter.
George Edward Atherton the elder (b. May 2d, 1845, at
Charlestown, Mass.) is a retired leather merchant, residing at
Brookline, Mass. His father was Samuel Atherton, a mer-
chant of Boston, Mass., and his mother's maiden name was
Holbrook. The family came from England about 1635, and
settled at Boston.
Emma A. (Coffin) Atherton (b. March 2d, 1847; d. Dec.
nth, 1879, at Boston) spent her early life at Wakefield, Mass.
She was the daughter of N. R. Coffin, a Boston commission
merchant.
Atherton entered College with the Class and withdrew in May
of Freshman year.
He has not been married.
Atherton moved to Philadelphia in 1904, to become
Manager of the Columbian National Life Insurance
Company of Boston for Philadelphia and vicinity. "For
the past two years," he writes, "I have devoted all my
time to the upbuilding of my business here, taking no
vacations." Prior to 1904 he was in the real estate
and insurance business in Boston, with residence in
Brookline, Massachusetts, and while there he served sev-
eral terms as Assistant Secretary of the Boston Yale
Club.
In 1898 he was a Guidon Corporal in Light Battery A.
of Massachusetts, but did not see active service.
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Philip H. Bailey
Philip Horton Bailey entered College with our Class, but left
us in the spring of 1893, entered '97, and subsequently was
graduated with that Class. See the '97 Records.
E. A. BrinckerhofF, Jr.
London Representative of the J. Spencer Turner Company,
13 Jervin Crescent, London, E. C.
Permanent mail address, Englewood, New Jersey.
Elbert Adrain Brinckerhoff, Jr., was born June 6th, 1874, at
Englewood, N. J. He is the only son of Elbert Adrain
Brinckerhoff and Emily A. Vermilye, who were married April
22d, 1869, at Englewood, and had six other children, all girls.
Elbert Adrain Brinckerhoff, the elder (b. Nov. 29th, 1838, at
Jamaica (L. I., N. Y.) is a retired merchant and banker of
New York and Englewood, and at one time of San Francisco.
He is the son of Mary Moore Adrain of New Brunswick,
N. J., and of John Nostrand Brinckerhoff, of Jamaica and
Englewood, formerly the Principal of an Academy, and a re-
tired merchant. The family came from Holland in 1638, and
settled at Brooklyn, N. Y.
Emily A. (Vermilye) Brinckerhoff (b. March 24th, 1846, at
New York City) is the daughter of Col. Washington R. Ver-
milye, a banker of New York and Englewood, and Elizabeth
Lathrop of West Springfield, Mass.
Brinckerhoff prepared for College at Lawrenceville, and
entered with the Class, becoming a member of the Yale
University Orchestral Club and of the Lawrenceville Club.
He was dropped at Christmas of Freshman year.
He was married June 4th, 1895, at Brooklyn, N. Y., to Miss
Harriette Holley Clarkson, daughter of Arthur and Emily B.
Clarkson of Columbia, Mo., and has one child, a son, Elbert
Vermilye Brinckerhoff (b. Nov. 12th, 1899, at Englewood,
N. J.).
For the last two years Brinckerhoff has been the repre-
sentative in London for the J. Spencer Turner Company
(Incorporated), 86 and 88 Worth Street, New York
City, cotton and commission merchants,— the concern of
which (in 1899) he was the Treasurer. No other infor-
mation has been received.
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Charles E. Bristol
Insurance Agent. Partner in E. S. Gordy & Company, loo Main Street,
Ansonia, Connecticut. Residence, 51 North State Street.
Charles Edward Bristol was born at Ansonia, Conn., Oct. 17th,
1873. He is a son of Charles E. Bristol and Frances E. Bartholo-
mew, who were married at Ansonia, and had three other
children, all boys.
Charles E. Bristol (b. Dec. 21st, 1847, at Derby, Conn.; d.
May 25th, 1892, at Ansonia, Conn.) was a druggist and post-
master, of Derby and Ansonia. His parents were Charles
Bristol, a shoemaker of Derby, and Harriet Bradley. The
ancestors of the family were English settlers at Milford,
Conn.
Frances E. (Bartholomew) Bristol (b. Oct. Sth, 1848, at
Ansonia) is the daughter of J. H. Bartholomew, a manufac-
turer of Ansonia, and Polly H. Root of Farmington, Conn.
She is now (Oct. '05) living at Ansonia.
Bristol prepared for College at Exeter and entered with the
Class. He remained with us until the end of Sophomore year,
and while in college was a member of the Exeter Club.
He was married at New York City, Sept. 7th, 1905, to Miss
Bertha M. Kirkham, daughter of Frank A. Kirkham and Irene
(Conklin) Kirkham.
Bristol has been engaged "mostly in the insurance busi-
ness at Ansonia, Connecticut." He is now a partner in the
firm of E. S. Gordy & Company of that city.
As shown by the lists of those present Bristol is a reg-
ular attendant at the '96 reunions.
James H. Brookfield
White Plains, New York.
[Fritz] James Hanford Brookfield was born April 2Sth, 1874,
in New York City. He is a son of William Brookfield and
Kate Morgan, who had four other children, all boys, three of
whom lived to maturity. Frank Brookfield, '97, is a brother.
William Brookfield (b. May 24th, 1844, at Redbank, N. J.;
d. May 13th, 1903, at New York City) was a glass manufac-
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turer, and a man prominent in New York City politics, being
Commissioner of Public Works during Mayor Strong's admin-
istration. His father was James H. Brookfield, a glass manu-
facturer of Brooklyn, N. Y. ; and his mother was Katherine
Brandreth. The family is of English descent.
Kate (Morgan) Brookfield was born at Aurora, N. Y. She
is the daughter of Henry Morgan, a capitalist of Aurora, and
Mary Piatt of Owego, N. Y.
Brookfield entered with the Class, became Captain of Co. A. '96
Battalion, Phelps Brigade, was elected to the Second Banjo
Club and to A. D. Phi, and was made Secretary and Treasurer
of the Freshman Boat Club. He was dropped in June of
Freshman year, spent part of the following year with the
Class of '97, and then left college.
He was married June 4th, 1902, at New York City, to Miss
Maude L. Quintard, daughter of the late James L. Quintard of
Portchester, N. Y.
Brookfield was connected with a Wall Street house in
New York City for a time, and is said to have engaged
also in the real estate business. He is not in any busi-
ness now. Instead of conducting the instructive and en-
tertaining correspondence with the Class Secretary to
which he is from time to time invited, he lives peacefully
in the country, at White Plains, New York, where he
has a comfortable estate and seven Pomeranian dogs.
John Mason Brown
Lawyer. To be addressed in care of the Comptroller of the
U. S. Treasury, Washington, D. C.
John Mason Brown was born Feb. 3d, 1874, at Lexington, Ky.
He is a son of John Mason Brown, '56, and Mary Owen
Preston, who were married at Lexington, Nov. 29th, 1869, and
had three other children, one son (Preston Brown, '92, B. L.
Univ. of Va. '93) and two daughters. Hon. Benjamin Gratz
Brown, '47, is an uncle.
John Mason Brown the elder (b. April 26th, 1837, at Frank-
fort, Ky. ; d. Jan. 29th, 1890, at Louisville, Ky.) served through-
out the Civil War in the Union Army as (i) Major, loth Ky.
Cavalry, and (2) Colonel, 45th Ky. Infantry. He practised law
662 BIOGRAPHIES
from 1866 until his death. His parents were Mason Brown,
'21 (b, in New York City, Nov. loth, 1799; d. in Frankfort, Ky.,
Jan. 27th, 1867), a practising lawyer, and for the last twenty
years of his life a Circuit Judge ; and Mary Yoder (b. in Ken-
tucky Jan. 26th, 1810; d. at Frankfort, Ky,, March 15th,
1881). Mason Brown's father, John Brown, was the first
United States Senator from Kentucky, The family came
originally from Scotland and Holland.
Mary Owen (Preston) Brown (b. Oct. 8th, 1841, at Lexing-
ton; d. March 17th, 1898, at Louisville, Ky.) spent the greater
part of her life at Louisville. Her parents were William
Preston, a lawyer, and Margaret Preston Wickliffe, both of
Lexington. William Preston was a member of Congress and
Minister to Spain, and a Major General in the Confederate
Army.
Brown prepared for College at Andover and entered with the
Class, He was Captain of Co. D. in the Cleveland Guards, and
a substitute on the Freshman Crew. He was dropped to '97 at
the end of our Freshman j-ear and left Yale the following
Christmas.
He was married (i) April 28th, 1897, at Louisville, Ky. to Miss
Carrie Carroll Ferguson, daughter of John M, Ferguson of
Louisville, who is in the fire insurance business. They were
divorced in November, 1903, prior to which two children were
born, a girl and a boy, Mary Miller Brown (b, Feb, 4th, 1898,
at Louisville) and John Mason Brown, Jr. (b. July 3d, 1900, at
Louisville),
He was married (2) Nov. 23d, 1904, at Sykesville, Carroll Co.,
Md., to Miss Grace Dudderar, daughter of William Dudderar,
a retired farmer of Sykesville.
Brown writes : "As you know, I entered '97 in their
Freshman year and left Yale about December on ac-
count of the illness of my mother. I studied law at home
and then tramped it through the West for a year. In
May, 1895, was admitted to the bar in Kentucky. Was
appointed Second Assistant City Attorney of Louisville
in June, 1896. Elected Assistant City Attorney in No-
vember, 1896 and served five years. Defeated as a can-
didate for County Judge in November, 1901. . . .
Through competitive examination secured present posi-
tion as Law Clerk in the office of the Comptroller of the
Treasury, July, 1904. Like everyone else in the govern-
ment service, I hope to some day quit it, or that some-
thing in the nature of promotion shall be my lot. But I
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guess I am anchored here for five years to come. In the
meanwhile my address is and will be care of The Comp-
troller of the Treasury, Washington, D. C.
*'It was and is a source of genuine regret to me that I
was not able to attend the Decennial. I had confidently
expected to do so but in the early part of June was
obliged to go to Kentucky on some business which de-
tained me there until a few days ago. I hope, however,
that I shall have better luck next time and that the time
shall not be too far distant when I can meet with you
and the other fellows who bear the brand of the greatest
class on earth. Good luck to you and to them ! ! Com-
mand me if I can ever render any service."
Thomas R. Brown, Jr.
Excelsior, Minnesota.
Thomas Reed Brown, Jr., was born April 23d, 1873, at Phila-
delphia, Pa.
Brown entered with the Class and remained with us until the end
of Freshman year.
He is said to have been married, but has not furnished the Class
with any data.
Brown was for some years a newspaper man on the staff
of the "Minneapolis Journal," and an employee of the Gas
Light Company in Minneapolis. For about eighteen
months during the years 1901 and 1902 he was Mayor
Ames's private secretary. He is said to have been in-
volved in the general charges of graft which led to the
cutting short of that administration, but he was not pros-
ecuted. "My impression is," wrote one of the Secre-
tary's informants, "that while Brown knew what was go-
ing on, he took rather a good stand at the various trials
of Mayor Ames." ... In April, 1905, with the
backing of a prominent business man of Minneapolis, he
became Manager of the "Excelsior News" in Excelsior,
Minnesota. He sold out to the Lakeside Printing Com-
pany the following December.
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J. H. Churchill Clark
In care of the Superintendent of Terminals, Louisville & Nashville
Railroad, St. Louis, Mo.
John Henry Churchill Clark was born Aug. 15th, 1874, at
Louisville, Ky. He is a son of the late Meriwether Lewis
Clark, and Mary Martin Anderson.
Meriwether Lewis Clark prepared for Yale at Sayre's
Academy, Frankfort, Ky., but did not enter. He was President
of the Louisville Jockey Club, a colonel on the staff of Gov-
ernor McCreary, etc., etc. He died in Memphis, Tenn.
Clark prepared for College at Andover and entered with the
Class. He was elected to Eta Phi, and remained with us until
he was dropped in January, 1894. He was afterward enrolled
for a time in '97.
He was married at Washington, D. C, Dec. 15th, 1897, to Miss
Margaret Knickerbocker Tyler, and has one daughter,
Margaret Clark (b. Oct. i6th, 1898).
Clark was for some years a traveling freight agent
for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, a connec-
tion which was sometimes marked with frantic outbursts
of excitement all along the line, according to the stories
which have trickled eastward from Ohio. At Sexennial
his headquarters were in Pittsburg. ''In October, 1902,"
said a letter from the L. & N. offices in St. Louis which
he wrote last fall, "I very foolishly resigned my position
as representative of the L. & N. at Pittsburg to accept
the Western Agency of a paint company (The Wiscon-
sin Graphite Co.) which, however, was a dismal failure.
I returned to the service here in July, 1904, entering the
operating department, in order to learn another branch,
inasmuch as I had to begin all over again. It is my
duty to see that the coal barons, such as Jim Neale, are
furnished with enough empty cars, so they can rob the
unsuspecting public."
AFFILIATED MEMBERS 665
D. H. Collins
Permanent mail address, Dallas Avenue, Pittsburg, Pa.
Present address, Box 933, Tucson, Arizona.
David Hayden Collins was born Aug. 19th, 1874, at St. Louis,
Mo. He is a son of Henry Eaton Collins and Amelia Young,
who were married May 23d, 1871, at St. Louis, Mo., and had
four other children, all sons.
Henry Eaton Collins (b, Aug. 2d, 1843, at East Bloomfield,
N. Y.; d. Oct. 14th, 1896, at Pittsburg, Pa.) was the son of
Lafayette Collins, a lawyer of Rochester, N. Y., and Elizabeth
Hayden, of Haydenville, Mass. The family came from Eng-
land in 1634, and settled at Guilford, Conn.
Amelia (Young) Collins (b. Sept. 12th, 1851, at St. Louis,
Mo.) spent her early life at St. Louis and at South East, N. Y.
She is the daughter of William Young of St. Louis, and
Letitia Frances Horn of New York City. She is now (Oct.
'05) living at Pittsburg.
Collins entered with the Class and remained with us until May
1893.
He has not been married.
Collins sent word at Sexennial that he was interested in
Cahall Slater Tube Boilers in Pittsburg. "Since early in
1903," he wrote in June, "I have been mining in Bisbee,
and at other points in Arizona and Sonora, Mexico."
He is President and Treasurer of the Olive Camp Min-
ing Company of Tucson, Arizona.
' * Theodore E. Connell, M.D.
Died in Scranton, Pennsylvania, June isth, 1903.
Theodore Edwin Connell, son of the Hon. William Connell,
U. S. House of Representatives, was born at Minooka, Pa., July
8th, 1871. He was a brother of Ezra H. Connell, '95.
Connell entered our Class in March, 1893, and withdrew the fol-
lowing December.
He was unmarried.
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Upon leaving Yale Connell began the study of medicine
in the University of Pennsylvania as a member of the
Class of 1898. After two or three years' study, how-
ever, he became associated with one of his brothers in
the management of the Lackawanna Knitting Mills.
While studying medicine he had been subject to pul-
monary troubles. In spite of travel, and in spite of all
that the wealth and affection of his relatives could com-
pass in his behalf, these troubles gradually increased.
He was fully conscious of their progress and of their
probable result, and himself informed his family when
the time finally came to say good-by. On Monday, June
15th, 1903, he died at his home in Scranton.
Rowland Cox, Jr., M.D.
12 East 31st Street, New York City.
Rowland Cox, Jr., was born July nth, 1872, at Smyrna, Del.
He is a son of Rowland Cox, Princeton '63, and Fanny Cum-
mins Hill, who were married Oct. 29th, 1868, at Smyrna, and
had three other children, two sons (both graduates of Har-
vard) and one daughter.
Rowland Cox the elder (b. July 9th, 1842, at Philadelphia,
Pa. ; d. May 13th, 1900, at Plainfield, N. J., served through the
Civil War on the staffs of Generals McPherson and Blair. He
afterwards practised law in New York City. Most of his life
was spent at Philadelphia, Washington, and Plainfield. His
parents were John Cooke Cox, an officer of a railroad corpora-
tion, and Anne Johns Rowland, both of Philadelphia. The
family came from England in Colonial times and settled in
Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Fanny Cummins (Hill) Cox (b. March nth, 1848, at Balti-
more, Md.) spent her early life at Smyrna, Del. She is the
daughter of Robert Hill, a land owner, and Frances Cummins,
both of Smyrna. She is now (April *o6) living at Plainfield,
N. J.
Cox entered with the Class and remained with us until June of
1893. He subsequently studied a year with the Class of '97.
He was married Dec. nth, 1901, at Brooklyn, N. Y., to Miss
Mabel Louise Judson, daughter of Henry I. Judson of Brook-
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lyn, who is a member of the New York Stock Exchange. He
has one child, a son, Rowland Cox, 3d (b. Sept. 23d, 1902, at
New York City). (See Appendix.)
Cox was graduated from the College of Physicians and
Surgeons in 1898 with the degree of M.D. His decen-
nial letter follows : "Went to Montana, shooting, until
December of 1898. From December, 1898, to June, 1899,
substituted at New York Hospital. June, 1899, to Jan-
uary I, 1901, worked in out-patient departments of various
hospitals. January i, 1900, to July i, 1901, on staff
of Gouverneur Hospital. July i, 1901, to present have
practised in New York in the winter, and at Kineo,
Maine, in the summer."
He is now an instructor in operative surgery at Colum-
bia University, and clinical assistant in surgery at the
Vanderbilt Clinic. He is very much engrossed in his
profession. After leaving Yale and entering "P. & S."
where he found himself engaged for the first time in
thoroughly congenial tasks, he went to work in earnest;
and, as his instructorship at Columbia testifies, the re-
sults of all this are nowadays beginning to show.
Francis Phelps Dodge
In care of D. S. Dodge, 99 John Street, New York City.
Francis Phelps Dodge was born Sept. 20th, 1872, at New York
City. He is a son of the Rev. Dr. David Stuart Dodge, '57,
and Ellen Phelps, who were married Oct. i6th, 1864, at New
York, and had four other sons (one of whom died in infancy),
and one daughter. The brothers are, Walter, '90 S., Guy
Phelps, ex. '96, and Clarence Phelps, '99.
David Stuart Dodge (b. Sept. 22d, 1836, at New York City)
was for a time a member of the faculty of Beirut College. He
was ordained in the Presbyterian Church, but has never been
located. His services have been chiefly in the direction of look-
ing after the interests of missionary and philanthropic enter-
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prises. His parents were William Earl Dodge, a well known
merchant and philanthropist, and Melissa Phelps, daughter of
Anson Phelps.
Ellen (Phelps) Dodge was the daughter of John Jay Phelps,
a merchant and capitalist of New York City, and a sister of
William Walter Phelps, of New Jersey, She died in the early
eighties.
Dodge entered our Class in September, 1893, and remained a
member until June of 1895. He had before this been a member
of the Class of '94, but his health broke down while he was
rowing on the crew. While a member of '96 he was elected
to the high stand society of Phi Beta Kappa.
He has not been married.
Having been obliged to leave New Haven for the second
time on account of his rheumatism, Dodge set syste-
matically to work to check further disabling inroads. In
this attempt he has been only partially successful. He
has lived in Simsbury, Connecticut, in Clifton Springs
and Watkins Glen, New York, and in Colorado Springs,
Colorado. While in Colorado he was temporarily con-
nected with a firm on the mining stock exchange.
"All this time and amid all his deprivations," writes
one of his acquaintance, "he has kept up with his lite-
rary work and reading. His mind is particularly alert,
bright, and well equipped. Literature of a lighter vein
has no interest for him, but with the best thought and
biggest questions of his day he is thoroughly familiar.
He is doing a great deal of good with his money, help-
ing students and other needy people ; and he is, to those
who know him, a very lovable fellow. Had good health
been granted him he would have made a man in whom
a far wider circle than his friends and classmates might
have taken pride."
Guy Phelps Dodge
President of the American Wood Fire Proofing Company, 29 Broadway,
New York City. Residence, Bellehurst, Simsbury, Connecticut.
Permanent mail address. The Union Club, New York City.
Guy Phelps Dodge was bom Feb. 21st, 1874, in New York City.
His parentage and antecedents are as given in the above biog-
raphy of his brother Francis.
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Dodge prepared for College at Lawrenceville and entered with
the Class. He received an election to A. D. Phi in Freshman
year and left us in June, 1894.
He was married Oct. nth, 1900, at Ardmore, Pa., to Miss Mary
Aborn Rhodes, daughter of James M. Rhodes of Philadelphia,
and has two daughters, Mary Rhodes Dodge (b. July 9th,
1901, at Southampton, Long Island, N. Y.) and Marian
Phelps Dodge (b. June 12th, 1904, at New York City).
Dodge took a trip around the world after leaving New
Haven. On his return he "became President of the Amer-
ican Wood Fire Proofing Company, Limited, and later a
Director in the Plastic Material Metal Covering Com-
pany." He has Hved much abroad. When in this coun-
try he generally resides in Tuxedo or in Simsbury.
^' G. D. Eldridge, Jr.
Died in the neighborhood of New York City, March 2d, 1906.
George Dyre Eldridge, Jr., was born Nov. 26th, 1871, at Coving-
ton, Ky. He was the son of George Dyre Eldridge, formerly
of Washington, D. C, and now Vice-President and Actuary of
the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company of New York.
Eldridge entered with the Class and left in April of Freshman
year on account of illness.
He was unmarried.
Eldridge' s father sent the following letter about our
former classmate : "In reply to your favor, asking in ref-
erence to George Dyre Eldridge, Jr., for a brief time a
member of the Class of 1896 of Yale College, I beg to
say that, after the termination of his year at Yale, he en-
tered Johns Hopkins, from which he was graduated with
the degree of Bachelor of Arts, on the nth day of June,
1896. He subsequently entered Columbia University at
New York, Law Department, and was graduated there,
with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, the 13th of June,
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19CK). From that date until the early part of 1902, he
was engaged in the Actuarial Department of the Mutual
Reserve Life Insurance Company. In 1902, his health
gave way from a nervous standpoint, although he con-
tinued well physically, and he was under treatment for
the nervous difficulty from that time until the date of his
death, March 2, 1906, death being due to an operation
which it was hoped would remove the cause of the ner-
vous trouble."
Richard F. Ely
Richard Fen wick Ely prepared for College at St. Mark's
School and entered Yale with our Class in September 1892.
In June, 1894, he withdrew, became a member of '97, and was
subsequently graduated with that Class. See the '97 Records.
* Richard P. Estes
Died at Memphis, Tennessee, on December 26th, 1892.
Richard Pinson Estes was born May nth, 1875, at Memphis,
Tenn. He was a son of Zenas Newton Estes and Nettie Col-
lier, who were married Feb. 19th, 1868, at Florence, Ala., and
had altogether nine children, five boys and four girls, five of
whom lived to maturity.
Zenas Newton Estes, the son of a Mississippi planter, was
born in Mississippi, and died at Nashville, Tenn. Sept. 24th,
1904. His principal place of residence was at Memphis, Tenn.
His business was that of a commission merchant and wholesale
grocer. He served in the Confederate Army.
Nettie (Collier) Estes was born July 15th, 1842, at Florence,
Ala. She is the daughter of Wyatt Collier, a planter of Peters-
burg, Va., and Janet Walker of Scotland. She is now (May
'06) living in Jersey City, N. J.
Estes entered College with the Class, but left almost immediately
on account of illness.
He was unmarried.
Estes' attack of cerebral meningitis resulted in his re-
moval to New York City for treatment. The physicians
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were unable to help him, however, and he died at Mem-
phis, Tennessee, on December 26th, 1892. The Hon.
A. S. Colyar contributed an article on Estes to the Nash-
ville American, which was reprinted, in part, on page 61
of the Triennial Record.
Benjamin T. Gilbert
General Manager of the Continental Car & Eqtaipment Company,
17 Battery Place, New York City.
Permanent mail address, Clayville, Oneida Co., N, Y.
Benjamin Thorne Gilbert was born Sept. 21st, 1872, at Utica,
N. Y. He is the only child of Benjamin Davis Gilbert,.
Hamilton '57, A. M., and Adelaide Thorne Hamer, who were
married May 24th, 1871, at Utica.
Benjamin Davis Gilbert (b. Nov. 31st, 1835, at Albany,
N. Y.) is a writer on botany and agriculture. He was on the
editorial staff of the Utica "Morning Herald" for a number of
years prior to 1889, and was Secretary of the New York
State Dairymen's Association 1890-7. His parents were Ben-
jamin Gilbert, a wholesale merchant, and Elisabeth Davis, both
of Albany. His grandfather, Benjamin Gilbert, was an ensign
in the Revolutionary War. The family came from England in
1636, and settled at Dorchester, Mass.
Adelaide Thorne (Hamer) Gilbert (b. April 19th, 1845, at
Utica, N. Y. ; d. Jan. 12th, 1882, at Utica) was the daughter of
John Hamer, a farmer of New Hartford, N. Y., and Elisabeth
Pugh.
Gilbert prepared for College at Andover and entered with the
Class. He wrote for the "Lit" and was elected to D. K. E., but
withdrew at the end of Sophomore year with the intention of
joining a boar-sticking expedition in Spain. He afterwards
graduated with the Class of '97 at Columbia.
He was married Sept. 7th, 1905, at Chappaqua, N. Y., to Miss
Sue Racey Biggar, daughter of Dr. Hamilton Fisk Biggar of
Cleveland, Ohio, and has one child, a daughter, Susan Gilbert
(b. June I2th, 1906, at Dongan Hills, Staten Island, N. Y.).
Gilbert's sexennial report was, in brief, as follows:
"After leaving College in '94 went to Colorado on long
hunting trip. About Christmas time started for Italy.
Was diverted into Morocco by an invitation to join a
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pig-sticking expedition. Before expedition started I
went oif for a few days on my own hook with some of
the Sultan's bodyguard as guides, and faiHng to join the
pig-sticking party on account of swollen rivers, joined a
caravan going back into the interior and had a queer
ramble round North Africa.
"Put in several months studying literature at the Sor-
bonne in Paris. The next two years were spent in gy-
rating between New York, South America and the West
Indies. Incidentally I got (in 1897) degree of B.A.
from Columbia. (It was in my Sophomore year at Yale
that I spent two weeks at St. Pierre, Martinique, driving
over most of the island.) Went West again, did some
cow-punching and prospecting in Montana and Wyo-
ming, and finally landed at Dyea, Alaska, with the first
steamboat load of miners ever landed at that port.
"Returned East and decided on Architecture as a pro-
fession, so journeyed back to Paris. Since my return to
New York in 1901, I have settled down to practise."
In 1902 or 1903 Gilbert became president of the Con-
tinental Car & Equipment Company, the other officers
being McKinley Boyle, '97, vice-president, and H. D.
Newcomb, ex '96, treasurer. This concern was formed
to deal in cars, rails, locomotives, steam-shovels, and
machinery, new or second-hand. The president has had
his nose close to the grindstone ever since,— a feat which
he unexpectedly accomplishes by carrying the grindstone
around with him, in the shape of a catalogue of sundries.
"In 1903 spent the winter in New York City and Cuba,"
says his decennial letter. '*In 1904 spent the winter in
Arizona and California. The winter of 1905 went to
Mexico and spent the winter in an Indian village in the
mountains of Oaxaca, buying coffee and doing some ex-
cavating in Aztec ruins. Made a collection of stone
idols, implements of warfare, etc., which was purchased
by Museum of Natural History, New York. At present
am devoting all my time to the Continental Car & Equip-
ment Company, and do not expect to wander again for
some years to come."
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A few months after receiving this assurance the Secre-
tary happened to tell Arthur Foote how glad he was that
Gilbert had settled down. "Settled down?" said Foote.
"Why they leased their house and left us all last week."
"Where bound?" gasped the Secretary. "Oh, Mexico,
or some such place, I think," said Foote; "who knows?"
H. M. Gillett and C. Gillette
Harrison Murillo Gillett entered College with our Class, but
was dropped at Christmas of Freshman year. He had a similar
experience with the Class of '97, and his records are now given
in the '97 publications.
Curtenius Gillette entered College with our Class, but was
dropped at Christmas of Freshman year, entered '97, and was
graduated with that Class. See the '97 Records.
* George Zabriskie Gray
Died in London, September 12th, 1895.
George Zabriskie Gray was born Oct. nth, 1873, at Paris,
France, He was a son of the Rev. George Zabriskie Gray and
Kate Forrest, who were married June 19th, 1862, at New York
City, and had altogether four children, three boys and one girl,
three of whom lived to maturity.
George Zabriskie Gray the elder (b. July 14th, 1837, at New
York City; d. Aug. 4th, 1889, at Sharon Springs, N. Y.) was a
clergyman of the Episcopal Church. He was at various
periods Rector of the Episcopal Church at Kinderhook, N. Y.,
of Trinity Church, Bergen Point, N. J., and Dean of the
Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge, Mass. His par-
ents were John Alexander Clinton Gray, a merchant, and
Susan Maria Zabriskie, both of New York City. The family
came from the North of Ireland and settled in Orange Co.,
N. Y.
Kate (Forrest) Gray (b. Sept. i6th, 1841, at New York
City; d. Oct. 12th, 1905, at New York City) was the daughter
of George James Forrest, a merchant of New York City, and
Sarah A. Hooks, of Montgomery, Ala.
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Gray entered with the Class, rowed No. i. on the Academic
Freshman Crew in the fall of 1892, and served subsequently
as a member of the Governing Board and as Secretary and
Treasurer of the Yale-Corinthian Yacht Club. He was a
member of the University Club, He Boule, Psi U., and Keys,
and he received a Second Dispute at the Junior Exhibition.
He was unmarried.
In the summer of Junior year Gray went to Switzerland
with Jim Tailer and Walter Ford. On their way home
they decided to stop in Paris. Gray left them the next
day, went to London, was taken almost immediately with
appendicitis, and died September twelfth. Nothiilg that
occurred during our college course came with such ele-
ments of surprise and shock as did the news of his death
just before the opening of Senior year. He was brilliant,
strong, attractive, and the measure he gave us of his
quality in our three years together made it certain that
much would have been expected of him in after life.
E. E. Gregory
Edward Eugene Gregory entered with the Class, was dropped
in June of Freshman year, and subsequently entered '97. He
died in New York, September 21st, 1896, during the summer
vacation. See the '97 Records.
J. G. Haines
Morris Plains, New Jersey.
To be addressed in care of the Class Secretary,
John George Haines was born at Martinsburg, W. Va., Jan.
22d, 1875. He is a son of John Lawyer Haines, '49 (who
spelled his name "Hanes" until later in life), and Anna
Barbara Miller, who were married Jan. 15th, 1863, at Pater-
son, and had altogether six children, three boys and three
girls.
John Lawyer Haines (b. May 24th, 1824, at Fulton (now
Fultonham), Schoharie County, N. Y.) left his birthplace at
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the age of twenty, and came to New York City, where he was
(c. 1852) admitted as an attorney at law. He has also lived
in Martinsburg, W. Va., and at Paterson, N. J., which latter
is his present place of residence. He is the son of Abram
Hanes, a farmer, and Catherine Lawyer, both of Fulton. His
grandfather, Jacob Hanes (son of Henry Hanes) was a
Captain in the Revolutionary Army. The ancestors of the
family emigrated from Germany to London (England) during
Reformation times, and came to America about the year 1700,
and settled at Fulton.
Anna Barbara (Miller) Haines (b. in April, 1842, in Ger-
many; d. Oct. 6th, 1904, at Paterson, N. J.) was brought from
Germany to America at the age of two, and spent her youth in
Paterson. She was the daughter of George Miller, a German
laborer, and Anna Margaret Schneider.
Haines entered with the Class, but remained with us only until
_ January 1893.
He has not been married.
Haines' departure from Yale was due to an attack of ty-
phoid fever. After his recovery he went to Bowdoin
and was graduated there, with the Class of 1897. He
spent the following winter in New Mexico, entering
thereafter the Theological School at Andover. "At the
close of his second year," his father wrote this spring,
"Professor Smythe telegraphed me that my son showed
indications of mental trouble and he advised me to have
him placed in some sanitarium. Professor Smythe took
him to the McLean Hospital. Nine months later Dr.
Cowles advised me to place him in some State Institu-
tion. I then had him transferred to our State Asylum
at Morris Plains, where he has been since, continually
growing worse. I am sorry to say this is all the infor-
mation I can give you concerning him."
H. G. Holcombe
Banking and Bonding, Hartford, Conn. Office, 49 Pearl Street.
Residence, 79 Spring Street.
Harold Goodwin Holcombe was born Nov. 23d, 1873, at Bristol,
Conn. He is a son of John Marshall Holcombe, '69, and
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Emily Seymour Goodwin, who were married Jan. 29th, 1873,
at Brooklyn, N. Y., and had two other children, one boy and
one girl.
John Marshall Holcombe (b. June 8th, 1848, at Lord's Hill,
Hartford, Conn.) has always lived in Hartford and is now
President of the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company
and of the Fidelity Company. His brother, James Winthrop
Holcombe was graduated from Yale in the Class of '68. His
parents were James Huggins Holcombe, a lawyer of Lord's
Hill, Hartford, and Emily Merrill Johnson, (daughter of
General Nathan Johnson, 1802, who served in the War of
1812, and was State Senator) also of Hartford. The family
came from England in 1634, and settled at Dorchester, Mass.,
afterwards at Windsor, Conn.
Emily Seymour (Goodwin) Holcombe (b. April 2d, 1852, at
Bristol, Conn.) spent her early life at Brooklyn, N. Y. Her
parents were Edwin Olmsted Goodwin, a lawyer of Hartford
and Bristol, Conn., and of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Harriet
Browne of Southwick, Mass. She was Organizing Regent of
the Ruth Wyllys Chapter D. A. R. for eleven years, and in
1904 was a member of the Board of Lady Managers at the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition. She is now Vice-President
of the Connecticut Society of Colonial Dames.
Holcombe entered with the Class, served as Coxswain of the
Academic Freshman Crew in the fall of 1892, and left College
in January 1893. The following year he entered '97, cox-
swained several crews for them, and was graduated with that
Class.
He has not been married.
Holcombe's occupation is banking and bonding. He
has been connected with the Fidelity Company of Hart-
ford, of which he is Assistant Secretary, since 1897 ; and
he has represented the National Surety Company, of
which he is the General Manager, since July, 1901.
"Have spent most of my .vacations hunting and fishing."
James B. Horton
With Van Slyke & Horton, Cigar Manufacturers, 471 Broadway, Albany,
New York. Residence, 303 Hamilton Street.
James Barnet Horton was born Oct. 29th, 1873, at Little Falls,
N. Y. He is a son of Wallace Nelson Horton and Priscilla
J
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Miranda Browning, who were married May 27th, 1867, at
Rochester, N. Y,, and had altogether seven children, three
boys and four girls, five of whom lived to maturity.
Wallace Nelson Horton (b. Sept. 8th, 1846, at Tyringham,
Mass.) is a cigar manufacturer, and has lived principally in
Albany, N. Y. His parents were James Horton, a powder
manufacturer of Frankfort, N. Y., and Ora Angeline Sweet of
Lee, Mass. The family came from England in 1700, and
settled at Southold, L. I.
Priscilla Miranda (Browning) Horton (b. March 7th, 1849,
at Rochester, N. Y. ; d. Nov. 24th, 1899, at Albany, N. Y.)
was the daughter of Barnet Browning, a real estate agent, and
Sarah Chappell, both of Rochester.
Horton entered with the Class, received a Second Colloquy at
the Junior Exhibition, and left us in January, 1895, to go into
business with his father in Albany.
He has not been married.
Horton returned to Albany after leaving College and be-
gan his present connection with the firm of Van Slyke &
Horton, Manufacturers of and Wholesale Dealers in Ci-
gars. This firm dates from 1881. Since Mr. Van
Slyke's death in 1891, Horton's father, who is one of the
best judges of tobacco in his section of the state, has
been the managing spirit. The other partners are Mr.
Van Slyke's sons, George W. and William H., who were
graduated with the Class of '95 S.
Russell Hulbert, M.D.
322 John Street, Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Russell Hulbert was born Jan. 24th, 1875, at Middletown,
Conn. He is a son of George Huntington Hulbert and Hen-
rietta Larned Russell, who were married at New Haven,
Conn., and had one other child, George Huntington Hulbert,
Jr., '98 S.
George Huntington Hulbert (b. Feb. 2d, 1835, at Middle-
town, Conn.) is a manufacturer of Middletown. He is a son
of William Hulbert, a bookkeeper of Middletown, and Mary-
Huntington. His brother, William Edward Hulbert, was
graduated with the degree of A.B. in the Class of '57.
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Henrietta Larned (Russell) Hulbert (b. Aug. 6th, 1837, at
New Haven, Conn.; d. Dec. 23d, 1905, at Middletown, Conn.)
was the daughter of William Huntington Russell, '33, a school
teacher, and Mary Hubbard, both of New Haven. Four
brothers were Yale men, viz.— Talcott Huntington Russell,
'69; Dr. Thomas Hubbard Russell, ^^2 S.; Philip Gray Russell,
'jd', and Edward Hubbard Russell, '78 S.
Hulbert was prepared for Yale at the Gunnery School, Washing-
ton, Conn. He entered with the Class, and remained with us
until June of Sophomore year, when he left of his own accord,
because of a change in his plans.
He was married Sept. 25th, 1901, to Miss Minnie Evangeline
Gladwin of Higganum, Conn., daughter of Frank O. Gladwin.
Hulbert entered the Yale Medical School in 1894, with-
out waiting for his B.A., and was graduated in due
course in 1898. He was occupied in postgraduate work
in New York until, in the spring of 1899, ^^ settled in
Higganum to practise. On May 22d, 1902, he moved
to South Windham, Connecticut, to become physician in
charge at the Grand View Sanitarium. This connection
was soon terminated, however, by an illness, which made
it necessary for Hulbert to take a prolonged rest. He
is now practising in Bridgeport.
Hunt, Irwin, Keck, and Kelly
Chester Jay Hunt entered with the Class and remained until
Christmas of Freshman year. He afterwards entered '97, and
was graduated with that Class. See the '97 Records.
EvERETTE Sargent Irwin entered with the Class and remained
with us until June of Freshman year. He subsequently entered
'97 and spent some six months with them before leaving Col-
lege. See the '97 Records.
Thomas Andrew Keck and Alfred Harris Kelly appear once
each in our class list, and are technically ex-members of '96.
The Dean's office, however, has no record of their actually
having been enrolled with us, and the former now affiliates
with '95 and the latter with '97, to which Classes they prop-
erly belong.
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Derick Lane
Real Estate Operator. Office address, 200 Broadway, New York City.
Residence, 54 West 40th Street.
Derick Lane was born at Troy, N. Y., Nov. 5th, 1874. He is a
son of Derick Lane, Union '47, and Mary Elizabeth Thomp-
son, who were married June 5th, 1865, at Troy, N. Y., and had
altogether six children, four boys and two girls. George
Thompson Lane, '04, is a brother. '
Derick Lane the elder (b, Jan. i6th, 1828, at Troy; d. Dec.
14th, 1892, at Troy) was President of the Troy Savings Bank
and Treasurer of the Troy Gas Company. He served as City
Chamberlain of Troy from 1867-71. A large portion of his
life was also spent at Paris, France. His parents were Jacob
Lansing Lane, a lawyer, afterwards Treasurer of the Troy
Savings Bank, and Caroline Tibbits, both of Troy. The
family came from Holland in 1730, and settled in Connecticut.
Mary Elizabeth (Thompson) Lane (b. in May, 1838, at
Troy, N. Y.) is the daughter of John Leland and Mary
Elizabeth Thompson, the former a merchant of Troy, and the
latter of New London, Conn. She is now (Oct, '05) living at
Paris, France.
Lane prepared for College at St. Paul's School and entered with
the Class. He left us early in Freshman year.
He has not been married.
Lane was not in business when his sexennial report was
made. Shortly afterwards, however, he left Troy, and
became a real estate operator in New York City. He is
now Secretary and Treasurer of the Real Estate Security
Company and of the Shippan Point Land Company, and
Secretary of the McVickar Company.
C. S. Leavenworth
Charles Samuel Leavenworth entered from Wesleyan Univer-
sity in October, 1894, ^^<^ remained with us until June, 1895. He
was subsequently graduated with the Class of '97. See the '97
Records.
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Herbert R. Limburg
Lawyer. 15 William Street, New York City.
Herbert Richard Limburg was born Jan. 13th, 1876, at New
York City. He is a son of Abraham Limburger and Josephine
Treusch, who were married May 28th, 1871, at New York
City, and had altogether four children, three boys and one
girl, three of whom lived to maturity. Ernest Abraham Lim-
burg, ex '95 S. is a brother.
Abraham Limburger (b. Nov. nth, 1828, at Hall (Lim-
burg), in Wurtemberg, Germany; d. Dec. i8th, 1888, at New
York City) was a banker and importer of watches. Most of
his life was spent in Germany and Switzerland, and at New
York City. He came to New York about 1849.
Josephine (Treusch) Limburger (b. Aug. i8th, 1854, at
Raab, Hungary) spent her early life at Raab, Budapest, and at
Buffalo, N. Y. Her parents were Edward and Theresa
Treusch, the former a Moravian physician, and the latter of
Raab, Hungary. She is now (Feb. '06) living in New York
City.
Limburg entered our Class in September of Sophomore year,
but was obliged to leave on account of illness before the year
was out.
He was married April i6th, 1906, at New York City, to Miss
Irma Rossbach, daughter of Jacob Rossbach.
After leaving Yale in Sophomore year, Limburg "at-
tended Columbia Law School (New York) for two
years, then Heidelberg University (Germany) one ses-
sion. Then entered the law firm of Hoadly, Lauterbach
& Johnson as clerk without salary." He continued this
connection for seven years, during which period he had
the opportunity of appearing in a number of important
cases before the higher courts. (See Sexennial Record,
p. 246.) His decennial letter was originally very brief,
and it required some persuasion to secure from him the
expanded edition which is here appended : —
"Since Sexennial there have been three important
events in my life. First, in May, 1903, I severed my re-
lations with the firm of Hoadly, Lauterbach & Johnson,
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with whom I had been connected ever since I began the
study of law, and I opened my own office at the above
address. The two other great events of my life took
place in the spring of the present year, the one being my
marriage, and the other the change of my name from
Limburger to Limburg, by order of our Supreme Court.
This change restored the name to its original form, and
was made by all my relatives. While it may seem to
some an improvement, it is to be regretted that my
friends can no longer assure me that my name is my
'strong point.'
"I have been steadily working at my profession. Dur-
ing the last three years the major portion of my work
has been counsel or advisory work for other lawyers, and
I have had frequent occasion to appear in court in the
trial of causes. These have ranged from the ridiculous
to the important. (I have hardly had any that could be
classed as sublime.)
"I have helped one client to spend many hundreds of
dollars for counsel fees in a case involving the sum of
but $60 ; while on the other hand, I have had occasion to
convince our judges that such delightful comedies as
'On and Off' and 'The Sweet Girl' as produced at the
Irving Place Theater in this city, were 'sacred concerts'
and tended to the betterment of the morals of the com-
munity as they did to its enjoyment. I have also had an
opportunity of convincing the courts that the open space
surrounding the orchestra chairs in the Metropolitan
Opera House was not a 'passage way' — on the theory
that it had never been used for passing, being uniformly
choked up by standees — and thus enforce the equal
rights of the poor by securing for them legal authority
to stand. up and hear the operas at $1.50 per stand in-
stead of sitting down at $5 a seat. I likewise had oc-
casion during the last year to convince a jury that a lady
artist was not entitled to recover for services in painting
a portrait of a corpse, because the likeness of the corpse
was not sufficiently striking. In this connection, it may
also be of interest to you that about a year ago my opin-
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ion was asked whether it was unlawful to take a corpse
out driving in a hansom cab. The result of my examin-
ation of the law convinced me that it was not unlawful,
but merely bad taste, and I so advised my client. I have
also endeavored to convince a jury that a Mr. Wheeler
got consumption from being hit by an Amsterdam Av-
enue trolley car (he has since died, poor fellow). I have
recently succeeded in opening a case that had been dor-
mant these eighteen years, and having it started anew,
thus proving to my own satisfaction, if not to that of the
legal profession, that Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce is not a
myth. I have had the good fortune and pleasure of giv-
ing what I trust is a knock-out blow to the iniquitous
John Doe proceedings which have become so frequent
during the regime of our present District Attorney, and
I have likewise been instrumental in preventing him from
securing the conviction of Nan Patterson, the young
woman said (by herself) to be an actress, and who was
unfortunate enough to be in a hansom cab when one
Caesar Young came to his death through a pistol shot.
Two juries disagreed, Nan Patterson has been dis-
charged from custody, and the question of 'The Lady or
Caesar?' is still undecided. In the same litigation, I en-
deavored to establish the principle that our police officers
and District Attorney have no right, without search war-
rant, upon arresting a person, to seize all his papers and
property and to appropriate and retain the same. I have
not, it is true, been able to establish finally this salutary
and necessary doctrine, but the time will surely come
when even the courts will resent the lawlessness of our
'guardians of the peace.'
"Last fall I was retained as chief counsel to take
charge of all court proceedings affecting the validity of
the Hearst or Municipal Ownership tickets, which it was
endeavored to expunge from the ballot on various legal
objections. In the ensuing litigation, I was successful,
but on the other hand, I had no connection with the prep-
aration of the petitions nominating Mr. Hearst, which it
is said contain many forgeries.
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"In fine, I have had a busy time practising my profes-
sion, with many varied and interesting experiences. If
I have not grown alarmingly rich in the practice of the
law, I have had more than sufficient compensation in the
varied interest of my work.
"Last summer a party of lawyers, of whom I was one,
spent some weeks in Canada 'doing' the Rideau chain of
lakes upon the good house-boat 'Waunegan.' A 'log*
was kept which contained a full and vivid account of all
our doings. It is stated therein that on one occasion we
all sat upon the upper deck smoking our pipes, and each
one telling about the various interesting cases with which
he had been connected in the practice of the law. In a
foot-note, it is remarked that every case was won by the
man who was telling the story. I trust that my letter
will not impress you in this way."
P. C. Liscomb
Percival Clement Liscomb entered College with the Class and
remained with us until the end of Sophomore year. He then
entered '97 and was subsequently graduated with that Class.
See the '97 Records.
Arthur L. Loving
Residence, 617 Bon Ton, St. Joseph, Mo.
Special Agent of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co.
(of Newark, N. J.), at 411 Francis Street.
Arthur Lyne Loving was born Jan. i8th, 1876, at St. Joseph,
Mo. He is a son of William Loving and Susan Elizabeth
Wharton, who were married Nov. 23d, 1853, at Springfield,
Ky., and had altogether five children, four boys and one girl,
three of whom lived to maturity.
William Loving (b. April 8th, 1830, at Russellville, Ky. ; d.
Aug. 31st, 1890, at St. Joseph, Mo.) served 1862-5 as Captain
Co. F. 25 E. Mo. Militia. His business was that of a whole-
sale and retail druggist. Most of his life was spent at Rus-
sellville and Hopkinsville, Ky., and at St. Joseph, Mo. His
parents were Willis Loving, a planter, and Susan Starling,
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both of Logan County, Ky. The family came from England,
Ireland, and Scotland .about 1608.
Susan Elizabeth (Wharton) Loving (b. Dec. 17th, 1835, in
Washington County, Ky.) spent her early life at Springfield,
Washington Co., Ky. Her parents were John C. Wharton, a
farmer, and Elizabeth Caldwell, both of Washington County.
She is now (March '06) living at St. Joseph.
Loving entered with the Class and remained with us until June
of Freshman year.
He was married at St. Joseph, Mo., Sept. 6th, 1899, to Miss
Mabel Florence Brehm of Troy, Kans., daughter of John
Brehm,
Loving's 1902 report informed us that he had "worked
eight years for a wholesale grocery, spending several
summers camping in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Yellow-
stone Park, and Colorado. Now clerk in cashier's de-
partment of Assistant Treasurer's Office, Missouri Lines,
Burlington System." He was at one time President of
the St. Joseph Mercantile Company, News & Cigar Deal-
ers, now out of business.
Since Sexennial he has been Advertising Agent of the
"St. Joseph News" for one year, Sub-Agent for the
Equitable Life of New York for one year, and, since
then. Special Agent for the Mutual Benefit Life Insur-
ance Company of Newark, New Jersey. The scene of
his activities continues to be St. Joseph.
B. P. Lukens
Box 551, Manila, Philippine Islands.
Benjamin Perley Lukens (whose name in College was written
Perley Benjamin Lukens) was born Dec. nth, 1872, at Ports-
mouth, Ohio. He is the only child of Joseph Franklin Lukens,
(Ohio University A.B. '66, A.M. '69) and Eliza Trout, who
were married Aug. 3d, 1868, at Crawfordsville, Ind.
Joseph Franklin Lukens (b. Dec. nth, 1838, at Upper Falls,
Baltimore Co., Md.) is Superintendent of City Schools of
Lebanon, Ohio. He has spent various periods of his life at
Hoskinsville, Athens, Kent, and Portsmouth, Ohio. His
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parents were Benjamin Cooper Lukens, a wagon-maker of
Hoskinsville, and Louisa Warfield of Gunpowder Falls, Md.
The family came from Wales and England in 1725, and
settled at Peach Bottom, York Co., Pa.
Eliza (Trout) Lukens (b. Aug. 30th, 1836, at Milton, Trim-
ble Co., Ky.) spent her early life at Crawfordsville, Ind. She
is the daughter of Isaac Trout, a farmer of Milton, Ky., and
Dorothy Cook of Bedford, Ky.
Lukens entered our Class from '95 in September of Senior
year, but left us before the year was out, and afterwards
was enrolled for a short time in the Yale Law School.
He was married May 7th, 1902, in Manila, P. L, to Miss Sarah
Jones Bowling, daughter of the late Judge Bowling and Martha
A. Bowling, all of Grayson, Ky., and has one child, a daughter,
Mildred Lukens (b. March i6th, 1903, at Manila).
Lukens studied in the Yale Law ScHcmdI after leaving us,
and in 1898 enlisted as a private in the ist Ohio Volun-
teers. During the years 1 899-1 901 he served as ist
Lieutenant in the 46th United States Volunteer Infantry
in the Philippines. It was at this time, by the way, that
he gave up trying to retain the name of Perley Benjamin
Lukens and accepted that of Benjamin Perley, which,
after a long series of similar mistakes, appeared so writ-
ten in his military commission. In this fashion is many
a non-conformity rubbed out. Kingman, for instance,
is in unceasing danger of being rechristened with the
name of Thomas.
At last accounts Lukens was still residing in Manila,
as a clerk in the Bureau of Public Lands.
W. G. McCann
William Grant McCann entered College with '95 and left
them in March, 1893. Two years later he entered '96, spent
Senior year with us, and failed to graduate. He then
entered '97, and obtained his degree with them, but was sub-
sequently enrolled with '95, that being his original Class. See
the '95 Records.
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C. Oliver McClintock
Castine, Maine (or Pittsburg, Pa.)
No occupation.
Clarence Oliver McClintock^ was born Feb. 21st, 1873, at St.
John, N. B. He is a son of Walter Lowrie McClintock, a
merchant of Pittsburg, and Mary (Garrison) McClintock.
McClintock entered with the Class and remained with us until
June of Freshman year.
He was married Aug. ist, 1904, at Manchester, N. H., to Miss
Mary Falvey, daughter of the late Daniel Falvey of Quincy,
Mass., and has one child, a son, Walter Lowrie McClintock,
Jr. (b. Jan. nth, 1906, at Augusta, Ga.).
McClintock sent word that he was "sorry and more
than sorry" that he could not be present at Decennial, but
he failed to append the autobiography solicited. He has
traveled widely, here and abroad, and says that he has
no occupation. Some day perhaps he will supply us with
his itineraries.
Dwight McDonald
[Theodore] Dwight McDonald prepared for College at Exeter
and entered with the Class. He remained with us until June,
1893, and was afterwards graduated with the Class of '97.
See the '97 Records.
Boyd McLean
I Montgomery Street, Jersey City, N. J.
Boyd McLean was born September 3d, 1876, at Jersey City, N. J.
He is the son of Alexander McLean of Jersey City, a veteran
of the Civil War, at one time Sheriff of Hudson County, and
formerly on the staff of the Jersey City "Evening Journal."
He entered with the Class, but left College in the second term of
Sophomore year.
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McLean is said to be a lawyer, practising in Jersey City,
New Jersey. He does not affiliate with the Class, and has
contributed no information about himself for our records.
R. S. McLeod
In care of Edgar D. McLeod, 375 Eighth Avenue, New York City.
Ray Stearns McLeod was born June 24th, 1874, at Waldoboro,
Maine. He is the son of the Rev. A. J. McLeod of Central
Village, Conn., formerly of Stafford Springs, N. Y.
McLeod entered with the Class, left in June of Freshman year,
and was afterwards heard from as being engaged in the study
of the law at New London, Conn.
He has not been married.
No reply was received from McLeod at either Triennial
or Sexennial, but word came this spring from his brother
Edgar that after some years together in the dental busi-
ness, during which Ray was Manager of the New York
Dental Emporium, at 375 Eighth Avenue, he went out to
South Africa with two or three others, to carry out some
diamond mining project. This was in 1902. The fam-
ily have heard nothing of nor from him since that time.
* Charles M. Martin
Journalist. Died at Norwich, New York, on August i6th, 1899.
Charles Mason Martin was born Sept. 25th, 1871, at New-
burgh, N. Y. He was a son of Cyrus B. Martin and Ann
Vernette Maydole, who were married at Norwich, N. Y., in
June, 1858, and had four other children, one boy (who died be-
fore maturity) and three girls.
Cyrus B. Martin (b. at Argyle, N. Y., Sept. 6th, 1830; d. at
Norwich, N, Y., April 2d, 1902) was editor and proprietor of
the Newburgh Journal from i860 to 1876. Subsequently he be-
came connected with the David Maydole Hammer Co. of
Norwich, of which concern he was for the last twelve years of
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his life President and Executive Officer. His ancestors came
from England and settled at Swansea, Mass. (See Martin
Genealogy printed c. 1896.)
Ann Vernette (Maydole) Martin (b. at Lebanon, N. Y., in
June, 1833; d. at Norwich, N. Y., in June, 1885) spent her
early life at Norwich. Her parents were David Maydole, a
manufacturer of Norwich, and Anna Van Valkenburgh, of
Schoharie Co., N. Y.
Martin prepared for College at the Siglar School, and entered
our Class in September, 1894. He left us the following year.
He was unmarried.
Upon leaving Yale Martin became a journalist in Nor-
wich, writing for both the local and the New York pa-
pers. His death took place on August i6th, 1899. For
the biographical information furnished in the preceding
paragraphs the Class is indebted to Howard D. Newton
'79, a brother-in-law of Martin's.
* Benjamin M. Massey
Journalist. Died at Springfield, Missouri, August 7th, 1903.
Benjamin Minor Massey was born April 30th, 1873, at Spring-
field, Mo. He was the only child of Benjamin Ulpian Massey
and Mary Sidney Smith, who were married April 20th, 1869,
at Jefferson City, Mo.
Benjamin Ulpian Massey (b. Feb. 28th, 1842, at Sarcoxie,
Mo.) is a lawyer of Springfield, Mo., at which city and at
Jefferson City he has spent most of his life. His parents were
Benjamin Franklin Massey of St. Louis, Mo., and Maria
'Hawkins Witchers of Fauquier County, Va. Benjamin F.
Massey was born at Massey's Cross Roads, Md., in 181 1, leav-
ing Maryland at the age of fifteen. He went to St. Louis in
1829, and after working two years with the Santa Fe Over-
land Route Company, engaged in the dry goods business. In
1856 he was elected Secretary of State, but after being re-
elected in i860 he lost his office (in 1861) owing to his ab-
sence in the Confederate Army. The family came from Eng-
land in 1714, and settled near Chestertown, Md.
Mary Sidney (Smith) Massey (b. in Cole County, Mo., in
1844; d. at Springfield, Mo., in Feb., 1875) spent her early life
at Jefferson City, Mo. She was the daughter of William
Massey
{From an early portrait)
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Smith, a tobacco and hemp grower on the Missouri River in
Cole County, near Jefferson City; and Louisa Goode, whose
parents were both of Nottoway, Va.
Massey entered our Class from '95 in the second term of
Sophomore year, and remained with us until graduation. He
received a Second Colloquy at Commencement, and was
eligible to have received his degree upon settlement of his ac-
count with the College Treasurer.
He was unmarried.
Massey was heard from in 1902, too late for the insertion
of his reply in the Sexennial Record. He studied law in
New York City after graduation, but returned to Mis-
souri when the war broke out, and enlisted in the 2d
Missouri Volunteers. "During the course of service,"
his letter said, "I was made first sergeant of Company
M, and contracted the usual illness, brought on first by
fever, and which in my case affected my lungs. Since
then I have been in the far West, ranching, mining, and
(in 1 901) engaged as city editor of the El Paso (Texas)
Herald. Latterly I have been here in Mexico City, as
news editor of the Two Republics and as a publisher. I
have had occasion to travel quite extensively, but Europe
has not yet known me."
Massey's publishing business was conducted under the
name of the Massey-Gilbert Company, publishers of the
"Blue Book," in which were listed the American resi-
dents of the Mexican capital. While in Texas he served
as Secretary of the El Paso Carnival Association. When
the compiler of this volume visited El Paso he heard
enough of Massey^s ability and popularity from his old
friends to make it evident that Massey had "made good."
His illness however, which had been a constant handi-
cap all this time, finally necessitated his removal to the
Fort Bayard Sanatorium. "They call it a hospital," he
wrote, "but it is really a way station between life and
death, and I am about ready to take the train." In the
spring of 1903 he began to fail so rapidly that he went
back to his old home in Missouri to wait the end. "Yes.
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I came home to die," he said to Wade, who was out there
on a visit. "With one lung all gone and the other nearly
done for, there was n't any use in staying. Now my feet
are swelling up, and that is one of the signs, you know,
that the end is pretty close. ... I tell you, sit-
ting down face to face with death for nearly twelve
months makes a man ponder things."
His death took place on the seventh day of August.
Eugene Meyer, Jr.
Head of the Stock Exchange firm of Eugene Meyer, Jr. & Co.,
7 Wall Street, New York City.
Residence, 114 West 726. Street
Eugene [Isaac] Meyer, Jr., was born Oct. 31st, 1875, at Los
Angeles, Cal. He is the son of Eugene Meyer, a banker, and
Harriet Newmark.
Meyer entered our Class from the California State University
in September, 1893. He studied with us during Sophomore
year, skipped Junior year, and was graduated with the Class
o^ '95, with One Year Honors in Political Science and Law,
a High Oration stand, and a membership in the Phi Beta
Kappa Society.
He has not been married. —
1
Meyer was in the banking business (with Lazard
Freres) in New York City and in Europe until 1901,
when he purchased a membership in the New York
Stock Exchange. This was followed by the formation
of the firm of Eugene Meyer, Jr. & Company, in which
a brother-in-law of Ballentine's, Lyman B. Kendall, is
now one of the partners. Meyer has been very thorough
in his methods and successful in his operations. He was
one of the men behind the extraordinary rise in Ameri-
can Smelting and in Reading common in 1905, and he
has made several gifts to Yale University. (See Appen-
dix.)
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E. C. Moore
Manufacturing. Residence, 102 Highland Avenue, Syracuse, New York.
Ernest Conkling Moore was born Jan. 4th, 1873, at Syracuse,
N. Y. He is a son of Elizabeth Mary Huyck and Jerome B.
Moore of Syracuse.
Moore entered College with us, was dropped in March, 1893,
and then spent several months with '97.
He was married May 14th, 1902, at Kansas City, Mo., to Miss
Martha Harding Brent, daughter of Thomas Innis Brent, and
has one child, a son, Jerome B. Moore (b. April i8th, 1903,
at Kansas Cjty).
A MAN who is as certain to be handed down to posterity,
swathed in the hilarious traditions of our period, as
Peisty Moore, has but small incentive to go into those
details of his subsequent career which must inevitably
smack of anti-climax. Impressed with this considera-
tion he has limited his autobiographical contribution to
these two jottings :—
(i) A letter from St. Louis written in March, 1905,
upon the note paper of the Whitehead & Hoag Company,
Manufacturers of Advertising Novelties, etc. "My ca-
reer has been an uneventful one, and aside from getting
married and the arrival of one son (at the present writ-
ing two years old) I have been doing nothing but labor
hard for the filthy lucre, which I find most elusive. After
my departure from college and the assault upon Harley
Roberts, my brother and I decided upon foreign travel,
and made a tour of Europe for the next year. Since
that time I have been located in the West, being inter-
ested in the zinc mines of Joplin, Missouri, and for the
past four years have been the manager of the Whitehead
& Hoag Company in the western territory. Although
St. Louis made beer famous, I much prefer having my
own stein in the Yale Club, and trust that in a few years
I will be able to participate more freely in some of the
enjoyable sessions which are pulled oflf under the aus-
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pices of '96. My connection with the best class which
ever entered Yale was short, but I still hold to my first
sworn vows that '96 has no rival. I certainly do appre-
ciate this personal letter from you. It brings back rec-
ollections of very happy times which we spent in New
Haven together."
(2) A brief message from Syracuse, New York,
dated July, 1906, which said that he had "just resigned
position with Whitehead & Hoag to become president of a
paper and pulp company to be located in Syracuse."
H. Dalton Newcomb
(See Appendix).
Horatio Dalton Newcomb was born Nov. 24th, 1874, at Louis-
ville, Ky. He is a son of Horatio D. Newcomb, of Louisville,
and Mary Cornelia Smith, daughter of John B. Smith of
West Virginia, who were married in 1871 at Louisville.
Newcomb prepared for College at Andover, and entered with
the Class. He left us in May of Freshman year.
He has not been married.
Newcomb has always seemed inclined to measure our
probable interest in his affairs by the length of his under-
graduate connection with '96 and to regard the former
as infinitesimal, because the latter was so brief. He is
known to have traveled extensively in odd corners of the
world, and to be an officer of Ben. Gilbert's Continental
Car & Equipment Company ; but for the rest his history
must be grouped with the Calculus and the Persian poets
— to borrow a phrase of Arthur Col ton's — as something,
merely, which one would wish to know about, if one knew
how, and life were not so short.
* W. P. Palmer
Died in New York City, on February nth, 1903.
Warren Prescott Palmer was born July 2d, 1872, at Thompson-
ville, Conn. He was the son of Sarah A. (Shackleton) and
Nathan P. Palmer of Thompsonville. Nathan P. Palmer is
in the real estate and insurance business.
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Palmer entered with the Class and remained with us until the
end of Sophomore year, when he left to go into business.
He was married Oct. ist, 1895, to Miss Grace Reynolds Coon, of
Saratoga Springs, N. Y., daughter of the Troy manufacturer,
of Cluett, Coon & Co. Mrs. Palmer was subsequently granted
a divorce.
After Palmer's marriage he went into the shirt business
in Chicago on capital supplied by his father-in-law. His
prospects seemed at that time to be commensurate even
with his energy. But he got into trouble of various kinds
as time went on, and went pretty thoroughly to pieces.
On February nth, 1903, he died in New York City.
The Secretary is acquainted with few of the details of
his career and with none of the attendant circumstances.
Wm. Lee Patterson
Residence, 167 Mercer Street, New Castle, Pa.
Business address, care of the National Bank of Lawrence County.
William Lee Patterson was born Oct. 22d, 1871, at New Castle,
Pa. He is a son of William Patterson and Harriet Newell
Woodward, who were married Jan. 17th, 1866, at Taunton,
Mass., and had altogether three children, two boys and one
girl.
William Patterson (b. Oct. 20th, 1824, at New Castle, Pa.;
d. Aug. 30th, 1905, at New Castle) lived principally at New
Castle, Philadelphia, and Pittsburg, Pa., being at various
times President of the Shenango Hospital, a merchant, in the
coal, iron and steel business, a druggist, interested in rail-
roads, a banker, etc. His parents were William Patterson, a
merchant, and Esther Mason, both of New Castle. The
ancestors of the family were Scotch settlers at New Castle.
Harriet Newell (Woodward) Patterson (b. Aug. 2d, 1838,
at Taunton, Mass.) is the daughter of Solomon Woodward,
a merchant and member of the Massachusetts State Legisla-
ture, and Betsy Hastings, both of Taunton. She is now
(Apr., '06) living at New Castle.
Patterson entered with the Class and remained with us until
June of 1895.
He has not been married.
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Patterson "was general manager of the Newcastle
Wire Nail Company until it was sold to the American
Steel & Wire Company. Since that time," he wrote in
1902, "I have done very little but travel. I spent summer
before last in the Maine woods, last summer in Wyoming
on a hunting trip, and last winter in the Law School at
the University of Pennsylvania."
His decennial letter says that he has been traveling in
the United States, Canada, Italy, Switzerland, Germany,
France, Belgium, England and Mexico. He is connec-
ted with the New Castle Stamping Company, the New
Castle Forge and Bolt Company, the United States Steel
Company, the National Bank of St. Lawrence County, the
Pennsylvania Engineering Company, the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, the Beaver Coal and Coke Company,
the Crucible Steel Company of Pittsburg, the Shenango
Valley Hospital, etc. (He does not state the nature of
these connections.) His writings have been confined to
descriptive letters from European points for the "New
Castle Courant."
'''' C. W. Penrose
Salesman. Died in Philadelphia, October i6th, 1905.
Charles Williams Penrose was born Nov. 3d, 1872, at Phila-
delphia, Pa. He was a son of Thomas Neall Penrose and
Margaret A. Stewart, who were married June 3d, 1863, at
Philadelphia, and had one other child, a son.
Thomas Neall Penrose (b. June 6th, 1835, at Philadelphia;
d. Feb. 13th, 1902, at the Naval Hospital in Philadelphia) was
a retired Medical Director in the United States Navy. He
was the son of Thomas Norwood and Jane Penrose of Phila-
delphia. The ancestors of the family came from England in
the 17th century.
Margaret A. (Stewart) Penrose (b. Aug. i6th, 1837, at
Lewistown, Mifflin Co., Pa.) is the daughter of James and
Mary Stewart of Philadelphia. James Stewart was a manu-
facturer.
Penrose prepared for College at St. Paul's School and entered
with the Class. He rowed No. 7 on the Academic Freshman
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Crew in the fall of 1892, and was a member of the Yale Uni-
versity Drum Corps. He was dropped at Christmas, 1892,
entered '97, was elected to Phi Gamma Delta, and finally left
Yale in May, 1894.
He was married Sept. 15th, 1898, to Miss Mabel Agnew Rutter
of New York City, daughter of Robert Rutter, a book binder.
Penrose spent four years with the Whitall Tatum Com-
pany (dealers in druggist supplies) of New York City,
after leaving Yale. He was appointed an Assistant Pay-
master in the United States Navy on May 20th, 1898;
was promoted to the rank of Past Assistant Paymaster
on December 23d, 1900; and remained in the service until
November 8th, 1902. For two years of this time he was
in the Philippines. He was afterwards reengaged by the
Whitall Tatum people, in whose employ he continued
until his death, on October i6th, 1905, in Philadelphia. A
brief attack of Bright's disease was the cause of his
demise.
Stuart E. Pierson
Banker. Carrollton, Illinois.
Stuart Eldred Pierson was born Sept. 8th, 1872, at Carrollton,
111. He is the son of Robert Pierson and Julia C. Eldred, who
were married Jan. ist, 1867, at Carrollton, and had one other
child, a daughter.
Robert Pierson (b. Oct. 9th, 1844, at Carrollton; d. Nov.
9th, 1887, at Minneapolis, Minn.) was a banker, and the son
of David Pierson, also a banker, and Jane Norton, both of
Carrollton. The family came from York, England, in 1640,
and settled at Southampton, Long Island.
Julia C. (Eldred) Pierson (b. Oct. 6th, 1844, at Carrollton)
is the daughter of Elon Eldred, a farmer of Carrollton, and
Jane Stuart of West Winfield, N. Y. She is now (Oct., *05)
living at Jacksonville, 111.
Pierson entered with the Class and remained with us until the
end of Freshman year.
He was married June 8th, 1898, at Carrollton, 111., to Miss
Mary S. Thomas, daughter of the late William D. and Mary
R. Thomas of Carrollton, and has one child, a girl, Julia
Pierson (b. Feb. 226, 1902, at Carrollton).
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PiERSON left '96 to enter the Yale Law School, from
which he was graduated in 1895. He then returned to
Carrollton to accept his present position as Assistant
Cashier in the Greene County National Bank, "an insti-
tution belonging to the Pierson family and founded in
1855. . . .1 have dabbled in politics, being now
Republican Central Committeeman from this district;
am also member of our Board of Education and Director
in our Public Library Board."
This was his 1902 installment, which included the
statement that he was a Director in the Bank of Calhoun
County, Hardin, Illinois. His decennial letter says that
in addition to these positions he is Treasurer of the
Hine-Hodge Lumber Company, Hodge, Louisiana; the
Advance Flour Mill Company, Carrollton, Illinois; and
the North Louisiana and Gulf Railroad Company; and
that he is also Grand Warder, Grand Commandery,
Knights Templar of Illinois. "Spent all my time work-
ing like thunder. Never been away except to meetings
of corporations in which I am interested, except for ten
days spent at Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota, last August.
I am a fool for sticking so closely to work, and in one
year more I am going to reform and stop it."
Ashley Pond, Jr.
Ashley Pond, Jr., entered College with '95, joined our Class
at the beginning of Freshman year and was dropped directly
after Christmas. He afterwards entered '96 Shefif., and his
biography will be found in the '96 Sheff. publications.
F. C. Snunders
Assistant Cashier of the Cuba National Bank, Cuba, New York.
Frederic Charles Saunders was born May 8th, 1874, at Bel-
fast, N. Y. He is the son of Charles Wesley Saunders and
Eliza Armstrong, who were married Oct. 24th, 1870, at
' Angelica, N. Y., and had one other child, a daughter, who is
a graduate of Elmira College, Elmira, N. Y.
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Charles Wesley Saunders (b. June 29th, 1833, at Franklin-
ville, N. Y. ; d. Jan. 7th, 1891, at Belfast, N. Y.) was a physi-
cian and surgeon of Belfast. He was graduated at the Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons (formerly Bellevue College).
His parents were Harvey Saunders, a farmer of Franklin-
ville, and Sally Hanford of New Canaan, Conn. His brother,
Frank Saunders, was Lieutenant, 6th N. Y. Cavalry in the
Civil War, and was killed in the Shenandoah Valley Cam-
paign. The family came from England previous to 1800, and
settled at New Canaan, Conn.
Eliza (Armstrong) Saunders (b. Aug. 226, 1848, at Wayne,
Steuben Co., N. Y.) spent her early life at Oramel, N. Y.
She is the daughter of Francis Armstrong, a lumber manu-
facturer of Oramel, who came there from Scotland, and
Elizabeth Snodgrass of Mifflin, Pa. She is now (April, '06)
living at Belfast.
Saunders entered with the Class and remained with us until
after Christmas of Freshman year.
He was married at Clarkson, N. Y., Dec. 2d, 1903, to Miss
Frances M. Hixson, daughter of Frederick R. Hixson.
"After leaving old Yale," wrote Saunders at Sexennial,
"I engaged in mercantile pursuits until the winter of 1894-
95, which I spent in the Southern States and old Mexico.
Upon my return North the following spring I entered
the Cuba National Bank, Cuba, New York, where I have
since remained, with the exception of a trip to the West
in the summer of 1897. Am now Assistant Cashier of
Cuba National Bank. Sorry I cannot be with you this
year."
In addition to his assistant-cashiership he is now an
officer in several local industrial corporations. "Have
been very closely confined to the Bank," he writes, "al-
though I have been fortunate in getting a couple of trips
West during the last few years."
J. Arnold Scudder,
John Arnold Scudder entered with the Class, but left us in
December, 1893. He was subsequently enrolled for a time
with the Class of '97. See the '97 Records.
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Herman D. Sears
Lawyer. 49 Wall Street, New York City.
Residence, 168 West 73d Street.
Herman Dingwell Sears was born May 2d, 1873, at Ashfield,
Mass. He is a son of Edwin Sears and Laura Edson, who
were married Jan. ist, 1861, at Ashfield, and had altogether
nine children, seven boys and two girls, eight of whom lived
to maturity. Edward E. Sears, '89, is a brother. Rev. Oliver
Sears, Williams '49, is an uncle.
Edwin Sears (b. at Ashfield Mass., in 1832; d. at Northamp-
ton, Mass., May 29th, 1881) spent his life at Ashfield, engaged
in farming, excepting from 1854 to 1861 when he traveled
throughout the Southern States, representing a New York
drug house. His parents were Asarelah Sears, a farmer of
Ashfield, and Hannah Maynard of Conway, Mass. His
great-grandfather, Captain Richard Sears, served in the Con-
tinental Army throughout the Revolution. The family came
from England in 1637 and settled at Dennis, Cape Cod, Mass.
Laura (Edson) Sears (b. April 4th, 1837, at Ashfield,
Mass.) is the daughter of Howard Edson, a farmer of Ash-
field. She is now (Nov., '05) living at Northampton, Mass.
Sears prepared for College at Andover and entered with the
Class. He served as Captain of the Freshman Football
Team, on which he played Left End, and remained with us
until June, 1895.
He has not been married. (See Appendix.)
"On leaving Yale at Christmas of Junior year I taught
school in Daviess County, Kentucky, during the remain-
der of that year, and then engaged in business in Spring-
field, Massachusetts, from September, 1895, until De-
cember, 1896, and then en+'^red the Junior Class at Mid-
dlebury College, graduating therefrom in 1898. Since
which time I have been in a law office at 141 Broadway,
New York, and studying law."
This was in 1902. His decennial letter says: "I be-
gan practising law for myself in November, 1902, at my
present address, and have remained continuously in New
York since that time, excepting three trips to the middle
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West — in 1903, 1904, and 1905 — and frequent visits to
New England." He is Treasurer of 'The Lucky Leon-
ards, Limited," a mining company.
Robert N. Seney
Residence, Irvington, New York.
Robert Nicholson Seney was born Feb. 17th, 1873, at Mamaro-
neck, N. Y. He is the only child of Robert Seney and Emily
Kelley, who were married Oct. i8th, 1871, at New York City.
Robert Seney (b. July 21st, 1850, at Brooklyn, N. Y.) is a
New York stock broker, now residing at Irvington-on-Hud-
son, N. Y. His parents were George Ingraham Seney, a
graduate of New York and Wesleyan Universities, a New
York banker, and Phcebe Augusta Moser (sometimes spelled
Hosier), of Brooklyn, N. Y. George Ingraham Seney's
father, the Rev. Robert Seney, was a graduate of Columbia;
his grandfather, Joshua Seney, of Maryland, who married
Mary Nicholson, daughter of Samuel Nicholson, Commodore
in the American Navy, was a member of the First Continental
Congress. The ancestors of the family were English settlers
on the "Eastern Shore" of Maryland.
Emily (Kelley) Seney (b. Oct. 6th, 1849, at New York
City) is the daughter of James Edward Kelley, a banker of
Croton Falls, N. Y., and Roxanna Drew of New York.
Seney prepared for College at St. Paul's School and entered
with the Class. He left us at the end of Freshman year.
He has not been married. (See Appendix.)
Seney's home is in Irvington, and he is, or was, a stock-
broker. He used at one time to attend our Class affairs
with a certain deliberate assiduity which reminded one of
that passage in ''The Gondoliers," where the Duchess says
—"It was very difficult, my dear; but I said to myself,
'That man is a Duke and I will love him/ " This hot-
house devotion to '96 seems nowadays, however, to have
gone the way thereof, leaving poor Bob's history a blank.
The only other biographical scrap about him in the files
is that, in 1899, he was in the insurance business.
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Herbert L. Towle
Consulting Engineer (Gas Engine and Machine Design, etc.),
150 Nassau Street, New York City.
Residence, 2^2 Johnson Avenue, Richmond Hill, L. I., N. Y.
Herbert Ladd Towle was born Sept. i8th, 1874, at Northfield,
Minn. He is the son of James Augustus Towle, Harvard
'60, and Mary Elizabeth Ladd, who were married Nov. 30th,
1870, at Painesville, Ohio, and had one other child, a daughter.
James Augustus Towle (b. Oct. 5th, 1839, at Albany, N. Y.)
spent his youth in Newton Center, Mass. He was graduated
at the Andover Theological Seminary in 1869, spent seven
years in the ministry (three of them in Northfield, Minn,),
and then became Professor of Greek in Ripon College (Wis-
consin). Since 1887, when he left Ripon, he has taught in
various places (the last being as Professor of Greek and
Mathematics in Talladega College, Alabama), and has also
been connected with the American Standard Revision of the
Old Testament. He is now living at Richmond Hill, Long
Island, N, Y. His parents were John D. Towle of Newton
Center, a Boston architect, and Cordelia Shields of Brown-
ville, N. Y. The ancestry is traced to settlers in Hampton,
N. H., in 1658.
Mary Elizabeth (Ladd) Towle (b. Jan. 2d, 1844, at Hud-
son, Ohio) spent her early life at Painesville. She is the
daughter of Silas Trumbull Ladd, a merchant, and Elizabeth
Williams, both of Painesville.
Towle entered with the Class and remained with us until the end
of Sophomore year. He skipped Junior year and was grad-
uated with the Class of '95, with an oration stand. In Fresh-
man year he won a Second DeForest Mathematical Prize, and
in Sophomore year he divided the C. Wyllys Betts Prize in
English Composition with E. D. Collins.
He has not been married.
Towle is consulting engineer of "Motor Bureau" in Nas-
sau Street, New York City, and "ad" writer for the
Rushmore Dynamo Works of Plainfield, New Jersey,
Thos. F. Condon & Company of New York, &c. His
letter follows : —
"After graduation I spent about five years as machine
shop apprentice and draftsman with the following con-
cerns: Denison Electrical Engineering Company and
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Sargent & Company, New Haven; Baldwin Locomotive
Works, Philadelphia; and Philadelphia & Reading Rail-
way, Reading, Pennsylvania. Was Associate Editor of
The Horseless Age,' for a short time in 19CX), and for
most of the next five years was Technical Editor of The
Automobile.' Now in business for myself. Rode
(mostly by automobile) to the Pan-American Exposition
in 1901, and to the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904. Other
vacations have been mostly a fortnight each, sailing at
Woods Hole, Massachusetts, on Vineyard Sound."
Michael M. van Beuren
Head of the Stock Exchange firm of Van Beuren & Bucknam, 7 Wall Street,
New York City. Residence, Ardsley-on-Hudson, New York.
Michael Murray van Beuren was born March 31st, 1873, in
New York City. He is a son of Frederick Theodore van
Beuren and Elizabeth Potter, who were married Aug. 26th,
1869, at San Francisco, Cal., and had altogether five children,
two boys and three girls. Frederick Theodore van Beuren,
Jr., '98, is a brother.
Frederick Theodore van Beuren, the elder, was born April
I2th, 1849, at 21 West Fourteenth Street, New York City,
where he still resides. His parents were Michael M, van
Beuren and Mary Spingler van Erden, both of New York City.
The family came from Holland about 1698, and settled at
Kinderhook, N. Y.
Elizabeth (Potter) van Beuren was born May nth, 1850, at
Brooklyn, N. Y. Her early life was spent in New York City
and San Francisco. She is the daughter of Edward F. Potter
of London, England.
Van Beuren entered our Class in January of Freshman year, and
remained with us until the end of Junior year, when he with-
drew in order to be married. He received a First Colloquy at
the Junior Exhibition and was a rriember of the University
Club, Kappa Psi, and A. D. Phi.
He was married Sept. 25th, 1895, at Tarrytown, N. Y., to Miss
Mary L. Archbold, daughter of John D. Archbold of New York
City, and has one child, a son, Archbold van Beuren (b. Dec.
2ist, 1905, in New York City).
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Van Beuren "sailed for the other side early in October,
1895, and spent the winter traveling, principally in Al-
giers and Egypt. Returned to the States in June
(1896), and bought a house at 17 Park Avenue, New
York. Entered a stock-broker's office that winter but
resigned in the spring to go abroad. In 1901 became
identified with the General Manifold Company and be-
came Resident Manager for New York City. Sold the
house in Park Avenue before the 'land-slide' and bought
at Ardsley-on-Hudson."
This was his sexennial response. His decennial let-
ter runs as follows: —
"You are so gentle in your request for information
that I am tempted to romance and write you an account
of my life that would really be worth while. However,
I spare you that, and confine myself to facts. The
most important! The Boy was born in New York City
on December 21, 1905. His name is Archbold van
B., but he does n't know it as yet, even if he is the most
wonderful ever. As for myself, my occupation since the
last report was resigning from the General Manifold
Company and again taking up the quiet life of a country
gentleman surrounded by his dogs and horses, with an
occasional trip abroad to make him appreciate home.
And then responsibilities began to gather, and there had
to be a place for the Boy after graduating from Yale, so
I bought a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, et
voila tout! I hope soon to see us mentioned as the 'ris-
ing new firm' in the Saturday financial gossip."
Van Beuren's seat on the Exchange was purchased in
April, 1906, and on May i^t he formed the firm of Van
Beuren & Bucknam, consisting of himself as board mem-
ber, CliflFord Bucknam (formerly of Effingham Law-
rence & Company), and Mulford Martin, Special.
Among the events which immediately preceded this move
of Michael's was the attack made by Attorney General
Hadley of Missouri upon the Standard Oil Company.
We quote the following transcript from the proceedings
which took place that March : —
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"There is no master mind in the Standard Oil Company now,"
Mr. Archbold had testified; "it is made up of an aggregate of
individuals, each an expert in his own special department."
From his own evidence and that of others, it was made evi-
dent that Mr. Archbold is the supreme head in charge of the oil
business of the company, with H. M. Tilford in direct control of
the oil business in the Middle West. Mr. Archbold said he had
been connected with the Standard since 1875. He is a vice-pres-
ident of the company and is a stockholder in the Standard of
New Jersey and the Standard Oil Cojnpany of Indiana.
With the appearance of utmost candor, Mr. Archbold admitted
that the controlling interest in the Waters-Pierce Oil Company,
held in the name of his son-in-law, M. M. van Beuren, was
formerly held by the trustees of the old Standard Oil Trust
until it was forced to dissolve, and that it is now held for the
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, as was admitted on
Saturday by the Standard attorneys. Mr. van Beuren is a much
sought witness, who has successfully evaded subpoena servers.
"When did you last see Mr, van Beuren," asked Mr. Hadley.
"Last night," Mr. Archbold replied, with a smile. A moment
later Max Palmedo, a process server who has succeeded in bring-
ing Mr. Archbold and other Standard officials into court, slipped
from the room with determination and chagrin about equally
apparent on his face.
N. W. Wallis
Nathaniel Waldron Wallis entered with the Class and left us
in the second term of Sophomore year. He came back the
following year, entered '97 and was graduated with that Class.
See the '97 Records.
^Burton A. White
Died in New Haven, Conn., on May 6th, 1895.
Burton Arthur White was born Sept. 8th, 1872, at Sweden,
N. Y. He was a son of Alfred M. White and Sara M. Holmes,
who were married Dec. i6th, 1868, at Sweden, and had alto-
gether four children, three boys and one girl, three of whom
lived to maturity.
Alfred M. White (b. Nov. 13th, 1845, at Sweden, N. Y.) is a
business man and farmer of Brockport, N. Y., at which place
and at Jackson, Mich., he has spent most of his life. His
parents were Leveritt Spencer White, a farmer of Jackson,
Mich., and Anna Gillette of Rome, N. Y. The ancestors of the
family were English settlers at Salem, Mass.
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Sara M. (Holmes) White (b. Oct. ist, 1847, at Fletcher, Vt.)
is the daughter of Lucas Holmes, a farmer, and Jane M.
Wheeler, both of Sweden. Jane M. Wheeler was the cousin of
Vice-President William A. Wheeler.
White entered with the Class and remained with us until his
death in Junior year.
He was unmarried.
White's death, due to a sudden attack of typhoid fever,
took place on May 6th, 1895, in New Haven. At the class
meeting which was held for the purpose of drawing up
suitable resolutions, it was voted that each member of
the Class wear a badge of mourning for thirty days.
"Burton was always a good boy," wrote his father this
year, "even-tempered, tenacious of his purpose, and
friendly with all. He made a good impression upon
nearly every one he came in contact with and left a very
large circle of warm friends."
Frederick H. Wiley
Care of the Columbia Club, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Frederick Henry Wiley was born Aug. 27th, 1872, at Indian-
apolis, Ind.
Wiley prepared for College at Andover and entered with the
Class. He served as Captain of Co. E. in the '96 Battalion of
Phelps Brigade, and left us in June of Freshman year.
He was married Jan. 7th, 1903, at Metamora, Franklin County,
Ind., to Miss Edith Go'-don Lennard. No recent details are
on file.
Wiley sailed from Boston for Alexandria on January
17th, 1903, intending to take a four months' trip abroad.
Little did the Class Secretary think that this event was to
mark the finish (so far as Wiley is concerned) of their
formerly delightful correspondence. But so it was.
Since that day, out of all the fair stamped envelops that
have been sent him, not even a postal has been returned.
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In lieu of other matter his sexennial letter is here re-
printed :
''Leaving college at the end of the Freshman year, in
company with my mother I started on a two years' tour
of the world. Landing in Germany we spent some time
in Dresden and Munich, going from there to Egypt,
where we made the trip up the Nile. Reports of cholera
discouraged us from going to India, so we turned back
to Italy, spending a month in Rome and another in Flor-
ence, then taking steamer to Gibraltar and travelling
through Spain to Paris, London, and back to America.
In '96, I, in company with C. E. Coffin, Yale '99, and his
father, took a wheeling trip through England, seeing the
race at Henley and returning in the fall. I read law for
two years in a law office in this city, attending at the
same time the Law School (of the University of Indian-
apolis). On my graduation (in 1898) I practised in In-
dianapolis for two years till my mother became an in-
valid. We left San Francisco for Japan February ist,
1900, staying seven months in Japan during the Boxer
outbreak ; then to Shanghai and Hong Kong for a month,
with a short trip to the Philippines; then to Singapore,
Ceylon and Calcutta, crossing India to Bombay and to
Cairo, arriving February, 1901 and staying till March;
then to Rome until May, then Paris till July 17th, then
Ostend for two weeks and then London for one month,
leaving September 20th for America. Arriving home
my mother sickened and died, and I have not taken up
the practice of law as yet.''
Norman A. Williams
Sales Agent for the American Car & Foundry Company, 25 Broad Street,
New York City. Residence, 42 East 41st Street.
Norman Alton Williams was born Feb. 17th, 1873, at Utica,
N. Y. He is the only son of Norman Alton Williams, C.E.,
Van Rensselaer Polytechnic School '59, and Julia Elizabeth
Millard, who were married Oct. loth, 1866, at Clayville, N. Y.,
and had one other child, a daughter.
Norman Alton Williams, the elder (b. Aug. 21st, 1837, at
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Utica, N. Y. ; d. Get. 12th, 1879, at Pigeon Cove, Mass.), was a
civil engineer and manufacturer. He was one of the engineers
in charge of the construction of the High Bridge, N. Y.
Croton Aqueduct. Most of his life was spent at Utica and
New York City. His parents were Abijah J. Williams and
Mary Billington, the former a manufacturer of woolens and a
resident of Utica and of New York City. The family came
from England about 1645, and settled in Massachusetts, later
moving to Wethersfield, Conn.
Julia Elizabeth (Millard) Williams (b. Aug. 20th, 1842, at
Clayville, N. Y.) spent her early life at Clayville and Utica.
Her parents were Stirling A. Millard, a manufacturer of Clay-
ville, and Cornelia E. Mosher, of Whitesboro, Oneida Co.,
N. Y.
Williams prepared for College at Andover and entered with the
Class. He was elected a member of Eta Phi, received a
Second Dispute at the Junior Exhibition, and remained with
us until Junior year, which he had to spend abroad on ac-
count of illness. Upon his return to College he entered '97,
was elected to Psi U. and to Bones and was graduated with
that Class.
He has not been married.
After a year's travel in Europe and another year as act-
ing discount clerk and general bookkeeper in the First
National Bank of Utica, New York, Williams entered
the employ of the American Car & Foundry Company
at Berwick, Pennsylvania. In February, 1901, he en-
tered the New York office of this company. He is now
its sales agent. He is also a Director (and Secretary)
of the Standard Plunger Elevator Company.
"Corporation official:: are not supposed to have vaca-
tions," he writes, "but cne call of the wild is strong, and
each year I get a few days for salmon fishing. There is
nothing very exciting about this except to the fisherman."
T. J. Wood, Jr.
Permanent mail address, 121 N. Main Street, Dayton, Ohio.
Ranching. Lillian, Fremont Co., Idaho.
Thomas John Wood was born Jan. nth, 1875, at Dayton, Ohio.
He is a son of General Thomas John Wood, U. S. A., a
AFFILIATED MEMBERS 707
graduate of the famous Class of '45 at West Point, and Caro-
line Elizabeth Greer, who were married Nov. 28th, 1861, at
Dayton, and had two other children, both sons. Captain George
H. Wood, '87 S., and one who died before maturity.
Thomas John Wood the elder (b. at Munfordville, Ky., Sept.
25th, 1823; d. at Dayton, Ohio, Feb. 25th, 1906) was the son
of George Twyman Wood, a planter of Munfordville, and
Elizabeth Helm, of Elizabethtown, Ky. He was appointed to
West Point from the State in 1841, became a Second Lieuten-
ant in the Topographical Engineers in 1845, served on the staff
of Gen. Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War, and was brev-
etted First Lieutenant at the battle of Buena Vista. After the
War he served in Louisiana and Texas as aide-de-camp to
Gen. William S. Harney. In i860 he was given leave of ab-
sence and made an extensive tour throughout Europe, Wes-
tern Asia, and Northern Africa. In October, 1861, while serv-
ing as Colonel of the Second Cavalry in the regular army, he
was appointed Brigadier General of Volunteers. He was in
active service throughout the Civil War, chiefly as a division
and a corps commander in the Army of the Cumberland, and
was several times wounded in action. In September, 1866,
after serving as Commander of the Department of the Missis-
sippi, he was mustered out of the volunteers and sent back to
his regiment; and in June, 1868, he was retired, with the rank
of major-general, for disability from wounds received in bat-
tle; but his rank was changed by law in 1875 to that of a
brigadier general. His ancestors came from England in the
seventeenth century, and settled in Albermarle Co., Va.
Caroline Elizabeth (Greer) Wood (b. Nov. i6th, 1840, at
Dayton, Ohio) is the daughter of James Greer, a manufac-
turer, and Caroline Elizabeth King, both of Dayton, where she
now (Feb., '06) resides. Her ancestors settled at Ipswich,
Mass., about 1670.
Wood entered with the Class, became a member of Phi Gamma
Delta, and left us in the fall of Freshman year. He was
subsequently enrolled for a short time with the Class of '97.
He has not been married.
In response to a personal request Wood wrote as follows,
from his ranch in Fremont County, Idaho : "Your letter
arrived as I was about to start on a trip of a couple of
weeks, and on my return I had a job of harvesting, then
haying, and finally threshing, to look after. If you
know anything of such a life you know it means long
hours and plenty of them, so it left me little time for
correspondence. ... I don't doubt that my life
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since the short period at New Haven has been more varied
than the others, but I think you exaggerate its interest
to the Class.
''After leaving New Haven I loafed a couple of years.
Then bought an interest in an agricultural weekly, next
a daily, at Dayton. Then came the Klondike rush which
I took in. Back to the States in the fall of 1898 for
a while, then again to Alaska and the Yukon territory.
Did most everything at different times. Worked in and
had interests in mines, stores, road houses, express com-
panies, hotels, boats, Canadian customs — I let Queen Vic-
toria own that— and about everything else you could
think of. Presently the Nome excitement came along
and I had to go. Had flush days and bust days. Trad-
ing trips to Siberia— whalebone, ivory, and furs— and
into the Arctic. Storms, shipwreck, and plenty of excite-
ment on land and sea. Nearly cashed in my chips on
numerous occasions. Got frozen on several winter trips,
but got off lucky. Came out from Nome on a little 80-
ton wind-jammer in 81 days to Seattle. Helped take
fourteen men off bark 'Highland Light' just before she
went down in a storm in which seven vessels were lost.
Put in a few months in Dayton loafing, but the 'Call of
the Wild' could not be resisted, so here I am making a
fresh start in the 'Gem of the Mountains.' Had several
trips on which eating was dispensed with, — once for
three days, and I made sixty miles on foot before T
struck grub. It was not all thorns nor all roses, but I
would not have missed it by a great deal ; and as I had
my camera with me, anr nearly all pictures turned out
well, I have a cracker-jack collection of photos. I want
to start out again, but believe I am anchored here for
good; but after a fellow gets a live healthy germ of
Wanderlust in his system you never can tell."
When the Secretary expressed his thanks for this
friendly screed, Wood hastily replied that he did not
want it printed. He said that his stay in New Haven
had been short and that he was "adverse," etc., etc. He
asked the Secretary to substitute the following: —
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"After leaving New Haven, in business at Dayton.
Four years and a half in the Yukon Territory and
Alaska, and since 1902 ranching at Farnum, Idaho."
Chas. H. Woodruff, Jr.
Residence, 14 East 68th Street, New York City.
In the Sales Department of the Crocker Wheeler Company. Electrical
Manufacturers, of Ampere, New Jersey.
Charles Hornblower Woodruff, Jr., was born April 13th, 1872,
in New York City. He is a son of Charles Hornblower
Woodruff '58 and Kitty G. Sanford, who were married in New
Haven, June 30th, 1863, and had four other sons,— Lewis B.
'90, Frederick '92, Edward Seymour '99, and one that died in
infancy.
Charles Hornblower Woodruff the elder (b. Oct. ist, 1836, in
New York) was a New York lawyer and an elder in the
Collegiate Reformed Church. His parents were the Hon.
Lewis Bartholomew Woodruff '30 and Harriette Burnett
Hornblower.
Kitty G. (Sanford) Woodruff is the daughter of William E.
Sanford and Margaret L. Craney.
Woodruff prepared for College at Andover and entered with the
Class. He left us at Christmas of Freshman year.
He has not been married.
Woodruff writes that he is in the Sales Department of
the Crocker Wheeler Company, Electrical Manufactur-
ers, of Ampere, New Jersey, but he seems disinclined to
let the glare of day further illuminate his recent acts.
His sexennial letter is here reprinted : —
"Shortly after leaving college I went into business in
Bridgeport, Connecticut, forming a company for the
manufacturing of Wooden Athletic Goods, Yacht Spars,
and Fittings. The company was dissolved January,
1897. In February, 1897, I engaged in lumber business.
New York City, in which I continued until the spring of
1899. In May, 1899, I entered the employ of the brok-
erage firm of Adams, McNeill & Brigham, remaining
with them until the dissolution of the firm in May, 1901.
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June, 1901, I sailed for Cherbourg, visiting Paris and the
British Isles. Returned in August, 1901, and entered
the employ of EUingwood & Cunningham, brokers, 41
Wall Street."
D. W. Wynkoop, M.D.
Farming. Montague, Essex Co., Virginia.
Daniel Woodbury Wynkoop was born July 11, 1872, at Louis-
ville, Ky. He is a son of Gerardus Hilles Wynkoop, ex '64, and
Ann Eliza Woodburj^ who were married May 30th, 1866, at
Huntington, N. Y., and had altogether four children, two boys
and two girls,
Gerardus Hilles Wynkoop (b. June 4th, 1843, at Wilmington,
Del.) is a physician of New York City, where he has spent the
greater part of his life. His parents were Stephen Rose Wyn-
koop, a clergyman of Wilmington, and Aurelia Mills of New
Haven, Conn. The family came from Holland in 1639, and
settled at Albany, N. Y.
Ann Eliza (Woodbury) Wynkoop (b. Nov. 22d, 1847, at
Wilmington, N. C. ; d. June 17th, 1896, at New York City) was
the daughter of Daniel Phineas Woodbury, Bvt. Major General,
Col. of Engineers, U. S. A., and Catherine Rachel Childs of
Pittsfield, Mass.
Wynkoop prepared for College at St. Paul's School and entered
with the Class. He was a member of the Yale University
Orchestral Club, until he left us in December, 1892.
He was married Nov. 14th, 1903, at Grace Church, New York
City, to Miss Carlie Marie Schenck, daughter of the late Allen
Schenck and Mrs. F. (Page) Schenck. Mrs. Wynkoop died
Feb. 22d, 1904, at San Francisco.
Wynkoop took the fpur years' course at the College of
Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, after
leaving '96, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine in
1897. He served in the New York City Hospital and in
the New York Maternity Hospital, and thereafter, and
until this year, practised with his father at 128 Madison
Avenue. He has written on professional subjects but
considers the details not worth mentioning.
For Decennial he sent word that his address was now
Montague, Essex County, Virginia, and that his occupa-
tion was farming.
I
Biography of
. * Major, the Class Mascot
Died at Orient, Long Island, N. Y., July 15th, 1903.
Major was born in the quiet village of Orient, Long Island, in
1889, where his friends, the Youngs, have lived for many years.
His lineage has not been extensively traced, but E. H. Young
writes that the father was from the hardy Newfoundland race,
and that the mother was descended from the noble St. Bernards.
Major entered Yale in the fall of 1892 and here his
fondness for languages was shown by his regular at-
tendance at the French recitations in Lyceum between the
hours of 5 and 6 p.m. during the fall term. At the
close of his first recitation Mr. Price remarked that he
knew it was against the rules of the Faculty to allow a
dog in class, but all that he would say in regard to this
dog was that he would have no cause of complaint re-
garding the conduct of the Class if all the members be-
haved as well as the dog.
In the fall of Sophomore year Major had a voice in
breaking up a Freshman Debating Society. A mock
trial was being held on the second floor of Old Chapel
and Major broke in with the Class of '96 through a rear
door. Major had brought his favorite rock with him,
fearing trouble, and when this was taken from his mouth
and rolled under the bench of the learned judge, he
pounced upon it and barked so furiously that the court
was thrown into an uproar, and the Clerk beat his gavel
in vain.
Later in Sophomore year our French Instructor, Mr.
Von Eltz, had an Irish setter that he used to take to reci-
tation and keep concealed underneath the desk. He was
discovered there one day and consequently the next day
Major was brought in, and he started right for the desk
keen on the scent. The setter jumped out amid a great
snarling and barking and Mr. Von Eltz pulled and kicked
him back under the desk, while at the same time three or
712 BIOGRAPHIES
four men in the front row jumped up avowedly with the
intention of pulling Major back, but to an unprejudiced
observer in the back row it looked very much as though
Major was being pushed forward, while subdued mur-
murs of "Sick 'em, sick 'em" could be heard around the
room. A truce was declared between Major and the set-
ter and for the remainder of the year Major had free ac-
cess to the French recitation and was to be seen stretched
out in the rear of the room almost any day.
There was one building that Major would not enter
and that was the chapel. He seemed to have a strong
prejudice against compulsory chapel and many are the
times that I have seen him near the entrance being
coaxed by classmates to enter, but resisting all entreaties.
As an upper class man he was to be seen at all Univer-
sity and Class affairs. He was thoroughly imbued with
the '96 spirit and always had his wag for every one in
the Class. He was in the thick of our Sophomore snow-
ball fight of February 22d, and later in the day had his
picture taken with the Class at the fence. A real '96
heeler, always looking for something to turn up— usually
the stones of the walk near the fence, much to the dis-
comfiture of Mr. Hotchkiss.
He was prominent at the graduation exercises of his
Class, and when his name was mentioned by the histo-
rian, the cry was, "put him up."
His last appearance with the Class was at Triennial,
and he attended the procession to the Field dressed in
coat, trousers, and '96 hat. Sad to relate, not liking the
way the ball game was going, he started back for the
campus alone, and on the way was robbed of all his fine
raiment by the New Haven small boy. After Triennial
he returned to his quiet life at Orient, where he was
loved and respected to the day of his death, July 15th,
1903.
His grave is on a quiet hill overlooking Long Island
Sound. He was a true old friend and has gone where
the good dogs go.
E. H. Young.
Bibliographical Notes
Editor's Note: — It is to be regretted that the information under
this heading is given so imperfectly as to deserve no other title
than that of Bibliographical Notes, for these data are, or may
be, of importance as time goes on. In future Records of our
Class it will be possible, it is hoped, to print a better list of the
writings of our individual members.
B. ADAMS
A Bibliography of Books, Pamphlets and other Printed Matter,
relating to Wethersfield (and its Parishes) ; or written and
published by, or in connection with, any of its sons or residents.
Included in Adams-Stiles's History of Ancient Wethersfield.
N. Y. 1904.
Genealogy of the descendants of Benjamin Adams. History
of Ancient Wethersfield, vol. II., pp. 11-27.
A Colonial Shoemaker. Hartford Times, Sept. 21, 1905.
Old Wethersfield's Village Library. Hartford Courant, Sept.
27, 1905.
Old-Time Salmon Fishing in the Connecticut River. Spring-
field Republican, April 4, 1897, &c., &c.
J. C. ADAMS
An edition of Heroes and Hero-Worship for Houghton Mif-
flin & Co. (In preparation)
The Masque (of the XVIII Century) in the new Belles-
Lettres Series of D. C. Heath & Co. (In preparation)
HENRY D. BAKER
Has contributed articles, chiefly on financial topics, to the
Chicago Tribune, first as reporter and afterwards as Financial
Editor, and various Chicago newspapers; to the New York
Evening Post, while a member of its financial department ; and to
the Financial Times of London (Eng.) ; and editorials to the
Commercial West of Minneapolis, as its Editor.
He for some time conducted a colurnn in the Commercial
West entitled The Bull's Eye, which he signed Sharpshooter.
Among other noms de plume he has used the name Jackson.
714 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
J. A. BALLENTINE
Prepared most of the material for Heyburn's Idaho Laws &
Decisions, 1899, Callaghan & Co., Chicago.
Annotated the Civil Code of Idaho, 1900, State of Idaho.
Digested 40 volumes of Texas Reports for Bancroft-Whitney's
Digest, 1901-02, San Francisco.
Article on Burglary for L. D. Powell Co.'s Encyclopedia of
Evidence, 1904, L. D. Powell & Co., Los Angeles.
Article on Cancellation of Instruments, Ibid.
Assisted in revision of Pomeroy's Equity Jurisprudence, 1906,
Bancroft, Whitney Co., San Francisco.
Assisted in preparation of Treadwell's Annotated Codes of
California (in preparation), Bancroft- Whitney Co., San Fran-
cisco.
JOHN M. BERDAN
Edited — Poems of John Cleveland, i2mo, pp. 270; New York,
The Grafton Press, 1903.
Miscellaneous magazine articles. No details preserved.
CHAS. H. BOYER
The Denominational School — a paper read by him Dec. 26th,
1905, in Washington, D. C, before the American Negro Academy
—printed under the auspices of the Academy in pamphlet form.
(This paper was one of a series on Education)
LEWIS L. BRASTOW
Historical Towns in the Symposium (George W. Cable's maga-
zine) and other articles.
D. B. BRINSMADE
Is Associate Editor of the Medical Review of Reviews— Editor,
Dr. Daniel Lewis, 6x6 Madison Ave., New York City.
H. S. BROWN
Was editor of the Charities Review (now Charities) 1898-1901,
and is now editor of the historical monographs in American
Philanthropy of the 19th Century, published by the Macmillan
Company, three volumes to date.
G. L. BUIST, Jr.
Assisted in the preparation of the section on Surgical Anaes-
thesia, in A Treatise on Surgery, by (George Ryerson Fowler,
NOTES 715
M.D., published bj' the W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia,
1906, vol. I.
R. H. BURTON-SMITH
Two articles published in Trust Companies (New York City).
A Trust Company Statute for Iowa, published in November,
1905. A Brief on Iowa Trust Companies, published in Febru-
ary, 1906.
THEODORE CARLETON
Was a regular contributor of dramatic criticisms to the Boston
Transcript during part of the season of 1896-7.
He prepared and read (Feb. 27th, 1897) before the Monday-
Evening Club of the City (Haverhill, Mass.) an essay. Con-
temporary Fiction in the Class-room — An Experiment, being a
critical review of Prof. Phelps' course in Modern Novels.
W. H. CLARK
The chapter on Debating in Lewis Welch's book on Yale, —
Yale, Her Campus, Class-Rooms, and Athletics.
C. B. COLEMAN
Has contributed from time to time to the Christian Evangelist
of St. Louis and the Christian Century of Chicago.
A book. Studies in Indiana History. (In preparation)
CHARLES COLLENS
Architecture, published by Forbes & Co., New York: Aug.,
1904, Engineering Building. Aug., 1905, Vassar Library. Sept,
1905, Williams College Chapel; Williams College Dormitories.
May, 1906, St. Thomas Church Competition, N. Y.
Architectural Review, Bates & Guild Co., Boston: Mar., 1905, —
Mar., 1906, State Street Trust Co. Bldg. Oct., 1905, Several
Churches. July, 1905, Hartford Travellers Ins. Co. Competition.
American Architect, Times Bldg., New York: Feb. 20, 1904,
Woman's Hospital, N. Y. City. Jan. 2, 1904, Islesboro Cliapel.
Feb. 13, 1904, Church of Christ Scientist, Concord, N. H. ;
Loomis House, Bedford, Mass. Various Newspaper Articles,
Exhibition Catalogues and College Publications, etc., etc.
EDWARD D. COLLINS
History of Vermont, Ginn & Co., Boston, 1903.
Studies in the Colonial Policy of England, 1672-1680: The
Plantations, The Royal African Company, and The Slave Trade.
Annual Report of the American Historical Association for 1900,
716 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
vol. L, pp. 139-192. Reprinted in pamphlet form at the Govern-
ment Printing Office at Washington in 1901.
Committees of Correspondence of the American Revolution.
Annual Report of the American Historical Association for 1901,
vol. I., pp. 243-271. Reprinted in pamphlet form at the Govern-
ment Printing Office at Washington in 1902.
Discussion on the Study of English Literature. The School
Review, March, 1906, University of Chicago Press, pp. 188-190.
WENDELL P. COLTON
Numerous articles for New York Tribune, and other news-
papers and periodicals prior to 1904. No details preserved.
FREDERICK COONLEY
He has done no writing since his six years of newspaper and
magazine work in college, of which no details have been pre-
served.
C. S. DAY, Jr.
Sexennial Record of the Class of '96, Yale College. Printed
privately. New York, 1902, 451 pp. (With the assistance of
Henry S. Johnston and other classmates.)
A few book reviews and other unsigned articles in periodicals.
SHERWOOD O. DICKERMAN
Has contributed an article to the American Journal of Archae-
ology (vol. VII., 1903), (the Norwood Press, Norwood, Mass.,
fub.), entitled Archaic Inscriptions from Cleonae and Corinth,
le adds: "The Corinthian inscription was turned up in the ex-
cavation of the American School at Athens in 1898. The in-
scription from Cleonae I bought from a peasant. Both are now
in the Athens Museum."
J. H. DOUGLASS
Syllabus of Medical Jurisprudence for use of class in Medical
School, to which he lectured for three terms.
J. G. ELDRIDGE
Edited (nominally with Prof. Palmer) Schiller : Die Braut von
Messina (first English edition), 1901, Henry Holt & Co., N. Y.
NOTES 717
CHAS. LOUIS FINCKE
A TEXT book on the Principles of Medicine, August, 1905, The
Brooklyn Eagle Press, Brooklyn, N. Y.
The Present Status of the Pathology and Etiology of Eclamp-
sia—Brooklyn Medical Journal.
The Sphygmomanometer; its Clinical uses in determining
Blood Pressure— Brooklyn Medical Journal.
And various other magazine articles.
RICHARD J. GOODMAN
An article entitled A National Guardsman's View of Manassas,
in The Journal of the United States Infantry Association of
Washington, D. C, in the July number, 1905.
HARRIS R. GREENE
Has collaborated on engineering catalogues, technical and de-
scriptive.
H. E. GREGORY
Andesites of Aroostook Volcanic Area Maine, American Journal
of Science, vol. VIII, pp. 359-369, 1899.
Volcanic Rocks from Temiscouata Lake, Quebec, American
Journal of Science, vol. X, pp. 14-18 (with map), 1900.
Geology of the Aroostook Volcanic Area, Maine, U. S. Geo-
logical Survey Bulletin, 165, pp. 93-188 (10 pis., 11 figs.).
Well and Spring Records of Connecticut, U. S. Geological Sur-
vey. Water Supply Paper, No. 102, pp. 127-159, 1904.
Underground Waters of Connecticut, U. S. Geological Survey,
Water Supply Paper, No. 114, pp. 66-82 (with map), 1905.
Geology of the Farmington Quadrangle, Connecticut (maps
and text), U. S. Geological Survey. Folio. (Manuscript in
possession of U. S. Geological Survey.)
Manual of Connecticut Geology (in collaboration with W. N.
Rice), Connecticut Geological Survey Bulletin VI.
Geology of Connecticut in relation to Water Supply, Connecti-
cut State Board of Agriculture.
Geological Map of Connecticut (with H. H. Robinson), Con-
necticut Geological Survey Bulletin VII.
Water Resources of Connecticut, U. S. Geological Survey,
Water Supply Paper. (Manuscript completed.)
E. B. HAMLIN
Has written an opinion (published in the New York Law Journal
in October, 1904) on the conflicting laws of New York on the
subject of the distribution of surplus moneys resulting from
mortgage foreclosures on real estate.
718 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
H. E. HAWKES
Limitations of Greek Arithmetic (Bulletin of the American
Mathematical Society, vol. IV).
Estimate of Peirce's Linear Associative Algebra (American
Journal of Mathematics, vol. 24).
On Hypercomplex Number Systems (Transactions of the
American Mathematical Society, vol. 3).
On Non-quaternion Number Systems (Mathematische Annalen,
Bd. 58).
On Quaternion Number Systems (Mathematische Annalen,
Bd. 60).
On Hypercomplex Number Systems in Seven Units (American
Journal of Mathematics, vol. 26).
On Hamilton's Determination of Irrational Numbers (Bulletin
of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 7).
Advanced Algebra (Ginn & Co., 1905).
Reports, Book Reviews, etc., in various periodicals.
J. C. HOLLISTER
Has written in collaboration with Dr. L. L. McArthur of
Chicago. No details given.
F. B. JOHNSON.
Correspondence Files, The Commercialist, July, 1902.
Ledgers. Some Comparisons, Ibid. March, 1903.
The Stores Ledger — Why Worth Maintaining, American Ma-
chinist (date not recorded).
A System for Taking an Inventory, American Machinist, Jan.
4, 1906.
Plant and Tool Inventory, American Machinist, June 8, 1906.
A System for a Purchasing Agent,— to be published in System,
a Chicago magazine.
LOUIS CLEVELAND JONES
On the Estimatior of Cadmium as the Oxide (in collaboration
with Philip E. Drowning) — The American Journal of Science,
vol. IL, Oct., 1896, pp. 269-270; reprinted in pamphlet form.
The Action of Carbon Dioxide on Soluble Borates— The
American Journal of Science, vol. V., June, 1898, pp. 442-446;
reprinted in pamphlet form.— Translated into German by J. Kop-
pel, published in the Zeitschrift fiir Anorganische Chemie, Ham-
burg and Leipzic, in 1898, and reprinted in pamphlet form.
A Volumetric Method for the Estimation of Boric Acid — The
American Journal of Science, vol. VII., Feb., 1899, pp. I47-I53 ;
reprinted in pamphlet form. — Translated into German by J. Kop-
NOTES 719
pel, published in the Zeitschrift fiir Anorganische Chemie, Ham-
burg and Leipzic, in 1899, and reprinted in pamphlet form.
The Estimation of Boric Acid (in collaboration with F. A.
Gooch) — The American Journal of Science, vol. VII., 1899, pp.
34-40; reprinted in pamphlet form.— Translated into German by
J. Koppel, published in the Zeitschrift fiir Anorganische Chemie,
Hamburg and Leipzic, in 1899, and reprinted in pamphlet form.
An lodometric Method for the Estimation of Boric Acid—
The American Journal of Science, vol. VIII., Aug., 1899, pp. 127-
132; reprinted in pamphlet form. — Translated into German by J.
Koppel, published in the Zeitschrift fiir Anorganische Chemie,
Hamburg and Leipzic, in 1899, and reprinted in pamphlet form.
The Action of Carbon Dioxide on the Borates of Barium —
The American Journal of Science, vol. XIV., July, 1902, pp. 49-
56 ; reprinted in pamphlet form. — Translated into German by. J.
Koppel, published in the Zeitschrift fiir Anorganische Chemie,
Hamburg and Leipzic, in 1902, and reprinted in pamphlet form.
The Prevention of Infusible Scums in Glass Furnaces — Report
of the Fifth International Congress of Applied Chemistry, Berlin,
1903, Sec. II., vol. I., p. y'jz \ reprinted in pamphlet form at Berlin
in 1904.
A. G. KELLER
Homeric Society, Longmans, Green & Co., N. Y., London, Bom-
bay, 1902 (Sociological).
Queries in Ethnography, Longmans, Green & Co., 1903.
Edited J. Scott Keltie's Partition of Africa, soon to^ be pub-
lished by J. D. Morris & Co., Philadelphia, called History of
Africa.
Essays in Colonization, collection from Yale Review, Tuttle,
Morehouse & Taylor, New Haven, 1902.
Articles
In Yale Review (of which he is co-editor). The above essays
(four in number) and : A Sociological View of the Native Ques-
tion, Nov., 1903. The Portuguese in Brazil, Feb., 1905. Numerous
Notes, Book Reviews, etc.^
In Annals of the American Academy of Political and Socio-
logical Science, Philadelphia: Notes on the Danish West Indies,
July, 1903.
In American Journal of Sociology, Chicago: Sociology and
Homer, July, 1903.
In the Nation, N. Y. : A number of Notes, etc.
In Essays in Colonial Finance, published by the American
Economic Association, Aug., 1900, New York, Macmillan. Italy's
Experience with Colonies.
To appear in Harper's Monthly (in collaboration with H. E.
Gregory) : Controlling Conditions of Commerce.
720 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
TROY KINNEY
Has done some reportorial work for Baltimore and Chicago
papers, both writing and drawing.
Since going into illustration his principal work has appeared
in the following books and magazines, all of it in collaboration
with Margaret West Kinney, viz., illustrations for: The Thrall
of Leif the Lucky, Ottilie Liljencrantz, A. C. McClurg & Co.,
Chicago, 1902. The Ward of King Canute, Ottilie Liljencrantz,
A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, 1903. When Wilderness was
King, Randall Parrish, A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, 1904. For
the White Christ, Robert Ames Bennett, A. C. McClurg & Co.,
Chicago, 1905. Nicanor, Teller of Tales, C. Bryson Taylor,
A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, 1906. Barlasch of the Guard,
Henry Seton Merriman, McClure, Phillips & Co., New York,
1903. The Fortunes of the Landrays, Vaughn Kester, McClure,
Phillips & Co., New York, 1905. Sir Nigel, A. Conan Doyle,
McClure, Phillips & Co., New York, 1906. A Ladder of Swords,
Sir Gilbert Parker, Harper's, New York, 1904. The Long
Straight Road, George Horton, Bowen-Merrill Co. (now The
Bobbs-Merrill Co.), Indianapolis, 1902. The Lodestar, Sidney
R. Kennedy, '98, Macmillan, New York, 1905. The Mystery of
June 13th, Melvin L. Severy, Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, 1905.
For Century Magazine, Series of four pictures, Incidents of
the Stage, Sept., 1906. For Harper's Magazine, Short stories.
For Saturday Evening Post, Short stories. For Saturday Even-
ing Post, Serial, 1906, Sampson Rock of Wall St., by Edwin
Lefevre.
R. W. LOBENSTINE
(i) The Clinical Manifestation of Hemorrhages in Eclampsia,
American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Feb., 1905. (2) The
Leucocytosis in Pregnancy, in the Puerperium and in Eclampsia,.
Ibid, Aug., 1904. (3) The Molecular Concentration of the Blood
and of the Urine, in Pregnancy, in the Puerperium and in Eclamp-
sia, American Medicine, Oct., 1904. (4) Congenital Tubercu-
losis, Bulletin of the Lying-in Hospital of New York, May, 1905.
(S) The Use of Thyroid Extract in Eclampsia and Threatened
Eclampsia, Ibid, Jan., 1906. Et caeteri.
ROBERT LUSK
As Secretary of the Bar Association of Tennessee he has annually
(for the past four years) edited and published the Association
Reports, each report containing from 200 to 300 pages.
H. W. MATHEWS
He has written occasional book-reviews, and a few short stories,
and has done a good deal of dramatic work for one of the week-
NOTES 721
lies; but most of his work has not appeared over his own signa-
ture, and nearly all of it dates back six or seven years. He finds
it impossible to furnish details.
W. C. MORGAN
Estimation of Tellurium by Precipitation as lodid, American
Journal of Science, 152-271. Ueber die Beistimmung des Tellurs
durch Fallung als lodid, Zeitschrift fiir Anorganische Chemie,
13-169. Ethers of Toluquinoneoxime and their Bearing on the
Space Isomerism of Nitrogen, American Chemical Journal, 20-
761. Notes on the Space Isomerism of the Toluquinoneoxime
Ethers, American Chemical Journal, 22-402. Ethers of Isoni-
trosoguiacol and their Relation to the Space Isomerism of Nitro-
gen, American Chemical Journal, 22-484. Papers since 1902 : A
Fossil Egg from Arizona, Bulletin of the Geological Department
of the University of California, No. 19, vol. 3, p. 403. A Peculiar
Occurrence of Bitumen and Evidence as to its Origin, American
Journal of Science, vol. 168, p. 363. The Origin of Bitumen,
American Geologist, vol. 35, p. 46. The Latter Day of Alchemy,
Harper's Magazine, 110-620.
Qualitative Analysis as a Laboratory Method for the Study of
General Inorganic Chemistry, published by Macmillan Co.
G. H. NETTLETON
Triennial Record of Yale, '96 ( Dorman), 1899- Specimens of
the Short Story (Holt & Co.), 1901. Sheridan's Major Dramas
(Ginn & Co.), 1906 (In press). Article on The Books of Lydia
Languish's Circulating Library in The Journal of English and
Germanic Philology, Oct., 1905, and various minor items (in-
cluding an article on Yale University in Frank Leslie's Monthly,
Nov., 1896).
T. W. NOON
Has written a number of reviews for the American Journal of
Theology, a thesis. Origin and Significance of the Lord's Supper
(accepted as a sufficient exercise for the degree of B.D., IJni-
versity of Chicago), and some reviews in Bibliotheca Sacra.
(All the above written as Fellow of the University of Chicago,
1902-3.)
L. C. OAKLEY
*T WAS the scissors editor under Prof. George E. Beers (Yale
Law School, '89) of an edition of Baldwin's Digest of Connecti-
cut Cases during the winter of 1899-1900. Guess it is n't worth
mentioning. I was on salary and so (as I recall it) got no
credit in preface, properly enough."
722 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
EDWIN OVIATT
Miscellaneous Newspaper work (of nature, general, state, polit-
ical, athletic, college, and city). New York Tribune, July, 1899
to date; Boston Evening Transcript, March, 1899 to date; New
York Times, 1898 to date; old New York Commercial Advertiser,
January, 1899 to 1902; New York Globe, 1902 to date; old New
York Recorder (illustrated pen and ink drawings) ; New York
Sunday Press, two or three comics republished; Springfield Re-
publican, 1899 to 1901; Springfield Union, 1900; New York Sun,
(special articles humorous and literary); Boston News Bureau;
Boston Journal; Hartford Courant; Newark Evening News;
New York Morning Telegraph ; New York News ; New York
Evening Sun; reporting on New Haven Register (also occa-
sional editorial writing) ; early reporting New Haven Palladium ;
early reporting New Haven Leader; editorial management old
New Haven Morning News ; Boston Herald ; legislation reporting
Associated Press; assistant managing Publishers Press (substi-
tute) ; some news work New York Post. Regular work — Daily
column of comment semi-editorial matter on Connecticut topics,
political and general, in New York Tribune, beginning June 19,
1905. Literary Articles — in the New York Criterion, June, 1899;
New York Times Literary Supplement, 1899-1901 ; articles on
Geo. W. Cable (republished in American Authors at Home,
Holt) ; various authors ; several book notices and reviews in
New York Times; book reviews in Boston Transcript and New
Haven Register; articles in New York Evening Post on Edward
Rowland Sill, March, 1901 ; in New York Sun on James Gates
Percival; in New York Tribune (Sunday) on literary and his-
torical landmarks of Connecticut, on Ik Marvel, etc., etc. Vari-
ous special articles of all kinds in Harper's Weekly, Nov. 1901,
New England Magazine, New York Times, Tribune, Post, Sun,
Boston Transcript, Philadelphia Times-Ledger. Country Life, in
Boston Transcript, January, 1902; New England Country Soci-
ology, Tribune, Transcript; a series of articles (illustrated) on
Italy in New York Tribune; New York Sunday Herald. Maga-
zine work— Stories: Introducing Thacher, McClure's Magazine,
April, 1902; Atkinson, No. 7, Leslie's Monthly (now American
Illustrated Monthly), June, 1903; 89-2-5, Leslie's Monthly, De-
cember, 1902; Benson, '81, Leslie's Monthly, May, 1903; House
Bill, No. 29, Leslie's Monthly, November, 1903; a football story,
Leslie's Monthly, November, 1904. Book work — Guide to New
Haven and Vile University, Price Lee & Co., New Haven, 1901.
F. M. PATTERSON
Has written various articles for the Albany Law J9urnal, includ-
ing a critical review of the trial of Roland B. Molineux.
HENRY A. PERKINS
Two articles in American Journal of Science during the summer
of 1904 on electrical subjects. One article in Electrical World,
NOTES 723
March 24th, 1906, on Heat Developed by Electrical Spark. A
letter to the Scientific American on Teaching Science in Schools,
autumn of 1905. An address on same subject before Eastern
Association of Physics Teachers printed in the Proceedings of
the Association.
WALTER F. PRINCE
Evening Boat Song, Poem, in Gems of Poetry, N. Y., March,
1884. Phantom Knight, A New-Old English Ballad (gained
prize), Ibid. Polly Pray, A Legend of the Sebasticook, Poem,
Ibid. A series of about twenty Literati Essays, in Pittsfield
(Me.) Advertiser, 1884-5. David and Goliath, Poem, Forest City
(Me.) Advance, 1885. A number of poems published in Zion's
Herald, Boston, 1884-6. Rhymes (humorous, etc.) published
1884-1890 in various Maine papers, Lewiston Journal, Dexter
Gazette, etc. The Abolitionists, published in the organ of Drew
Theological Seminary, 1892. Examination of Peters's Blue Laws,
PP- 95-138 of Annual Report of American Historical Association
for 1898, Washington, D. C. (Also in pamphlet form.) The
First Criminal Code of Virginia, pp. 311-363 of Annual Report
of American Historical Association for 1899. Vol. I. (Also in
pamphlet form.) The Law and Order League of Connecticut
(pamphlet), New Haven, Ct., 1896. In 1896-8 wrote many
articles for Connecticut Citizen, organ of Connecticut Union.
Some of these reprinted in other temperance papers, National
Temperance Almanac, etc., and a number of them, with dia-
grams and illustrations of his own, issued as leaflets by the
C. T. U., and distributed widely for campaign purposes. In 1899
was co-editor of the Citizen and wrote much of its contents.
A Trip up Mount Katahdin, Lewiston Journal, 1900. Wrote
Annual Report of Law and Order League of Connecticut for years
1900-1903, inclusive. Economic Value of the Law and Order
League, in Church Review, Hartford, June, 1902. Law and Order
League of Connecticut, in Christian Advocate, N. Y., June 27,
1 901. Twentieth Century Time System, leading article in Amer-
ican Inventor, Washington, D. C, March i, 1901. (Reprinted in
American Horologist, May 29, 1901.) The Citizen and the
Caucus, published under another name in New Haven Leader
about 1902 and afterwards in pamphlet form. Laws of Connecti-
cut respecting Sale of Intoxicating Liquor, Gambling, etc., etc.
(thin book), published under 'another name, Hartford, 1902.
Reasons for Adoption of State Police Bill, in many of the papers
of Connecticut, and also a pamphlet, about March, 1903. (Many
scores of articles, editorials, and items about his work as As-
sistant Secretary of the Law and Order in various journals of
Connecticut, 1900-1903.) Many letters to the Press of Con-
necticut on civic topics, also sermons and addresses on Good
Citizenship and kindred topics, and arguments delivered in op-
position to the Poolselling Bill, in defense of his Prize-fighting
Bill, etc., before the Legislature, 1899-1903, Ibid. (Brief bio-
graphical sketches in Connecticut Citizen, 1899, New Haven Chron-
icle, 1902, Lewiston Journal, 1900, and one or two Brooklyn
papers, 1903, with portrait. Portrait also in New York Herald,
1903 and 1904, and elsewhere.) Slave Conspiracy Delusion of
724 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
New York City ran in six numbers of New Haven Chronicle,
beginning June 28, 1902. Edited a page of standard, selected, and
original humor, entitled Quaint Quirks and Quillets in New
Haven Chronicle in fall and winter of 1902-3. Wrote much of
the original portion. Testimony of Walter F. Prince before
Special Commission on New Haven Police Department; (see
Majority Report, Prof. Henry Wade Rogers and George E.
Martin, pp. 46-48, 53-54), New Haven, 1904 (pamphlet). Re-
port of Brooklyn Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chil-
dren for 1904. Sermon on The Resurrection, in Brooklyn Eagle,
1904. Sermon (in part) on Church and Tainted Money, in
Brooklyn Eagle, May 21, 1906. Sermon by Rev. R. F. Alsop,
D.D., Rector of St. Ann's Church [to Mcllvaine Club, which
was founded by Prince], in Brooklyn Eagle, May 7, 1905, has
matter about him. [Reprinted as Mcllvaine Document No. i
by Mcllvaine Club, 1905]). (Sermon by Dr. Alsop to Mcllvaine
Club, has matter iabout him. [Published as Mcllvaine Docu-
ment No. 2 by Mcllvaine Club, 1905].) Text of Cantata, The
Trifold Advent, printed and produced in Brooklyn, 1905, about
to be formally published. Compiled Decennial of Rectorship of
the Rev. Reese F. Alsop, D.D., in St. Ann's Church (pamphlet),
Brooklyn, July, 1906. Many articles in St. Ann's monthly paper,
St. Ann's Record, of which he is editor. In Preparation : His-
tory of St. Ann's Church, to be published in 1907. A Critical
Narration of one of the most dramatic, though almost forgotten
passages of New York History.
R. L. ROSS
A SERIES of sermons entitled. Story of a Young Man Series, in
The Preachers' Magazine, published by the Wilbur C. Ketcham
Co., 1902. Articles on Church Work in New York, in The
Christian City, the regular official organ of the New York City-
Church Extension and Missionary Society. Occasional Contri-
butions to The Christian Advocate.
S. B. SADLER
One volume on Pennsylvania Criminal Procedure, Lawyers Co-
operative Publishing Co., Rochester, N. Y. Eleven volumes of
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Reports, Lawyers Co-operative
Publishing Cc^, 1905-
RUDOLPH SCHEVILL
August Wilhelm Schlegel und das Theater der Franzosen, Miin-
chen, 1899, Kastner und Lossen (i vol.). The Comedias of Diego
Ximenez de Enciso, in Publications of the Modern Language As-
sociation of America, April, 1903. El Haz de Lena por Nufiez
de Arce, D. C. Heath, Boston, 1903. El Nifio de la bola, por
Alarcon, American Book Co., N. Y., 1904. El Comendador Men-
doza, por Juan Valera, American Book Co., N. Y., 1905. The
NOTES 725
Libraries of Spanish America, in Modern Language Notes for
May, 1905. Introduction to Studies in Cervantes, in Modern
Philology, Chicago, 111., for July, 1906. On the Bibliography of
the Comedia; and Spanish and English Literature in the early
17th Century, in press in the Zeitschrift fiir Romanische For-
schungen, Dresden, Germany. A series of articles on Spain and
Spanish America in the N. Y. Evening Post and Boston Tran-
script, including some book reviews, between Nov., 1903 and Sept.,
1905.
C. P. SHERMAN
In addition to work done in collaboration with Prof. George E.
Beers he has recently translated into English Prof. Fernand
Bernard's First Year of Roman Law (La premiere annee de
droit romain), (Oxford University Press, 1906), for use by his
classes.
BORLAND SMITH
Has written (besides a number of writings for medical societies)
two articles which have been reprinted in pamphlet form, viz:
One Hundred Cases of Eye Disease with Bacteriological Ex-
amination, reprinted from the Yale Medical Journal, May, 1904,
and Eye Infection. Second Hundred Cases with Bacteriological
Examination, reprinted from the Archives of Ophthalmology,
vol. XXXIV., No. 5, 1905, pp. 481-94.
GEO. ARTHUR SMITH
His speech as Chairman of the Modern Language Conference
for Secondary Schools, at Meeting of National Association, at
St. Louis, in June, 1904, was published in the National Education
Association Record for 1904.
GRISWOLD SMITH
Inaugurated and (until early in 1905) edited Citizens Industrial
Exponent, a monthly magazine issued by the Citizens Industrial
Association of St. Louis, of which he was Secretary and attorney.
First issue, June, 1904, published by Myerson Printing Co., of St.
Louis.
* MARIUS J. SPINELLO
He was a frequent contributor to Praeco Latinus, a magazine
published in Philadelphia for the dissemination of Latin lore and
the revival of Latin as a spoken language. A biographical sketch
and portrait of Spinello appeared in the number for August, 1898.
Among his contributions were an incomplete translation into
Latin of Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, and an historical sketch,
entitled Panem Fluctibus Committe based upon contemporary
Italian History.
726 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
For several years before his death Spinello had devoted most
of his time to modern European literature, and his contributions
to the magazines and newspapers give evidence of this interest.
A translation from the Spanish of Perez Galdos (The Mule and
the Ox) and from the Italian of Giovanni Verga (The Christmas
Legend of Trezza Castle) were published in the Christmas num-
ber of the San Francisco Chronicle for 1903. A poetical Imitation
from the German appeared in the Sunset Magazine, July, 1903.
At the time of his death he was engaged upon an edition of
Voltaire's Zadig and an Italian grammar for American students.
The magazines and newspapers of the various localities in which
Spinello studied and taught at different times show traces of his
versatility. The Little Chap, published at Manlius, contained in
its issue for June, 1899, a paper by him on Education in Italy.
During his stay in Paris he published in La Verite an article on
Latin as a universal language. One of his sonnets, The Cali-
fornia Poppy, and the text of a lecture on The Italians of Cali-
fornia were posthumously published in the Sunset Magazine, and
Gratitude, a short story, appeared in the New Haven Sunday
Leader, in the issues for August 14, 21, 1904.
During his residence at St. John's School, he printed privately
several pamphlets, viz : — Origin and development of the Romance
Languages. (Syracuse, University Press, 1900), 48 pp. Poems.
(Syracuse, University Press, 1899), 15 pp. Practicability and Im-
portance of Teaching Latin as a Spoken Tongue. Lecture de-
livered before the junior Latin class of Syracuse University.
(Syracuse; Eaton and Mains, printers, 1899), 21 pp.
THE SPINELLO MEMORIAL LIBRARY
At a University meeting held on October 17th, 1904, resolutions
were adopted to provide a fitting and permanent memorial of
Spinello's service to the University of California. He had col-
lected among other books about 1200 volumes in Latin and Ro-
manic literature and philology, and it was suggested that these be
bought for the University Library, and that an alcove be pro-
vided for them, or at least that they be marked with a special
bookplate so that the Spinello collection should always be a dis-
tinct memorial.
This suggestion was carried out. The following description of
the books was furnished by the University Librarian:
There was a total of 970 volumes, besides a number of dupli-
cates. It embraced a few sets like Petitot's Repertoire du theatre
frangais (22 \) and Voltaire's Oeuvres (71 v.).
Roughly speaking it can be divided into three parts: (i) Edi-
tions of Latin authors, some being choice and more or less rare,
like Eutropius, 1716; Isidorus, 1509; Isocrates, 1570; Josephus,
1691; Lucertius, 1761; Prudentius, 1739; Statins, 1788; Strabo,
1571; Terentius, 1780; Vegetius, 1592; Virgilius, 1783. (2) A
considerable number of French and some Spanish authors, not
of particular note. (3) Italian authors, both literary and histor-
ical, such as: Alfieri, Ariosto, Annunzio, Bentivoglio, Chiebrera,
NOTES
727
Carranza, Dante, Foscolo, Giannone (17 v.), Goldoni (17 v.),
Grossi, Guarini, Guicciardini, Macchiavelli, Metastsio, Manzoni,
Monti, Muratori, Palearius (1696), Pellico, Petrarca, Pulci, Ro-
sini, Sannezaro (1741), Sanctis, Torraca, Trissino, Varchi, Verri,
Villari.
The collection to be added by gift of Professor H. Morse
Stephens will comprise the best authorities and documents illus-
trative of that period of Italian history known as the Risorgi-
mento — the period of Garibaldi, Mazzini, etc., in which Spinello,
just before his unfortunate death, expressed to Stephens his great
interest.
The book plate for the Spinello Memorial Library was de-
signed and engraved by J. Winfred Spenceley of Boston. In the
chronological list of Mr. Spenceley's plates (number one of
which is the "chambered nautilus" plate for Oliver Wendell
Holmes) the Spinello memorial plate stands as No. 151. The
design is clearly of the memorial type, following in general the
lines of a mural tablet, but relieved from the severity of the
latter by the novel treatment of the upper portion of the plate.
728 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
ANSON PHELPS STOKES, Jr.
While at the Berkeley School he was Editor of the school paper,
the Berkeley Folio. While at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H.,
he was Editor of the school paper, the Horae Scholastics, for
which he wrote various articles, among them one on Ober Am-
mergau and the Passion Play, another, a story entitled A Tale
of Two Photographs (afterwards reprinted in the Yale Courant)
and the School Essay Prize, The Character of George Washing-
ton. While at College he was Editor of the Yale Daily News,
1893-96, and Chairman 1895-6, practically all the editorials for
that year being written by him. He was a frequent contributor
to the Yale Literary Magazine during Freshman and Sophomore
years, his principal articles being Contributions of Harvard and
Yale to American Progress, The College Days of a Yale Poet
(Willis), The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (this being the
Junior Exhibition Prize Essay), Carlyle and Newman — A Study
in Antithesis (this being the DeForest Prize Oration) ; also
several portfolios. He has edited the Yale University Catalogue,
1900-1905, inclusive, Catalogue of Officers and Graduates, 1901
and 1904, Directory of Living Graduates, 1901 and 1904, Acts
of the General Assembly of Connecticut with other Documents
respecting Yale University, 1901. Chapter on Present Condi-
tions in Two Centuries of Christian Activity at Yale, 1901, Put-
nams. The Distinction between a College and a University,
Address at the Inauguration of the President of Carleton Col-
lege, published in the Carltonian, Northfield, Minn., 1903. Intro-
duction for book entitled Religious Classics in the "Young Peo-
ple's Library, Colliers, 1903. Yale's Famous Graduates, Pot-
pourri, 1903. What is Yale, Pot-pourri, 1904. The Call of the
Ministry, Yale Divinity School Quarterly, June, 1905, &c., &c.
Many of his addresses at the Yale Alumni Association Meetings
have been reported in the Yale Alumni Weekly.
A. R. THOMPSON
Two books for boys: Gold-Seeking on the Dalton Trail, Little,
Brown, & Co., Boston, 1900. Shipwrecked in Greenland, Little,
Brown, & Co., Boston, 1905.
A. C TILTON
The Roster of the Yeas and Nays of the House of Representa-
tives of 1809-0 in Ohio General Assembly Record, vol. I, No. 9.
(1906). Th., Collections of the Wisconsin Historical Society on
the History of the Middle West, in Library Journal, vol. XXX.,
No. 12. (1905). A Descriptive List of the Works on English His-
tory in the Library of the Society. State Historical Society of
Wisconsin, Bulletin of Information, No. 21. (1904). Augsburg
und die ersten Seefahrten nach Indien in Deutsch-Amerikanische
Geschichtsblatter, vol. 4. (1904). German-Indian Vocabularies
NOTES 729
in Maximilian of Wied's Travels in North America turned into
English-Indian for Thwaite's Early Western Travels. (1906).
Several Book Reviews in American Historical Review.
THOMAS A. TRACY
Has done a good deal of newspaper work both as local repre-
sentative (at Bristol) of the Associated Press and for the
Bristol Press Publishing Co.
T. B. WELLS
In addition to various special articles for the New York Journal
during his term of service with that paper, he has written from
time to time editorials for publication in Harper's Weekly,
&c., &c.
M. M. WHITAKER
Several technical articles in technical magazines — Motor Boat
(N. Y.), Motor Boat (London), Marine Engineering, Rod &
Gun, etc., etc.
Ex. Ninety-Six
HERBERT R. LIMBURG
Some articles for the New York Sun concerning the Island of
Porto Rico, c. 1901. Article for the Brooklyn Eagle regarding
some of the election questions of 1905. Articles on various pub-
lic and legal topics for the New York Sun and Brooklyn Eagle.
Articles for various papers at the time of the Northern Pacific
panic.
W. L. PATTERSON
Wrote descriptions in 1902 for the New Castle Courant, Daily
Paper, from European points.
HERBERT L. TOWLE ('95)
Has contributed largely to The Automobile, The Horseless Age,
Motor, Power Boat News, The Motor Car, etc., and a little to
The American Machinist and Collier's Weekly, and has written
about half a course on Gas Engine Care & Management (soon
to be published by the International Correspondence Schools).
Pot-pourri
The author does not pretend to deliver thee an exact
piece ; his business not being ostentation, but charity. It
is miscellaneous in the matter of it, and by no means
artificial in the composure. — William Penn's Fruits of
Solitude.
732
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CAROLVS VERNON VS HOPKINS
AMICVS REGIBVS
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Pot-pourri
Hopkins and the King
Despite current undervaluations of triumphs that are
merely social, the members of our Class who are inter-
ested in distinctions won by '96 men can scarcely have
failed to be impressed with the following despatch which
was printed in the Sun of May 31st, 1904:
"London, May 30. — Several Americans were presented to the
King at his Majesty's levee by the Spanish Ambassador in the
absence of Ambassador Choate. The duty apparently fell to the
Spanish representative as dean of the Diplomatic Corps. Those
presented were F. Batcheller, A. Fuller, C V. Hopkins, W. B.
Parson, and George Vanderbilt. Lord Pelham Clinton presented
William Waldorf Astor."
The interest excited by this event led ultimately to the
portrayal of its principal scene, the meeting of Charles
with Edward, upon canvas. A reproduction of the paint-
ing appears upon the opposite page.
Yale's " Pop " Smith Dead
THE MASCOT OF THE NEW HAVEN UNDERGRADUATES DIES AT 87
(From the New York Sun.)
New Haven, March 2, 1905.— James Smith, known for
the last decade as "Pop" Smith, one of Yale's mascots,
died to-day, aged 87 years. He was born in England and
came to this country half a century ago. He was a short
man with gray whiskers, and wore a little low derby hat.
When "Handsome Dan," the famous bulldog mascot of
734 POT-POURRI
the athletic department of Yale University, died ten years
ago, "Pop" Smith came to the front to take his place as
a mascot.
From that time Pop had the field all to himself until
about a year ago, when his health became poor and he
was too feeble to go to the Yale field to attend the
Varsity games. Even in the days when "Handsome Dan"
was trotted out, old "Pop" Smith would cross the field as
a rival to Dan in the mascot business. Until too feeble
to take the journeys he had been toted to Princeton and
Cambridge as the Yale mascot.
All the Yale professors knew him. In his early days
he was a shoemaker and was patronized by Yale men.
In this way he became acquainted with the Yale boys.
The last time that a Yale crowd had an opportunity to
cheer the old mascot was at the Yale-Harvard commence-
ment baseball game last June, when Yale won.
Sad End of Eddie Oakley
FORMER OWNER OF MORY's KILLED BY STREET CAR
(From the Sun for May 9, 1905. Written by L. Denison '95.)
Yale graduates in New York were filled with regretful remi-
niscences yesterday by the news contained in a despatch from
New Haven saying that Edward G. Oakley, once the proprietor
of Mory's, had been run over and killed by a street car. For
twenty years before his retirement from Mory's, in the middle
nineties, Eddie Oakley had a warm place in the affection and
respect of Yale undergraduates.
He was regarded as one of the institutions of the university;
his business, to be sure, was the drawing of ale and the serving
of wonderfully fresh eggs and still more wonderfully concocted
Welsh rabbits ; but to his calling he brought a tact, a gentleness
of manner and a genial aroma of fine, old-fashioned hospitality
such as few patrons of public houses in this country have ever
been privileged to know.
The undergraduate traditions were that Eddie inherited the
place from Mrs. Moriarity; it was an accepted tradition because
it seemed quite impossible that Eddie could have such a deep
regard for ancient Yale notions with which successive years of
undergraduates had saturated his house unless he had inherited
some of them from somebody a great deal older than himself.
Mrs. Moriarity rather preferred the name of "Temple Bar"
SAD END OF EDDIE OAKLEY 735
for the place. For years she did her household mending in a
corner of the little tap-room and kept a kindly, motherly eye on
the proceedings in the front room, the back room and the kitchen.
Everything within the little rooms was as spick and span and
simple as were the outer walls of the little white building itself.
The uproar with which the announcement of the destruction
of the Old Brick Row was met by Yale graduates all over the
world would have been echoed in undergraduate circles imme-
diately had Eddie ever voiced the thought of changing his furni-
ture or the wallpaper or the quaint old pottery bas reliefs which
hung over the fireplace — one of them holding up a Yale News
and the other a Yale Lit. But Eddie never thought of anything
so revolutionary; he would as soon have authorized the serving
of drinks to a freshman or the permitting of others than seniors
at the round center table, carved with its hundreds of initials.
Every man whose name was in the Yale catalogue — except a
freshman — had twenty dollars' worth of credit at Mory's in the
old days. A modest little slip came to him through the mail
when the limit was reached. If he then called for his checks
Eddie always, with a half apologetic, half humorous smile,
brought out the accumulation of checks from a little pigeonhole
and laid them before him. Somehow nobody, in a stringency of
academic spending money, ever asked Eddie to extend the limit.
And it was never necessary to ask for time in which to make
payment. Fellows who "were over the limit" paid cash until they
were ready to settle the bill, with never a fear of a dun or a
yearning look from the proprietor.
And never was a bill paid but that the liquidating debtor and
all his company were asked, as though it were the greatest pos-
sible favor, to accept the appreciative hospitality of the house.
Large was the company of him who in days when everybody was
hard up announced that he was on his "way to Mory's to pay
Eddie's bill."
The bar closed at midnight. Eddie's ritual for the ceremony
never varied. One by one the lights clicked out at intervals of
two minutes apart. He went from one light to the other as
noiselessly as a shadow. Then, very, very gently, the shades
were adjusted. One whose ears were keyed to the sound could
hear the locking of sundry doors and the setting away of bottles
and tobies and pewter tankards in the bar. And at last if none
of these soft hints was enough to end the sitting, Eddie would
appear with all dignity and all solemnity, but all regret, too, and
say: "Gentlemen, it is 12 o'clock." After ten years it is not pos-
sible to remember when that was not enough.
But unhappy days came upon Eddie. It was whispered among
his patrons — and they were all his friends — that Eddie was drink-
ing heavily. The business was left more and more to his wait-
ers, quiet, smiling persons, who never wore aprons and tried
very hard to be exactly like Eddie in every word and gesture.
Then the credit privilege was reduced to $10, and then sus-
pended altogether.
Eddie's misfortunes, and no one could bring himself to say
that they were all of his own making, so far reduced his capital
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that he could no longer carry the $8,000 or $10,000 of credit his
way of doing business required. His debtors were always good
pay. He used to boast that he had not lost $25 in ten years. But
he could not carry them. He went down, and others came into
his place.
The present landlord, Louis Linder, still maintains the tradi-
tions, except that beer is now served as well as ale. For nearly
ten years Eddie had been dependent on Linder's charity, and
that of one or two other old friends for such a living as he had,
giving in return to Linder, at any rate, what he could impart of
the traditions of Mory's.
When the Yale Club here in town moved into its present
building a number of its members felt that its grill room was a
proper place for Eddie to superintend for the rest of his days.
He braced himself with a new interest in life and all seemed to
promise well for him. But the outburst of affection and of rem-
iniscences and renewed acquaintances which came upon him in
his first night in the new place were his undoing. He was not
seen there again and few of those of whose pleasantest memories
he was a great part knew what had become of him.
A Letter about Spinello
(from LOUIS JONES)
Regarding Spinello, you know he lived at home when
we were in New Haven and not at any time during the
course on the campus. Consequently but few of us knew
him well enough to appreciate his worth.
I feel wholly incapable of giving my idea of his buoy-
ant nature and enthusiastic love for the artistic. At the
home of Professor Ernest Held here in Syracuse, the
culture center of this city, at a literary or musical even-
ing, I have seen such intense enthusiasm as from a sim-
ilar cause I have not seen elsewhere, when Spinello would
recite, for example, Caduchi's "Satan" (or whatever the
name is), and then his own English poetical version of it.
Even we sober practical fellows— engineers, chemists,
lawyers, — were set aglow by the fire of his spirit.
Just at that time he was affianced to the beautiful girl
who afterward as wife graced their little Berkeley home,
and during his recitals his glances of poetic passion —
"all the world loves a lover" — and his evident love of
living, made his spirit absolutely contagious.
You probably know how he taught Latin in St. John's
THE WAY OF TWO YALE EMPLOYERS 737
School and had the boys actually liking and talking the
dead stuff. A complimentary letter from the editor of an
European Latin magazine declared that Spinello's trans-
lation into Latin of the Scarlet Letter was "even more
beautiful, if possible, than the original English." Chaun-
cey Wells can tell you all about the absolute merit of his
little book of sonnets and other writings. Pages could
be filled with complimentary literary notices. . . .
I wish I could in a meagre way convey to those fellows
who knew him less, a faint idea of the exhilarating influ-
ence of his optimism. In the personal peculiarities of his
friends he was constantly discovering signs of their fu-
ture successes. Billy Phelps would say "Tell it in Anglo
Saxon," and I can just explain by this incident: Frank
Wade had asked us to take dinner with him at the Grand
Grill, and then absentmindedly never showed up at all.
Spinello said: "Say, Jones, do you know that fellow is
bound to succeed!"
A few of us here in Syracuse occasionally met to linger
into the small hours after refreshments in good fellow-
ship and discussions. His influence at such occasions
was remarkable. Some of us found ourselves studying
Spanish, Italian, and even attempting Russian before we
knew it. His girl friends were stammering French and
Italian phrases within a week after meeting him. He
loved music, played the violin, and often after dinner
would burst into song accompaniment to an orchestral
strain from Verdi or Mascagni.
This sort of spirit, with the Yale reliability and "square
deal" moral make-up— characteristics not always attrib-
uted to such an artistic temperament— was just compel-
ling Spinello to a brilliant future, a career of honor to
his class, his college, and his adopted country.
Yours sincerely,
Jones.
The Way of Two Yale Employers
(Reprinted from the Yale Alumni Weekly, Jan. 13, 1904.)
I The Pottsville (Pa.) correspondent of the Philadelphia Record
recently had the following concerning the work of two Yale men
of the Class of Ninety- Six:
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"On the crest of a range of mountains, a mile south of Mount
Pleasant, in Schuylkill County, the first school in Pennsylvania
conducted by coal operators for the benefit of miners' children
was opened this week. The Buck Run Coal Company will bear
the entire expense of the school, which is non-sectarian. A
beautiful little school building has been opened on the tract, and
admission is free to all the pupils. The teacher of the school is
Miss Laura Walker, of Boston, Mass., a graduate of Radcliffe
College, the woman's department of Harvard University. All
the branches in the common school curriculum are taught by
Miss Walker. Night sessions are held every Monday and Fri-
day. Miss Walker also conducts a Sunday school.
"President Neale, of the Buck Run Coal Company, is now tak-
ing steps to establish a library in connection with the school.
The sale of liquor is not permitted in the town. For the amuse-
ment of its employes the company has laid out a splendid tennis
court, which is inclosed with a high wire-netting fence.
"The aesthetic tastes of President Neale and his associate,
President Thorne, of the Dark Water Coal Company, are every-
where apparent. The rough, stony top of the mountain has been
grubbed and worked so as to make it fertile, and a beautiful
lodge, occupied as bachelor quarters by these two men, both of
whom are graduates of Yale University, has been constructed at
the highest point on the mountain range. The surrounding
ground is laid out in plots of various designs for the cultivation
of flowers and shrubbery.
"The operators in making these arrangements had in view the
idea that they would serve to draw an intelligent, thrifty and
ambitious class of people to the works, and such is the case.
There is no drunkenness in the settlement, no disturbance, no
discontent. The most harmonious relations exist between em-
ployes knd employers, and between the respective families that
compose this happy little community.'*
The Gas War in Hartford
[In response to queries concerning Perkins' share in this controversy the
Secretary publishes the following account by a citizen of Hartford.]
In 1902 the illuminating gas supplied to the City of
Hartford had grown so poor that its flame consisted of
nothing but cheerless transparence surrounded by a very
faint halo, which had to struggle for existence in an
atmosphere of maledictions. Matters were going from
bad to worse when the Landlords and Taxpayers Asso-
ciation appealed to the mayor to revive the old office of
gas inspector. The mayor complied, and Professor Mix-
ter, the State gas inspector, appointed Professor Perkins.
THE GAS WAR IN HARTFORD
739
"Gus" got down to business at once and began to make
tests at the laboratory of Trinity College. The law then
required illuminating gas to be of such quality that an
Argand burner consuming five feet in an hour should
equal fifteen sperm candles. The first report of the new
inspector appeared early in January, 1903, and showed
the power of the gas to have ranged from 12.8 to 13.8
candles. "I have no hesitation," concluded Professor
Perkins, "in affirming that to the best of my knowledge
the city gas is decidedly short of the legal standard."
HARTFORO
This report produced consternation in the gas com-
pany's camp, and immense satisfaction among the long-
suffering citizens. But the president of the company
was a fighter, and he gave the Professor the retort
gaseous. In a long letter published in the newspapers
he declared that although his product might have deteri-
orated in the Trinity College pipe, it was well above the
legal requirement when it left the works. "1 reiterate,"
said he, ''that my control of the gas works will not be
regulated by tests made at the tail end of a pipe two miles
from the gas works and almost equally distant from the
center of the city."
Professor Perkins admitted the possibility of some de-
terioration, but he had taken the precaution to burn some
hundreds of feet of gas before every test in order to make
sure that the supply was fresh. Furthermore he showed
that the testing apparatus at the gas works was an-
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tiquated and inaccurate. Testimony poured in from all
sides commending the stand he had taken and affording
new facts in support of his deductions. Professor Riggs
tested the gas chemically and published the details of its
chemical inferiority. Letters like the following began
to appear from citizens :
"The gas Goliath, who has been hit by the Trinity David, was
before the Legislature not so long since, if my memory serves
me, seeking to control the right to extend his gas pipes into
towns far and near. One little test, and he is astonished that
good gas can be expected many rods away from his plant."
The Hartford Courant also took up the cudgels editor-
ially as follows :
"Professor Perkins has performed a public service in plainly
stating the deficiencies of the gas of Hartford as revealed to him
by his scientific tests. Professor Perkins is a careful and well-
educated gentleman, entirely independent in his attitude, not an
office-holder for what there is in it for himself, and not depen-
dent upon any place for his living. He pronounces the gas so
far below the legal requirement that consumers have the right of
recovery. The president of the gas company is quoted in reply
as saying that the test should be made at the center of the city,
and that a test at Trinity College is not fair. To this amusing
excuse there are two suggestions to be made. One is that pre-
viously the published tests were made also at Trinity College
and no complaint of distance from the center was made by the
representatives of the company; and the other, the one of real
importance, is that all the consumers of gas cannot conveniently
bring their houses down to the center of the city for gas. The
gas is charged for where it is delivered. It is used there, and it
must be fit to use there. The gas itself is not thinner than the
assertion that the quality at the place where it is used is not
material. That is the only place where the consumer cares a
snap about its quality.
"From what we know of Professor Perkins, we have no notion
that he will be bluffed down or shut up. It is refreshing to find
an official of this sort, and it is safe to say that he will find the
people of Hartford with him."
In conversation with the president of the gas company,
Professor Perkins suggested that one reason for the in-
sufficient lighting power of the gas might lie in a falling
of the pressure in the early evening when the consump-
tion was greatest. The president ridiculed this idea, de-
claring the pressure constant at all hours. Then "Gus"
bought at his own expense a recording pressure gauge
and installed it in his own home. This showed a decided
Thompson Memorial Chapel, Williams College
Allen and Collens, Architects
COLLEGE ARCHITECTURE 741
lowering of the pressure in the early evening. The gas
official was confronted with the record and obliged to
acknowledge himself mistaken, and thereafter he heeded
the inspector's hint that the pressure should correspond
to the consumption.
But there remained one more point of controversy. In
the tests at the Trinity College laboratory an electric lamp
of fifteen candle-power had been employed, and the gas
official insisted that the law demanded the use of actual
candles. So he sent an expert engineer out to the labora-
tory to make an independent test. As this resulted in no
better showing for the gas, the president no longer had
any ground to stand upon.
Public opinion, the law, and the scaling down of the
gas bills to conform to the quality certified by the in-,
spector, all had their influence at last, and the gas im-
proved. The Legislature put the requirement up to
sixteen candles, and the Hartford Gas Company passed
under new management which installed up-to-date ma-
chinery and has easily furnished sixteen to eighteen can-
dle-power ever since.
From first to last Professor Perkins published the facts
exactly as he found them, and his praiseworthy firmness
in the face of every attempt to ridicule and discredit him
resulted in great benefit to the city.
College Architecture
Editorial Note. — Last autumn in glancing over some copies of a maga-
zine called "Architectuie," the Secretary came across a number of illustra-
tions of buildings designed by Allen and Collens (Charles Collens), and
thinking that the Class might be interested in seeing some of the work
toward which '96 is contributing, he procured photographs of two of the
buildings, which seemed especially appropriate as being examples of the
"best type of recent college architecture." He also wrote to Collens and asked
him for a description of these buildings. Collens' reply follows:
Boston, Mass., Nov. 21, 1905.
" . . . . The two buildings that you speak of, the Vassar Col-
lege Librarj' and the Williams College Chapel, were the gifts of
Mrs. Mary Clark Thompson of New York as memorials to her
husband who was a trustee and a benefactor of both colleges.
The buildings cost about a half a million dollars each.
'The Williams College Chapel has a commanding location on
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the College hill and the spire can be seen from all parts of the
valley. The chapel itself is built of Germantown stone with
Indiana limestone trimmings, and the walls inside are laid
up in limestone ashlar. The ceiling is a heavy oak hammer beam
trussed affair, except in the chancel, which is fan vaulted in
stone. Every detail of the church has been carefully studied to
make it conform as closely as possible to all the forms of English
perpendicular architecture. We even went so far as to have all
the stained glass, which alone cost thirty-five thousand dollars,
made by a firm in England whose* members are descendants of
Pugin, and who possess all the traditions of the glass-making of
the best period. The chapel has one of the finest organs and
chimes of bells that could be made in this country. The opening
of the chapel was a feature of the last Commencement at Wil-
liams. President Roosevelt attended and my partner Mr. Allen
had the honor of showing him all over the building. He found
the President much interested in all the minor details of con-
struction and design and especiallj' in the explanation of the
various subjects represented in the glass. At the Commencement
Exercises Mr. Allen received the honorary degree of M.A. We
are now building some new dormitories at Williams and I have
had occasion when there to go to morning chapel. The service
is most impressive in its surroundings, and one cannot fail to be
inspired by the great organ, the sense of mystery and the play of
light through the beautiful glass. Even if the men go in the
spirit in which some of us used to go to chapel it must have
some effect on them, and I hope that it is for their good.
"Turning now to Vassar. Oh shades of Hunt Taylor! little
did I wot when I spent several days one Christmas vacation at
Vassar with Hunt and played around with about fifteen girls
apiece that I should some day be dropping off there by way of
business and not pleasure. The Library is a very large building,
consisting of a central Memorial Hall, with three long wings
and a short entrance wing radiating from the four sides. The
Memorial Hall is about sixty feet high all in stone with rich
Gothic arcades and galleries below and a heavy oak ceiling over
the windows which you see at the base of the tower above the
roof. The walls are hung with old tapestries. The three wings
are arranged as reading rooms on the alcove system. Each large
window represents two alcoves, one on the floor and one in the
gallery. All the alcoves have table and chairs, and each alcove
is set apart for a special subject so that the work of reference is
a very simple matter. The wings have elaborately trussed and
carved oak ceilings and are wonderfully light, the glass being
clear-leaded and the windows very large. There are a number
of seminar rooms in the front wing and tower where special
study is conducted. The librarian's and cataloguing rooms are
on each side of the main entrance opening into the Memorial
Hall. The library at present has a capacity of about 160,000
volumes and can be increased by adding galleries to the present
one. This library is a pretty complete affair; if you are ever
browsing up the Hudson drop in and see it. I see that we are
going to get a fine new library at Yale. Have you seen the
design? It is very good.
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743
''Without being much of an Art Critic myself I venture to
hope that the general type of College Architecture in this country
may tend more and more toward the good old Cambridge and
Oxford style, English perpendicular. Or, if we cannot have that,
at any rate that we may have a uniformity of style in any one
college. It seems as though Yale should look far enough ahead
to get a comprehensive scheme for generations to come and that
whatever new buildings we have may be so placed and so de-
signed as to obviate the clash of styles and locations which .is
bound to come if an indiscriminate plan is pursued. Look at
Chittenden Hall placed between two Gothic buildings. Look at
Osborne Hall a Romanesque building placed between Vanderbilt
and Welch, — both Gothic. Now that the old brick row has gone
we have a Quadrangle that is generally Gothic in character al-
though the types are by no means pure. Barring the fact that
for some reason the new Quadrangle and Alumni buildings have
been started in Modern French style, somewhat foreign to the
Yale spirit, some one should see to it that all the buildings in
that neighborhood be of one type, and not let some architect
spoil the grouping for reasons of his own. Another thing, — in
the gradual fencing in of the old campus why cannot someone
put up a Gothic gateway to correspond with the Quadrangle?
The gateways in themselves are good, but they are not in style.
Let us all get together and do something for Yale's future
beauty."
A Ninety-Six Wedding
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A Hymnic Tribute
"I HAVE just noticed," says a letter from Stokes (Feb-
ruary 1907), "that in the new Yale University Hymnal,
compiled by a Committee of the Corporation and Faculty,
these impartial judges have conferred a signal honor on
the Class of '96. Hymn No. 96 of the Hymnal begins
'Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning.' This
reminds me by contrast of Billy Phelps' story with refer-
ence to the Class of '97, the gist of which is that hymn
No. 97 in the old hymnal began, 'Great God, What Worth-
less Worms are We.' "
Faculty, 6; Phi Beta Kappa, 4
CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE LEARNED WORLD FOUGHT OUT. CHARGE
OF "mucker ball"
(From the Yale Alumni Weekly for May 31, 1905.)
On the morning of Decoration Day the Yale University Faculty
Nine played their annual match for the championship of the
learned world against Phi Beta Kappa. The Faculty adherents,
consisting of a large number of low stand men, comfortably
filled the grand stand while the Phi Beta Kappas had to content
themselves with their high stand. Fair women also besprinkled
the crowd of "rooters" here and there, lending color and charm
to the throng. As each member of the Faculty stepped to the
plate he was greeted with terrific cheers, his name being shouted
vociferously at the end of the long yell. There was some talk of
presenting various members of the Faculty with a gold watch as
they came first to bat, but after a collection had been taken it
was found that sufficient money had been raised only to buy an
alarm clock, and as no one could be found who dared present
this gift it was unanimously voted to present it to Walter Camp,
who would have been the head coach of the Faculty nine had he
been in this country. Immediately after the game it was com-
monly reported that the Faculty intended to challenge the Cor-
poration, and it is understood that the matter will be taken up
by the Prudential Committee at their next meeting.
The strength of the Faculty nine lay chiefly in the mighty arm
of Mr. Durfee, instructor in history. Fresh from the teaching
of his subject he proceeded to make history by striking out
twelve lusty Phi Beta Kappa batsmen. It was chiefly owing to
his indomitable courage, superb control and continuous cheerful-
ness that the victory was won, although he was ably supported
FACULTY, 6; PHI BETA KAPPA, 4 745
by the entire nine. Mr. Adriance, instructor in debating, took
all of Mr. Durfee's inshoots and benders with the most consum-
mate ease and refrained from the sharp temptation of having a
joint debate with the umpire. Mr. Torrey, professor of Hebrew,
covered the "initial bag," and showed a familiarity with the posi-
tion that proved him to be no narrow specialist. Mr. W. L.
Phelps, professor of English Literature, covered second base and
picked up Browningesque bounders with Tennysonian ease. Mr.
Ford, instructor in history, clad in an ancient summer nine suit,
covered an immense amount of ground and nipped a man at the
plate in the most critical moment of the game. In attempting to
steal third Ford's spectacles were smashed by Bruce, the Phi
Beta Kappa third baseman, and shouts of "mucker work,"
''mucker work," sounded from the Faculty bench where the
organized cheering was ably led by Professor William Beebe.
A. K. Merritt, the gigantic Registrar of the University, played
third base, and was so much excited by Bruce's brutal treatment
of Ford that in attempting to beat out an infield hit the next
time he came to the bat he knocked down and trampled upon
Hull, the first baseman of the Phi Beta Kappa. The umpire
politely looked the other way, as he evidently had no desire to
reprove Mr. Merritt, but he was besought by the Phi Beta Kappa
adherents to send the Registrar to the bench. Mr. Fairchild,
instructor in economics, filled the position of left field, where he
took in one long fly in a manner worthy of Cote and dropped
another after a hard run only because he was interfered with by
the throng who got inside the ropes stretched around the field.
Dr. Henry Wright, the Dean's son, was appropriately placed
in right field, where he talked it up splendidly during the whole
game and drove out one "stinging" liner that did much for the
Faculty's fortunes. This is the first time he has played on the
Faculty Nine, but every one admits now that he won his F
fairly. Mr. Bancroft, Chairman of the Freshman Faculty, played
center field and besides making a clean single made the most
remarkable catch of the game. Spectators who saw this last
catch of Mr. Bancroft say that it closely resembled the vaude-
ville performance of Eliason, 'oi, the College gymnast and base-
ball manager and center fielder, who, it will be remembered, once
caught a fly in a championship game on Yale Field while turning
a double back somersault. Bancroft's performance was easily
the feature of the match and it came about in this way: It was
in the last inning. Two were out and a Phi Beta Kappa base-
runner on second with two runs needed to tie. The batsman hit
a "sky-scraper." The case seemed hopeless for the Faculty as
the hit had all the "ear marks" of a home run. Bancroft started
after it with grim determination. He just managed to reach it
on the dead run and staggered and stumbled forty feet after
catching it in a mighty endeavor to regain his balance. This
made indeed a strong climax to the game and Bancroft was
hugged and patted on the back by his Faculty colleagues and
then carried triumphantly from the field.
Several other incidents in the game were worthy of mention.
Myers, a Senior member of Phi Beta Kappa, knocked a home
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run in the first inning which brought in two runs. Instead of
the enthusiastic cheers which should have greeted this event as
Myers, breathing heavily, crossed the plate he was greeted with
a shout: "This will cost you your degree." Another member of
the Phi Beta Kappa team was a little late at the game and was
given two marks by many of the spectators. The Faculty broke
training immediately after the game and had their last meal at
"Beebe's four-place tables."
During the game one of the Faculty said it was a great thing
to play the cream of the Senior and Junior classes, whereupon
the Registrar remarked that he hoped they would turn out to be
whipped cream, which indeed proved to be the fact.
A great deal has been said lately about the amount of talking
done by the Yale Nine for which they have been publicly re-
buked, both by the News and by the Lit. It was fortunate for
the Faculty that no strict censors were present at this game, for
the professors and instructors "talked it up" incessantly. The
pitcher was encouraged by a continuous fusilade of approving
yells from the fielders and every batsman was told that he had
"a nice eye old boy" about a hundred times from the Faculty
bench. It is generally believed that these tactics had much to
do with winning the game, for what the Faculty lacked in hitting
ability they made up in enthusiasm.
A word should be said about the umpire — Mr. Roberts, '05.
He was not suspected, previous to the game, of favoring either
party, as he was known to regard both the Faculty and the Phi
Beta Kappa Society with equal hostility. He umpired in a su-
perbly impartial manner, although he seemed to exhibit a sup-
pressed joy in calling out members of the Faculty on strikes,
which he had to do more than once. This is the score of the
games by innings :
R. H. E.
Faculty i *i i o 2 i x — 6 6 4
P. B. K. 2 o o I o o I — 4 7 s
Batteries, P. B. K.— J. C. Slade and J. D. DeForest. Faculty
— E. L. Durfee and W. M. Adriance.
Faculty Trims Phi Beta Kappa
THE ANNUAL GAME BETWEEN THE MEN OF MARK WON BY THE
MARKERS. Charlemagne's pitching
(From the Yale Alumni Weekly for June 6, 1906.)
Decoration Day will long be remembered at Yale as the only
time in the year when corporal punishment is still administered
to the students by their teachers. Whom the Lord loveth he
chasteneth, and the pets of the Faculty received convincing proof
of warm affection. The professors are early risers; and shortly
after daybreak, E. L. Durfee, Instructor in History, familiarly
FACULTY TRIMS PHI BETA KAPPA 747
known as "Charlemagne," and still better known as the Faculty
slab artist, proceeded majestically to the Yale Field. He imme-
diately began to warm up, and it was soon evident to the con-
stantly swelling horde of "rooters" that his mighty wing was in
superb condition. He was indeed far better than in 1905, when
he mowed down the high-stand batters as the ripe wheat falls
before the scythe; for during the winter the Faculty had spent
thirty thousand dollars in completely renovating Durfee, with
the sole intention of winning this game, cost what it might. Hot
and cold baths had been put into him, and he was proof against
the fiery darts of the devil. He seemed, too, to have grown
masterful; for although only a member of the Faculty, he man-
aged the "corporation" with consummate ease.
One by one Durfee's colleagues took their places, and with
gloves borrowed from their allies, the low-stand men, the ball
began its uneasy course around the diamond. There was Torrey,
jProfessor of the Semitic languages, old Amherst and All-Amer-
ican player, who handled the leathern globule even as David
manipulated the sling-shot. There was the colossal Registrar,
A. K. Merritt, who loomed up at the third sack like Goliath of
Gath, and seemed prepared to "eat 'em alive." Bancroft, the hero
of a hundred fights, decorated the short field, and while the
aforesaid Torrey rested from his labors, and his works followed
him, Professor Phelps, the disciple of Browning, prepared to
"sin bravely," succeeded even in failure. Deep in the shady still-
ness of the vale to the left gambolled the Fair Child, by no
means the least fly-catcher of the party; the Rev. Dr. Hess
stormed about the right garden, while in the center field resplen-
dently shone, reflecting the bright rays of the morning sun, the
Roman brow of Dr. Henry Wright, who was to be the hero of
the contest. Behind the bat stood the Apostle of Rebuttal and
the Scorching Come-Back, Adriance of the pure Greek profile,
whipping the ball down to second like a discus thrower of old.
On the initial bag gleamed a new figure, and when the Phi
Beta Kappa players saw him, the game was already won. It was
Lee McClung, the First Lord of the Treasury, immortalized by
a News heeler as "MacLung." He wore, as he had a right to
wear, the terror-inspiring Y, and appeared clad in the ancient
suit in which he had fought against Harvard and Princeton on
many a bloody field. He was signed by the Faculty only the
night before the game, but he played as to the manner born. Of
the Faculty substitutes. Mason and Hawkes, mathematical sharks,
iDoth showed that the Faculty nine would not suffer should one
of the regulars be killed, and Mason did indeed play at the third
corner during a portion of the game.
If there had been any doubt in the vast concourse of specta-
tors as to the outcome of the contest, that doubt was dispelled
when the chief Faculty heeler and mascot, Professor Beebe, ap-
peared on the side lines, bearing aloft his Four-Place Tables, on
which the successful Faculty nine had dined so copiously a year
agone. Professor Beebe's moral support, coming as it did at the
critical moment, really won the game for the old men.
Nor should we forget the Faculty cheering section, which
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yelled like demons. A decollete carriage, drawn by steeds that
smelt the battle afar off, and driven by a Nubian chieftain, rolled
in a cloud of dust close to the base line, and some eight or ten
non-combatants of the Faculty, who were crowded within the
chariot, burst out with song and cheer. Dean Wright was also
an interested watcher of the triumphs of his progeny.
For the students, Malcolm of Australia, his hair freshly combed
with codfish balls, acted his Antipodes with superb skill. His
pretzel benders puzzled many of the Faculty, and had his follow-
ers run bases with less valor and more discretion, the Professors
might have gone down to defeat. A horde of high-standers kept
up a vigorous encouragement from the side lines, but when Pro-
fessor Phelps began to coach (his chief contribution to the vic-
tory) all other sounds seemed like whispers in a hurricane. The
"empire" was impartial, having no kinship with either Faculty
or Phi Beta Kappa, and the latter nine showed its terror of the
Faculty by not disputing a close decision in the eighth inning,
which really settled the game. The spectators were amazed, as
they had reason to be, by the excellence of the contest. Those
who came to scoff remained to cheer.
THE SWAT OF HENRY WRIGHT
Apart from Durfee's twirling, the man who did the most to
win the game was Henry Wright. When he first stepped to the
bat, he was greeted with this song:
"Henry Wright, Henry Wright,
He can swat the ball all right,
Don't believe in getting tight.
Henry Wright, Henry Wright:
Rap It, slap it, don't just tap it,
Henry Wright."
He responded by making a neat sacrifice which brought Treas-
urer McClung across the plate, with a most helpful run. Then
in the latter half of the eighth inning, with two out, the score
two to two, and the Treasurer on first. Wright hit a terrific
crack over the head of the left fielder. The First Lord of the
Treasury had already started to steal second ; he made no stops,
and as he drew near the home plate, he seemed lost, as the ball
was surely coming to the same destination ahead of him. Gath-
ering up his dymg energies, the Treasurer, with a superb exhibi-
tion of victorious old age, slid ten feet, and was pronounced safe,
amid the wildest yells from the Faculty cheering section. "When
the Treasurer starts to steal anything," remarked McClung, as
he wiped the dust from his ample bosom, "he does not intend to
be caught at it." Henry Wright also corraled two long flies in
the first inning that were labeled home runs, and McClung,
leaping high in the air, caught a liner the muffing of which would
have lost the game.
Immediately after the battle, the Faculty team were photo-
graphed, then clambered into a carriage; and, sad to relate, left
Judge Arnold's Court
cLose^]
The Shame of New York
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the field with a trot. They were driven all around the Campus,
which resounded with their victorious cheers. They broke train-
ing immediately, as they will not need more than six months to
get into condition for the next game. Their regular cheer was :
"Rah, rah.rah— Ph.D. !
Rah, rah, rah — 'Tub' Durfee!
Faculty!!!"
"Rah, rah, rah — every little helps.
Rah, rah, rah for Billy Lyon Phelps!"
Also,
Junior Society Fun
HOW THE NEOPHYTES ARE MADE TO RECOGNIZE THEIR
HUMBLE STATION
(From the Yale Alumni Weekly for December 2, 1903.)
The fall elections of the Yale Junior Societies, which were held
recently, and the incidents attending them, served to lessen the
strain of the closing football weeks at Yale. . . .
During the life of the Sophomore Societies these societies were
the custodians of traditional "stunts" and the inventors of new
ones. Since their abolition these functions have devolved upon
the Junior Societies. The decadence of the old-fashioned hazing
and the existence of an edict against street "horsing" has limited
all this sort of thing chiefly to the society houses and has put it
on a rather higher plane — a mental procedure, one might say.
But in spite of the fact that street "horsing" has been forbidden,
the temptation for the escorts of the neophyte to make his charge
or charges perform for the amusement of the spectators is too
great to be resisted. "Fagging" services are required of the can-
didates. This is a late revival of an ancient custom. Each man
has a master to whom he is appointed for a certain period be-
tween his pledging and his initiation. This master he is sup-
posed to wait upon during portions of the day. He must wake
him at a stated hour, prepare his bath, bring each morning a fresh
boutonniere, his mail and his breakfast, if need be. He must
walk behind his master in the rounds of the Campus, keeping a
respectful four paces in the rear.
There are other things the candidate for election must do. He
may have, perhaps, literary aspirations. In that case he may be
asked to deliver an oration to the moon and in his highest flights
of imagination he is interrupted with deprecatory remarks re-
flecting on his ability on all points, his truth, and his sanity.
Passersby are frequently in doubt about the latter and
have been known to take another street to avoid what
seemed to them a real madman. Another trial for a literary
candidate is to have him embrace a tree or post and murmur
words of deep aflFection, while instructions such as these are shot
JUNIOR SOCIETY FUN 751
;at him from his tormentors: ''Louder/' "Get better," "Take off
[that smile and stick it on the tree," "Louder yet." Soon the un-
( fortunate man is shouting endearments to his wooden friend.
Sometimes he is told to "say it in verse." The result is some ex-
temporaneous lines of doubtful literary value.
A candidate is sometimes asked if he has a besetting sin. He
usually answers in the affirmative and is then instructed to place
[the sin before him in the arena and wrestle with it until he over-
comes it. This he proceeds to do and he is coached from the side
lines until he has laid the enemy low to the satisfaction of his
keepers.
A favorite amusement is to have the candidate, especially if his
[habits of life are not strictly in accord with his statements, har-
i.angue his hearers on the "evils of the liquor traffic." While he
is thus engaged, he is enjoined to "Put in more gestures." "Put
them in with your feet," "Be sarcastic and cutting," "Now be
eloquent," "Now forceful," "Now persuasive," "Now illustrate
[and build up a climax." Sometimes he is told to put in his own
[applause at appropriate junctures, and to whistle after every
loun. It is a hard job to do all this, but if the candidate is con-
scientious he does it solemnly.
When four or five candidates can be gathered together, the
scope of their inquisitors is, of course, greatly increased and com-
[binations of all kinds are invented. One of the best seen this
rear was a representation in an open field of the discovery of
\merica. One man was Columbus, a second his crew, another the
lip and a fourth the waves. Still another was the rats and mice
iboard the ship. The man representing the waves was instructed
dash against the ship and cause it to spring aleak, which he
lid with great zeal. Columbus and his crew in company with the
[rats and mice swam ashore, that is, to the nearest fence, and
)ffered thanks for their preservation from Neptune's wrath. Just
rhat period in the discovery of America the scene represented
lone could say, not even the rats and mice. But it was all very
realistic.
Another very effective field drama seen among the many this
rear is worth a word of mention. One candidate represented a
'dog, another a cat, another a rat, and a fourth a piece of cheese.
Each was instructed to make the characteristic noise of the thing
represented, including the cheese. When this had gone on for a
little while, the rat sprang on the cheese, the cat on the rat and
the dog, who was in this particular case a very heavy man,
pounced on the cat. The condition of the cheese, which lay at
the bottom of the heap, can be better imagined than described.
The historic picture of Washington crossing the Delaware was
impressively given with men representing the boat and the ice
and Washington's cloak. Some of the names given the candidates
were startlingly original. One man declared to astonished, but
disinterested people, that he was "The bump on the copper knob
of Arizona," another that he was "A Spanish angel, built on the
four-square plan." Some had Greek names, some Latin, and one
a combination of Chinese and Russian ending with two sneezes
and a cough which was declared the most distressing ever heard
on the Yale Campus.
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Nut Club Philosophy
BY A MEMBER OF CLUBS
(From the Yale Alumni Weekly for June 6, 1906.)
If the Campus must turn to the world outside to test and adjust
its theories, it may also be sometimes true that the world might
turn to the Campus and do a little "checking up" to its own good.
Every college and university has its many clubs of spontaneous
origin and shorter or longer life and of no conventional organiza-
tion. In them may be found some of the best expressions of
both the grave and the gay, in the natural, direct and "un-
crushed" thinking and feeling of the undergraduate. A glance at
Yale's organizations may show some of these points.
In the spring season, which is also the foolish season, with
college out of doors, a thing to be expected at any moment is
a new effervescence of the Nut Club. It is possible that this
greatest and most popular of Yale organizations is unknown to
some, to whom the word "Nut" connotes only the garnering of
ripe autumn's treasures or the harmless chestnut vender, or even
the twice told tale, but to the undergraduate, the Nut Club stands
as the symbol of joy, the great safety valve of Yale humor. The
Seniors, indeed, confuse the Nut Club with Codille, an organiza-
tion of later development which has perhaps eclipsed its predeces-
sor, but to the rest of the University the Nut Club is still the
Nut Club, and Codille's "orgies" are regarded by the average
undergraduate as merely the Nut Club blowing off steam.
But the Nut Club is more than a safety valve, it is the chief
contribution to the happiness of things in general. Its appeal is
forceful and direct. Whenever the raucous wheezings of a slide
trombone, mingled with the mellow bleating of a flute and the
thud of a tom-tom, is heard, the Campus lays aside its book with
an air of pleased anticipation, and the windows at once assume an
appearance of intense appreciation.* And whether the Nut Club
voices itself, as on Prom Day, in the form of an "antique and
horrible" parade, such as one sees in rural New England the
Fourth o' J'ly, or in the upbringing and evolution of the spineless
cactus, it is always mirthful and never unappreciated. Its heelers
are numerous and voluntary. One will keep a hen in his fire-
place to the horror of the swarthy sweep; another will fatten a
ewe lamb on the lush vegetation of the Campus, and a third will
arrange a St. Patrick's day celebration of great beauty and ex-
emplary patriotism.
The Nut Club is a great blessing. Many undergraduates might
— with their nerves unstrung by over-study and late sittings over
their lexicons — become subject to a monomania; they might be
harassed by the haunting desire to do something foolish. Noth-
ing is more easily done. They are simply heeling the Nut Club.
If one is possessed by a wild yearning to grow spineless cacti or
tend sheep with cotillion favor crooks in true Arcadian sim-
plicity, one need not worry over the idea nor oppose it as impos-
sible. There is always the Nut Club.
THE NINETY-SIX HALL OF FAME 753
Every community should have its Nut Club. Think of the diffi-
culties and explanations it would do away with, and the humor
it would add to life. If the stern outside world could take its
Nut Club in the proper spirit, asylums for the insane would
vanish, life would lose its hardness, and great businesses could
be carried on, not with a glum and dour methodicalism, but in a
whirl of light-hearted gaiety. The notion is distinctly French;
it would appeal to the people of France, that country which is,
perhaps, most in need of an excuse for gaiety, of a safety valve,
of a Nut Club.
PHILOLOGICAL WORK OF CODILLE
I have said that the Nut Club, originally a separate and dis-
tinct organization, is now more or less merging into the Codille.
The object of Codille was, in the first place, the simplification of
English as she is spoke. How much plainer and more forceful
does our talk become when every action, object or idea may be
represented by "codille" or "skidoo," and what a boon to our
emphatic vocabulary was the accession of "fair!" *T grant you
fair," is the highest form of approbation that may answer the
appeal, "What do you grant me on that?" Thence arose, also,
the cant terms "stinkin' fair" and "grabage." All the Codille
language must be pronounced with a certain inflection which is
part of the inner mysteries of the organization. The name
Codille, by the way, was gleaned primarily from a study of the
"Rape of the Lock," the "delicious humor" of which piece is so
apparent to our instructors.
The Ninety-Six Hall of Fame
There may seem to be something superfluous in building-
separate pedestals for the members of a class, like '96,
which has ever thought Olympus its due conglomerate
abode. But even among the gods there are distinctions,
if not of merit, at least of the order in which their god-
heads are made known to men. And it was in the belief
that a ''Ninety-Six Hall of Fame," in which the niches
were constructed one by one, would possess a modicum
of interest for us in spite of the fact that its ultimate
membership must necessarily be identical with that of the
class itself, that this institution (a.d. 1902) was founded.
In that year of our Sexennial, when we peered down
inquiringly upon the face of nature, we there observed
that unmistakable expression which sits on those who see
or think of Stokes. Although the face of nature is noto-
rious for its caprice we ratified its choice. The Hall was
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opened. Stokes' portrait by Troy Kinney was given the
place of honor in our Sexennial Record, as Number One;
and the rest of us leaned back to wait, not too self-con-
sciously, for the identity of Number Two to be an-
nounced.
This spring, however, the public temper was in a state
which made it quite impossible to limit our decennial
selection to any single classmate. ''A score of suns were
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Wm
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-. Wm \
Ir-
blazing in the heavens." In this dilemma the liberal
policy was adopted of granting a simultaneous election
to all of the aforesaid score, and Kinney was formally
requested— for the further edification of posterity— to
paint each one of them in oils.
Then came the hitch. It would have been unfair to
Anson, who had suffered so atrociously at Kinney's
hands, to entrust the work to any other artist, but Kinney
would not do it. He said that he was much too busy, and
when the Secretary dusted off the office thumb-screws,
in duty bound, and set industriously to work to change
Troy's mind, he not only continued adamant, but even
discontinued his telephone and moved his studio. To
NINETY-SIX AT THE 1492 DINNER 755
make a long story short, by dint of these and other radical
tactics he finally succeeded in blocking altogether the
contemplated distribution of new laurels.
The blame having been placed where it belongs, it re-
mains only for the Secretary to express his profound
regret at this fiasco, and to present herewith two explana-
tory portraits by one of the Trojan's boyhood friends,
whereof the smaller shows our old oarsman throned in
nubibiis, painting away like hey-go-mad, while the other
depicts him in the act of attempting a wholly unauthor-
ized entrance into the Hall of Fame himself.
Ninety-Six at the 1492 Dinner
A PLEA FOR NON-REUNION COMMENCEMENTS
Commencement Tuesday of 1905 saw a new custom
definitely inaugurated at New Haven— the "1492" dinner,
a general banquet for the many graduates who are back
for the ball game, the boat race, or to receive honorary
degrees. In point of numbers the first dinner was a suc-
cess ; but the food, the delay in service, and the speeches,
left much to be remedied. The 1492 dinner of 1906 was
much better : the tiresome speeches were done away with,
and past entertainers like Runyon and Chappell, appeared
instead.
In 1905 there were present from '96 thirteen out-of-
town men, Allen, Coit, Curtiss, J. Gaines, G. HolHster,
Jackson, Mallon, McLanahan, Neale, Noon, Sheldon, S.
Thorne, Jr., S. B. Thorne, and, from New Haven,
Birely, McLaren, Nettleton and F. Robbins. DeSibour
and S. Day were in New Haven but were not seen at the
dinner. Shortly after ten the speeches were begun, and
they rivaled in length even the introductions of the toast-
master. Our class passed on to Mory's.
There the Chairman of the '99 Sexennial appeared, and
with delightful hospitality had the velvet cup filled and
refilled in honor of '96. The member of our Decennial
Committee who was present was deluged with good
advice concerning the Decennial dinner — "Have it on
time," "Cut out the fried celluloid crabs," "State on the
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menu whether the soup is hot or cold," "Furnish life
preservers for the little necks on ice," etc. The bountiful
repast at the '96 Decennial dinner and the lack of
speeches may no doubt be traced to the lessons learned
at 1492.
In non-reunion years at New Haven there are always
a dozen or two '96 men around the Graduates' Club,
where our faculty members, Robbins and Farr and Sche-
vill, and others, entertain us. One does not see the Class
Philosopher, but if (in an unguarded moment) you men-
tion his name to undergraduates they will a tale unfold.
Berdan, too, has settled in New Haven since he earned
his Ph.D. by rehabilitating "Grover" Cleveland in that
personally conducted trip of his to the British Museum,
to consult texts there which he scorned to read at the
Lenox Library. It is told of him that he opens his first
recitation each year by writing on the blackboard, "My
name is Berdan."
Reunion years are strenuous at the best. Think of the
long winter nights spent in preparation, going over in
the class album the faces of our dear classmates. "Has
Scudder still a beard or is he now clean shaven ?" "Does
Gus Perkins wear his a la Van Dyke or a la Andy Phil-
lips ?" Then there is the question of first names and nick-
names. At the Hutchinson this June the Chairman of
our Junior Prom Committee, who of all others should
know us intimately, had the audacity on arriving to work
the worn out "Hello old man," "How are you old chap,"
"Glad to see you old fellow" until some of our members
were fain to demand a more intimate recognition. The
reception accorded Bank President Vennum was still
more touching: even the admirable Bond and Magnate
Sawyer welcomed him in one breath with "Hello Knee-
land" and "Hello Yeaman." Luckily the class costume
saves one many a mistake, for a hearty grasp of the hand
and "when did you come up?" (although you may have
arrived on the same train and thought he looked familiar)
is all that is necessary, provided each dashes off hurriedly
with the safe question, "Where are the rest of the class ?"
One of our men who had come from Detroit stopped in
to see a '96 man in New York who is a member of the
Stock Exchange, and on asking the broker when he was
going up to Decennial was stunned by the answer "What
GLIMPSE OF A REUNION SCENE AT HARVARD 757
Decennial?" The silence which followed was broken
only by the ticking of the tape.
New Haven non-reunion years have a peace which is
pleasant to our advancing age. You can listen to the
bands without being driven by exponents of class spirit
to follow in the dust for miles. From twenty to thirty
of the class are always on hand. The strain and stress
of having to take in all the festivities, and the spirit which
at class reunions keeps us from going to bed through fear
of missing some of the fun or of not seeing some one
who is expected back, are absent.
Ensconsed in a comfortable chair at the Graduates'
Club the clan meets and entertains and is entertained by
the reunion classes; and the fate of the University, the
failures of other classes and the doings of the "famous"
Class of '96 are discussed at leisure. Come to New Haven
next spring and try it. The writer has not missed a Com-
mencement since he graduated, and knows of the joys
whereof he speaks.
G. X. McLanahan.
Glimpse of a Reunion Scene at Harvard
(From the 1906 Class Report of Harvard '91)
. ... In due course of time the island (miscalled Misery) hove
in sight, and hosts of evidently enthusiastic '91 men, in all atti-
tudes, were seen hastening from all parts to the landing-place.
At the psychological moment the cannon thundered, and '86
landed in serried ranks.
After the class, to the strains of "When Reuben Comes to
Town," had marched and countermarched in review before the
class of '91, the two classes drew up in lines facing each other.
The presentation of the loving-cup from '86 to '91 was the ex-
ercise then in order.
Mr. O. B. Roberts, '86, addressed the class of '91 as follows :
"Gentlemen of the class of '91 :" [Great applause.] "When you
first applied your infant lips to the abundant bosom of our Alma
Mater, the class of '86 had already passed into history, and its
scattered members were wobbling down the corridors of time.
'86 and '91 suffered mutual deprivation from the fortuitous cir-
cumstance that neither was in college while the other class was
there also. But it is never too late to mend. Had we followed
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the unhappy custom of previous years and other classes and
flocked alone, '86 might now be consuming shrimp salad on Mar-
blehead Neck, while '91 pursued the cows of Misery from hole to
hole, and congested the ledgers of the recording angel in their
progress from bunker to bunker. How much more gratifying to
the convivial souls here gathered, to have stretched the hand of
fraternity across the sea, to have united under this propitious sky,
full of cheering sentiments for the present and of bright assur-
ances for our future concord !" [Vociferous applause, assisted by
Higgins, '91, and a prancing Percheron.]
"We bring you to-day more than greeting. Full of enthusiastic
confidence that the classes of '86 and '91 will henceforth reel
through the avenues of fame inseparably linked together, we
bring you a token of that general esteem which has prompted
us to accept your hospitality to-day.
"Mr. Garceau: to you, as a brilliant and worthy representative
of the class of '91, I, on behalf of the class of '86, present this
massive silver loving-cup." [Immense cheering.]
The brass bands escorting the respective classes here sim-
ultaneously played different tunes. Elsewhere, harmony pre-
vailed. When quiet was partially restored, Mr. A. J, Garceau,
'91, said:
"Mr. Roberts and Gentlemen of the class of '86: We welcome
you to this mysterious island, where misery has no roosting-
place. We have been here since ten o'clock this morning, and,
although we have knocked off huge chunks, there remains still
enough for all. We have placed in conspicuous parts of the
island, in the many points of the compass, as many kegs of beer,
which are open for your close inspection.
"We accept the rich gift you bring, and thank you as only one
class can thank another that has such bonds of friendship and
affectionate sympathy as ours has for yours. For surely in our
aquatic endeavors we are ever as one, for we, of all other classes
alone, are unique in our racing careers.
"We accept your rich gift, and may the years that roll on find
this loving-cup always full of good cheer for us and for you.
"And now we present you with the freedom of this beautiful
island, and all that is within and around it, and I call upon Jacob
Wendell to perform this part of the ceremony." [Prolonged
cheering.]
Mr. J. Wendell, Jr., '91, then stepped forward, bearing a
golden key upon a charger, and with matchless grace and
eloquence delivered an oration worthy of Demosthenes or Cicero.
Unfortunately for posterity, the official stenographer was ab-
sent, for the moment, from his post of duty, and no report of
the oration is extant. Mr. Wendell has been appealed to to
furnish a copy of this immortal effort, but he, alas! would reply
only as follows:
The Colonel's Old Lady
{See page 221)
> or THF
UNIVERSITY
OF
c>^:iroR>i^
A LETTER FROM HENRY VAN DYKE 759
"I was so overcome by my feelings and by the impressiveness
of the occasion, that my memory of the words (?) I let fall at
the time is decidedly jarred. Suffice it to say that my speech
came out in chunks, and if any of them fell on the aural sen-
sibilities of the assembled bunch, and split thereon into any frag-
ments approaching sense or intelligence, I shall promptly make a
strenuous endeavor to masticate, swallow, and digest any one, or
all, of my nether garments, as may seem fit."
When Mr. Roberts, '86, had received the freedom of Misery
in the token of a golden key, he remarked :
''Gentlemen of '86 and '91 : The occasion inspires an idea.
Let the amity which characterizes this meeting be perpetuated;
let us erect a sanctuary whereto all members of the classes of '86
and '91 shall be privileged to enter, while a dismal and disap-
pointed world howls outside. I am moved to propose that here
we form a sacred and secret organization, to be known to the
elect as the Cup and Key, to which all members of '86 and '91
shall be, ipso facto, ex officio, and sui generis, in propriis per-
sonis, at once and forthwith admitted. And, that we brethren
-each may know the other hereafter, let us wear, not lightly and
before the eyes of all men, as Eli wears his pin, but tattooed
clearly upon some usually unexposed and inconspicuous part of
the person, the effigies of the Cup and Key: the Key that un-
locks the door of friendship, the Cup that cheers within, and
inebriates or not according to the capacity and previous con-
dition of the patient."
The resolution was adopted unanimously on the spot, and the
mystic brotherhood cemented.
A Letter from Henry van Dyke
PRINCETON B.A. 'y^)
YALE D.D. '96, ETC.
AvALON, Princeton, New Jersey.
My Dear Sir:— Your kind letter and the luminous
record of the Yale Class of 1896, are found here on my
return from England.
I 'm proud to be counted in with such a class, even as
a D.D., and sure that my Alma Mater will approve of her
son's having a good time in such company.
After all, one thing that we college men feel, when we
get out into the world, is the community of interest which
hinds us all together, and enables us to understand one
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another, and helps us to work side by side for good
causes. We speak the same language, and we have the
same fine old crusted jokes, and we sing the same antique
songs, with minor variations. This makes cooperation
easier, and lends a flavor of hilarity to the cultivation
of the civic virtues.
I 'm glad that Yale and Princeton are such good
friends. And it 's my private and personal opinion, based
on the only experience that I have, that there never has
been a better class to belong to than 1873 in the latter and
1896 in the former.
The arithmetical difference between them must be my
excuse for the stern parental tone of this letter. You see
this is what you have to put up with when you take in,
as your youngest-oldest member.
Yours cordially,
Henry van Dyke.
September 29, 1904.
Statistics
76X
I saw then in my Dream, that . . . there met him
two men, making haste to go back; to whom Christian
spake as follows:
— Whither are you going?
— They said, Back, back; and we would have you do
so too if either life or peace is prized by you. . .
— But what have you seen? said Christian.
— Seen? Why, the Valley itself, which is as dark as
pitch; we also saw there the Hobgoblins, Satyrs, and
Dragons of the Pit; we heard also in that Valley a
continual howling and yelling, as of a people under un-
utterable misery, who there sat bound in affliction and
irons; and over that Valley hangs the discouraging
clouds of Confusion. . . .
— Then said Christian, I perceive not yet, by what
you have said, but that this is my way to the desired
Haven.
— Be it thy way; we will not chuse it for ours. — So
they parted, and Christian went on his way, but still
with his Sword drawn in his hand, for fear lest he
should be assaulted. — Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.
Preface by Professor Norton
The value of the systematic collection of statistics for selected
groups of men and women has been demonstrated by the inves-
tigations pursued, notably, by Sir Francis Galton, Professor Karl
Pearson/ and Professor G. Udney Yale. That such statistics
when properly tabulated and skilfully analyzed throw con-
clusive light upon the profoundest problems of heredity, such
as homotyposis and alternative inheritance, and also upon the
problems of evolution, such as prepotency, natural selection, re-
productive selection and variation, is evidenced by the results
attained by the mathematical school of biology. The practical
applications are no less important in life insurance and medicine
than in several other industries and sciences. These statistical
investigations are now being carried on at many universities.
No groups of men present a more promising field for the sys-
tematic and accurate collection of such statistics than the gradu-
ates of universities. The machinery for collection already ex-
ists. The great necessity is a systematic basis for collection, and
for presentation; for unless such statistics are tabulated at the
time of their collection so that the exact facts are recorded man
by man, great scientific utility is lost. In the customary treat-
ment of such statistics by the methods of averages or medians,
the essential relations existing between the various elements or
groupings are entirely destroyed. To be able to state that the
"average age at which sons died" was forty years as compared
with say sixty for parents, may possess interest; it possesses
little scientific significance. But to be able to derive from the
statistics the relation that sons tend to inherit length of life
from parents, and, more, to be able to predict from the ages of
parents and grandparents at death the life span of sons, is of
practical value. When sufficient statistics are in existence, in-
numerable other relations of scientific utility may be derived.
The accompanying statistics of the Class of 1896 of Yale Col-
lege, represent an attempt to combine interesting personal rela-
tionships with the more permanent and important scientific uses
^ For additional information the reader should consult the various papers
by Pearson and his followers, which have appeared during the last ten
jrears in the "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society" and in the
""Biometrika" of London.
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764 STATISTICS
to which in later years these statistics may be put. They have
been collected as to the facts and tabulated as to the forms, with
a view to maximizing their future scientific utility.
THE IMPORTANCE OF CLASS STATISTICS
In connection with studies in the theory of evolution, attempts
have been, and are now being, made to obtain records of families
for several generations to serve as data from which exact laws
may eventually be deduced.
Within ten years the laws of evolution, as developed by
Darwin and Spencer in their great topical treatises, have in many
instances been reduced to exact scientific laws. To illustrate,
Pearson has shown that length of life is inherited from parents
and grandparents by children; and by basing predictions upon
the ages at death of ancestors by the use of certain set formulae,
we may, within comparatively narrow limits, predict the average
age at death of their descendants with an accuracy far greater
than that given by the ordinary life insurance mortality tables.
So, also, it has shown that fertility and fecundity as measured
by the number of offspring are inherited. These two dominant
tendencies in inheritance, or homotyposis, may be said to have
resulted in the new theory of reproductive selection, superseding
in importance the Darwinian theory of natural selection as applied
to man.
This theory is in brief: That certain strains in the population
possessing superior vital energy as to length of life and fertility
and fecundity, swiftly and silently supersede, by increase in
number, at an increasing rate in successive generations, the de-
scendants of the less vigorous strains. By the application of
these theories the fall of empires and the rise of new centers of
social activities are now commencing to be adequately under-
stood.
It is, then, because of the importance of providing statistical
material capable of throwing light upon these great fundamental
problems, that the statistics of habitat, marriage, duration of
life, and of occupation for college classes should be so arranged
and tabulated that they may prove of value in scientific investiga-
tions.
The unusual value of such statistical collections is due to the
fact that whereas statistics of any one character can be readily
obtained for some one group, it is extremely difficult to secure
collections for a given group or to find any group completely de-
scribed for many characters. These '96 statistics cover for a
selected group the characters of life, death, marriage, fecundity,
habitat, and occupation.
J. Pease Norton ('99).
I
Editorial Memoranda
The number of graduate members of the Class is 278.
The following tabulated matter gives facts concerning the
graduates only, except some of the "Additional Tables" on pages
874-890, which include ex-members where it is so specified in the
titles.
No facts of later date than June 30th, 1906, are included in
any of these tables, which therefore cover an even ten-year
period. This arrangement has been adhered to in order to
facilitate comparison with the tables of other classes. The
failure of some classes either to date their tables or to confine
the contents to an even period has often in the past made their
statistical work partly or wholly useless for comparative purposes.
The tables for habitat and occupation in this volume are much
more nearly complete than is the table of vital and marriage
statistics (where many dates of birth for mothers are lacking),
and they present a wider field for comment. It is hoped that
in the future records of '96, in addition to bringing these or equi-
valent tables up to date, the gaps which they now exhibit inay be
partly filled. It is a comfort to recall Dean Wright's reminder,
that a class secretary ought to consider each of his imperfect
publications as a mere preliminary edition of that ideal book
which he hopes some day to compass. Meantime the present vol-
ume, despite its imperfections, should help to show that the wide
range of genealogical inquiries, now being made by class secre-
taries, may well be conducted with an eye to their statistical pos-
sibilities.
It should be added that the usual "Marriage and Birth Record,"
in which most secretaries are at the pains to recapitulate the
names in full of all the wives and children, has been omitted
from this volume. The date of each man's marriage and the
number of his sons and daughters is given in the table of mar-
riage statistics, and the place of each man's marriage is given in
the habitat table. Persons who wish to ascertain the name of
any wife or child will therefore be obliged to turn to the man's
biography, instead of finding it placed before them under the
separate classification of "Statistics." The biographies, of course,
also give the date and place of all marriages and births.
765
Vital Statistics
1
Cl&ssmate
Father
1
Mother
Biitb
Death
Life
Span
Birth
Death
Ufe
Span
Biith
Death
LiJ
Spi
Abercrombib
May 12, 1874
July a3, 1831
March 2, 1842.
Adams, B.
Sept. 30, 1873
June 21, 183a
April aa, 190a
69.8a
Jan. 24, 1835
Dec. 29, 1901
6&5
AOAMS. J. C.
Feb. 7, 1874
Jan. 89, 184a
June 24, 1845
i
Adams, M. C.
Jan. a6, 187a
April at, 1837
Feb. 10, 1843
Alexander
May 10, 1875
Nov. 16, 1839
June as, 1904
64.60
Feb. 19, 1845
Allen
July as, 1873
Dec. 7, t840
June 10, 1841
Alung
Aug. 8, 1874
Oct. 84, 1841
Dec. 24, 1844
Jan. II, 1903
S«.o
Alvokd
Not. 19, 1869
April 10. i8as
Oct. 4. 1870
45-48
Jan. 86, 1830
Archbald
D9C 31, 1873
Feb. t3. 1838
Aug. 3, 1841
•Armbteonc, W
June 4, 1874
Nov. t a, 1896
aa. 44
Julya9,t840
Feb. 9. 1850
Arnold
May 5. 1874
Aug. 8, 1814
Aug. s. 1899
84.98
Jan. 30, 1849
Arnstbin
Jan. as, 1877
May8.i&4t
Jan. IS, X853
AUCHINCLOU
Dec. 13, 1874
Sept. 99. 1847 ^
March 13, 1898
44.45
Feb. 4, 1847
Bacon
July as, 187s
May 6, 1834
Jan. 99, 1900
65.70
Sept. a4, 183s
Baker, H. D.
Feb. a6, 187a
Septii.i84t
Oct. 6, 1903
62.07
1873
T
Baker, 0. C.
March 5, 1874
April 10, t84S
Feb. 8, 1849
Baker, W. G.
Dec. ai, 1874
March 2, 184a
1847
766
i
Marriage Statistics
Classmate
Parents
Dates of and age at
Marriage »
Sons
Daugh
ters
Dates of
Marriage
Span
Sons
Daugh
ters
Age at 1
Father
klarriage
Mother
32-13
March 25, 1869
4
37.66
27.06
32.77
Nov. 21, 1855
46.10
4
4
23.41
20.81
April 8, 1901: 27.17
I
(2) May 21, 1872
I
30-31
26.89
Jan. 5, 1898 : 25.93
I
Nov. 17, 1862
4
I
25.53
19.73
3'. 14
Jan. 28, 1869
35-4°
I
4
29.20
23.93
92.g2
Feb. 13, 1867
5
I
26.18
25.67
June 15, 1899:24.84
I
Oct 10, 1867
3525
I
2
25.95
22.78
Dec. 27, 1900: 31.10
I
Oct. 12, 1856
13.96
5
I
31-50
26.70
Oct. 10, 1900: 26.76
I
•
Jan. 25, 1865
5
3
26.94
23.47
32.07
Feb. 9, 1870
3
2
29.52
20.00
May 22, 1901 : 26.87
Nov. 22, 1871
27.69
2
57.28
22.80
Nov. 19, 1901 : 24.81
2
July 26, 1874
4
2
33-21
21.52
Feb. 14, 18991:24.17
April 14, 1903 :
2
May 21, 1872
19.8
7
•
24.64
25.29
May 14, 1903: 27.79
I
I
Feb. 18, 1864
35.83
2
2
29.77
28.39
"^4.34
1 861
1
4
2
20.
?
June 26, 1901: 27.30
Feb. 8, 1873
5
2
27.82
24.00
?/.J/
1867
2
25.
20.
'Italic figures in this column are ages of bachelors as of June 30, 1906.
*"' -' rife *■ ' "
First wife died Sept. 3, 18
767
768
VITAL
STATISTICS
Classmate
Father
Mother
Birth
Death
Life
Span
Birth
DeaUt
Life
Span
Birth
Death
14
Sp
Baldwin, A. R.
Nov. II, 1874
Oct. II, 1834
Dec. 7. 1901
67.15
June 4, 1844
Sept 8, 1881
37.
Baldwin, M.
June 33, 1873
Feb. 33, 1830
July 18, 1890
60.40
Feb. 3, 1838
Feb. 3, 1891
SJ
Ball
Aug. 36, 1875
July 18, 1838
Oct 33, 1837
Nov. 16, 1900
Ballentinb
SepL 4, 1871
Nov. 39, 1833
Sept 33, 1899
66.80
?
?
Beard
March 8, 1876
^°^•Ai•ril^^^898
6437
May 7, 1845
Beaty
Jan. 19. 1874
"'''^'ifjj.1896
?
May I, 1850
•Belo
Aug. 4; 1873 ^
Feb. 37, 1906
3a. 56
May 37, 1839
Apnl 19, 1901
61.88
Dec. 3, 1846
Bbmis
March 3, 1874
Dec. 39, 1846
June 3, 1875
t
Benedict
March aa, 1873
June 15, 1845
May la, 1850
BXNIfBTT
Feb. .4. 1870
June 37, 1838
March ti. 1898
59-70
March 37, 1844
Jan. 35, 1885
40.(
Bbntlby
Oct 6, 1875
•i8«8
Dec. 17, 1840
March 6, 1904
63.-
Bbrdan
July 9, 1873
Oct 33, 1834
Nov. 13, 1887
63.05
Dec. 33, 1835
Bbrgin
March 18. 1875
1840
1843
Bbrry
S«pt 5, 1874
Oct aj, 184s
Jan. 4, 1854
BiLLARD
Oct 18, 1873
July 18, 184a
Jan. ai, 1843
Bingham
April 13, 1873
Jan. I, 1845 ^
Dec. a, 1877
32.91
Nov. 3, 1845
BiRBLY
Dec. 13, 1874
Aug. 9, 1850
July 31, 1853
Bond
Nov. 83, 1873
Maya.tSsa
Oct 7, 1836
BOVER
Nov. 13, 1869
June 3 1845
Jan. 13, 1896
50.60
Sept a8, 1853
Brastow
Oct 10, 1874
March 33, 1834
June 33, 1846
Brbckenridge
March 4, 1873
Feb. 19, 1843
June 30, 1843
June 6, 1900
57'
MARRIAGE STATISTICS
769
Classmate
Parents
Dates of and age at
Marriage »
Sons
Daugh
ters
Dates of
Marriage
Span
Sons
Daugh
ters
Age at I
Father
Marriage
Mother
Jan. 7, 1903: 28.15
June 4, 1868
13.26
2
I
33-64
24.00
June 20, 1899 : 26.98
I
July 10, 1858
32.02
5
I
28.38
20.43
June 10, 1903: 27.78
1
June 13, 1 861
39-42
3
4
22.89
2363
Oct. 23, 1901: 30.13
I
2
?
9
2
4
?
?
June 18, 1898: 22.27
I
I
August 18, 1868
29.63
2
3
34-73
23.28
32.44
July. 1872
V
2
29.41
22.16
June 12, 1900: 26.84
2
June 30, 1868
32.79
^
I
29.09
21.57
June 12, 1901: 27.27
I
Nov. 24, 1870
452
r
I
23.89
27-
3327
April 16, 1872
2
I
26.82
21.92
Nov. 10, 1903: 33.71
I
Nov. 29, 1866
18.15
I
I
28.42
22.66
May 10, 1905: 29.59
Dec. 24, 1870
33-20
2
42.
30.02
June 25, 1902: 28.95
2
(2) June 22, 1866
21.39
2
X
41-65
30.49
Oct. 26, 1903: 28.60
■
June 30, 1866
6
3
26.
23-
May 19, 1906: 31.70
Oct. 29, 1873
4
I
28.01
19.81
32.tq
May 26, 1868
3
I
25.84
26.34
May 22, 1899: 26.11
I
I
Sept 15, 1868
9.21
3
23.70
22.85
Jan. 31, 1900: 25.13
2
Oct 21, 1873
I
2
23.20
20.25
3259
March 10, 1858
2
2
25-84
21.42
Sept. 22, 1897: 27.85
I
3
March 14, 1869
26.82
X
23-77
16.46
3 1 71
May 15, 1872
3
38.14
25.88
Oct 26, 1898: 25.64
^
Nov. 10, 1868
31-56
2
26.72
26.38
• Italic figures in this column are ages of bachelors as of June 30, 1906.
770
VITAL
STATISTICS
Classmate
Father
Mother
Birth
Death
Life
Span
Birth
Death
Life
Span
Birth
Death
Life
Span
Brinsmade
Nov. 7, 1873
March 6, 1848
Jan. 21, 1895
46.86
June 23, 1850
Brittain
Oct. 21, 1874
Nov. 30, 184X
Dec. 13, 1846
"Bkokaw
Jan. 16, 1874
July 13, 190a
28.48
March X, 1846
March 25, 1851
Brown, A.
Sept 25, 1872
July 3, 184s
July 20, 1905
60.05
Feb. 5, 1851
Brown, H. S.
Nov. 26, 1872
July 5, 1843
^""■^^^,.88,
43-91
Brown, W. F.
Aug. 27, 1873
Sept. 12, 1848
Nov. 22, 1849
Buck
Feb. 10. 1875
Oct 31, 1826
Sept 10, 1904
7787
March 5. 1836
May 5, 1905
69.16
BUIST
May 18. 187a
Sept 4. 1838
Oct 21, 1840
BULKLKV
Nov. 4, 1873
Feb. 92, 1833
Aug. 31, 1893
61.53
Nov. 16, 1832
Feb. x6, 1892
59-a5
BURNHAM
Nov. 24, 1870
July 19. 1818
July 3. 1883
70.94
Nov. 13, 1831
March 10, 1897
65.24
Burton-Smith
Feb. 15. 1875
Dec. 30. 1838
July 4. 1894
65.5
Aug. 5, 1840
Cahn
Nov. 10, 1875
Aug. i6k 1837
April 9,1851
Carlbton
Dec. 38, 1873
June 10, 1832
Aug. 8, 1903
70.16
Feb. 13, 1835
Carlky
April 17. 1869
Aug., 1831
June 30, 1895
?
«x84o
Jan., 1905
?
Carroll
Julya,i87i
March 37, 1837
Aug. 36, 1891
5441
April 17, 1843
Gary
Oct. 16, 1873
July «, 1843
Aug. 37, 1888
45"
Jan. 21, 1845
Nlay 16, 1898
5«-«3
Chacb
March 11, 1872
Feb. 13, 1837
March 0, 1843
Oct 5, 1904
61.56
Chandlbr
March 23, 1874
Sept 5, 1839
T
March 22, 1903
t
Chapman
Feb. 22, 1875
Oct 17, 1844
Feb. 4, 1850
Jan. 12, 1898
47-93
Charnley
Jan. a7, 1874
April IS, 1844
Feb. II, 1905
60.81
Jan. 3, 185a
*Chbnby
May 26, 1875
Jan. 7, 1900
24.60
June 5, 1833
Sept 25, 1840
1
MARRIAGE STATISTICS
771
Classmate
Parents
Dates of and age at
Marriage*
Sons
Daugh
ters
Dates of
Marriage
Span
Sons
Daugh
ters
Age at
Father
Marriage
Mother
June 3, 1903: 29.56
■
Oct. 26, 1872
22.23
I
24.63
22.34
3i(>S
Jan. 5, 1865
4
23.10
18.06
June 15, 1899': 25.41
Jan. 9, 1872
3
25.84
20.78
33 -7^
Oct., 1868
?
I
23-25
17.66
33-59
Dec. 4, 1867
14-
24.41
29.91
Nov. 21, 1901: 28.23
I
Dec. 2, 1871
23.22
22.03
Oct. 6, 1903: 28.65
I
I
Nov. 8, 1866
37.83
2
I
40.05
30.67
Feb. 27, 1906: 33.76
May 22, 1863
6
4
24.71
22.58
Oct. 10, 1900: 26.92
■
1
June, 1859
9
3
2
27.33
26.58
Oct. 4, 1899: 28.85
Feb. 8, 1857
26.40
3
I
44.54
25.23
Jan. 24, 1906: 30.93
July 12, 1859
3496
8
30.52
18.92
30(>3
Feb. 2, 1875
2
2
37.46
23.81
3350
August 8, i860
42.
4
3
28.16
25.48
37 20
1866
?
5
35-
26.
3498
Oct. 4, 1863
27.88
4
4
26.51
20.46
Nov. 11, 1903: 30.07
March 10, 1871
17.46
2
.
27.64
26.13
3430
August 16, 1865
39-14
3
28.50
22.43
3227
Nov. 25, 1868
34-32
2
I
29.22
?
3135
April 2, 1874
23-77
3
I
29-45
24.16
32.42
Oct. 22, 1872
32-3
I
2
28.51
20.79
3i.og
Nov. 3, 1863
8
4
31.41
23.10
I Wife died Oct. 28, 1900.
Italic figures in this column are ages of bachelors as of June 30, 1906.
772
VITAL
STATISTICS
Classmate
Father
Mother
Birth
Death
Life
Span
Birth
Death
Life
Span
Birth
Death
Life
Span
Chickerinc
Feb. 19, 1875
July, 1846
Dec. 27, 1899
?
Aug 24, 1845
March 12, 1875
2954
Chittenden
June 27, 1872
1838
1846
Clark, T. B.
July 10, 1873
June 30, 1831
Oct. 4, 1884
53-26
Dec. 3, 1830
Clark, W. H.
Jan. 20, 1872
Sept. 20, 1846
Nov. 14, 1904
58.15
Dec. 12, 1849
Cochran
Feb. 28, 1874
1837
1901
?
?
COIT
March 28, 1873
March 29, 1838
July 3, 1878
40.26
June 8, 1843
COLBMAN
April 24, 1875
cSepi. 6, 1844
ei850
May, 1891
(or June?)
?
Colgate
May 6, 1873
March 22, 1822
April 23. 1897
75.08
Aug. 5, 1829
Oct. 8, 1891
62,17
COLLENS
Oct. 14, 1873
Oct. 14, 1845
Dec. 21, 1883
38.18
May 13, 1852
Collins, E. D.
Dec. 17, 1869
Oct. 29, 1839
Oct. 9, 1873
33-93
June 16, 1848
COLTON
Dec. 22, 1873
April 24, 1839
Jan. 11, 1841
Feb. I, 1890
49-05
CONKLIN
Oct. 10, 1874
Feb. 9, 1843
March 11, 1843
April 7, 1892
49.07
CONLEY
June 8, 1872
April 3, 1834
1835
COONLBY
May 29, 1874
July 12, 1844
July 28, 1849
CORBITT
Feb. X7, 1873
1847
Nov., 1889
?
1848
Cross, H. P.
Sept. 29, 1874
Sept. 22, 1844
June 17, 1842
Cross, W. R.
June 8, 1874
Nov. 3, 184s
Aug. 70, T847 ^^
May 14, 1883
35-70
CURTISS
July 23, 1874
June 12, 1845
May I, 1902
56.87
April 30, 1850
*Damon
June I, 1873
Sept. 27, 1904
31.32
March 13, 1845
Feb. 16, 1847
Davis, A. S.
March 2, 1873
May 25, 1844
Jan. 20, 1851
Feb. 18, 189s
44.08
Davis, E. L.
Feb. 18, 1874
Oct. II, 1836
March 9, 1901
64.41
Dec. 16, 1839
MARRIAGE STATISTICS
773
Classmate
Parents
Dates of and |ige at
Marriage *
Sons
Daugh
ters
Dates of ,
Marriage
Span
Sons
Daugh
ters
Age at
Father
Marriage
Mother
July 6, 1901 : 26.37
Sept. 9, 1873
1-5
I
1
I
27.16
28.04
Feb. 16, 1904: 31.63
•
1865
2
27.
19.
32-9(>
Sept. 14, 1854
30.05
7
2
23.20
23-77
June 26, 1902 : 30.43
I
Sept. 20, 1869
35-15
2
23.00
19.76
32.33
C1870
9
3
3
33-
?
3323
June 18, 1872
6.04
2
34-22
29.03
June 25, 1901: 26.17
2
C1870
9
3
2
26.
20.
April 25, 1903: 29.96
I
March 30, 1853
38-51
6
2
31.02
23.64
May 20, 1903: 29.59
I
Dec. 26, 1872
10.97
3
27.20
20.61
Julys, 1903: 33.55
I
July 4, 1866
7.26
2
26.67
18.05
Oct. 31, 1900: 26.85
I
2
Oct. 25, 1865
24.26
5
4
26.50
24.78
3171
May 18, 1869
22.93
3
26.27
26.18
34-o6
1859
4
25-
24-
Oct. 21, 1903 : 29.39
^
Jan. 2, 1873
2
28.47
23-42
JJj6
C1870
?
3
23-
22.
Dec. 17, 1896:2 ^^ ^^
April 18, 1906: =^?-^^
I
2
Nov. I, 1872
2
28.11
3037
32.06
June 3, 1872
10.93
3
26.58
2475
31-92
Oct. 21, 1868
33-52
I
23-35
18.47
Jan. 17, 1899: 25.62
2
2
Sept. 5, 1871
x
4
26.47
24-54
3332
May 23, 1872
22.72
3
27.98
21.34
Oct. 19, 1898: 24.66
April 6, 1864
36.91
I
27.48
24.30
I By second wife. 2 First wife died Jan, 3, 1904.
Italic figures in this column are ages of bachelors as of June 30, 1906.
774
VITAL
STATISTICS
I
Classmate
Father
Mother 1
Birth
Death
Life
Span
Birth
Death
Life
Span
Birth
Death
Spa,
Day, C. S.
Nov. i8, 1874
Aug. 9, 1844
Dec. 8, 1850
Day, S.
Sept. 7, 1874
Oct. 28, 1838
Oct 12, I9OI
62.94
Sept 20, 1842
Dayton
March 7, 1873
Sept 14, 1814
Sept I, 1891
76-95
Aug. 10, 1830
May 12, 1905
74.7'
Dean
May 16, 187s
Oct 18, 1838
March 18, 1852
Deforest
Sept. 5, 1873
AprU 25, 1848
Feb. 13, 1851
Denison
Aug. 28, 1873
Aug. 24, 1837
Feb. 8, 1848
deSibour
Dec. 23, 1872
Aug. 7, 1821
April 6, 1885
63.66
Aug. 9, 1840
1
DeWitt
Dec. 26, 1873
Aug. 4. 1839 ^
Aug. 31, 1893
5407
July X, 1839
Dickbrman
Nov. 23, 1874
June 5, 1843
July 22, 1843
Douglass
May 6, 1873
June 20, 1836
July 20, 1901
65.08
Jan. 10, 1838
May 21, 1892
54.36
Drown
Dec. 17, 1874
Dec. 9, 1839
Sept 17, 1841
DURFBB
Jan. 26, 1875
May 4, 1852
May 7, 1852
Sept., 1884
f
Eagle
May 12, 1872
June II. 1818
March 17. 1886
67.76
July I, 1813
July 3, 1883
Eldridge
Nov. 8, 1875
Feb. 27, 1842
May I, 1844
Farr
Sept 2, 1872
Feb. 13, 1819
Sept. 23, 190X
82.60
May 21, 1832
Field
March 22, 1873
Aug., 1820
Aug. 31, 1872
?
May 1, 1834
*Fincke
March 29, 1873
March 19, 1906
32.96
June 16, 1844
Nov. II, 1890
46.40
Dec. 22, 1844
Fisher
Oct. 30, 1873
Dec. 27, 1845
April 14, 1849
Fitzhugh
Jan. 22, 1873
Aug. 22, 1838
July 23, 1842
Flaherty
Nov. 7, 1873
March, 1834
April 25, 1838
Oct. 13, 1904
66.46
Foote
Jan. 3, 1874
Nov. 27, 1841
Dec. 4, 1846
I
MARRIAGE STATISTICS
775
Classmate
Parents
Dates of and age at
Marriage *
Sons
Daugh
ters
Dates of
Marriage
Span
Sons
Daugh
ters
Age at
Father ".
Vlarriage
Mother
31.61
June 25, 1873
5
28.87
20.54
31.81
Dec, 1868
?
2
.
30.16
26.25
Dec. 30, 1900: 27.81
2
■
May 4, 1854
37-32
2
2
39-63
23.70
31.12
May 27, 1874
3
■
35-6o
22.19
Oct. 6, 1904 : 31.08
Nov. 12, 1872
2
2
24-54
21.74
32.83
March 21, 1869
3
I
31-57
21.12
Nov. 5, 1898: 25.85
2
May 22, i860
24.86
3
I
38.78
19.77
Jan. 8, 1906: 32.03
Oct. 4, 1864
28.90
2
2
25.16
25-25
31-59
Nov. 29, 1870
2
2
27.48
27-35
April 26, 1905: 31.96
Sept. 15, 1858
33-59
3
I
22.23
20.67
April 9, 1902: 27.31
I
I
May 10, 1871
2
2
31.42
29.64
Sept. 16, 1903: 28.63
June I, 1873
9
2
21.07
21.07
3413
1853
9
3
4
35-
20.
Sept. 20, 1900: 24.85
2
Oct. 4, 1866
2
I
24-59
22.42
33-82
Oct. 17, 1849
51-92^
4
5
30.67
17.40
33-27
Dec. 23, 1869
2.68
I
I
49-33
35-
April 25, 1 901 : 28.07
■
■
Dec. I, 1868
21.93
2
2
24-45
23-93
Feb. 27, 1906: 32.32
Oct. 25, 1871
I
I
25.82
22.52
April 22, 1897: 24.25
Sept. 14, 1865
3
27.06
23.11
7 2. 64
Aug. 6, 1865
39.18
4
3
31-41
27.28
May 5, 1900: 26.33
2
I
Oct. 25, 1871
2
29.90
24.88
I Wife died April 26, 1906.
* Italic figures in this column are ages of bachelors as of June 30, 1906.
776
VITAL
STATISTICS
Classmate
Father
Mother 1
Birth
Death
Life
Span
Birth
Death
Life
Span
Birth
Death
Life
Span
Forbes
March 26, 1875
June 20i 1840
April 21, 1902
61.82
June 15, 1850
Ford
Sept 22, 1873
Nov. 2, 1849
May 21, 1902
52-55
Nov. 24, 1850
Fowler
Oct 17, 1873
March 24, 1846
Aug. 24, 1844
Frank
Aug. 21, 1873
Aug. 4, 1830
April 20, 1840
Fuller
Dec. 26, 1873
May 7. 1838
April 18, 1846
Gaines, F. W.
Jan. 8, 1873
Dec. 25, 1828
July 2, 1902
7351
Sept. 10, 1832
'
Gaines, J. M.
May II, 1873
Nov. 15, 1839
Aug. 26, 1840
Gaylord
March 14, 1874
Oct. 14, 1831
Dec. 26, 1882
51.20
March 26, 1833
March 17, 1875
41.96
GODCHAUX
Jan. 29, 1874
June 10, 1824
May 18, 1899
74-93
April 18, 1838
Goodman
March 33, 2875
April 23, 1822
July 29, 1899
77.26
July 7, 1835
Gordon
Jan. 26, 1874
C1826
March 9, 1848
Gorman
March 29, 1873
Sept, 1831
July 27, 1891
?
1846
Jan. 19, 1888
?
GOVERT
June 24, 1874
Sept 10, 1844
Oct 6, 1848
GOWANS
July 19, 1874
May 5, X834
Aug. 10, 1837
Grant
Not. 9, 1875
June ^ 1836
l^eb. 13, 1892
55-68
April 10, 1836
Greene
Not. 4, 1873
Aug. 16, 1820
Aug. 18, 1892
63.01
June 24, 1833
Gregory
Oct 15, 1869
Aug. 20, 1822
March 8, 1828
Oct. 14, 1881
53-59
Griffith
Oct IS, 1873
May 5, 184s ^
Jan. 13, 1893
46.60
Sept 8, 1 85 1
Griggs
Feb. 12, 1872
1845
July 24, 1878
?
Dec. 2o, 1842
Sept. 6, 1905
62.70
Haldeman
July 13, 1874
"''■'6J?.M,.885
54.36
9
Hamlin, E. B.
Nov. 21, 1874
May 31, 1847 1
May 31, 1847 1
A coincidence, not an error.
N
LAR
RIAGE STATIST
ICS
777
Classmate
Parents
Dates of and age at
Marriage »
Sons
Daugh
ters
Dates of
Marriage
Span
Sons
Daugh
ters
Age at
Father
Vlarriage
Mother
June 14, 1899: 24.21
I
June 9, 1874
27.85
I
3
33-95
23-97
J2.76
Nov. 14, 1872
'-^9-43
2
I
23.03
21.96
Dec. 14, 1898: 25.16
2
April 12, 1870
I
24.05
25.62
May 31, igo6: 32.77
Oct. 4, i860
4
2
30.16
20.45
32.S0
Feb. II, 1868.
2
I
29-75
21.81
June 21, 1898: 25.45
2
March 13, 1851
51-30
I
I
22.21
18.50
' )ct. 12, 1901 : 28.42
3
Aug. 20, 1868
2
I
28.75
27.97
32.2g
June 12, 1861
13-75
I
2
29-65
28.21
March 14,1901: 27.12
1854
?
7
3
30-
16.
31-27
April 9, 1857
42.30
2
3
34-95
21.75
?2.42
1867
3
I
41.
19.
33-2S
March 16, 1872
9
2
2
40.49
26
June 19, 1902: 27.97
I
Sept. 25, 1873
I
2
29.04
24.96
March 18,1903: 28.65
I
Feb. 4, 1858
4
3
23-74
20.48
f 'rt. 28, 1898: 22.95
I
Aug. 19, 1863
28.48
4
27.21
27-35
J an. 24, 1901 : 22
Sept. 19, 1904: /
I
Oct. 9, 1856
35-85
2
3
27-15
23.29
36.70
Dec. 27, 1845
35-79
5
8
23-35
17.79
Oct. 17, 1899: 26.01
I
Dec. 25, 1871
20.05
5
26.63
20.29
Nov. 9, 1898: 26.07
2
.
1868
?
2
23-
26.
1195
1869
9
2
I
38
9
31.60
Feb. 4, 1873
2
25.67
25.67
I First wife died Nov. 6,
* Italic figures in this column are ages of bachelors as of June 30,
190 1.
1906.
778
VITAL
STATISTICS
Classmate
Father
Mother
Birth
Death
Life
Span
Birth
Death
Life
Span
Birth
Death
Life
Span
Hamlin, P. D.
June 24, 1873
Aug. 10, 1847
May 31, 1884
36.80
Feb. 26, 1849
Hatch
Aug. 29, 1874
July 5, 1846
Dec. I, 1880
34- 40
?
1876
»
Havens
Dec. 17, 1871
Dec. 2, 1845
Sept. 24, 1843
*Hawes
Jan. ^i, 1875
Nov. 14, 1904
29.77
July ^1838
Dec. 29, 1893
55.48
July 12, 1841
Hawkes
Dec. 6, 1872
March 7, 1824
Sept. 21, 1903
79-53
March 7, 1829
Heard
July 5, 1875
July 25, 1845
1852
April, 1898
?
H EATON
Aug. 7, 1874
May 30, 1845
Sept. 25, 1846
Hedges
Jan. 19, 1874
Dec. 26, 1827
Aug. 9, 1895
67.61
June 20, 1839
Sept. 24, 1896
57.2f
Heidrich
Nov. 9, 1873
June 29, 1844
Aug. 9, 1853
Hblfbnstein
Jan. 14, 1872
Sept. 12, 1817
Feb. 14, 1900
82.42
March 4, 1837
Henry
June 26, 1874
"""%^?.m.
48.38
Aug. 14, 1833
Hess
June 26, 1870
1846
1848
Feb., 1892
9
Hobninchaus
March 18, 1874
9
1853
HOLUSTER.G.C.
Sept. 8, 1871
Aug. 29, 1830
June 30, 1833
Dec. 24, 1901
68.48
HOLLISTER, J.C.
March 27, 1873
Aug. 29, 1830
June 30, 1833
Dec. 24, 1901
68.48
Hooker
July 14, 1868
Mar. 13, 1838
Sept. 10, 1895
57.48
May 22, 1846
HOOLE
May 29, 1873
July 31, 1844
, Jan. 8, 1902
57-43
Oct 9, 1846
Hopkins
Dec. II, 1872
C1820
1872
?
Sept., 1833
Nov., 1887
?
HOYT
June 26, 1873
Aug. 20, 1823
May 5, 1887
63.70
?
Hunt
June 24, 1874
1835
Aug. 29, 1837
Hutchinson
May 20, 1874
March 23, 1902
?
Aug. 24, 1838 j
JV
lAR]
RIAGE STA
TISTICS
779
Classmate
Parents
Dates of and age at
Marriage *
Sons
Daugh
ters
Dates of
Marriage
Span
Sons
Daugh
ters
Age at Marriage
Father | Mother
Oct. 30, 1900 : 27.35
May 3, 1871
13.08
I
I
23.72
22.18
3182
?
?
2
?
?
34-52
May 18, 1870
I
I
24.46
26.64
31-41
March 15, 1870
23.78
3
31.69
28.67
Julys, 1896: 23.58
I
I
March 3, 1857
46.54
3
I
32-98
27.98
July 15, 1903: 28.03
Sept. 10, 1874
?
.
2
29.12
22.
Sept. 26, 1901 : 27.13
I
I
June, 1869
I
I
24.08
22.74
Oct. 3, 1904: 30.70
Sept. 14, 1854
40.89
7
2
26.71
15.23
32 ■(>3
Nov. 23, 1869
2
4
25-39
16.28
May 8, 1900^: 28.31
I
Nov. 6, 1855
44-27
5
4
38.15
18.66
32.01
Sept. 8, 1856
27.23
2
21.23
23.07
Oct. 24, 1900: 30.32
1869
?
I
I
23-
21.
Sept. 21, 1901: 27.50
I
May 27, 1873
2
?
20.
June I, 1899: 27.72
.
2
June 6, 1855
46.54
3
I
24.76
21.92
May 17, 1902: 29.14
I
June 6, 1855
46.54
3
I
24-76
21.92
Dec. 22, 1896: 28.44
I
Nov. 6, 1866
28.83
5
28.64
20.4s
33-08
Aug. 24, 1871
30.37
I
27.06
24.86
33-54
1857
9
3
I
37-
24-
Nov. 7, 1900: 27.36
I
I
Oct. 19, 1852
34.54
6
2
29.16
?
32.02
June 25, 1862
3
I
27.
24.81
May 11, 1905: 30.96
I
Jan. 13, 1859
43-19
3
I
24.
20.38
I W<ife died March 16, 1904. 2
* Italic figures in this column are ages of bachelors as of June 30,
Wife died August 8, 1903.
1906.
780
VITAL
STATISTICS
Classmate
Father
Mother
Birth
Death
Life
Span
Birth
Death
Life
Span
Birth
Death
Life
Span
*IVES
Feb. 19, 1872
Aug. 9, 1898
26.47
Dec. 14, 1810
Aug. 2, 1894
83.62
?
Jackson
July 10, 1873
Oct 17, 1835
May 25, 1901
65.60
April 2, 1832
Jeffrey
Aug. 9, 1874
March 22, 1846
Oct 18, 1850
Johnson
March 2, 1876
Aug. 24, 1849
Feb., 1882
?
Jan. 20, 1851
Johnston
April 7, 1874
April X9, 1842
Nov. 19, 1848
Jones, A. C.
June 5, 1873
June X3, 1844
June I, X846
Jones, L. C.
Dec. 24, 1871
1839
»845
Jordan
July 4, 187a
April 24, 1833
March 9, 1906
72.86
01836
Keller
AprU xo, X874
Oct 16, 1839
May 18, 1905
65.58
Mays, 1843
Aug. 26, 187s
32.31
Kellogg
April 6, 1874
Oct. X7, 1840
March 24, 184 1
Kelly
May 15, 1875
Dec. 26, 1849
Aug. 21, 1854
Kingman
July 20, 1874
April 5. 1843
Oct. xo, X903
60.51
April 24, 1847
Kinney
Dec. I, 1 871
Feb. 3, 1838
Aug. 20,1845 „
April XX, 1891
4563
Kip
June 29, 1874
1845
Aug. 16. 1888
?
«i845
Knapp
Oct X3, 1873
May 9, X832
Feb. 9, 1836
Oct II, 1894
58.66
Lackland
June 17, 1874
?
March 16, 1847
Lampman
Dec. 23, 1873
1843
1843
Jan. 7, 1904
9
Lee
Nov. 30^ X874
April 12, 1830
Nov. 14, 1894
6458
9
Lenahan
July IX, 1874
March i, 1826
Dec. 21, 1898
72.79
Aug. 31, 1836
Lobenstine
July 24, X874
Nov. 8. 1 83 1
1838
1876
?
Longacre
Oct 30, 1873
May x8, 1833
Jan. 13, 1903
69.64
April 20, 1843
MARRIAGE STATISTICS
781
Classmate
Parents
Dates of and age at
Marriage *
Sons
Daugh
ters
Dates of
Marriage
Span
Sons
Daugh
ters
Age at Marriage
Father | Mother
34-3(>
Oct. 4, i860
33-82
4
3
49-79
3305
Aug. 17, 1857
43-76
7
I
21.82
25.37
Aug. 20, 1902: 28.03
2
Oct. 9, 1873
I
27-54
22.96
Dec. 25, 1899: 23.81
C1870
?
.
■
21.
19.
32.23
Oct. 26, 1871
4
29.51
22.92
June 28, 1905 : 32.06
Nov. 22, 1866
2
2
22.44
20.47
34-51
Feb. I, 1866
2
I
27.
21.
Nov. 15, 1900: 28.36
I
I
May 9, 1870
35.82
2
I
37-04
34-
July 16, 1898: 24.26
I
I
Jan. 22, 1867
8-59
2
27.26
23.71
Sept. 18, 1902 : 28.45
Nov. 19, 1863
2
I
23-09
22.64
31 12
Sept. 25, 1873
3
4
23-74
19.09
3193
July 23, 1867
36.21
4
2
24.30
20.24
June 9, 1900: 28.51
I
May 25, 1869
21.87
I
31-31
23-75
Oct. 25, 1902: 28.32
I
C1870
9
3
'
25-
25-
Nov. 24, 1900: 27.11
I
Oct. 12, 1859
34-98
3
3
27.42
23.67
32.04
Dec. 15, 1864
3
2
17-74
33.51
Dec. 5, 1871
?
I
I
28.
28.
Feb. 22, 1902: 27.22
June 18, 1868
26.40
4
38-
?
Xov. 6, 1901 : 27.32
2
Dec. 31, 1855
42.96
4
9
29.82
19-33
March 8, 1906: 31.61
Oct., 1861^
Oct. 12, 1880
?
4
2
I
29.90
23-
32.66
Nov. 23, 1865
37-14
2
2
32.51
22.58
I First wife died in 1876.
Italic figures in this column are ages of bachelors as of June 30, 1906.
782
VITAL
STATISTICS
Ontmito
Father
Mother
Birth
Death
Life
Span
Birth
Death
Life
Span
Birth
Death
Life
Spa.
LOOMIS
Aug, 8, 1874
April lA, 1839
May 16, 1899
60.09
Aug. 19, 1843
LOUGHRAN
Dec. 27, 1875
Aug. |o, 1834
April II, 1899
64.61
June 17, 1845
LOVELL
June 27, 1873
Nov. 15, 1835
Oct 15, 1842
LUSK
Aug. 29, 1873
April 29, 1849
May 24, 1888
39.07
May 18, 1853
McClenahan
June 5, 1871
1836
Oct. 25, 1879
?
Feb. 25, 1841
•McDermott
^°^•'fecf^898
84.84
June 9, 1844
Oct, 16, 1850
McFaddbn
May 8, 1873
Aug. 16, 1842
Aug. 10, 1892
49-97
May 6, 1846
McKee
Oct. 21, 1873
Sept. 17, 184a
Dec. 6, 1849
Mackey
July I, 187a
Nov. 19, 1840
Dec. 8, 1840
McLanakam
July 99, 187a
♦
Sept, aa, 1848
McLaren
May 25. 1865
Nov. I. 1833
May 6, 1896
68.42
May, 1835
Mallon
Dec 4, 1874
March 17, 1823
Dec. 6, 1896
73- 7X
April a8 1835
Nov. 9, 1894
59- 5a
Mathews, F.W.
April at, 1873
May 10, 1833
March a. 1880
46.8
Oct 10, 1843
Matmbws,H.W
June 19, 1875
Sept. 8, 1844
^MiichV8, 1898
535a
Sept. 18. 1842
Jan. 12, 1903
60.31
Mathison
Dec. 5, X873
?
May 17, 184a
Miller, C. W.
April I. 1876
Nov. a4. 1846
AprU 8, 1851
Miller, W. S.
Sept. 27, 1873
Feb. a. 1824
Dec. II, 1899
75.85
May 17, 1833
Mora, J. O.
May 9. 1868
?
?
?
♦
Morgan, W. C.
Juneai, 1874
Sept. t6, 184a
Nov. 7, 1898
56.14
March i, 1839
April 22, 1904
6514
Morris
July xo, 1873
Aug. 26, 1841
Sept. 14, 1839
MOTTBR
Nov. 7, 1874
Nov. X, 1848
April 19, 1852
I
MARRIAGE STATISTICS
783
Classmate 1
Parents
Dates of and age at
Marriage *
Sons
Daugh
ters
Dates of
Marriage
Span
Sons
Daugh
ters
Age at Marriage
Father Mother
Feb. 3, 1904: 29.48
July 29, 1863
35-79
3
3
24.29
19-93
30.50
Oct. 23, 1871
27.46
5
2
37-15
26.35
June II, 1904:30-94
Jan. 16, 1867
5
3
31-17
24-25
April IS, 1903: 29.62
Nov. 13, 1872
15-52
2
2
23-53
19.48
Sept. I, 1897: 26.24
3
Oct. I, 1867
?
5
31-
26.
3250
Feb. 7, 1872
2
I
27.65
21.30
3314
?
?
I
I
9
9
Dec. 27, 1902: 29.18
May II, 1871
3
28.64
21.42
3398
May 9, 1867
2
4
26.47
26.42
Nov. 8, 1898: 26.27
I
I
April 26, 1871
I
I
?
22.59
Feb. 18, 1903: 37.72
Nov., 1855
?
5
4
22.00
20.
3J-5(>
June, 1852
?
3
I
29.25
17.00
July 5, 1899: 26.20
Nov. 26, 1868
11.26
I
I
35-53
25-13
3^03
Oct. 24, 1867
30.40
3
23.13
25.10
32-5(>
June II, 1862
3
4
?
20.07
30.24
Dec. 25, 1874
I
2
28.08
23.70
Aug. 24, 1904: 30.89
^
April 21, 1857
42.63
2
6
33-22
23.92
38.14
?
?
9
9
?
?
June 21, 1900: 26.00
2
May 24, 1871
27-45
2
28.68
32.23
32.qb
June 29, 1869
3
27.83
29.78
31.64
Dec. 2, 1873
I
I
25.08
21.61
Italic figures in this column are ages of bachelors as of June 30, 1906.
784
VITAL
STATISTICS
Classmate
Father
Mother
Birth
Death
Life
Span
Birth
Death
Life
Span
Birth
Death
Life
Span
MUNDY
Aug. 12, 1874
Feb. 8, 1845
Oct 27, 1849
Neale
Oct. 4, 1872
Dec. 26, 1846
Aug. 12, 1881
34.62
Jan. 12, 1847
Nettleton
July 16, 1874
Nov. 7, 1834
April 17, 1889
54-44
March 17, 1838
Nicholson
April 14, 1872
Nov. 6. 1842
?
Noon
Nov. 6, 1874
1841
1847
Oakley
Feb. 26, 1872
Feb. 28, X844
Jan. 7, 1852
OVIATT
April 22, 1874
July 26^ 1845
Oct. 24, 1903
58.24
Aug. 12, 1842
Pardee
Feb. 16, 1873
July 17, 184 1
Jan. 27, 1847
Paret
June 2, 1872
1835
July 29, 1899
9
Feb. I, 1841
Park
March 14, 1873
Sept. 8 1845
Nov. 24, 1895
50.21
Dec. 16, 1844
Patterson FM.
June 29, 1873
«833
July 16. 1889
9
?
Paxton
July 15, 1872
June 3, 1835
Nov. 4, 1841
Peck, H. S.
May 17, 1874
July 24, 1849
July 22, 1849
Peck, P. C.
Feb. 7. 1874
March 3, 1844
March 9, 1846
Pelton
Oct. 15, 1872
?
?
?
?
Perkins
Nov. 14, 1873
Dec. 2, i8j37
Aprir25, 1876
38.39
June 28, 1851
Porter
March 16, 1874
Feb. 16, 1826
Jan. I, 1901
74.86
May 6, 1844
Dec. 13, 1891
47-59
Pratt
May 4, 1873
Oct. 14. 1845
Feb. 6, 1851
Sept. 14, 1879
28.60
Prince
April 22, 1863
Dec. 24, 1831
July 6, 1896
6453
April 23, 1832
Rerd
Feb. 21, 1875
Nov. 9, 1838
April II, 1844
July I, 1904
60.22
Reynolds
July 2, 1872
Sept., 1838
July, 1847
MARRIAGE STATISTICS
785
Classmate
Parents
Dates of and age at
Marriage *
Sons
Daug-h
tars
Dates of
Marriage
Span
Sons
Daugh
ters
Age at 1
Father
Vlarriage
Mother
31-^
Nov. 6, 1872
3
27-73
23.02
33-73
March 10, 1870
11.42
4
I
23.20
23.16
Dec. i6, 1902: 28.41
I
I
Dec. IS, 1869
19-33
I
I
3S-IO
31-73
Dec. 19, 1900: 26.67
I
I
June 5, 1867
2
24-57
?
31.64
March, 1870
3
2
29.
23-
3434
May 25, 1871
3
2
27.24
19.38
April 22, 1898 : 24.00
Nov. 24, 1869
33-9
2
24.32
27.28
33-37
June 4, 1867
4
25.87
20.35
34.08
9
9
6
?
?
Sept. 19,1903: 30.51
I
June 16, 1870
25-43
I
24.76
25-49
3300
?
?
4
?
?
33-95
Nov. 4,1863
I
28.42
22.00
( )< t. 16, 1900: 26.41
^
■
Oct. 18, 1871
2
3
22.23
22.24
3239
June 16, 1869
2
I
25.28
23.27
June 18, 1902: 29.67
9
?
=
9
9
Aprils, 1903: 29.39
I
?
?
2
?
9
-> ;i>t. 28, 1901 : 27.52
I
I
Nov. 2, 1870
21. II
3
44.70
26.48
3315
June 27, 1872
7.21
2
3
26.69
21.39
April 9, 1885: 21.95
Aug. 20, 1854
61.87
4
1
22.65
22.32
Feb. II, 1899: 23.96
I
I
Oct. 16, 1872
31-70
I
I
33-92
28.51
3398
April 27, 1868
3
2
29.58
Italic figures in this column are ages of bachelors as of June 30, 1906.
786
VITAL
STATISTICS
Classmate
Father
Mother
Birth
Death
Life
Span
Birth
Death
Life
Span
Birth
Death
Ufe
Spu
Richmond
Feb. 12, 1873
May ^1845
Nov. 17, 1885
40.53
Jan. 22, 1850
ROBBINS, F. 0.
Feb. 12, 1870
July 26, 1847
July 6, 1849
ROBBINS, W. P.
Oct. 25, 1875
Oct. 21, 1842
Dec. 14, 1904
62.15
Feb. 12, 1842
]
Robert
Jan. 21, 1874
May 2, 1837
April 3, 1837
Oct. 10, 1895
-1
Robinson
March 2, 1870
March 26, 1820
April I, 1900
80.01
Feb. 4, 1826
n
Rockwell
Oct, 2, 1872
Feb. 4, 1844
Jan. 12, 1846
Jan. 15, 1906
60.01
Root
May 29, 1875
Nov. 29, 1833
March 7, 1834
Ross
May 13, 1869
May I, 1843
May 5, 1846
RUMRILL
Jan. 7, 1871
May XI, 1850
Nov. «, 1844
Feb. 15, 1894
49.22
Sadler
Sept. 39, 1876
Oct, 14, 1840
Sept 3, 1841
Jan. 10, 1895
53.35
Sack
June 30, 1873
Jan. 9, 1844
Jan. 17, 1846
Nov. 23, 1893
47.84
Sawyer
March 16, 1875
Jan. 36, 1853
April 10, 1855
Scarborough
July 4, 1870
April 13. 1831
June 39, 1899
68.21
Oct. 6, 1828
SCHEVILL
June 18, 1874
Nov, 1, 1837
Sept, 38, 1898
60.89
April 23, 1843
♦Schuyler
Jan. 8, 1875
Feb. 32, 1904
29,12
Feb, 4, X844
Nov. 10, 1877
?
Scott
Oct. 31, 1865
1833 (or 1823?)
Feb,, 1855
?
Oct 31, 1825
Jan., 1887
?
Scoville
July 28, 1873
June 21, 1838
Sept, 19, 1885
4724
Dec. 19, 1 84 1
July 28, 1890
48.51
SCUDDBR, H.
Aug. 9, 1875
Sept., 1825
Feb. 10, 1886
?
May, 1835
May 23, 1893
?
Sheldon
June 9, 1874
Oct. 11, 1841
May 25, 1842
Sherman
June 8, 1873
Aug, 23, 1841
Jan. 19, 1849
Shoemaker
Sept. 6, 1874
Sept. 18, 1844
April 8, 1885
4055
Oct 4, 1841
MARRIAGE STATISTICS
787
Classmate
Parents
Dates of and age at
Marriagre *
Sons
Daugh
ters
Dates of
Marriage
Span
Sons
Daugh
ters
Age at 1
Father
Vlarriage
Mother
33-3S
June I, 1869
16.45
I
I
24.07
19-35
Aug. lo, 1898: 28.49
I
I
Jan. II, 1868
I
3
20.45
18.51
Oct. 22, 1902 : 26.98
I
Sept. 27, 1865
39.21
2
3
22.92
23.62
32-44
Dec. 17, i860
34.80
I
4
23.62
23.70
July 30, 1901 : 31.41
I
I
Jan. I, 1846
54-25
4
6
25-75
19.89
33-73
Feb. 3, 1870
35-94
I
25.98
24.06
April 29, 1903: 27.90
I
I
July 20, 1869
4
2
35-63
35-36
May 20, 1895: 26.02
I
Sept. 30, 1868
4
I
26.41
22.40
June 8, 1901 : 30.42
I
March, 1870
V
4
4
19.82
25-33
29-74
Jan., 1871
9
4
30.25
29-33
3300
?
9
3
I
9
?
April 4, 1904: 29.05
I
May 4, 1874
2
2
22.27
19.07
r'"eb. 4, 1900: 29.58
2
I
June 20, 1850
49- 02
5
4
19.14
21.65
32.03
June 18, 1863
35-27
5
3
25.62
20.15
31-47
Feb. 25, 1874
?
I
^
30.06
?
40-63
9
?
6
5
9
?
32 -qi
?
?
I
2
9
?
30.88
9
9
3
2
9
?
Nov. 30, 1901 : 27.47
I
Dec. 12, 1867
2
3
26.17
25-54
33 06
Feb. 7, 1872
2
30.45
23.05
31.81
June 3, 1869
15.84
3
I
24.70
.;.65
Italic figures in this column are ages of bachelors as of June 30, 1906.
788
VITAL
STATISTICS
Classmate
Father |
Mother
Birth
Death
Life
Span
Birth
Death
Life
Span
Birth
Death
Life
Span
Smith, D.
April 29, 1875
Feb. 27, 1847
Oct. 18, 1844
Jan. 27, 1897
52.27
Smith, G. A.
March 26, 1871
April I, 1843
Oct. 2, 1847
Smith(W.D.)G.
June 18, 1873
March 15, 1847
July 9, 1848
Aug. 9, 1904
56.08
Smith, N. W.
Nov. 18, 1873
Dec. 18, 1842
Jan. 7, 1875
3305
Aug. 29, 1845
Oct. 29, 1901
56.16
Smith, W. D.
Sept. 12, 1874
April 24, 1838
May 30, C1850
Spalding
May 6, 1874
Dec. 9, 1845
June 24, 1847
Spellman
Nov. 30, 1874
Dec. 3, 1843
Jan. 3, 1852
*Spinello
Oct, 28, 1 87 1
May 24, 1904
32.56
01828
May 24, 1893
?
1832
Squires
Aug. 3, 1869
Feb. 27, 1823
April 22, 1888
65- IS
Dec. 21, 184a
Oct. 2, 1903
60.77
Staltbr
Jan. 8, 187s
March 21, 1848
March 5, 1849
Starkweather
June 7, 1874
Dec. 14. 1845
July 10, 1899
53-56
Nov. 3, 1849
Stewart
July 15, 1873
Sept. 23, 1831
Dec. 14, 1888
57.22
July 2, 1840
Stokes
April 13, 1874
Feb. 22, 1838
Aug. 20, 1846
Strong, H. G.
Dec. ao, 1871
Aug. 17, 1825
Nov. 21, 1841
Strong, T. S.
June 20, 1874
Aug. 10, 1834
Dec. 3, 1841
Stuart
March zo, 1874
1840
Feb. 7, 1846
Sturgbs
Nov. 3, 1875
Feb. 2, 1828
Oct. 28, 1899
71.72
1846
SULCOV
Oct. 8, 1874
Sept 24, 1844
March 14, 1845
Sumner
Oct. 13, 1873
Oct. 30, 1840
9
Tailer
May 19, 1874
April IS, 1833
1838
Taylor
July 26, 1875
Aug. 5, 1848
April 19, 1850
MARRIAGE STATISTICS
789
Classmate
Parents
Dates of and age at
Marriage *
Sons
Daugh
ters
Dates of
Marriage
Span
Sons
Daugh
ters
Age at ]\
Father
Carriage
Mother
31 n
Sept. 2, 1872
24.40
3
I
25-51
27.86
March 7, 1900: 28.93
I
2
March 31, 1868
2
2
24.99
20.49
3303
Nov. 15, 1871
32.72
4
24.66
23-35
Sept. 23, 1905: 31.84
April 27, 1870
4.68
2
27-35
24.65
Jan. 3, 1903: 28.30
Feb. 21, 1872
2
2
33-81
21.72
Nov. 4, 1903: 29.49
r
March 14, 1868
3
2
22.26
20.71
Nov. 3, 1903 : 28.91
Oct. 4, 1872
I
I
28.82
20.74
June 18, 1902: 30.63
C1864
?
2
I
41.
32-
3(>-8g
July 14, 1868
19.76
4
45-37
25-56
May 29, 1900: 25.39
9
2
?
V
32.0b
Nov. 3, 1868
30.68
I
I
22.87
19.00
April 22, 1902: 28.76
June 12, i860
28.S
3
1
28.71
19-93
Dec. 30, 1903: 29.70
I
Oct. 17, 1865
4
5
27.64
19.16
April 14, 1903: 31.31
June 7, 1866
5
40.79
24-53
3203
Sept. 29, 1870
8
I
36-13
28.81
3230
May 30, 1873
2
33-
27-31
June 4, 1902: 26.58
I
?
?
2
I
?
V
Sept. I, 1903: 28.88
■
May 22, 1863
2
3
18.65
18.19
32.70
1
3
?
?
June 29, 1899: 25.11
2
1
3
I
?
V
Sept. 18, 1900: 25.14
I
I
Sept. 10, 1873
3
I
25.10
23-39
; talic figures in this column are ages of bachelors as of June 30, 1906,
790
VITAL
STATISTICS
■
Classmate
Father
Mother ^1
Birth
Death
Life
Span
Birth
Death
Life
Span
Birth
Death
Spaa
Thompson, A. R.
Jan. 22, 1873
Feb. 26, 1847
Oct x8, 1848
Thompson, F.M.
April 12, 1875
1844
April 30 1844
July 6, 1893
49-I8
Thorne, S.
June 30, 1874
Sept 6. 1835
*
Thorne, S. B.
Sept. 19, 1873
April 5. .843
•
?
i
Tilton
April 2S, «873
Dec. 0 1824
May ao, 1891
66.36
Nov. 10, 1830
April 14, 1891
Von Tobel
Aug. 8, 1875
1851
March 15, 1853
i
Tracy
June 3, 1873
April, 1834
April 21, 1844
i'
Treadway
April 10, 1874
Jan 27, 1835
Sept. I. 1899
64-59
May 8, 1839
1,
•Trudbao
May 18 ,873
May 3, 1904
30-95
Oct. 5. 1848
Oct 24, 1843
1
Truslow
April 9, ;874
Dec. 27. 1849
Sept 26, ,899
49 74
April 18, 1830
1
Twombly
April 13, 1875
March 14. 183a
March at, 1833
;
Vaill
Aug. 30, 1873
""^Rk'r..,,
43.85
April6,x84a
'
Venkum
Jan. 31, 1873
%'^tS.M
64-5
Aug. 4, 1836
Vincent
Dec. 6, 1871
Nov. 4, 1831
Dec. 8, 1850
Wade
Oct 6, 1873
Nov. 3, 1835
Nov. a, 1840
•Aug., 1890
?
Waohams
Dec. 7, 1873
June 8. 1847
June 19, 1849
Walter
Nov. II, 1868
Oct 7. 1836
ret»- J. ^846
May 14, 1883
36.28
Wells, C. W.
May 25, 1872
June 17. 1841
1834
April, 1874
»
Wells, T. B.
April 5, 1875
Dec. 31, 1839
Aug. 4, 1891
51.58
Nov. 17, 1843
Weston
Dec. 24, 1872
Nov. 7, 1827
Sept 9, 1901
73.83
July 8, 1834
Sept 15, 1876
4a. x8
Weyerhaeuser
Nov. 4, 1872
Nov. 21, 1834
April 20, 1839
MARRIAGE STATISTICS
791
Classmate
Parents
Dates of and age at
Marriage*
Sons
Daugh
ters
Dates of
Marriage
Span
Sons
Daugh
ters
Age at J
Father
Vlarriage
Mother
Sept. 3, 1902: 30.61
I
Sept. 14, 1868
I
2
21.54
19.89
March3i,i898: 22.96
I
April 30, 1874
19.18
I
2
30-
30.00
June 16, 1903: 28.95
■
Oct. 6, i860
4
2
25.08
?
32-77
Dec. 10, 1868
2
I
25.67
?
34. J 8
May 17, 1871
19.9
2
46.44
4051
Nov. 27, 1900: 25.30
March 18, 1873
I
22.
20.01
33.08
May 7, 1865
5
5
31.08
21.04
July 6, 1904: 30-24
Jan. lo, 1866
33-63
2
30.94
1
26.66
Dec. 28, 1903: 30.60
I
June 29, 1871
3
I
22.72
27.67
April i8, 1900: 26.02
4
Sept. 29, 1870
28.98
4
I
20.7s
20.44
3I.2T
Dec. 23, 1858
5
26.76
25.7s
June 28, 1900: 26.82
2
■
June II, 1868
6.65
2
I
36.20
i26.i8
Oct. 26, 1898: 25.73
I
2
April 7, 1862
36.22
3
2
28.28
25-67
Oct. 12, 1904: 32.84
Aug. 14, 1867
I
I
35-77
16.67
June 4, 1904: 30.65
June 15, 1867
?
3
3
31.61
26.61.
April 26, 1900: 26.38
I
■
Feb. 28, 1870
2
I
22.71
20.68
Oct. 7, 1901 : 32.89
2
Feb. IS, 1868
14.24
4
31-35
22.03
Sept. 8, 1897: 25.28
9
?
4
I
?
9
June 21, 1902: 27.21
(2) Aug. II, 1869
21.97
2
2
29.60
26.72
33-51
Oct. I, 1857
18.94
3
3
29.89
2323
Dec. 3, 1902: 30.08
I
I
Oct. II, 1857
4
3
22.88
18.47
Italic figures in this column are ages of bachelors as of June 30, 1906.
792
VITAL
STATISTICS
Classmate
Father
Mother
Birth
Death
Life
Span
Birth
Death
Life
Span
Birth
Death
Life
Span
Whalen
July 29, 1874
Jan. 22, 1835
Nov. 26, 1886
51.83
Oct. 10, 1834
June 12, 1883
48. 6€
Whitaker
Feb. 24, 1873
May 12, 1839
Aug. 20, 189s
56.27
Oct. I, 1843
WlCKENDEN
May 27, 1873
1883
9
June 19, 1845
Williams, N.
Feb. 23, 1873
Feb. I, 1835
June 19, 1899
64.38
April 14, 1845
Wood, W. F.
Sept. 23, 1873
Oct. 15, 1844
Feb. 20, 1901
56.34
March 2, 1847
WOODHULL
Dec. 12, 1875
July IT, 1849
June 9, 1906
56.89
April 9, 1851
WOODRUFF.R.J.
July 6, 1874
Nov. 27, 1837
April II, 1906
68.37
Feb. 5, 1859
March 8, 1906
67.0?
Yeaman
Dec. 17, 1872
Sept. 23, 1833 „^
Aug. It, 1876
42.87
Sept. I, 1850
Sept. 20, 1884
34- 0.
Young
Feb. 4, 1873
Oct. 9, 1840
Aug. 29, 1847
March 5, 19CXJ
52.S
Averagi
es
Up to June 30th, 1906, 161 classmates (58 per cent.) had been married
and 117 (42 per cent.) had not. Six married men and six bachelors had
died. Seven wives had died and three of the seven widowers had remarried.
To 52 oi the married men no children had been born. To the remaining
1 07 married men 186 children had been born, 9^ sons and 91 daughters.
Oi these children 12 had died (7 sons and 5 daughters).
The average age at marriage was 28 years. The average age of the
bachelors on June 30th, 1906, was 32}^.
Excluding one case in which the classmate made no report concerning his
parents, 132 fathers (.471/2 per cent.), and 78 mothers (28 per cent.), of
classmates had died, and 145 fathers and 199 mothers were still living.
Excluding (so far as known) the children of second marriages, 1201 chil-
dren were born to these 554 parents, 767 sons and 434 daughters. (The
disparity is due to the necessary exclusion of families having no male
offspring.) This makes an average of 4.3 children per family.
The average year of birth for fathers was 1838 and for mothers 1843.
As the average year of birth for classmates was 1873, the fathers and
mothers as a class were 35 and 30 years old, respectively, when we were
born. The average age at marriage for fathers was 28; for mothers 23.
According to our Senior Class Book the average age of the Class on
Tune 24th, 1896, our graduation day, was 22 years, 10 months, and 24 days.
McCann and Massey were included in this computation, Ross was omitted,
and Armstrong's age was wrongly given, but the correction of these details
adds only 4 days to the result The mean age at graduation was 22 years,
7 months, and 20 days. As Professor Schwab has pointed out, the average
age of a Class is sometimes grotesquely increased by the presence of a few
members of unusually advanced years; and it is more just, therefore, to
calculate not the average but the mean.
The average age at graduation in the Class of 1886 was 22 years, 8
months, and 12 days, and in the Class of 1906, 22 years, 10 months, and 6
days. For the last fifty years the Yale average has been fairly constant,
ranging as a rule between 22}^ and 23.
Twelve classmates have died since graduation. Out of 278 men who were
graduated at the age of 23 the expected number of deaths for the first ten
year period, by either the "American" or the "Actuaries' " Table, would be
22. An officer of one of the large life insurance companies states that even
according to a select table showing the actual experience of his company
MARRIAGE STA'
risTi
cs
793
Classmate
Parents
Dates of and age at
Marriage *
Sons
Daugh
ters
Dates of
Marriage
Span
Sons
Daugh
ters
Age at Marriage
Father Mother
3^-9^
Feb. 25, 1862
21.29
4
I
27.09
27-37
Dec. 28, 1898: 25.83
Aug. IS, 1865
30.01
I
26.25
21.86
3309
Feb. 21, 1869
?
2
2
22.
23.66
Dec. 3, 1902: 29.77
I
Dec. II, 1869
29.51
2
3
34-85
24.65
Sept. 17,1898:24.97
I
I
Aug. 2, 1866
34-54
I
I
21.79
19.41
March 25, 1903: 27.28
■
April I, 1873
33-19
2
2
23.71
21.96
Nov. 12, 1902: 28.35
I
Oct. 16, 1862
43-39
3
I
24.87
23.69
March25,i899: 26.27
Oct., 1871
?
I
I
38.08
21.08
3340
Dec. 25, 1868
31-19
2
I
28.21
21.32
* Italic figures in this column are ages of bachelors as of June 30, 1906.
upon lives accepted by medical examiners, the number of deaths expected
would be 15.
Upon this point John Gaines contributes the following note as a result
of some calculations made by him for this volume: "It may be interesting
for the classmates to consider heredity, and not take to themselves the entire
credit for the superior vitality exhibited as measured by the American
table. Up to age 35, or about the present age of the Class, 18 parents had
died, against 47 as the average number out of a similar body by the Amer-
ican table. In the whole history of our parents to Tune 30, 1906, 210 died.
By the table, the deaths should have numbered 310.
The distribution of children to families for parents and for classmates
is summarized in the following table. As only two of our men (Chickering
and Lobenstine) gave data as to children born to their fathers by other
marriages, all such children are omitted (so far as known). In the case
of classmates themselves, however, children born to second wives are in-
cluded. (There have been only two such children, and they are sisters.)
CLASSMATES PARENTS
Families without children
Families of one child
Families of two children
Families of three children
Families of four children
Families of five children
Families of six children
Families of seven children
Families of eight children
Families of nine children
Families of ten children
Families of eleven children
Families of twelve children
Families of thirteen children
Families concerning which no facts were supplied
Total number of families
Bachelors
IThe parents of the Hollister brothers are counted twice in this group.
52
0
51
12
42
55
13
49
3
57^
0
3«
0
20
0
13
0
13
0
II
0
4
161
117
278
278
Occupation Table
Classmates, Fathers, and Grandfathers.
C— Classmate. F— Father, ff— Father's Father, mf— Mother's Father.
Classmate
Law
Ministry
Medicine
Educational
Busi
ness and trades
Abercrombie
c
mf
Fl-3,
B. Adams
C«
F, ff,
J. C. Adams
ff
c
F, mf
M. C. Adams
CI
C3
F, ff,
Alexander
c*
mf
CI
F,
Allen
Clm/
C«
F, ff.
Allinc
C F
J: mf
Alvord
C
Archbald
a
C»
j^, mf
*W. Armstrong
F, ff,
Arnold
c
F, mPJ
Arnstein
ff
c,
F.
Auchincloss
c,
F, ff, mf
Bacon
C Fmf
ff
H. D. Baker
F,
O. C. Baker
C9
Cl
F, mf
W. G. Baker
c,
F, ff,
A. R. Baldwin
mf
c,
F, ff.
M. Baldwin
c»
c«.
F, ff',
Ball
c,
F, ff, mf
Ballentine
C
Fl, ff, mf
Beard
C F3
Fi
ff, mf
Beaty
C
F, ff, mf
*Belo
ff, mf
The small numerals i, 2, 3, following- any of these abbreviations indicate the first, second, or third occupa-
tions in which the subject was engaged. When an abbreviation is printed in italics, it indicates that the
subject has another occupation which he is pursuing simultaneously.
Educational includes both Teaching and Science.
Business includes Manufacturing, Mercantile, Finance, Insurance, Transportation, the various trades, etc.
Literature includes Publishing.
Government Service includes all permanent positions excepting Judgeships.
Engineering
Literature
Agriculture
Gov. Service
Miscellaneous
War Service
F2 ff
CI
mf
C2
mf (none)
ff
ff
F 1861
mf
F 1861
ff
F ff mf
Fif
C (none)
ff mfl
F 1861
c
mf
F
F 1861
mf
ff2 mf
F2
F 1861
F2
\
F 1861
C F
F 1861
Confederate
796
OCCUPATION TABLE
Classmate
Law
Ministry
Medicine
Educational
Business and trades
Bemis
c
F. ff, mf
Benedict
F, S, mf
Bennett
C
F8, flF. mf
Bentley
CF«
Berdan
c
F, ff,
Bergin
C
Bekry
C F
mf
Billard
c.
F, ff, mf
Bingham
C
F,
Birely
C*
C»
F, ff, mf
Bond
fflJ
tp
c,
F, mf
BOYER
c
F, mf
Brastow
FI
F«
c,
ff, mf
Breckenridge
C
F,
Brinsmade
C
F, flF,
Brittain
c.
F, mf
*Brokaw
c
F, ff, mf
A. Brown
c>,
ff. mf
H. S. Brown
mf
C>
F. m.
W. F. Brown
C
F, ff.
Buck
c
mf
F,
BUIST
Fff
c
mf
Bulk ley
c,
mf
BURNHAM
F
c
Burton-Smith
C«
FI
C»
ot.
Cahn
C
F, ff, mf
Carleton
CJ F
c«.
Carley
C
F, mf
Carroll
C»
c».
Gary
c.
F, ff, fft/
Chace
C F«
Fi
mf
OCCUPATION TABLE
797
Engineering
Literature
Agriculture
Gov. Service
Miscellaneous
War Service
C (none)
F3
Fl (sailor)
F 1861
Fi
ff
F3 mf
F 1846
mf
ff mf
F
ff
ff mf
F 1861
F 1861
F 1861
ff mf
mf
ff
F 1861
C2 (none)
F (none)
C 1898
C3
C2
ffl
*
mf
F 1861
ff
C 1898
F i86iConfd.
mf
F2
ff mf
C3 (art)
F
F
ff mf
mf
F 1861
ff
F 1861
798
OCCUPATION TABLE
1
Classmate
Law
Ministry
Medicine
Educational
Business and trades i
Chandler
c
ff, mf J
Chapman
F
Cl-3
C2,
'• 1
Charnley
mf
Cl-3
F, ff, mf\
*Cheney
mf
.... 1
Chickering
ff
C F
mf 1
Chittenden
lai
C F
ff.
T. B. Clark
c.
F, ff, mf
W. H. Clark
C
F, ff, mf
Cochran
c.
F, mf
COIT
c,
F«, ff, mf
Coleman
mf
c»
c«
F2,
Colgate
mf
c,
F, ff,
C. Collens
F
CI
ff, mf
E. D. Collins
c>-*
c»,
F,
COLTON
CI
mfl
F
mf*
c«.
ff,
CONKLIN
C
-
F, mf
CONLEY
C
F>, ff,
COONLBV
C F
.;//
CORBITT
c
F, ff, mf
H. P. Cross
C ff
•
F, mf
W. R. Cross
c,
F, ff, mf
CCRTISS
c
F, mf
*Damon
ff
mf
c.
F,
A. S. Davis
c«.
F, ff, mf
E. L. Davis
c,
F,
C. S. Day, Jr.
c».
F,
S. Day
C« F>
ff»
flP
c»,
F«, mf
Dayton
CS
C3,
F,
Dean
F2
C
mf
DE Forest
CF ff fte/
mf
Denison
C2
mf
c>,
F,
OCCUPATION TABLE
799
Engineering
Literature
Agriculture
Gov. Service
Miscellaneous
War Service
C (music)
F (music)
mf
C2
CI
C2 (army)
C 1898
F 1861
F 1861
ff (none)
Fl
F 1861
Fl
mf
C2 (art)
C2
i^ff mf
F 1861
ff
F2 mf
ff mf
F 1861
ff
F 1861
F 1861
F
CI
F 1861
ff mf
C2 flf
mf
C 1898
F 1861
ff mf
Cl (art)
Fl ff
ff
800
OCCUPATION TABLE
Classmate
Law
Ministry
Medicine
Educational
Business and trade
DE SiBOUR
mf
DeWitt
c,
F, ff,
DiCKERMAN
F mf
C
Douglass
C
F, ff,
Drown
C F
ff, mf
DURFEE
C2
c»,
F, ff, mf
Eagle
C
F,
J. G. Eldridge
mf
C
F,
Farr
c
F, ff, mf
Field
C2
Cl,
F, ff,
*FlNCKE
C
F, ff, mf
Fisher
«
c»,
FS, mf
FiTZHUGH
FS, ff, mf
Flaherty
C
F,
FOOTE
c,
F, ff, mf
Forbes
c,
F, jr, mf
Ford
CI
c«,
F, ff, mf
Fowler
c
c.
F, ffi.
Frank
C
F,
Fuller
c
F
mf»
ff, mf
F. W. Gaines
C»
Cl,
F, ff,
J. M. Gaines
J^
Cl F
c«,
mj
Gaylord
F
c,
GODCHAUX
C
F, ff, mf
Goodman
C
F2, m/
Gordon
C
F2,
Gorman
F»
F2, mf
GOVERT
C F
mf
ff,
Gowans
c,
F, ff, Mj
Grant
F
ff
C
mf
Greene
mf
F
F
OCCUPATION TABLE
801
Engineering
Literature
Agriculture
Gov. Service
Miscellaneous
War Service
F
C (art)
ff (none)
ff
mf
ff (none)
mf (none)
ff
mf
C2
Fl
C 1898
F 1861
C (none)
Fl (army)
F 1861
ff mf
ff
F 1861
ff2 mf
ff mf
mf
F 1861
ff mf
F 1861
ff
F
Fi
ff mf
Fl (army)
F in Russia
C (none)
mf
C
ff
802
OCCUPATION TABLE
Classmate
Law
Ministry
Medicine
Educational
Business and trad^
H. E. Gregory
C
Fl
Griffith
Fl
C2,
F2,
Griggs
C
F, ff,
Haldeman
ff, m»
E. B. Hamlin
c
F«
Fl
mf
P. D. Hamlin
GIF flF
mf
C2,
Hatch
C F
ffl.mf
Havens
c
Fl, ff,
*Hawes
C F
mf
Hawkes
c
ff.
Heard
C8
CI,
F, mi
H EATON
c,
F, ff, mf
Hedges
C
mf
F,
Heidrich
c,
F, ff.
Helfenstein
c.
ff, mf
Henry
€«
F, mf.
Hess
C
C
F, '
Hokninghaus
Cff mf
F,
G. C. Hollister
c.
F, mf
J. C. Hollister
C
F, ml
Hooker
c.
ml
HOOLE
mf
c
F, ff,
Hopkins
Hoyt
c,
F, mf
A. E. Hunt, Jr.
c.
F, mf
Hutchinson
C2,
F, ff, mf
MVES
.
mf
Jackson
C
ff,
Jeffrey
C
F, ff, mf
Johnson
c.
F, ff, mf
Johnston
c
F
mf
OCCUPATION TABLE
803
Engineering
Literature
Agriculture
Gov. Service
Miscellaneous
War Service
F2 ff
CI
mf
mf
c
F
ff
ff2
F2
mf
ff
F (army)
F 1861
ff
C 1898
ff 1861
ff
mf
F
Ci
ff
C 1898
ff
a
F ff
C (none)
F (none)
ff
Ci
ff
C (army)
F (art)
C 1898
mf
F (art)
,«/
804
OCCUPATION TABLE
Classmate
Law
Ministry
Medicine
Educational
Business and trades
A. C. Jones
c
F, ff,
L. C. Jones
C
Jordan
C
F2,
Keller
C
F, ff, m/
Kellogg
C
F, mf
R. Kellv, Jr.
mf
c,
F. ff,
Kingman
C mf
ff
F,
Kinney
mf
F,
Kip
Ci F
C2,
mf
Knapp
mf2
c,
F, mfl
Lackland
C
F, ff.
Lampman
Cl mf
F
C2,
ff.
Lee
F, ff.
Lenahan
C
F,
Lobenstine
c
F, ff, mf
LONGACRB
mf»
mf3
c.
F, ff,
LOOMIS
Fl
c,
F2, ;///
Loughran
C
F
ff,
LOVELL
c,
F, ff, mf
LUSK
C F
ff,
McClenahan
F mf
C
*McDermott
C ff
F2,
McFadden
mf
C2,
McKee
mf
c»,
ff.
Mackby
F
c,
ff, mf
McLanahan
ce
mf
McLaren
C
F2, ff, mf
Mallon
C» F3
F«
C2,
mf
F. W. Mathews
F
c.
ff, mf
H. W. Mathews
mfl
F, ff.
Mathison
C F
ff, mf
OCCUPATION TABLE
805
Engineering
Literature
Agriculture
Gov. Service
Miscellaneous
War Service
mf (sailor)
F ff mf
F 1861
Fl
mf
F 1861
ff
F (art)
F 1861
C 1898
ff
C (art)
F 1861
ff
C 1898
mf
ff
ffx^i
C (art)
mf
flF (sailor)
F 1861
mf2
C 1898
ff mf
mf
mf
ff
F 1861
mf
Fl (army)
F
CI
C2
F
C 1898
F 1861
F (none)
Fl (navy)
C3
Fl ff mf
C
mf2
F 1861
806
OCCUPATION TABLE
Classmate
Law
Ministry
Medicine
Educational
Business and trade!
C. W. Miller
C
F,
W. S. Miller
C F
Mor6
C
Morgan
C
F, ff.
Morris
Cl
C2,
F, ff, mfl
Motter
C
F. mf|
MUNDV
c,
F, ff, mfl
Neale
flF
F, mf
Nettleton
F
mf
C
Nicholson
c
F
ff, mf
Noon
F mf
c
ff.
Oakley
Cl F
ff
C2
OVIATT
mf
F, ff,
Pardee
mf
Paret
C
F, ff, mf
Park
C F flFmf
F. M. Patterson
C
F,
Paxton
C F
mf
H. S. Peck
c.
F, ff, mf
P. C. Peck
CF fr
mf
Pelton
c
Perkins
mf
C«
F. ff,
Porter
c
F, mf
Pratt
c
mf
F
jff".
Prince
C
Reed
C» F
c«.
mf
Reynolds
c.
F, j^.
Richmond
ff
c.
F, mf
F. 0. ROBBINS
c
F,
W. P. ROBBINS
c
ff. mf
Robert
c»
j^mi^
C3^
C2,
mf
OCCUl
PATIO^
\ TABLE
807
Engineering
Literature
Agriculture
Gor. Service
Miscellaneous
War Serrice '
ff mf
mf
ff
mf
ff
C
F 1861
mf
c
C Fff
C 1898
F 1861
ff
mf
F (sailor)
ff (sailor)
F 1861
CI
ff
ff
F 1861
F ff mf
ff
ffx^i
ff mf
F (art)
F 1861
mf2
F (army)
F 1861
808
OCCUPATION TABLE
!
Classmate
Law
Ministry
Medicine
Educational
Business and trades |
Robinson
C
Rockwell
F
c,
ff. mfL
Root
S
F
c.
Ross
c
F, S, mf
RUMRILL
c
mf
Sadler
C F
mf
Sage
CI
C2,
....
Sawyer
c,
F, ff, mf 1
Scarborough
C Fl
^1
SCHEVIlX
c
Fl.3;ff,mf 1
♦Schuyler
CS
Cl,
F. mf 1
Scott
C1-*
C3,
SCOVILLK
C
F,
H. Scudder
F
mf
Sheldon
c,
F, ff, mf 1
Sherman
Cl
?
C»
F, mf
Shoemaker
C F
ff,
D. Smith
mf
C
ff,
G. A. Smith
c
Fl, m/
(W. D.) G. Smith
Cl m mf
C3,
ffS.w/
N. W. Smith
C
F, mf
W. D. Smith
¥
mf
c,
ff.
Spalding
C
mf
F, ff.
Spellman
CFjr
^, mf
*Spinello
C
F, ff, mf
Squires
c
F
ff,
Staltbr
c
F, ff,
Starkweather
CflF
F, mf
Stewart
C
F, mf
Stokes
c
c
F, ff, mf
H. G. Strong
c,
-
OCCUPATION TABLE
809
Engineering
Literature
Agriculture
Gov. Service
Miscellaneous
War Service
F ff mf
mf (Eng. navy)
F 1861
F
ff
F2ff
F 1861
Confederate
F2
ff
C2 F ff mf
ff mf
C 1898
C
ff
F
F2 ff mf
g2
Fl (navy)
F2 (none)
C 1898
ff
mf
mf
C 1898
ff
ff mf
F 1861
810
OCCUPATION TABLE
Classmate
Law
Ministry
Medicine
Educational
Business and ttM
T. S. Strong
F S
C, fl
Stuart
C, F, II
Sturges
a mf
CI
F, ff.
SULCOV
C2
C3.
F, n
Sumner
F
c,
Tailer
F mf
C, ff,
Taylor
F» ff
F«
1
A. R. Thompson
C. F, ...
F. M. Thompson
C
Fl
F«
S. Thorne, Jr.
Cmf
F, ff,
S. B. Thorne
mf
F, ff.
Tilton
C
Von Tobel
c
F, ff,
Tracy
CI
F«,
Treadway
C
C, tt
*Trudeau
mf
C F ff
Truslow
C. F, ff, J
TWOMBLY
C»
F
ff, 1
Vaill
ff
Fl
C. 1
Vbnnum
C
F, 1
Vincent
C
ff, t
Wade
c
Wadhams
C
mf
ff.
Walter
c
ff, 1
C. W. Wells
C
T. B. Wells
mf
F
ff
T
Weston
C
ffi
F, fP.tf
Weyerhaeuser
C, F, n
Whalen
C F
n
Whitaker
ff.
Wickenden
OCCUPATION
TABLE
811
Engineering
Literature
Agriculture
Gov. Service
Miscellaneous
War Service
CI
C 1898
ff (none)
mf (none)
C
F 1861
F ff mf
F 1861
mf
Fi
C2
ff mf ^
F ff mf
CI
F 1861
F2
F 1861
ff mf
F
F 1861
F
C 1898
F 1861
F (navy)
F
mf
C
mf
ff
ff
■
mf
C (art)
F (navy)
F 1861
C F
ff
812
OCCUPATION TABLE
Classmate
Law
Ministry
Medicine
Educational
Business and trades
N. Williams, Jr.
ClFlffmf
C2, F2,
W. F. Wood
CS
Cl-4, F, flF, mf
WOODHULL
C
F, ff, mf
R. J. Woodruff
C
F,
Yeaman
CF flF
mf
Young
CI
c«,
Note : Breckenridi^e, Havens, .nnd L. C. Jones (chemists) are listed under Education and Science.
Table of Classmates Grouped According
to their Present Occupations
LAW (88)
Abercronibie, Bacon, Ballentine, Bennett, Carroll, Chace, "Hawes,
Heard, Hoeninghaus, Jordan, Lenahan, McLaren, W. S. Miller, Nichol-
son, F. M. Patterson, P. C. Peck, Scoville, Shoemaker, Spellman,
Squires, Treadway (plus Transportation), Weston, Whalen. — {22>)
Lawyers with degree of LL.B.:
Alexander, Ailing, Arnold, Bear<l Bentley, Berry, Birely, Buck, Bur-
ton-Smith (plus Finance), Cahn, Carley, W. H. Clark, Conklin, (Jonley,
Corbitt, H. P. Cross, Curtiss, S. Dav, deForest, Denison, Douglass,
Drown, Ea^Ie, Flaherty, Frank, Fuller, E. W. Gaines, Godcnaux.
Goodman, (iordon, Govert, Griggs, E. B. Hamlin, Hatch, Hedges, Jack-
son, Johnston, Kingman, Lougbran. Lusk, McLanahan, C. W. Nliller,
Mor6, Motter, Paret, Paxton, Pelton. Porter, Pratt, W. P. Robbins,
Sadler, "Schuyler, N, W. Smith, Spalaing, Spalter, Starkweather, V. M.
Thompson, S. Thome, Twombly, Vennum, Wade, Wadhams, Woodhull,
R. J. WoodruflF, Yeaman. — (65)
Eighteen of the lawyers (all LL.B. men except Bennett) have held
court or political offices, viz.:
Arnold, Bennett, Birely, Buck, W. H. Clark, Flaherty, F. W. Gaines,
Hedges, Johnston, C. W. Miller, Motter, Paret, Paxton, Pelton, Stalter,
Wadnams, R. J. WoodruflF, Yeaman.
MINISTRY (13)
O. C. Baker, Beaty, "Brokaw, Dean, Hess (plus Education), A. C.
Jones, Mathison, Park, Prince, Ross, Scarborough, Stokes (plus Educa-
tion), Sturges.
MEDICINE (18)
Bergin, Bingham, Brinsmade, W. F. Brown, Buist, Burnham, Chit-
tenden, Coonley, "Fincke, J. C. Hollister, Hoole, Kellogg, Lobenstine,
Rumrill, D. Smith, VonTobel, "Trudeau, Vincent.
EDUCATION AND SCIENCE (48)
Curator: Stewart, (i)
Librarians : B. Adams, Tilton. (2)
Chemists: Breckenridge, Havens^ L. C. Jones. (3)
Educational zvork at Yale: J. C. Adams, Berdan, Dickerman, Durfee,
Farr, H. E. Gregory, Hawkes, Hess (plus Ministry), Keller, *McDer-
mott, Nettleton, F. O. Robbins, Schevill, Sherman (also Librarian),
Stokes (plus Ministry). (15)
Other Colleges: Archbald, Coleman, J. G. Eldridge. Field, McClenahan,
Morgan, Noon, Perkins, *Spinello, C. W. Wells. (10)
Schools: Alvord, Bemis, Boyer, Chandler (plus Music), Chapman,
Clhickering, E. D. Collins, Fowler (plus Manufacturing), Grant, Henry,
Jeffrey, Robert, Robinson, Scott, G. A. Smith, Sulcov, Walter. (17)
OCCUPATION TABLE
813
Engineering
Literature
Agriculture
Gov. Service
Miscellaneous
War Service
C3
FSmi
F 1861
F ff mf
Fi86i
Note : The Union Army is intended in all cases where mention is made of service in the war of 1861, with
the three exceptions of Belo, Buist, and Scarborough. No war service in foreign countries is listed
with the exception of Gordon's father.
FINANCE (36)
Insurance: Bulkley, Longacre, F. W. Mathews, A. R. Thompson,
Young. (5)
Accountant: Gary, (i)
IVall Street Men: Auchincloss, W. R. Cross, A. S. Davis, DeWitt,
Gaylord, Heaton, G. C. Hollister, A. E. Hunt, Kip, Lackland, Lamp-
man, Lovell, Sage, G. Smith, Stuart, Tailer. (16)
Miscellaneous: W. G. Baker, Burton-Smith (plus Law), Charnley,
*Damon, J. M. Gaines, Griffith, Helfenstein, Hutchinson, Pardee, H. S.
Peck, Root, Sheldon, T. S. Strong, W. F. Wood. (14)
MANUFACTURING (.22)
M. C. Adams, Arnstein, Bond, Brastow, T. B. Clark, Cochran, Colgate,
Dayton, Ford, Fowler (plus Education), Gowans, Heidrich, R. Kelly,
Mackey, Reynolds, Sawyer, H. G. Strong, Taylor, Truslow, Vaill,
Weyerhaeuser, N, Williams.
MERCANTILE (19)
Allen, A. R. Baldwin, M. Baldwin, Ball, Billard, Brittain, E. L. Davis,
Foote, P. D. Hamlin, Hoyt, Johnson, Knapp, Loomis, McFadden,
Mundy, Reed, Richmond, Rockwell, W. D. Smith.
TRANSPORTATION (8)
Coit, Colton, Forbes, Hooker, Morris, Oakley, Sumner, Treadway (plus
Law).
ENGINEERING (9)
H. S. Brown, Greene, Haldeman, McKee, Mallon, Neale, H. Scudder,
S. B. Thome, Wickenden.
LITERATURE (8)
Journalists: H. D. Baker, Tracy. (2)
Authors and Editors: H. W. Mathews, Oviatt, T. B. Wells. (3)
Publishers: *Belo, C. S. Day, Fisher. (3)
ART (7)
Architects : Collens, deSibour, Lee. (3)
Marine Architect: Whitaker. (i)
Illustrators: Carleton, Kinney. (2)
Musician: Chandler (plus Education), (i)
SOLDIERS (2)
*Cheney, *Ives.
NO OCCUPATION (6)
*W. Armstrong, Benedict, A. Brown, Fitzhugh, Gorman, Hopkins.
814 STATISTICS
SUMMARY
Law 88
Ministry 13
Medicine 18
Education 48
Finance 36
Manufacturing 22
Mercantile 19
Transportation 8
Engineering 9
Literature 8
Art 7
Soldiers 2
No occupation 6
284
Deduct double insertions 6
\iK9i SERVICE
War Service, 1898: A. Brown, Hoeninghaus, 'Ives, Kelly, Kip, Longacre,
McKee, Scoville, G. Smith, Starkweather, Tailer.
Heaton enlisted in 1808 and his grandfather enlisted in 1861.
Buist, 'Cheney, C. S. Day, Fisher, Pardee, and Wade enlisted in
1898, and are sons of men who enlisted in 1861.
Total 1898 enlistments, 18.
War Service, 1846: Bentley's father.
War Service, 1861: The fathers of the following 51 men, in addition to the
6 specified above, served in 1861 :
Alexander, Allen, Bacon, O. C. Bakrr, Ballentine, Beard, *Belo, Ben
nctt. Bond, Boyer, Brastow, "Brokaw, W. F. Brown, Cary, Chace,
Chittenden, Coit, Colton, Coonley, H. P. Cross, Curtiss, A. S. Davis
Fitzhugh, Forbes, F. W. Gaines, J. M. Gaines, Hawkes, L. C. Jones
Keller, Kellogg, Kinney, Lenaban, McClenahan, Mackey, F. W
Mathews, Nettleton, Pclton, Pratt, W. P. Robbins, Robert, Ross, Scar
borough, H. G. Strong, S. B. Thome, Tilton, Twombly, Vaill, Vincent
Whitaker, R. J. Woodruff, Young.
Notes by Professor Norton
In the Occupation Table on pp. 794-8i3 it will be seen that, so
far as possible, the records for the occupations of classmates,
parents and grandparents, have been collected and tabulated in
such a form as to show at a glance the occupation of each class-
mate and the occupations of his father and grandfathers.
' The standard classification of occupations has been adopted, —
nine classes, namely, the law, ministry, medicine, educational,
business and trades, engineering, literature, agriculture, and
government service. Military service has also been included for
the members of the different generations.
OCCUPATIONS 815
A table showing the percentages of fathers and classmates pur-
suing the same occupation will be found on page 8i8. On page
819 is a similar table for grandfathers and fathers.
In the ministry, medicine, and miscellaneous occupations, the
three groups aggregating about 10.8%, 14.6%, and 15.6%, the in-
crease for successive generations is but slight. The occupations
of law and education increase greatly, law from 4.3% to 32.8%
of the class, and education from 1.3% to 15.2%. This large in-
crease is at the expense of business and trades, which decline
from 45.7% to 28.3%, and agriculture from 25.7% to 0.6% re-
spectively. It is plain that the costly years of education are
largely impossible without the capital acquired from the basic
industries, business, trades, and agriculture.
Many interesting relationships are disclosed by a study of the
tables. Changes between successive generations are marked.
These changes represent not only the changes in the industrial
development of the country, but also the course of development
of family strains, for in studies of population, it is now ap-
parent that the individual is really a sub-unit of the family. One
generation is the foundation upon which the second generation
builds. A summary of percentages for occupations runs across
the top of pages 816 and 817.
The avowedly non-professional occupations are business and
trades, and agriculture.
Non-Professional Balance
Grandparents 7i-4% 29.6%
Parents 61.6 38.4
Classmates 28.9 71. i
The above table shows that in three generations the members
are selected, so that whereas among grandparents 71.4% were
non-professional, among classmates 71.1% have become other
than non-professional. The selection of college men necessarily
selects parents and grandparents; and even though professional
tendencies between generations cannot be properly compared
without taking account of grand-uncles, uncles, and brothers,
nevertheless the tendency for professionality to be inherited may
be indicated although not proved. There is a progressive move-
ment between the three generations from occupations having less
requirements to professions constantly requiring more. Men in
successive generations pursuing the same profession as their
fathers tend to increase and men in the non-professional occupa-
tions, business and trades, and agriculture, tend to decrease,
entering professions.
Contrasting the two generations, the tendency towards in-
creasing professionality of occupation is striking. The distribu-
tion is as follows:
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816
STATISTICS
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Grandparents .
. 4-3%
4.4%
3.2%
1-3%
45.7%
Parents 1 . . .
. 11.5
6.5
3-1
4.6
54-9
Qassmates . .
. 32.8
5-3
5.8
15-2
28.3
Grandparents — Fathers Parents — Classmates
Actual Chance Shifting Actual Chance Shifting
Father — Professional . . )
Son — Professional . . \
Father — Non-Professional
Son — Professional .
Father — Professional - ' \ ^ g
Son — Non-Professional }
Father — Non-Professional
Son — Non-Professional
14.5 8.2 -f-6.3
i 24.2 20.6 -}-3.6
47.2 510
-3.8
39-6 23.3 +16.3
41.5 29-8 4-11.7
8.7 29.8 — 21. 1
20.2 38.1 — 17.9
On the theory of chances, that sons should enter professions
in the same proportion as their fathers, the distribution of non-
professional fathers would require that the percentages should
be those given in the second column. Actually there is a shifting
taking place, expressed in the third column, as the difference be-
tween the actual percentage and the percentage required by
chance. The number of sons entering other occupations than
business and agriculture is always greater than that required by
chance, in both generations, and this tendency is progressively an
increasing one. In the same way, there are fewer non-profes-
sional sons than chance would account for, and between the two
generations the disparity increases. This is doubtless due to
three causes, selection of quality of candidates for college, social
stratification becoming more intense, and a more technical quality
of education.
CHANGES OF OCCUPATION
Statistics have been assembled showing the sequences of occupa-«
tions pursued by members of the Class. The following summaryj
1 These figures were rounded as averages of the two compilations obtained
on pp. 818-19. Disparity arose on account of omission of certain grand-
fathers in tabulation. Results are approximately correct.
OCCUPATIONS
817
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7.6%
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2.6
1-7
6.7
2-5
5-1
0.9
100
3-3
3-9
0.6
4-5
0.4
100
discloses the total number in the various groups, who having
started in one occupation, have entered a second, which is still
their present calling.
FIRST OCCUPATIONS
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{Continued on page 822)
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818
STATISTICS
Table of Comparative Occupations —
Fathers and Classmates
FATHERS
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0
0
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ii
c
0
s
s
:3
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Law
7-2
l.i
1-7
I.I
15-9
0.5
0-4
1.8
0-3
2-5
0.4
32.8
Ministry
0.2
0.9
0.4
2.8
0.2
0.9
5-3
Medicine
0.4
I.I
2.9
0-4
0.4
0.7
5.8
Education
0.4
1-9
0.2
0.6
8.6
0.2
0.2
2.4
0.4
0.5
15 2
Bus. & Trades
a. 4
1.6
03
2.1
18.7
OS
0-5
I.I
0.4
04
0.4
28.3
Engineering
0.4
0.2
0.2
1.2
0.7
0.2
0.1
0.4
3.
2
0.5
0.1
2.6
0.5
0.1
0.1
—
3 9
0.3
0.2
0.1
0.6
Gov't Service
Miscellaneous
0.4
0.5
2.1
0.4
1-3
'%
Unknown
0.4
J
Totals for Fathers ..
11.4
6.5
3-6
4-6
55 0
~
1-5
6.7
2-4
4-8
0.7
too. ■
Explanatory Note: — Each figure in the table of comparative oc
cupations for fathers and classmates on this page is a percentag
of the whole number (278). The figure in the upper right han
corner (32.8) indicates that 32.8% of our 278 classmates ap
lawyers. This figure itself is the total of the various percentage
in the first horizontal row, which have been distributed amonj
the different vertical columns so as to indicate what occupation
were followed by the fathers of our lawyers. Thus, 7.2% of ou
whole number are lawyers who are sons of lawyers: 1.1% o
our whole number are lawyers who are sons of ministers: I.79I
of our whole number are lawyers who are sons of doctors, etc.]
The figure at the bottom of the first vertical column (11.4)
indicates that 11.4% of our 278 fathers are lawyers. This figure
is the total of the various percentages in the first vertical col-
umn, which have been distributed among the different horizontal
rows so as to indicate what occupations were followed by the
sons of the fathers, — to wit, ourselves. Thus, 7.2% of our 278
fathers are lawyers whose sons are lawyers ; 0.2% are lawyers
whose sons are ministers : 0.4% are lawyers whose sons are doc-
tors, etc.
OCCUPATIONS
819
Table of Comparative Occupations —
Grandfathers and Fathers
GRANDFATHERS
1
a
S
S
I
it
•c
a
c
W
3
1
I
1
(3
3
§
S
s
ll
11
Law
2-5
0.5
0.4
0.1
3
5
0.4
3-5
0.7
0.5
0.7
2
9
2.0
0.4
6
Medicine
0.4
I
6
05
0.2
2
1.4
0.4
0
7
1.4
0.4
0.4
4
Bus. & Trades
1-3
1.4
1-3
0.8
29
8
1-3
0.7
12. 1
0.5
2.2
3-4
54
a-
H
Engineering
0
9
0-5
0.5
0.4
2
<
fa
Literature . .
0.2
I
0
0.3
0.4
I
«;
0.2
0
9
4.4
0.2
0.9
6
6
Gov't Service
0.2
I
4
0.5
0.4
0.2
2
6
Miscellaneous
0.5
0.2
0.4
3
0
0.5
0.5
0.4
5
5
I.I
Totals for Grand-
fathers
4-3
4.4
3-2
1-3
45-7
1.8
1. 1
25-7
0.9
4.0
7.6
100.
The other columns and horizontal rows are to be read in the
same way, viz. : from top to bottom for fathers and from left to
right for members of the Class. Similarly, in the second table,
read from top to bottom for grandfathers and from left to right
for fathers.
A detailed study of these tables presents several interesting
relationships. For instance, in the Fathers and Classmates Table,
it will be seen that almost no sons of teachers have pursued that
occupation, although there is a large increase in the number of
teachers from one generation to another, 15.3% of the classmates
being so engaged as compared with 4.6% of the fathers. Over
half of the classmates who are teachers are sons of business men.
Most of the remainder are sons of ministers and farmers.
The totals in these tables have been calculated independently,
and the slight arithmetical differences that exist are attributable
to this fact.
On the following two pages will be found subsidiary tables
which have been prepared to exhibit independently some of the
relations between the different generations.
820 STATISTICS
(A)
Percentage of our
55
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>c M^ tic xc^ .^s be oc ti a
Sfi .|fi ^iS ^SS S2 ie .2i2 SB
whose sons became >-40 SO QO WO PQO U.O SO HO
7 17
Lawyers 58
Ministers 12 22 6827
Doctors XI 3 2 I 2
Educators 33 11 i 5 5 8
Businessmen 30 32 39 64 67 47 53 47
Farmers 6 2 17 7 5
Miscellaneous 12 12 28 13 7 25 14
100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%
(B) 8
Percentage of our i. „,
ri
whose sons became iJ Ui
Lawyers 64
Ministers 2
Doctors 3
Educators 3
Businessmen 21
Miscellaneous
II
Ql2
wu.
<2l
S2
11
11
If
16
49
23
29
26
33
34
14
10
5
13
I
6H
30
5
5
9
7%
29
3
13
16
36
10
16
25
8
47
34
16
18
H
16
17
II
4
29
13
7
100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% K
In reading tables A and B upon this page, due allowance must be
for the fact that they give data regarding only one son of each father i
both generations. To illustrate, the percentage of our lawyer fathers wh
had lawyer sons in table B would have been shown to be even larger tha
it is, if the occupations of the brothers of our classmates had been asce
tained. Similarly, if the occupations of our uncles had been ascertains
it would have affected the results exhibited in table A.
Although these percentages are based upon small numbers the resul
have some bearing upon the question as to what occupations tend most
be perpetuated in families. The following summary exhibits the percentag
of descendants (in the direct line) who adopt the same occupations as thei
fathers :
Law. I^in. Doc. Ed. Bus. Farm. Mis(
Grandfathers and Fathers 58 12 11 .. 67 17 25
Fathers and Classmates.. 64 14 30 13 34 .. 29
"The two generations," says Professor Norton, "show certain marked coi
trasts, due no doubt to other correlated causes arising from the selection 0
OCCUPATIONS
821
(C)
Percentage of our u m
who were sons of >JU<
Lawyers 22
Ministers 4
Doctors 3
Educators i
Businessmen 31
Fanners 30
Miscellaneous 9
100%
se
si
KJiS
II
II
II
^1
2
4
4
8
32
3
4
7
II
13
8
2
2
3
3
6
I
44
60
14
54
14
47
38
31
20
30
22
67
14
30
6
7
16
15
16
28
14
00%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
(D)
o
Percentage of our ^ '^
^B
^1
who are sons of iJ U
Lawyers 22
Ministers 4
Doctors 5
Educators 3
Businessmen 49
Farmers 5
Miscellaneous 12
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QU
wu
1J
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?l
3
6
2
8
6
8
17
13
6
9
8
7
19
I
I
sH
4
8
6
3%
53
50
57
66
48
54
17
6
16
4
2
8
3
19
7
7
29
13
100% icx)% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100%
collegiate sons (and also from the small numbers upon which they are
based). As between the generations no appreciable change is shown in the
law, ministry, or miscellaneous, but while in the earlier generation medicine
and business were inherited to 11 per cent, and 67 per cent, of the cases,
respectively, in the second generation medicine increases to 30 per cent,
and business drops to 34 per cent.
"The following summary shows, for the two generations, the occupation
into which the paternal occupation chiefly shifts, among descendants:
Law. Min. Doc. Ed. Bus. Farm. Misc.
I St generation
2d generation
Law. Ed.
Law. Ed.
Bus. Bus. Bus. Bus. Bus.
Law. Bus. Bus. Ed. Law.
"It is interesting in both tables A and B to note the percentages (64 per
cent, and 47 per cent.) of the educator fathers whose sons went into busi-
ness. For the doctor fathers the percentages are only 39 and 8, in the
two generations."
Tables C and D exhibit the same phenomena as tables A and B, reversed.
822
STATISTICS
(Continued from page 817)
Forty-three men have entered one occupation to change to
another in which they still remain. Thus out of twelve men
entering first the law, ten drifted into business and trades.
Of eight starting in teaching, one entered the law, two the min-
istry, four business and trades, and one architecture. Twelve
men entering business made this a stepping stone, seven for the
law, two for education, and two for literature, while the twelfth
now has no occupation. Out of the seven entering the field of
literature, one drifted to the law, two more to education, three
to business, and one into the army.
In addition to these forty-three men who have changed their
classification only once, there are thirteen cases of men who
have changed twice or three times, as follows :
2d
3d
4th
(Mallon)
(Robert)
(G. Smith)
(M. C. Adams)
(Burton-Smith)
(E. D. Collins)
(Chapman)
(H. S. Brown)
(Scott)
(Chamley)
(W. F. Wood)
(Sulcov)
(Dayton)
Law
Business
Engineering
Law-
Business
Education
Law
Literature
Business
Medicine
Engineering
Business
Education
Law
Law & Business
Exlucation
Literature
Business
Education
Education
Business
Exlucation
Education
Literature
Engineering
^■1
Education
Agriculture
Business
Education ^Hl
Business
Agriculture
Business
w
Business
Law
Agriculture
Busmess '^■1
Literature
Law
Education
Wi
Architecture
Education
Business
I
It is plain that comparatively few men have used education
a stepping stone to other occupations. The number of men who
enter business and change to the law about equals the number
entering first the law, ten drifted into business and trades.
Six men are classified under two occupations at the same
time. These complementary pursuits are in the following
classes :
(Chandler) Education and Music i
(Fowler) Elducation and Business i
(Hess, Stokes) Education and Ministry 2
(Treadway, Burton-Smith) . . . Business and Law 2
J. P. N.
Habitat Table
Classmates, Parents, and Grandparents
b birthplace
e early residences
J school residence
m place of marriage
■w wife's native town (not given
if identical with place of
marriage)
/ postgraduate student resi-
dences
r subsequent residences
0 office residence (where differ-
ent from residence address)
d place of death
Fd father's birthplace
Fe father's early residences
Mb mother's birthplace
Afe mother's early residences
Pm parents' place of marriage
Pr parents' subsequent resi-
dences
Fr father's subsequent resi-
dences
Mr mother's subsequent resi-
dences
Fd father's place of death
Md mother's place of death
FF father's father's resi-
dences
FM father's mother's resi-
dences
MF mother's father's resi-
dences
jW^^ mother's mother's resi-
dences
FS first settler's place of resi-
dence before departure,
date of emigration, and
first American residence
Abercrombie
b Rushville, Ind.
J Depauw, Ind.
r Paris, Fr.
California
Rushville, Ind.
Adams, B.
h Wethersfield, Ct.
s Hartford, Ct.
o N. Y. City
r Brooklyn, N. Y.
Adams, J. C.
h Lewiston, Me.
e Cambridge, Mass.
New Haven, Ct.
m New Haven, Ct.
r Watertown, Ct,
p Cambridge, Mass.
r New Haven, Ct.
Adams, M. C,
h Pittsburg, Pa.
m New Haven, Ct.
r N. Carolina
Pittsburg, Pa.
Fh Franklin Co., Ind.
Mh Rushville, Ind.
Pm Rushville, Ind.
Pr Rushville, Ind.
Fh Wethersfield, Ct.
Mh Wethersfield, Ct.
Pm Wethersfield, Ct.
Pr Wethersfield, Ct.
Fd Wethersfield, Ct.
Md Wethersfield, Ct.
Fh Brewer, Me.
Mb Winthrop, Me.
Pm Auburn, Me.
Pr Brookline, Mass.
Fb Oak Hill, N. Y.
Mb Pittsburg, Pa.
Pm Pittsburg, Pa.
Pr Pittsburg, Pa.
Alexander
b New Brighton, N.Y. Fb Baltimore, Md
Concord, N. H.
Stamford, Ct.
N. Y. City
Elizabethtown,'
N.Y.
Mh Cazenovia, N. Y.
Me Albany, N. Y.
Annapolis, Md.
Pm N. Y. City
Pr New Brighton,
S. I., N. Y.
Fd New Brighton,
S. I., N. Y.
823
FF Rush Co., Ind.
FM New Jersey
MF Rushville, Ind.
MM Cincinnati, O.
FS Scotland, 18—
Westmoreland Co.
Pa.
FF Wethersfield, Ct.
FM Wethersfield, Ct.
MF Wethersfield, Ct.
MM Wethersfield, Ct.
FS England prior to 1650
Farmington, Ct.
FF Auburjti, Me.
Wethersfield, Ct.
FM Brewer, Me.
MF Winthrop, Me.
MM Winthrop, Me.
FS England, 1640 •
Braintree, Mass.
FF Oak Hill, N. Y.
FM Medusa, N. Y.
MF Pittsburg, Pa.
MM Pittsburg, Pa.
FS England, 1632-3
Mt. Wollaston, Mass.
FF Baltimore, Md.
FM
MF N. Y. City
MM Dedham, Mass.
FS Scotland,
824
STATISTICS
Allbn
b Allenville, Mass.
s Andover, Mass.
Extensive travels
r E. Walpole, Mass.
Alling
b New Haven, Ct.
s Concord, N. H.
m New Haven, Ct.
r New Haven, Ct.
Alvord
b Bolton, Ct.
s Hartford, Ct.
m Pennington, N. J.
r Pennington, N. J.
Hartford, Ct.
Archbald
b Scranton, Pa.
s Andover, Mass.
m Buffalo, N. Y.
p Auburn, N. Y.
r New Haven, Ct
Cuba, N. y.
Wooster, O.
Fb Walpole, Mass.
Mb Winthrop, Me.
Ptn Franklin, Mass.
Pr Walpole, Mass.
Fb Orange, Ct.
Mb Derby, Ct.
Pm New Haven, Ct.
Pr New Haven, Ct.
Md N. Y. City
Fb Bolton, Ct.
Mb Bolton, Ct.
Ptn Bolton, Ct.
Pr Bolton, Ct.
Fd Bolton, Ct.
Fb Sand Lake, N. Y.
Fe Carbondale, Pa.
Mb Ashland Furnace,
Pa.
Me Buchanan, Va.
Pm Scranton, Pa.
Pr Scranton, Pa.
•Armstrong, W.
b Rome, N. Y.
s Rome. N. Y.
d Hartford, Ct
Arnold
b Willimantic, Ct.
s Easthampton, Mass.
m Hartford, Ct.
p New Haven, Ct.
o Hartford, Ct.
r Willimantic Ct.
Arnstein
b San Francisco, Cal.
^ N. Y. City
s N. Y. City
m N. Y. City
r N. Y. City
Auchincloss
b N. Y. City
s Andover, Mass.
m(i-2) N. Y. City
f N. Y. City
Bacon
b Rochester, N. Y.
s Andover, Mass.
m Ridgewood, N. J.
w Brooklyn, N. Y.
p Cambridge, Mass.
r Rochester, N. Y.
Fb Rome, N. Y.
Mb Chicago, 111.
Pm Chicago, 111.
Pr Rome, N. Y.
Fb Somers, Ct.
Mb Ellington, Ct.
Pm Ellington, Ct.
Pr Mansfield, Ct.
Willimantic, Ct.
Fd Willimantic, Ct.
Fb Sulzbach, Ger.
Fe Fuerth, Ger.
Mb Klattan, Austria
Pm San Francisco, Cal.
Pr San Francisco, Cal.
N. Y. City
Fb N. Y. City
Mb N. Y. City
Pm N. Y. City
Pr N. Y. City
Fd Augusta, Ga.
Fb New Haven, Ct.
Mb Clarkson, N. Y.
Pm Rochester, N. Y.
Pr Rochester, N. Y.
Fd Rochester, N. Y.
FF Walpole, Mass.
FM Medway, Mass.
MF Winthrop, Me.
MM Franklin, Mass.
FS England, 1630—65
Watertown, Mass.
Dedham, Mass.
FF Orange, Ct,
FM Woodbridge, Ct.
MF New Haven, Ct.
Derby, Ct.
MM Derby, Ct.
FS England, 1638
New Haven, Ct.
FF Bolton, Ct.
FM Rochester, N. H.
Columbia, Ct.
MF Bolton, Ct.
MM Preston, Ct.
FS Whitestaunton Parish,
Somersetshire, Eng.,
c. 1632.
Windsor, Ct.
FF Little Cumbrae Island,
Buteshire, Scotland
FM Eastwood, Ayreshire,
Scotland
MF Scranton, Pa.
MM Salt Marsh, Pa.
FS Little Cumbrae Island,
Buteshire, Scotland,
1807
Auriesville, N. Y.
FF Rome, N. Y.
FM
MF Chicago, 111.
MM Delta, N. Y.
FF Somers, Ct.
FM Somers, Ct.
MF Ellington, Ct.
Willimantic, Ct.
MM Somers, Ct.
FF
FM
MF Klattan, Austria
MM Klattan, Austria
FS Fuerth, Germany, -
San Francisco, Cal.
FF N. Y. City
FM N. Y. City
MF N. Y. City
MM
FS Scotland, 1800
N. Y. City
FF New Haven, Ct.
FM Boston, Mass.
MF Rochester, N. Y.
MM Clarkson, N. Y.
FS England, 1636
Dedham, Mass.
>' o^ THC
UNIVERSITY
r
825
Baker, H. D.
b Attleboro, Mass.
e Chicago, 111.
s Chicago, 111.
r Minneapolis,' Minn.
Chicagoy 111.
Baker, O. C.
b Rochester, N. Y.
g Penfield, N. Y.
s Fairport, N. Y.
m Conesus, N. Y.
r Upper Alton, 111.
Kane, Pa.
Conesus, N. Y.
Alabama, N. Y.
Fowlerville, N. Y.
Baker, W. G.
b Buckeystown, Md.
e New Haven, Ct.
s Westminster, Md.
f Baltimore, Md.
Baldwin, A. R.
b N. Y. City
s Concord, N. H.
m N. Y. City
r N. Y. City
o N. Y. City
r Bloomfield, N. J.
Baldwin, M.
b Perry, 111.
e Jacksonville, 111.
Duluth, Minn.
New Haven, Ct.
m Jacksonville, 111.
r Duluth, Minn.
Ball
b Bufifalo, N. Y.
m Bufifalo, N. Y.
r Bufifalo, N. Y.
Erie, Pa.
Ballentine
b Detroit, Mich.
J Andover, Mass.
m Williamsburg, Va.
p Cambridge, Mass.
r Boise City, Idaho
o San Francisco, Cal.
r Oakland, Cal.
Beard
b St. Louis, Mo.
J Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
New Haven, Ct.
m Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
P Berkeley, Cal.
r Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
0 N. Y. City
r Glen Ridge, N. J.
Fb Winfield, N. Y.
Mb
Pm Chicago, 111.
Pr Chicago, 111.
Fd Chicago, 111.
Md Chicago, 111.
FF
FM Winfield, N. Y.
MF Attleboro, Mass.
MM
FS England,
Fb Ballston Spa., N. Y. FF La Prairie, Quebec
Mb Penfield, N. Y.
Pm Rochester, N. Y.
Pr Penfield, N. Y.
Fb Buckeystown, Md.
Mb
Me Montgomery Co.,
Md.
Pm Montgomery Co.,'
Md.
Pr Buckeystown, Md.
Fb N. Y. City
Mb Pawtucket, R. I.
Pm Providence, R. I.
Pr N. Y. City
Fd N. Y. City
Md Morristown, N. J.
Fb N. Y. City
Mb New Hampshire
Me Barry, 111.
Pm Pike Co., 111.
Pr Perry, 111.
Fd Maysville, Col.
Md Griggsville, 111.
Fb Spencerport, N. Y.
Mb Ogden, N. Y.
Me Spencerport, N. Y.
Buffalo, N. Y.
Pm LaPorte, Ind.
Pr Buffalo, N. Y.
Md Buffalo, N. Y.
Fb Prescott, Can.
Mb Harrisburg, Pa.
Pm
Pr Detroit, Mich.
Chicago, 111.
Waukegan, 111.
Boise, Idaho
Fd Stanley, Idaho
Md
Fb Brooklyn, N. Y.
Mb Steubenville, O.
Pm (F2) Steubenville,
O.
Pr Steubenville, O.
Richmond, Va.
Detroit, Mich.
Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Fd .Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Can.
FM La Prairie, Quebec,
Can.
MF Penfield, N. Y.
MM Wells, Vt.
FF Buckeystown, Md.
FM
MF Montgomery Co., Md.
MM Montgomery Co., Md.
FS Germany
Frederick Co., Md.
FF N.Y. City
FM N. Y. City
MF Providence, R. I.
MM Providence, R. I.
FS Devonshire, Eng., 1630
Dedham, Mass.
FF N. Y. City
Perry, 111.
FM N. Y. City
Perry, 111.
MF Barry, 111.
MM Barry, 111.
FF Spencerport, N. Y.
FM E. Bloomfield, N. Y.
MF Buffalo, N. Y.
MM Spencerport, N. Y.
FS England, 1830
Watertown, N. Y.
FF Edinburgh, Scot.
Waukegan, 111.
FM Scotland
Canada
MF Harrisburg, Pa.
Mineral Point, Wis.
MM Massachusetts
FS Scotland, 1820
Prescott, Can.
FF Ireland
Brooklyn, N. Y.
FM Brooklyn, N. Y.
MF Steubenville, O.
MM Steubenville, O.
FS Ireland, 1827
Brooklyn, N. Y.
826
STATISTICS
Beaty
b Cedar Springs,
Mich.
e Detroit, Mich,
r N. Y. City
Flushing, N. Y.
Buffalo, N. Y.
*Belo
b Galveston, Tex.
e Northfield, Ct.
s Pottstown, Pa.
m Denton, Tex.
r Dallas, Tex.
d Dallas, Tex.
Bemis
b Brookfield, Mass.
s Brookfield, Mass.
tn E. Brookfield, Mass.
. r Michigan City, Ind.
Chillicothe, O.
Brookfield, Mass.
Plainville, Mass.
Benedict
b New Haven, Ct.
s New Haven, Ct.
r New Haven, Ct
Bennett
b Hartford, Ct.
s Hartford, Ct.
m Holyoke, Mass.
r Holyoke, Mass.
Bentley
b Washington, D. C.
s Washington, D. C.
m Washington, D. C.
r Washington, D. C.
Berdan
b Toledo, O.
s Concord, N. H.
m Toledo, O.
p New Haven, Ct.
Paris. France
r Toledo, O.
New Haven, Ct.
Bergin
b New Haven, Ct.
.9 New Haven, Ct.
m N. Y. City
w Jersey City, N. J.
r New Haven, Ct.
Bebrt
b Nashville, Tenn.
m N. Y. City
P N. Y. City
r Nashville, Tenn.
N. Y. City
Fb England
Mb
Me Toronto, Can.
Ptn Chatham, Can.
Pr Toronto, Can.
Detroit, Mich.
California
Fd
Mr N. Y. City
Fb Salem, N.C.
Mb Houston, Te.x.
Me Paris, Fr.
Ptn Galveston, Tex.
Pr Galveston, Tex.
Fd North Carolina
Fb Brimfield, Mass.
Fe Springfield, Mass.
Wooster, Mass.
Mb Brookfield, Mass.
Me Brooklyn, N. Y.
Ptn Brookfield, Mass.
Pr Brookfield, Mass.
Lafayette, Ind.
Md Brookfield, Mass.
Fb New Haven, Ct
Mo New Haven, Ct
Pm New Haven, Ct.
Pr New Haven, Ct
Fb Plainfield, Ct.
Fe New London, Ct.
Mb Providence, R. I.
Pm Providence, R. I.
Pr Providence, R. I.
Hartford, Ct.
Fr Washington, D. C.
Fd Washington, D. C.
Md Hartford, Ct.
Fb Muskingum Co., O.
Fe Cincinnati, O.
Mb Washington, D. C.
Pm Washington, D. C.
Pr Washington, D. C.
Md Washington, D. C.
Fb Brunswick, O.
Mb Scarsdale, X. Y.
Pm N. Y. City
Pr Toledo, O.
Fd Toledo, O.
Fb Cashel, Co. Tip-
perary, Ireland
Mb Co. Waterford,
Ireland
Pm New Haven, Ct.
Pr New Haven, Ct
Fb Nashville, Tenn.
Mb Nashville, Tenn.
Pm
Pr Nashville, Tenn.
FF Toronto, Can.
FM
MF Bowmanville, Ontario,
Can.
MM
FS England & Scotland,
c. 1850
Canada
FF Salem, N. C.
FM Salem, N. C.
MF Houston, Tex.
MM Windsor, Vt.
FS Germany,
Salem, N. C.
FF Brookfield, Mass.
FM Brookfield, Mass.
MF Brookfield, Mass.
MM Brookfield, Mass.
FS England, 1700
FF New Haven, Ct.
FM East Haven, Ct
MF New Haven, Ct.
MM Godwinsville, N. J.
FF New London, Ct.
Providence, K. I.
Hartford, Ct.
FM Coventry, R. I.
MF Providence, R. I.
MM Salem, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
FS England,
FF Muskingum Co., O.
FM Uniontown, Pa.
MF Westmoreland Co., Va.
MM Montgomery Co., Md.
FS England, 17 —
Virginia
FF Toledo. O.
FM Lynn, Mass.
MF Scarsdale, N. Y.
MM Westchester Co., N. Y.
FS France via Holland,
16—
New York
FF Co. Tipperary, Ireland
FM Co. Tipperary, Ireland
MF Co. Waterford, Ireland
MM Co. Waterford, Ireland
FS Cashel, Co. Tipperary,
Ireland, 1861
New Haven, Ct
FF Nashville, Tenn.
FM Nashville, Tenn.
MF Nashville, Tenn.
MM Nashville, Tenn.
FS England,
Baltimore, Md.
HABITAT
827
BiLLARD
b Menden, Ct.
e Cleveland, O.
s Concord, N. H.
r Chicago, 111.
Meriden, Ct.
Fb Saybrook, Ct.
Mb Meriden, Ct.
Pm Meriden, Ct.
Pr Meriden, Ct.
FF
FM Saybrook, Ct.
MF
MM
Bingham
West Cornwall, Vt.
Troy, N. Y.,
Middlebury, Vt.
Concord, N. H.
N. Y. City
N. Y. City
B I RELY
b Frederick, Md.
s Frederick, Md.
in New Haven, Ct.
r New Haven, Ct.
Bond
b New London, Ct.
r Vicksburg, Miss.
New London, Ct.
Fall River, Mass.
Springfield, Mass.
Newark, N. J.
Fb W. Cornwall, Vt.
Mb Cornwall, Vt.
Pm Cornwall, Vt.
Pr Cornwall, Vt.
Albion, N. Y.
Troy, N. Y.
Fd New Orleans, La.
Mr N. Y. City
Fb Frederick, Md.
Mb Frederick, Md.
Pm Frederick, Md.
Pr Frederick, Md.
Fb Bangor, Me.
Fe Norwich, Ct.
Mb Norwich, Ct.
Pm Norwich, Ct.
Pr New London. Ct.
BOYER
b Elkton, Md. Fb Elkton, Md.
e Philadelphia, Pa. Mb Elkton, Md.
Charlotte Hall, Md. Pm Elkton, Md.
m New Haven, Ct. Pr Elkton, Md.
r Raleigh, N. C.
FF West Cornwall, Vt.
FM
MF Cornwall, Vt.
MM Shoreham, Vt.
FS Sheffield, Eng., 1643
Norwich, Ct.
FF Frederick, Md.
FM Frederick, Md.
MF Frederick, Md.
MM Frederick, Md.
FS Germany,
Middletown Valley,
Frederick Co., Md.
FF Norwich, Ct.
FM Medway, Mass.
MF Norwich, Ct.
MM Norwich, Ct.
FS Bury St. Edmunds,
Suffolk Co., Eng.,
1630
Watertown, Mass.
FF Elkton, Md.
FM Elkton, Md.
MF Baltimore, Md.
MM Baltimore, Md.
Brastow
b Burlington, Vt.
e New Haven, Ct.
^ Andover, Mass.
r Boston, Mass.
Cleveland, O.
N. Y. City
New Haven, Ct.
Plainville, Conn.,
Fb Brewer, Me.
Mb Hudson, O.
Pm Painesville, O.
Pr St. Johnsbury, Vt.
Burlington, Vt.
New Haven, Ct.
FF Brewer, Me.
FM E. Brewer, Me.
MF Painesville, O.
MM Painesville, O.
FS England,
Wrentham, Mass.
Breckeneidge
b Palmer, Mass.
J Palmer, Mass.
w Woodbridge, N. J.
o Carteret, N. J.
r Woodbridge, N. J.
Brinsmade
b Washington, Ct.
w N. Y. City
w Oswego, N. Y.
r N. Y. City
Fb Palmer, Mass.
Mb S. Hadley, Mass.
Pm S. Hadley, Mass.
Pr Palmer, Mass.
Md Palmer, Mass.
Fb Washington, Ct.
Mb Roxbury, Ct.
Pm Roxbury, Ct.
Pr Washington, Ct,
N. Y. City
Fd Washington, Ct.
FF Palmer, Mass,
FM Palmer, Mass,
MF S. Hadley, Mass,
MM S. Hadley, Mass.
FS Scotland, 1720
Ireland, 1727
Palmer, Mass.
FF Washington, Ct.
N. Y. City
FM Washington, Ct,
MF Roxbury, Ct.
MM Springfield, Mass.
FS England,c. 1628
Stratford, Ct., 1748
Washington, Ct.
828
STATISTICS
Brittain
b St. Joseph, Mo.
J Pottstown, Pa.
r Dallas, Tex.
St. Joseph, Mo.
*Beokaw
b Newburgh, N. Y.
s Newburgh, N. Y.
m Yonkers, N. Y.
p N. Y. City
r Brownsville, Tex.
Saranac, N. Y.
San Antonio, Tex.
d N. Y. City
Brown, A.
b Torresdale, Pa.
e Washington, D. C.
Paris, France
s Concord, N. H.
r Philadelphia, Pa.
Torresdale, Pa.
Brown, H. S.
b Detroit, Mich.
s Evanston, 111.
r Cheshire, Ct.
* New Haven, Ct.
r N. Y. City
Brown, W. F.
b N. Y. City
e Northampton, N.Y.
New Haven. Ct.
Plattsburg, N. Y.
s Plattsburg, N. Y,
m Plattsburg, N. Y.
p Montreal, Can.
r Lyon Mountain,
N.Y.
Buck
b Chicago, HI.
e Buffalo, N. Y.
s Buffalo, N. Y.
m Buffalo, N. Y.
r Buffalo, N. Y.
Fb Belvidere, N. J.
Fe Trenton, N. J.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Mb Miami, Mo.
Me Weston, Mo.
Pm Forest City, Mo.
Pr Forest City, Mo.
St. Joseph, Mo.
FF Trenton, N. J.
FM Philadelphia, Pa.
MF Culpepper Ct. Hse., Va.
Weston, Mo.
MM Essex Co., Va.
FS Eng. & Scot., prior to
1750
Trenton, N. J.
Fb Bound Brook, N. J. FF Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Mb N. Y. City FM Bound Brook, N. J.
Fm Jersey City Heights, MF N. Y. City
N. J. MM N. Y. City
Pr N. Y. City FS Holland & France, 16—
Newburgh, N. Y. Staten Island, N. Y.
Yonkers, N. Y.
Fb Philadelphia, Pa.
Mb Philadelphia, Pa.
Pm Torresdale, Pa.
Pr Philadelphia, Pa.
Fd Atlantic City, N.
Fb Charlton, N. Y.
Mb Quincy, Mass.
Pm Detroit, Mich.
Pr Detroit, Mich.
Md Detroit, Mich.
Fr Little Falls, Minn.
Fb W. Killingly, Ct
Fe New Haven, Ct.
Mb Hamilton, O.
Pm Cincinnati, O.
Pr Cincinnati, O.
Cleveland, O.
N. Y. City
New Haven, Ct
Lyon Mountain,
N.Y.
Fb Wethersfield, Ct
Mb Buffalo, N. Y.
Pm Buffalo, N. Y.
Pr Buffalo, N. Y.
Chicago, 111,
Fd Buffalo, N. Y.
Md Buffalo, N. Y.
Fb Charleston, S. C.
Mb Charleston, S. C.
Pm Charleston, S. C.
Pr Charleston, S. C.
BuiST
b Charleston, S. C.
s Exeter N. H.
New Haven, Ct
m Brooklyn, N. Y.
w Bentleyville, Pa.
p New Haven, Ct
r Brooklyn, N. Y.
BULKLEY
b N. Granville, N. Y. Fb N. Granville, N. Y.
s Hartford, Ct Mb N. Y. City
m Hartford, Ct Pm Jersey City, N. J.
r Hartford, Ct Pr N. Granville, N. Y.
Hartford, Ct
Fd N. Granville, N. Y.
Md Hartford, Ct
FF Philadelphia, Pa.
FM
MF Philadelphia, Pa.
MM Philadelphia, Pa.
FF Charlton. N. Y.
Detroit, Mich.
FM South East N. Y.
MF Quincy, Mass.
MM Quincy, Mass.
FS Ireland,
Freehold, N. J.
FF Killingly, Ct
FM Killingly, Ct
MF Germany
MM Germany
FF Wethersfield, Ct
FM Glastonbury, Ct
MF Tolland, Ct
MM Litchfield, Ct
FS England, 1649
Wethersfield, Ct.
FF Charleston, S. C.
FM Charleston, S. C.
MF Charleston, S. C.
MM Charleston, S. C.
FS Fifeshire, Scotland,
1793
Charleston, S. C.
FF N. Granville, N. Y.
FM
MF
MM
FS England, 1634-5
HABITAT
829
BURNHAM
b Meredith, N. H.
s Springfield, Mass.
m New Haven, Ct.
w Clinton, Ct.
p New Haven, Ct.
r Lyme, Ct.
Burton-Smith
b Sioux City, la.
m Frederick, Wyo.
p Cambridge, Mass.
r Sioux City, la.
Cahn
b Chicago, 111.
e N. Y. City
J N. Y. City
p Evanston, 111.
r Chicago, 111.
Carleton
b New Britain, Ct.
e Bradford, Mass.
s Andover, Mass.
r Brooklyn, N. Y,
Bradford, Mass.
Carley
Lawrence, Mass.
Groton, Mass.
Exeter, N. H.
N. Y. City
Carroll
b To wan da. Pa.
.s S. Bethlehem, Pa.
r Pittsburg, Pa.
Youngstown, O.
Towanda, Pa.
Gary
b Norwich, Ct.
J Norwich, Ct.
m Norwich, Ct.
r Norwich, Ct.
Fb Pelham, N. H.
Fe Quincy, 111.
Brighton, la.
Knoxville, la.
Bath, Me.
Mb Windham, N. H.
Pm Windham, N. H.
Pr Meredith, N. H.
Jamaica & New-
fane, Vt.
Fd Townshend, Vt.
Md Townshend, Vt.
Fb Barnegat, N, J.
Mb Ovid, N. Y.
Pm Tecumseh, Mich.
Pr Sioux City, la.
Fd Sioux City, la.
Fb Partenheim, Hesse-
Darmstadt, Ger.
Mb Natchez, Miss.
Me Rochester, N. Y.
Pm Chicago, 111.
Pr Chicago, 111.
Fb Bradford, Mass.
Mb Hartford, Vt.
Pm Hanover, N. H.
Pr New Britain, Ct.
Bradford, Mass.
Fd Bradford, Mass.
Fb Balnafade, Co.
Clare, Ireland
Mb Armagh, Ireland
Me Peacedale, R. I.
Pm Lawrence, Mass.
Pr Lawrence, Mass.
Groton, Mass.
Fd Leominster, Mass.
Md Leominster, Mass.
Fb Co. Monaghan,
Ireland
Fe Barclay, Pa.
Longvalley, Pa.
Mb Co. Tipperary,
Ireland
Pm Towanda, Pa.
Pr Towanda, Pa.
Fd Towanda, Pa.
Fb Middletown, Ct.
Mb Hanover, Ct,
Pm Norwich, Ct.
Pr Norwich, Ct.
Fd Norwich, Ct.
Md Norwich, Ct.
FF Pelham, N. H.
FM Pelham, N. H.
MP Wiindham, N. H.
MM Amherst, N. H.
FS England, 1635
Mass.
Chebacco,
FF Middletown, N. J.
FM Farmingdale, N. J.
MF Tecumseh, Mich.
MM Ovid, N. Y.
FS 1670
Middletown, N, J.
FF Partenheim, Hesse-
Darmstadt, Germany
FM Alzei, Hesse-Darm-
stadt, Germanjr
MF Nordstadt, Bavaria,
Germany
MM Nordstadt, Bavaria,
Germany
FS Partenheim, Hesse-
D armstadt, Germany,
1850
FF Bradford, Mass.
FM Bradford, Mass.
MF Hartford, Vt.
MM Hartford, Vt.
FS England, 1637
Rowley, Mass.
FF Co. Clare, Ireland
FM Co. Clare, Ireland
MF Armagh, Ireland
MM Armagh, Ireland
FF Co. Monaghan, Ireland
FM Co. Monaghan, Ireland
MF Co. Tipperary, Ireland
MM Co. Tipperary, Ireland
FS Co. Monaghan, Ireland,
1839
Bradford Co. Pa.
FF Norwich, Ct.
FM Norwich, Ct.
MF Lisbon, Ct.
MM Lisbon, Ct.
FS England, 1634
Bridgewater, Mass.
830
STATISTICS
Chace
b Hudson, N. Y.
s Easthampton, Mass.
r Hudson, N. Y.
Chandler
b New Haven, Ct.
s New Haven, Ct.
r New Haven, Ct.
o Bristol, Ct.
r N. Y. City
Simsbury, Ct.
Chapman
b Stratford, Ct.
s Cheshire, Ct.
r Bridgeport, Conn.
Morristown, N. J.
Charnley
b Chicago, III.
s Concord, N. H.
r Chicago, 111.
Santa Barbara, Cal.
Cuba
0 N. Y. Cit
r Chicago
Fb Hillsdale, N. Y.
Mb Albany, N. Y.
Pm Hillsdale, N. Y.
Pr Hillsdale, N. Y.
N. Y. City
Austerlitz, N. Y.
Hudson, N. Y.
Md Hudson, N. Y.
Fb Longmeadow, Mass.
Mb Enfield, Mass.
Pm Enfield, Mass.
Pr Worcester, Mass.
New Haven, Ct.
Md New Haven, Ct.
Fr N. Y. City
Fb Ellington, Ct.
Mb Mansfield, Ct.
Pm Mansfield, Ct.
Pr Naugatuck, Ct.
Bethel, Ct.
Middle Hadden, Ct.
Putnam, Ct.
Sandy Hook, Ct.
Quincy, 111,
Northfield, Ct.
Md Bridgeport, Ct.
Fb Philadelphia, Pa.
Mb Galena, 111.
Pm Chicago, 111.
Pr Chicago, 111.
Fd Camden, S. C.
'%.
♦Cheney
b So. Manchester, Ct.
s Hartford, Ct.
- p Berlin, Gcr.
r Hartford, Ct.
Philippine Islands
d Imus, P. I.
Chickering
b Exeter, N. H.
e Burlington, Vt.
New Haven, Ct.
s Exeter, N. H.
m Exeter, N. H.
p Cambridge, Mass.
r Concord, Mass.
Jamaica, N. Y.
Chittenden
b Binghamton, N. Y.
s Hamilton, N. Y.
m N. Y. City
p Baltimore, Md.
r N. Y. City
Clark, T. B.
b Youngstown, O.
e Pittsburg, Pa.
s Pyle, Pa.
r Pittsburg, Pa.
FF Austerlitz, N. Y.
FM Hillsdale, N. Y.
MF Hillsdale, N. Y.
MM Hillsdale, N. Y.
FS England, 1630
Roxbury, Mass.
FF Springfield, Mass.
FM Palmer, Mass.
MF Enfield, Mass.
MM Boston, Mass.
FS England,
Fb Providence, R. I.
Fe Mt. Pleasant, O.
Rhode Island
Mb Hartford, Ct.
Pm Hartford, Ct
Pr Hartford, Ct.
So. Manchester, Ct.
Fb Portland, Me.
Mb Exeter, N. H.
Pm Exeter, N. H.
Pr Amherst, Mass.
Burlington, Vt.
New Haven, Ct.
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Cambridge, Mass.
Fd Burlington, Vt.
Md Exeter, N. H.
Fb Greene. N. Y.
Mb Castle Creek, N. Y.
Pm Binghamton, N. Y.
Pr Binghamton, N. Y.
Fb Staffordshire, Eng.
Mb Pittsburg, Pa.
Pm Pittsburg, Pa.
Pr Pittsburg, Pa.
Fd Boston, Mass.
Mr N. Y. City
FF Ellington, Ct.
Cottage City, Mass.
Windsor, Ct.
FM Ellington, Ct.
MF Mansfield, Ct.
MM Bolton, Ct.
FS England, 1660
Windsor, Ct.
FF Philadelphia, Pa.
New Haven, Ct.
FM Wew Haven, Ct.
MF Chicago, 111.
MM Plattsburg, X. Y.
FS England, 1780
Philadelphia, Pa.
FF So. Manchester, Ct.
FM Providence, R. I.
MF Hartford, Ct.
MM New Haven, Ct.
FS Eng. & Holland, 1622
R. I..& Ct.
FF Woburn, Mass.
FM
MF Exeter, N. H.
MM Exeter, N. H.
FS Wrentham, Eng., 16 —
Dedham, Mass.
FF Whitney's Point, N, Y.
FM Greene, N. Y.
MF Binghamton, N. Y.
MM Delhi, N. Y.
FS England, 1656
Guilford, Ct.
FF Staffordshire, Eng.
FM
MF Pittsburg, Pa.
MM Pittsburg, Pa.
FS Staffordshire, Eng.,
184s
Pittsburg, Pa.
•
HABITAT
831
Clark, W. H.
b Hartford, Ct.
Fb Enfield, Ct.
FF Enfield, Ct.
s Hartford, Ct.
Mb Hartford, Ct.
FM Enfield, Ct.
m Hartford, Ct.
Pm Hartford, Ct.
MF Hartford, Ct.
p New Haven, Ct.
Fd Hartford, Ct.
MM Boston, Mass.
r Hartford, Ct.
FS England, 1636
Dorchester, Mass., 1659
Cochran
b Yonkers, N. Y.
Fb N. Y. City
FF N. Y. City
s Concord, N. H.
Mb West Farms, N. Y.
FM
0 Yonkers, N. Y.
Pm Yonkers, N. Y.
MF West Farms, N. Y.
r N. Y. City
Pr Canada
Yonkers, N. Y.
N. Y. City
MM Yonkers, N. Y.
Fd N. Y. City
Fb Norwich, Ct.
FS Scotland,
COIT
b Norwich, Ct.
FF Norwich, Ct.
s Norwich, Ct.
Mb Matagorda, Tex.
FM Pomfret, Ct.
r N. Y. City
Pm Norwich, Ct.
MF Norwich, Ct.
Everitt, Wash.
Pr Norwich, Ct.
MM Manchester, Eng.
FS Glamorganshire.Wales,
Spokane, Wash.
Fd New London, Ct.
Grand Forks, N.
D.
c. 1630
Norwich, Ct.
(1638) Salem, Mass.
Coleman
b Springfield, 111. Fb Hopkinsville, Ky.
s Springfield, 111. Fe Monmouth, 111.
Lawrenceville, N.J. Mb Springfield, 111.
m Indianapolis, Ind. Pm Springfield, 111.
p Auburn, N. Y. Pr Springfield, 111.
Chicago, 111. Md Springfield, 111.
Berlin, Ger.
r Indianapolis, Ind.
FF
FM
MF Springfield, 111.
MM
Colgate
b Orange, N. J.
.y Andover, Mass.
m East Orange, N. J.
r Chicago, 111.
o N. Y. City
r Orange, N. J.
Eb N. Y. City
Mb Claverack, N. Y.
Pm N. Y. City
Pr N. Y. Citj
_ N. J.
Fd Orange, N. J .
Orange,
Md Narragansett Pier,
R. I.
COLLENS
b N. Y. City
e Cleveland, O.
Hartford, Ct.
Germany
Yonkers, N. Y.
.9 Yonkers, N. Y.
m Brookline, Mass.
p Paris, Fr.
r Boston, Mass.
Collins, E. D.
b Hardwick, Vt.
J Lyndon, Vt.
m Newport, Vt.
w Chicago, 111.
r New Haven, Ct.
Barton Landing, Vt.
Montreal, Can.
Johnson, Vt.
COLTON
b Brooklyn, N. Y.
J Brooklyn, N. Y.
m Brooklyn, N. Y.
0 N. Y. City
r Brooklyn, N. Y.
FF N. Y. City
FM N. Y. City
MF N. Y. City
MM Claverack, N. Y.
FS Kent, Eng., 1795
Philadelphia, Pa.
Fb Hartford, Ct. FF Hartford, Ct.
Mb Baldwinsville, Mass. N. Y. City
Pm Pittsfield, Mass. FM Hartford,Ct.
Pr N. Y. City MF Cleveland, O.
Cleveland, O. MM Phillipston, Mass.
Fd Yonkers, N. Y. FS England, 1632
Mr Niagara Falls, N. Y. Salem, Mass.
Fb Berlin, Vt.
Mb Wolcott, Vt.
Pm Irasburg, Vt.
Pr Hardwick, Vt.
Fd Sheffield, Vt.
Mr Johnson, Vt.
FF Marshfield, Vt.
FM Marshfield, Vt.
MF Wolcott, Vt.
MM Westmore, Vt.
Fb Longmeadow, Mass. FF Longmeadow, Mass.
Mb Andover, Mass. FM Granville, Mass.
Pm Brooklyn, N. Y. MF Brooklyn, N. Y.
Pr Brooklyn, N. Y. MM Boston, Mass.
Md Brooklyn, N. Y. FS England,
832
STATISTICS
CONKLIN
b Monroe, N. Y.
^ Exeter, N. H.
p New Haven, Ct.
r N. Y. City
CONLEY
b Springbrook, N. Y.
s Exeter, N. H.
r BuflFalo, N. Y.
Coon LEY
b Claverack, N. Y.
s Andover, Mass.
m E. Orange, N. J.
p New Haven, Ct.
r N. Y. City
Port Richmond,
S. I., N. Y.
W. New Brighton,
S. I., N. Y.
Fb Monroe, N.Y.
Mb Monroe, N. Y.
Pm Monroe, N. Y.
Pr Monroe, N. Y.
Md Paterson, N. J.
Fb Co. Monaghan,
Ireland
Mb Newport, Ireland
Pm Erie Co., N. Y.
Pr Buffalo, N. Y.
Elma, N. Y.
Fb Greenville, N. Y.
Mb Peoria, 111.
Pm Warwick, N. Y.
Pr Port Richmond,
N. Y.
Claverack, N. Y.
Rahway, N. J.
FF Monroe, N. Y.
FM Monroe, N. Y.
MF Monroe, N. Y.
MM Monroe, N. Y.
FS England, 1638
Salem, Mass.
Huntington, L. I.
FF Co. Monaghan, Irelan<
FM Co. Monaghan, Irelan(
MF Newport, Ireland
MM Newport, Ireland
FF Greenville, N. Y.
FM Bangall, N. Y.
MF Warwick, N. Y.
MM Campbell Hall, N. Y.
FS Germany, 1640
Dutchess Co., N. Y.
CORBITT
b N. Y. City
s N. Y. City
r N. Y. City
Cross, H, P.
b Wakefield, R. I.
s Concord, N. H.
m (1-2) Providence,
R.I.
p Cambridge, Mass.
r Providence, R. I.
Fb Danbury,Ct
Mb N. Y. City
Pm N. Y. City
Pr N. Y. City
Fd N. Y. City
Fb Westerly, R. I.
Mb Omaha, Neb.
Mc San Francisco, Cal.
Pm Wakefield, R. I.
Pr Wakefield, R. I.
FF Danbury, Ct.
Charleston, S. C.
FM Charleston, S. C.
MF N. Y. City
MM
FS Ireland, 18 —
South Carolina
FF Westerly, R. I.
FM So. Kingston, R. I.
MF San Francisco, Cal.
Wakefield, R. I.
MM So. Kingston, R. I.
FS England, prior to i66(
Westerly, R. I.
Cross, W. R.
b So. Orange, N. J.
e N. Y. City
r London, Eng.
Newfoundland,N.T.
N. Y. City
CURTISS
b N. Y. City
s N. Y. City
r N. Y. City
*Damon
b Honolulu, Hawaii
m Glasgow, Scot.
p Glasgow, Scot,
r Honolulu, Hawaii
d Honolulu, Hawaii
Fb Liverpool, Eng.
Mb N. Y. City
Pm So. Orange, N, J.
Pr So. Orange, N. J.
N. Y. City
FF London, Eng.
FM Glasgow, Scotland
MF N. Y. City
MM N. Y. City
Md So. Orange, N. J.
l.N.J.
Fr Newfoundland,
Fb Monroe, Ct.
Mb N. Y. City
Pm Fairfield, Ct.
Pr Fairfield, Ct.
N. Y. City
Fd N. Y. City
Fb Honolulu, Hawaii
Mb Lahaina-Maui,
Hawaii
Pm Honolulu, Hawaii
Pr Honolulu, Hawaii
FF Fairfield, Ct.
FM Bridgeport, Ct.
MF Fairfield, Ct.
MM Fairfield, Ct.
FS England, 1638
Stratford, Ct.
FF Holden, Mass.
Honolulu, Hawaii
FM Torringford, Ct.
MF Durham, N. Y.
MM Northford, Ct.
FS England, 1633
Reading, Mass.
HABITAT
833
Davis, A. S.
b Cincinnati, O.
s Andover, Mass.
r Summit, N, T.
Tarrytown, N. "i
N. Y. City
Davis, E. L.
b Cleveland, O.
m Bay City, Mich.
r Cleveland, O.
Day, C. S.
b N. Y, City
s Concord, N. H.
r Arizona, &c.
N. Y. City
Day, S.
N. Y. City
N. Y. City
N. Y. City
Dayton
b Torrington, Ct.
m N. Y. City
r Torrington, Ct.
0 N. Y. City
r E. Orange, N. J.
Dean
b
Falls Village, Ct.
Bridgeport, Ct.
New Haven, Ct.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Andover, Mass.
N. Y. City
S. Brookfield, Mass.
Westbrook, Me.
Fb Cincinnati, O.
Mb Cincinnati, O.
Pm Cincinnati, O.
Pr Cincinnati, O.
Md Cincinnati, O.
Fb Cleveland, O.
Mb Aurelius, N. Y.
Pm Aurelius, N. Y.
Pr Cleveland, O.
Fd Cleveland, O.
Fb N. Y. City
Mb Painesville, O.
Pm N. Y. City
Pr N. Y. City
Fb Waterbury,Ct.
Fe New Haven, Ct.
Mb Cincinnati, O.
Pm Cincinnati, O.
Pr Cincinnati, O.
N. Y. City
Fd N. Y. City
Fb Torrington, Ct.
Mb Rochester, N. Y.
Pm Warren, Ct.
Pr Torrington, Ct.
Fd Torrington, Ct.
Md New Haven. Ct.
Fb Canaan, Ct.
Mb Canaan, Ct.
Pm Canaan, Ct.
Pr Canaan, Ct.
Falls Village, Ct.
Bridgeport, Ct.
N. Y. City
FF Brighton, Mass.
FM Marblehead, Mass.
MF Virginia
Cincinnati, O.
MM Wilkesbarre, Pa.
Cincinnati, O,
FS England, 1642
Massachusetts
FF Cleveland,©.
FM Cleveland,©.
MF Aurelius, N. Y.
MM Richfield, Ct.
FS England, 1800
Cleveland, O.
FF W. Springfield, Mass.
N. Y. City
FM Amsterdam, N. Y.
N. Y. City
MF Painesville, O.
MM Painesville, O.
FS England, 1634
Hartford, Ct,
FF New Haven, Ct.
FM New Haven, Ct.
MF Cincinnati, O.
MM N. Y. City
FS England, 1634
Hartford, Ct.
FF Watertown, Ct.
FM Watertown, Ct.
MF Warren, Ct.
MM New Milford, Ct.
FS England, 1639
Boston, Mass.
Southampton, N. Y.
FF Canaan, Ct.
FM^ Canaan, Ct.
MF Canaan, Ct.
MM Canaan, Ct.
FS Taunton, Eng., 16 —
Dedham, Mass.
DEFOREST
b Plainfield, N. J.
J Andover, Mass.
w St. Hubert's, N. Y.
r Colorado Springs,
Col.
N. Y. City
Denison
b Marion, 111.
e Texas
s Waco, Tex.
.p Washington, D. C.
r Marion, 111.
Fb N. Y. City
Mb N. Y. City
Pm N. Y. City
Pr N. Y. City
Fb Seneca Falls, N. Y.
Mb Smithville, Tenn.
Me Marion, 111.
Pm Carterville, 111.
Pr Woodstock,Ill.
Marion, 111.
FF N. Y. City
FM N. Y. City
MF N. Y. City
MM New Orleans, La.
N. Y. City
FS Avenes, France, via
Leyden, Holland,
1623
N. Y. City
FF Seneca Falls, N. Y.
FM Syracuse, N. Y.
MF Tennessee
Marion, 111.
MM Buckingham Co., Va.
FS Ireland & England
New York
834
STATISTICS
1
deSibour
b Paris, Fr.
Fb Carpentras, Fr.
Mb Belfast, Me.
FF Carpentras, Fr.
FM Eyzin-Pinet, Isere, Fr.
J Concord, N. H.
m Washington, D. C.
Pm Boston, Mass.
MF Belfast, Me.
p Paris, Fr,
Pr Boston, Mass.
MM Newburyport, Mass.
r Washington, D. C.
Charleston, S. C.
0 N. Y. City
Richmond, Va.
r Woodmere, L. I.,
Washington, D. C.
N. Y.
Fd Washington, D. C.
DeWitt
b N. Y. City
s Concord, N. H.
Fb Milford, Pa.
FF Milford, Pa.
Mb Farmington, Ct.
FM Kingston, N. Y.
m W. Union, la.
Pm Hartford, Ct.
MF Farmington, Ct.
r N. Y. City
Pr N. Y. City
Hartford, Ct.
Portland, Me.
MM Bristol, Ct.
Boston, Mass.
FS Holland, c. 1650
Fd Chester, Mass.
N. Y. City
Mr Hartford, Ct.
DiCKERMAN
b Lewiston, Me.
Fb Mt. Carmel, Ct.
FF Mt. Carmel, Ct.
e Amherst, Mass.
Mb Jamestown, N. Y.
FM Wallingford, Ct.
s Andover, Mass.
Me Ansonia, Ct.
MF Lowell, Mass.
p Athens, Gr.
Pm Lowell, Mass.
MM Clinton, Ct.
r New Haven, Ct.
Pr Stratford, Vt.
Normal, 111.
FS England, 1635
Dorchester, Mass., 1638
Halle, Ger.
W. Haven, Ct.
New Haven, Ct.
Lewiston, Me.
•
Amherst, Mass.
New Haven, Ct
Douglass
b St. Louis, Mo.
Fb Fort Madison, la.
FF Skaneateles, N. Y.
J St. Louis, Mo.
Mb Marion, 0.
FM Elmira, N. Y.
m St, Louis, Mo.
Pm Fort Madison, la.
MF Marion, O.
r St. Louis, Mo.
Pr Fort Madison, la.
MM Philadelphia, Pa.
FS Scotland, 1769
Pittstown, N. Y.
St. Louis, Mo.
Fd St. Louis, Mo,
Md St. Louis, Mo.
Drown
b San Francisco, Cal
. Fb Warren, R. I.
FF Warren, R. I.
s San Francisco, Cal
. Mb Richmond, Va.
FM Warren, R. I.
m San Francisco, Cal
. Pm Richmond, Va.
MF Richmond, Va.
p New Haven, Ct.
Pr San Francisco,. Cal,
, MM Richmond, Va.
r San Francisco, Cal
FS England, id-
Portsmouth, N. H.
DURFEE
b Palmyra, N. Y.
Fb Marion, N.Y.
Fe Lyons, k. Y.
FF Lvons, N. Y.
FM Marion, N. Y.
s Palmyra, N. Y.
m New Haven, Ct.
Mb Palmyra, N. Y.
MF Palmyra, N. Y.
r N. Y. City
Pm Paknyra, N. Y.
MM Palmyra, N. Y.
New Britain, Ct.
Pr Palmyra, N. Y.
FS France, via Eng., c.
Newton, Mass.
N. Y. City
1652
New Haven, Ct.
Md Palmyra, N. Y.
Taunton, Mass.
Fall River, Mass.
Eagle
If N. Y. City
Fb Monaghan, Ire.
FF Monaghan, Ire.
s Andover, Mass.
Mb Armagh, Ire.
FM
r N. Y. City
Pm Ireland
MF Armagh, Ire.
Pr N. Y. City
MM Armagh, Ire.
Fd Brooklyn, N. Y.
Md Brooklyn, N. Y.
Eldridge
b Janesville, Wis.
Fb Salem. N.Y.
FF Salem, N.Y. .-^L
e Kansas & Missouri Fe Marion, N. Y.
FM Easton.N. Y. fl
Penfield, N. Y.
Mb Leroy, N. Y.
MF Rolla, Mo. ■
s Fairport, N. Y.
Pm Delavan, Wis.
MM Hudson, N. Y. H
m New Haven, Ct.
Pr Janesville, Wis.
Pembroke, N. Y. Ml
r New Haven, Ct.
Oakland, Cal.
FS England, c. 163s ■!
Moscow, Idaho
Buena Vista, Col.
Stonington, Ct. ^Hl
Penfield, N. Y.
Yarmouth, Mass. ^Hl
Batavia, N. Y.
1
HABITAT
835
Farr
b Athol, Mass.
s Andover, Mass.
p Jena, Heidelberg
Berlin, Ger.
r New Haven, Ct.
Field
h Geneva, J\. Y.
5 Staten Island, N.Y.
Pottstown, Pa.
r N. Y. City
Pittsburg, Pa.
*FlNCKE .
b Brooklyn, IS . Y.
J Pottstown, Pa.
m Brooklyn, N. Y.
r Brooklyn, N. Y.
d Brooklyn, N. Y.
Fisher
b Marion, O.
J Andover, Mass.
w N. Y. City
r N. Y. City
FiTZHUGH
b Pittsburg, Pa.
s Belmont, Mass.
Concord, N. H.
m Allegheny, Pa.
o Pittsburg, Pa.
r Allegheny, Pa.
Fb Athol, Mass.
Mb Athol, Mass,
Pm Athol, Mass.
Pr Athol, Mass.
Fd Athol, Mass.
FF Chesterfield, N. H.
FM Athol, Mass.
MF Athol, Mass.
MM Royalston, Mass.
FS England,
Lynn, Mass,
Fb Geneva, N. Y. FF Geneva, N. Y.
Mb Albany, N. Y. FM Geneva, N. Y.
Pm Albany, N. Y. MF Orwell, O.
Pr Geneva, N. Y. MM Rockaway, N. Y.
Fd Long Island Sound FS England, 17 —
Mr Hector, N. Y. Deerfield, Mass.
Fb Little Falls, N, Y.
Mb N, Y. City
Pm Brooklyn, N. Y.
Pr Brooklyn, N. Y.
Fd Asheville, N. C.
Fb Marion, O.
Mb Marion, O.
Me Pittsfield. Alass.
Pm Marion, O.
Pr Marion, O.
Kansas
California
France
X. Y. City
Fb Oswego, N. Y.
Mb Cincinnati, O.
Pm Cincinnati, O.
Pr Pittsburg, Pa.
Washington, D. C.
FF Brooklyn, N. Y.
FM Herkimer Co, N. Y.
MF Brooklyn, N. Y.
MM Hyde Park, N. Y.
FS Mannheim, Ger., 1700
Mohawk Valley, N. Y.
FF Columbus, O.
FM Delaware Co., O.
MF Richmond, Va.
N. Y. City
Mobile, Ala.
Marion, O.
MM Deerfield, Mass.
N. Y. City
Marion, O.
FS Germany, 1695
Newark, N. J.
FF Oswego, N. Y.
FM Genesee Valley, N. Y.
MF Cincinnati, O.
MM Lancaster, Pa.
FS Bedford, Eng., 1671
Virginia
Flaherty
b Derby, Ct.
^ Derby, Ct.
p New Haven, Ct.
r Derby, Ct.
FOOTE
b New Haven, Ct.
^ Andover, Mass.
m New Haven, Ct.
r Alpes Maritimes,
London, Eng.
o N. Y. Citv
r Dongan Hills, S. I.
N.Y.
Forbes
b Chicago, 111.
J Chicago, 111.
m Chicago, 111.
r Chicago, 111,
Fb Lisnoren, Co. Gal-
way, Ireland
Mb Cong, Co. Galway,
Ireland
Pm Birmingham, Eng.
Pr Wolverhampton,
England
Derby, Ct.
Md Derby, Ct.
Fb New Haven, Ct,
Mb New Haven, Ct,
Me Brooklyn, N. Y,
Paris, France
Pm New Haven, Ct.
Pr New Haven, Ct.
Fb Willsboro, N. Y.
Mb Whitesboro, N, Y.
Me Janesville, Wis.
Pm Chicago, 111.
Pr Chicago, 111.
Fd Chicago, 111.
FF Lisnoren, Co. Galway,
Ire.
FM Aughterard, Co. Gal-
way, Ire.
MF Cong, Co. Galway, Ire.
MM Headf ord, Co. Galway,
Ire,
FF New Haven, Ct.
FM West Haven, Ct.
MF New Haven, Ct.
MM New Haven, Ct.
FS England, 1635
- Id, Ct.
Wethersfielc
FF Cannon, Ct.
FM Jay, N. Y.
MF New Haven, Ct.
MM Marcy, N, Y.
FS Scotland,
Connecticut
836
STATISTICS
Ford
b Detroit, Mich.
s Detroit, Mich.
p New Haven, Ct.
r Detroit, Mich.
FOWLEB
b Newburgh, N. Y.
s N. Y. City
m Haworth, N. J.
w Philadelphia, Pa.
r Plainfield, N. J.
France, Italy, &c.
N. Y. City
Fb Lowell, Mass. FF Nottingham, N. H.
Mb Detroit, Mich. FM Sanbornton, N. H.
Ptn Detroit, Mich. MF Detroit, Mich.
Pr Detroit, Mich. MM Detroit, Mich.
Fd Battle Creek, Mich. FS Ireland & Eng., 17-
New Hampshire
Fb Marlborough, N. Y. FF N. Y. City
he Middle Hope, N. Y. FM N. Y. City
Mb Bethlehem, N. Y. " " '
Pm Newburgh, N. Y.
Pr Newburgh, N. Y.
MF Bethlehem, N. Y.
MM Bethlehem, N. Y.
FS Wales,
Frank
b Ogdensburg, N. Y. Fb Germany
s Ogdensburg, N. Y. Mb Laupheim, Ger.
m FarRockaway, N.Y.Fm N. Y. City
r N. Y. City Pr Ogdensburg, N. Y.
Fuller
b New Haven, Ct. Fb Northbridge, Mass.
s New Haven, Ct. Fe Worcester, Mass,
p New Haven, Ct. Wilbraham, Mass.
r Stamford, Ct. Davenport, N. Y.
Mb New Haven, Ct.
Pm New Haven, Ct.
Pr New Haven, Ct.
West Haven, Ct
Long island
FF Germany
FM Germany
MF Laupheim, Germany
MM Laupheim, Germany
FF Northbridge, Mass.
FM Northbridge, Mass.
MF New Haven, Ct.
MM New Haven, Ct.
FS England, 1620
Plymouth, Mass.
Gaines. F. W.
b Cleveland, O.
s Cleveland, O.
m Stamford, Ct.
p New Haven. Ct
r Cleveland, 0.
Detroit Mich.
Toledo, O.
Gaines, J. M.
b New Haven, Ct.
e New York
Japan & California
N. Mex. & Colo.
m New Haven, Ct
r New Haven, Ct.
N. Y. City
Gaylobo
b Meriden, Ct
r N. Y. City
GODCHAUX
& New Orleans, La.
J Exeter, N. H.
P New Haven, Ct.
m Montgomery, Ala.
r New Orleans, La.
FF Castleton, Vt.
FM Castleton, Vt
MF Rutland, Vt
MM Rutland, Vt.
FF Granby, Ct.
FM Belchertown, Mass.
MF Milton, N. H.
Portsmouth, N. H.
MM Falmouth, Me.
FS England, 163
New Haven,
L
Fb Castleton, Vt.
Mb Rutland, Vt
Pm Sudbury, Vt
Pr Rutland, Vt
Cleveland, O.
Pickens Co., Ga.
Fd Cleveland, O.
Mr Toledo, O.
Fb Granby, Ct.
Fe Stamford, Ct
Olivet Mich.
New Haven, Ct
Litchfield, Ct
Mb Concord, N. H.
Me So. Milton, N. H.
Pm Portsmouth, N. H.
Pr Meriden, N. H.
Kyoto, Japan
Los Gatos, Cal.
Albuquerque, N. M,
Austin, Tex.
Joppa, Ala.
Fb Woodstock, Ct
Mb Norwich, Ct
Pm Norwich, Ct
Pr Ashford, Ct
Meriden, Ct
Md Meriden, Ct
Fr Fitzwilliam, N. H.
Fd Chicopee, Mass.
Fb Herbeville, France FF Blamant, France
FF Ashford, Ct.
FM Pomfret, Ct
MF Norwich, Ct
MM Norwich, Ct.
FS England, 1630
Dorchester, Mass,
030
, Ma
Mb Metz, France
Pm New Orleans, La.
Pr New Orleans, La.
Fd New Orleans, La.
FM Metz, France
MF Metz, France
MM Metz, France
FS France, 1841
New Orleans, La.
HABITAT
837
Goodman
b Hartford, Ct.
s Hartford, Ct.
* New Haven, Ct.
r Hartford, Ct.
Gordon
b Odessa, Russia
e Chicago, 111.
N. Y. City
Lancaster, Pa.
s Lancaster, Pa.
r N. Y. City
Gorman
b Nashua, N. H.
e Columbus, O.
J Columbus, O.
r Columbus, O.
GOVERT
b Jacksonville, 111.
s Jacksonville, 111.
tn Hannibal, Mo.
p Ann Arbor, Mich.
r Quincy, 111.
GOWANS
b Buffalo, N. Y.
m St. Louis, Mo.
r Buffalo, N. Y.
Grant
b Stirling, N. J.
e Middleboro, Mass.
Charleston, S. C.
J Andover, Mass.
m Hamilton, N. Y.
r Bridgewater, Mass.
Waban, Mass.
Staten Island, N.Y.
Pittsburg, Pa.
N. Y. City
Fb West Hartford,. Ct. FF Hartford, Ct.
Mb N. Y. City FM Granby, Ct.
Pm N. Y. City MF N. Y. City
Pr N. Y. City MM N. Y. City
Hartford, Ct. FS England, 1632
Fd Hartford, Ct. Mass. Bay Colony
Fb Moghilev, Russia
Mb Moghilev, Russia
Me Odessa, Russia
Pm Moghilev, Russia
Pr Moscow, Russia
Vienna, Austria
Odessa, Russia
. N. Y. City
Fb Ottawa, Can.
Mb Leicester, Eng,
Pm Dresden, Germany
Pr Nashua, N. H.
Columbus, O.
Fd Columbus, O.
Md Columbus, O.
Fb Fort Madison, la.
Mb Terseyville, 111.
Pm Jacksonville, 111.
Pr Neelyville, 111.
Quincy, 111.
Fb Buffalo, N. Y.
Mb South East N. Y.
Pm Brewster, N. Y.
Pr Buffalo, N. Y.
Fb Urumiyah, Persia
Mb Dryden, N. Y.
Pm Cortland, N. Y.
Pr New York
Missouri
Massachusetts
Charleston, S. C.
Fd Eau Claire, Wis.
Mr N. Y. City
FF
FM
MF
MM
FS Russia, c. 1880
N. Y. 6ty
FF
FM
MF Leicester,
MM
Eng.
FF Fort Madison, la.
FM Hanover, Germany
MF N. Y. City
MM Williamstown, Mass.
FS Germany,
Fort Madison, la.
FF Crieff, Scotland
FM Perth, Scotland
MF South East N. Y.
MM Patterson^ N. Y.
FS Scotland, 1828
Buffalo, N. Y.
FF Utica, N. Y.
Urumiyah, Persia
FM Cherry Valley, N. Y.
MF Madison, N. Y.
MM Madison, N. Y.
FS Dorchester, Eng., 1630
Dorchester, Mass,
Greene
b Worcester, Mass.
m (1-2) New Haven,
Ct.
r N. Y. City
Gregory
b Middleville, Mich.
J Neligh, Neb.
r New Haven, Ct.
Fb N. Kingstown, R. I.
Mb Springfield, Mass.
Pm Springfield, Mass.
Pr Worcester, Mass.
Cambridge, Mass.
Brooklyn, N. Y,
Fd Wickford, R. I.
Mr N. Y. City
Fb E. Sparta, N. Y.
Fe Akron, N. Y.
Moscow, Mich.
Hillsdale, Mich.
Mb Montezuma, N. Y.
Pm N. Adams, Mich.
Pr Middleville, Mich.
Crete, Neb.
Md Crete, Neb.
Fr Council Bluffs, la.
FF N. Kingstown, R. I.
FM N. Kingstown, R. I.
MF Springfield, Mass.
MM Springfield, Mass.
FS England, 1636
Rhode Island
FF E. Sparta, N. Y.
FM Shamokin, Pa.
MF
MM Philadelphia, Pa.
FS Scotland,
Norwich, Ct.
838
STATISTICS
1
Griffith
b Taylorsville, III.
5 Indianapolis, Ind.
m Columbus, O.
r Indianapolis, Ind.
Columbus, O.
Fb Marshall, 111.
Mb Ottawa, 111.
Pm Ottawa, 111.
Pr Bloomington, 111.
Indianapolis, Ind.
Fd Indianapolis, Ind.
FF Marshall, 111.
FM
MF Ottawa, 111.
MM
FS Wales,
Baltimore, Md.
Griggs
b Granby, Ct.
e Hartford, Ct.
s Hartford, Ct.
m N. Y. City
w Farmington, Ct.
o N. Y. City
r Ardsley-on-Hudson,
N. y:
Fb Somers, Ct. FF Springrfield, Mass
M& W.Springfield.Mass.fAi Somers, Ct.
Fm W.Springfield, Mass. MF W. Springfield, Mass.
Pr Springfield, Mass. MM W. Springfield, Mass.
Fd Hartford, Ct.
Md Hartford, Ct.
i
Haldeman
b Harrisburg, Pa.
s Andover, Mass.
p Baltimore, Md.
o Pittsburg, Pa.
r Harrisburg, Pa.
Hamlin, E. B.
b Troy, N. Y.
s Dobbs Ferry, X. Y.
r N. Y. City
Hamlin, P. D.
b Smethport, Pa.
s Concord, N. H.
m Chicago, 111.
r Newark, O.
Chicago, 111.
Hatch
b Hanover, N. H.
p Cambridge, Mass.
r N. Y. City
Havens
b Hartford, Ct.
p New Haven, Ct.
r Hartford, Ct.
N. Y. City
Philadelphia, Pa.
Fb Harrisburg, Pa.
Mb Middletown, Pa.
Me Washington, D. C.
Pm Harrisbutg, Pa.
Pr Harrisburg, Pa.
Paris, Fr.
Heidelberg, Ger.
Berlin, Ger.
St. Petersburg,
Russia
Fd Harrisburg, Pa.
Fb Glenville, N. Y.
Fe Troy, N. Y.
Cincinnati, O.
Mb Marine City, Mich.
Me Vassar, Mich.
Pm Ypsilanti, Mich.
Pr Washington, D. C.
Fb Smethport, Pa.
Mb Smethport, Pa.
Pm Smethport, Pa.
Pr Smethport, Pa.
Fd Smethport, Pa.
Fb Strafford, Vt.
Fe Washington, D. <
Mb Cincinnati, O.
Pm Cincinnati, O.
Pr Cincinnati, O.
Md Cincinnati, O.
Fd Strafford, Vt.
Fb Wethersfield, Ct.
Mb Haddam, Ct.
Pm Haddam, Ct.
Pr Hartford. Ct.
FF Harrisburg, Pa.
FM Cornwall turnaces, Pa.
MF Harrisburg, Pa.
MM Harrisburg, Pa.
FS Neufchatei, Switzer-
land, 1722
Rapho Township, Lan-
caster Co., Pa.
FF Ypsilanti, Mich.
Glenville, N. Y.
FM Albany, N. Y.
Glenville, N. Y.
MF Marine City, Mich.
Vassar. Mich.
Ypsilanti, Mich.
MM Marine City, Mich.
Vassar, Mich.
FS England, 1639
• le. Ma
Barnstable, Mass.
i
FF Smethport, Pa.
FM Guilford, N. Y.
MF Basking Ridge, N. ,
Smethport, Pa.
MM Gill, Mass.
FS England prior to i(
Barnstable, Mass.
FF Strafford, Vt.
FM
MF Cincinnati, O.
MM Cincinnati, O.
FS England, 1625
Falmouth, Mass.
FF Wethersfield, Ct.
Hartford, Ct.
FM Wethersfield, Ct.
MF Haddam, Ct.
MM Mansfield, Ct.
Willimantic, Ct.
FS England, c. 1636
Boston, Mass., 1637 'J
Hartford, Ct.
HABITAT
839
*Hawes
b N. Y. City
s N. Y. City
r N. Y. City
d N.Y. City
Fb E. Corinth, Me.
Mb N. Y. City
Pm N. Y. City
Pr N. Y. City
Fd N. Y. City
Hawkes
b Templeton, Mass. Fb Templeton, Mass.
s Easthampton, Mass. Mb Lockport, Pa.
m Huntington,' Mass. Pm Templeton, Mass.
p Gottingen, Ger. Pr Templeton, Mass.
r New Haven, Ct. Fd Templeton, Mass.
Heard
b Biddeford, Me.
m Biddeford, Me.
w Saco, Me.
r Biddeford, Me.
Fb Porter, Me.
Mb Biddeford, Me.
Pm Biddeford, Me.
Pr Biddeford, Me.
Md Biddeford, Me.
Heaton
b Bergen Point, N. J. Fb Salem, O.
e N. Y. City Mb Salem, O.
s N. Y. City Me N. Y. City
m Fall River, Mass. Pm Salem, O.
r N. Y. City Pr N. Y. City
b Oregon City, Ore.
J Andover, Mass.
Hedges
-^ity,
Mc
Oregon City, Ore.
p New Haven, Ct.
r Oregon City, Ore.
Heidrich
b Dayton, Ky.
e Peoria, 111.
5 Peoria, 111.
p Berlin, Ger.
r Peoria, 111.
Helfenstein _
b Shamokin, Pa.
5 Pottstown, Pa.
in Brooklyn, N. Y.
w New Haven, Ct.
r Port Trevorton, Pa.
Pottsville, Pa.
Harrisburg, Pa.
Shamokin, Pa.
Fb McConnellsville, O.
Mb Palmyra, Mo.
Pm Canemah, Ore.
Pr Canemah, Ore.
Fd Canemah, Ore.
Md Canemah, Ore.
Fb Steinthalleben, Ger.
Mb Kelbra, Ger.
Pm Indianapolis, Ind.
Pr Cincinnati, O.
Peoria, 111.
Fb Carlisle, Pa.
Fe Dayton, O.
New Haven, Ct.
Milwaukee, Wis.
Mb Philadelphia, Pa.
Pm Newmarket, N. H.
Pr Shamokin, Pa.
Fd Shamokin, Pa.
Henry
b Plattsburg, N. Y.
^ Plattsburg, N. Y.
r N. Y. City
Poughkeepsie, N.
Lawrenceville, N.
Hess
b Philadelphia, Pa.
J Philadelphia, Pa.
m New Haven, Ct,
r New Haven, Ct.
Fb Schuylers Falls,
N. Y.
Mb Schuylers Falls,
Y. N. Y.
J. Pm Morrisonville, N.Y.
- Pr Plattsburg, N. Y.
Fd Plattsburg, N. Y.
Fb Philadelphia, Pa.
Mb Philadelphia, Pa.
Pm Philadelphia, Pa.
Pr Philadelphia, Pa.
Md Philadelphia, Pa.
FF E. Corinth, Me.
FM
MF N. Y. City
MM N. Y. City
FS England, 1620
Yarmouth, Mass.
FF Lancaster, Mass.
Templeton, Mass.
FM Lancaster, Mass.
Templeton, Mass.
MF Norton, O.
MM Putney, Vt.
Framingham, Mass.
FS England, 163 —
Saugus, Mass.
FF Porter, Me.
FM Limington, Me.
MF Biddeford, Me.
MM Topsham, Me.
FS England, 1636
Dover, N. H.
FF Bucks Co., Pa.
Salem, O.
FM Bucks Co., Pa.
MF Salem, O.
MM Salem, O.
FS Wales, 1682
Philadelphia, Pa.
FF Morgan Co., O.
FM
MF
MM
FS
Virginia
FF Cincinnati, O.
FM Steinthalleben, Ger.
Cincinnati, O.
MF Indianapolis, Ind.
MM Indianapolis, Ind.
FF Lancaster, Pa.
Carlisle, Pa.
Dayton, O.
Milwaukee, Wis.
FM Carlisle, Pa.
MF Exeter, N. H.
MM Salem, Mass.
FS Germany, 1772
Philadelphia, Pa.
FF Schuylers Falls, N. Y.
FM Schuylers Falls, N. Y.
MF Schuylers Falls, N. Y.
MM Schuylers Falls, N. Y.
FS Ireland,
FF
FM
MF
MM
FS Germany & Denmark
840
STATISTICS
UOEMINGHAUS
b Bridgeport, Ct. Fb Crefeld, Ger.
e N. Y. City Mb Bridgeport, Ct.
m Williamstown,Mass. Fm Bridgeport, Ct.
w N. Y. City Pr N. Y. City
r N. Y. City Paris, Fr.
FF Crefeld, Ger.
FM
MF Bridgeport, Ct.
MM Norwalk. Ct.
HOLLISTER, G. C.
b GrandRapidSjMich. Fb Romeo, Mich.
s Boston, Mass. Mb Putney, Vt.
m Mamaroneck, N.Y. Me Deerfield, Mass.
r Norfolk, Va. Pm Cleveland, O. MM Vermont
N. Y. City Pr Grand Rapids,Mich. FS Glastonbury, Eng.
o N. Y. City Afd Grand Rapids,Mich. 1642
r Mamaroneck. N. Y. Wethersfield, Ct.
FF New York
FM Sangerfield, N. Y.
MF
HOLLISTER, T. C.
b GrandRapids,Mich.
s Boston, Mass.
m St Paul, Minn.
w Elbridge, N. Y.
p Evanston, 111.
r Chicago, 111.
HOOKXB
b Macedon, N. Y.
e Ontario, N. Y.
s Andover, Mass.
m Eaton, N. Y.
r Boston, Mass.
New Haven, Ct
HOOLB
b Brooklyn, N. Y.
s Brooklyn, N. Y.
p N. Y. City
r Brooklyn, N. Y.
Hopkins
b Catskill. N. Y.
* Concord, N. H.
r Catskill, N. Y.
HOYT
b Stamford, Ct.
J Stamford, Ct.
m N. Y. City
r Stamford, Ct.
N. Y. City
Hunt
b Scran ton, Pa.
r Scranton, Pa.
Descubridora &c.
Mex.
Philadelphia, Pa.
N. Y. City
Fb Romeo, Mich.
Mb Putney, Vt
Me Deerfield, Mass.
Pm Cleveland, O.
Pr Grand Rapids, Mich.
Md Grand Rapids,Mich.
Fb Aldington Parish,
Kent Co., Eng.
Fe Newark, N. Y.
Poughkecpsie, N.Y.
Chicago, 111.
Mb Wichford, War-
wickshire, Eng.
Me Palmyra, N. Y.
Pm Macedon, N. Y.
Pr Macedon, N. Y.
Ontario, N. Y.
Fd Ontario, N. Y.
Afm (2) Ottawa, O.
Mr Newark, O.
Fb N. Y. City
Mb Falmouth, Me.
Pm Exeter, N. H.
Pr Brooklyn, N. Y.
Fd Brooklyn, N. Y,
Fb N. Y. City
Mb N. Y. City
Pm N. Y. City
Pr Catskill, N. Y.
N. Y. City
Fd Catskill, N. Y.
Md Catskill, N. Y.
Fb Stamford, Ct
Mb N. Y. City
Pm N. Y. City
Pr N. Y. Citv
Stamford, Ct.
Fd Stamford, Ct
Fb Paulina, N.J.
Mb Seneca Falls, N. Y.
Pm Seneca Falls, N. Y.
Pr Scranton, Pa.
FF New York
FM Sangerfield, N. Y.
MF
MM Vermont
FS Glastonbury, Eng.
1642
Wethersfield, Ct
FF Aldington Parish, Kent
Co., Eng.
FM Bethersden, Kent Co.,
Eng.
MF Wichford, Warwick-
shire, Eng.
MM Oxford
Oxfordshire, Eng.
FS England, June 3, 1856
Newark, N. Y.
FF Manchester^ Eng.
FM
MF Falmouth, Me.
MM Acton, Me.
FS England,
FF N.Y. City
FM Catskill, N. Y.
MF New York
MM New Bedford, Ma88.J
FS England, 1620
Plymouth, Mass.
FF Stamford, Ct
FM Stamford, Ct
MF N. Y. City
MM
FS England, 1628
Salem, Mass.
FF Paulina, N.J.
FM Paulina, N. J.
MF Seneca Falls, N. J.
MM Auburn, N. Y.
HABITAT
841
Hutchinson
b Lynn, Mass.
s Lynn, Mass.
tn Plainfield, N. J.
r Boston, Mass.
Chicago, 111.
0 N. Y. City
r Plainfield, N. J.
Fb Lynn, Mass.
Mb Augusta, Me.
Pm Lynn, Mass.
Pr Lynn, Mass.
Fd Lynn, Mass.
FF Milton, N. H.
FM Marblehead, Mass.
MF Augusta, Me.
MM Farmington, Me.
'Ives
b Rome, Italy
s Lawrenceville, N.J.
r N. Y. City
d N. Y. City
Jackson
b Waterbury, Ct.
J Waterbury, Ct.
* New Haven, Ct.
r N. Y. City
Jeffrey
b Torrington, Ct.
e Springfield, Mass.
s Torrington, Ct.
tn Torrington, Ct.
* New Haven, Ct.
r New Milford, Ct.
St. Louis, Mo.
Fb New Haven, Ct.
Fe Boston, Mass.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Florence, Italy
Mb Brooklyn, N. Y.
Pm Brooklyn, N. Y.
Pr Rome, Italy
Fd Rome, Italy
Mr N. Y. City
Fb Mitchelstown,
Co. Cork, Ire.
Mb Rossbog, Co. Tip-
perary. Ire.
Pm Waterbury, Ct.
Pr Waterbury, Ct.
Fd Waterbury, Ct.
Fb Birmingham, Eng.
Fe Waterbury, Ct.
Mb Torrington, Ct.
Pm Torrington, Ct.
Pr Torrington, Ct.
FF New Haven, Ct.
FM Boston, Mass.
MP Brooklyn, N. Y.
MM Brooklyn, N.Y.
FS England,
New Haven, Ct.
FF Mitchelstown,
Co. Cork, Ire.
FM Mitchelstown,
Co. Cork, Ire.
MF Rossbog,
Co. Tipperary, Ire.
MM Rossbog,
Co. Tipperary, Ire.
FF Birmingham, Eng.
FM Birmingham, Eng.
MF Torrington, Ct.
MM Torrington, Ct.
FS Birmingham, Eng.,
1859
Waterbury, Ct.
Johnson
b Unionville, Ct.
5 Unionville, Ct.
m Saratoga Springs,
N.Y.
r Boston, Mass.
o N. Y. City
r Englewood, N. J.
Fb Unionville, Ct.
Mb Woodstock, N. B.
Pm Bridgeport, Ct.
Pr Unionville, Ct.
Fd Unionville, Ct.
FF Unionville, Ct.
Oswego, N. Y.
FM Avon, Ct.
MF Aberdeen, Scot.
Woodstock, N. B.
MM Ireland
Johnston
b Brooklyn, N. Y.
e N. Y. City
s Andover, Mass.
r N. Y. City
Jones, A. C.
b New Haven, Ct.
s New Haven, Ct.
m Noank, Ct.
^ New Haven, Ct.
r Cleveland, O.
Msrstic, Ct.
Jones, L. C.
b Oak Hill, N. Y.
p New Haven, Ct.
r Syracuse, N. Y.
Fb Trebizond, Turkey
Mb Hadlyme, Ct.
Me Lebanon, Ct.
Pm Cleveland, O.
Pr N. Y. City
Fb New Haven, Ct.
Mb Seymour, Ct.
Me Orange, Ct.
Pm New Haven, Ct.
Pr New Haven, Ct.
Fb Oak Hill, N. Y.
Mb Oak Hill, N. Y.
Pm Oak Hill, N. Y.
Pr Oak Hill, N. Y.
E. Durham, N. Y.
FF Rowan County,
Turkey
FM Granville, O.
MF Lebanon, Ct.
MM Hadlyme, Ct.
FS Scotland,
B.C.
Iredell Co., N. C.
FF Orange, Ct.
FM New Haven, Ct.
MF Seymour, Ct.
MM Seymour, Ct.
FS Wales, 1748
Stratford. Ct.
FF OakHill, N. Y.
FM Oak Hill, N. Y.
MF Oak Hill, N. Y.
MM Oak Hill, N. Y.
FS Llandovery, Wales,
c. 1800
Rensselaerville, N. Y.
842
STATISTICS
Jordan
b Peekskill, X. Y.
s Peekskill, N. Y.
m Peekskill, N. Y.
r N. Y. City
Peekskill, N. Y.
Keller
b Springfield, O,
e Milford, Ct.
s New Haven, Ct.
m Philadelphia, Pa.
r New Haven, Ct.
Kellogg
b Greenwich, Ct.
e Ocean Grove, N. J.
Mt. Vernon, N. Y.
New Canaan, Ct.
s N. Y. City
m Binghamton, N. Y.
w Auburn, N. Y.
p Baltimore, Md.
r Washington, D. C.
Augusta, Ga.
Kelly
b New Haven, Ct Fb N. Y. City
e N. Y. City Mb New Haven, Ct.
Yonkers, N. Y. Pm New Haven, Ct.
\V. Superior. Wis. Pr N. Y. City
s Yonkers, N. Y. Superior, Wis.
r W. Superior, Wis.
Chicago, III.
Newark, O.
Fb Croton-on-Hudson, FF Croton, N. Y.
N. Y.
Mb Peekskill, N. Y.
Pm Peekskill, N. Y.
Pr Peekskill, N. Y.
Fd Peekskill, N. Y.
Fb Frederickton, O.
Mb Greenfield, O.
Pm Springfield, O.
Md Springfield, O.
Fr N. Y. Citv
Central West
Fd Chicago, 111.
Fb New Canaan, Ct.
Mb New Canaan, Ct.
Pm New Canaan, Ct
Pr Greenwich, Ct.
Ocean Grove, N. J.
Mt Vernon, N. Y.
Kingman
b N. Y. Citv
e Orange, N. J.
s Newark, N. J.
o N. Y. City
r S. Orange, N. J.
KiNKEY
b Kansas City, Mo.
e Chicago, 111.
s Chicago^ 111.
m Chicago, 111.
zc Peoria, 111.
r Baltimore, Md.
Chicago, ill.
N. Y. City
Kip
b N. Y. City
s Sing Sing, N. Y.
m N. Y. City
r N. Y. City
Knapp
b S. Norwalk, Ct
s Andover< Mass.
m S. Norwalk, Ct
r Chicago, 111.
o N. Y. City
r Stamford, Ct.
Fb N. Bridgewater,
Mass.
Mb Brookville, Pa.
Pm Brookville, Pa.
Pr Boston, Mass.
N. Y. City
S. Orange, N. T.
Fd S. Orange, N. J.
Fb Adrian, Mich.
Mb
Me Jacksonville, 111.
Pm Nashville, Tenn.
Pr Nashville, Tenn.
Chicago, III.
Md Chicago, 111.
Fr Kansas City, Mo.
Fb Rhinebeck, N. Y.
Mb N. Y. City
Pm N. Y. City
Pr N. Y. City
Fd N. Y. City
Fb N. Y. City
Mb Danbury, Ct.
Pm Danbury, Ct.
Pr Danbury, Ct.
S. Norwalk, Ct
Md S. Norwalk, Ct
FM Croton, N. Y.
MF Peekskill, N. Y.
MM
FF Somerset, Pa.
Frederickton, O.
Burlington, la.
Mansfield, O.
MF Greenfield, O.
Springfield, O.
MM Gettysburg, Pa.
FS Baden, Ger., c. 1750
Lancaster Co., Pa.
FF New Canaan, Ct
FM New Canaan, Ct
MF New Canaan, Ct.
MM New Canaan, Ct.
FS England, 165 1-2
Norwalk, Ct
FF N.Y. City
FM Rhinebeok, N. Y.
MF New Haven, Ct
MM New Haven, Ct.
FS England, Ireland
Holland, 1797
N. Y. City
FF N. Bridgewater, Mass.
FM N. Bridgewater, Mass.
MF Brookville, Pa.
MM Brookville, Pa.
FS Weymouth, Eng., 1635
Weymouth, Mass.
Duxbury, Mass.
FF Lenawee Co., Mich.
FM
MF
MM Virginia
FS England, ir —
Hartford, Ct
FF Rhinebeck, N. Y.
FM Rhinebeck, N. Y.
MF N. Y. City
MM N. Y. City
FS Holland, 1650
New Amsterdam, N. Y.
N. Y. City
FF
FM
MF Bethel, Ct
MM Danbury, Ct
HABITAT
843
Lackland _
b St. Louis, Mo.
r St. Louis, Mo.
Lampman
b Jamaica, N. Y.
e Newarky N. J.
s Newark, N. J.
0 N. Y. City
r Coxsackie, N. Y.
Lee
b Chicago, 111.
s Exeter, N. H.
Washington, Ct.
m GrandRapids,Mich,
p Paris, Fr.
r London, Eng.
N. Y. City
Lenahan
b Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
m Pittsburg, Pa.
r Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Lo:^KNSTINE
b Leavenworth, Kan.
e Philadelphia, Pa.
N. Y. City
s N. Y. City
m Flushing, N. Y.
w Ocala, Fla.
r N. Y. City
LONGACRE
b Philadelphia, Pa.
s Philadelphia, Pa.
r Philadelphia, Pa.
Loom IS
b Brooklyn, N. Y.
s Brooklyn, N. Y.
m Brooklyn,. N. Y,
r Brooklyn, N. Y.
Adirondacks
Rochester, N. Y.
Loughran
b Kingston, N.
s Kingston, N.
p N. Y. City
r Kingston, N.
Fb St. Louis, Mo.
Mb St. Louis, Mo.
Pm St. Louis, Mo.
Pr St. Louis, Mo.
Fb Coxsackie, N. Y.
Mb Coxsackie, N. Y.
Pm Coxsackicy N. Y.
Pr Jamaica, N. Y.
Newark
Md Newark
, N. J.
,N.J.
Fb Salisbury, Ct.
Mb Versailles, Ky.
Pm Rock Island, 111.
Pr Trinidad, B. W. I.,
Australia
S. America
California
Fd Washington, D, C.
Mr Abroad
Fb Newport, Ire.
Fe Appalachicola, Fla.
Mb Plaines, Pa.
Pm Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Pr Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Fd Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Fb Eisfeld, Saxe-
Meiningen, Ger.
Mb Wheeling, W. Va.
Me Leavenworth, Kans.
Pm Wheeling, W. Va.
Pr Leavenworth, Kans.
Md Leavenworth, Kans.
Fm (2) Philadelphia,
Pa.
Fr Chicago, 111.
N. Y. City
Fb Philadelphia, Pa.
Mb Carlisle, Pa.
Me N. Y. City
Paris, Fr.
Pm Philadelphia, Pa.
Pr Philadelphia, Pa.
Fd Philadelphia, Pa.
Fb Coventry, Ct.
Mb S. Windsor, Ct.
Pm S. Windsor, Ct.
Pr Brooklyn, N. Y.
Fo N. Y. City
Fd Brooklyn, N. Y.
Mr Maplewood, N. J.
Fb Walton, N. Y.
Mb Durham, N. Y.
Pm Kingston, N, Y.
Pr Kingston, N. Y.
Fd Kingston, N. Y.
FF St. Louis, Mo.
FM Rochester, N. Y.
Louisville, Ky,
MF St. Louis, Mo.
MM St. Louis, Mo.
FS England,
Maryland
FF Coxsackie, N. Y.
FM Coxsackie, N. Y.
MF Coxsackie, N. Y.
MM Coxsackie, N. Y.
FS Germany & Holland
Coxsackie, N. Y.
FF Salisbury, Ct.
FM Salisbury, Ct.
MF Versailles, Ky.
MM Pittsfield, Mass.
FS England, 165-
Farmington, Ct.
FF Newport, Ire.
FM Newport, Ire.
MF Plaines, Pa.
MM Plaines, Pa.
FS Newport, Ire., 1846
Appalachicola, Fla.
FF Eisfeld, Saxe-Meinin-
gen, Ger.
FM Thtiringia, Ger.
MF Wheeling, W. Va.
MM Wheeling, W. Va.
FS Eisfeld, Saxe-Meinin-
gen, Ger., 1848
Wheeling, W. Va.
Leavenworth, Kans.
FF Philadelphia, Pa.
FM New Jersey
MF Philadelphia, Pa.
N. Y. City
MM Jersey City, N. J.
FS Sweden, c. 1640
Kingsessing, Pa.
FF N. Coventry, Ct.
FM Vernon, Ct.
MF Wapping, Ct.
MM Glastonbury, Ct.
FS Braintree, Essex Co.,
Eng., 1638
Windsor, Ct.
FF Armagh, Co. Armagh,
Ire.
FM Armagh, Co. Armagh,
Ire.
MF Kingston, N. Y.
MM Palenville, N. Y.
FS Armagh, Co. Armagh,
Ire., 18—
Walton, N. Y.
844
STATISTICS
LOVSLL
b N. Y. City
e Plainfield, N. J.
s Plainfield, N. J.
m Taunton, Mass.
o N. Y. City
r Plainfield, N. J.
Fb Fall River, Mass.
Mb Fall River, Mass.
Ptn Fall River, Mass.
Pr Fall River, Mass,
N. Y. City
Plainfield, N. J.
FF Fall River, Mass.
FM Fall River, Mass.
MF Fall River, Mass.
MM Fall River, Mass.
FS England, 1630
Plymouth, Mass.
LUSK
b Center Grove,
Tenn.
e Nashville, Tenn.
s Nashville, Tenn.
m Nashville^ Tenn.
r Nashville, Tenn.
Fb Nashville, Tenn. FF Nashville, Tenn.
JVf& Kentucky FM Nashville, Tenn.
Me Clarksville, Tenn. MF Christian Co., Ky.
Ptn Center Grove,Tenn. MM Montgomery Co., Tenn.
Pr Nashville, Tenn. FS Ireland, 1759
Fd Nashville, Tenn. Maryland
McClenahan
b Wyoming, la.
e Olathe, Kans.
s Olathe, Kans.
m Bellevue, Neb.
r Andover, Mass.
Assiut^ Egypt
'McDbbmott
b St. John, N. B.
e New Haven, Ct.
s New Haven, Ct
f New Haven, Ct.
d New Haven, Ct.
McFadden
b Cincinnati, O.
f N. Y. City
Cincinnati- O.
St Louis. Mo.
McKxE
b Washington, D. C.
s Exeter, N. H.
m Washington, D. C.
r Washington, D. C.
N. Y. Citv
Saranac, N. Y.
Silver City,N.Mex.
Denver, Col.
Golden, Col.
Washington, D. C.
Minersville, Pa.
Asheville, N. C.
Fb Fairview, O.
Fe Guernsey Co., O.
Monmouth, 111.
Mb Richmond, O.
Me Guernsey Co., O.
Antrim, O.
Jefferson Co., O.
Ptn Morning Sun, la.
Pr Davenport, la.
Wyoming, la.
Winterset, la.
Olathe, Kans.
Fd Olathe, Kans.
Mr Chicago, 111.
Fb Londonderry, Co.
Londonderry,Ire.
Fe Coleraine, Ire.
Mb St John, N. B.
Me Boston, Mass.
Ptn St John, N. B.
Pr St John, N. B.
New Haven, Ct.
Fb Zanesville, O.
Mb Cincinnati, O.
Ptn Cincinnati, O.
Pr Cincinnati, O.
N. Y. Citx
Fd Cincinnati, O.
Fb Wheeling, W. Va.
Fe San Francisco, Cal.
Mb Madison, Ind.
Pm Washington, D. C
Pr Washington, D. C.
FF Fairview, O.
FM Washington Co., Pa.
MF Muskingum Co., O.
MM Richmond, O.
FS Co. Down, Ire., 1812
Guernsey Co., O.
FF Londonderry, Co. Lon-
donderry, Ire.
FM Londonderry, Co. Lott*
donderry. Ire.
MF Norwich, Eng.
St John, N. B.
MM Carlisle, Eng.
FS Coleraine, Ire., 18 —
New Brunswick
FF
FM
MF Cincinnati, O.
MM Cincinnati, O.
FS c. 1800
Pittsburg, Pa.
FF Wheeling, W. Va..
San Francisco, Ca*
Washington, D. C^
FM Cannonsburg, Pa.
MF Madison, Ind.
Washington, D. CjJ
MM Madison, Ind.
FS Ireland, 1750
McKeesport, Pa.
Mackby
b Franklin, Pa.
6- Andover, Mass.
r Los Angeles, &c.,
Cal.
Franklin, Pa.
Fb Franklin, Pa.
Mb Columbus, O.
Ptn Columbus, O.
Pr Franklin, Pa.
Fo N. Y. City
FF Franklin, Pa.
FM Lycoming Co., ]
MF Columbus, O.
MM Athens, O.
FS Inverness, Scot, 1765
Port Deposit, Md.
I
HABITAT
845
McLanahan
b New Hamburg,
N. Y.
s Andover, Mass.
m New Haven, Ct.
* Cambridge, Mass.
r N. Y. City
Washington, D. C.
McLaren
b Greenock^ Scot.
e Thompsonville, Ct.
^ Andover, Mass.
m Thompsonville, Ct.
r New Haven, Ct.
Mallon
b Cincinnati, O.
s Watertown, Ct.
r Newark, O.
Sault Ste. Marie,
Ont., Can,
Dayton, O.
South Bend, Ind.
Florence, Col.
Cincinnati, O.
Mathews, F. W.
b Waldoboro, Me.
^ Marion, Mass.
m Friendship, Me.
0 Boston, Mass.
)• Newton Centre,
Mass.
Mathews, H. W.
b New Haven, Ct.
s New Haven, Ct.
r New Haven, Ct.
Waitsfield, Vt.
N. Y. City
Mathison
b Bridgeport, N. Y.
J New Haven, Ct.
r Bridgeport, Ct.
Shelton, Ct.
Fb N. Y. City
Mb Catskill, N. Y.
Pm Catskill, N, Y.
Pr N. Y. City
Washington, D. C.
Fb Glasgow, Scot.
Mb Cambleton, Scot.
Pm Glasgow, Scot,
Pr Thompsonville, Ct,
Fd Thompsonville, Ct.
Mr Worcester, Mass,
Fb Dungannon, Ire.
Mb Easton, N. Y.
Pm Easton, N. Y.
Pr Easton, N. Y.
Troy, N. Y.
Cincinnati, O.
Fd Cincinnati, O.
Md Cincinnati, O.
Fb Waldoboro, Me.
Mb Waldoboro, Me.
Pm Belfast, Me.
Pr Waldoboro, Me.
Fd Waldoboro. Me.
Fb Lee, Mass.
Mb Waterbury, Vt.
Me Holyoke, Mass.
Pm N. Craftsbury, Vt.
Pr New Haven, Ct.
Fd New Haven, Ct,
Md N, Y. City
Fb Middletown, Ct.
Mb Granby, Ct.
Pm New Hartford, Ct.
Fr Rome, N. Y.
Mr Shelton, Ct.
Miller, C. W.
b Irvine, Ky. Fb Nicholasville, Ky.
J Danville, Ky. Mb Lancaster, Ky.
p Charlottesville, Va. Pm Irvine, Ky.
r Lexington, Ky. Pr Irvine, Ky.
Lexington, Ky.
Miller, W. S.
b Evanston, 111. Fb Westmoreland,N.Y.
e Chicago, 111. Mb Parsippany, N. J.
m Winona, Minn. Me Bridgeport, Ct.
r Chicago, 111, Pm Chicago, 111.
Pr Chicago, 111.
Fd Eureka Springs,
Ark.
More
b Fontainebleau, Fr.
e Boston, Mass,
Salem, Mass.
Dorchester, Mass.
s Andover, Mass.
Easthampton, Mass.
p New Haven, Ct.
r St. Louis, Mo.
FF Chambersburg, Pa.
FM N. Y. City
MF Catskill, N, Y.
MM Utica, N, Y,
FS Co. Antrim, Ire., c,
1700
Antrim, Pa,
FF Glasgow, Scot.
FM Glasgow, Scot,
MF Cambleton, Scot.
Greenock, Scot,
MM
FF Dungannon, Ire.
FM Dungannon, Ire.
MF Easton, N. Y.
MM Nantucket, Mass,
FS Dungannon, 1829
Easton. N, Y,
FF Waldoboro, Me,
FM Waldoboro, Me,
MF Waldoboro, Me.
MM Waldoboro, Me,
FS Ireland,
Woburn, Mass.
FF Holyoke, Mass.
FM Hudson, N. Y.
MF N. Craftsbury, Mass.
MM Tunbridge, Vt.
FS England, 1742
Salem, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
FF Middletown, Ct,
FM Middletown, Ct,
MF Riverton, Ct,
MM Hartland, Ct.
FS Scotland, 17 —
N. Y. City
FF Nicholasville, Ky.
FM
MF Lancaster, Ky,
MM
FS
Virginia
FF Westmoreland, N, Y.
FM Middletown, Ct.
MF Chicago, 111,
MM Parsippany, N. J.
FS England,
Connecticut
846
STATISTICS
1
Morgan
b Albany, N. Y.
m Albany, N. Y.
p New Haven, Ct.
r Topeka, Kans.
Berkeley, Cal.
Fb Albany, N. Y.
Mb Reidsville, N. Y.
Pm Reidsville, N. Y.
Pr Albany, N. Y.
Fd Albany, N. Y.
Md Albany, N. Y.
FF Gloucestershire, Ena.
FM
MF Reidsville, N. Y.
MM Albany Co.,N. Y.
FS Gloucestershire, En^
c. 1830
Albany, N. Y.
§\
Morris
b New Haven, Ct
s New Haven, Ct.
p New Haven, Ct.
r Kansas City, Mo.
Milwaukee, Wis.
Fb N. Y. City
Mb Westfield, N. T.
Pm New Haven, Ct.
Pr New Haven, Ct.
FF Isle of Wight, Eng.
FM Isle of Wight, Eng.
MF Ireland
MM Ireland
FS England,
MOTTER
b St. Joseph, Mo.
s St. Joseph, Mo.
p Ann Arbor, Mich,
r St. Joseph, Mo.
MUNDY
b Chicago, 111.
s Concord, N. H.
r Chicago, 111.
Fb Williamsport, Md.
Mb St. Joseph, Mo.
Pm N. Y. City
Pr St. Joseph, Mo.
Fb Watertown, N. Y.
Mb N. Y. City
Pm N. Y. City
Pr Chicago, 111.
Riversiae, III.
FF Williamsport, Md.
FM Greencastle, Pa.
MF Baton Rouge, La.
N. Y. City
MM St. Joseph, Mo.
N. Y. City
FS Switzerland, 16 —
Schnaeble, Pa.
FF Watertown, N. Y.
FM Watertown, N. Y.
MF N. Y. City
MM Virginia
Nealb
b Kittanning, Pa.
s Andover, Mass.
r Scranton, Pa.
Minersville. Pa.
Fb Kittanning, Pa. FF Kittanning, Pa.
Mb Mahoning Furnace, FM Kittanning, Pa.
Pa. MF Kittanning, Pa.
Pm Kittanning, Pa. MM Kittanning, Pa.
Fr Kittanning, Pa. FS Ireland,
Fd Kittanning, Pa. Burlington, N. J,
Mr Sewickley, Pa.
Nettleton
b Boston, Mass.
s Andover, Mass.
m Bridgeport, Ct.
f New Haven, Ct.
Nicholson
b Essex, Ct.
e New Hampshire
New York
New Jersey
J Jersey City, N. J.
w Saratoga Springs,
p New Haven, Ct.
r Bridgeport, Ct.
Fb Chicopee Falls,
Mass.
Mb Chester, HI.
Me Hannibal, Mo.
St. Louis, Mo.
Holliston, Mass.
Pm Chicopee Fall.s,
Mass.
Pr Boston, Mass.
Fd Boston, Mass.
Mr New Haven, Ct
Fb Baltimore, Md.
Mb Matawan, N. J.
Pm Matawan, N. J.
Pr Essex, Ct,
Trenton, N
Jersey City,
:kj,
FF Chicopee Falls, Mass.
FM Taunton, Mass.
MF Chicopee Falls, Mass.
MM St Louis, Mo.
Perth Amboy, N. J.
Nashua, N. H.
Saratoea Springs,
N. Y.
Bridgeport, Ct.
FF Baltimore, Md.
FM Baltimore, Md.
MF Matawan, N. J,
MM Matawan, N. J.
FS England,
Baltimore, Md.
I
HABITAT
847
Noon , ,,
b S. Walpole, Mass.
s Gloucester, Mass.
p New Haven, Ct.
Salem, Ore.
Berkeley, Cal.
Chicago, 111.
Boston, Mass.
N. Y. City
Oakley
b Owego, N. Y.
e Richmond, Ind.
s Owego, N. Y.
r New Haven, Ct.
Penn Yan, N. Y.
Buffalo, N. Y.
Corning, N. Y.
Fb Leicester, Eng.
Fe Andover, Mass.
Mb Weston, Mass.
Pm Cambridge, Mass.
Pr Weston, Mass.,
Barre, Mass.
Leicester, Mass.
Brookfield, Mass.
Cambridge, Mass.
Fb Geneva, N. Y.
Mb Owego, N. Y.
Ptn Owego, N. Y.
Pr Owego, N. Y.
OVIATT
b New Haven, Ct. Fb Orange, Ct.
s New Haven, Ct. Mb N. Y. City
m New Haven, Ct. Pm Brooklyn, N. Y.
r Northampton,Mass. Pr N. Y. City
N. Y. City New Haven, Ct.
New Haven, Ct, Fd New Haven, Ct.
Pardee
b Hazleton, Pa. Fb Hazleton, Pa.
J Andover, Mass. Mb Philadelphia, Pa.
r Perth Amboy, N. J. Pm Germantown, Pa.
Luzerne Co., Pa, Pr Hazleton, Pa.
Idaho Co,, Idaho Philadelphia, Pa.
ShoshoneCo,, Idaho Whitemarsh, Pa.
Philadelphia, Pa,
FF Leicester, Eng.
FM Warwick, Eng.
MF Buxton, Me.
MM Ashburnham, Mass.
FS Leicester, Eng., 1846
FF Geneva, N. Y.
Owego, N. Y.
FM Blooming Grove, N. Y.
MF Owego, N, Y.
MM Owego, N. Y.
FS Oakley Grove, Oakley
Parish, Eng,, 1661
New Amsterdam,
N. Y„ 1664
Westchester, N. Y.
FF Orange, Ct.
FM Newark, N. J.
Orange, Ct.
MF N. Y, City
MM Herkimer, N. Y.
N. Y. City
FS Eng. or Wales, 1639
Milford, Ct.
FF Hazleton, Pa.
FM Hazleton, Pa,
MF Philadelphia, Pa.
MM
FS England, 1644
New Haven, Ct.
Paret
b Bergen Point, N. J.
J New Haven, Ct.
0 N. Y. City
r Essex Fells, N. J.
Park
b Mahabaleshwar,
India
e Connecticut
,y Andover, Mass.
Derby, Ct.
m Geneva, 111.
p Chicago, 111,
r Geneva, 111.
Hingham, Mass.
Patterson, F, M,
b Albany, N. Y.
s Albany, N. Y.
r Albany, N. Y.
N. Y. City
Paxton
b Cincinnati, O.
5 Cincinnati, O.
r Cincinnati, O.
Fb N. Y. City
Mb N. Y. City
Pm Bergen Point, N. J.
Pr Bergen Point, N. J.
N. Y. City
Fd Ellenville, N. Y.
Mr Essex Fells, N. J.
Fb N. Andover, Mass.
Fe W. Boxfdrd, Mass.
Mb Ahmednagar
Pm Amherst, Mass.
Pr Bombay, India
New Haven, Ct.
Derby, Ct.
Pittsfield, Mass.
Fd Pittsfield, Mass.
Mr Wellesley, Mass.
Fb Tuam, Ire.
Mb
Pm Albany, N. Y.
Pr Albany, N, Y.
Fd Albany, N. Y.
Fb Loveland, O.
Mb Huntsville, Ala.
Me Richmond, La.
iPm Cincinnati, O.
Pr Cincinnati, O.
FF
FM
MF Bergen Point, N. J.
MM N. Y, City
FS France, 1780
N. Y. City
FF W. Boxford, Mass.
FM Portland, Me.
MF Schodack, N. Y.
MM Hermiker, N. H.
FS England, 1630
Newton, Mass.
FF Albany, N. Y.
FM
MF
MM
FF Clermont Co., O.
FM Mt. Pisgah, O.
MF Huntsville, Ala.
MM Lexington, Ky.
FS Ballymoney, Co. An-
trim, Ire,, 1735
Marsh Creek, Pa.
848
STATISTICS
Peck, H. S.
b Bristol, Ct.
s Bristol, Ct.
m Bristol, Ct.
r Bristol, Ct.
Fb Bristol, Ct.
Mb Bristol, Ct.
Pni Bristol, Ct.
Pr Bristol, Ct.
Peck P. C.
^'Hudson, N. Y. Fb Hudson, N. Y.
s Easthampton,Mass. Mb Utica, N. Y.
r Hudson, N. Y. Pm Utica, N. Y.
N. Y. City
Pelton
b Clinton, Ct.
J Clinton, Ct.
m Clinton, Ct.
w N. Y. City
p New Haven, Ct.
r Middletown, Ct.
Deepriver, Ct.
Clinton, Ct.
Perkins
b Hartford, Ct.
s Hartford, Ct.
m N. Y. City
P N. Y. City
r Hartford, Ct.
Porter
b N. Y. City
e Stamford, Ct.
s Andover, Mass.
m N. Y. City
o N. Y. City
r Stamford, Ct
Pratt
b Chaumont, N. Y.
e Fairport, N. Y.
s Fairport, N. Y.
r New Haven, Ct.
N. Y. City
Pr Hudson, N. Y.
Prince
b Detroit, Me.
e Kent's Hill, Me.
s Madison, N. J.
w Newport, Me.
r New Haven, Ct.
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Reed
b St. Joseph, Mo.
.y St. Joseph, Mo.
VI St. Joseph, Mo.
w Lexington, Ky.
p Ann Arbor, Mich.
r St. Joseph, Mo.
Fb
Mb Clinton, Ct.
Pm Clinton, Ct.
Pr Clinton, Ct.
Md Clinton, Ct.
Fr New London, Ct.
Providence, R. I.
FF Bristol, Ct.
FM Troy, N. Y.
Bristol, Ct.
MF New Hartford, Ct.
Bristol, Ct.
MM New Hartford, Ct.
FS England, 1634
Hartford, Ct.
FF Hudson, N. Y.
FM Troy, N. Y.
MF Utica, N. Y.
MM Westmoreland, N. Y.
FS England, 1638
New Haven, Ct.
FF Clinton, Ct.
FM Clinton, Ct.
MF Clinton, Ct.
MM Clinton, Ct.
FS England,
Boston, Mass.
Fb Hartford, Ct. FF Hartford, Ct.
Mb Deerfield, Mass. FM E. Haddam, Ct.
Pm Bernardstown,Mass.AfF Bemardstown, Mass.
Pr Hartford, Ct. N. Amherst, Mass,
Fd Hartford, Ct. MM Richmond, Mass.
FS England, c. 1750
Norwich, Ct.
Fb Waterbury, Ct.
Fe N. Y. City
Mb Stamford, Ct.
Pm Stamford, Ct.
Pr Stamford. Ct.
Pd Stamford, Ct.
Fb Durham, N. Y.
Mb Otisco, N. Y.
Me Monroe, Mich.
Syracuse, N. Y.
Pm Harrisburg, Pa.
Pr Brownville, N. Y.
Md Brownville, N. Y.
Fr Fairport, N. Y.
Fb New Vineyard, Me.
Mb N. Berwick, Me.
Pm Detroit, Me.
Pr Detroit, Me.
Fd Detroit, Me.
Fb Watertown, N. Y.
Mb Bath, Me.
Pm Bath, Me.
Pr Watertown, N. Y.
Md St. Joseph, Mo.
Fr St. Joseph, Mo.
FF Waterbury, Ct,
FM Cheshire, Ct.
MF Stamford, Ct.
MM Shokan, N. Y.
FS England prior to 1654
Farmington, Ct.
FF Durham, N. Y.
FM Durham, N. Y.
MF Aurora, N. Y.
Syracuse, N. Y..
Carmel, N. Y.
Cortland, N. Y.
Monroe, Mich.
Galena, 111.
Harrisburg, Pa.
Hoboken.N.J.
MM Horner, N. Y.
FS England, 1630
Saybrook, Ct.
Boston, Mass.
FF New Gloucester, Me.
FM New Gloucester, Me.
MF N, Berwick, Me,
MM N. Berwick, Me.
FS Gloucester, Eng., c.
1645
Gloucester, Mass.
FF Watertown, N. Y.
FM Rutland, N.Y.
MF Bath, Me.
MM Boston, Mass.
FS England,
HABITAT
849
Reynolds
Meriden, Ct.
Meriden, Ct,
Mt. Holly, N. J.
Meriden, Ct.
Buffalo, N. Y.
Traveling in
Middle Atlantic
States
St. Louis, Mo.
Bridgeport, Ct.
Fh Drumsna,' Co.
Leitrim, Ire.
Mb Loughtown, Co.
Leitrim, Ire.
Pm New Haven, Ct.
Pr Meriden, Ct.
FF Drumsna, Co. Leitrim,
Ire.
FM Roscommon, Co. Ros-
common, Ire.
MF Loughtown, Co. Leit-
rim, Ire.
MM Gowell, Co. Leitrim.
Ire.
FS Drumsna, Co. Leitrim,
Ire.,c. 1863
New Haven, Ct.
Richmond
b Larchmont Manor,
N. Y.
e Brooklyn, N. Y.
s Brooklyn, N. Y.
r N. Y. City
Havana, Cuba
KOBBINS, F. O.
b Greenville, N. H.
J Ashburnham, Mass.
m West Haven, Ct.
w New Haven, Ct.
r N. Y. City
New Haven, Ct.
Fb New Brunswick,
N.J.
Fe Peekskill, N. Y.
Mb N. Y. City
Pm N. Y. City
Pr Larchmont Manor,
N. Y,
N. Y. City
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Fd Brooklyn, N. Y.
Fb New Ipswich, N. H.
Mb Mason, N. H.
Pm Fitchburg, Mass.
Pr Greenville, N. H.
FF New Brunswick, N. J.
FM New Brunswick, N. J.
MF N. Y. City
MM Salem, Mass.
FS "Mt. Gurwood," Scot.,
16—
New Brunswick, N. J.
FF New Ipswich, N. H.
FM Mason, N. H.
MF Mason, N. H.
MM Weston, Vt
R0B3INS, W. P.
b N. Y. City
^ N. Y. City
m N. Y. City
r N. Y. City
Robert
Milwaukee, Wis.
Washington, D. C.
Nashville, Tenn.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Bridgeton, N. J.
Stamford, Ct.
Haworth, N. J.
Robinson
b Lebanon, Ct.
J Lebanon, Ct.
m Hinsdale, N. H.
r Lebanon, Ct.
Hinsdale, N. H.
St. Louis, Mo.
Fb Mobile, Ala.
Fe Baltimore, Md.
Mb N. Y. City
Pm Paris, Fr.
Pr N. Y. City
Fd N. Y. City
Fb Robertville, S. C.
Mb Roxbury, Mass.
Pm Dayton, O.
Pr San Francisco, Cal.
Portland, Ore.
Milwaukee, Wis.
Washington, D. C.
N. Y. City
Md Arrochar, N. Y.
Fr Philadelphia, Pa.
Fb Ashford, Ct.
Mb Lebanon, Ct.
Pm Lebanon, Ct.
Pr Lebanon, Ct.
Fd Lebanon, Ct.
FF Baltimore, Md.
FM Norwich, Ct.
MF N. Y. City
MM New Brunswick, N. J.
FS England prior to 1635
Wethersfield, Ct.
FF Robertville, S. C.
FM Lawtonville, S. C.
MF Stafford, Ct.
Dayton, O.
MM England
Philadelphia, Pa.
Washington, D. C.
FS France, 168^
Santee, S. C.
FF Chaplin, Ct.
FM Chaplin, Ct.
MF N. Lebanon, Ct
MM Lebanon, Ct.
FS Leyden, Holland, 1631
Barnstable, Mass.
Rockwell
b Dryden, N. Y.
e New York
Ohio
Washington, D. C.
s Watertown, Ct.
r N. Y. City
Fargo, N. D.
Fb Hartwick, N. Y.
Fe Mt. Upton, N. Y.
Mb Dryden, N. Y.
Pm Dryden, N. Y.
Pr Dryden, N. Y.
Tiffin, O.
Washington, D. C.
Porto Rico, W. I.
Md N. Y. City
FF Hartwick, N. Y.
FM Croton, N. Y.
MF Dryden, N. Y.
MM Dryden, N. Y.
FS England,
New England
850
STATISTICS
Root
b Bloomfield, N. J.
s Greenwich, Ct.
m Greenwich, Ct.
o N. Y. City
r Greenwich, Ct.
Bloomfield, N. J.
Fb Newbury, Mass. FF Newbury, Mass.
Mb N. Providence, R.I. FM Bridport, Vt
Me Thompson, Ct.
Pm New Haven, Ct.
Pr New Haven, Ct.
Greenwich, Ct.
Bloomfield, N. J.
MF Wigtown, Scot.
MM Borgue Parish, Gall-
owayshire, Scot.
FS Great Britain, 1635
Connecticut
Fb Edinburgh, Scot. FF Edinburgh, Scot.
Mb Channingville, N.Y. FM
Ross
b Newburgh, N. Y
s N. Y. City
m Newburgh, N. Y. Me NewBrunswick,N.J. MF Newburgh, N. Y.
r Kerhonkson, N. Y. Pm Newburgh, N. Y. MM Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Highland Mills, Pr Newburgh, N. Y. FS Edinburgh, Scot., 1843
N. Y. Troy, N. Y.
New Platz, N. Y.
Liberty, N. Y.
Fishkill-on-Hud-
son, N. Y.
N. Y. City
RUMKILL
b Springfield, Vt.
s St. Jonnsburv, Vt.
m Compton Village,
N. H.
r Hayti
p Hanover, N. H.
r Randolph, Vt
Fb Claremont, N. H.
Mb W. Hartford, Vt.
Pm Claremont, N. H.
Pr Royalton, Vt.
Md Royalton, Vt.
FF Springfield, Vt.
FM Springfield, Vt.
MF W. Hartford, Vt.
MM Royalton, Vt.
Sadler
b Carlisle, Pa.
s Carlisle, Pa.
r Carlisle, Pa.
Sage
b Brooklyn, N. Y.
e Ithaca, N. Y.
p Cambridge, Mass.
r N. Y. City
Traveling
Sawyer
b Buffalo, N.Y.
s Dobbs Ferry, N.
m Bayonne, N. J.
r Buffalo, N. Y.
N. Y. City
Scarborough
b Colfax, La.
s Waco, Tex.
m Abilene, Tex.
r New Mexico
Cameron, Tex.
Abilene, Tex.
Fb York Springs, Pa.
Mb Manor Hill, Pa.
Me McVeytown, Pa.
Pm Carlisle, Pa.
Pr Carlisle, Pa.
Md Carlisle, Pa.
Fb Ithaca. N.Y.
Mb
Pm Philadelphia, Pa.
Pr Brooklyn, N. Y.
Ithaca, N. Y.
Md Ithaca, N. Y.
Fr Albany, N. Y.
Fb Buffalo, N. Y.
Mb Augusta, Ga.
Pm New Haven, Ct.
Pr Buffalo, N. Y.
Fb Lawrence Co., Miss.
Mb Nashville, Tenn.
Me Kentucky and
Texas
Pm Bienville, La.
Pr Bienville, La.
McLennan Co., Tex,
Jones Co., Tex.
Cameron, Tex.
Fd Cameron, Tex.
Mr Abilene, Tex.
FF York Springs, Pa.
FM York Springs, Pa.
MF Carlisle, Pa.
MM Lancaster Co., Pa.
FS England, 1720
York Co., Pa.
FF Ithaca, N.Y.
FM
MF Pennsylvania
MM Pennsylvania
FS 1652
Middletown, Ct.
FF Buffalo, N.Y.
FM Massachusetts
MF Georgia
New Haven, Ct.
MM Georgia
New Haven, Ct.
FS England,
Connecticut
FF Louisiana
FM Georgia
MF Nashville, Tenn.
MM Franklin, Tenn.
FS England,
Georgia
HABITAT
851
SCHEVILL
b Cincinnati, O.
p Paris, Ft.
Munich, Ger.
r Lewisburg, Pa,
Travels
New Haven, Ct.
♦Schuyler
b Pana, III.
s Evanston, III.
p Cambridge, Mass.
r Pana, 111.
N. Y. City
d N. Y. City
Fb Koenigsberg, Ger.
Fe South Carolina
Colorado
Mb Heidelberg, Ger.
Pm Cincinnati, O.
Pr Cincinnati, O.
Fd Cincinnati, O.
Mr N. Y. City
Fb Glen, N. Y.
Mb Hillsboro, 111.
Pm Pana, 111.
Pr Pana, 111.
Md Pana, 111.
FF Koenigsberg, Ger,
I'M Koenigsberg, Ger.
MF Heidelberg, Ger,
MM Heidelberg, Ger,
FS Koenigsberg^ Ger., 1850
Cincinnati, O,
FF Glen, N. Y,
FM Glen, N. Y.
MF Boston, Mass.
MM Hartford, Ct,
FS Holland,
Albany, N, Y.
Scott
Little Derry, Co,
Londonderryjre.
Ashburnham, Mass,
Boston, Mass
PortAngeles,Wash
California
SCOVILLE
b Montpelier, Vt.
J St. Tohnsbury, Vt.
p Rutland, Vt.
r Boston, Mass,
SCUDDER, H.
b Northport, N. Y,
e N. Y, City
s Concord, N. H.
r N. Y. City
Europe
Hartford, Ct.
Schenectady, N. Y.
Fb Little Derry, Co.
L6ndonderry,Ire
Mb Londonderry, Co,
FF
FM
Londonderry, Co,
Londonderry, Ire.
, Pm
Londonderry,Ire. MF Londonderry, Co.
Londonderry, Ire.
MM
Pr Little Derry, Co,
Londonderry,Ire
Fd Whitinsville, Mass,
Md Whitinsville, Mass.
Fb Berlin, Vt.
Mb Lisbon, N. H.
Pm Lisbon, N. H.
Pr Montpelier, Vt.
Fd Montpelier, Vt.
Md Montpelier, Vt.
Fb Northport, N. Y.
Mb Troy, N. Y.
Pm Troy, N. Y,
Pr N, Y, City
Fd N, Y. City
Md N, Y, City
FF Berlin, Vt.
Montpelier, Vt.
FM Barnard, Vt.
MF Lisbon, N. H.
MM Lisbon, N. H,
FF Northport, N, Y.
FM Cold bpring Harbor,
N, Y.
MF Troy, N. Y.
MM Troy, N. Y.
FS England,
Sheldon
b Rutland, Vt.
s Andover, Mass.
in New Haven, Ct.
w Paris, Fr.
r Hartford, Ct.
N. Y. City
Paris. Fr,
Fb Troy, N. Y.
Mb Camden, Me.
Pm Gorham, Me.
Pr Rutland, Vt,
W. Rutland, Vt.
N, Y, City
FF Rutland, Vt,
FM Troy, N, Y.
MF Camden, Me.
MM Windon, Ct.
FS England, 1651
Deerfield, Mass.
Sherman
b Springfield, Mass,
s Springfield, Mass,
r New Haven, Ct,
Shoemaker
b Saratoga Springs,
N. Y.
r Saratoga Springs,
N. Y.
Cincinnati, O,
Fb Rochester, Mass. FF Rochester, Mass,
Fe New Bedford, Mass. FM Acushnet< Mass.
Mb Springfield, Mass. MF Springfield, Mass,
Pm Chelsea, Mass. MM Springfield, Mass,
Pr Springfield, Mass, FS Dedham, Eng., 1634
Portsmouth, R, I,
Fb Tiffin, O.
Mb Ballston Spa, N, Y,
Pm Saratoga Springs,
N. Y.
Pr Cincinnati, O.
Fd Oxford, O.
FF Cincinnati,©.
FM Frederick, Md.
MF Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
MM Ballston Spa, N. Y,
FS Germany & Great
Britain, 1 672-1 730
New York
Maryland
852
STATISTICS
Smith, D.
b Peru, N. Y.
s Plattsburg, N. Y.
p New Haven, Ct.
r Bridgeport, Ct.
Fb Peru, N. Y.
Mb Starksboro, Vt.
Me Scipioville, N. Y.
Pm Macedon, N. Y.
Pr Peru, N. Y.
Md Peru, N. Y.
FF Peru, N. Y.
FM Peru, N. Y.
MF Scipioville, N. Y.
Macedon, N. Y.
Palmyra, N. Y.
MM Auburn, N. Y,
FS Manchester, Eng.,
Dartmouth, Mass.
Barnstable, Mass.
Smith, G. A.
b E. Northfield, Mass.
s Norwich, Ct.
m Brooklyn, N. Y.
r Ithaca, N. Y.
Litchfield, Ct
Yonkers, N. Y.
Fb Winchester, N. H. FF Winchester, N. H.
Mb Northfield, Mass. FM W. Springfield, Mass. |
Pm Springfield, Mass. MF Northfield, Mass.
Pr Springfield, Mass. MM Northfield, Mass. '
E. Northfield, Mass. FS England,
Smith (W. D.) G.
b St. Louis, Mo.
s St. Louis, Mo.
r St Louis, Mo.
N. Y. City
Smith, N. W.
b Providence, R I.
e Bellows Falls, Vt.
s Bellows Falls, Vt
m Matunuck, R. I.
w Wakefield, R. I.
P N. Y. City
r Providence, R. I.
Fb Louisville, Ky.
Mb Benson, Vt
Pm Terre Haute, Ind.
Pr St. Louis, Mo.
Castleton, Vt.
Md Castleton, Vt
Fb Barrington, R. I.
Mb Warren, R. I.
Me Portsmouth, R. I.
Pm Providence, R. I.
Pr Providence, R. I.
Fd Providence, R. I.
Md Bellows Falls, Vt
FF Durham, N. H.
Louisville, Ky.
Cannelton, Ind.
FM Springfield, Ky.
MF Terre Haute, Ind.
MM Taylorsville, Ky.
FS England, c. 1645
Dover, N. H.
FF Barrington, R. I.
FM Barrington, R. I.
MF Warren, R. I.
MM Rehoboth, Mass.
FS England, 1620
Pljrmouth, Mass.
Smith, W. D.
b N. Y. City
s N. Y. City
m N. Y. City
r Baltimore, Md.
N. Y. City
Fb N. Y. City
Fe Wilton, Ct
Mb New Haven, Ct
Pm New Haven, Ct
Pr N. Y. City
FF N. Y. City
FM Wilton, Ct
MF New Haven,
MM
Ct
Spalding
b New Haven, Ct
s New Haven, Ct.
m Philadelphia, Pa.
r Philadelphia, Pa.
Fb Windsor, Vt.
Mb Randolph, Vt
Pm Gilmanton, N. H.
Pr New Haven. Ct.
Spxllman
b Springfield, Mass. Fb Wilbraham, Mass.
s Easthampton, Mass. Mb Springfield, Mass.
m Springfield, Mass. Pm Springfield, Mass.
r Springfield, Mass. Pr Springfield, Mass.
FF Windsor, Vt
FM Windsor, Vt
MF Randolph, Vt
MM Randolph, Vt
FS England, 161 9
Virginia
FF Wilbraham, Mass.
FM Wilbraham, Mass.
MF Springfield, Mass.
MM VVilbraham, Mass.
FS England,
'Spinello
b Sant' Arsenio, It
e New Haven, Ct.
m Syracuse, N. Y.
r Manlius, N. Y.
p New Haven, Ct.
Paris, Fr.
r Georgia
Berkeley, Cal.
d Berkeley, Cal.
Fb Sant' Arsenio,
Italy
Mb Sant' Arsenio,
Italy
Pm Sant' Arsenio,
Italy
Pr Sant' Arsenio,
Italy
New Haven, Ct.
Fd New Haven, Ct
FF Sant' Arsenio, Italy
FM Sant' Arsenio, Italy
MF Sant' Arsenio, Italy
MM Sant' Arsenio, Italy
HABITAT
853
Squires
b E. Aurora, N. Y.
s Exeter, N. H.
p Buffalo, N. Y.
r Batavia, N.Y.
N.J.
N. H.
Stalter
b Paterson,
J Meriden, N.
m Paterson, N. J.
p New Haven, Ct.
r Paterson, N. J.
Starkweather
b Cleveland, O.
e N. Y. City
r Cleveland, O.
Stewart
b Pittsburg, Pa.
s Pittsburg, Pa.
w Allegheny, Pa.
r Pittsburg, Pa.
Fb 6. Dansville, N, Y. FF S. Danville, N. Y.
Fe Dansville, N. Y.
Mb
Me Genesee Co., N. Y.
Pm E. Aurora, N. Y.
Pr E. Aurora, N. Y.
Utica, N. Y.
Fd E. Aurora, N. Y.
Md Batavia, N. Y.
Fb Paterson,
Mb Paterson,
Pm
Pr Paterson, N, J.
1, N. T.
1, N. J.
Fb Cleveland, O.
Mb Lockport, N, Y.
Pm Cleveland, O.
Pr Cleveland, O.
Fd Cleveland,©.
Fb Hagerstown, Md.
Mb Pittsburg, Pa.
Pm Pittsburg, Pa.
Pr Pittsburg, Pa.
Fd Pittsburg, Pa.
b NewBrighton,N.Y. Fb N. Y. City
e N. Y. City Mb N. Y. City
.y Concord, N. H. Pm N. Y. City
wBernardsville.N.J. Pr N. Y. City
w N. Y. City
p Cambridge, Mass.
r New Haven, Ct.
FM
MF Canterbury, Eng.
MM
FS England, i6 —
New England
», N. J.
i. N. 1
I, N.J.
ice, R. I.
FF Paterson,
FM Paterson,
MF Paterson,
MM Providence,
FS Scotland & Ireland
Paterson, N. J.
FF Pawtucket, R. I.
Cleveland, O.
FM
MF Cleveland, O.
MM New York
FF
Hagerstown, Md.
Pittsburg, Pa.
Philadelphia, Pa.
FM
MF Pittsburg, Pa.
MM Pittsburg, Pa.
FF N. Y. City
FM N. Y. City
MF N. Y. City
MM Enfield, Ct.
FS London, Eng., 1708
N. Y. City
Strong, H. G.
b Winsted, Ct.
J Andover, Mass.
m Winsted, Ct.
r Winsted, Ct.
Strong, T. S.
b Roslyn, N. Y.
e N. Y. City
r N. Y. City
Stuart
b Brooklyn, N. Y.
.y Brooklyn, N. Y.
o N. Y. City
r Brooklyn, N. Y.
Sturges
b Utica, N. Y.
J Geneva, N. Y.
m N. Y. City
p Cambridge, Mass.
r N. Y. City
Morristown, N. J.
Fb E. Hampton, Ct.
Mb Torrington, Ct.
Pm Torrington, Ct.
Pr E. Hampton, Ct.
Winsted, Ct.
Fb Setauket, N. Y.
Mb N. Y. City
Pm Scarborough, N. Y.
Pr N. Y. City
Setauket, N. Y.
Fb Birkenhead, Eng.
Mb Brooklyn, N. Y.
Pm Brooklyn, N. Y.
Fr England
Mr Brooklyn, N. Y.
Fb Mansfield, O.
Fe France
Germany
Mb Elmira, N. Y.
Pm Utica, N. Y.
Pr Utica, N. Y.
Geneva, N. Y.
Fd Geneva, N. Y.
FF E. Hampton, Ct.
FM Chatham, Ct.
MF Torrington, Ct.
MM Harwinton, Ct.
FS England, 1630
Dorchester, Mass
FF Setauket, N. Y.
FM Islip, N. Y.
MF England
N. Y. City
MM England
N. Y. City
FS England, 1630
Nantasket, Mass.
England
N. Y. City
FF
FM
MF Haverhill, Mass.
N. Y. City
MMNewJIaven, Ct.
FF Mansfield, O.
FM
MF Utica, N. Y.
MM Utica, N. Y.
FS England,
Connecticut
854
STATISTICS
SULCOV
b Kiev, Russia
e Lancaster, Pa.
J Lancaster, Pa.
m Lancaster, Pa.
r -Lancaster, Pa.
N. Y. City
Arnold, Minn.
SUMNEK
b New Haven, Ct.
s New Haven, Ct.
r Altoona, Pa.
BuflFalo, N. Y.
Renovo, Pa.
Jersey City, N. J.
Tailer
b N. Y. City
s Southboro, Mass,
m Islip, N. Y.
w N. Y. City
r N. Y. City
Fb Sklov, Ru88.
Mb Sklov, Russ.
Me Kiev, Russ.
Pm Moghilev^ Russ.
Pr Russia
Lancaster, Pa.
FF Sklov, Russ.
FM Sklov, Russ
MF Sklov, Russ,
MM Sklov, Russ,
FS Russia, Oct.,
Lancaster, Pa
1881
Fb Paterson, N.
Fe New Haven,
Morristown,
Mb
k
N.J.
Pm N. Y. City
Pr New Haven, Ct,
Fb N. Y. City
Mb Baltimore, Md.
Pm Baltimore, Md.
Pr N, Y. City
FF Walton-le-Dale,
Lancashire, Eng,
United States
FM Oldham, Eng.
United States
MF N, Y, City
MM
FS England, 1836
FF N. Y. City
FM
MF Baltimore, Md.
MM Baltimore, Md.
Taylor
b S. Norwalk, Ct, Fb Brooklyn, N. Y.
e Providence, R, I. Mb Rochester, N. Y.
Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Pm Rochester, N. Y.
s Poughkeepsie. N.Y.Pr S. Norwalk, Ct
m Glens Falls, N. Y. Providence, R. I.
r N. Y. City Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Cloquet, Minn,
Thompson, A. R.
b Hartford, Ct,
s Hartford, Ct.
m Sidney, Me.
r Syracuse, N. Y.
Hartford, Ct.
Fb Rockville, Ct.
Mb Danielsonville, Ct.
Me Rockville, Ct,
Pm Hartford, Ct,
Pr Hartford, Ct.
Thompson, F. M.
b Philadelphia, Pa,
e Melrose, Pa,
s Philadelphia, Pa.
wi N. Y. Cfty
r N. Y. City
Thorne, S.
b Saugatuck, Ct.
e MiUhrook, N, Y.
N, Y, City
s N. Y, City
m Boston, Mass.
p Cambridge, Mass,
r N, Y, City
Fb Anaghnoon House,
Co. Down, Ire.
Mb Philadelphia, Pa.
Pm Philadelphia, Pa.
Pr Philadelphia. Pa.
Md Eaglesmere, Pa.
Fb Millbrook, N. Y,
Mb Troy, N, Y.
Pm Trov, N. Y
Pr Millbrook, N. Y.
N. Y. City
FF Delphi, N.Y,
Brooklyn, N, Y.
FM Hamilton, N. Y.
MF Shaftsbury, V't.
Rochester, N. Y.
MM Shaftsbury, \'t.
FS England,
New Jersey
FF Rockville, Ct.
FM E, Windsor, Ct.
MF Canterbury, Ct.
MM Pomfret, Ct.
FS Scotland via Ireland,
c. 1718
Melrose, Ct.
FF Anaghnoon House, Co,
Down, Ire.
FM Hilmore, Co. Down,
Ire.
Leansmount, Co,
Down, Ire.
MF Coleraine, Ire.
Philadelphia, Pa.
MM Coleraine, Ire.
Philadelphia, Pa.
FS Ireland, c. 1856
FF N, Y, City
FM N. Y. City
MF Troy, N. Y.
MM Redhook, N. Y.
Lithgow, N, Y,
FS England, 1635
Long Island, N, Y.
Thorne, S. B.
b N, Y. City
s N. Y. City
p Easton, Pa.
r Scranton, Pa.
Minersville, Pa.
Fb N. Y. City
Fe Thomdale, N. Y.
Mb Troy, N. Y.
Pm N. Y, City
Pr N, Y. City
FF N, Y. City
FAl N. Y. City
MF Troy, N. Y.
MM Redhook, N. Y.
Lithgow, N. Y.
FS England, 1635
Long Island, N. Y,
r
I
HABITAT
855
TiLTON
b Raymond, N. H.
s Exeter, N. H.
p New Haven, Ct.
r Europe
Madison,' Wis.
Von Tobel
b Harwinton, Ct.
J Torrington, Ct.
m Torrington, Ct.
p New Haven, Ct.
r Meriden, Ct.
Tracy
b Bristol, Ct.
r Bristol, Ct.
Treadway
b Sioux City, la.
J Exeter, N. H.
m Oak Park, 111.
r Sioux City, la.
o Chicago, 111.
r Oak Park, 111.
*TRUDiEAU
b N. Y. City
e Saranac, N. Y.
J Concord, N. H.
m Chicago^ 111.
r N. Y. City
Adirondacks.
d N. Y. City
Truslow
b Santiago, Cuba
e Brooklyn, N. Y.
Summit, N. J.
s Concord, N. H.
tn Philadelphia, Pa.
0 N. Y. City
r Summit, N. J.
TWOMBLY
b Boston, Mass.
e Newton, Mass.
p Cambridge, Mass.
0 Boston, Mass.
r Newton, Mass.
Vaill
b W. Winsted, Ct.
J Andover, Mass.
m Winsted, Ct.
r Winsted, Ct.
Vennum
b Watseka,Ill.
* Eureka, 111.
Racine, Wis.
m Watseka, 111.
p Evanston, 111.
r Watseka, 111.
Fb Deerfield, N. H.
Mb Raymond, N. H.
Pm Raymond, N. H.
Pr Raymond, N. H.
Fd Raymond, N. H.
Md Raymond, N. H.
Fb N. Y. City
Fe Warren, Ct.
Mb Harwinton, Ct.
Pm Harwinton, Ct.
Pr Harwinton, Ct.
Torrington, Ct.
Fb W. Meath, Ire.
Mb Limerick, Ire.
Pm Bristol, Ct.
Pr Bristol, Ct.
Fb Jordanville, N. Y.
Mb Bristol, Ct.
Me Mussatine, la.
Cedar Rapids, la.
Pm Blairstown, la.
Pr Sioux City, la.
Fd Sioux City, la.
Mr Oak Park, 111.
Fb N. Y. City
Fe Paris, Fr.
Mb Bay Side, N. Y.
Pm Little Neck, N. Y.
Pr Saranac, N. Y.
Fb N. Y. City
Mb Santiago, Cuba
Me Norwich, Ct.
Pm Brooklyn, N. Y.
Pr Brooklyn, N. Y.
Summit, N. J.
Fd Summit, N. J.
Mr N. Y. City
Fb Boston, Mass.
Fe Cherry Valley, N.Y.
Albany, N. Y.
Stamford, Ct.
Mb Boston, Mass.
Pm Boston, Mass.
Pr Boston, Mass.
Newton, Mass.
Fb E. Lynn, Ct.
Fe Litchfield, Ct.
Mb Winsted, Ct.
Pm Winsted, Ct.
Pr Winsted, Ct.
Fd Winsted, Ct.
Fb Washington, Pa.
Fe Milford, 111.
Mb Brownsville, Mich.
Me Jonesville, Mich.
Allegan, Mich.
Pm Detroit, Mich.
Pr Watseka, 111.
Fd Watseka, 111.
FF Deerfield, N. H.
FM Deerfield, N. H.
MF Raymond, N. H.
MM Springfield, N. H.
FS England, 1634
Lynn, Mass.
FF Harwinton, Ct
FM Switzerland
MF Harwinton, Ct.
MM Newington, Ct.
FS Switzerland, 184-
N. Y. City
FF W. Meath, Ire.
FM W. Meath, Ire.
MF Limerick, Ire.
MM Limerick, Ire.
FS W. Meath, Ire., 1852
Bristol, Ct.
FF Springfield, N. Y.
Herkimer Co., N. Y.
FM
MF Bristol, Ct.
MM Bristol, Ct.
FS Rutland Co., Eng.,
1653
Watertown, Mass.
FF New Orleans, La.
FM N. Y. City
MF N. Y. City
MM N. Y. City
FS France, c. 1638
N. Y. City
FF Brooklyn, N. Y.
FM N. Y. City
MF Santiago, Cuba
N. Y. City
MM Caracas, Venez.
FS England, c. 1777
Bedford, N. Y.
FF Boston, Mass.
FM Boston, Mass.
MF Boston, Mass.
MM Boston, Mass.
FS England, 1656
nd, ibst
, N. IL
Dover
FF Litchfield, Ct.
FM Cornwall, Ct.
MF Winsted, Ct.
MM Winsted, Ct.
FS England, 1630-40
Southold (L. I.), N. Y.
FF
FM Washington, Pa.
MF Jonesville, Mich.
MM
FS Wales,
Washington, Pa.
1
856
STATISTICS
Vincent
b Cottage City, Mass.
J Exeter, N. H.
w N. Y. City
p New Haven, Ct.
r N. Y. City
Wade
b Malta Bend, Mo.
J Springfield, Mo.
m Chicago, 111.
p St. Louis, Mo.
r Syracuse, N. Y.
Wadhams
b Annapolis, Md.
e Washington, D. C.
Europe
s Andover, Mass.
m Andover, Mass.
p Cambridge, Mass.
r N. Y. City
Ft Edgartown, Mass.
Mb Roxbury, Mass.
Pm Edgartown, Mass.
Pr Cottage City, Mass.
Fb Cedarville, O.
Mb Clifton. O.
Pm Clifton, O.
Pr Ohio
Missouri
Md
Fb Wadhams Mills,
N. Y.
Mb Tackson. Miss.
Me New Orleans, La.
Pm Annapolis, Md.
Pr Norfolk, Va.
FF Edgartown, Mass.
FM Edgartown, Mass.
MF Roscommon, Ire.
Roxbury, Mass.
MM Roscommon, Ire.
Roxbury, Mass.
FS England, 1630
Edgartown, Mass.
FF
Va.
Wadesville
Ohio
Missouri
FM Chillicothe, O.
MF New Jersey
Clifton, O.
MM Clifton, O.
Springfield, Mo,
FF Wadhams Mills, N. Y.
FM Westport, N. Y.
MF Natchez, Miss.
MM Galveston, Tex.
FS England, 1650
Goshen, Ct.
Walter
b New Haven, Ct.
s SUmford, Ct.
m N. Y. City
w Stamford, Ct.
p New Haven, Ct.
r Stamford, Ct.
Fb Antigua, B. W. I.
Mb New Haven, Ct.
Pm New Haven, Ct.
Pr New Haven, Ct.
Md New Haven, Ct.
FF Antigua, B. W. I.
FM N. Y. City
MF New Haven, Ct.
MM Branford, Ct
FS Waldorf, Ger., 1784
Antigua, B. W. I.
Wells, C. W.
b Baltimore^ Md.
s Andover, Mass.
m Burlington, N. J.
r New Haven, Ct.
Berkeley, Cal.
Wells. T. B.
& Painesville, O.
e Minneapolis, Minn,
m Greenwich, Ct
r N. Y. City
Westok
b Honesdale* Pa.
s Hartford, Ct.
Andover, Mass.
r Honesdale, Pa.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Fb Columbus, Ga.
Mb Middletown, Ct.
Pm
Pr Stratford, Ct.
Benecia, Cal.
Madison, Wis.
Grand Rapids,Mich.
Baltimore, Md.
Md Baltimore, Md.
Fr Louisville, Ky.
Fb Columbia, S. C.
Fe New Haven, Ct
Mb Quincv, 111.
Me New Orleans, La.
Pm Quincy, 111.
Pr Painesvillej O.
Minneapohs, Minn.
Fd At sea en route
Japan to U. S.
Fb Ellenville, N. Y.
Mb Honesdale, Pa.
Pm Honesdale, Pa.
Pr Honesdale, Pa.
Fd Honesdale, Pa.
Md Honesdale, Pa.
FF Stratford, Ct.
Columbus, Ga.
Baltimore, Md.
FM Boston, Mass.
MF Middletown, Ct
MM Middletown, Ct
FS England, c. 1636
Wethersficld, Ct
FF Columbia, S. C.
New Haven, Ct
FM Providence, R. I.
MF Quincy, 111.
MM-
FF Simsbury, Ct.
Ellenville, N, Y.
FM Danbury, Ct
MF Southampton, N. Y.
MM Southampton, N. Y,
FS England,
Boston, Mass.
I
HABITAT
857
Wkyerhaeuser
h Rock Island, 111.
s Andover, Mass.
m Saginaw, Mich.
r St. Paul* Minn.
Whalen
b Ballston Spa, N. Y.
e Albany, N. Y.
r Albany, N. Y.
Whitaker
b Boston, Mass.
J Brooklyn, N. Y.
m Brooklyn, N. Y.
w Duxbury, Mass.
r Newport News, Va.
p Ithaca, N. Y.
r Nyack, N. Y.
p London, Eng.
(6 mos.)
r Toronto, Can.
N. Y. City
Fb Niedersaulheim,
Ger.
Mb Niedersaulheim,
Ger.
Me Erie, Pa.
Pm Rock Island, 111.
Pr Rock Island, 111.
St. Paul, Minn.
Fb W. Milton, N. Y.
Mb Preston Hollow,
N. Y.
Pm Burnt Hills, N. Y.
Pr Ballston Spa., N. Y.
Fd Ballston Spa., N. Y.
Md Ballston Spa, N. Y.
Fb N. Adams, Mass.
Mb Hounsfield, N. Y.
Pm Adams, N. Y.
Pr N. Y. City
Boston, Mass.
San Francisco, Cal.
Portsmouth, N. H.
Sacket Harbor, N.Y.
Fd Sacket Harbor.N.Y.
FF Niedersaulheim, Ger.
FM Partenheim, Ger.
MF Erie, Pa.
MM Erie, Pa.
FS Niedersaulheim, Ger.,
1851
North East, Pa.
FF W. Milton, N. Y.
FM Huntington, Ct.
MF Preston Hollow, N. Y.
MM Chatham, N. Y.
FS Ireland, 1737
W. Milton, N. Y.
FF N. Adams, Mass.
FM Rutland, Vt.
MF Hounsville, N. Y.
MM Hounsville, N. Y.
FS England, 1658
Rehoboth, Mass.
WiCKENDEN
b St. Catherine's,
Can.
e Buffalo, N. Y.
p Chicagoy 111.
(6 mos.)
r Boulder, Col.
Idaho Springs, Col.
Montrose, Col.
New Windsor &c..
Col.
Fb Portsmouth, Eng.
Mb Shropshire, Eng.
Pm, Portsmouth, Eng.
Pr Portsmouth, Eng.
St. Catherine's, Can.
Fd St. Catherine's, Can.
Mr Buffalo, N. Y.
FF Portsmouth, Eng.
FM Portsmouth, Eng.
MF Shropshire, Eng.
MM Shropshire, Eng.
Williams, N.
b Chicago, 111.
s Stamford, Ct.
m Chicago, 111.
r Chicago* 111.
Wood, W. F.
b Jersey City, N. J.
e N. Y. City
Orange, N. J.
s Newark, N. J.
m Worcester, Mass.
/ Gt. Barrington,
Mass.
N. Y. City
Fb Quebec, Can.
Fe Woodstock, Vt.
Mb Ottawa, 111.
Pm Ottawa, 111.
Pr Chicago, 111.
Fd Little Boars Head,
N. H.
Fb
Mb
Pm Jersey City, N.
Pr Jersey City, N.
Orange, N. J.
N. Y. City
Fd N. Y. City
FF Woodstock, Vt.
FM
MF Ottawa, 111.
Chicago, 111.
MM Utica, N. Y.
FS England, 16 —
Portsmouth, N. H.
FF Jersey City, N. J.
FM Sugar Loaf, N. Y.
MF Bremen, Ger.
MM
WOODHULL
b Newark, N. J.
e Orange, N. J.
m S. Orangey N. J.
/ N. Y. City
Fb NewBrunswick,N.J. FF Newark, N
M& Newark, N.J. "
Pm Newark, N. J.
N.J.
N.J.
Pr Newark, N. J.
Orange, N. J.
N. Y. City
Fd N. Y. City
FM Newark,
MF N. Y. City
Newark, N. J.
MM Sparta, N. J.
Newark, N. J.
FS England, 1648
Setauket (L. I.), N.
858
STATISTICS
Woodruff, R. J.
b Orange, Ct.
Fb
Orange, Ct
FF Orange, Ct
FM Milford, Ct.
m Orange, Ct.
o New Haven, Ct.
Mb Orange, Ct.
Ptn Orange, Ct
MF Orange, Ct. |
r Orange, Ct.
Pr
Orange, Ct
MM Orange, Ct
Fd
Orange, Ct
FS Alsop, Eng., 1639
Md Orange, Ct.
Farmington, Ct.
Yeaman
b Louisville, Ky.
s Andover, Mass.
Fb
Brandenburg,
Ky. FF Elizabethtown, Ky,
Ky. FM Elizabethtown. Kv.
Fe
Elizabethtown
m Denver, Col.
Owensboro, Ky. MF Louisville. Ky. 1
w Philadelphia, Pa.
Mb Louisville, Ky
MM Louisville, Ky. !
r Denver, Col.
Pm Louisville, Ky
FS Scotland, c. 1745
p Boston, Mass,
Pr Louisville, Ky.
Long Island
f Louisville, Ky.
Md Louisville, Ky
Fd
Trinidad, Col.
Young
b Franklinville, N.Y
. Fb
Orient. N. Y.
FF Orient, N.Y.
e Orient, N. Y.
J New Haven, Ct.
Mb Franklinville,
\. Y. FM Orient N. Y.
Pm Franklinville,
N. Y. MF Franklinville, N. Y. .
r Buffalo, N. V.
Pr
Orient. N. Y.
MM Franklinville. N, Y.
o N. Y. City
Mrf New Haven, Ct FS England. 1640 I
f Nyack, N. Y.
Southold (L. I.),N.Y.
Table of First Settlers'
Vative Countries
with Dates of Emigration J
Great Britain
♦Cheney, 1622 W
Abercrombie, i8 —
Chickering, 16— ^
B. Adams, prior to
165c
Chittenden, 1656 ^H
T. B. Clark, 1845 S
W. H. Clark, 1636 ■
T. C. Adams, 1640
M. C. Adams, 1632
-33
Alexander,
Cochran, S,
Allen, 1630-65
Ailing, 16^8
Alvord, 1632
Coit 1630 V
Colgate, 1795 "T
Collens, 1632
Archbald, 1807
Colton, t
Auchincloss, 1800
Conklin, 1638 "
Bacon, 1636
H. P. Cross, 1666
H. D. Baker,
W. R. Cross, 18—
A. R. Baldwin, 1630
Curtiss, 1638
Ball, 1630
•Damon, 1633
Ballentine, 1820
A. S. Davis, 1642
Beaty, 1850
E. L. Davis, 1800
Bemis, 1700
C. S. Day, 1634
Bennett,
S. Day, 1634
Jentley, 17 —
Dayton, 1639
Berry,
Bingham, 1643
Dean, 16 —
Dickerman, prior to 1635
Bond, 1630
Douglass, 1769
Brastow,
Drown. 16 —
Breckenridge, 1727
Brinsmade, 1628
J. G. Eldridge, 1635
Farr,
Fieia, 17-
Brittain, prior to i;
?50
Buck, 1649
Fitzhugh, 1671
Buist, 1793
Foote, 1635
Bulkley, 1634-5
Forbes,
Bumham, 1635
Fowler,
Carleton, 1637
Fuller, 1620
Cary, 1634
F. W. Gaines,
Chace, 1630
J. M. Gaines, 1639
Chandler,
Gaylord, 1630
Chapman, 1660
Goodman, 1632
Chamley, 1780
Gowans, 1828
i
HABITAT
859
Grant, 1630
Greene, 1636
H. E. Gregory,
Griffith,
E. B. Hamlin, 1639
P. D. Hamlin, prior to 1675
Hatch, 1626
Havens, 1636
*Hawes, 1620
Hawkes, 163-
Heard, 1636
Heaton, 1682
G. C. Hollister, 1642
T. C. Hollister, 1642
Hooker, 1856
Hoole,
Hopkins, 1620
Hoyt, 1628
*Ives,
Jeffrey, 1859
Johnston,
A. C. Jones, 1748
L. C. Jones, 1800
Kellogg, 165 1-2
R. Kelly, 1797
Kingman, 1635
Kinney, 17 —
Lackland,
Lee, 165-
Loomis, 1638
Lovell, 1630
Mackey, 1765
McLaren, 18 —
H. W. Mathews, 1742
Mathison, 17 —
W. S. Miller,
Morgan, 1830
Morris,
Nicholson,
Noon, 1846
Oakley, 1661
Oviatt, 1639
Pardee, 1 644
Park, 1630
H. S. Peck, 1634
P. C, Peck, 1638
Pelton,
Perkins, 1750
Porter, prior to 1654
Pratt, 1630
Prince, 1645
Reed,
Richmond, 16 —
W. P. Robbins, prior to 1635
Robinson, 1631 (via Holland)
Rockwell,
Root, 1635
Ross, 1843
Sadler, 1720
Sage, 1652
Sawyer,
Scarborough,
H. Scudder,
Sheldon, 1651
Sherman, 1634
D. Smith,
G. A. Smith,
G. Smith, 164s
N. W. Smith, 1620
Spalding, 16 19
Spellman,
Squires, 16 —
Stalter,
Stokes, 1798
H, G. Strong, 1630
T. S. Strong, 1630
Stuart, 18 —
Sturges,
Sumner, 1836
Taylor,
A. R. Thompson, 17 18
S. Thorne, 1635
S. B. Thorne, 1635
Tilton, 1634
Treadway, 1653
Truslow, 1777
Twombly, 1656
Vaill, 1630-40
Vennum,
Vincent, 1630
Wadhams, 1650
C. W. Wells, 1636
Weston,
Whitaker, 1658
Wickenden, 18 —
N. Williams, 16-
WoodhuU, 1648
R. J. Woodruff, 1639
Yeaman, 1745
Young, 1640
ii73)
Ireland
Beard, 1827
Bergin, i86r
H. S. Brown,
Carley, 18 —
Carroll, 1839
Conley, 18 —
Corbitt, 179—
Denison,
Eagle, 18—
Flaherty, 18—
Ford, 17 —
Henry,
Jackson, 18 —
Lenahan, 1846
Loughran, 18 —
Lusk, 1759
McClenahan, 1812
*McDermott, 18 —
McFadden, 1800
McKee, 1750
McLanahan, 1700
Mallon, 1829
F. W. Mathews,
Neale,
F. M. Patterson, 18—
Paxton, 173 s
Reynolds, 1863
Scott, 18—
F. M. Thompson, 1856
Tracy, 1852
Whalen, 1737
(31)
Germany
Arnstein, 18 —
W. G. Baker,
*Belo,
Birely,
Cahn, 18 —
860
STATISTICS
Coonley, 1640
Africa
*Fincke, 1700
Boyer,
Fisher, 1695
(i)
Frank, 18—
Govert,
Heidrich, 18
Italy
^Spinello, 1886
Helfenstein, 1772
- (I)
Hess,
Hoeninghaus, 18 —
Sweden
Keller, 1750
Longacre, 1640
Lampman,
(I)
Lobenstine, 1848
Schevill, 1850
No Record
Shoemaker, 1672-1730
*W. Armstrong
Walter. 1784
Weyerhaeuser, 1851
Arnold
0. C. Baker
(21)
M. Baldwin
France
Benedict
Berdan, 16 —
Billard
deForest, 1623
A. Brown
deSibour, 18 —
W. F. Brown
Durfee, 1652
Burton-Smith
Godchaux, 1841
Coleman
More, 18—
E. D. Collins
Paret, 1780
Gorman
Robert, 1685
•Trudeau, 1638
He^ls
A. E. Hunt
(9)
Hutchinson
Holland
Johnson
•Brokaw, 16—
Jordan
DeWitt, 1650
Knapp
C. W. Miller
Kip, 1650
•Schuyler.
Mundy
(4)
Nettieton
F. 0. Robbins
Switzerland
Rumrill
Haldeman, 1722
Scoville
Motter, 16 —
W. D. Smith
VonTobel. 184-
(3)
Starkweather
Stewart
Tailer
Russia
Wade
Gordon, 1889
T. B. Wells
Sulcov, 1881
W. F. Wood
(a)
(32)
SUMMARY
Great Britain 173
Ireland 31
Germany 21
France o
Holland J
Switzerland 3
Russia 2
Africa i
Italy I
Sweden i
No Record 32
Total 278
I
HABITAT
861
Table of First American Residences
with Dates of Settlement
Massacliusetts
J. C. Adams, 1640
M. C. Adams, 1632-3
Allen, 1630-65
Bacon, 1636
A. R. Baldwin, 1630
Ball, 1630
Bond, 1630
Brastow,
Breckenridge, 1727
Burnham, 1635
Carleton, 1637
Carley, 18—
Gary, 1634
Chace, 1630
Chickering, 16 —
W. H. Clark, 1636
Coit, 1630
CoUens, 1632
Conklin, 1638
*Damon, 1633
A. S. Davis, 1642
Dayton, 1639
Dean, 16 —
Dickerman, prior to 1635
Durfee, 1652
Eldridge, 1635
Farr,
Field, 17 —
Fuller, 1620
Gaylord, 1630
Goodman, 1632
Grant, 1630
E. B. Hamlin, 1639
P. D. Hamlin, prior to 1675
Hatch, 1626
Havens, 1636
*Hawes, 1620
Hawkes, 163—
Hopkins, 1620
Hoyt, 1628
Kingman, 1635
Lovell, 1630
F. W. Mathews,
H. W. Mathews, 1742
More, 18 —
Noon, 1846
Park, 1630
Pelton,
Prince, 1645
Robinson, 1631
Rockwell,
Scott, 18—
Sheldon, 1651
D. Smith,
N. W. Smith, 1620
Squires, 16 —
H. G. Strong, 1630
T. S. Strong, 1630
Tilton, 1634
Treadway, 1653
Vincent, 1630
Weston,
Whitaker, 1658
. (63)
Connecticut
B. Adams, prior to 1650
Ailing, 1638
Alvord, 1632
Bergin, 1861
Bingham, 1643
Brinsmade, 1628
Buck, 1649
Chapman, 1660
Chittenden, 1656
Curtiss, 1638
C. S. Day, 1634
S. Day, 1634
Flaherty, 18 —
Foote, 1635
Forbes,
T. M. Gaines, 1639
H. E. Gregory,
G. C. Hollister, 1642
J. C. Hollister, 1642
*Ives,
Jackson, 18 —
Jeffrey, 1859
A, C. Jones, 1748
Kellogg, 1 65 1— 2
Kinney, 17 —
Lee, 165-
Loomis, 1638
McLaren, 18 —
W. S. Miller,
Oviatt, 1639
Pardee, 1 644
H. S. Peck, 1634
P. C. Peck, 1638
Perkins, 1750
Porter, prior to 1654
Pratt, 1630
Reynolds, 1863
W. P. Robbins, prior to 1635
Root, 163s
Sage, 1652
Sawyer,
♦Spinello, 1886
Sturges,
A. R. Thompson, 17 18
Tracy, 1852
Wadhams, 1650
C. W. Wells, 1636
R. J. Woodruff, 1639
(48)
New York
Archbald, 1807
Auchincloss, 1800
Beard, 1827
Berdan, 16 —
*Brokaw, 16 —
Conley, 18 —
Coonley, 1640
862
STATISTICS
W. R. Cross, i8—
Mackey, 1765
deForest, 1623
Nicholson,
Denison,
(8)
DeWitt, 1650
Douglass, 1769
New Jersey
Eagle, 18—
Brittain. prior to 1750
H. S. Brown,
*Fincke, 1700
Fowler,
Fisher, 1695
Frank, 18 —
Neale,
Gordon, 1889
Gowans, 1828
Richmond, 16 —
Stalter,
Hoeninghaus, 18 —
Taylor,
Hooker, 1856
(7)
L. C. Tones, 1800
R, Kefly, 1797
Kip, 1650
Lampman,
Loughran, 18 —
Mallon, 1829
Mathison, 17 —
Morgan, 1830
Oakley, 1661
New Hampshire
Drown, 16 —
Ford, 17 —
Heard, 1636
G. Smith, 1645
Twombly, 1656
N. Williams, 16—
(6)
Paret, 1780
F. M. Patterson, 18 —
Ross, 1843
•Schuyler,
Shoemaker, 1672—1730
Stokes, 1798
Stuart, 18 —
S. Thome, 1635
Virginia
Bentley, 17 —
Fitzhugh, 1671
Hedges,
C. W. Miller,
Spalding, 1619
(5)
S. B. Thome, 1635
VonTobel, 184-
*Trudeau, 1638
Rhode Island
Truslow, 1777
*Cheney, 1622
H. P. Cross, 1666
Greene, 1636
Vaill. 1630-40
Whalen, 1737
Woodhull, 1648
Sherman, 1634
Yeaman, 1745
(4)
Young, 1640
(46)
Ohio
E. L. Davis, 1800
Pennsylvania
Abercrombie, 18 —
McClenahan, 1812
Schevill, 1850
Carroll, 1839
(3)
Charnlev, 1780
T. B. Clark. 1845
South Carolina
Colgate, 1795
Haldeman, 1722
Buist, 1793
Corbitt, 179-
Robert, 1685
Heaton. 1682
Helfenstein, 177a
(3)
Keller, 1750
Longacre, 1640
McFadden, 1800
North Carolina
•Belo,
McKee, 1750
Johnston,
McLanahan, 1700
(2)
Motter, 16—
Paxton, 1735
California
Sadler, 1720
Arnstein, 18 —
Sulcov, 1881
(1)
F. M. Thompson, 1856
Florida
Weyerhaeuser, 1851
Lenahan, 1846
(20)
(1)
Maryland
W. G. Baker,
Georgia
Scarborough,
Berry,
Birefy,
(1)
Griffith,
Illinois
Lackland,
Cahn, 18—
Lusk, 1 759
(1)
I
HABITAT
863
Iowa
Burton-Smith
Govert,
Chandler
(I)
Cochran
Coleman
Louisiana
E. D. Collins
Godchaux, 1841
Colton
(I)
deSibour
F. W. Gaines
West Virginia
Gorman
Lobenstine, 1848
(I)
Heidrich
Henry
Canada
Hess
Ballentine, 1820
Hoole
Beaty, 1850
A. E. Hunt
*McDermott, 18 —
Hutchinson
Wickenden, 18 —
Johnson
(4)
Jordan
British West Indies
Morris
Walter, 1784
Mundy
Nettleton
Reed
No Record
F. 0. Robbins
Alexander
Rumrill
*W. Armstrong
Scoville
Arnold
H. Scudder
H. D. Baker
G. A. Smith
0. C. Baker
W. D. Smith
M. Baldwin
Spellman
Bemis
Starkweather
Benedict
Stewart
Bennett
Sumner
Billard
Tailer
Boyer
Wade
A. Brown
T. B. Wells
W. F. Brown
W. F. Wood
Bulkley
(51)
SUMMARY
Massachusetts
. (>3
Connecticut
. 48
New York
. 46
Maryland
8
New Hampshire ....
: 6
Virginia
5
Rhode Island
4
Ohio
3
,
2
Florida i
Illinois I
Louisiana i
West Virginia i
Canada
A
British West Indies . i
No record
51
Total
. 278
(Total for New England, 121, or 53 per cent, of the 227 reporting.)
864 STATISTICS
Separate Table of the Years of Emigration
to America
1619 (i) Spalding
1620 (4) Fuller, *Hawes, Hopkins, N. W. Smith
1622 (i)*Cheney
1623 (i) deForest
1626 (i) Hatch
1628 (2) Brinsmade, Hoyt
1630 (13) A. R. Baldwin, Ball, Bond, Chace, Coit, Gaylord
Grant, Lovell, Park, Pratt. H. G. Strong, T. S|
Strong, Vincent T
1630-65 (i) Allen
1630-40 (i) Vaill
1631 ( I ) Robinson
1632 (3) Alvord, Collens, Goodman
1632-33 (i) M. C. Adams
1633 (i)*Damon
1634 (6) Gary, C. S. Day, S. Day, H. S. Peck, Sherman, Tiltop
1634 yo) '-ary, c. S. uay, &. uay, ±1. :5. feck, bberman, iilt»q
1634-35 (i) Bulkley i
163s (prior to) . . . (2) Dickerman, W, P. Robbins J
Root, S|
d, c. yk
*Trudea4
635 (7) Bumham, T. G. Eldridge, Foote, Kingman, Root,
Thome, S. B. Thorne
1636 (6) Bacon, W. H. Clark, Greene, Havens, Heard
Wells
1637 (i) Carleton 1
1638 (6) Ailing, Conklin, Curtiss, Loomis, P. C. Peck, *Trudeail
1639 (s) Dayton, J. M. Gaines, E. B. Hamlin, Oviatt, R. J.
Woodruff
163- (i) Hawkes
1640 (4) J. C. Adams, Coonley, Longacre, Young
1642 (3) A. S. Davis, G. C. HoUister, J. C. Hollister
1 643 ( I ) Bingham
1 644 ( I ) Pardee
1645 (2) Prince, (W. D.) G. Smith
1648 (1) Woodhull
1649 (i) Buck
1650 (prior to) .. .(i) B.Adams
1650 (3) DeWitt, Kip, Wadhams
1651 (1) Sheldon
1651-53 (1) Kellogg
1653 (2) Durfee, Sage
1653 ( I ) Treadway
1654 (prior to) . . . ( 1 ) Porter
1656 (2) Chittenden, Twombly
1658 (i) Whitaker
165- (x) Lee
1600 (i) Chapman
1661 (I) Oakley
1666 (I) H. P. Cross
1 67 1 ( I ) Fitzhugh
1672—17^0 (i) Shoemaker
167s (prior to) ... (i) P. D. Hamlin
1682 (1) Heaton
168s (1) Robert
1695 (i) Fisher
16— (9) Berdan 'Brokaw, Cbickering, Dean, Drown, Motter,
Richmond, Squires, N. Williams
1700 (3) Bemis, *Fincke, Mcliinahan
1718 (II A. R. Thompson
1720 (i) Sadler
1722 (i) Haldeman
1727 (i) Breckenridge
1735 (i) Paxton
1737 (i) Whalen
1742 (i) H. W. Mathews
1745 (i) Yeaman
4
I
HABITAT 865
1748 (i) A. C. Jones
I7S0 (prior to) ... (i) Brittain
1750. (3) Keller, McKee, Perkins
1759 (i) Lusk
1765 (i) Mackey
1769 (i) Douglass
1772 (i) Helfenstein
1777 (i) Truslow
1780 (2) Chamley, Paret
1784 (i) Walter
1793 (1) Buist
179s (1) Colgate
X797 (O R. Kelly
1798 (i) Stokes
179- (i) Corbitt
17 — (5) Bentley, Field, Ford, Kinney, Mathison
1800 (4) Auchincloss, E. L. Davis, L. C. Tones, McFadden
1807 (i) Archbald
1812 (i) McClenahan
1820 (i) Ballentine
1827 (i) Beard
1828 (i) Gowans
1829 (i) Mallon
1830 (i) Morgan
1836 (i) Sumner
1839 (i) Carroll
1841 (i) Godchaux
1843 (i) Ross
1845 (i) T. B. Clark
1846 (2) Lenahan, Noon
Lobenstine
,(i) Von Tobel
(2)
1850 (2) Beaty, Schevill
1851 (i) Weyerhaeuser
1852 (i) Tracy
1856 (2) Hooker, F. M. Thompson
1859 (I) Jeffrey
1861 (i) Bergin
1863 (i) Reynolds
1881 (i) Sulcov
1886 (i)*Spinello
1889 (i) Gordon
x8 — (21) AbercrombiCj Arnstein, Cahn, Carley, Conley, W. R.
Cross, deSibour, Eagle, Flaherty, Frank, Heidrich,
Hoeninghaus, Jackson, Loughran. *McDermott, Mc-
Laren, More, F. M. Patterson, Scott, Stuart, Wick-
enden
No record (80) Alexander, *W. Armstrong, Arnold, H. D. Baker, O. C.
Baker, W. G. Baker, M. Baldwin, *Belo, Benedict,
Bennett, Berry, Billard, Birely, Boyer, Brastow, A.
Brown, H. S. Brown, W. F. Brown, Burton-Smith,
Chandler, Cochran, Coleman, E. D. Collins, Colton,
Denison, Farr, Forbes, Fowler, F. W. Gaines, Gor-
man,. Govert, H. E. Gregory, Griffith, Griggs,
Hedges, Henry, Hess, Hoole, A. E. Hunt, Hutchin-
son, *Ives, Johnson, Johnston, Jordan, Knapp, Lack-
land, Lampman, F. W. Mathews, C. W. Miller, W.
S. Miller, Morris, Mundy, Neale, Nettleton, Nichol-
son, Pelton, Reed, F, O. Robbins, Rockwell, Rum-
rill, Sawyer, Scarborough, *Schuyler, Scoville, H.
Scudder, D. Smith, G. A. Smith, W. D. Smith,
Spellman, Stalter, Starkweather, Stewart, Sturges,
Tailer, Taylor, Vennum, Wade, T. B. Wells, Wes-
ton, W. F. Wood
866
STATISTICS
SUMMARY
17th Century 11 1
i8th Century 34
19th Century 53
Total 108
No record 80
Total 278
Note: It is probable that in practically all the cases of "no record"
the first settlers came over in the 17th and i8th centuries.
General Summary of First Settlers
17th Century
Great Britain
France
Germany
Holland
Sweden
Switzerland . .
Other Northern British
New England States The South Colonies
tSth Century
Great Britain
Ireland
France
German
SwiUerl
IV
land .
86
19
3
no
7
10
3
20
I
a
7
I
I
4
1
jgth Century
Great Britain
Ireland
France
Germany
Switzerland . .
Russia
Italy
Grand Total ....
Incomplete Records
12
108
19
33
10
I
49
192
278
The number of men who furnished complete information con-
cerning not only the first settler's native country, but also his
century of emigration and his first American residence was 192
(69%). It will probably be possible to add to this number in
future.
Of these 192 first settlers, 87 came from Great Britain in the
17th century and settled in New England. This is equal to 45%
HABITAT 867
of those reporting. The percentage of Puritan ancestry in the
whole Class will probably be found to be larger than this, how-
ever, because the great majority of the men who were unable to
give the date of emigration seem to be descendants of early Eng-
lish settlers.
The 17th, i8th, and 19th century emigrations are distributed as
to place of settlement as shown in the table on page 866.
These summaries show that of the 192 men reporting, 69%
are of British stock, 14% of Irish, 9% of German and Dutch,
4% of French, and 4% of Swiss, Swedish, Russian, and Italian.
Only 6% are descendants of Southern families. The remain-
ing families settled in New England (50%), other Northern
States (36%), and in Canada and the British West Indies (2%).
The families of 20 men, or 7.3% of the whole Class, came to
America from Ireland in the 19th century. (To say that this
was 10.4% of those reporting, would be a misleading way of
stating the fact, since the data for this particular class of emi-
grants are much more complete than for other groups.)
The Secretary of '79, who has gone into this matter more thor-
oughly, reports that 72.3% of his Class of 137 men are of old
New England stock on either one or both sides. The '96 biogra-
phies do not include sufficient information about the families of
our classmates' mothers to make an exact comparison possible.
In '79 there were 8 men (6%) of foreign parentage, and 22
more (16%), one of whose parents was foreign born. The cor-
responding figures for '96 are 26 and 14, or 9% and 5% respect-
ively. The data follow:
Foreign parentage:
Parents born in Ireland: Bergin, Carley, Carroll, Conley,
Eagle, Flaherty, Jackson, F. M. Patterson, Reynolds, Scott,
Tracy.
Father born in Ireland, mother born in New Brunswick of
English parents: McDermott.
Parents born in England: Hooker, Wickenden.
Father born in England, mother born in England or Canada:
Beaty.
Parents born in Scotland: McLaren.
Father born in Canada, mother born in England: Gorman.
Parents born in Germany: Arnstein, Frank, Heidrich, Sche-
vill, Weyerhaeuser.
Parents born in Russia: Gordon, Sulcov.
Parents born in France: Godchaux.
Parents born in Italy: Spinello. (26)
One parent foreign born :
Father born in England: T. B. Clark, W. R. Cross, Jeffrey,
Noon, Stuart.
868 STATISTICS
1
Father born in Ireland: Lenahan, Mallon, F. M. Thompson.*
Father born in Scotland: Ross. j
Father born in France: deSibour,
Father born in Germany: Cahn^ Hoeninghaus, Lobenstine.
Father born in British West Indies: Walter. (14)
These lists do not include Damon (born of American settlers
in Hawaii), Grant (whose father was born in Persia), Johnston
(whose father was born in Turkey), Park (whose mother was
born in India), Truslow (whose mother was born in Cuba), or
N. Williams (whose father was born in Quebec) because in each
of these cases the citizenship was American.
Notes by Professor Norton
The residences of maternal and paternal grandparents are here-
with summarized. Two residences for an individual are counted
as one-half residence for each of two places. The results are
reduced to percentages.
FM
FF
MM
MF
Average
North Atlantic .
. 75.3%
70.7%
73.8%
68.9%
72.2%
South Atlantic .
3-9
4.6
4.8
4.2
4.4
South Central .
1.9
2.2
3.0
4.0
2.8
North Central .
3.2
6.7
6.9
13. S
7-6
Western . . .
.
0.4
0.2
0.2
Foreign . . .
. IS. 7
IS. 7
II. I
10. 0
13. 1
In the words of the averages, 72.2% of the four grandparents
of each classmate resided in the North Atlantic States, 4.4% in
the South Atlantic, 2.8% in the South Central, 7.6% in the North
Central, and 13.1% abroad.
PROPINQUITY OF PARENTS
Average
Birth Places of Parents Mother Father Per cent. Parents
North Atlantic 184 182 66%
South Atlantic 7 12 3
South Central 12 8 4
North Central 36 22 10
Foreign 28 43 13
267 267 96%
Not stated 11 11 4
278 278 100%
* American born mother whose parents were bom in Ireland. '
'American bom mother whose parents were born in Bavaria.
f
HABITAT 869
CLASSMATES
The members of the Class were born largely in the North
Atlantic States, i.e., Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode
Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
North Atlantic Division 194 69.8%
South Atlantic Division 8 2.9
South Central Division 8 2.9
North Central Division 52 18.7
Western Division 3 1.0
Foreign 13 4.7
278 100.0%
Approximately 67% of the Class were born in the following
States :
New York 73 26%
Connecticut 56 20
Massachusetts 17 6
Illinois 16 6
Ohio . 13 5
New Jersey 10 4
i8s 67%
An interesting comparison may be made in connection with
the statistics of former classes, for which statistics are complete :
1841
1858
1873
1879
1886
1896
North Atlantic Division .
. 80%
80%
75%
76%
72%
70%
South Atlantic Division .
. IS
4
3
3
2
3
South Central Division
3
8
5
3
5
3
North Central Division
6
14
15
18
19
Western Division . . .
I
I
I
I
Foreign
3
2
3
3
2
5
Total Number in Class .79 103 113 137 139 278
A progressive diminution in percentage figures for North At-
lantic States has been accompanied by a corresponding increase
in the figures for North Central States.
PLACES OF BIRTH OF CLASSMATES
California — Arnstein, Drown *
Connecticut— B. Adams, Ailing, Alvord, Arnold, Benedict, Bennett,
Bergin, Billard, Bond, Brinsmade, Carleton, Cary, Chandler, Chap-
870 STATISTICS
man, •Cheney, W. H. Clark, Coit, Dayton, Dean, Flaherty, Foote,
Fuller, J. M. Gaines, Gaylord, Goodman, Griggs, Havens, Hoen»,
inghaus, Hoyt, Jackson, Jeffrey, Johnson, A. C. Jones, Kellog
Keller, Knapp, H. W. Mathews, Morris, Nicholson, Oviatt, H,
Peck, Pelton, Perkins, Reynolds, Robinson, Spalding, H. G. Strot
Sumner, Taylor, A. R. Thompson, S. Thome, Von Tobel, Tracj
Vaill, Walter, R. J. Woodruff
District of Columbia — Bentley, McKee
Illinois — M. Baldwin, Buck, Cahn, Charnley, Coleman, Denison, Forbes,
Govert, Griffith, Lee, W. S. Miller, Mundy, •Schuyler, Vennum,
Weyerhaeuser, N. Williams
I
Indiana — ^Abercrombie
Iowa — Burton-Smith, McClenahan, Treadway
Kansas — Lobenstine i
Kentucky — Heidrich, C. W. Miller, Yeaman 3
Louisiana — Godchaux, Scarborough 2
Maine — ^J. C, Adams, Dickerman, Heard, F. W. Mathews, Prince . . 5
Maryland— V^. G. Baker, Birely, Boyer, Wadhams, C. W. Wells . . . s
Massachusetts — Allen, H. D. Baker, Bemis, Breckenridge, Carley, Farr,
Greene, Hawkes, Hutchinson, Nettleton, Noon, Sherman, G. A.
Smith, Spellman, Twombly, Vincent, Whitaker 17
Afic/ivoK— Ballentine, Beaty, H. S. Brown, Ford, H. E. Gregory, G. C.
HoUister, J. C. Hollister 7
Missouri — Beard, Brittain, Douglass, Kinney, Lackland, Motter, Reed,
(W. D.) G. Smith, Wade 9
New Hampshire — Bumham, Chickering, Gorman, Hatch, F. O. Robbins,
Tilton 6
New Jersey — Colgate, W. R. Cross, deForest, Grant, Heaton, Paret,
Root, Staltcr, W. F. Wood, Woodhull 10
New York — Alexander, 'W. Armstrong, Auchincloss, Bacon, O. C. Baker,
A. R. Baldwin, Ball, 'Brokaw, W. F. Brown, Bulkley, Chace, Chit-
tenden, Cochran, Collens, Colton, Conklin, Conley, Coonley, Cor-
bitt, Curtiss, C. S. Day, S. Day, DeWitt, Durfee, Eagle, Field,
•Fincke, Fowler, Frank, Gowans, E. B. Hamlin, *Hawes, Henry,
Hooker, Hoole, Hopkins, Johnston, L. C. Jones, Jordan, Kingman,
Kip, Lampman, Loomis, Loughran, Lovell, McLanahan, Mathison,
Morgan, Oakley, F. M. Patterson, P. C. Peck, Porter, Pratt, Rich-
mond, W. P. Robbins, Rockwell, Ross, Sage, Sawyer, H. Scudder,
Shoemaker, D. Smith, W. D. Smith, Squires, Stokes, T. S. Strong,
Stuart, Sturges, Tailer, S. B. Thome, *Trudeau, Whalen, Young . 73
HABITAT 871
Ohio— Bcrdan, T. B. Clark, A. S. Davis, E. L. Davis, Fisher, F. W.
Gaines, Keller, McFadden, Mallon, Paxton, Schevill, Starkweather^
T. B. Wells 13
Oregon—Hedges i
Pennsylvania — M. C. Adams, Archbald, A, Brown, Carroll, Fitzhugh,
Haldeman, P. D. Hamlin, Helfenstein, Hess, Hunt, Lenahan, Long-
acre, Mackey, Neale, Pardee, Sadler, Stewart, F. M. Thompson,
Weston 19
Rhode Island— H. P. Cross, N. W. Smith 2
South Carolina — Buist i
Vermont — Bingham, Brastow, E. D. Collins, Rumrill,' Scoville, Sheldon . 6
Tennessee — Berry, Lusk 2
Texas — *Belo i
fVt'sconstn—'EldTidge, Robert , 2
FOREIGN (including Cuba and Hawaii)
Canada — *McDermott, Wickenden 2
Cuba — Truslow t
France — deSibour, More 2
Great Britain — McLaren i
Hawaii — *Damon i
Jndto— Park i
Ireland—Scott i
Italy — *Ives, *Spinello 2
Russia — Gordon, Sulcov *
Total , • • • ^78
THE METROPOLITAN DRIFT
Although 156 members were born in the country and in smaller
places as against 122 born in the 100 largest cities in the United
States, in later years only 107 made their residence in smaller
places and 171 resided in metropolitan centers.
872 STATISTICS
Of the 156 who were born in the smaller places, 75 chose
metropolitan centers as their residences. Out of 122 born in
cities only 26 chose country and smaller places as their resi-
dences. A large net drift is therefore recorded in favor of the
large centers of greater opportunities.
The summary follows, "metropolitan" being taken as mes
the 100 largest cities in this country:
Country Metropolitan Totals,
births births Present residenc
Country residences 81 26 107
Metropolitan residences 75 96 171
Totals, birth places 156 122 278
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The present geographical distribution of the Class is given
the Locality Index. Since it was thought advisable to bring this
particular table up to date, it has not been included with the
other habitat matter, but it will be found on pp. 899-^4 in the
Appendix.
EDITORIAL POSTSCRIPT
In collecting the material for this volume the men were re-
quested to state how many of the children born to their parents
died before maturity. This information not having been in-
cluded in the table of Vital and Marriage Statistics on pp. 760-
793, a separate table has been prepared summarizing these data.
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in the sub-divided groups, are not of much statistical importance,
but they have a certain interest for the Class. Professor Norton
says that the showing "is in line with what has been proved else-
where, that length of life and large number of children are cor-
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Additional Tables
Comprising Tables of Membership, Dates of Entering and Leaving the Class,
Preparatory Schools, Degrees Received, and Deaths, of Graduates and Ex-
Members. Also Deaths of Wives and Children (of Graduates only). Also
a Chronological Table of Births of Graduates, and a List of Classmates
(Graduates only) whose Fathers were College Graduates.
Membership
I
Number of Graduates 378
Number of Ex-Members 65
Total number connected with Class 343
Deaths of Graduates up to June 30, 1906 12
Number of Graduates living June 30, 1906 266
Total 378
Deaths of Ex-Members up to June 30, 1906, including three deaths
in course zo
Number of Ex-Members living June 30, 1906 55
Total 65
GRADUATES EX- TOTAL
MEMBERS
Entered with the Class 246 54 300
Entered later in Freshman year 4 2 6
Entered in Sophomore year 15 s 20
Entered in Junior year 2 3 5
Entered in Senior year 11 i 12
278 65 343
The 65 ex-members left or were dropped as follows:
In Freshman year 36 (including i death)
In Sophomore year 14
In Junior year 10 (including i death)
In Senior year 5 (including i death)
el
Of these 65 men 3 were graduated in the Class of '95
10 were graduated in the Class of '97
2 were graduated in other departments
8 were graduated at other institutions (See p. 883)
874
ADDITIONAL TABLES 875
Graduates who did not Enter with the Class
together with Dates of Entrance.
Freshman Year: (4)
November, 1892.. Prince
January, 1893 . .Kinney, Tracy, Whitaker
Sophomore Year: (15)
September, 1893.. H. S. Brown, Chickering, Chittenden, Dean, Mc-
Fadden, F. M. Patterson, Robert, Sadler, Scoville, G. Smith, Stark-
weather, Wade, C. W. Wells, 13
April, 1894. .Nicholson
June, 1894. .Longacre
Junior Year: (2)
September, 1894. .Hotter, Sturges
Senior Year: (ii)
September, 1895. .Abercrombie, Arnstein, W. G. Baker, Carroll, Deni-
son, Gorman, Go vert, H. E. Gregory, McClenahan, C. W. Miller,
Scarborough
Ex-Members: Dates of Entering the Class
Freshman Year: (56)
September, 1892.. C. S. Adams, W. J. Armstrong, Atherton, Bailey,
BrinckerhoflF, Bristol, Brookfield, J. M. Brown, T. R. Brown, J. H,
C. Clark, D. H. Collins, Cox, G. P. Dodge, G. D. Eldridge, Ely
Estes, Gilbert, Gillett, Gillette, Gray, E. E. Gregory, Haines, Hoi
combe, Horton, Hulbert, C. J. Hunt, Irwin, Lane, Liscomb, Lov
ing, McClintock, McDonald, McLean, McLeod, Moore, Newcomb
Palmer, W. L. Patterson, Penrose, Pierson, Pond, Saunders, J. A
Scudder, Sears, Seney, Towle, Wallis, White, Wiley, N. A. Wil
Hams, T. J. Wood, C. H. Woodruff, Wynkoop (and Keck), 54
January, 1893.. Van Beuren
March, 1893. .Connell
Sophomore Year: (5)
September, 1893 — F. P. Dodge, Limburg, Meyer (and A. H. Kelly), 4
January, i894..Massey
Junior Year: (3)
September, 1894.. Martin
October, 1894. .Leavenworth
March, i89S..McCann
Senior Year: (»)
September, i895..Lukens
Total, '65
Ex-Members: Dates of Leaving the Class
Freshman Year: (36)
September, 1892.. Estes (d. December 26, 1892)
November, 1892.. T. J, Wood
December, 1892. .BrinckerhoflF, Gillett, Gillette, C. J. Hunt, Lane, Pen-
rose, J. A. Scudder, C. H. Woodruff, Wynkoop (and Keck), 10
January, 1893 . .Haines, Holcombe, Pond, Saunders
March, 1893.. Moore
April, 1893.. G. D- Eldridge
May, 1893, .Atherton, D. H. Collins, Newcomb ,,,,,„
June, 1893.. C. S. Adams, W. J. Armstrong, Brookfield, J. M. Brown,
T. R. Brown, Cox, E. E. Gregory, Irwin, Lovmg, McClintock,
McDonald, McLeod, Pierson, Seney, Wiley, 15
876 STATISTICS
Sophomore Year: (14)
December, 1893 .. Bailey, Connell, Limburg (and A. H. Kelly), a.
January, 1894. J. H. C. Clark *
June, 1894.. Bristol, G. P. Dodge, Ely, Gilbert, Hulbert, Li
McLean, Palmer, Wallis, 9
Junior Year: (10)
September, i894..Towle
ianuary, 1895., Horton
lay, 1895.. White (d. May 6, 1895)
June, 1895. .F. P. Dodge, Leavenworth, Meyer, W. L. Patterson, Sears
Van Beuren, N. A. Williams, 7
Senior Year: (5)
September, 1895.. Gray (d. September 12, 1895)
m
December, 1895. .Lukens, Martin
396,.McCa
Total, 65
June, 1896, .McCann, Massey
Preparatory Schools and Colleges attended before
entering Yale by Graduates and
Ex-Members
ANDOVER J^
(Andover, Mass.)
Allen, Archbald, Auchincloss, Bacon, Ballentine, Brastow, Carleton, Col
?ate, Coonlcy, A. S. Davis, deForest, Dickerman, Eagle, Farr, Fisher
oote, Grant, Haldeman, Hedges, Hooker, Johnston, Knapn, Mackey, Mc
Lanahan, McLaren. Mori. Neale, Nettleton, Pardee, Park, Porter, Sheldon
H. G. Strong, Vaill, Wadhams, C. \V^ Wells, Weston, Weyerhaeuser, Yea
man. (39) Ex '06, W. J. Armstrong, J. M. Brown, J. H. C. Clark, F. P,
Dodge. Gilbert, Newcomb, Sears, Wiley, N. A. Williams, C. H. Wood
ruff. (10) — 49.
ST. PAUL'S
(Concord, N. H.)
Alexander, Ailing, A. R. Baldwin, Berdan, Billard, Bingham, A. Brown,
Chamley, Cochran, H. P. Cross, C. S. Day, deSibour, deWitt, Fitzhugh,
P. D. Hamlin, Hopkins, Mundy, H. Scudaer, Stokes, Trudeau, Truslow.
(21) Ex '96, Lane, Penrose, Seney, Wynkoop. (4) — 25.
HILLHOUSE HIGH SCHOOL
(New Haven, Conn.)
Benedict, Bergin, Brastow, Chandler, Foote, Fuller, A. C. Jones, K«
McDermott, Mathison, Morris, Oviatt, Spalding. — 13.
EXETER
(Exeter, N. H.)
Buist, Carley, Chickering, Conklin, Conley, Godchaux, Lee, McKee,
Squires, Tilton, Treadway, Vincent. (12) Ex '96, Bristol, (x) — 13.
HARTFORD HIGH SCHOOL
(Hartford, Conn.)
B. Adams, Alvord, Bennett, Bulkley, Cheney, W. H. Clark, Goo
Griggs, Perkins, A. K. Thompson. (10) Ex '96, Palmer, (i) — 11
1|
I
ADDITIONAL TABLES 877
HOPKINS GRAMMAR SCHOOL
(New Haven, Conn.)
Beard, Buist, Chandler, H. W. Mathews, Paret, Sumner, Young. 7.
HILL SCHOOL
(Pottstown, Pa.)
Belo, Brittain, Colgate, Field, Fincke, Helfenstein. (6) Ex '96, Cox. (1)
— 7-
WILLISTON
(Easthampton, Mass.)
Arnold, Chace, Hawkes, More, P. C. Peck, Spellman. (6) Ex '06. Sears,
(i)— 7.
CUTLER SCHOOL
(New York City)
\ Curtiss, S. Day, Hawes, W. P. Robbins, S. Thorne.— 5.
1 LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL
I (Lawrenceville, N. J.)
I Coleman, Ives. (2) Ex '96, BrinckerhoflF, G. P. Dodge, Massey. (3) — 5.
!
\ MEN WHO ATTENDED OTHER SCHOOLS AND
I COLLEGES OR WHO STUDIED
! UNDER A TUTOR
i
I Abercrombie, W. Armstrong, Arnstein, H. D. Baker, O. C. Baker, W. G.
Baker, M. Baldwin, Bemis, Bentley, Birely, Breckenridge, Brinsmade, H. S.
I Brown, W. F, Brown, Buck, Burnham, Cahn, Carroll, Cary, Chapman,
Chittenden, T. B. Clark, Coit, Collens, E. D. Collins, Colton, Corbitt, W.
I R. Cross, Damon, Dayton, Dean, Denison, Douglass, Durfee, J. G. Eldridge,
il Flaherty, Forbes, Ford, Fowler, Frank, Gordon, Gorman, Govert, Gowans,
Greene, H. E. Gregory, Griffith, E. B. Hamlin, Heaton, Heidrich, Henry,
I Hess, G. C. Hollister, J. C. Hollister, Hoole, Hoyt, Hutchinson, Jackson,
I Jeffrey, Johnson, L. C. Jones, Jordon, Kellogg, R. Kelly, Kingman, Kinney,
Kip, Lampman, Lobenstine, Longacre, Loomis, Loughran, Lovell, Lusk,
\ McClenahan, Mallon, F. W. Mathews, C. W. Miller, Motter, Nicholson,
' Noon, Oakley, F. M. Patterson, H. S. Peck, Pelton, Pratt, Prince, Reed,
Reynolds, Richmond, F. O. Robbins, Robert, Rockwell, Root, Ross, Rum-
rill, Sadler, Sawyer, Scarborough, Schuyler, Scott, Sherman, D. Smith, G.
A. Smith, G. Smith, N. W. Smith, W. D. Smith, Spinello, Stalter, Stewart,
Stuart, Sturges, Sulcov, Tailer, Taylor, S. B. Thorne, Von Tobel, Vennum,
Wade, Walter, Whitaker, N. Williams, W. F. Wood. (123) Ex '96, Estes,
Gray, Hulbert, Martin, Meyer. (5) — 128.
MEN WHO HAVE FURNISHED NO DATA
J. C. Adams, M. C. Adams, Ball, Beaty, Berry, Bgnd, Boyer, Brokaw,
Burton-Smith, E. L. Davis, Drown, F. W. Gaines, J. M. Gaines, Gaylord,
Hatch, Havens, Heard, Hoeninghaus, A. E. Hunt, Lackland, Lenahan, Mc-
Fadden, W. S. Miller, Morgan, Paxton, Robinson, Sage, Schevill, Scovillc,
878 STATISTICS ^|
Shoemaker, Starkweather, T. S. Strong, F. M. Thompson, Tracy, Twomhlv i
T. B. Wells, Whalen, Wickenden, Woodhull, R. J. Woodruff. (40) Ex '06 '
C. S. Adams, Atherton, Bailey, Brookfield, T. R. Brown, D. H. Collins'
Connell, G. D. Eldridge, Ely, Gillett, Gillette, E. E. Gregory, Haines, Hol-
combe, Horton, C. J. Hunt, Irwin, Keck, A. H. Kelly, Leavenworth Lim-
burg, Liscomb, Loving, Lukens, McCann, McClintock, McDonald, McLean
McLeod, Moore, W. L. Patterson, Pierson, Pond, Saunders, J. A. Scudder'
Towle, VanBeuren, Wallis, White, T. J. Wood. (40)— 80.
SUMMARY I
Andover 39 10 ^Hl
St. Paul's 21 4^F|
Hillhouse High School 13 o T
Exeter 12 i
Hartford High School 10 i
Hopkins Grammar School 7 o
Hill School 6 I
Williston 6 i
Cutler School 5 o
Lawrenceville School '. 2 3
Total 121 21^
Deduct for repetitions 6 i ^H I
Total 115 20^1
Number of men who attended other ^Hi
schools and colleges or who studied ^Hl
under a tutor 123 5 j^HI
Men who have furnished no data 40 4**^^^ll
Final Total 378 65 = 343'
Table of Degrees received by Graduate Members
before entering Yale
Abercrombie
...B.A.
W. G. Baker ....
. . . B.A.
Carroll
...B.S.,
Denison
...B.A.
Covert
...B.A.
H. E. Gregory . .
...B.S.,
McClenahan
. . . B.A.
C. W. Miller ....
. . . B.A.
Scarborough . . . .
. . . B.A.
DePauw University, 1805
1894
Western Maryland College,
Lehigh University, 1894
Bailor University, 1895
Illmois College, 1895
Gate's College, 1890, and B.A.
Tarkio College, 1893
Centre College (now Central University), 1895
Baylor University, 1892
1895
Table of the Degrees other than B.A. received
by the Graduate Members of the Class
LL.B. 9
Alexander The New York Law School, 1899 "^
Ailing The Yale Law School, 1899
Arnold The Yale Law School, 1899
W. G. Baker' University of Maryland, 1899
Beard University of California, 1899
Bentley Columbian University of Washington, D. C.,\
Berry The New York Law School, 1898
1 Now the George Washington University.
' Now engaged in business.
ADDITIONAL TABLES 879
Birely The Yale Law School, 1899
Buck Buffalo Law School, 1898
Burton-Smith Harvard Law School, 1902
Cahn Northwestern University, 1899
Carley The New York Law School, 1898
W. H. Clark The Yale Law School, 1899
Colton" The New York Law School, 1898
Conklin The New York Law School, 1898
Conley Buffalo Law School, 1898
Corbitt The New York Law School, 1898
H, P. Cross Harvard Law School, 1900
Curtiss Columbia Law School, 1899
S. Day The New York Law School, 1899
deForest Columbia Law School, 1899
Denison Columbian University of Washington, D, C.,^ 1899
Douglass Washington University of St. Louis, 1898
Drown The Yale Law School, 1898
Eagle The New York Law School, 1898
Flaherty The Yale Law School, 1901
Ford2 The Yale Law School, 1898
Frank The New York Law School, 1898
Fuller The Yale Law School, 1898
F. W. Gaines The Yale Law School, 1898
Godchaux The Yale Law School, 1898
Goodman The Yale Law School, 1890
Gordon The New York Law School, 1898
Go wans' Buffalo Law School, 1900
Govert University of Michigan, 1900
Griggs • The New York Law School, 1898
E. B. Hamlin The New York Law School, 1898
Hatch Harvard Law School, 1899
Hedges The Yale Law School, 1898
Jackson The Yale Law School, 1899
Johnston Columbia Law School, 1890
Kingman The New York Law School. 1898
Kip2 The New York Law School, 1901
Lackland* Washington University of St. Louis, 1898
Louighran The New York Law School, 1898
Lusk Vanderbilt University, 1898
McLanahan Harvard Law School, 1899
C. W. Miller University of Virginia, 1898
More The Yale Law School, 1898
Motter University of Michigan, 1899
Oakley2 The Yale Law School, 1899
Paret Columbia Law School, 1899
Paxton University of Cincinnati, 1899
Pelton The Yale Law School, 1898
Porter The New York Law School, 1898
Pratt The Yale Law School, 1898
Reed^ University of Michigan, 1899
W. P. Robbins The New York Law School, 1898
Sadler Dickinson School of Law, 1898
*Schuyler Harvard Law School, 1900
Sherman' The Yale Law School, 1898
(W. D.) G. Smith2 . . Washington University of St. Louis, 1898
N. W. Smith The New York Law Schod, 1898
Spalding University of Pennsylvania, 1899
Stalter The Yale Law School, i8p8
Starkweather Western Reserve University, 1898
Sulcov' The New York Law School, 1901
F. M. Thompson The New York Law School, 1899
S. Thorne Harvard Law School, 1899
Twombly Harvard Law School, 1900
Vennum Northwestern University, 1898
Wade Syracuse University, 1898
Wadhams Harvard Law School, 1899
Woodhull The New York Law School, 1898
R. J. Woodruff The Yale Law School. 1899
Yeaman Boston University Law School, 1898
1 Now George Washington University. ^ Now engaged in business.
* Now engaged in teaching.
880 STATISTICS
I
LL.M.
Denison Columbian University of Washington, D. C.,^ 1899
McLanahan Columbian University of Washington, D. C.,^ 1902
F. M. Patterson ....Union College, 1904, Honorary
D.C.L.
McLanahan Columbian University of Washington, D. C.,^ 1903
Sherman The Yale Law School, 1899
M.D.
-,^ 1903
Bergin Yale Medical School, 1899
Bingham College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, 1900
Brinsmade College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, 1900
W. F. Brown McGill University, 1899
Buist Yale Medical School, 1 900
Burnham Yale Medical School, 1899
Chittenden Johns Hopkins University, 1900
Coonley Vale Medical School, 1900
•Fincke Long Island College Hospital, 1899
T. C. Hollister Northwestern University, 1900
Hoole College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, 1900
Kellogg Johns Hopkins University^ 1900
Lobenstine College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, 1900
Rumrill Dartmouth Medical College, 1900
D. Smith Yale Medical School, 1899
VonTobel Yale Medical School, 1890
•Trudeau College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, 1900
Vincent Yale Medical School, 1900
M.A.
J. C. Adams Yale University, 1898
Bentley Yale University, 1899
Chickering Harvard University, 1897
Chittenden Yale University, 1899
J. G. Eldridge Yale University, 1899
Farr Yale University, 1902
Jeffrey Yale University, 1 900
McClenahan Tarkio College, 1906, Honorary
•McDennott Yale University, 1898
Noon Yale University, 1898
Perkins Columbia University, 1899
Sadler Dickinson College, 1898
H. Scuddcr Columbia University, 1899
•Spinello Yale University, 1899
Stokes Yale University, 1900
Walter Yale University, 1899
PH.D.
J. C. Adams Yale University, 1904
Berdan Yale University, 1899
E. D. Collins Yale University, 1899
1 Now the George Washington University.
ADDITIONAL TABLES 881
I. G. Eldridge Yale University, 1906
I air Yale University, 1904
I. M. Gaines Yale University, 1900
( iicgory Yale University, 1899
Halaeman Johns Hopkins University, 1898
Havens Yale University, 1899
Hawkes Yale University, 1900
Hess Yale University, 1899
L. C. Jones Yale University, 1899
Keller .". Yale University, 1899
Morgan Yale University, 1899
\ cttleton Yale University, 1900
Nicholson Yale University, 1900
Frince Yale University, 1899
Schevill Munich, 1898
Tilton Yale University, 1900
B.D.
Coleman University of Chicago, 1899
Hess Yale Divinity School, 1900
Prince Drew Theological Seminary, 1896
Stokes Cambridge Episcopal Theological School, 1900
Sturges Cambridge Episcopal Theological School, 1900
MUS.B.
Cliandler Yale University, 1901
E.E.
Haldeman Johns Hopkins University, 1898
Perkins Columbia University, 1899
H. Scudder Columbia University, 1899
A.LA.
(Associate of the Institute of Actuaries, English.)
J. M. Gaines Montreal, 1902
Members of the Actuarial Society of America
J. M. Gaines New York, 1902
Gaylord New York, 1902
MEMBERS OF SIGMA XI
r. M. Gaines (1897) L. C. Tones (1898)
i. E. Gregory (1898) A. G. Keller (1903)
\ S. Havens (1896) *H. E. McDermott (189s)
i. E. Hawkes (1898) W. C. Morgan (1896)
H. A. Perkins (1901)
882
STATISTICS
SUMMARY
LL.B.
The New York Law School 2
The Yale Law School 2
Harvard Law School ;
Columbia Law School
Buffalo Law School
University of Michigan
Washin^on University of St Louis
Columbian University of Washington, D. C
Northwestern University
Boston University Law School
Dickinson School of Law
Svracuse University
University of California
University of Cincinnati
University of Maryland .
University of Pennsylvania
University of Virgrinia
Vanderbilt University
Western Reserve University
Total 76\
LL.M.
Columbian University of Washington, D. C 2
Union College Honorary i
Total 3
D.C.L.
Columbian University of Washington, D. C. .
The Yale Law School
Total
'I
I
M.D.
Yale Medical School...... ^v*^",* ^
College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York 5
Johns Hopkins University 2
Dartmouth Medical College ^
Long Island College Hospital »
McGill University »
Northwestern University
Total
Yale University ' •>
Columbia University
Dickinson College »]
Harvard University •«
Tarkio College Honorary • •
Total "
ADDITIONAL TABLES 883
PH.D.
Yale University 17
Tohns Hopkins University .' .' x
Munich i
Total I
B.D.
Cambridge Episcopal Theological School 2
Drew Theological Seminary i
University 01 Chicago 1
Yale Divinity School .' ' .' 1
Total ~7
MUS.B.
Yale University 1
E.E.
Columbia University 2
Johns Hopkins University i
Total 3
Table of the Degrees received by the Ex-Members
of the Class since leaving '96
B.A.
C. S. Adams Columbia University, 1896
Bailey Yale University, 1897
*G. D. Eldridge Johns Hopkins University, 1896
Ely Yale University, 1897
Gilbert Columbia University, 1897
Gillette Yale University, 1897
Haines Bowdoin College, 1897
Holcombe Yale University, 1897
C. J. Hunt Yale University, 1897
Leavenworth Yale University, 1897
Liscomb Yale University, 1897
McCann Yale University, 1895 (degree received 1897)
McDonald Yale University, 1897
Meyer Yale University, 1895
Sears Middlebury College, 1898
Towle Yale University, 1895
Wallis Yale University, 1897
N. A. Williams Yale University, 1897
LL.B.
*G. D. Eldridge Columbia Law School, 1900
Pierson The Yale Law School, 1895
Wiley University of Indianapolis, 1898
M.D.
Cox College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, 1898
Hulbert Yale Medical School, 1898
Wynkoop College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, 1897
884 STATISTICS
I
SUMMARY
B.A.
Yale University 13
Columbia University 2
Bowdoin College / i
Johns Hopkins ^University
i
iddlebury College i
Total 18
LL.B.
Columbia Law School i
The Yale Law School i
University of Indianapolis i
Total 3
M.D. J
College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York 2
Yale Medical School i
Total 3
Deaths
September, 1892-June, 1896
Richard Pinson Estes, December 26, 1802, in Memphis, Tenn,
Burton Arthur White, May 6, 1895, >n New Haven, Conn.
George Zabriskie Gray, September 12, 1895, in London, Eng, (3)
I)
June, 1896-June, 1906
(I. GRADUATES)
Wheeler Armstrong, Jr., November 12, 1806, in Hartford, Conn.
Gerard Merrick Ives, August 9, 1898, in New York, N. Y.
Henry Edwin McDermott, October 3, 1898, in New Haven, Conn.
Ward Oieney, January 7, 1900, in Imus, P. I.
William Hall Brokaw, July 13, 1902, in New York, N. Y.
George Hay ward Schuyler, February 22, 1904, in New York, N. Y.
Edward Livingston Trudeau, Jr., May 3, 1904, in New York, N. Y.
Marius Joseph Spinello, May 24, 1904, near Berkeley, Cal.
Samuel Edward Damon, September 27, 1904, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Emory Hawes, November 14, 1904, in New York, N. Y.
Alfred Horatio Belo, February 27, 1906, in Dallas, Tex.
Charles Louis Fincke, March 19, 1906, in Brooklyn, N. Y. (12)
(II. EX-MEMBERS)
Edward Eugene Gregory. September 21, 1896, in New York, N. Y.
Charles Mason Martin, August 16, 1899, in Norwich, N. Y.
Warren Prescott Palmer, February 11, 1903, in New York, N. Y.
Theodore Edwin Connell, June 15, 1903. in Scranton, Pa.
Benjamin Minor Massey, August 7, 1903, in Springfield, Mo.
Charles Williams Penrose, October 16, 1905, in Philadelphia, Pa.
George Dyre Eldridge, Jr., March 2, 1906, near New York, N. Y. (7)
Mi
ADDITIONAL TABLES
885
Deaths of Wives of Graduates
Mrs. Edgar S. Auchincloss (Marie Louise Mott), September 3, 1899, in
Monmouth Beach, N. T.
Mrs. William H. Brokaw (Annetta Kerr), Oct. 28, 1900, in Yonkers, N. Y.
Mrs. Harry P. Cross (Lorania Carrington King), January 3, 1904, in
Wakefield, R. I. j j o, y t,
Mrs. Johnston deForest (Natalie Coffin), April 26, 1906, in Asheville, N. C.
Mrs. Harris R. Greene (Edith Rebekah Maltby), November 6, 1901, in
New Haven, Conn.
Mrs. Paul D. Hamlin (Sallie Shoenberger), March 16, 1904, in Chicago, HI.
Mrs. William L. Helfenstein (Edith E. Miller), August 8, 1903, at Harris-
burg, Pa. (7)
Deaths of Children of Graduates
I'rederick Whiting Bennett, September 21, 1904, in Holyoke, Mass.
Ruth Coleman, December 24, 1903, in Indianapolis, Ind.
Eileen_ Colton, August 2, 1901, in Brooklyn, N. Y
;a, d' '
, M;
Charles Gordon Damon, April 24, 1905, in Honolulu, Hawaii
Colton (girl, unnamea, died at birth), Oct. 31, 1903, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Elizabeth Worth Coonley, March 10, 1905, in West New Brighton, Staten
Island, N. Y.
Portia Darrow Fowler, September 4, 1905, in Dinard St. Enogat, Bretagne,
France.
Hollister (G. C.) (son, unnamed, died day after birth), August 16,
1902, in Mamaroneck, N. Y.
Knapp (son, unnamed, died day after birth), June — , 1902, at Stam-
ford, Conn.
Tames Lorimer McClenahan, December 29, 1901, in Assiut, Egypt.
Morgan (son, unnamed, died at birth), November 19, 1904, in Ber-
keley, Cal.
James Pennington Tailer, July 4, 1901, in Woodmere, Long Island, N. Y.
(7 boys and 5 girls)
Chronological Table of Births
of Graduates
(The mean date of birth is Nov. 4th, 1873)
1863
Apr. 22 . . Prince
1865
May 25.. McLaren Oct. 3 1 . . Scott
1868
May 9.. More July 14.. Hooker Nov. 11. .Walter
1869
Apr. 17. .Carley
Aug. 3 . . Squires
Oct. IS..H. E. Gregory Nov. 19. .Alvord
Nov. 12. .Boyer Dec. 17. .E. D. Collins
1870
Feb. 12..F. O. Robbins Mar. 2.. Robinson
24 . . Bennett May 13.- Ross
June 26. .Hess
July 4 . . Scarborough
Nov. 24. .Burnham
886
STATISTICS
Jan. 7 , . Rumrill
lar. 26.. G. A. Smith
June 5 . . McClenahan
uly 2 . . Carroll
1871
Sep. 4. .Ballentine Dec. 6. .Vincent
8..G. C. Hollister 17.. Havens
Oct. 28 . . Spinello 20 . . H. G. Strong '
Dec. I.. Kinney 24.. L. C. Jones i
Jan. 14. .Helfenstein May 25.
20.. W. H. Clark June 2.
22. .A. R.Thompson 8.
26.. M. C. Adams 22.
Feb. 12. .Griggs 27 .
19.. Ives July I.
26.. H. D. Baker 2.
26.. Oakley 4.
Mar. II.. Chace 1 5 .
Apr. 14. .Nicholson 25.
2S..Tilton 28.
May 12. .E^gle 29.
i8..Buist Sep. 2.
1872
.C. W. Wells Sep. 25.
Paret Oct. 2.
. Conley 4.
.M. Baldwin 15.
.Chittenden Nov. 4.
. Mackey 26.
.Reynolds Dec. 6.
. Jordan i i .
.Faxton 17.
• Allen 22.
, Sulcov 23.
, McLanahan 24.
Farr 28 .
.A. Brown
. Rockwell
. Neale
. Pelton
• Weyerhaeuser
. H. S. Brown
• Hawkes
.Hopkins
. Yeaman
. Lampman
. deSibour
. Weston
. Carleton
Jan. 8.
22.
31-
Feb. 4.
12.
16.
17-
23.
Mar. 2 .
4-
7.
14-
22.
22.
%:
29.
Apr. 13.
21 .
May 4.
6*.
8.
II.
18.
27.
, F. Gaines
. Fitzhugh
.Vennum
.Young
. Richmond
. Pardee
. Corbitt
.N. Williams
• Whitaker
• A. S. Davis
.Breckenridge
. Dayton
. Park
.Benedict
. Field
.J. C. Hollister
.Coit
. Fincke
. Gorman
, Bingham
. F. W. Mathews
. Pratt
. Colgate
. DoiH^lass
.McFadden
• J. M. Gaines
•Trudeau
• Wickenden
Jan. 3..Foote
16. .Brokaw
19. .Beaty
19. .Hedges
21. .Robert
26. .Gordon
27. .Chamley
29. .Godchaux
Feb. 7.. J, C. Adams
7.. P. C. Peck
18.. E. L. Davis
28 . . Cochran
May
29.
June
I.
2.
1:
18.
24.
26.
27.
29.
30.
July
9.
10.
10.
10.
15-
Aug.
4-
21 .
27.
28.
29.
30.
Sep.
5.
19.
20.
22.
23.
27.
Mar.
3-
5.
10.
14.
16.
18.
23.
Apr.
6.
1873
.Hoole
.Damon
.Tracjr
.A. C. Jones
. Sherman
.W. D.G.Smith
.P. D. Hamlin
.Hoyt
.Lovell
. F. M. Patterson
.Sage
.Berdan
.T. B. Clark
.Jackson
.Morris
. Stewart
.Belo
. Frank
.W. F. Brown
.Denison
. Lusk
.Vaill
. deForest
.S. B. Thome
.B. Adams
.Ford
.W. F. Wood
.W. S. Miller
1874
. Bemis Apr. 13.
.0. C. Baker 22.
. Stuart May 5 .
.Gaylord 6.
• Porter 12.
.Hoeninghaus 17.
.Chandler 19.
.Kellogg 20.
.Johnston 29.
.Truslow June 4..
.Keller 7.
. Treadway 8 .
Sep. 29.
.H. P. Crfl
Oct. 6.
.Wade S
13-
. Knapp ^M
13.
.Sumner ^H
14.
.Collens ■
15-
.Griffith ■
16.
.Gary ■
17.
.Fowler ^M
18.
.Billard ■
21 .
.McKee ^
30.
.Fisher
30.
. Longacre
Nov. 4 .
.Bulkley
4-
.Greene
7-
.Brinsmade
7-
.Flaherty
.Heidrich
9-
W:
.Perkins
.N. W. Smith
23-
.Bond
27.
. McDermott
Dec. 5.
.Mathison
7-
.Wadhams
22.
. Colton
26.
.De Witt «^
26.
.Fuller A
31.
.ArchbaldS
I
, Stokes
.Oviatt
Archbald
Spalding
Abercrorabie
H. S. Peck
Tailer
Hutchinson
Coonley
W. Armstrong
. Starkweather
W. R. Cross
ADDITIONAL TABLES
887
June
9-
Sheldon
July 23.
Curtiss
Oct.
10.
.Conklin
17'
.Lackland
24.
.Lobenstine
21 .
. Brittain
i8.
. Schevill
May 29.
.Whalen
Nov.
6.
.Noon
20.
.T. S. Strong
Aug. 7.
.Heaton
7-
.Motter
21.
. Morgan
8.
.Ailing
II .
.A. R. Baldwin
24.
.Govert
8.
, Loomis
18.
.C. Day
.E. B. Hamlin
It:
.Hunt
9-
.Mundy
21.
.Henry
12.
23.
. Dickerman
29.
.Kip
29.
.Hatch
30.
. Spellman
30.
.S. Thorne
Sep. 5.
.Berry
30.
.Lee
July
6.
.R.J.Woodruff
. Shoemaker
Dec.
4-
.Mallon
1 1.
. Lenahan
7-
.S. Day
13-
. AuchincloM
.Haldeman
12.
.W. D. Smith
13.
.Birely
16.
.Nettleton
Oct. 8.
. Sulcov
17-
.Drown
19.
.Gowans
10.
. Brastow
21.
.W. G. Bakpr
20.
.Kingman
1875
Jan.
8.
. Schuyler
Apr. 5 .
.T. B. Wells
July 26.
.Taylor
8.
. Stalter
12.
. F. M, Thompson Aug
8.
.Von Tobel
26.
.Durfee
13.
. Twombly
9.
.H. Scudder
31-
.Hawes
24.
. Coleman
26.
.Ball
I'd).
10.
.Buck
29.
.D. Smith
Oct.
6.
.Bentlcy
.W.P.Robbins
IS-
. Burton-Smith
May 10.
, Alexander
25-
19.
. Chickering
:i:
.Kelly
Nov
i:
.Sturges
21.
.Reed
.Dean
.J. G. Eldridge
22.
. Chapman
26.
. Cheney
9.
. Grant
Mar
16.
. Sawyer
29.
.Root
10.
.Cahn
18.
.Bergin
June 19.
July 5 •
.H.W.Mathews
Dec.
12.
.Woodhull
23.
.Goodman
.Heard
27.
.Lough ran
26.
. Forbes
25-
. Bacon
1876
Mar
2.
.Johnson
Mar. 8.
Apr. I .
Jan. 25.
.Beard
.C. W. Miller
1877
. Arnstein
Sep.
29.
.Sadler
SUMMARY
1863
1
1865
1868
1869
1870
2
i
7
1871
1872
1873
12
il
1874
82
nil
1877
38
4
I
Total ..
278
1
888 STATISTICS
List of Graduate Classmates whose Fathers
were College Graduates
Name of Father's College
Classmate and Class
Alexander St. James '56
Ailing Yale '62
Archbald Union '61
Auchincloss New York University '67
Bacon Yale '53
Beaty Toronto '68
Berry Yale '68
Bond Yale '53
Brastow Bowdoin '56
Bumham Dartmouth '36
Carleton Dartmouth '59
Chapman Yale '65
Chamley Yale '65
*Cheney Brown 54
Chickering Amherst '69
Collens Yale '67
Colton Yale '60
Coonley Yale '71
Davis, A. S Rochester '68
Day, S Western Reserve '59
deForest Yale '70
Dickerman Yale '65
Drown Brown 61
Fuller Yale '66
Gaines, J. M Yale '65
Govcrt Illinois '67
Greene Brown '54
Haldeman Yale '5 1
Hamlin, E. B Union '67
Hatch Dartmouth '69
*Hawes Bowdoin '60
Helfenstein Yale 'ai
Johnston Yale '62
Kelly, R Yale '70
Lampman Yale '66
Mathison Wesleyan '53
Miller, W. S Hamilton '48
Motter Pennsylvania '64
Mundy Union '67
Nettleton Yale '56
Park Amherst '67
Peck, P. C Hamilton '64
Porter Yale '48
Robbins, W. P Newton University (Md.) '58
Robert West Point '57
Sage Yale '65
Sawyer Yale '72
Scudder, H Trinity '46
Shoemaker Yale '64
Smith, (W. D.) G Annapolis '68
Smith, W. D Yale ^S9
Strong, T. S Yale '55
Sumner Yale '63
Tailer Columbia '52 1^
Taylor Rochester '68 ^
Thompson, F. M Pennsylvania '65 y
Twombly Yale '54 .'
Vennum DePauw '53
Wells,. T. B Yale '59
Williams, N University of Vermont '55
(Ex-members omitted.)
4
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ADDITIONAL TABLES
889
SUMMARY
Amherst
Annapolis
Bowdoin
Brown ,
Columbia
DePauw
Dartmouth
Hamilton
Illinois
Newton University . . .
New York University .
Pennsylvania
Rochester
St. James
Toronto
Trinity
Union
University of Vermont
Wesleyan
Western Reserve
West Point
Yale
Total
The Yale fathers were divided among the following Classes:
1841 Helfenstein i
1848 Porter i
185 1 Haldeman i
1853 Bacon, Bond 2
1854 Twombly i
1855 T. Strong 1
1856 Nettleton 1
1859 W. D. Smith, T. Wells 2
i860 Colton I
1862 Ailing, Johnston 2
1863 Sumner i
1864 Shoemaker i
1865 Chapman, Charnley, Dickerman, J. Gaines, Sage. . 5
1866 Fuller, Lampman 2
1867 Collens I
1868 Berry i
1870 deForest, Kelly 2
187 1 Coonley 1
1872 Sawyer i
28
This summary shows that of our 278 graduate members 10 per cent, are
sons of Yale graduates and iij^ per cent, are sons of graduates of other
colleges. The corresponding totals are appended for a few other classes
which have given equivalent summaries in their reports. (In order to
make the comparison exact, fathers who were graduates merely of profes-
sional schools are not included.)
Number of
Sons of Yale
Sons of graduates
Class
men in
Class
graduates
of other colleges
1858
103
14^2 per cent.
not given
1873
114
5 per cent.
9 per cent.
1878
129
9 per cent.
14 per cent.
1879
137
9 per cent.
12 per cent
1896
278
10 per cent.
11 J4 per cent
1903
306
II per cent.
17 per cent
890 STATISTICS
I
It will be seen that a marked change in the size of the classes has not
been accompanied by any important variation in the percentages of the
sons of graduates.
The second percentage given for the Class of 1903 at Yale is subject to
correction, the Secretary not yet having had opportunity to verify his list
The figures given for the classes of '58, '73, '78, and '79, however, have
been taken from reports published 25 years or more after graduation, and
have therefore probably been subjected to adequate revision.
It is a common experience with Yale Secretaries to find that a far from
negligible proportion of the men who say that their fathers are college
graduates are in error. In most cases the father has at least matriculated,
although not the recipient of a degree, but once in a while he proves merely
to have meant to attend the college of which his son vaguely believes him
to be a graduate.
The Harvard percentages seem to average a little higher than ours, but
it is the Cambridge custom to include these figures in the "First Report,"
a compilation corresponding to the old Senior Class Book at Yale, the pre-
paration of which is distinguished less for its vigilant scholarship than for
its zeal. Some allowance, therefore, should be made for the deductions
which a process of verification might necessitate. The percentages show,
for a group of six Harvard classes contemporary with ours, that about
II per cent, of the men who answer the statistical questions are sons of
Harvard graduates and 16 per cent, are sons of graduates of other colleges,
including all sorts of minor institutions, but excluding so far as possible
professional schools. The total number of B.A. men in each of these classes
ranges from 274 to 394, and in general about one tenth of each class failed
to answer the statistical questions.
Appendix
t 891
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I
i
Here finally these wide roamings of ours through so
many times and places, in search and study of Heroes,
are to terminate. I am sorry for it: there was pleasure
for me in this business, if also much pain. — T. Carlyle,
Heroes and Hero-Worship.
89a
Appendix
Note: The matter in this section consists of (i) an account of
the 1907 Dinner in New York, (2) a Locality Index (corrected up
to June, 1907) of all graduates and ex-members, (3) recent bi-
ographical notes containing all the news of events subsequent to
June 30th, 1906 (and therefore not included in the regular biog-
raphies) which the Secretary has been able to secure, and (4)
a Roll of the Class, giving the latest addresses of graduates and
ex-members.
The 1907 New York Dinner
After the catastrophic Decennial dinner in New Haven no one
knew quite what to expect on January 26th, 1907, in New York.
Some of the Class seemed to think that the men would shufHe
into the Club with downcast eyes, clothed in sackcloth and
mumbling their orders for ashes at the cigar counter. Others
feared that having so recently tasted blood, '96 would inevitably
give birth to further scenes of violence. As a matter of fact
this 1907 affair turned out to be simply a very pleasant, quiet
little dinner, and one of the best that we have had. Everybody
proved too much intent on renewing old acquaintance to worry
about their probable subsequent deportment, and the men not
only got so interested talking to each other in the hall-way that
Fisher could hardly herd them into the elevators, but they also
continued to gossip all through the dinner with a degree of pre-
occupation that left unobserved the quartet's faithful antics.
Fifty-nine of us were present. Vaill, Knapp, and Colton missed
coming (due to "circumstances") for the first time since these
dinners were started, and a few others mistakenly stayed away
in fear of olive pits or through resentment over the June out-
break. It should be added that only about half the usual number
of circulars was sent out.
Judge Clark of Hartford headed the toast list, and, in the
words of Edwin Oviatt, "made the best extemporaneous speech
he could on a month's notice." When he ventured humorously
to allude, however, to the fact that he did not seem to find much
893
894 APPENDIX
I
of anything to say, the statement received such prompt corrobl
orative endorsement from his friends that he abruptly stopped
his search. Before the applause subsided a waiter entered tW
room with a message which caused somebody near the door ti
shout "For advertising purposes, Dr. Vincent is wanted at th^
telephone." Dr. Vincent having retired in his best professional
manner, Toastmaster Peck proceeded to read a letter of regreti
from President Dwight, some verses from Professor Phelps
and a Paris cablegram from Lew Sheldon, and then to introi
duce the newly appointed Judge of the City Court in New York)
W. H. Wadhams. |
As Wadhams rose to his feet cries were heard of "Ten thou-l
sand a year!" and "How does it feel, Billy?" from all over th^
room. Disregarding these he launched into a gusty curbston^
flow, reviewing one by one those sons of Yale from whom shJ
draws her continued inspiration and her strength. "Bill Tafti
headed Wadhams' list. "Turning to this city," his next exhibit
was "a distinguished Yale judge and jurist of widely knowr
merit." Ecstatic cries of "Wadhams forever !" prematurely sug-
gested the identity of this jurist with the speaker himself, bul
it turned out afterwards that Wadhams was in reality alluding tc
J. P. Clarke. He went on to honor the Yale doctors, merchants,
journalists, and teachers who were known to the world, a cate-
gory which called forth the marked disfavor of Brinck Thorne
who insisted that "miners" be added and also "artists," for Troy
Kinney's benefit. Kinney's hysterical applause thereafter alter-
nated spasmodically with Wadhams' shouts in a way which put
the stenographer temporarily out of business.
Griswold Smith, who followed, spoke in part as follows:--
"Mr. Pr — resident and Gentlemen: — In the political convolutions
which — [Roars of protest] well, let it go then. I certainly am
the unluckiest man in '96. I meant to accomplish great things for
you to-night. Pius Peck called me up a while ago and expressed
his desire to have me flood this waiting throng with Thoughts.
He wanted me to give you some High Ideals. My ready assent
was based less upon my possession of disposable ideals than
upon my private conviction that no real chance would be afforded
me to pass them out. I have attended '96 dinners before, sev-
eral of them, and I never remember hearing any speeches. Not
only that, but I never remember being told afterwards that there
had been any speeches. So you see I could not possibly have
anticipated this moment. It only shows that good things are
frequently bad, and vice versa.
"I say this last advisedly. Recently, at the Essex County Din-
ner, amid other and less familiar organ strains, I was privileged
to hear the Divine Anson prate about what he called the present
ways of Yale. He spoke glowingly of the way they did n't drink
nowadays, and of the clean words all the students used. He fol-
THE 1907 DINNER
895
lowed this, however, by telling a story about a young Episcopal
Clergyman and two Wellesley girls at a railroad station which—
well, ask Colgate or ask Win Smith, who sat and heard it open-
mouthed, to repeat to you that story. For I may as well tell you
plainly that it shall never sully my lips. [Applause.] I do not
count myself too squeamish, either. You all know, of course,
that I have left my jealous mistress — referring to the Law — and
entered Wall Street. I decided upon this step, after mature and
careful thought, because it seemed to me that it was better to
take it from the Wise and Wary than from the Widow and Or-
phan. Besides, in law, the Filthy L. comes slow. It is only the
chosen few who attain to judgeships. A judgeship, too, is often
enough a matter of political necessity ; and, without referring too
pointedly to a recent judicial nomination, I should like to add
that necessity knows no law.
"It is with a sentiment of regret that I confess to you that the
absence of one of .our most pure and charming classmates is
due directly to the fact that I am here to-night. The man I
mean is Frank M. Patterson. I went around to see Pat the other
day, in that lovely little boudoir of his, next to his private office,
and I said to him — Tat, I suppose you are going to the dinner?*
'Are you going?' said Pat. 'Yes,' said I. Pat drew himself up,
put on that haughty and distinguished manner which he knows
so well how to affect, and said to me, Then / am not' It turned
out that it was because he thought me responsible for that de-
lightful story of his trip to Ireland, which gained its present cur-
rency in clubdom exclusively through the efforts of Pius Peck, —
that story of Pat's visit to an Irish Judge's moated castle, and of
896 APPENDIX
his romantic welcome by two sweet girls of noble lineage whom
he has described to several of us as Lady Fait' and Lady Mord.
I tried hard to square myself with Pat. I reminded him that,
even if I were guilty, I had changed since then. I said to him^l^l
Tat, did you never hear that story of the guide in Rome?— the^^B
guide who inadvertently pointed out each of two different skulls
as the sacred skull of St. Peter, and who, when taken to task
for this duplication, told the tourists that the first skull was of St.
Peter when he was a little boy, and the second of Peter when
he was a man?' 'No,' said Pat; 'what 's the story?'"
After concluding his interview with Patterson by describing
the prize advertisement which Pat wrote for the Diamond Soap
and Perfume Company ("Use Diamond Soap! If you won't use
Diamond Soap, use Diamond Perfumes!") Smith ended his
speech with a brief description of Decennial. As soon as he sat,
down the Toastmaster announced that '96 had now passed through!
its "decade of riot, rum, and rottenness," and that it must begin!
its new era by listening to Professor Perkins of Trinity Collie. I
Perkins was just getting under way when Harry Bond, leaning
back to swing open the door behind him, crashed down suddenly}
to the floor and wrecked his chair. A sound of cheering wasi
heard from an adjoining room, which caused somebody to cryj
hopefully, "The man in there has finished." Perkins went on
perturbably, as follows: —
THE BALD-HEADED GRADUATE
" My reason for choosing the 'Bald-headed Graduate' as
my toast is because he is typical of our own growing maturity; and
I think we ought to be glad of it, glad to be growing older. I dare
say some of you will not agree with me, but I know of no pleas-
ure greater than that of seeing a friend developing in this way,
except the pleasure of seeing it in oneself. Think for a moment
of some of the advantages of growing old. Perhaps the great-
est of them is a feeling of independence of action, a freedom
from that slavish fear of being different from -each other, which
is the bane of youth, and of college life especially. The first word
of the college slang I learned after entering Yale was 'queered.'
I was constantly told, 'You must not do this or that because k
will queer you.' Such a spirit is stifling to individuality, and l!f|^|
duces those who yield to it to a dreary and uniform mediocri^. 'H
"Another great gain in advancing years that I wish particu-
larly to emphasize is the greater breadth of view; the wider hor-
izon ; and as we are many of us fathers it behooves us to make
the best possible use of this outlook in planning the education
of our sons. We used to say in the good old sweeping fashion,
THE 1907 DINNER 897
'Three cheers for Yale, and to hell with Harvard!' [B. Thome:
'And we say it still I'— Yells of joy.] Yes we say it still, but we
ought to know why we say it. It is not so easy or obvious as
that. For instance in the matter of the fear of being queered:
Yale is probably more a hot-bed of that spirit than Harvard. At
Harvard they encourage a man more to develop in his own spe-
cial direction. They are individualists up there, and perhaps go
too far in allowing so great a freedom from student convention,
and have too little cohesion in consequence. But at Yale, where
we aim chiefly at training useful citizens, we err the other way,
and are apt to stifle the individual for the good of the many.
Even Princeton we can damn no longer in our old whole-souled
way. Her undergraduates are gaining a spirit of culture and
scholarship (it was high time) under the tutorial system, that
will make Yale look to her laurels.
"Now of course we all expect to send our sons to New Haven,
but I mention these points to show the spirit in which we ought
to approach the problem of educating them; and the real diffi-
culty comes when we face the school question. As a pedagogue
myself, I feel like giving away a few of the tricks of the trade
that may help you in this important problem. You know we
teachers are on to each other, like the old augurs who winked
slyly when they met. There are some catch-penny devices in edu-
cation to-day that everyone should understand and guard against.
You will see, for instance, a school catalogue advertising all
sorts of little courses in the various sciences and 'ologies. They
don't amount to anything, as a rule, and serve only to confuse
and dissipate the child's mind. They are introduced largely to
increase the number of pupils and divert the infant mind much
as a juggler diverts it, by mystification. Then there is the mod-
ern way of expecting the teacher to do all the work while the
child simply sits and absorbs, without exciting himself, except to
listen. This is all wrong. Effort is the only way to grow in life,
and as it is required of us as soon as we leave school, why should
it be avoided so carefully in school ? An English educator com-
menting on our methods said, 'You Americans are so busy teach-
ing that your pupils don't get any time to learn anything.' There
is much wisdom in the paradox, and it should be taken to heart
by teachers and parents as well.
"The kindergarten method is a form of this evil, and this
sugar-coated pill method, that President Hadley despises so, has
diffused itself from the primary grades up through the schools at
large. Its greatest evil is that the ability to memorize is lost at
a time when the memory is most flexible and can be most readily
trained. We of the colleges find a steadily decreasing ability to
learn by heart in our incoming classes; and it is no wonder,
when the idea holds that everything should be made so enter-
taining that it will stick of itself without exertion. Even the al-
898 APPENDIX
n
phabet must not be committed to memory, but gradually absorbe
by more diverting means.
"These are some of the failings of 'us professors' and oi
ways, and I hope my straight tip will be of value to those of yc
who have children to educate. We must face these problems ;
men of broad ideas and wide outlook, and not with obvioi
catch-words for mottoes, or youthful sentiments we have Ion
since outgrown."
The formal toast list being over, the Toastmaster annoi
that the Long Distance Cup had been awarded to Louis C. Jon
of Syracuse, Oakley second, and Mason Brown third. Jon
made a rather promising speech of thanks. Loughran, Fishej
and Oviatt were called on for short impromptu speeches, and th
the men left the tables for the piano. A band of the tunef
diners in the adjoining room appeared about this time, led by
gentleman with a snare-drum, and with their assistance the^<
mainder of the evening was made moderately melodious. ^
Following is a list of those present, the names of out-of-tow!
men being followed by their place of residence: ■
Alexander; Allen (East Walpole, Mass.); Arnold (Willimail
tic. Conn.); Auchincloss; Birely (New Haven, Conn.); Boiil
(Newark, N. J.) ; Buist; Chandler (Simsbury, Conn.) ; Chapmai
(Northfield, Conn.); Chittenden; W. H. Clark (Hartfor
Conn.) ; Coit (Norwich, Conn.) ; Colgate; Coonley; H. P. Croi
(Providence, R. L) ; A. S. Davis; C S. Day, Jr.; Eagle; Fai
(New Haven, Conn.) ; Fisher; Foote; Frank; Gaylord; Goodma
(Hartford, Conn.) ; Gregory (New Haven, Conn.) ; E. B. Han
lin; G. C. Hollister; Jackson; Johnson; Johnston; L. C. Jon(
(Syracuse, N. Y.) ; Kingman; Kinney; Kip; Lee; Loughrai
(Kingston, N. Y.) ; Lovell; Neale (Minersville, Pa.); Nettleto
(New Haven, Conn.) ; Oakley (Corning, N. Y.) ; Oviatt (Ne
Haven, Conn.) P. C. Peck; Perkins (Hartford, Conn.); Prall
F. O. Robbins (New Haven, Conn.); W. P. Robbins; Schevi
(New Haven, Conn.); H. Scudder (Schenectady, N. Y.) ; (
Smith; W. D. Smith; Stalter (Paterson, N. J.); T. S. Strong
S. Thorne; S. B. Thorne (Minersville, Pa.) ; Vincent; WadhamJ
Woodhull; Young; Ex '96; J. M. Brown (Washington, D. C)
Total, 59,
i
LOCALITY INDEX
899
Locality Index
Including Ex-Members
Note. — The alphabetical arrangement is by states and territories, foU
lowed by dependencies and foreign countries. The names of men who
have their residences in one town and their offices or temporary residences
in another are inserted twice, followed by parenthetical reference to the
alternate locality. The names of the dead are starred.
ARIZONA
Tucson : . ^.
D. H. Collins ex '96 (Pitts-
burg, Pa.)
CALIFORNIA
Berkeley :
Morgan
♦Spinello
C. W. Wells
Piedmont:
Ballentine (San Francisco)
San Francisco:
Ballentine (Piedmont)
Drown
Sierra Madre:
Scott (when last heard from.)
COLORADO
Colorado Springs:
Hatch (N. Y. City)
F. P. Dodge ex '96
New Windsor:
Wickenden
CONNECTICUT
Ansonia:
Bristol ex '96
Bridgeport:
Nicholson
Reynolds
D. Smith
Hulbert ex '96
Bristol:
H. S. Peck
Tracy
Clinton and Deep River:
Pelton
Derby :
Flaherty
Greenwich:
Heaton (N. Y. City)
Hoeninghaus (N. Y. City)
Hartford:
Alvord
*W. Armstrong (Rome, N. Y.)
Arnold (Willimantic)
Bulkley
W. H. Clark
Goodman
Perkins
A. R. Thompson
Holcombe ex '96
Lyme :
Burnham
Meriden :
Billard
Von Tobel
Mystic:
A. C. Jones
New Haven:
T. C. Adams
Ailing
Benedict
Berdan
Ber
iiergin
Birely
ireiy
Dickerman (Halle, Germany)
Durfee
Farr
H. E. Gregory
Hawkes
Hooker
Keller
*McDermott
McLaren
Nettleton
Oviatt
F. O. Robbins
Schevill
Sherman
Stolccs
R. J. Woodruff (Orange)
* White ex '96 (Brockport, N.Y.)
New London :
Bond
Norwich :
Gary
Coit
Orange:
R. ;. Woodruff (New Haven)
Plantsvtlle:
Brastow
Shelton:
*Mathison
Simsbury :
Chandler
South Manchester:
♦Cheney (Imus, P. I.)
Stamford:
Fuller
Knapp (N. Y. City)
Porter (N. Y. City)
Robert
Walter
Willimantic:
Arnold (Hartford)
Winsted:
H. G. Strong
Vaill
900
APPENDIX
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Washington :
Bentley
McKee (Asheville & Biltmore,
N. C.)
McLanaban
J. M. Brown ex '96
GEORGIA
Augusta:
Kellogg
IDAHO
{v.
Lillian :
T. J. Wood ex '96 (Dayton, O.)
Moscow:
J. G. Eldridge
ILLINOIS
Carrollton :
Pierson ex '96
Chicago :
H. D. Baker
Cahn
Charnley (N. Y. City)
Forbes
P. D. Hamlin
C. Hollister
S. Miller
Mundy
Treadway (Oak Park)
N. Williams
Seney ex '96
Decatur:
W. J. Armstrong ex '96
Marion:
Denison
Oak Park:
Treadway (Chicago)
Peoria :
Heidrich
Quincy :
Govert
Watseka:
Vennum
INDIANA
Indianapolis:
Coleman
Wiley ex '96
Rushville :
Abercrombie
INDIAN TERRITORY
Weleetka:
C. W. Miller
IOWA
Sioux City:
Burton-Smith
KENTUCKY
Louisville :
Yeaman
LOUISIANA
New Orleans:
Godchaux
MAINE
Biddeford:
Heard
Castine:
McClintock ex '96 (Pittsl
Pa.)
Westbrook :
Dean
MARYLAND
Baltimore:
W. G. Baker
MASSACHUSETTS
Boston :
Collens (Newton Center)
F. W, Mathews (Newton
Center)
Park
Scoville
Twombly (Newton)
Bradford:
Carleton
Cambridge :
Noon (Cambridge, Engla
East Walpole:
Allen
Holyoke:
Bennett (Springfield)
Newton :
Twombly (Boston)
Neivton Center:
Collens (Boston)
F. W. Mathews (Boston)!
Plaininlle:
Bemis
Springfield :
Bennett (Holyoke)
Spellman
MICHIGAN
Detroit:
Ford
MINNESOTA
Arnold:
Sulcov
Cloquet:
Taylor
Duluth:
M. Baldwin
Excelsior and Minneapolis:
T. R. Brown ex '96
St. Paul:
Weyerhaeuser
MISSOURI
St. Joseph:
Brittain
Motter
Reed
Loving ex '96
LOCALITY INDEX
90t
St. Louis:
Catskill:
Douglass
TefFrey
McFadden
Hopkins
Clayvilte:
Gilbert ex '96 (N. Y. City)
Mori
Cold Spring iL. L\: ^'
deForest (N. Y. City)
Robinson
J. H. C. Clark ex '96
Corning:
Oakley
Springfield:
*Massey ex '96
Coxsackie:
Lampman (N. Y. City)
Cuba:
Saunders ex '96
NEW JERSEY
Ampere:
Eastview:
C. H. Woodruff ex '96 (N. Y.
Cochran (N. Y. City & Yonk-
Bloomfield:
ers}
Fowlerville:
A. R. Baldwin (N. Y. City)
0. C. Baker
Root (N. Y. City)
Hudson:
Carteret:
Chace
Breckenridge (Woodbridge)
Kingston:
East Orange:
Loughran^
Dayton (N. Y. City)
Lyon Mountain:
Englewood :
W. F. Brown
Johnson (N. Y. City)
W. F. Wood (N. Y. City)
Mamaroneck :
G. C. Hollister (N. Y. City)
Essex Fells:
New York City:
Paret (N. Y. City)
Brooklyn:
Glen Ridge:
Beard (N. Y. City)
B. Adams (ManhatUn)
Buist
Jersey City:
Sumner
Colton (Manhattan)
*Fincke
McLean ex '96
Hoole
Lawrenceville:
Prince
Henry
Morris Plains:
Richmond (Havana, Cuba)
Stuart (Manhattan)
Haines ex '96
Whitaker (Manhattan)
C. S. Adams ex '96 (Manhat-
Morristown:
Sturges
tan)
Orange:
Colgate (N. Y. City)
Jamaica :
Chickering
Pater son:
Towle ex '96 (Manhattan)
Stalter
Kingsbridge :
Plain field:
Ross
Hutchinson (N. Y. City)
Manhattan :
Lovell (N. Y. City)
B. Adams (Brooklyn)
Ridgewood:
Alexander (Staten Island)
Conklin (N. Y. City)
Arnstein
Summit:
Auchincloss
Greene (N. Y. City)
A. R. Baldwin (Bloomfield, N.
Truslow (N. Y. City)
J.)
Woodbridge:
Beard (Glen Ridge, N. J.)
Breckenridge (Carteret)
Berry
Bingham
NEW YORK
Brinsmade
•Brokaw
Albany:
H. S. Brown
Whalen
Carley
Horton ex '96
Chapman (and vicinity)
Charnley (Chicago, 111.)
Chittenden
Ardsley-on-Hudson :
Griggs (N. Y. City)
VanBeuren ex '96 (N. Y. City)
Cochran (Yonkers & Eastview)
Batavia :
Colgate (Orange, N. J.)
Colton (Brooklyn)
Squires
Brockport:
Conklin (Ridgewood, N. J.)
•White ex '96 (New Haven,
Corbitt
Conn.)
W. R. Cross
Buffalo :
Curtiss
Ball
A. S. Davis
Beaty
C. S. Day
Buck
S. Day
Conley
Da_yton (East Orange, N. J.)
deForest (Cold Spring, N. Y.)
Cowans
902
APPENDIX
deSibour (Woodmere, N. Y.)
DeWitt
Eagle
Fisher
Foote (Staten Island)
Fowler
Frank
J. M. Gaines
Gaylord (Staten Island)
Gordon
Grant
Greene (Summit, N. T.)
Griggs (Ardsley-on-Kudson)
E. B. Hamlin
Hatch (Colorado Springs,
Colo.)
*Hawes
Heaton (Greenwich, Conn.)
Hess
Hoeninghaus (Greenwich,
Conn.)
G. C. Hollister (Mamaroneck)
Hoyt
A. E. Hunt
Hutchinson (Plainfield, N. J.)
•Jves
Jackson
Johnson (Englewood, N. J.)
Johnston
R. Kelly
Kingman
Kinney
Kip
Knapp (Stamford, Conn.)
Lackland
Lampman (Coxsackic)
Lee
Lobcnstine
Lovell (Plainfield, N. J.)
H. \V. Mathews
Paret (Essex Fells, N. J.)
F. M. Patterson
P. C. Peck
Porter (Stamford, Conn.)
Pratt
W. P. Robbins
Rockwell (mail only)
Root (Bloomfield, N. J.)
Sage
Sawyer
•Schuyler
Sheldon (Paris, France)
G. Smith
W. D. Smith
T. S. Strong
Stuart (Brooklyn)
Tailer
F. M. Thompson
S. Thorne (Rye)
•Trudeau
Truslow (Summit, N. J.)
Vincent
Wadhams
T. B. Wells
Whitaker (Brooklyn)
W. F. Wood (Englewood, N.
Woodhull
Young (Nyack)
C. S. Adams ex '96 (Brooklyn)
BrinckerhofF ex '96 (London,
England)
:st
Cox ex '96
G. P. Dodge ex
Gilbert ex '96 (Clayville)
*Gray ex '06 (London, Englam,
Lane ex 96 ^'
Limburg ex '96
Meyer ex '96
•Newcomb ex '96
•Palmer ex '96
Sears ex 'q6
Towle ex 96 (Jamaica)
\'^anBeuren ex '96 (Ardsl<
Hudson)
N. A. Williams ex '96
C. H. Woodruff ex '96 (A
pere, N. J.)
Staten Island:
Alexander (Manhattan)
Coonley
Foote (Manhattan)
Gaylord (Manhattan)
Norwich :
•Martin ex '96
Nyack :
Young (N. Y. City">
Peekskill:
Jordan
Riverdale-on-Hudson :
♦G. D. Eldridge ex '96
Rochester:
Bacon
Loomis
Rome:
*W. Armstrong (Hartford,
Conn.)
Rye:
S. Thorne (N. Y. City)
Schenectady :
H. Scudder
Syracuse :
L. C. Junes
Wade
Moore ex '96
IVhite Plains:
Brookfield ex '96
Woodmere (L. /.);
deSibour (N. Y. City)
Yonkers:
Cochran (N. Y. City & East-
view)
G. A. Smith
NORTH CAROLINA
Asheville and Biltmore:
McKec (Washington, D. C.)
Raleigh:
Boyer
OHIO
Cincinnati :
Mai Ion
Paxton
Shoemaker
CI ei' eland:
E. L. Davis
Starkweather
Columbus:
Gorman
Griffith
LOCALITY INDEX
Dayton :
T.J. Wood ex '96 (Lillian,
Idaho)
Toledo:
F. W. Gaines
Wooster:
Archbald
TEXAS
Abilene:
^ Scarborough
Dallas:
•Belo
903
OREGON
Oregon City:
Hedges
PENNSYLVANIA
Allegheny:
Stewart (Pittsburg)
Carlisle:
Sadler
Franklin :
Mackey
Harrisburg:
Haldeman
Minersville:
Neale
S. B. Thome
Newcastle :
W. L. Patterson ex '96
Philadelphia :
Havens
Longacre
Pardee
Spalding
VVeston
Atherton ex '96
*Penrose ex '96
Pittsburg:
M. C. Adams
T. B. Clark
Field
Fitzhugh
Stewart (Allegheny)
D. H. Collins ex '96 (Tucson,
Ariz.)
McClintock ex '96 (Castine,
Me.)
Scran ton :
*Connell ex '96
Shamokin :
Helfenstein
Torresdale:
A. Brown
Towanda :
Carroll
Wilkes-Barre :
Lenahan
VERMONT
Johnson:
„ E. D. Collins
Randolph:
Rumrill
Montague
Wy
VIRGINIA
ynkoop ex '96
WISCONSIN
Madison :
Tilton
Milwaukee :
Morris
Honolulu :
*Damon
HAWAII
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
Imus:
•Cheney (South Manchester,
Conn.)
Manila :
Lukens ex '96
CUBA
Havana :
Richmond (N. Y. City)
EGYPT
Assiut:
McClenahan
ENGLAND
Cambridge :
Noon (Cambridge, Mass.)
London :
Brinckerhoff ex '96 (N, Y.
City)
•Gray ex '96 (N. Y. City)
RHODE ISLAND
Providence :
H. P. Cross
N. W. Smith
TENNESSEE
Memphis :
*Estes ex '96
Nashville :
Lusk
FRANCE
Paris:
Sheldon (N. Y. City)
GERMANY
Halle:
Dickerman; (New Haven, Conn.)
SOUTH AFRICA
McLeod ex '96
004
APPENDIX
TOTALS
Arizona
California
Colorado
Connecticut
District of Columbia
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Indian Territory . • .
Iowa
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania ,
Rhode Island
Tennessee
Texas
Vermont
Virginia
Wisconsin
IQ
138
2
9
I
20
2
I
2
2
O
2
Hawaii
Philippine Islands
CttlM
France
Germany . . .
South Africa
Total
Deduct for repetition
Total
Omissions (all ex-members who are afiUiated wholly with
other classes)
Toul
Final toUl, 34^.
June, 1907.
330
*78
or THF "^ ^
UNIVERSITY
or
iirCRKSK
Recent Biographical Notes
Note: The regular biographies were closed as of June 30th,
1906, for the convenience of the compiler. The notes which
follow are of events which have occurred since that date.
J. C. Adams' second daughter, Katharine, was born in New
Haven, Conn., on May 7th, 1907.
Eugene D. Alexander left Elizabethtown, N. Y., and resumed
his law practice in New York City on Nov. ist, 1906. In Janu-
ary, 1907, he entered the offices of Gould & Wilkie of 2 Wall
Street. (The Yale members of this firm are Charles W. Gould
'70 and William B. Goodwin '86.)
A. A. Ailing has been appointed assistant state's attorney of
New Haven County to succeed Alfred N. Wheeler, '75 S.
E. S. Auchincloss sold his membership in the New York Stock
Exchange in March, 1907. He will spend the summer of 1907 at
"Keewaydin," Darien, Conn.
Henry D. Baker was married on Nov. 5th, 1906, in Boston,
Mass., to Miss Edna Woollen (daughter of the late Mary Taylor
and William Wesley Woollen, of Asheville, N. C), whose stage
name was Edna Sidney. She is a granddaughter of the late
Chief Justice Taylor of Indiana and a niece of General Lew
Wallace. Her last appearance was in "The Catch of the Season."
Kneeland Ball left his position in Erie, Pa., in the latter part
of 1906. He is now (Jan., 1907) with the Larkin Soap Company.
His present address is 338 Woodward Avenue, Buffalo, N. Y.
James A. Ballentine formed the law partnership of Wilson &
Ballentine (John Ralph Wilson) on May 15th, 1906. Ballen-
tine is now Assistant Professor of Law in the law department of
the University of California.
John K. Berry on Oct. ist, 1906, formed the law partnership of
Redington & Berry (George O. Redington '94 L. S.), with offices
at No. 15 William Street, New York.
H. R. Bond, Jr., resigned his position with Baker & Company,
Platinum, Gold, and Silver Refiners and Manufacturers, of 408
90s
4
1i
906 APPENDIX
New Jersey Railroad Avenue, Newark, N. J., in May, 1907.
will spend the summer at New London, Conn., which remainsas
heretofore, his permanent mail address.
G. S. Buck became the lecturer on "Negligence" in the lawiei
partment of the University of Buffalo early in 1907.
H. W. Chapman spent the winter of 1906-07 tutoring in
York City. His temporary address is 24 West i6th Street.
Charles Collens' firm (Allen & Collens) were "selected (in
cember, 1906) as architects of the new Union Theological Sen-
ary, to be built on Broadway at 120th to 121st Streets, New Y«k.
The competition was one of the largest which has been heldn
the metropolis for several years, fifty architects entering. ':,e
jury and building committee gave a unanimous decision in fa>r
of the Boston firm. The proposed new buildings will cost $2,0,-
000." — Boston Evening Transcript. Friday, December 21, I90<
"Albany, New York, Dec. 24, 1906. — Commissioner of Edu-
tion Draper announced today the ten successful architects in le
first competition of designs for the new state education build:?.
They include Allen & Collens of Boston " — Boston Heri.
(This building is to cost $3,500,000, and there were one hundd
and fifteen architects in the preliminary competition.)
Collens was also Boston Delegate to the American Institute.f
Architects Convention at Washington, January 7th to 9th, 117.
His firm reopened their New York office, at 1170 Broadway, U'
April 15th, 1907.
W. P. Colton wrote the following self-explanatory answei
one of the Class Secretary's letters, on January 29th, 1907 :— ^ jl
"H a surgeon can remove a man's appendix in twen^]
minutes how long does it take that man to tell his Class Secret
about it? Again, if a man works eight years in one job, Yrr
long must the green be that wins him to another? Answers
be received in plain sealed envelopes and the winner will recte
a beautifully bound edition of the 'Courting of Henry Baker
"Confidentially, I have my doubts whether they really took y
appendix out. All I know about it is what they tell me. Thci
rect evidence is slight, merely a scar and an unreceipted dodb|
bill. J^
*Tt happened this way: — I had tendered my resignation w
Lackawanna Railroad to accept the position of Advertising M^
ager for the American Bank Note Company of New York ;:d
elsewhere. I then went to Maine for the balance of my ten
with the railroad and spent my time hunting. This was mei.y
to ease the shock to the road. To my chagrin the stock immt-
ately began to rise rapidly. I was secretly advised that the rd
was still running. My worst fears were confirmed. They w
doing nicely without me. I began to brood over it. I came ho e
e
RECENT BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES 907
and took to my bed, and on October 20th the doctors, seeing my
weakened condition, took advantage of the opportunity and
dragged me to the hospital for what there might be in it for
them. From the effects of this foul conspiracy I was just recov-
ering when Typhoid got me for several weeks more. I can speak
of. my beautiful influence in the sick room only to the extent of
saying that one of my nurses has given up her profession and
the other has moved South.
"After a month at Lakewood I took up my work at the Bank
Note Company on January 2d, and thanks to considerate em-
ployers I am still working there. This work consists of making
money. I find it very congenial."
Lewis R. Conklin was reported fatally injured on August 2d,
1906, in a collision between his motor and the Catskill Mountain
Limited on the West Shore Railroad, at Orangeburg, N. Y. His
machine was crushed like an eggshell, its fragments were strewn
for half a mile along the tracks, and Conklin himself was found
lying unconscious in some of the wreckage upon the pilot of the
engine. He was hurried to a hospital at Union Hill, N. J., where
his injuries were pronounced fatal. He recovered sufficiently
however to carry out the plans for his wedding upon the date
which had already been announced, and his marriage to Miss
Grace Hanford Frisby, daughter of Mrs. Augustus Ladd Frisby,
took place in New Haven on August 22d. On December 3d his
partner wrote the Class Secretary that Conklin had returned from
abroad fully restored to health.
William H. Corbitt formed on Sept. ist, 1906, the law partner-
ship of Corbitt & Stern (Walter T. Stern '99), with offices at
60 Wall Street, New York City. In the spring of 1905 Corbitt
was chosen a member of the Board of Managers of the Catholic
Club.
Alfred L. Curtiss spent the summer of 1906 in the loan depart-
ment of William A. White & Sons (Real Estate), 62 Cedar
Street, New York. He gave up the practice of the law on May
25th, 1907, and went into business with the Barnes Carriage Com-
pany (makers of carriages, etc.), 147 West 99th Street, New
York City.
Albert Sargent Davis was married at the Congregational
Church, Barrington, R. L, Sept. ist, 1906, to Miss Ruth Lathrop
Anthony, daughter of Orrin Spencer Anthony (President and
General Manager of the Anthony Coal & Lumber Company of
East Providence, R. I.) and Hattie Louise (Lathrop) Anthony,
of West Barrington, R. I. Mrs. Anthony's maiden residence was
Worcester, Mass.
C. S. Day, Jr., acquired the interests of Lewis S. Welch '89 in
1
908 APPENDIX
the Yale Alumni Weekly on September isth, 1906, and is novts
publisher. In May, 1907, he became a director of the Yale Ib-
lishing Association (incorporated) which was formed in at
month to conduct the publication of the Yale Review.
Estey F. Dayton left his position with the New York o:
the Library Bureau on Jan. 12th, 1907. He is now with the
bash Cabinet Company, 349 Broadway, New York City.
E. L. Durfee was made a member in March, 1907, of a cou'il^
consisting, besides himself, of four Freshmen and four Junis,
which is to have charge of the conduct of Freshman sport at
Yale.
Henry J. Fisher resigned the Vice-Presidency of the Franl^V.
Munsey Company of New York on August ist, 1906, to ac«pt
the General Managership of the Crowell Publishing Compiy,
publishers of the "Woman's Home Companion" and of "F.tn
and Fireside." Their plant is in Springfield, Ohio, in which p:e
Fisher spent August and September. The executive offices ant
II East 24th Street, New York City.
Early in 1907 Fisher received his honorable discharge f tn
Squadron A, after over ten years of service.
William Standish Gaylord was married Oct. 20th, 1906, at Irt
Richmond (Staten Island), N. Y., to Miss Mary Ellen Coony,
daughter of Dr. Edgar David Coonley, '71.
R. J. Goodman, formerly Captain of Company K of the Fst
Regiment Connecticut National Guard, was elected Major of
First Regiment on March 8th, 1907.
W. H. Gorman's guardian is his brother, Edward A. GofB|
of 489 Linwood Avenue, Columbus, Ohio.
E. B. Hamlin's father, the Rev. Dr. Teunis Slingerland H
lin, of Washington, D. C, died suddenly in New York Ci
April 17th, 1907.
George B. Hatch withdrew from the law partnership of H;p
& McCook of IS William Street, New York City, in the auti
of 1906. In March, 1907, he left Liberty, N. Y., and went oufo
Colorado Springs.
F. S. Havens' engagement to Miss Grace Mary Wright, dat
ter of James Henry Wright, a counsellor, of Warwick. Engl
and of Mary (Morris) Wright, was announced in May
The wedding is set for June 29th, 1907.
W. W. Heaton bought a place in Greenwich, Conn., on May
1907. This will probably be his principal future residence, jd
his addresses at Mamaroneck, N. Y., and at 123 East 36th Strjt,
New York City, will be discontinued.
10
1
RECENT BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES 009
G. L. Hedges was appointed District Attorney for the Fifth Ju-
dicial District of the State of Washington on March ist, 1907, by
Governor Chamberlin. His term runs until July ist, 1908.
The Rev. Dr. W. M. Hess, for three years the Recorder in the
Dean's Office at Yale University, received a unanimous call in
April, 1907, to take the pastorate of the Trinity Congregational
Church at Washington Avenue and East 176th Street, New York
City, and thereupon resigned his position at Yale to take effect
at the end of the college year.
His mail address, after July ist, 1907, will be 581 Tremont
Avenue, The Bronx.
Frank T. Hooker's second child, a daughter, was born on April
1st, 1907, at 23 Lynwood Place, New Haven, Conn. She has been
named Eunice Canfield Hooker.
A. E. Hunt, Jr., entered the offices of the Stock Exchange firm
of Dick Brothers & Company, at 30 Broad Street, New York
City, early in 1907.
J. A. Hutchinson's second son was born April 9th, 1907, at
Plainfield, N. J. He has been named John Whiton Hutchinson.
Hutchinson has spent most of his time in charge of Mackay &
Company's Boston office since last fall, and is not certain whe-
ther he will continue to reside at Plainfield. Mackay & Com-
pany's Boston address is 13 Congress Street.
F. B. Johnson severed his connection with the Library Bureau
in February, 1907, and is now with Gunn, Richards & Company,
production engineers, 43 Exchange Place, New York City.
The Rev. Albert Corey Jones' first child, a daughter, Katharine
Charlotte Jones, was born at Mystic, Conn., Nov. ist, 1906.
Louis Cleveland Jones was married Sept. nth, 1906, at the
First Presbyterian Church, Syracuse, N. Y., to Miss Ursula
Northrup, daughter of the Hon. Ansel Judd Northrup, of Syra-
cuse. Mr. and Mrs. Jones will be at home after Nov. 15th, 1906,
at 320 Leavenworth Avenue, Syracuse.
A. G. Keller was appointed Professor of the Science of Society
at Yale on February 18th, 1907.
Robert Kelly, Jr., was promoted to the Assistant General Man-
agership of the Holophane Glass Company, in February, 1907, and
is now at the Company's headquarters in New York City. The
offices are at 15 East 32d Street.
Troy Kinney has moved his studio from 115 East 23d Street to
15 West 67th Street, New York City.
J. H. Knapp's first daughter, Mariette Knapp, was born Dec.
29th, 1906, at Stamford, Ct.
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Edgar C. Lackland, Jr., came to New York City in September,
1906, and entered the brokerage business, in the employ of the'
Stock Exchange house of Tailer & Robinson at 2 Wall Street.
On April 9th, 1907, he was commissioned a second lieutenant
in the Twelfth Regiment, New York National Guard.
On May nth, 1907, he was married at Tuxedo Park, New
York, to Mrs. Frances Ford (Benjamin) Page, a daughter of
George Hillard Benjamin, Union ''72, of New York City, and a
sister-in-law of H. H. Rogers, Jr., who is one of Lackland's bro-
ther officers in the Twelfth. His brother, C. K. Lackland, was
best man.
His new residence address is 28 East 28th Street.
John Longacre's club address is 1424 Walnut Street, Phila-
delphia.
Robert Lusk's first child, a daughter, Carolyn Carter Lusk, was
born Oct. 8th, 1906, in Nashville, Tenn.
M. D. McKee formed the partnership of Frost & McKee (Ed-
ward L Frost) on March ist, 1907, for the purpose of buying and
selling Southern timber lands. "Correspondence invited." The
address is Asheville, North Carolina.
G. X. McLanahan's third child, a daughter, was born on April
13th, 1907, in Washington, D. C. She has been named Louise
Snydam.
H. W. Mathews joined the editorial staflF of "Suburban Life,"
with the title of Assistant Editor, in January, 1907, He had a
signed article about "Montdair the Beautiful" in the issue for
May, 1907.
The Rev. Frederick Huntington Mathison died on August 24th,
1906, at Shelton, Conn., as the result of an operation, rendered
necessary by his illness.
At a meeting of the Class, held at New York City, on the 5th
day of September, 1906, obituary resolutions were adopted, and
copies thereof were delivered to the surviving relatives.
N. H. Mundy was married on April 9th, 1907, at South Orange,
N. J., to Miss Marion Perry Shackford, daughter of Captain
William Gardner Shackford of 376 Vose Avenue, South Orange.
Roswell Mundy of Chicago, a brother of the bridegroom, was
best man, and the ushers were John J. Bryant, George Goodwin
Dewey, Paul D. Hamlin ('96), Floyd Mundy (ex '98), and Lieu-
tenant Chauncey Shackford.
Theodore Woods Noon went to England in the autumn of 1906
to enter Emmanuel College at Cambridge for a year's residence.
Edwin Oviatt succeeded Lewis S. Welch '89 as Editor of the
Yale Alumni Weekly on September 15th, 1906. In May, 1907, he
Mathison
(From a photograph taken in 1896)
RECENT BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES 911
became a director of the Yale Publishing Association (incorpo-
rated) which was formed in that month to conduct the publica-
tion of the Yale Review.
Oviatt's first child, a son, was born in New Haven, on Novem-
ber 19th, 1906. He has been named Sidney.
The Rev. Charles E. Park's name was omitted by mistake from
the Bibliographical Notes. It should have been stated therein
that he contributed to the March and April issues (1906) of The
New Unitarian (New York).
Addison S. Pratt's engagement to Miss Martha West Sanders,
daughter of Joseph Asbury and Harriet West Sanders, of Mil-
ford, Ohio, was announced on September 9th, 1906. Mr. San-
ders is a traveling salesman. The wedding is set for July ist,
1907.
Wolcott P. Robbins formed on Sept. ist, 1906, the law partner-
ship of Robbins, Kiernan & Clark (Paul L. Kiernan and Henry
Bogert Clark), with offices at No. 5 Nassau Street, New York
City. This partnership was dissolved by mutual consent on May
ist, 1907. Robbins is now practising under his own name at 43
Cedar Street, New York City.
James Dwight Rockwell was married on January 14th, 1907, at
the Church of the Transfiguration, New York City, to Miss Alice
Estelle Spencer, daughter of James Hicks Spencer of Westbrook,
Conn. Immediately after the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Rockwell
went to Florida for the winter. Letters sent to the Yale Club,
New York, will be forwarded.
Rudolph Schevill was appointed Assistant Professor of Spanish
at Yale on February i8th, 1907.
L. P. Sheldon's second child, a daughter, was born on February
20th, 1907, in Paris, France, She has been named Helen Suzanne.
Charles P. Sherman was married to Miss Julia Marie Rungee,
daughter of Mrs. Pauline Rungee, at New Haven, on Sept. 5th,
1906. Their residence is now at 438 Edgewood Avenue.
Griswold Smith's partnership in the brokerage business (Sutro,
Tweedy & Company) was dissolved by mutual consent on May
1st, 1907. The business was continued by Victor Sutro, '97, under
his own name. Smith went on the floor of the Consolidated Ex-
change as an independent broker.
N. W. Smith, in reply to a secretarial query, wrote as follows,
under date of April 4th, 1907: —
*'0n April ist, E. G. Buckland, our old law instructor, now
Vice-President of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Rail-
road Company and of the Rhode Island Company, appointed me
General Counsel of the Rhode Island Company, which operates
912 APPENDIX
all the street railways of Providence and the surrounding cities
and towns. Its stock is owned by the Rhode Island Securities
Company, which in turn is controlled by the New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad Company. In other words, the
street traction roads here are controlled by the New Haven Com-
pany, and I was appointed General Counsel of the traction com-
pany which operates them.
"On June ist, 1906, Buckland became Vice-President of the New
York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company, and promoted
me from Assistant Attorney to Attorney of the Company in
Rhode Island. At the same time he gave a like promotion to
Joseph C. Sweeney, a Yale Law School man, who takes care of
the litigated work. We still retain the positions of Attorneys of
the steam road in Rhode Island, and this General Counsel busi-
ness is simply another line of work added.
"But the most important information of all is that on October
loth, 1906, a daughter, Mary Weeden Smith, became a member of
our family."
Douglas Stewart's address has been changed to 1025 Western
Avenue, Allegheny, Pa.
Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr.'s, second son, Isaac Newton Phelps
Stokes 3d, was born Oct. loth, 1906, in New Haven, Conn.
T. S. Strong, Jr., was appointed Assistant Cashier of the Con-
solidated National Bank of New York City at a meeting of the j
Board of Directors upon Jan. 8th, 1907.
Eliot Sumner's engagement to Miss Diana Rockwell, daughter
of General and Mrs. Alfred P. Rockwell, of Boston, was
nounced in May, 1907.
Huntington Taylor's son, Albert Walker Taylor, died Sept. 4t
1906, at Cloquet, Minn., aged three years and five months.
A. R. Thompson's second daughter, Ruth Thompson, was boi
at Hartford, Conn., on Dec. 23d, 1906.
Samuel Thorne, Jr., left the offices of Joline, Larkin & Rat
bone on June ist, 1907, and opened offices of his own at No.
Wall Street, New York City.
Thomas A. Tracy was married on June 12th, 1907, at Thorn*
ton, Conn., to Miss Marie Nolan, daughter of Patrick Nolan,
Thomaston.
D. L. Vaill's fourth child, a son, was born at Winsted, Coi
on Jan. 22d, 1907. He has been named Dudley Landon Vaill, Jlfl
W. H. Wadhams was appointed by Governor Hughes, in Jan--^
uary, 1907, Judge of the City Court in New York City. The ap-
I
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pointment is for the unexpired term of Judge Seabury, who was
elected a Justice of the Supreme Court in November, 1906.
Wadhams' residence address was changed, early in 1907, to 39
West nth Street, New York City.
J. W. Wickenden's mother, Margaret Lloyd Wickenden, died
at Buflfalo, N. Y., on Jan. 30th, 1907.
Norman Williams' city offices on and after May ist, 1907, will
be in the Commercial National Bank Building, at 115 Adams
Street, Chicago.
W. F. Wood no longer has his headquarters with Atwood Vio-
lett & Co. His business address is now in care of the New York
Cotton Exchange.
Ezra Hallock Young was married at Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov.
2ist, 1906, to Miss Grace Stephenson, daughter of Mrs. Mary M.
and the late Colonel W. M. Stephenson, and sister of Charles S.
Stephenson, '95 S.
The bachelor members of '96 numbered in at Decennial, omit-
ting the 6 bachelors who had died. Since then, one more has
died, and twelve have been married. This leaves 98 living
bachelors, equal to 35% of the whole number of graduates.
Ex-Members
Rowland Cox, Jr., and Mabel Louise Judson Cox were di-
vorced during the year 1906, the decree being handed down in
December.
E. Meyer, Jr., became a director of the Nipissing Mines Com-
pany in January, 1907.
H. Dalton Newcomb died in New York City on December 3d,
1906. The cause of his death was given at that time as heart
disease.
Herman Dingwell Sears was married Oct. 3d, 1906, at "Even-
land," Maceo, Daviess County, Kentucky, to Miss Clara Taylor
Hawes, daughter of George Trotter Hawes of Maceo.
R. N. Seney was married on May nth, 1907, at Terre Haute,
Indiana, to Miss Julia Compton Ford, daughter of Captain Au-
gustus C. Ford of Terre Haute. He is now living in Chicago,
and is connected with the Chicago Traction Company.
Roll of the Class
John S. Abercrombie, Rushville, Ind.
Benjamin Adams, New York Public Library, 209 West 23d St.,
New York City.
John C Adams, Ph.D., 75 Mansfield St., New Haven, Conn.
Marcellin C. Adams, Fifth Avenue & Woodland Road, Pittsburg,
Pa.
Eugene D. Alexander, Clinton Avenue, New Brighton, N. Y.,
or 2 Wall St., New York City.
Philip R. Allen, East Walpole, Mass.
Arnon A. Ailing, 42 Church St., New Haven, Conn.
Samuel M. Alvord, 254 Ashley St., Hartford, Conn.
Rev. Thomas F. Archbald, 131 Bealle Ave., Wooster, Ohio.
♦Wheeler Armstrong, Jr., died in Hartford, Conn., Nov. 12th,
1896.
Judge William A. Arnold, 812 Main St., Willimantic, Conn.
Leo Arnstein, 416 East io6th St., New York City.
Edgar S. Auchincloss, 123 East 69th St., New York City.
Leonard B. Bacon, 152 Gibbs St., Rochester, N. Y.
Henry D. Baker, University Club, Chicago, 111.
Rev. Owen C. Baker, Fowlerville, N. Y.
William G. Baker, Jr., The Albion Hotel, Baltimore, Md.
Austin R. Baldwin, 36 Front St., New York City.
Mark Baldwin, 16 West First St., Duluth, Minn.
Kneeland Ball, 338 Woodward Ave., Buffalo, N. Y.
James A. Ballentine, 832 Monadnock Building, San Francisco,
Cal.
William M. Beard, 45 Broadway, New York City.
Rev. Arthur H. Beaty, 123 Benzinger St., Buffalo, N. Y.
♦Alfred H. Belo, died in Dallas, Tex., Feb. 27th, 1906.
George M. Bemis, Plainville, Mass.
Harry H. Benedict, Jr., 216 Bishop St., New Haven, Conn.
Fred F. Bennett, 205 High St., Holyoke, Mass.
Alexander G. Bentley, Columbian Building, Washington, D. C.
John M. Berdan, Ph.D., 681 Orange St., New Haven, Conn.
Thomas J. Bergin, M.D., 565 Howard Ave., New Haven, Conn.
John K. Berry, 15 William St., New York City.
Frederick H. Billard, Meriden, Conn.
Arthur W. Bingham, M.D., 266 West 88th St., New York City.
Charles W. Birely, 1388 Chapel St., New Haven, Conn.
914
ROLL OF THE CLASS 915
Henry R. Bond, Jr., New London, Conn.
Charles H. Boyer, St. Augustine's School, Raleigh, N. C.
Lewis L. Brastow, 146 Cottage St., New Haven, Conn.
John E. Breckenridge, Woodbridge, N. J.
Daniel B. Brinsmade, M.D., 564 West End Ave., New York City.
John S. Brittain, Jr., Ninth & Faraon Streets, St. Joseph, Mo.
*Rev. William H. Brokaw, died in New York City, July 13th, 1902.
Alexander Brown, Jr., Torresdale, Philadelphia, Pa.
Herbert S. Brown, 319 East 23d St., New York City.
William F. Brown, M.D., Lyon Mountain, N. Y.
George S. Buck, 543 Ellicott Square, Buffalo, N. Y.
George L. Buist, M.D., 3 Hancock St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
George E. Bulkley, 943 Asylum Ave., Hartford, Conn.
John L. Burnham, M.D., Lyme, Conn.
R. H. Burton-Smith, 1705 Rebecca St., Sioux City, Iowa.
Bertram J. Cahn, 85 Dearborn St., Chicago, 111.
Theodore Carleton, 22 Allen St., Bradford, Mass.
John A. Carley, 41 Park Row, New York City.
T. F. Carroll, 509 Main St., Towanda, Pa.
Herbert B. Cary, 83 Williams St., Norwich, Conn.
William W. Chace, 4 Willard Place, Hudson, N. Y.
W. Woods Chandler, Westminster School, Simsbury, Conn.
Harvey W. Chapman, care of Rev. A. P. Chapman, Northfield,
Conn.
Douglas Charnley, 125 Michigan Ave., Chicago, 111.
*Ward Cheney, died in Imus, P. I., Jan. 7th, 1900.
Edward C. Chickering, 31 Clinton Ave., Jamaica, N. Y.
Arthur S. Chittenden, M.D., 269 West 90th St., New York City.
Thomas B. Clark, Pennsylvania Electric & Railway Supply Co.,
Pittsburg, Pa.
Hon. Walter H. Clark, 50 State St., Hartford, Conn.
Alexander S. Cochran, Yonkers, N. Y.
Charles Coit, 185 Broadway, Norwich, Conn.
Rev. Christopher B. Coleman, Butler College, Indianapolis, Ind.
Russell Colgate, 55 John St., New York City.
Charles Collens, 6 Beacon St., Boston, Mass.
Edward D. Collins, State Normal School, Johnson, Vt.
Wendell P. Colton, 122 Joralemon St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Lewis R. Conklin, 59 Wall St., New York City.
William P. Conley, 88 Erie County Bank Building, Buffalo, N. Y.
Frederick Coonley, M.D., 22 Castleton Ave., West New Brighton,
N. Y.
William H. Corbitt 108 East 78th St., New York City.
Harry P. Cross, Merchants' National Bank Building, Providence,
R. I.
W. Redmond Cross, 33 Pine St., New York City.
Alfred L. Curtiss, 49 East 60th St., New York City.
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(
♦Samuel Edward Damon^ died in Honolulu, Hawaii, Sept. 27th,
1904.
Albert S. Davis, 33 Pine St., or 210 West 107th St., New York
City.
Edward L. Davis, 147 Ontario St., Cleveland, Ohio.
Clarence S. Day, Jr., 45 Wall St., New York City.
Sherman Day, 6 East 44th St., New York City.
Estey F. Dayton, Wabash Cabinet Co., 349 Broadway, New York
City.
Rev. Lee M. Dean, 806 Main St., Westbrook, Me.
Johnston deForest, 30 Broad St., New York City.
Edward E. Denison, Marion, 111.
J. Henri deSibour, 1133 Broadway, New York City.
Clarence DeWitt, 38 Wall St., New York City.
Sherwood O. Dickerman, 140 Cottage St., New Haven, Conn.
John H. Douglass, 16 Vandeventer Place, St. Louis, Mo.
Willard N. Drown, 75 Sutter St., San Francisco, Cal.
Edward L. Durfee, 95 Cottage St., New Haven, Conn.
J. Frederick Eagle, 40 Wall St., New York City.
Prof. J. G. Eldridge, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho.
Prof. Hollon A. Farr, Yale Station, New Haven, Conn.
William P. Field, Neville Apartments, Pittsburg, Pa.
♦Charles Louis Fincke, M.D., died in Brooklyn, N. Y., March
19th, 1906.
Henry J. Fisher, 11 East 24th St., New York City.
Carroll Fitzhugh, 807 Ridge Ave., Allegheny, Pa.
Michael Flaherty, Jr., Derby, Conn.
Arthur E. Foote, Dongan Hills, Staten Island, N. Y.
Fred A. Forbes, 650 West Monroe St., Chicago, 111.
Walter B. Ford, 1017 West Fort St., Detroit, Mich.
Clarence V. Fowler, 294 Liberty St., Newburgh, N. Y.
James Frank, 135 Broadway, New York City.
Clement A. Fuller, Stamford, Conn.
Frederick W. Gaines, 21 Federal Building, Toledo, Ohio.
John M. Gaines, 315 Broadway, New York City.
William S. Gaylord, 256 Broadway, New York City.
Emile Godchaux, Godchaux Building, New Orleans, La.
Richard J. Goodman, 50 State St., Hartford, Conn.
William S. Gordon, 220 Broadway, New York City.
William H. Gorman, care of C. S. Day, Jr., 45 Wall St., New
York City.
George W. dovert, Blackstone Building, Quincy, 111.
Theodore M. Gowans, 162 Park St., Buffalo, N. Y.
A. Henry Grant, 402 West 124th St., New York City.
Harris R. Greene, 11 Hillside Ave., Summit, N. J.
Prof. Herbert E. Gregory, Yale Station, New Haven, Conn.
Frank L. Griffith, 20 East Broad St., Columbus, Ohio.
ROLL OF THE CLASS 917
Maitland F. Griggs, 32 Liberty St., New York City.
Richard C. Haldeman, 219 South Front St., Harrisburg, Pa.
Elbert B. Hamlin, 59 Wall St., New York City.
Paul D. Hamlin, 163 Randolph St., Chicago, 111.
George B. Hatch, 15 William St., New York City.
Franke S. Havens, 1434 Pine St., Philadelphia, Pa.
*Emory Hawes, died in New York City, Nov. 14th, 1904.
Prof. Herbert E. Hawkes, 45 Huntington St., New Haven, Conn.
Carlos C. Heard, 11 Masonic Building, Biddeford, Me.
William W. Heaton, 6 Wall St., New York City.
Hon. Gilbert L. Hedges, Oregon City, Oregon.
Edward C. Heidrich, Jr., 208 Perry St., Peoria, 111.
William L. Helfenstein, Lincoln St., Shamokin, Pa.
William L. Henry, Kennedy House, Lawrenceville, N. J.
Rev. William M. Hess, 581 Tremont Ave., The Bronx, New York
City.
Fritz W. Hoeninghaus, 27 West 52d St., New York City.
George C. Hollister, Mamaroneck, N. Y.
John C. Hollister, M.D., 100 State St., Chicago, 111.
Frank T. Hooker, 23 Lynwood Place, New Haven, Conn.
Lester P. Hoole, M.D., 974 St. Mark's Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Charles V. Hopkins, Catskill, N. Y.
Walter S. Hoyt, ^2 Gold St., New York City.
Alexander E. Hunt, Jr., 30 Broad St., New York City.
James A. Hutchinson, 16 Nassau St., New York City.
♦Gerard Merrick Ives, died in New York City, August 9th, 1898.
Frederick S. Jackson, i Madison Ave., New York City.
Frank M. Jeffrey, Smith Academy, St. Louis, Mo.
Frederic B. Johnson, Englewood, N. J.
Henry S. Johnston, 221 West 49th St., New York City.
Rev. Albert C. Jones, Mystic, Conn.
L. Cleveland Jones, Solvay Process Co., Syracuse, N. Y.
Warren S. Jordan, 984 Main St., Peekskill, N. Y.
Prof. Albert G. Keller, 55 Huntington St., New Haven, Conn.
William C. Kellogg, M.D., Augusta, Ga.
Robert Kelly, Jr., Holophane C^lass Co., 15 East 32d St., New
York City.
Tom S. Kingman, 80 Wall St., New York City.
Troy Kinney, 15 West 67th St., New York City.
Henry S. Kip, 205 West 57th St., or 7 Wall St., New York City.
James H. Knapp, 817 Broadway, New York City.
Edgar C. Lackland, Jr., with Tailer & Robinson, 2 Wall St., New
York City.
Leonard B. Lampman, Coxsackie, N. Y.
Frederick C. Lee, University Club, New York City.
Charles B. Lenahan, 66 West South St., Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Ralph W. Lobenstine, M.D., 105 West 73d St., New York City.
918 APPENDIX
John M. Longacre, Bullitt Building, Philadelphia, Pa.
Horace A. Loomis, R.F.D. 4, Rochester, N. Y.
Christopher K. Loughran, 296 Fair St., Kingston, N. Y.
Harry B. Lovell, Plainfield, N. J.
Robert Lusk, 51 Cole Building, Nashville, Tenn.
Robert S. McClenahan, Assiut Training College, Assiut, Egypt.
*Henry E. McDermott, died in New Haven, Conn., Oct, 3d, 1898.
William A. McFadden, with Simmons Hardware Co., St. Louis,
Mo.
McKee D. McKee, 1753 Rhode Island Ave., Washington, D. C.
Cyrus F. Mackey, 1138 Elk St., Franklin, Pa.
George X. McLanahan, Bond Building, Washington, D. C.
George S. McLaren, 152 Orange St., New Haven, Conn.
Neil B. Mallon, 2373 Madison Road, East Walnut Hills, Cincin-
nati, Ohio.
Frederick W. Mathews, 55 Kilby St., Boston, Mass.
Harry W. Mathews, 12 West 44th St., New York City.
♦Rev. F. H. Mathison, died in Shelton, Conn., Aug. 24th, 1906.
Charles W. Miller, Weleetka, Indian Territory.
William S. Miller, 465 Dearborn Ave., Chicago, 111.
Joseph O. More, Commonwealth Trust Building, St. Louis, Mo.
Prof. W. Conger Morgan, 2440 Hillside Ave., Berkeley, Cal.
Charles S. Morris, 408 Crown St., New Haven, Conn.
Samuel I. Motter, Donnell Court, St. Joseph, Mo.
Norris H. Mundy, 25 East Lake St., Chicago, 111.
James B. Neale, Minersville, Pa.
Prof. George H. Nettleton, 339 Prospect St., New Haven, Conn.
Edward K. Nicholson, Sanford Building, Bridgeport, Conn.
Theodore W. Noon, 10 Appian Way, Cambridge, Mass.
Louis C. Oakley, New York Central Depot, Corning, N. Y.
Edwin Oviatt, P. O. Box 175, New Haven, Conn.
Alfred D. Pardee, West Walnut Lane, Germantown, Pa.
Hon. Walter P. Paret, 45 Broadway, New York City.
Rev. Charles E. Park, 405 Marlborough St., Boston, Mass.
Frank M. Patterson, 27 William St., New York City.
Hon. Thomas B. Paxton, Jr., 341 Lafayette Ave., Cincinnati,
Ohio.
Howard S, Peck, Bristol, Conn.
Philip C. Peck, 31 Nassau St., New York City.
Hon. Charles A. Pelton, Clinton, Conn.
Prof. Henry A. Perkins, 27 Marshall St., Hartford, Conn.
Louis H. Porter, Stamford, Conn.
Addison S. Pratt, 47 Cedar St., New York City.
Rev. Walter F. Prince, 16 South Elliott Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.
M. Houghton Reed, 1852 Clay St., St. Joseph, Mo.
Thomas E. Reynolds, 167 Maple St., Bridgeport, Conn.
Eugene M. Richmond, Bayswater, Far Rockaway, N. Y.
ROLL OF THE CLASS 919
Fred O. Robbins, 215 Livingston St., New Haven, Conn.
Wolcott P. Robbins, 43 Cedar St., New York City.
Henry M. Robert, Jr., Betts Academy, Stamford, Conn.
Edwin L. Robinson, Smith Academy, St. Louis, Mo.
J. Dwight Rockwell, 30 West 44th St., New York City.
Robertson T. Root, 530 Fifth Ave., New York City.
Rev. Robert L. Ross, St. Stephen's M. E. Church, Kingsbridge,
N. Y.
Clinton J. Rumrill, M.D., Randolph, Vt.
Sylvester B. Sadler, Carlisle, Pa.
Andrew G. C. Sage, 718 Fifth Ave., New York City.
James D. Sawyer, iii Broadway, New York City.
Rev. Lee R. Scarborough, 426 Cypress St., Abilene, Tex.
Prof. Rudolph Schevill, 431 Yale Station, New Haven, Conn.
♦George H. Schuyler, died in New York City, Feb. 22d, 1904.
Alexander Scott, care of C. S. Day, Jr., 45 Wall St., New York
City.
William L. Scoville, 407 Paddock Building, Boston, Mass.
Hewlett Scudder, Jr., General Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y.
Lewis P. Sheldon, 10 Rue Lafitte, Paris, France.
Charles P. Sherman, D.C.L., Yale University Law School, New
Haven, Conn.
Murray M. Shoemaker, First National Bank Building, Cincin-
nati, Ohio.
Borland Smith, M.D., 836 Myrtle Ave., Bridgeport, Conn.
George A. Smith, 21 Morsemere Place, Yonkers, N. Y.
Griswold Smith, 33 Wall St., New York City.
Nathaniel W. Smith, with N. Y. N. H. & H. R. R., Providence,
R. L
Winthrop D. Smith, 298 Broadway, New York City.
Henry A. Spalding, 618 North American Building, Philadelphia,
Pa.
Charles F. Spellman, 31 Elm St., Springfield, Mass.
>*Marius J. Spinello, died near Berkeley, Cal., May 24th, 190-^.
Albert J. Squires, Batavia, N. Y.
Hon. Edmund G. Stalter, Paterson, N. J.
William J. Starkweather, American Trust Building, Cleveland,
Ohio.
Douglas Stewart, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg, Pa.
Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr., 73 Elm St., New Haven, Conn.
Herbert G. Strong, Winsted, Conn.
T. S. Strong, Jr., Consolidated National Bank, 56 Broadway,
New York City.
David Stuart, 96 Broadway, New York City.
Rev. Philemon F. Sturges, St. Peter's Rectory, Morristown, N. J.
Lewis A. Sulcov, Box 56, Arnold, St. Louis Co., Minn.
Eliot Sumner, Pennsylvania Railroad, Jersey City, N. J.
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James B. Tailer, Stock Exchange, or 43 West 47th St., New
York City.
Huntington Taylor, Cloquet, Minn.
Arthur R. Thompson, 51 Imlay St., Hartford, Conn.
Frederick M. Thompson, 50 Pine St., New York City.
Samuel Thorne, Jr., 15 Wall St., New York City.
S. B. Thorne, Buck Run Coal Co., Minersville, Pa.
A. C. Tilton, Ph.D., 21 Mendota Court, Madison, Wis.
Albert E. VonTobel, M.D., 284 E. Main St., Meriden, Conn.
Thomas A. Tracy, 152 Curtiss St., Bristol, Conn.
Ralph B. Treadway, 215 Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, 111.
♦Edward L. Trudeau, Jr., M.D., died in New York Citv, May 3d,
1904.
Henry A. Truslow, 57 Murray St., New York City, or Summit,
N.J.
Howland Twombly, 60 State St., Boston, Mass.
Dudley L. Vaill, Station A., Winsted, Conn.
Thomas G. Vennum, Watseka, 111.
Wesley G. Vincent, M.D., 172 West 79th St., New York City.
Frank E. Wade, 541 Onondaga County Bank Building, Syracuse,
N. Y.
Judge William H. Wadhams, 39 West nth St., New York City.
Arthur G. Walter, Betts Academy, Stamford, Conn.
Prof. Chauncey W. Wells, 2243 Piedmont Way, Berkeley, Cal.
Thomas B. Wells, 337 Pearl St., New York City.
George C. Weston, 1120 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Frederick E. Weyerhaeuser, 684 Summit Ave., St. Paul, Minn.
Robert E. Whalen, 79 Chapel St., Albany, N. Y.
Morris M. Whitaker, 1133 Broadway, New York City.
J. W, Wickenden, care of T. L. Wickenden, 906 Citizens' Build-
ing, Cleveland, Ohio.
Norman Williams, Jr., 300 Schiller St., Chicago, 111.
Walter F. Wood, New York Cotton Exchange, New York City.
William S. Woodhull, 32 Nassau St., New York City.
Hon. Robert J. Woodruff, 179 Church St., New Haven, Conn.
Lewis R. Yeaman, Louisville Trust Building, Louisville, Ky.
Ezra H. Young, i Madison Ave., New York City. (278)
Ex-Members
Charles S. Adams, 168 Lincoln Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.
William J. Armstrong, Decatur, 111.
G. Edward Atherton, Jr., Bullitt Building, Philadelphia, Pa.
Philip H. Bailey, Windsor Locks, North Franklin, Conn.
Elbert A. Brinckerhoff, Jr., Englewood, N. J.
ROLL OF THE CLASS 921
Charles E. Bristol, lOO Main St., Ansonia, Conn.
James H. Brookfield, White Plains, N. Y.
John Mason Brown, care of the Comptroller, Treasury Depart-
ment, Washington, D. C.
Thomas R. Brown, Jr., Excelsior, Minn.
J. H. Churchill Clark, care of Superintendent of Terminals,
Louisville & Nashville Railroad, St. Louis, Mo.
D. Hayden Collins, Dallas Ave., Pittsburg, Pa.
♦Theodore E. Council, died in Scranton, Pa., June 15th, 1903.
Rowland Cox, Jr., M.D., 47 West 44th St., New York City.
Francis Phelps Dodge, 99 John St., New York City.
Guy Phelps Dodge, 29 Broadway, New York City.
*George Dyre Eldridge, Jr., died near New York City, March 2d,
1906.
Richard F. Ely, 1304 Main St., Hartford, Conn.
♦Richard P. Estes, died in Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 26th, 1892.
Benjamin T. Gilbert, Clayville, New York.
♦George Zabriskie Gray, died in London, England, Sept. 12th,
1895.
♦E. E. Gregory, died in New York City, Sept. 21st, 1896.
John G. Haines, care of J. L. Haines, 23 Amity St., Paterson,
N.J.
Harold G. Holcombe, 49 Pearl St., Hartford, Conn.
James B. Horton, 471 Broadway, Albany, N. Y.
Russell Hulbert, M.D., 322 John St., Bridgeport, Conn.
Derick Lane, 27 Pine St., New York City.
Charles S. Leavenworth, Brown, Shipley & Co., London, S. W.,
England.
Herbert R. Limburg, 15 William St., New York City.
Percival C. Liscomb, El Paso, Tex.
Arthur L. Loving, 617 Bon Ton, St. Joseph, Mo.
Benjamin P. Lukens, Box 551, Manila, P. L
C. Oliver McClintock, Castine, Me.
Boyd McLean, i Montgomery St., Jersey City, N. J.
Ray S. McLeod, care of Edgar D. McLeod, 375 Eighth Ave.,
New York City.
♦Charles Mason Martin, died in Norwich, N. Y., Aug. i6th, 1899.
♦Benjamin Minor Massey, died in Springfield, Mo., Aug. 7th,
1903.
Eugene Meyer, Jr., 7 Wall St., New York City.
Ernest C. Moore, 102 Highland Ave., Syracuse, N. Y.
♦H. Dalton Newcomb, died in New York City, Dec. 3d, 1906.
♦Warren Prescott Palmer, died in New York City, Feb. nth,
1903.
William L. Patterson, Newcastle, Pa.
♦Charles Williams Penrose, died in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. i6th,
1905.
922 APPENDIX
Stuart E. Pierson, Carrollton, 111.
Frederic C. Saunders, Cuba, N. Y.
J. Arnold Scudder, 211 Royal Insurance Building, Chicago, 111.
Herman D. Sears, 49 Wall St., New York City.
Robert N. Seney, 41 Bitter Sweet Place, Pattington Annex,
Chicago, 111.
Herbert L. Towle, 272 Johnson Ave., Richmond Hill, N. Y.
Michael M. vanBeuren, 7 Wall St., New York City.
Nathaniel W. Wallis, East Orange, N. J.
♦Burton Arthur White, died in New Haven, Conn., May 6th,
1895.
Frederick H. Wiley, Columbia Club, Indianapolis, Ind.
Norman A. Williams, 25 Broad St., New York City.
Thomas J. Wood, 121 North Main St., Dayton, Ohio.
Charles H. Woodruff, Jr., 14 East 68th St., New York City.
Daniel W. Wynkoop, M.D., Montague, Va.
(Gillett, Gillette, C. J. Hunt, Irwin, Keck, A. H. Kelly, Mc-
Cann, McDonald, and Pond, are omitted.) (65)
VARIANTS IN CLASSMATES' NAMES
Names Disused Variants
Austin Radcliffe Baldwin Austin Baldwin, Jr.
Arthur Hillier Beaty, Jr Arthur Hillier Beatty, Jr.
Robert Henry Burton-Smith. .Robert Henry Burton Smith
Thomas Francis Carroll Frank Carroll
Charles Collens Charles Collins
William Patrick Conley William Patrick Conly
Jules Henri deSibour Jules Gabriel Henri deSibour
John Howard Douglass John Holly Douglass
Maitland Fuller Griggs Maitland Griggs
Troy Kinney Troy Sylvanus Kinney
Charles Weston Miller Charles Wesley Miller
Edwin Oviatt Edwin Sidney Oviatt
Frank Miner Patterson Franklin Miner Patterson
Rudolph Schevill Rudolph Schwill
Dorland Smith Edward Dorland Smith
Henry Spalding Harry Alexis Spalding
Marius Joseph Spinello Joseph Marius Spinello
E.x'96
James Hanford Brookfield Fritz James Han ford Brookfield
Herbert Richard Limburg Herbert Richard Limburger
Benjamin Perley Lukens Perley Benjamin Lukens
Eugene Meyer, Jr Eugene Isaac Meyer
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