BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
CLASSES 68 S TO 72 S
BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
CLASSES FROM EIGHTEEN HUNDRED
AND SIXTY-EIGHT TO EIGHTEEN
HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-TWO OF
THE SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL
PUBLISHED BY THE
CLASS SECRETARIES BUREAU
YALE UNIVERSITY
1910
UD
FOREWORD
The publication of this volume has been made pos-
sible by Henry B. Sargent, Secretary of the Class of
'71 S., who undertook its financial responsibility and
contributed helpful advice and consultation through-
out its preparation. The bulk of the expense has
been met by subscriptions in response to Mr. Sar-
gent's letter.
The biographies are for the most part based upon
data originally gathered under the direction of
Charles H. Sherrill, '89, of the Yale Association of
Class Secretaries, by Charles C. Brown, '03 S. As
each sketch prepared from this material has been
submitted to its subject or some member of his family
for revision and addition, and dates and statements
have been carefully verified by official records where
possible, the biographies may be regarded as sub-
stantially accurate. The work of preparing, editing,
and publishing the material has been performed by
the Class Secretaries Bureau, the new alumni office
which in 1910 was established by the Yale Associa-
tion of Class Secretaries with University support.
This book may naturally give an impetus to the
feeling of Class unity and Yale loyalty among the
members of the Classes of 1868 S. to 1872 S., and
make them more interested in their fellows and their
achievements. It is, however, scarcely to be sup-
ft 1 5 2 H 9
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posed that a second volume of their lives will ever be
published. At best such publications are infrequent.
But there is a channel ready at hand for the publica-
tion of current biographies, a continuous record,
which grows with the men whom it describes. That
record is the Yale Alumni Weekly, which combines
the permanence of archives with the interest of con-
temporaneous news. Each member of the Sheffield
Classes here chronicled might well make a point of
sending to this graduate paper the news of the mar-
riage of his daughter, the election of himself to the
secretaryship of a learned society, his political or
business associations, a change of residence or of the
many details of his life, small in themselves but inter-
esting to his classmates and friends, and valuable in
adding to the already very complete histories of Yale
graduates. In this way the biographical record of
these Classes, started in this volume, would grow with
their subjects and would increase in interest and value
as the lives of the individual members mature.
EDWIN ROGERS EMBREE,
Director Class Secretaries Bureau.
New Haven, December 1, 1910.
ROLL OF THE CLASSES
ROLL OF THE CLASSES
1868 S TO 1872 S
Following is a list of the graduate members of the classes
from 1868 to 1872 of the Sheffield Scientific School, with their
business or professional connections and latest addresses. The
asterisk is used in this list and throughout this volume to
indicate death. An alphabetical index to the biographies will
be found on the last pages of the book.
CLASS OF '68 S.
Wellington Miles Andrew, farmer, Orange, Conn.
Leonard Strong Austin, professor, Houghton, Mich.
*George Franklin Bailey. *1896.
Samuel Atkins Barbour, mining engineer, Melrose, Mont.
Frederick Converse Beach, publisher and editor, Stratford,
Conn.
*James deTrafford Blackstone, manufacturer. *1898.
*Eugene Stuart Bristol, manufacturer and banker. *1910.
Albert Gardiner Clark, LL. D., lawyer, 1612 Pennsylvania
Avenue, Denver, Colo.
*Henry Marchant Dudley, pharmacist. *1896.
Henry Turner Eddy, B. A. Yale 1867, Ph. D., LL. D., pro-
fessor, 916 Sixth Street S. E., Minneapolis, Minn.
Barton Darlington Evans, chief clerk, Department of Fisheries,
Harrisburg, Pa.
Edward Forsyth Finney, real estate dealer, 1335 Washington
Avenue, St. Louis, Mo.
*James Fowler. *1892.
*Frank Morton Guthrie, railroad agent. *1900.
*John Corey Hersey, clerk, Naval Office, United States Custom
House, New York City. *1909.
*George Anson Jackson, M. A. Yale 1887, clergyman. *1907.
* Joseph Scott McKell, merchant. *1910.
Charles Kinney Needham, C. E. Yale 1869, engineer, New
Albany, Ind.
Frederick George Noonan, 434 Jackson Street, Milwaukee,
Wis.
Lyman Bradley Parshall, stock raiser, Canton, Jackson
County, Iowa.
William Wallace Redfield, mechanical engineer, retired, 2637
Portland Avenue, Minneapolis, Minn.
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Alexander Renick, banker, 65 East Fourth Street, Chillicothe,
Ohio.
*Joseph Perkins Rockwell, civil engineer. *1885.
*Lewis Bridge Stone. *1871.
*Sanmel Swift, M. D. Columbia 1872, physician. *1896.
Henry Shaler Williams, Ph. D. Yale 1871, professor, Ithaca,
N. Y.
Roll of Class of '68 S., 26; living, 14.
CLASS OF '69 S.
*William Greene Abbot, insurance. *1889.
William Richardson Belknap, manufacturer, West Ormsby
Avenue, Louisville, Ky.
Roman Augustus Bissell, engineer and manufacturer, retired,
174 Fort Street, Detroit, Mich.
Charles Augustus Brinley, manufacturer, 247 South Sixteenth
Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Francis Dudley Buck, M. D. Columbia 1876, physician, 158
West Forty-eighth Street, New York City.
Andrew Dwight Chidsey, banker, Easton, Pa.
*Clarence Marcellus Clarke, civil engineer. *1890.
Frederick Smillie Curtis, instructor, Brookfield Center, Conn.
Augustus Jay DuBois, C. E. Yale 1870, Ph. D. Yale 1873,
professor, 334 Edwards Street, New Haven, Conn.
Joseph Robinson Folsom, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Albert Banks Hill, C. E. Yale 1870, civil engineer, 295 Crown
Street, New Haven, Conn.
*Joseph Courten Hornblower, architect. *1908.
Nelson Powell Hulst, B. A. Yale 1867, Ph. D. Yale 1870,
mining engineer, retired, 300 Knapp Street, Milwaukee,
Wis.
*Edward Whiting Johnson, banker. *1878.
Joseph Goodhue Kendall.
*Charles Byron Koon, engineer. *1885.
Houston Lowe, manufacturer, Dayton, Ohio.
Henry Hoyt Perry, banker and insurance agent, Southport,
Conn.
Charles Henry Pope, manufacturer and real estate agent, 925
Seventeenth Street, Moline, 111.
Joseph John Skinner, C. E. Yale 1874, Ph. D. Yale 1876,
teacher, retired, Oneida, N. Y.
Robert Schuyler Van Rensselaer, surveyor, Punxsutawney,
Pa.
Charles Alvah Weed, manufacturer, 66 Chenango Street, Bing-
hamton, N. Y.
ROLL OF THE CLASS 11
William Robert White, 1529 Pine Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Horace Franklin Whitman, manufacturer, 3801 Walnut
Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Willard Wendell Wight, civil engineer and surveyor, Wellesley
Hills, Mass.
Frederick Everett Willits, farmer, banker and insurance
agent, Glen Cove, N. Y.
Roll of Class of '69 S., 26; living, 21.
CLASS OF '70 S.
James Whitin Abbott, B. A. Yale 1868, M. A. Yale 1871,
mining engineer, Pioche, Nev.
Henry Moore Bailey, banker, 2109 Nebraska Street, Sioux
City, Iowa.
,. Charles Thruston Ballard, flour manufacturer, Glenview,
Jefferson County, Ky.
Thomas Gray Bennett, manufacturer, 423 Prospect Street,
New Haven, Conn.
Townshend Stith Brandegee, botanist, Berkeley, Cal.
Daniel Seymour Brinsmade, manufacturer, Derby, Conn.
-^L Charles Peter Brooks, civil and mining engineer, 280 A Street,
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Thomas Elwood Calvert, engineer, 209 Adams Street, Chicago,
111.
Frederic Hosea Churchill, LL. B. Harvard 1875, electrician.
*1881.
Dorr Clarke, ranchman, retired, Green Bay, Wis.
Alfred Ronald Conkling, LL. B. Columbia 1879, lawyer, 41
East Sixtieth Street, New York City.
Justus Herbert Grant, engineer, 78 South Goodman Street,
Rochester, N. Y.
Charles Sheldon Hastings, Ph. D. 1873, professor, 248 Bradley
Street, New Haven, Conn.
*William Alfred Hinds, editor and publisher. *1910.
*Edward VanBuren Hoes, banker and coal dealer. *1904.
William Rufus Hopson, real estate dealer, 224 Washington
Avenue, Bridgeport, Conn.
Henry Correll Humphrey, chemist, 551 West 149th Street,
New York City.
Augustus Washington Littleton, gas and electric business,
retired, 38 St. Margaret's Road, Oxford, England.
*Francis Asbury Lowe, mining engineer. *1883.
- William Dennis Marks, C. E. 1871, engineer, Westport, Essex
County, N. Y.
Arthur Woods Rice, insurance agent, New Britain, Conn.
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Evelyn Pierpont Roberts, engineer, Pierrepont Manor, Shrub
Oaks, Westchester County, N. Y.
George Douglass Roseberry, manufacturer, Pottsville, Pa.
Alfred Stanton.
George Frederick Stone, teacher, 991 Asylum Avenue, Hart-
ford, Conn.
Clarence Augustus Warren, insurance agent, 918 Second
Street, Louisville, Ky.
John George Watson, postmaster, Ayr, Ontario, Canada.
Roll of Class of '70 S., 97; living, 23.
CLASS OF '71 S.
Horace Andrews, C. E. Yale 1872, civil engineer, 125 Lan-
caster Street, Albany, N. Y.
Edwin Faxon Bacon, teacher, Oneonta, N. Y.
Luther White Burt, civil engineer and surveyor, 124 Collins
Street, Hartford, Conn.
*James Clark Bush, army man and editor. *1905.
George Benjamin Chittenden, C. E. Yale 1873, mining engi-
neer, Christmas, Ariz.
*Russell Wheeler Davenport, M. A. Yale 1898 and Harvard
1894, manufacturer. *1904.
Frederick Stoever Dickson, banker and broker, Maneskootuk,
Rangeley, Me.
William Cecil Durand, banker, Milford, Conn.
Charles Hascall Dwindle, poultry raiser and insurance dealer,
Fulton, Cal.
Charles Addison Ferry, C. E. Yale 1891, civil engineer, 24
Edgewood Avenue, New Haven, Conn.
Charles Henry Greene.
*Charles Woodford Griswold, engineer. *1878.
*John Wool Griswold, iron manufacturer. *1902.
John Nichols Judson, consulting mining engineer, 25 Broad
Street, New York City.
George Macculloch Keasbey, lawyer, 765 Broad Street,
Newark, N. J.
Joseph Frederick Klein, M. E. Yale 1873, professor, 357
Market Street, Bethlehem, Pa.
George Granville Lobdell, manufacturer, 1605 Broome Street,
Wilmington, Del.
Thomas William Mather, M. E. Yale 1873, planter, grower of
fruit, Miami, Fla.
Mansfield Merriman, C. E. Yale 1872, Ph. D. Yale 1876, con-
sulting civil engineer, 1071 Madison Avenue, New York
City.
ROLL OF THE CLASS 13
Alfred Louis Moore, manufacturer, 620 Tenth Street, Moline,
111.
*Daniel Hobart Pierpont, surveyor. *1874.
Ferdinand Eugene Powell. *1872.
*John Franklin Quigley, civil engineer and manufacturer.
*1897.
Frederick Lockwood Sanford, engraver on wood, 1382 Chapel
Street, New Haven, Conn.
Henry Bradford Sargent, manufacturer, 247 Church Street,
New Haven, Conn.
*Edward Clinton Terry, inventor steam turbines and electrical
devices. *1908.
Harry Degen Ziegler, manufacturer, 218 South Front Street,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Roll Class of '71 S., 27; living, 19.
CLASS OF '72 S.
Jacob Jackson Abbott, C. E. Yale 1874, M. E., consulting
civil and mining engineer, 1112 Race Street, Denver, Colo.
*Jaines P(eter) Bogart, engineer and surveyor. *1903.
Wheeler DeForest Edwards, B. A. College City N. Y. 1871,
LL. B. Columbia 1874, lawyer, Los Angeles, Cal.
Joseph Ridgway Gawthrop, manufacturer, Kennett Square,
Chester County, Pa.
William Saunders Greene.
*George Wesson Hawes, Ph. D. Heidelberg 1880, instructor.
*1882.
Daniel Webster Hering, C. E. Yale 1878, Ph. D. W. Md.
College 1895, LL. D. Western University 1907, professor,
University Heights, New York City.
*Charles Louis Johnson, manufacturer. *1901.
Cassius William Kelly, B. A. Yale 1870, engineer, 209 Norton
Street, New Haven, Conn.
*Samuel Trevor Knapp, banker and broker. *1889.
*Harrison Wheeler Lindsley, C. E. Yale 1873, architect and
instructor. *1893.
Frank Oscar Maxson, C. E. Yale 1882, civil engineer, 647 East
Capitol Street, Washington, D. C.
Robert Douglas (Milholland) Maxwell, lawyer, 32 South
Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
*George Noyes Miller. *1904.
*Charles Theodore Morse, LL. B. Yale 1876, lawyer. *1889.
Thomas Perkins Nevins. *1875.
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Theophil Mitchell Prudden, M. D. Yale 1875, LL. D. Yale
1897, literary and scientific work, 160 West Fifty-ninth
Street, New York City.
Thomas Hubbard Russell, M. D. Yale 1875, professor and
practicing physician and surgeon, 79 Trumbull Street,
New Haven, Conn.
Charles Austin Tibbals, clergyman, Clinton, Conn.
*Daniel Wardwell Wardwell, chemist. *1878.
*Frederick Floyd Weld, engineer. *1890.
William Brenton Welling, banker and broker, 2 Wall Street,
New York City.
*Thomas Wallace Wright, M. A. Toronto University 1871,
C. E. Yale 1882, Ph. D. Union 1891, professor. *1908.
Roll Class of '72 S., 23; living, 12.
Total in Classes '68 S. to '72 S., 129; living, 89.
BIOGRAPHIES
BIOGRAPHIES
1868 S
Wellington M. Andrew
Farmer
Orange, Conn.
Wellington Miles Andrew, '68 S., was born in Orange,
Conn., December 11, 1843. He is a son of Dennis An-
drew and Martha (Merwin) Andrew, who were married
on May 5, 1840, and had two other children: Merwin A.
Andrew, who died 1872 in New York; and Emma M.
(Mrs. Albertus N. Clark).
Dennis Andrew (born January 6, 1818, at Orange,
Conn., died January 5, 1883, at Orange, Conn.) was a
son of Merwin Andrew and Susan (Platt) Andrew, and
in direct descent from Rev. Samuel Andrew, one of the
founders of Yale.
Martha (Merwin) Andrew (born October 5, 1821, at
Milford, Conn., died May 10, 1851, at Orange, Conn.)
was a daughter of Benedict Merwin and Polly (Isbell)
Merwin, and descended in direct line from Miles Merwin
of Pond Point, Milford.
Andrew prepared for Yale at Williston Seminary,
Easthampton, Mass., and entered Sheff in September,
1865, where he took the Engineering Course. He
was a member of Book and Snake.
He was married on July 28, 1881, to Miss Flora
Booth Treat, daughter of Isaac Platt Treat, a
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farmer of Orange, Conn. They have had six chil-
dren: Irving Atwater Andrew (born January 21,
1883, a graduate of Yale in the Class of 1903 S.) ;
Ashley Merwin Andrew (born August 21, 1885, a
graduate of Yale in the Class of 1906 S.) ; Florence
Andrew (born June 11, 1888) ; Ray Andrew (born
January 19, 1890, died in infancy) ; Wellington
Booth Andrew (born November 6, 1891) ; and Helen
Andrew (born May 12, 1901).
In 1868 Andrew went to California, via Panama.
He was engaged in surveying until June, 1878, re-
turning overland to the East, where he settled on his
farm in Orange. He is a member of the Congrega-
tional Church, and was elected to the Connecticut
General Assembly in 1887.
Prof. Leonard S. Austin
Professor, Department of Metallurgy, Michigan College of
Mines
Houghton, Mich.
Leonard Strong Austin, '68 S., was born in Stratford,
Conn., February 26, 1846. He is a son of Thomas
Austin and Elvira (Reed) Austin, who were married
June 7, 1831, and had twelve other children: J. G. Austin,
Mrs. Mary E. Peters, Mrs. A. E. Johnson, E. H. Austin,
J. C. Austin, William M. Austin (Yale 1860-1862),
H. P. Austin, Miss L. E. Austin, Mrs. L. Haxton, Mrs.
M. B. Whitehead, F. B. Austin, and T. S. Austin, who
graduated from Columbia in the Class of 1876.
CLASS OF 1868 S. 19
Thomas Austin (born in 1808, on the Island of
Demerara, West Indies, died in 1883, at Stratford,
Conn.) inherited a fortune from his grandfather, a phy-
sician and sugar planter, and lived at the West Indies,
New York, and Stratford, Conn.
Elvira (Reed) Austin (born in 1814 on the Island of
Demerara, West Indies, died in 1887, at Stratford,
Conn.) was the daughter of a West Indian colonial
family.
Austin prepared for Yale at the Stratford Aca-
demy, Stratford, Conn., and entered Sheff in Sep-
tember, 1865, where he took the Mechanical Engin-
eering Course.
He was married on June 7, 1881, to Miss Mary E.
Watson, daughter of Robert Watson of Salt Lake
City, Utah. They have had three sons: Arthur
Austin (born June 18, 1884, a graduate of the Colo-
rado School of Mines in the class of 1905) ; Hugh
Percy Austin (born August 15, 1882, died in 1886) ;
and Allyn Austin (born December 1, 1889, died in
1890).
After leaving college, Austin spent three years in
mechanical engineering work. He went as a chemist
to Patagonia, South America, from 1877-79, and was
engaged in metallurgical practice (silver, lead and
copper smelting, including charge of metallurgical
plants) in the Rocky Mountain region for twenty-one
years, 1881-1902. On three occasions he has taken
postgraduate work in chemistry, mineralogy, and
assaying at Yale, and for three months in 1896 was
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at the Colorado State School of Mines, taking work
in the electrical laboratory. From October, 1903,
to September, 1909, he was professor in charge of
the Department of Metallurgy and Ore-dressing at
the Michigan College of Mines. He is now mining
and metallurgical engineer, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Austin is a member of the Episcopal Church.
His published writings are: "Sampling of Ores
and Metals," E. $ M. Journal, July 22, August 5
and 22, and September 16, 1882; "Typical Lead
Slags," E. # M. Journal, June 27, 1894; "Hard
Coal in the Silver-Lead Blast Furnace," E. $ M.
Journal, December 15, 1894; "Slag Disposal," E.
$ M. Journal, November 23, 1895; "A Modern
Silver-Lead Smelting Plant," Trans. A. I. M. E.,
Vol. XXVI., p. 388; "Heat Requirements of the
Lead Blast Furnace," E. fy M. Journal, June 19,
1897; "Recent Smelting Practice in Colorado,"
Mineral Industry, Vol. V., p. 437; "Annual Review
of the Metallurgy of Copper," Mineral Industry,
Vol. XII., XIV., XV., XVI., XVII. and XVIII.;
"Pyrite Smelting," E. $ M. Journal, Vol. LXXX.,
p. 865 ; "The Washoe Plant of the Anaconda Copper
Mining Co.," Trans. A. I. M. E., Vol. XXXVIL, p.
431 ; numerous articles in the Mining and Scien-
tific Press, for which he is special contributor; also
two books, viz. : "Metallurgy of the Common Metals"
(illustrated), 494 pages; "The Fire Assay" (illus-
trated), 88 pages.
CLASS OF 1868 S. 21
*George F. Bailey
Died 1896
No information obtainable concerning George
Franklin Bailey, '68 S., other than the fact that he
died in 1896.
Samuel A. Barbour
Manager and Partner, Condor Mine Lease
Melrose, Mont.
Samuel Atkins Barbour, '68 S., was born in Canton,
Conn., November 2, 1846. He is a son of Volney Giles
Barbour and Ellen (Atkins) Barbour, who were married
July 20, 1837, and had six other children: Adelaide Bar-
bour (died April 25, 1896, at Philadelphia, Pa.), Ellen
Barbour, Volney Giles Barbour, Jr. (Yale '67 S., C. E.
University of Vermont, 1887, died June 4, 1901, at
Minneapolis, Minn.), George Rollin Barbour, Harriet
Bishop Barbour, and Thomas Flavius Barbour.
Volney Giles Barbour (born March 20, 1805, at Can-
ton, Conn., died January 18, 1859, at Bristol Conn.)
was the son of Giles Barbour and Mary (Garrett) Bar-
bour, and grandson of Dr. Samuel Barbour and Hannah
(Humphrey) Barbour. He lived at Canton and Bristol,
Conn., successively, in which latter place he was at one
time selectman, and town treasurer.
Ellen (Atkins) Barbour (born October 21, 1818, at
Bristol, Conn., died December 29, 1853, at Canton,
Conn.) was the daughter of Rollin Atkins and Harriet
(Bishop) Atkins.
Barbour prepared for Yale at Williston Seminary,
Easthampton, Mass., and entered Sheff in 1865,
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where he took the Civil Engineering Course. He was
a member of Book and Snake.
He was married on January 10, 1880, at Chicago,
111., to Miss Helen Mar Babcock (born May 30, 1860,
died May 28, 1890, at Melrose Pa.), the daughter of
Benjamin Franklin Babcock, a promoter. They
have two children: Samuel Volney Barbour (born
February 8, 1881), and Helen M. Barbour (born
May 7, 1882).
After graduation Barbour followed the profession
of civil engineering in Connecticut, Arkansas, Illi-
nois and Kentucky. In 1875 he went to Montana
and engaged in mining, being mining superintendent
for the Hecla Consolidated Mining Company from
1877 to 1881. Was in Idaho in 1881, and in 1882
went to Colorado. From 1884 up to 1887 he was
mining superintendent for the Spar Consolidated
Mining Company, of Colorado, but in 1887 he re-
turned to Montana, and again became connected with
the Hecla Consolidated Mining Company. Since
1904, however, he has been mining on his own account.
In politics Barbour is a Democrat, and was a
member of the llth Assembly of Montana Territory
in 1879. He is a member of A. F. & A. M., Blue
Lodge, Chapter, Council, Commandery and A. A.
O. N., M. S.
CLASS OF 1868 S. 23
Frederick C. Beach
Patent Attorney, Publisher, Editor Scientific American,
Editor-in-Chief "Encyclopedia Americana"
361 Broadway, New York City, and Stratford, Conn.
Frederick Converse Beach, '68 S., was born in New
York City, March 27, 1848. He is the son of Alfred Ely
Beach and Harriet Eliza (Holbrook) Beach, who were
married June 30, 1847.
Alfred Ely Beach (born September 1, 1826, at Spring-
field, Mass., died January 1, 1896, at New York City)
was a patent attorney and editor (with Munn & Co.),
also part owner of the Scientific American, and resided
at Stratford, Conn., and New York City. In 1855 he
invented a typewriter for the blind, similar to the Rem-
ington machine, and in 1867 invented and demonstrated
the present method of shield tunneling by hydraulic
rams. He was a son of Moses Y. Beach, publisher of
the New York Sun prior to 1868, and Nancy (Day)
Beach, who was related to Benjamin Day, owner at one
time of the New York Sun.
Harriet Eliza (Holbrook) Beach (born April 29, 1828,
at Boston, Mass., died January 8, 1905, at Berlin, Ger-
many, interred at Stratford, Conn.) was a daughter of
John Fisk Holbrook and Harriet (Converse) Holbrook,
(Brainard) Converse. Her half-sister, Louise Holbrook,
married Frederic H. Betts, '64.
Beach was educated privately, but also attended
(1863-64) Mr. Marshall Strong's Military School
at Bridgeport, Conn. He began the practice of
photography in 1864, and in 1866 suggested to the
United States Patent Office that patent drawings be
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photo-lithographed. He entered Sheff in Septem-
ber, 1865, taking the Select Course with special inter-
est in photography and physics.
He was married on June 16, 1875, to Miss Mar-
garet Allen Gilbert, daughter of Charles Gilbert
(who died in 1877) and Louisa A. Wheeler (who died
October 28, 1903), both of Stratford, Conn. They
have had three children: Stanley Yale Beach (born
July 9, 1877, a graduate of Yale in the Class of
'98 S., who married Helen Birdseye Curtis in Sep-
tember, 1897, has two sons and one daughter: Fred-
erick Converse Beach, 2d, born August, 1898;
Alfred Birdseye Beach, born in 1899 ; and Margaret
Stanley Beach, born April, 1901); Alfred Gilbert
Beach (born January 25, 1879, died July 21, 1890) ;
and Ethel Holbrook Beach (born October 25, 1886,
a graduate of Ingleside School, New Milford, Conn.,
in the Class of 1906, who married September 30,
1909, James Albert Wales of Stratford, Conn., a
graduate of Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., 1901).
In 1868-69, Beach took a course in Patent Office
practice at Washington, D. C. ; in 1869-70, was ap-
pointed night superintendent of the tunnel excava-
tion under Broadway, built by the Beach Pneumatic
Transit Company, of which his father was president
in 1870-71, operated a pneumatic car in the tunnel
opened to the public, and explained its details.
From 1871 to 1876, he engaged in the manufacturing
business in New York; entered the Scientific Ameri-
CLASS OF 1868 S. 25
can office in 1877, conducting the photographic de-
partment and assisting in other branches of the pub-
lication, and is still with this concern. From 1877
to 1882, Beach experimented in improving the tele-
phone and was the first (about 1880) to transmit
sermons by telephone, having charge of a private line
run over the Brooklyn Bridge from Plymouth
Church, Brooklyn, to 69 Union Place, New York,
where the music and the sermons by Henry Ward
Beecher were distinctly heard by his father and rela-
tives. Experiments were then conducted which
showed that Mr. Beecher's voice could be heard as far
as Elizabeth, N. J. In the summer of 1898 Beach
introduced the first electric automobile in Stratford
and vicinity and established a power plant in Bridge-
port for its maintenance.
Beach is a Republican in politics, but opposed to
high tariff. He is a member of the Stratford Con-
gregational Church, and has held public offices in
the town. He is president of the Housatonic Club,
Stratford, and a member of the National Arts Club,
Camera Club, Electrical Society, and president of
the Postal Progress League, all of New York City.
He founded in 1889 the American Amateur Pho-
tographer, since changed (1907) to American Pho-
tography, published monthly. His published works
are: a compilation on "Inventions," and an article
descriptive of "Photography" in "Encyclopedia
Americana," 1904; revised photographic subjects in
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the "Standard Dictionary"; and an article on
"Modern Amateur Photography," Harper's Monthly,
January, 1889.
* James deT. Blackstone
Manufacturer
Died 1898
James deTr afford Blackstone, '68 S., son of
Lorenzo Blackstone, was born in Manchester, Eng-
land, in 1847. His residence while a student was in
Norwich, Conn.
He was engaged in business as a manufacturer in
Norwich, but had been an invalid for five years before
his death.
He died at his winter home in New York City, from
paralysis, on March 7, 1898, aged fifty-one years.
He married soon after graduation Miss Elizabeth
A. Whittaker, of Springfield, Mass., who obtained a
divorce from him in 1877. He subsequently married
in London, Miss Annie Rich, who died, leaving no
children. He was remarried on February 524, 1897,
to his former wife, who survives him with their only
son, a former member of the Class of 1898, Yale
College.
CLASS OF 1868 S. 27
*Eugene S. Bristol
Treasurer Union Trust Company
New Haven, Conn.
Died 1910
Eugene Stuart Bristol, '68 S., was born in New Haven,
Conn., January 4, 184-3. He was a son of William
Brooks Bristol and Mary Wolcott (Bliss) Bristol, who
were married November 15, 1834, and had five other
children: Louis H. Bristol, Yale '59 (died July 20,
1910); William Bristol (died in New Haven in 1874);
John W. Bristol, Yale '77; Mrs. Edward S. Dana (wife
of Professor Edward S. Dana, Yale '70) ; and Mary B.
Bristol.
William Brooks Bristol, Yale 1825 (born in New
Haven, Conn., in 1806, died in New Haven, Conn., in
1876), was a lawyer, the son of William Bristol, Yale
1798 (died March 7, 1836), a lawyer by profession,
afterwards a judge of the Superior Court of Connecticut,
and subsequently one of the judges of the Supreme Court
of Errors of Connecticut. He was also a judge of the
United States District Court over the District of Connec-
ticut, and was the son of Simeon Bristol, Yale 1760, who
died in 1805.
Mary Wolcott (Bliss) Bristol (born in Springfield,
Mass., died in New Haven, Conn.) was the daughter of
Moses Bliss and Mary (Wolcott) Bliss.
Bristol prepared at General Russell's Collegiate
and Commercial Institute in New Haven, enlisted in
the Union Army, December 13, 1863, was mustered
in as second lieutenant of the Twenty-ninth Regi-
ment of Connecticut Volunteers (Colored) and was
28 BIOGRAPHIES
promoted to the rank of first lieutenant. He served
in the Army of the James, and was wounded at
Chapin's Farm, Va., September 24, 1864, while de-
fending Fort Harrison. He was mustered out of
service October 24, 1865. After the war he entered
Sheff, where he took the Chemistry course, and was
a member of Book and Snake. For a number of
years he had been gradute Secretary of his Class.
He was married on July 18, 1903, at New Haven,
Conn., to Miss Julia Silliman Gilman, daughter of
Rev. Edward Whiting Gilman, Yale 1843 (who was
for thirty years secretary of the American Bible
Society), and niece of Daniel C. Gilman, Yale 1852.
After graduation Bristol was Assistant in Chemis-
try at Sheff for two years. The next three years he
spent in Utah successfully engaged in mining opera-
tions. After his return he devoted himself to scien-
tific studies and became interested in the manufac-
ture of pins and in other business enterprises in New
Haven and its vicinity. In 1887 he accepted the
position of manager of a company making horseshoe
nails in Chicago, 111., where he resided for the next
six years. In February, 1896, he became assistant
treasurer of the Union Trust Company of New Haven
and in November of the same years its treasurer.
He held this office until his death.
He died of pneumonia after a few days' illness at
his home in New Haven, April 2, 1910, at the age of
sixty-seven years. Politically he was a Republican,
CLASS OF 1868 8.
and in 1858 he became a member of the North (now
United) Congregational Church.
Albert G. Clark, LL. D.
Lawyer
1612 Pennsylvania Avenue, Denver, Colo.
Albert Gardiner Clark, '68 S., was born in Cincinnati,
Ohio, April 20, 1847. He is the son of Henry Clark and
Mary (Skyrin) Clark, who were married in Cincinnati,
and had five other children: Elizabeth, Henry, William,
Sarah, and Mary, all of whom died in Cincinnati except
the last named, who died in Montrose, Pa. None of
the family, other than the subject of this sketch, lived
to an adult age except one brother, Henry.
Henry Clark (born August, 1788, at Lyme, Conn.,
died August, 1879, at Glendale, Ohio) was a druggist of
American descent. He was director in the Franklin
Bank, and also trustee of the Glendale Association, hold-
ing the legal title to the Association's real estate.
Mary (Skyrin) Clark (born in 1800, at Philadelphia,
Pa., died in 1875, at Cincinnati, Ohio) was the daughter
of John Skyrin, an Englishman, and Ann (Drinker)
Skyrin, who was a daughter of Henry and Elizabeth
Drinker. Henry Drinker was a merchant doing a large
business with England, and owning his ships. Later in
life he invested his money in the purchase of several
counties in Pennsylvania.
Clark prepared at various schools in Cincinnati,
Ohio, and at Bridgeport, Conn., with Mr. Jones, a
son-in-law of Noah Webster, Yale 1778. He entered
Sheff in 1865, where he took the Select Course, and
30 BIOGRAPHIES
was a member of Book and Snake and was Class Poet.
He was married October 30, 1873, in Cincinnati,
Ohio, to Miss Jeannette Wilson, daughter of Pollock
Wilson. They have had four children: Henry Sky-
rin Clark, '99 S. (born October 27, 1877, at Glen-
dale, Ohio) ; Albert Gardiner Clark (born February
1, 1880, in Cincinnati) ; Carroll Morten Clark (born
December 8, 1886, in Glendale) ; and Mary Skyrin
Clark (born January 30, 1891, in Glendale).
After graduation Clark was engaged in the mer-
cantile business for several years, then studied law,
and from that drifted into quasi-municipal corpora-
tions in which connection he has filled the following
positions: vice-president and director of the Cincin-
nati Street Railway, general manager and director
of the Cincinnati Brush Light Company, member of
the executive committee and director of the Bell Tele-
phone Company of Cincinnati, director of the Ohio
Bell Telephone Company, constructor and vice-
president of the White Line Electric Street Railway
Company of Dayton, Ohio, vice-president and direc-
tor of the Mount Adams & Eden Park Street Rail-
way Company of Cincinnati, member of the executive
committee and director of the People's Street Rail-
way Company of Baltimore, Md., also vice-president
of the Central Trust & Safe Deposit Company of
Cincinnati, and secretary and member of the board
of directors of The Rookwood Pottery. He was
intimately associated with electrical development,
CLASS OF 1868 8. 31
being brought in contact with Van Derpoohl, Daft,
Brush, and others who were pioneers in this work.
He was the first to extract zinc commercially from
purely Western ores, shipping zinc ore from Lead-
ville, Colo., to Bruce, Kans., for smelting, and
returning residue to Denver for extraction of gold,
silver, etc. In social work he has been treasurer
and director of the Cincinnati May Musical Festival
Association; treasurer and member of the board of
governors of the Queen City Club, Cincinnati ;
member of the Cincinnati Commercial Club, and the
Denver Club of Colorado. Politically he is a Repub-
lican, and was president of the school board, and
president of the board constructing water works,
both of Glendale, Ohio.
He has traveled much in this country, having
raised oranges in Florida, mined in Georgia, pur-
chased timber lands in Louisiana, and sold building
tracts in San Antonio, Texas.
*Henry M. Dudley
Pharmacist
Woonsocket, R. I.
Died 1896
Henry Marchant Dudley, '68 S., the eldest child
of Paul W. and Sarah A. (Tobey) Dudley, was born
in Uxbridge, Mass., on August 12, 1846. His resi-
32 BIOGRAPHIES
dence was early removed to Whitinsville, in the
adjoining town of Northbridge.
In 1875 Dudley opened a drug store in Whitins-
ville, and continued in business there until 1882, when
he removed to Woonsocket, R. I., where he remained
in the same business until his death. He was for ten
years a member of the State Board of Pharmacy, and
was highly valued for his scientific attainments and
accuracy, as well as respected for his character.
He died in Woonsocket, from pneumonia, after a
little over a week's illness, on June 30, 1896, in his
fiftieth year. He married on May 6, 1873, Hattie
L. Reed, who survived him with two daughters and a
son, one son having died in infancy.
Henry T. Eddy, B. A., Ph. D., LL. D.
Head Professor of Mathematics and Mechanics, College of
Engineering, and Dean of the Graduate School,
University of Minnesota
916 Sixth Street S. E., Minneapolis, Minn.
Henry Turner Eddy, '68 S., was born in Stoughton,
Mass., June 9, 1844. He is a son of Rev. Henry Eddy
and Sarah Hayward (Torrey) Eddy, who were married
August 23, 1843, and brother of Willard Eddy (Yale
'70, born August 29, 1845, of Hartford, Conn., and
Omaha, Neb.), and half-brother of Cornelia Eddy (born
July 13, 1839, a graduate of Mt. Holyoke College, who
died March 24, 1893, at Brockton, Mass.).
Rev. Henry Eddy (born November 1, 1805, at Berlin,
Conn., died October 23, 1873, at Brockton, Mass.) was
CLASS OF 1868 S. 3$
a clergyman, physician and inventor. He was pastor
of various Congregational churches in Massachusetts,
Maine, and Connecticut, and in 1851 moved to Brockton,
Mass., where he resided until his death. He graduated
at Yale College in 1832, studied theology at Andover
and Yale, and took the degree of Doctor of Medicine at
Yale in 1851. He was a son of Thomas Eddy, and a
grandson of Charles Eddy of Hartford Colony.
Sarah Hay ward (Torrey) Eddy (born June 20, 1817,
at Brockton, Mass., died April 4, 1885, at Cincinnati,
Ohio) was the second daughter of Turner Torrey and
Sarah (Snell) Torrey. She graduated at Mt. Holyoke
Seminary under Mary Lyon, in 1839, and taught mathe-
matics at Mt. Holyoke Seminary, 1839-1842.
Eddy prepared at a private academy in Brockton,
Mass., and entered Yale in September, 1863, gradu-
ating from the College in 1867, with the degree of
A. B., after which he took the Engineering Course
at Sheff.
He was married on January 4, 1870, to Miss
Sebella Elizabeth Taylor of New Haven, Conn., a
graduate of Miss Button's School for Young Ladies,
and daughter of Horace A. Taylor, Yale '40 T., a
clergyman of the Western Reserve, Ohio. They
have had five children: Ruth Elizabeth (born Septem-
ber 20, 1871, at Ithaca, N. Y., a graduate of Vassar
in the Class of 1893, married on June 6, 1900, to
Charles F. Keyes, B. A. '96 and B. LL. '99 Univer-
sity of Minnesota) ; Horace Taylor Eddy (born May
25, 1874, at Princeton, N. J., a graduate of the Uni-
versity of Minnesota with degree B. E. E. in the
34 BIOGRAPHIES
Class of 1895, married to Carol Whitbeck, August
14, 1901); Esther Mabel (born July 20, 1876, at
Cincinnati, Ohio, a graduate of the University of
Minnesota in the Class of 1898, married on Novem-
ber 27, 1901, to Clive Hastings, B. M. E. '96 Uni-
versity of Minnesota) ; Beatrice Emogene Eddy
(born December 10, 1886, at Cincinnati, Ohio, grad-
uated at the University of Minnesota, B. A. '10) ;
and Helen Frances Eddy (born July 23, 1888, at
Guilford, Conn., graduated at the University of
Minnesota, B. A. '10).
Eddy has made teaching his profession and has
occupied the following positions : Instructor in Latin
and Mathematics, University of Tennessee, 1868-69 ;
assistant professor of Mathematics and Civil Engin-
eering, Cornell University, 1869-73, where he took
the degree of Civil Engineering, 1870, and Doctor
of Philosophy, 1872; adjunct professor of Mathe-
matics, Princeton University, 1873-74; professor of
Mathematics, Astronomy, and Civil Engineering,
University of Cincinnati, 1874-90 ; dean of Academic
Faculty, 1874-77 and 1884-89; acting president
and president-elect, University of Cincinnati, 1890;
president, Rose Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute,
Ind., 1891-94; professor of Engineering and Me-
chanics, College of Engineering, University of Min-
nesota, 1894-97 ; professor of Mathematics and Me-
chanics and head of the departments since 1907 ; and
dean of the Graduate School since 1906.
CLASS OF 1868 S. 35
He is a member of the Society for Promotion of
Engineering Education, American Mathematical So-
ciety, American Physical Society, American Philo-
sophical Society of Philadelphia, and Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of
Science. Center College conferred the degree of
Doctor of Laws upon him in 1892. He is a member
and a deacon of the First Congregational Church of
Minneapolis.
His published works are: "Analytical Geometry,"
1874; "Researches in Graphical Statics," 1878;
"Thermodynamics," 1879; "Neue Constructionen aus
der Graphischen Statik," 1880 ; "Maximum Stresses
under Concentrated Loads," 1890 ; also numerous
scientific and technical papers. He is a director in
the St. Anthony Falls Bank, and the Barnard-Cape
Manufacturing Company, Minneapolis.
Barton D. Evans
Chief Clerk, Department of Fisheries, State of Pennsylvania
Harrisburg, Pa.
Barton Darlington Evans, '68 S., was born in
West Chester, Pa., May 26, 1846.
He entered Sheff with his Class, and was a mem-
ber of Book and Snake.
Evans served in the Civil War, being enlisted with
the Twenty-ninth Pennsylvania Infantry in 1863, and
36 BIOGRAPHIES
with the One Hundred and Ninety-second Pennsyl-
vania Infantry in 1864. He is a member of the
Grand Army of the Republic.
Edward F. Finney
Real Estate
618-619 Security Building, St. Louis, Mo., and 1335 Washington
Avenue, St. Louis, Mo.
Edward Forsyth Finney, '68 S., was born in St. Louis,
Mo., March 30, 1843. He is a son of William Finney
and Jane (Lee) Finney, who were married March 17,
1825, and had fourteen other children, six of whom died
in childhood: John L. Finney (died June 11, 1876, at
Memphis, Tenn.) ; Rev. Thomas M. Finney, D. D. '47
(died October 1, 1900, in St. Louis) ; Mrs. Jane A.
Wheaton, a graduate of a young ladies' seminary, New
Haven, Conn., '47 (died October 1, 1882, in St. Louis) ;
William H. Finney (died June 10, 1900, in Kansas City) ;
Joseph T. Finney, a graduate of the St. Louis Univer-
sity and of Brown University, Providence, R. I. (died
October 11, 1866, in Philadelphia, Pa.) ; James S. Finney,
a graduate of Poughkeepsie Military Institute (died
October 31, 1881, in Dudley, Mo.); Walter W. Finney,
a graduate of Chester Military Academy, Chester, Pa.
(died February 4, 1884, in St. Louis) ; and Mrs. Mary
F. Barret, a graduate of Mme. O'Kills School, New York
City, in 1857.
William Finney (born March 8, 1804, at Boley,
County Cavan, Ireland, died September 4, 1858, at St.
Louis, Mo.) was a merchant in St. Louis. He was a son
of John Finney and E. (Johnson) Finney, Protestant
Irish.
CLASS OF 1868 S. 37
Jane (Lee) Finney (born October, 1807, at Bantry,
Ireland, died October 7, 18Q4, at St. Louis, Mo.) was a
daughter of John Lee and Jane (Kingston) Lee, Pro-
testant Irish.
Finney prepared for Yale at the High School in
St. Louis, and entered Sheff in September, 1865,
where he took the Engineering Course. He was a
member of Book and Snake.
He was married September 5, 1872, to Miss Juliet
F. Stanton, of Stonington, Conn., a graduate of
Bradford Academy, Bradford, Mass., in the Class of
1868, and daughter of the late Charles T. Stanton
and Nancy Lord Stanton. They have had no chil-
dren.
Since December 1, 1898, Finney has been manager
of the Hart estate, with offices at 618-619 Security
Building, St. Louis, Mo. He is a Democrat. After
following the railroad branch of his profession for
several years, he was assistant to the president of the
Board of Public Improvements, St. Louis, 1883-97.
He is a member of the University Club and an elder
of the Second Presbyterian Church of St. Louis.
* James Fowler
Died 1892
No information obtainable concerning James
Fowler, '68 S., other than that he died in 1892. In
Sheff he was a member of Book and Snake.
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*Frank M. Guthrie
Agent, Lehigh Valley Railroad
Died 1900
Frank Morton Guthrie, '68 S., son of C. B. Guth-
rie, M. D., of Orange, N. J., was born on March 19,
1847, in Erie, Pa. During his course in the Scien-
tific School his home was in Cincinnati, Ohio, and
New York City. He was a member of Theta Xi.
After graduation Guthrie was in business in Balti-
more and Cincinnati, but for some time before his
death he was agent of the Lehigh Valley Railroad,
at Duluth, Minn.
He married on March 2, 1882, Jane, daughter of
William Waddle, M. D., of Chillicothe, Ohio.
He died at Chillicothe, Ohio, on December 21, 1900,
at the age of fifty-three years.
*John C. Hersey
Clerk, Naval Office, U. S. Customs House
New York City
Died 1909
John Corey Hersey, '68 S., was born in Lowell, Mass.,
August 26, 1847. He was a son of Ira Hersey and
Amanda F. (Corey) Hersey, who were married Decem-
ber 3, 1844, and had six other children: Alice A., Anna
M., Emma M. (died in 1854, in New York City), Ira P.,
CLASS OF 1868 8. 39
Ella W. (died in 1884, at Taunton, Mass.), and William
F. (died in 1903, at Boston, Mass.).
Ira Hersey (born September 17, 1819, at East Bridge-
water, Mass., died December 26, 1897, at New York
City) was a merchant. He was a son of Jacob Hersey
and Mary (Drake) Hersey.
Amanda F. (Corey) Hersey (born November 2, 1826,
at Foxboro, Mass., died January 5, 1902) was a daughter
of John Corey and Anna (Rhodes) Corey.
Hersey prepared for Yale at the Quackenbos
School, in New York City, and entered Sheff with
his Class, where he took the Engineering Course.
He was married on April 12, 1875, to Miss Julia
A. Barnard of Morristown, N. Y., daughter of
Henry Barnard, who survives him. They had no
children.
After graduation he was engaged in civil engin-
eering and railroad building on the Northern Pacific
Railroad, but gave up his professional work in 1882
owing to impaired health. He had been connected
with the Naval Office of the United States Custom
House, New York City, since November, 1879, being
chief clerk and acting deputy naval officer at the time
of his death. Hersey was a Republican, and for
many years was a member of St. Paul's Protestant
Episcopal Church of Flatbush, and later of the Chris-
tian Science Church.
He died of Bright's disease, March 30, 1909, at
his home in Flatbush, Long Island, N. Y., at the age
of sixty-one years.
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^George A. Jackson, M. A.
Clergyman
Died 1907
George Anson Jackson, '68 S., was born in North
Adams, Mass., March 17, 1846. He was a son of
Jerome Bonaparte Jackson and Lydia Ann (Ward)
Jackson, brother of Irvine C. Jackson (died September,
1870, in Chicago, 111.) and Willis G. Jackson (died
February 1, 1902, at Thomas ville, Ga.), and half-brother
of Annie Brown Jackson, a graduate of Smith College
in the Class of 1882, of North Adams, Mass.
Jerome Bonaparte Jackson (born October 11, 1813, at
Fairfield, N. Y., died March 13, 1880, at North Adams,
Mass.) was a manufacturer living at North Adams, and
at one time was chairman of the Board of Selectmen of
that town. He was a son of Samuel (born in Canaan,
October 13, 1783), grandson of Jacob, and great-
grandson of Theophilus, of Kings District, N. Y., a
member of the Committee of Safety in the Revolution.
He was of Mayflower descent through Freelove (Foote)
Jackson, wife of Jacob, daughter of Ephraim Foote and
Lydia (Cushman) Foote.
Lydia Ann (Ward) Jackson (born December 2, 1820,
at Buckland, Mass., died September 28, 1846, at North
Adams, Mass.) was a daughter of Daniel Ward and Lydia
(Grover) Ward. The Ward family settled at Newtown
(Cambridge), Mass., in 1630.
Before entering college, Jackson was a clerk in a
dry goods store at Shelburne Falls, Mass., then a
few months in an Internal Revenue Office, and for a
year was bookkeeper in a shoe manufactory at North
Adams. He prepared for Yale at the Troy Confer-
CLASS OF 1868 S. 41
ence Academy, Poultney, Vt., and at the Appleton
Academy, New Ipswich, Mass., and entered Sheff in
the fall of 1865, where he took the Select Course, at
the same time studying Latin and Greek privately
under the direction of instructors in the Academic
Department. He was a member of Berzelius.
He married at Andover, Mass., November 21, 1871,
Miss Belle Donald, daughter of William Cooper
Donald, who died in Boston, Mass., April 22, 1906.
She survived him with two children: Mary Craig-
Essir Jackson (born in Leavenworth, Kan., March
28, 1873, a graduate of Smith in the Class of 1895),
and Jerome Paul Jackson (born in Southbridge,
Mass., December 10, 1875, a graduate of Amherst in
the Class of 1897 and of the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology in the Class of 1899, married June 9,
1906, to Mary Susan Goldthwait of Marblehead, a
graduate of Wellesley in the Class of 1897).
Jackson graduated from Andover Theological
Seminary in 1871, and received the honorary degree
of Master of Arts from Yale University in 1887.
Entering the ministry, he was pastor of the Second
Congregational Church in Leavenworth, Kan., in
1872-73, and was ordained there September 26, 1872.
From 1874 to 1878 he was pastor of the Evangelical
Church at Globe Village, Southbridge, Mass., and,
for nineteen years following, of the Congregational
Church in Swampscott, Mass. The greater part of
a year's leave of absence during this pastorate he
42 BIOGRAPHIES
spent in Europe, including several weeks of research
in the British Museum, visited many university towns,
studied one semester at Bonn University, and made
a trip to North Africa. In 1897 he was elected
secretary and librarian of the General Theological
Library in Boston, which loans without charge
through public libraries the best professional books
to New England clergymen irrespective of denomina-
tion.
In 1881 he initiated the movement which led to the
organization of the New England Divorce Reform
League, of which he was secretary till 1883. He was
an original member of the American Church History
Society, which was later merged with the American
Historical Association, also a member of the National
Geographic Society. From 1895 to 1897 he was
chairman of the Board of Park Commissioners of
Swampscott, which started the extensive shore im-
provements of the town.
Mr. Jackson edited, N. Y. 1879-83, four volumes
in the series of the Church Fathers, was the author
of a "New Creed Catechism" and of "The Son of a
Prophet," the latter a work of fiction of unusual
merit ; as library trustee prepared the catalogue of
the Southb ridge (Mass.) Public Library; wrote for
the Popular Science Monthly, Andover Review,
Atlantic Monthly, New England Magazine, and
Library Journal, also miscellaneous papers, including
the Introduction to Mr. Waldo Thompson's
CLASS OF 1868 S. 43
"Sketches of Swampscott," 1885, which he also edited.
An address on "Old Bridgewater: a Classic Town,"
1904, and others on historical subjects have been
printed.
He died at his home in Swampscott May 9, 1907,
at the age of sixty-one years.
*Joseph S. McKell
Merchant with McKell & Co., China and Glassware
Died 1910
Joseph Scott McKell, '68 S., was born in Chillicothe,,
Ohio, September 17, 184-6. He was a son of William
McKell and Phebe (Cook) McKell, who were married
in 1836, and had twelve other children: James Cook
McKell (Omaha, Neb.); William Jones McKell (died
a prisoner of war at Andersonville, Ga., in 1863);
Thomas Gaylord McKell (died at Chillicothe, Ohio, in
1904); Margaret Cook McKell (died at Mt. Vernon,
Iowa, July 19, 1903); Maria Webb McKell (died at
Chillicothe, September 28, 1902); Elizabeth McKell
Smith (resides at Omaha, Neb.) ; Eleanor McKell Mayo
(resides at Los Angeles, Cal.) ; and two sons and three
daughters who died in early life.
William McKell (born in 1808 of Scotch Irish parent-
age at Derry Hall, County Armaugh, Ireland, died
February 15, 1882, at Chillicothe, Ohio) was a mer-
chant, and for twenty years was president of the First
National Bank of Chillicothe. He was the first im-
porter of English earthware west of the Allegheny
Mountains, and founded the oldest china house, con-
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tinuously under one name, in the United States, since
1832.
Phebe (Cook) McKell (born August 8, 1813, at Willow
Branch, Ohio, died February 4, 1901) was a descendant
of the Scott and Cook families of the Revolutionary
period.
McKell prepared for Yale at the High School, in
Chillicothe, Ohio, and entered Sheff with his Class,
where he took the Select Course. He was a member
of Theta Xi.
He was married on January 18, 1881, to Miss
Helen McCandless, of Pittsburg, Pa., a graduate of
Pelham Priory, N. Y., and daughter of David Mc-
Candless, the first chairman of the Edgar Thompson
Steel Works, Pittsburg, Pa., who died January, 1879.
They had two sons: David McCandless McKell, a
graduate of West Point in the Class of 1904, first
lieutenant Coast Artillery, U. S. A. ; and William
Scott McKell, ex-'05 S., and a graduate of the
Leland Stanford, Jr., University, 1908.
McKell went into his father's firm, McKell & Co.,
in 1871, and was owner of this company at the time
of his death. He had held the office of president
for several years of the Fidelity Building & Loan
Company ; was president of the Home Telephone
Company; director in the Central National Bank,
the Savings Bank, and the Chillicothe Gas & Water
Company, all of Chillicothe; and president of the
Portsmouth Telephone Company, Portsmouth, Ohio.
CLASS OF 1868 8. 45
He was a member and a trustee of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
He died at his home in Chillicothe, Ohio, on Sep-
tember 29, 1910. His wife and two sons survive him.
Charles K. Needham, C. E.
Retired; Formerly with Louisville & Nashville R. R. Co.
New Albany, Ind.
Charles Kinney Needham, '68 S., was born in Louis-
ville, Ky., July 12, 1848. He is a son of Edgar Need-
ham and Sarah (Smith) Needham, who were married
August 24, 1847> and had four other children: George S.
Needham, '74 S. (died February 25, 1891, at Richmond,
Ind.) ; Edward B. Needham, '80 S.; Mary (married Rev.
J. B. Gregg, Colorado Springs, Colo.) ; and Harriet
(married C. N. Ross, Etiwanda, Cal.).
Edgar Needham (born March 19, 1813, near Battle,
Sussex County, England, died March 9, 1873, at Louis-
ville, Ky.) came to this country in 1829, and was a stone
cutter and contractor, living at Louisville, Ky. From
1862 until his death he was United States assessor of
Internal Revenue.
Sarah (Smith) Needham (born March 27, 1820, at
Waltham, Mass., died October 17, 1876, at Hartford,
Conn.) was daughter of a carpenter and pattern maker
who was lost at sea about ten years after his marriage.
The family lived at Medfield, Mass., until she went West
to teach school.
Needham prepared for Yale at the High School
in Louisville, Ky., during the progress of the Civil
War, and entered Sheff in September, 1865, where
he took the Civil Engineering Course. After obtain-
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ing the degree of Ph. B., he remained another year
to receive the degree of Civil Engineer in 1869.
He is unmarried.
After graduation, and for about six years, Need-
ham engaged in various kinds of engineering work
railroads, United States surveys, and bridge con-
struction. He then traveled extensively for two
years, spending most of the time in Germany.
Returning to the United States in 1878, he again
engaged in railroad building and in the maintenance
of way department of a completed railroad. Scien-
tific experiments claimed about a year of his time
with an invention that seemed promising. In 1883
he went to Florida, but returned to Kentucky, with
impaired health, in June, 1888. He was with the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company until Sep-
tember, 1890, when he retired from active business.
Exposure to the summer sun in Florida had developed
an incurable nervous disorder, marked by insomnia
and other disturbances, which made him unequal to
the demands of engineering work either in the field or
the office.
Frederick G. Noonan
434 Jackson Street, Milwaukee, Wis.
No information has been obtainable of Frederick
George Noonan, '68 S. In Sheff he was a member
of Book and Snake.
CLASS OF 1868 8. 47
Lyman B. Parshall
Stock Raising
Canton, Jackson County, Iowa
Lyman Bradley Parshall, '68 S., was born in Inter-
laken, N. Y., June 28, 1845. He is a son of Caleb
Halsey Parshall and Betsey Barlow (Bradley) Parshall,
who were married January 24, 1835, and had seven other
children: Hannah Julia Parshall (died March 8, 1871,
at Racine, Wis.) ; Frances Sarepta Parshall; Sarah
Louise Parshall (died October 14, 1886, at Interlaken,
N. Y.) ; Mary Elizabeth Parshall; George Beck Parshall
(died August 31, 1870, in Chicago, 111.) ; Thomas Wardle
Parshall; and Wilhelmina Schenk Parshall (died March
6, 1877, at Interlaken, N. Y.).
Caleb Halsey Parshall (born August 21, 1809, at
Riverhead, N. Y., died September 27, 1883, at Inter-
laken, N. Y.) was a farmer, living at Interlaken, N. Y.
He was of English ancestry, the sixth generation from
James Parshall, of the Isle of Wight, England.
Betsey Barlow (Bradley) Parshall (born June 13,
1818, at Trumansburg, N. Y., died January 14, 1888, at
Interlaken, N. Y.) was of New England ancestry.
Parshall was a school teacher before coming to
Yale, prepared at Northville, L. I., and entered
Sheff in 1865, where he took the Select Course. He
was a member of Theta Xi.
He was married near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on
July 24, 1884, to Miss Ella Rebecca Smith, daughter
of Philip Smith, a farmer. They have had two
daughters: Genevieve Smith Parshall (born January
27, 1889, at Canton, Iowa), and Wilhelmina Bradley
Parshall (born April 25, 1893, at Maquoketa, Iowa).
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Parshall is engaged in stock-raising at Canton,
Iowa. In politics he is a Democrat, and was county
superintendent for Jackson County, Iowa, from 1892
to 1896. In November, 1908, he was elected state
senator (Democratic) for the twenty- third senatorial
district of Iowa, for a term of four years. He is a
member of the Knights of Pythias.
William W. Redfield
Retired
2637 Portland Avenue, Minneapolis, Minn.
William Wallace Redfield, '68 S., was born in New
York City, July 7, 1844. He is the son of John Howard
Redfield and Mary Jane (Whitney) Redfield, who were
married August 16, 1843, and had three other children:
Clara Redfield (died January 4, 1891, at Philadelphia,
Pa.) ; Robert Stuart Redfield (winter address, Wayne,
Delaware County, Pa., summer address, Barnstable,
Mass.) ; and Eliza Whitney Redfield (winter address,
Cambridge, Mass., summer address, Seal Harbor, Me.).
John Howard Redfield (born July 10, 1815, at Crom-
well, Conn., died February 27, 1895, at Philadelphia,
Pa.) was the son of William C. Redfield and Abigail
(Wilcox) Redfield, both of old New England families.
He was a botanist, and author of several botanical works,
a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila-
delphia, and for a long time corresponding secretary of
the Lyceum of Natural History.
Mary Jane (Whitney) Redfield (born November,
1821, at Brownsville, Jefferson County, N. Y., died
April 9, 1904, in Philadelphia, Pa.) was the daughter of
Asa Whitney, of Massachusetts. Her mother was Clar-
inda (Williams) Whitney, of Groton, Conn.
CLASS OF 1868 S. 49
Redfield prepared for Yale at private schools in
N\u York City, and from 1861 to July 7, 1865, he
was an apprentice in Wm. Sellers & Co., Philadel-
phia, entering Sheff in 1865, where he took the Civil
Engineering Course.
He was married on October 81, 1872, at Waseca,
Minn., to Miss Emma Louise Stoddard (born August
26, 1853), daughter of Oliver Judson Stoddard
(deceased) of Kalamazoo, Mich. They have two
daughters: Mary Jane Redfield (born September 21,
1873, at Waseca, Minn.), and Alice Williams Red-
field (born December 24, 1878, at Minneapolis,
Minn., a student at the University of Minnesota for
two years). Mary Jane Redfield was a graduate
and author of the Senior Play of the Class of '98,
University of Minnesota, married on September 26,
1899, to Edgar M. Hoover of Little Falls, Minn.,
now residing in Boise, Idaho. She has two sons:
John Redfield Hoover, born in 1903, and Edgar M.
Hoover, Jr., born February 22, 1907.
Redfield spent eight years, previous to 1881, on
location and construction of railroads, and in Decem-
ber, 1881, he became civil, hydraulic and mechanical
engineer for the W'ater Department of Minneapolis,
which position he held for twenty-seven years, retir-
ing on April 1, 1909, on account of failing eyesight.
Redfield has belonged to the Engineers Club of
Minneapolis since its organization in 1883, and has
filled, a greater part of the time, and now fills, the
50 BIOGRAPHIES
office of librarian, having been their vice-president
and president for one year in each office. He is also
a member of the National Geographic Society of
Washington, D. C. In politics he is a Republican,
and is a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Alexander Renick
President First National Bank of Chillicothe, Ohio
65 East Fourth Street, Chillicothe, Ohio
Alexander Renick, '68 S., was born in Chillicothe,
Ohio, April 8, 1847. He is a son of Alexander Renick
and Jane (Osborn) Renick, who were married April 10,
1838, and had four other children: Ralph O. Renick
(died April, 1899, at Circleville, Ohio), Mrs. Dorothy R.
Work, Henry T. Renick, and George Renick (died May,
1880, at Cincinnati, Ohio).
Alexander Renick (born February 4, 1815, at Chilli-
cothe, Ohio, died September 29, 1875, at Chillicothe,
Ohio) was a farmer and banker connected with the First
National Bank of Chillicothe. He was a son of George
Renick (born in 1776, in Virginia, died September, 1863,
in Chillicothe), and grandson of William Renick (died
July, 1807, in Hardy County, W. Va.).
Jane (Osborn) Renick (born December 11, 1817, at
Columbus, Ohio, died October 11, 1886, at Chillicothe,
Ohio) was a daughter of Ralph Osborn of the Osborn
family of New England and Catherine (Renick) Osborn.
Renick attended the high school at Chillicothe,
the Pennsylvania Military Academy at West Chester,
Pa., and entered Sheff with his Class, where he took
the Select Course. He was a member of Theta Xi.
CLASS OF 1868 8. 51
He was married on December 29, 1874, to Miss
Elizabeth Waddle, of Chillicothe, a graduate of
Miss Brace's School, New Haven, Conn., in the Class
of 1867, and daughter of William Waddle, a physi-
cian. They have had two sons: William Waddle
Renick (died November 14, 1882), and Alexander
Mortimer Renick.
Since November, 1892, Renick has been president
of the First National Bank in Chillicothe, president
of the Mutual Loan & Savings Association of Chilli-
cothe, Ohio, and vice-president of the Valley Savings
Bank & Trust Company of Chillicothe, Ohio. Politi-
cally he is a Republican.
* Joseph P. Rockwell
Civil Engineer
Died 1885
Joseph Perkins Rockwell, '68 S., the youngest son
of the Hon. John A. Rockwell, Yale 1822, and Mary
W. (Perkins) Rockwell, was born in Norwich, Conn.,
in 1843.
After leaving the Free Academy, in his native city,
Rockwell made an extended sea voyage, and was still
abroad when the Civil War opened. Returning just
as the Eighteenth Regiment of Connecticut Volun-
teers was being organized, he enlisted, was appointed
sergeant-major, promoted to a captaincy, shared
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with his brother officers for nine months the hard-
ships of Libby prison, and after serving with credit
was mustered out at the close of the war. He then
entered the Scientific School, and took the Civil
Engineering Course. He was a member of Berzelius.
His chief professional work was in connection with
the construction of the Air Line and Shepaug Valley
Railroads in this state. After the completion of
these roads, he entered the employ of the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy Railroad, and in recognition
of his faithfulness and ability was advanced by rapid
promotion to the position of assistant superintendent.
He resigned this post in 1876 to become the mana-
ger of the North Texas Cotton Compressing Com-
pany, an important and prosperous business enter-
prise in Denison, Texas. A tendency to chills and
fever, contracted in the army, was aggravated by
his residence in Denison, and he returned about 1880
to his old home. His health, however, was perma-
nently broken, and after a long and heroic struggle,
he succumbed, while on a visit to Boston, to the final
attacks of his disease, on November 22, 1885, at the
age of forty-two. He was never married.
*Lewis B. Stone
Died 1871
Lewis Bridge Stone, '68 S., son of the late J.
Cameron Stone, of New York City, died in Paris,
CLASS OF 1868 S. 53
France, November 10, 1871, aged twenty-four years.
He was returning from a visit to California,
Japan, China, and Europe. During the summer of
1871 he contracted the malarial fever in Rome, from
the effects of which he never recovered. In Sheff he
was a member of Book and Snake.
^Samuel Swift, M. D.
Physician
Died 1896
Samuel Swift, '68 S., was born in Brooklyn, N. Y.,
on August 5, 1849. In Sheff he was a member of
Book and Snake.
He studied medicine, and received his degree from
the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York
in 1872.
In 1873 he settled in Yonkers, N. Y., where besides
his medical practice he was much engaged in public
affairs, being for one term mayor of the city, and
also president of the Board of Education.
He was stricken with apoplexy in a public place
of entertainment in New York City on the evening
of July 25, 1896, and died at Flower Hospital on
July 29, at the age of forty-seven.
His wife, Lucy, daughter of Judge Henry E.
Davies, of New York City, died on February 4, 1897.
One daughter survives them.
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Prof. Henry S. Williams, Ph. D.
Professor of Geology, Cornell University
Ithaca, N. Y.
Henry Shaler Williams, '68 S., was born in Ithaca,
N. Y., March 6, 1847. He is a son of Josiah Butler
Williams and Mary Huggeford (Hardy) Williams, who
were married September 6, 1842, and had eleven other
children: George Russell Williams (a graduate of the
Albany Law School); Charles Hardy Williams (died
July 11, 1846); Roger Butler Williams, '68; Mary
Louise Williams (died July 2, 1869); Augusta Hardy
Williams; Thomas Walker Williams (died March 27,
1854); Charlotte Elizabeth Williams; Jane Edwards
(married John Truman Newman) ; Ella Susan Williams ;
Clara Martha (married John Henry Tanner) ; and Otis
Lincoln Williams (a graduate of Cornell with degree of
M. E. in the Class of 1888).
Josiah Butler Williams (born December 16, 1810, at
Middletown, Conn., died September 26, 1883, at Ithaca,
N. Y.) was a banker residing at Ithaca, N. Y. He was
state senator for several years about 1852, and chairman
of the committee on revising the state laws on banking;
was president of the Merchants and Farmers Bank, and
of the First National Bank, Ithaca, and was one of the
original trustees of Cornell University. He was a son
of Josiah and Charity Shaler Williams.
Mary Huggeford (Hardy) Williams (born December
2, 1824, at Utica, N. Y.) is a daughter of Charles Elias
Hardy and Louisa (Walker) Hardy.
Williams prepared at the Ithaca Academy, and
entered Yale College with the Class of 1868, but at
the end of Sophomore year he transferred to the
Junior Class in Sheff.
CLASS OF 1868 8. 55
He was married on October 18, 1871, to Harriet
H. Willcox, daughter of Cyprian Willcox, of New
Haven, Conn. They have four children, born in
Ithaca, N. Y. : Charlotte W. Williams ; Roger Henry
Williams (a graduate at Cornell with degree of
Ph. B. in the Class of 1895, and received degree of
M. A. from Yale in 1903; married Frances Coleman
of Paces, Va.) ; Arthur Shaler Williams, '01, Cornell
M. E. ; and Edith Clifford Williams.
Williams remained at Yale after graduation as an
assistant in Paleontology, and received his Doctorate
of Philosophy in 1871. During 1871-72 he occupied
the chair in Natural Science at the Kentucky Univer-
sity. In 1880 he went to Cornell as assistant pro-
fessor of Geology and was made a full professor in
1892. In that year, however, he accepted the Silli-
man professorship of Geology at Yale, where he
remained until 1904 ; since that time he has been
head of the Department of Geology and director of
the museum at Cornell. He has charge of the Devo-
nian Laboratory of the United States Geological
Survey, and is an associate editor of the American
Journal of Science and Journal of Geology.
BIOGRAPHIES
1869 S
^William G. Abbot
Secretary Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company
Died 1889
William Greene Abbot, '69 S., was born in Nor-
wich, Conn., October 1, 1848, the son of Edward O.
Abbot, superintendent of the Falls Manufacturing
Company.
A year or two after graduation Abbot took the
position of assistant in the Dime Savings Bank of
Norwich, of which he became subsequently the treas-
urer. His administration of this institution was
highly successful, but he resigned in 1881 to accept
an appointment as assistant secretary of the Connec-
ticut Mutual Life Insurance Company at Hartford.
In 1884, on the promotion of the secretary to the
vice-presidency, Mr. Abbot was elected secretary, and
he held that responsible office until his death, fulfill-
ing his duties with fidelity and ability. He was also
a director of the State Bank of Hartford, and had
served for one term as president of the Hartford
Library Association.
CLASS OF 1869 S. 57
He died in Hartford, October 12, 1889, in his
forty-second year, of Bright's disease, the symptoms
of which were first discovered in 1884, though his
last illness was a brief one.
He left a wife, formerly Miss Rose Standish
Goddard of Norwich, and two daughters.
William R. Belknap
President, Belknap Hardware & Manufacturing Co.
Second and Washington Streets, and 408 West Ormsby Avenue,
Louisville, Ky.
Roman Augustus Bissell, '69 S., was born in Detroit,
Louisville, Ky., March 28, 1849. He is the son of
William Burke Belknap and Mary (Richardson) Belk-
nap, and brother of Caroline Belknap, Lucy Belknap, and
Morris B. Belknap, Yale '77 S.
William Burke Belknap (born May 17, 1811, at Brim-
field, Mass., died February 24, 1889, at Louisville, Ky.)
was president of the Citizens National Bank and of
W. B. Belknap & Co., and resided in Louisville from
1839 to the end of his life. He was a son of Morris
Burke and Phoebe (Locke) Belknap.
Mary (Richardson) Belknap (born June 11, 1821, at
Lexington, Ky.) is a daughter of William and Synia
(Higgins) Richardson.
Belknap prepared for Yale in the Louisville High
School, and entered Sheff with his Class, where he
took the Select Course, mainly under Prof. W. D.
Whitney and D. C. Oilman.
58 BIOGRAPHIES
He was married at New Haven, Conn., on Decem-
ber 2, 1874, to Miss Alice Trumbull Silliman, died
November, 1890, at Louisville, Ky., daughter of
Benjamin Silliman, Yale 1837, professor of Chem-
istry and Physics at Yale. He has five children:
Eleanor (born in Louisville, Vassar 1898, married
December 19, 1904, to Lewis C. Humphrey of Louis-
ville) ; Alice S. (married April 25, 1905, to Dr.
Forbes Hawkes, Yale '87, of New York City) ; Mary
(born in New Haven, Vassar 1903, married June 10,
1909, to George Herbert Gray, of Louisville) ;
William Burke (born in Louisville, Yale 1908) ; and
Christine (born in Louisville, April, 1890). He was
married again on February 21, 1894, to Miss Juliet
Rathbone Davison of Louisville, Ky.
Belknap has been connected with the Belknap
Hardware & Manufacturing Co., of Louisville, Ky.,
since 1880, and is president of the company. He is
an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and a member
of the Country and Commercial Clubs of Louisville.
In politics he is a Republican.
Belknap contributed a few articles to the Courant
and Lit. while in college. A story, "The Hobby of
one Holmes," was published in the Southern Bivouac,
was copied by the New York Evening Post, and
translated into German for the Belletrishes Journal.
He writes occasionally for the newspapers and
tradespapers, notably the Iron Age of New York.
CLASS OF 1869 S. 59
Roman A. Bissell
Retired
174 Fort Street West, Detroit, Mich.
Roman Augustus Bissell, '69 S., was born in Detroit,
Mich., March 16, 1848. He is a son of Augustus Edward
Bissell and Melicent Wetmore (Watson) Bissell, who
were married February 29, 1836, and had five other
children: Henrietta Augusta Bissell (born October 16,
1839, died February 26, 1902); Edward Watson Bissell
(born September 16, 1843, a resident of Detroit, Mich.) ;
and three sons who died in early life.
Augustus Edward Bissell (born February 13, 1805, at
Torringford, Conn., died July 31, 1875, at Detroit,
Mich.) was a merchant. He lived for eighteen years in
Georgia, removing to Detroit in 1839, where he carried
on a wholesale mining and lumbering supply business
until I860, when lie added to it the flour and grain and
shipping business. He was a son of Elijah Bissell and
Rachel (Soper) Bissell, and a descendant of the Hugue-
not Bissells who were driven out of France at the time
(1572) of the St. Bartholomew massacre, fled to Eng-
land, settled in Somersetshire, came to Plymouth in 1628,
thence to Windsor, Conn., in 1635, and soon had the
monopoly of the ferry (the Scantic) across the Big
(Connecticut) River, which remained in the family more
than one hundred years.
Melicent Wetmore (Watson) Bissell (born December
29, 1808, at New Hartford, Conn., died January 3, 1885,
at Detroit, Mich) was a daughter of Thomas Watson, a
soldier in the Revolution, and Melicent (Wetmore) Wat-
son, who were married January, 1797. The Watsons
settled in this country at Hartford in 1644.
Bissell prepared for Yale at Mr. Patterson's
private school in Detroit, and entered Sheff with his
Class, where he took the Civil Engineering Course.
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He is unmarried.
A few months after graduation Bissell went to
Kansas and was rodman, transitman, assistant engi-
neer, etc., on the Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston
Railroad until the summer of 1872. He then
returned to Detroit and entered his father's firm on
the docks until the latter 's death in July, 1875 ; was
bookkeeper for a large flour firm; and bought and
equipped a mill for oatmeal, etc., but sold out at the
end of three years. Bissell was one of four to build
up a large and profitable cartage and storage busi-
ness, and was secretary and treasurer of the firm for
eight years. As a result of overwork, his health
broke down, and he retired in 1889.
In politics, Bissell is a Republican, putting good
citizenship before party. He was a few years in the
Michigan State Militia, and served in a few riot
calls. He is a member of the First Congregational
Church, and has held various church offices. He is
a member of the Sons of the American Revolution,
the Detroit Boat Club, and the University Club.
Charles A. Brinley
Managing Director, The American Pulley Company
29th and Bristol Streets, and 247 South 16th Street,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Charles A. Brinley, '69 S., was born in Hartford,
Conn., August 23, 1847. He is a son of George Brinley,
and Frances Ellen (Terry) Brinley, who were married
in 1839, and had four other children: George P. Brinley
CLASS OF 1869 S.
61
(deceased), Edward Brinley (deceased), Catharine H.
Brinley (deceased), and Ellen Terry Brinley.
George Brinley (born May 18, 1817, at Boston, Mass.,
died May 16, 1875, at Bermuda) was a Bibliomaniac
living at Hartford, and was a trustee of the Watkinson
Library. He received the honorary degree of M. A. from
Yale in 1868. He was a son of George Brinley, a direct
descendant of Thomas Brinley, auditor general to
Charles I. of England, and of Katharine Putnam, grand-
daughter of General Israel Putnam.
Frances Ellen (Terry) Brinley (born March 14, 1816,
died April 8, 1876, at Hartford, Conn.) was a daughter
of General Nathaniel Terry and Katharine (Wadsworth)
Terry, daughter of Colonel Jeremiah Wadsworth, of
Hartford, Conn., agent of the French Army in the
American Revolution, and assistant quartermaster
general of the Continental Army.
Brinley spent one year on geological survey work
in California before entering Yale. He prepared for
college at the High School in Hartford, and entered
Sheff in November, 1866, where he took the Chemistry
Course.
He was married on April 24, 1877, to Miss Mary
Goodrich Frothingham, daughter of Theodore Froth-
ingham, a merchant of Philadelphia, Pa. They have
four children: Charles Edward Brinley (born Feb-
ruary 25, 1878, Yale B. A., 1900, Ph. B. 1901) ;
Mary Frothingham (born May 14, 1879, married
John Wallingford Muir, November 15, 1905) ;
Katharine Brinley (born June 14, 1883) ; and Alice
Wolcott Brinley (born September 18, 1886).
Brinley was a postgraduate student at Yale, 1869-
62 BIOGRAPHIES
72 ; chemist, with the Midvale Steel Company, Phila-
delphia, 1872-74; superintendent, Midvale Steel
Company, 1874-82; general manager, Franklin
Sugar Refinery, Philadelphia, 1882-92. He was
president of the American Society for the Extension
of University Teaching, 1893-1903. In 1898, he
became managing director, and in 1907 president,
of the American Pulley Company, which position he
now holds. He has traveled extensively, and has
made four trips abroad.
In politics, Brinley is an independent voter. He
is a member of the Episcopal Church, and belongs
to the Mayflower Society, Sons of the American
Revolution, Rittenhouse Club, University Club and
Germantown Cricket Club, all of Philadelphia.
His published works are: "Citizenship," Porter &
Coates, Philadelphia; "Voter's Hand Book"; Ad-
dress before Convention of University Extension
Delegates, Morristown, N. J., American Society for
the Extension of University Teaching; "Morches-
ter," under nom de guerre., Charles Datchet, G. P.
Putnam's Sons; "Russell W. Davenport," a bio-
graphical sketch, G. P. Putnam's Sons.
Dr. Francis D. Buck, M. D.
Physician
158 West Forty-eighth Street, New York City
Francis Dudley Buck, '69 S., was born in New York
City, October 11, 1850. He is a son of Gurdon Buck
CLASS OF 1869 S. 63
and Henrietta E. (Wolff) Buck, who were married July
27, 1836, and had four other children: Albert Henry
Buck, '64, Columbia M. D., '67; Gurdon Saltonstall
Buck, ex-'70 ; Amelia H. Buck (deceased) ; and Susan
M. Buck.
Gurdon Buck (born May 4, 1807, at New York City,
died March 6, 1877, at New York City) was a physician
and surgeon of New York City. He was also on the
staff of the New York, Roosevelt, and Presbyterian
Hospitals. He was a son of Gurdon Buck, a New York
merchant, and Susan, daughter of David Manwaring,
also of New York.
Henrietta E. (Wolff) Buck (born March 4, 1810, at
Geneva, Switzerland, died September 20, 1899, at New
York City) was a daughter of Albert Henry Wolff of
Geneva, Switzerland.
Buck prepared for Yale at Marron's School,
Morristown, N. J., and Cherbuliez's School, Pelham,
N. Y., and entered Sheff in the fall of 1866, where
he took the Chemistry Course. He was a member
of Theta Xi.
He was married in April, 1872, to Miss Clara
Tillon (died January, 1873, at New York City),
daughter of Francis Tillon, a lawyer of New York
City. He has one son: Francis Tillon Buck (born
January 11, 1873, Columbia '94).
Buck graduated from the College of Physicians
and Surgeons (Columbia) 1876, and is a physician
in New York City. He is a member of the Presby-
terian Church, belongs to the New York County
Medical Society, Medical Association of Greater
64 BIOGRAPHIES
New York, New York State Medical Society and
American Medical Association.
Andrew D. Chidsey
Banker, Hacken & Chidsey
Easton, Pa.
Andrew Dwight Chidsey, '69 S., was born in East
Haven, Conn., September 30, 1848. He is the son
of Russell Smith Chidsey (born in Foxon, Conn.)
and Lucy (Morris) Chidsey (born in East Haven,
Conn.).
Chidsey prepared for Yale at Lawrenceville, N. J.,
and entered Sheff in the fall of 1866, where he took
the Select Course.
He married Miss Georgia Lake of Easton, Pa.
They have five children: Helen Street Chidsey (born
July 5, 1876) ; Andrew Dwight Chidsey, Jr., (born
October 7, 1879, at Easton, Pa., C. E. Lafayette) ;
Thomas McKeen Chidsey (born January 26, 1884,
B. A. Lafayette) ; Harold Russell Chidsey (born
June 1, 1887) ; and Alan Luke Chidsey (born March
13, 1904).
Chidsey is a Republican. He has been a director
in banks and other institutions.
^Clarence M. Clarke
Civil Engineer
Died 1890
Clarence Marcellus Clarke, '69 S., died in Wash-
ington, D. C., June 15, 1890. His early residence
CLASS OF 1869 S. 65
was in New Haven, and here he enlisted, in July,
1862, in the Fifteenth Connecticut Regiment of
Volunteers as a private ; he was made first lieutenant
of the Twenty-ninth Regiment in June, 1864, and
captain in the same regiment in May, 1865.
After graduation he followed the profession of
a civil engineer, and for many years before his death
resided in Washington. His death resulted from
nervous prostration due to overwork.
Frederick S. Curtis
Principal and Owner of The Curtis School for Boys
Brookfield Center, Conn.
Frederick Smillie Curtis, '69 S., was born in Stratford,
Conn., February 8, 1850. He is the son of Calvin Curtis
and Elizabeth (Wicks) Curtis, who were married
November 13, 1844, at New York City, and had two
other children: Helen Augusta Curtis and Lily Curtis.
Calvin Curtis (born July 5, 1822, at Stratford, Conn.,
died July 12, 1893) was a portrait painter, living at
Stratford, Conn. He was a lineal descendant of William
Curtis, who landed at Scituate, December, 1632, and of
Rev. Nathan Birdseye, Yale 1736.
Elizabeth (Wicks) Curtis (born April 23, 1819, at
New York City, died April 13, 1884, at Stratford, Conn.)
was descended from Thomas Weeks of Huntington,
Long Island, and the Scudders, also of Long Island.
Curtis prepared for Yale at the Academy in
Stratford, Conn., and entered Sheff with his Class,
where he took the Chemistry and Mining Course.
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He was married on October 9, 1873, to Miss Ida
Jewell Whiting of Stratford, Conn., daughter of
Ezra Whiting. They have three children: Chloe
Curtis (born January 24, 1878, Wellesley 1900) ;
Gerald Beckwith Curtis (born February 22, 1882) ;
and Lawrence Curtis (born February 23, 1890).
Curtis has been principal of the Curtis School for
Boys since 1875. In 1902 and 1908 he visited
Europe. He was moderator of the State Confer-
ence of Congregational Churches in 1902, and dele-
gate to the Third International Council of Congre-
gational Churches at Edinburgh in 1908. He
writes, "An uneventful life spent chiefly in develop-
ing my own school on my own ideas." He is a
deacon and trustee of the Congregational Church.
In politics he is a Republican.
Prof. Augustus J. DuBois, C. E., Ph.D.
Professor of Civil Engineering, Yale University
334 Edwards Street, New Haven, Conn.
Augustus Jay DuBois, '69 S., was born in Newton
Falls, Ohio, April 25, 184,9. He is a son of Henry
Augustus DuBois and Catherine Helena (Jay) DuBois,
who were married December 17, 1835, and had six other
children: Cornelius Jay DuBois (born August 30, 1836,
LL. B. Columbia 1861, M. D. Yale 1866, died February
11, 1880, at New Haven, Conn.); Henry Augustus
DuBois (born June 26, 1840, Ph. B. Yale 1859, died
May 26, 1897, at San Rafael, Cal.) ; John Jay DuBois
(born June 6, 1846, B. A. Yale 1867, LL. B. Columbia
1869, M. A. Yale 1872, died November 11, 1898, at Lake-
CLASS OF 1869 8. 67
wood, N. J.) ; Alfred Wagstaff DuBois (born December
30, 1852, died March 18, 1900, at Paris, France) ; Mary
Rutherfurd Jay DuBois (born May 22, 1854); and
Robert Ogden DuBois (born January 19, I860, Ph. B.
Yale 1883, M. D. Yale 1886, died March 9, 1895, at
New York City).
Henry Augustus DuBois (born August 8, 1808, at
New York City, died January 13, 1884, at New Haven,
Conn.) was a physician residing successively at New
York City, Newton Falls, Ohio, and New Haven, Conn.
He graduated at Columbia College in 1827, and received
his degree in medicine there in 1830. Yale gave him the
honorary degree of Doctor of Laws in 1884. He was
a son of Cornelius DuBois, a descendant of Jacques
DuBois, French Huguenot refugee from Artois, who
fled to Leyden, Holland, and emigrated to Esopus, N. Y.,
and Sarah Platt (Ogden) DuBois of New York.
Catherine Helena (Jay) DuBois (born June 11, 1815,
at New York City, died September 29, 1889, at New
Haven, Conn.) was a daughter of Peter Augustus Jay,
eldest son of Chief Justice John Jay, a descendant of
Augustus Jay, a French Huguenot, and Sarah Van
Brugh Livingston, daughter of William Livingston,
governor of New Jersey.
DuBois prepared for Yale at the Hopkins Gram-
mar School, New Haven, Conn., and entered Sheff
with his Class, where he took the Civil Engineering
Course. Graduate work gave him the degrees of
Civil Engineer in 1870, and Doctor of Philosophy
in 1873.
He was married on June 23, 1883, to Miss Adeline
Blakesley of New Haven, Conn., daughter of Arthur
Blakesley, retired. They have no children.
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After graduation in 1869, DuBois practiced
engineering in New Haven and in California ; studied
eighteen months in the Royal Mining Academy at
Freiberg, Saxony; practiced in New Haven and
taught in the Sheffield Scientific School; was ap-
pointed professor of Civil and Mechanical Engin-
eering at Lehigh University in 1875; was called
to the Sheffield Scientific School as professor of
Mechanical Engineering in 1877; and was made
professor of Civil Engineering in 1884. DuBois
visited Europe in 1872, 1880, 1882, 1883, 1891,
1898, and 1906. He is a member of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, Ameri-
can Society of Civil Engineers, and various other
scientific bodies.
His published works are as follows:
"The New Method of Graphical Statics/' Van Nos-
trand's Eclec. Engineering Mag., February, March,
April, May, June, 1875, 50 pp.; "The Elements of
Graphical Statics and their application to Framed Struc-
tures, together with the best methods of Calculation, and
containing also new and practical Formulas for the Pivot
or Draw Span, Braced Arch, Continuous Girder," etc.,
New York, 8, 472 pp., with an Atlas of 32 pi., 1875;
2d ed., 1877; 3d ed., 1879; 4th ed., 1883; "The New
Method of Graphical Statics, containing a Short Presen-
tation of the Principles of the Subject, for the use of
Engineers," New York, 8, 100 pp., 1876; "The Graphi-
cal and Analytical Determination of the Stresses in a
Roof Truss," Jour. Franklin Institute, April, 1876, 16
pp.; "Continuous Girders and Draw Spans" Ibid., July,
1876, 16 pp.; Translated from the fourth edition of
CLASS OF 1869 S. 69
Weisbach's Mechanics of Engineering: "Hydraulics and
Hydraulic Motors, with numerous practical examples for
the calculation and construction of Water Wheels, includ-
ing Breast, Undershot, Back-pitch, Overshot Wheels, etc.,
and a special discussion of the various forms of Tur-
bines," New York, 1877, 8, 728 pp.; 2d ed., 1880; 3d
ed., 1882; 4th ed., 1883; 5th ed., 1886; 6th ed., 1888;
7th ed., 1890; Translated: "The calculation of Strength
and Dimensions of Iron and Steel Constructions, with
reference to the latest experiments, by Prof. J. J.
Weyranch," New York, 8, 222 pp., 1877; 2d ed., 1886;
3d ed., 1890; Translated from the fourth edition of
Weisbach's Mechanics of Engineering: "Theory of the
Steam Engine," New York, 8, 567 pp., 1878; 2d ed.,
1880; 3d ed., 1883; 4th ed., 1887; 5th ed., 1891 ; "Upon
a New Theory of the Retaining Wall," Jour. Franklin
Institute, December, 1879, 28 pp.; Translated and en-
larged: "The Principles of Thermodynamics, with special
application to Hot Air, Gas and Steam Engines, by Prof.
Rontgen," New York, 8, 649 pp., 1879; 2d ed., revised
and enlarged, 1885, 727 pp.; 3d ed., 1889; "A New
Theory of the Suspension System with Stiffening Truss,"
Jour. Franklin Inst., February, March, April, 1882,
50 pp. ; "The Stresses in Framed Structures, with
numerous practical applications to Cranes, Bridge, Roof
and Suspension Trusses, Braced Arches, Pivot and Draw
Spans, Continuous Girders, etc. ; also the Determination
of Dimensions and Designing of Details, with complete
Designs and Working Drawings, Specifications and Con-
tracts" fifteen folding plates, New York, 4, 396 pp.,
1883; 2d ed., 1883; 3d ed., revised and enlarged, 1886,
472 pp.; 4th ed., 1888; 5th ed., revised and enlarged,
1888, 540 pp.; 6th ed., 1890; 7th ed., revised and en-
larged, 1890, 576 pp.; 8th ed., 1891; 9th ed., 1892;
"The Early History of the Steam Engine," Manufac-
turerers* Gazette, March 15, 1884, 30 pp.; Tables for
Bridge Engineers, giving the maximum Shear and
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Moment at any point of a span from 10 to 300 feet long,
as well as the position of the Load System, New York,
4, 54 pp., 1885; "Science and the Supernatural,"
London, 8, 50 pp., 1885; 2d and 3d ed., 1887; "Science
and the Spiritual," London, 8, 46 pp., 1887; "Formulas
for the Weights of Bridges," Trans. Amer. Soc. Civ.
Eng., May, 1887, 28 pp.; "Formulas for the Weights of
Bridges," Ibid., June, 1888, 20 pp.; "Science and Mir-
acle," N. Eng. and Yale Rev. t July, 1889, 32 pp.;
"Science and Immortality," Century Mag., December,
1891, 30 pp.; "Science and Faith," Christ. Thought,
February, 1892, 33 pp.; "Science and Religion," Century
Mag., 1894, 30 pp.; "The Elementary Principles of
Mechanics," New York, Vol. I., Kinematics, 8, 225 pp.,
1894; Vol. II., Statics, 8, 392 pp., 1894; Vol. III.,
Kinetics, 8, 290 pp., 1895; "The Mechanics of Engi-
neering," New York, Vol. I., 4, 634 pp., 1902; Vol. II.,
4, 601 pp., 1902.
Joseph R. Folsom
Care Commercial National Bank
Salt Lake City, Utah
Joseph Robinson Folsom, '69 S., was born in New
York City, June 12, 1848. He is a son of George De-
Forest Folsom and Susan B. (Curtis) Folsom, who had
two other sons: George S. Folsom, '81 S. ; and Wallace
L. Folsom (died in 1905, at New Haven, Conn.).
George DeForest Folsom, Yale '45, Union Theological
Seminary 1848 (born in 1822, at Bucksport, Maine, died
in 1895, in California), was a Congregational clergyman
living in California. He was a son of Joseph R. Folsom
and Elizabeth (Winship) Folsom of Bucksport, Me.
Susan B. (Curtis) Folsom was born at Bath, Me., and
died in California in 1893.
CLASS OF 1869 S. 71
Folsom prepared for Yale at the Hopkins Gram-
mar School, and entered Sheff with his Class, where
he took the Mining and Chemistry Course.
He was married at Brooklyn, N. Y., on September
9, 1893, to Miss Agnes Shearman of Salt Lake City,
Utah, a daughter of William H. Shearman. They
have no children.
Folsom has no regular occupation. From 1890
to 1905 he was a member of the Bohemian Club of
San Francisco, and traveled in Europe in 1904 and
1905. He is a Republican.
He has been ill since 1905 and desperately so since
November 20, 1909, with hardening of the arteries.
He has been living in Washington for nearly three
years.
Albert B. Hill, C. E.
Civil Engineer
100 Crown Street, and 295 Crown Street, New Haven, Conn.
Albert Banks Hill, '69 S., was born in Redding,
Conn., May 28, 184-7. He is a son of Bradley Hill and
Betsey (Banks) Hill, who were married November 3,
1822, and had six other children: Abby M. Hill, William
Burr Hill, Sarah E. Hill, Mary E. Hill, Martha Hill,
and Arthur B. Hill, all deceased.
Bradley Hill (born September 9, 1798, at Fairfield,
Conn., died January 10, 1881, at Redding, Conn.) was
a farmer living at Redding, Conn., and was at one time
representative in the State Legislature. He was de-
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scended from a William Hill who came from England in
1632, and finally settled in F airfield, Conn. It is re-
corded that "He was a man of note among the Colonists."
Betsey (Banks) Hill was born November 3, 1805, at
Redding, Conn., and died July 11, 1885, at Redding.
Hill attended the common school in Redding and,
excepting one term in a private school, prepared
himself for college. He entered Sheff with his Class,
where he took the Civil Engineering Course, fol-
lowed by graduate work leading to the degree of
Civil Engineer in 1870.
He is unmarried.
Hill was an instructor in Mechanics and Surveying
at the Scientific School in 1870-71. In 1871, he
entered the Engineers Department of the city of
New Haven, in charge of a party surveying the city.
In 1872, he was assistant engineer in charge of the
sewer construction in New Haven. He was city
engineer in New Haven, 1883-92. Since 1892 he
has been engaged in private practice as civil and
consulting engineer, with his office at New Haven,
Conn. Hill is an independent Republican. He is
a member of the First Congregational Church
Society of Redding, Conn. He is a member and
past president of the Connecticut Society of Civil
Engineers ; member and past director of the Ameri-
can Society of Civil Engineers, and member of other
scientific societies.
CLASS OF 1869 S. 73
* Joseph C. Hornblower
Architect
Died 1908
Joseph Courten Hornblower, '69 S., son of Rev.
William Henry Hornblower, D. D., and Matilda
(Butler) Hornblower, was born March 3, 1848, in
Paterson, N. J. His father was pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church there from 1844 to 1871, and
then professor of Church Government and Pastoral
Theology in the Western Theological Seminary at
Allegheny, Pa., till his death in 1883.
After graduation from the Sheffield Scientific
School, Hornblower studied architecture in this
country, and in Paris in 1875-76, becoming in 1883
a member of the firm of Hornblower & Marshall, who
designed the United States Custom House at Balti-
more and the National Museum at Washington. He
was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
While traveling for his health, he died at The
Hague, Holland, August 21, 1908, at the age of
sixty years. He was buried in Paterson, N. J.
He married, June 29, 1893, Caroline, daughter
of the late Joseph P. Bradley (Rutgers 1836),
associate justice of the United States Supreme Court,
and of Mary (Hornblower) Bradley, who survives
him.
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Nelson P. Hulst, Ph. D.
Retired
300 Knapp Street, Milwaukee, Wis.
Nelson Powell Hulst, '69 S., was born in Brooklyn,
N. Y., February 8, 1842. He is the son of Garret Hulst
and Nancy (Powell) Hulst, who were married in 1837.
Garret Hulst (born in 1809, at Newton, Long Island,
N. Y., died September 20, 1866, at Alexandria, Va.) was
a merchant living at Alexandria, Va., at the time of his
death. He was of Dutch descent, his ancestry tracing
back to the New Netherlands Colonial times.
Nancy (Powell) Hulst (born February 11, 1820, near
Hicksville, Long Island, N. Y., died August 7, 1904,
at Omaha, Neb.) was of Welsh descent on her father's
side, and of Dutch descent on her mother's side.
Hulst intended to enter the University of Vir-
ginia in 1863, and was preparing at his home in
Alexandria, Va., but in 1861 the town became a
military camp and all the schools were closed, so
that he went to the Stanmore School at Sandy
Spring, Md., to finish his preparation. He came to
Yale, however, graduating from the College in 1867,
entered Sheff in 1868, where he took the Mining
Engineering Course, and in addition to his bach-
elor's degree, took his doctor's degree in Philosophy
at Yale, the latter in 1870.
He was married at Milwaukee, Wis., on May 12,
1875, to Miss Florence Terry, who was born in
Hartford, Conn. She was a daughter of Frank
Henry Terry (died in Nassau in 1874), a merchant
CLASS OF 1869 S. 75
in Milwaukee for many years. They have five chil-
dren: Henry Terry Hulst (born May 13, 1876, at
Milwaukee, married Flora Brett, May 12, 1902) ;
Clarence Powell Hulst (born February 1, 1878, at
Milwaukee, Yale 1900, married Marian Grey, March
15, 1907); Edith Ripley Hulst (born August 19,
1880, at Vulcan, Mich.) ; Alfred Nelson Hulst (born
August 5, 1884, at Milwaukee) ; and Alice Florence
Hulst (born July 2, 1889, at Okauchee, Wis.).
Upon graduation in 1870, Hulst was offered a
professorship at the United States Naval School,
Annapolis, but accepted a position of chemist and
engineer for the Milwaukee Iron Company, Mil-
waukee, Wis. He soon became familiar with the iron
ores of the Lake Superior district, and was com-
missioned to explore for iron ores in Wisconsin and
Michigan. In 1872 he began development of the
iron mines which he had discovered on the Menominee
Range just north of the boundary line of Wisconsin,
in the upper peninsula of Michigan, and in 1877
became general manager of the Menominee Mining
Company. On account of impaired health, due
to overwork, he retired in 1881 ; but in 1886 he
resumed work with the same associates in the
Menominee district, opening up extensive iron mines.
In 1896 he was called to the employ of the Carnegie
Steel Company, as general manager of its iron mines
in Michigan and Minnesota. In 1901, at the organi-
zation of the United States Steel Corporation, Hulst
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became vice-president of all the iron mining interests
of that corporation (some thirty-five subsidiary
organizations). He resigned from these duties in
1905, to enjoy a needed rest. He has made many
visits to various mining districts in Canada, as well
as to those in different parts of the United States.
He is a Republican, and in 1880-81, he was post-
master at the mining camp, Vulcan, Mich. He has
held at intervals the office of deacon and trustee of
Plymouth Congregational Church, Milwaukee, for
thirty years, and is a trustee of Beloit College
and of Milwaukee Downer College, Wisconsin. He
is a member of the American Institute of Mining
Engineers, the Iron and Steel Institute of Great
Britain, and other scientific and learned societies.
Since his retirement from active business, he has
devoted much of his time to civic and charitable
interests in his home city, Milwaukee, Wis.
^Edward W. Johnson
Banker
Died 1878
Edward Whiting Johnson, '69 S., eldest son of
Frank and Mary Rebecca Johnson, was born in
Norwich, Conn., December 28, 1848, and died in the
same city, of spinal meningitis, January 31, 1878,
aged twenty-nine years.
CLASS OF 1869 S. 77
His preparatory training was received at General
Russell's Collegiate and Commercial Institute, in
New Haven. After his graduation he sailed on the
U. S. Flagship Lancaster for a visit to South
America, and then spent a year in European travel.
Soon after his return he was married, November 8,
1871, to Miss Alice Isabella Thomas of Hartford,
Conn., and he was engaged for the rest of his life in
the banking business in Norwich, winning in his brief
career the sincere respect of the community. His
wife and one son survive him.
Joseph G. Kendall
No information about the biography or present
whereabouts of Joseph Goodhue Kendall, '69 S., has
been obtainable.
*Charles B. Koon
Engineer
Died 1885
Charles Byron Koon, '69 S., was born in Rensse-
laer County, N. Y., in May, 1846. His parents
removed about two years later to Auburn, N. Y.,
whence he entered college.
After graduation he was employed as city engineer
of Auburn. In the spring of 1871 he went to Kansas,
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and was engaged for about two years in the
dangerous task of running the line of the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. He then returned to
New York state at the solicitation of his friends, and
remained at home until the spring of 1879, when he
went to Nebraska in the employ of the Burlington
& Missouri River Railway Company, in running
its line to Denver. In April, 1883, he left this sit-
uation to accept a responsible position with the
Mexican Central Railway Company, for the survey
of a projected line from Tampico to San Luis Potosi.
When this service was nearly finished, he met his
death by a fall down a precipice, while exploring the
lower portion of the Rio Verde canon, near the vil-
lage of Paliahuay, on April 16, 1885. His wife and
three children survive him.
Houston Lowe
Paint and Varnish Maker, President, The Lowe Brothers Co.
Dayton, Ohio
Houston Lowe, '69 S., was born in Dayton, Ohio,
September 18, 184-9. He is the son of John Gilbert
Lowe and Marianna Louisa (Phillips) Lowe, who were
married May 9, 1843, and had four other children:
Frances Kemper Lowe Newbold, Elizabeth Worthington
Stoddard Lowe, Henry Clay Lowe (Williams 1869),
and Mary Davies Lowe Gaddis.
John Gilbert Lowe (born September 25, 1817, at Leba-
non, Ohio, died July 30, 1892, at Dayton, Ohio) was a
CLASS OF 1869 S. 79
lawyer living at Dayton, Ohio. He was colonel of the
One Hundred and Thirty-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry,
and was trustee of numerous estates. He graduated at
Miami University in 1837, and was valedictorian of his
class. He was a son of Jacob Derrick Lowe, of Dutch
descent. The Lowes first settled in Harlem, New York.
Marianna Louisa (Phillips) Lowe (born March 30,
1814, at Dayton, Ohio, died September, 1896, at Dayton)
was a daughter of Horatio Gates Phillips and Elizabeth
Smith (Houston) Phillips, the Phillipses being of Welsh
descent, the Houstons of English; first settled in New
Jersey.
Lowe prepared for Yale at the public school in
Dayton, Ohio, and entered Sheff in September,
1866, where he took the Select Course.
He was married at Dayton, Ohio, on December
28, 1871, to Miss Carrie Harries of Dayton,
daughter of Charles Harries, an ale brewer. They
have five children : Charles Harries Lowe (born June
24, 1873, at Dayton, Ohio) ; Ella Harries (born
January 15, 1875, married Lewis Winters Gunckel,
Yale A. B. 1891); Elizabeth (born February 18,
1877, married Francis Fay Hill Smith, M. I. T.
1900) ; Henrietta Churchill (born November 20,
1882, married Robert Dun Patterson, Yale Ph. B.
1904) ; and Jobn Gilbert Lowe (born March 2, 1884,
Yale 1907).
Since December, 1869, Lowe has been connected
with the Lowe Brothers Company of Dayton, Ohio,
paint and varnish makers, and is now president of
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the company. Lowe is an independent Republican.
He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and has
been deacon and trustee of the church. He is a
member of the American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science, Society of Chemical Industry,
Associate American Society Civil Engineers, Western
Railway Club, Chemists Club of New York, Yale
Club of New York, and Dayton Club of Dayton,
Ohio.
His published works are: "Hints on Painting
Structural Steel"; "Paints for Steel Structures";
article on "The Preservation of Structural Steel,"
in Encyclopedia Americana; address on "Paint"
before Western Railway Club, published in the pro-
ceedings of the society; address on "Factors that
affect Results in Painting," before Engineers Society
of Western Pennsylvania, published in the proceed-
ings of the society ; lectures before the Chemists Club
of New York, the Pennsylvania Railroad officials, the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad officials, etc.
Lowe writes: "In a business way my efforts have
been along the same lines since leaving Yale, and for
any success that has attended them, much has been
due to the influence of the godly men with whom I
came in contact while there Woolsey, Dana,
Lyman, Whitney, Gilman, Brush, Marsh, etc."
CLASS OF 1869 8. 81
Henry H. Perry
Savings Bank Teller and Insurance Agent
Southport, Conn.
Henry Hoyt Perry, '69 S., was born in Southport,
Conn., December 8, 1849- He is the son of Oliver Henry
Perry and Harriette E. (Hoyt) Perry; brother of John
Hoyt Perry, Yale 1870, LL. B. Columbia 1873; Win-
throp Hoyt Perry, Yale 1876, LL. B. '82; and Mrs.
Hattie H. Rieffestahl.
Oliver Henry Perry (died March, 1882, at Richmond,
Va.) at one time held the position of secretary of the
State of Connecticut. He received the honorary degree
of M. A. from Yale in 1875.
Harriette E. (Hoyt) Perry (born in Danbury, Conn.,
died May 30, 1898, at Southport, Conn.) was a daughter
of Eli T. Hoyt and Mary (White) Hoyt.
Perry was prepared for Yale by private tutor,
and entered Sheff in 1866, where he took the Chem-
istry and Civil Engineering Course. He was a mem-
ber of Theta Xi, and rowed on the Class crew in
Senior year.
He was married to Miss Florence P. Sanborn of
Ashtabula, Ohio (died at Southport, Conn., July
19, 1881), and they had two children: Carolyn S.
(born in Ashtabula, Ohio, July 14, 1875, graduated
from college at Haverhill, Mass., married E. H.
Roberts of Minneapolis, Minn.) ; and Oliver Henry
Perry (born February 19, 1878, Yale Ph. B. 1899,
died November 30, 1899, at Omaha, Neb.). He was
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married again on August 29, 1883, to Miss Isabel H.
Douglas, who is still living.
Perry is a Republican in politics. He is a member
of the Congregational Church, being a member of
the business committee and church treasurer for
years. He is a member of the Masonic Order, Odd
Fellows, president of the Bachelors' Comfort and
Married Men's Relief Club, Southport, and Bridge-
port Yacht Club.
Charles H. Pope
Manufacturing and Real Estate
925 Seventeenth Street, Moline, 111.
Charles Henrique Pope, '69 S., was born in Genoa,
Cayuga County, N. Y., April 16, 1849. He is the son
of Samuel W. Pope and Helen Ruth (Avery) Pope, who
were married July 12, 1848, and had three other children:
Mrs. Jennie P. Header, Arthur L. Pope, and Frederic E.
Pope.
Samuel W. Pope (born May 3, 1820, at Hallowell, Me.,
died May 2, 1892, at St. Louis, Mo.) was a business man
living at St. Louis, Mo., at the time of his death. He
was a descendant of Joseph Pope, a Quaker, who settled
in Salem, Mass., about 1634, having come from England
on account of the persecution of Quakers in that country.
Helen Ruth (Avery) Pope (born June 12, 1829, at
Genoa, Cayuga County, N. Y., died May 18, 1903, at
Norwood, Ohio) was a daughter of Edwin and Julia T.
(Collins) Avery, and a descendant of James Avery
(only son of Christopher Avery, the emigrant), born in
1620, in England, came to America with his father, and
CLASS OF 1869 8. 83
married in Boston, Joanna Greenslade, November 10,
1643. James Avery was the founder of the family of
Groton (Conn.) Avery s. Two ancestors of Helen Ruth
Avery Pope were engaged in the Fort Griswold Massa-
cre, September 6, 1781 ; Daniel Avery, an ensign in the
navy who was killed, and Ebenezer Avery (ensign), who
survived that fight.
Pope attended school in Buffalo and Rochester,
N. Y., and was in Louisville, Ky., in grammar and
high school during the Civil War. He graduated
from the high school in June, 1866, and entered
Sheff in September, 1866, where he took the Civil
Engineering Course. He was one of the Class
historians and a member of Book and Snake.
He was married at Milburn, N. J., on March 13,
1879, to Miss Lillian Elma Lyon of Milburn, a
graduate of Packer Collegiate Institute of Brook-
lyn, N. Y., and daughter of Sylvanus Lyon. She
died September 2, 1880, at Tannersville, N. Y. Pope
had no children by his first wife. He was married
again on September 12, 1882, to Miss Sarah Mar-
garet Baxter of St. Louis, Mo. They have five
children: Henry P. Pope (born December 16, 1883,
at St. Louis) ; Jean A. Pope (born March 6, 1885) ;
Charles S. Pope (born January 19, 1887) ; Helen
C. Pope (born February 3, 1889) ; and Lawrence
A. Pope (born September 27, 1890, at Moline, 111.).
On leaving college in 1869, Pope went into the
manufacture of plows and agricultural implements
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at Louisville, Ky., and was with the Louisville Agri-
cultural Works for ten years, until same failed. He
moved to St. Louis, and was with Deere Mansur &
Co. ten years. In 1889 he moved to Moline, taking
charge of the office of Deere & Co., which position he
held five years. He resigned in 1894 to go into the
real estate business, and has held interest in land
business ever since, being president and treasurer of
the East Moline Land Company since 1895. In
1898 he became assistant treasurer in the Deere &
Co. Corporation, which position he now holds. In
1899 he became interested in the manufacture of
cement, and in 1903 was made vice-president of the
lola Portland Cement Company, but sold his interest
in that company in 1907. He is now president and
active manager of the Midland Motor Company,
manufacturing automobiles at East Moline (which
concern succeeded the Deere Clark Motor Car Com-
pany). He is a Republican in politics, but has never
held public office.
Prof. Joseph J. Skinner, C. E., Ph. D.
Retired from Teaching
Oneida, N. Y.
Joseph John Skinner, '69 S., was born in Putney, Vt.,
January 13, 1842. He is the son of John Langdon
Skinner and Harriet Hayes (Noyes) Skinner, who were
married March 3, 1841, and had no other children.
CLASS OF 1869 S. 85
John Langdon Skinner (born February 11, 1803, at
Westmoreland, N. H., died at Kenwood, now a part of
Oneida, Madison County, N. Y., November 25, 1889)
was a son of Timothy (born February 10, 1761, at Mans-
field, then a part of Norton, Mass., son of Timothy (born
September 10, 1724), descended from Thomas Skinner,
who came from England about 1650 and settled in Mai-
den, Mass., with two sons. He enlisted three times in the
War of the Revolution. His mother was Ruth Warner,
daughter of Joshua Warner, of Westmoreland, N. H.
She was born November 6, 1770, and was married in
September, 1790.
Harriet Hayes (Noyes) Skinner (born July 5, 1817, at
Dummerston, Vt., died at Kenwood, N. Y., September 8,
1893) was a daughter of the Hon. John Noyes, of Putney,
Vt., a graduate of Dartmouth College, and a member of
Congress from Vermont, who was born April 2, 1764,
and died at Putney, Vt., October, 1841, a descendant of
Nicholas Noyes, born in 1616 and settled at Newbury,
Mass., in 1634. Her mother, Polly (Hayes) Noyes (born
February 8, 1780, died April 11, 1866, at Oneida, N. Y.),
was daughter of Rutherford Hayes, and sister of the
father of President Rutherford B. Hayes.
Skinner received most of his early education by
school and private instruction, at Wallingford,
Conn., and Oneida, N. Y. At one time he worked in
a printing office ; was also bookkeeper and cashier of
a manufacturing and agricultural establishment.
He entered Sheff in September, 1866, where he took
the Civil Engineering Course.
He was married at Oneida, N. Y., January 7,
1872, to Miss Sophronia A. Bailey (born September
7, 1846, at Grand Detour, 111., died January 29,
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1908, at Oneida, N. Y.), daughter of Seba Bailey.
They had one son : Theodore Hobart Skinner, born
September 30, 1872, at Oneida, N. Y. ; Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology, 1892; married Viola
Cragin on February 1, 1900; present address,
Oneida, N. Y.
In 1873 Skinner was a graduate student and
teacher of Civil Engineering in the Sheffield Scien-
tific School, in 1874 receiving the degree of C. E.
He also became an honorary member of Berzelius
Society during the same year. In 1874 he began a
graduate course at Yale in the departments of
Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics, obtaining the
degree of Ph. D. in 1876. From 1874 to 1881 he
was instructor of Mathematics at Sheff, and taught
some classes in Physics, French and Astronomy.
Visited France and England in 1875. In 1878 made
observations at New Haven on the transit of Mer-
cury, with the portable telescope of the Sheffield
Scientific School, which observations were published
in the Government Report of that transit in 1879,
he being the only observer in New Haven to get all
four of the contacts. In 1881 he became treasurer
and manager of the American Electric Company of
New Britain, Conn., and was with that company and
its successor, the Thomson-Houston Electric Com-
pany of Boston, until the fall of 1884. In 1885,
spent six months in experimental work in Professor
Anthony's Physical Laboratory at Cornell Univer-
CLASS OF 1869 S. 87
sity, Ithaca, N. Y. From 1885 to 1896 was instruc-
tor of Mathematics in the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, at Boston, and from 1896 to 1904
was assistant professor of Mathematics in the same.
In November, 1909, he went to Italy, where he spent
the following winter, returning via Lucerne, Stras-
burg, Brussels and Antwerp.
In politics Skinner is Republican. He has been
a fellow of the American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science, a member of the Connecticut
Academy of Science, of the Wellesley Club, the
Technology Club, and the M. P. Club of Harvard
and Technology.
He published a text-book, "Approximate Compu-
tations," Henry Holt & Co., 1876, and the following
articles: "Monumentum and Vis Viva," Van Nos-
trand's Engineering Magazine, 1877-78; "Why do
Wells and Springs Overflow?" Popular Science
Monthly, January, 1880; "Galvanometer Coils,"
Electrical World, June 18, and September 3, 1887.
Robert S. Van Rensselaer
Surveying, Mapping, etc., and Borough Engineer of
Punxsutawney, Pa.
Robert Schuyler Van Rensselaer, '69 S., was born
October 27, 1847, in Burlington, N. J. He is the son of
R. S. Van Rensselaer and Sarah Charlton (Kid) Van
Rensselaer, who were married in 1 837, and had a daugh-
88 BIOGRAPHIES
ter, Virginia Van Rensselaer, who is still living, and
others who died in infancy.
R. S. Van Rensselaer (born in 1808, at Claverack,
N. Y., died July, 1877, at South Amboy, N. J.) was a
railroad superintendent with the Camden & Amboy Rail-
road, living at Bordentown, N. J. He was a son of Jacob
Rutsen Van Rensselaer and Cornelia (De Peyster) Van
Rensselaer.
Sarah Charlton (Kid) Van Rensselaer was born in
1812, at Philadelphia, Pa., and died in 1895, at New
Brunswick, N. J.
Van Rensselaer prepared for Yale at the Bur-
lington College in Burlington, N. J., and with Prof.
G. A. Fischer of Rutgers College at New Brunswick,
and entered Sheff in September, 1866, where he took
the Civil Engineering Course. He is a member of
Theta Xi.
He was married at Camden on December 29, 1879,
to Miss Arietta Deborah Archer of Mount Holly,
N. J. They have two children: LeRoy Campbell
Van Rensselaer (born February 2, 1881, at Bell-
wood, Pa., married Ellen Estellow Rigg at Bur-
lington, N. J., October, 1903), and Nina Archer
Van Rensselaer (born at Uniontown, Pa., March 26,
1885).
Since January 14, 1907, Van Rensselaer has been
engaged in surveying, mapping, etc., for the public,
located at Punxsutawney, Pa. Van Rensselaer is
junior warden of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
CLASS OF 1869 S. 88
Charles A. Weed
Manufacturer of Clothing, Charles A. Weed & Co.
83-87 Court Street, and 66 Chenango Street, Binghamton,
N. Y.
Charles Alvah Weed, '69 S., was born in Binghamton,
N. Y., December 1, 1846. He is the son of Waring
Stephen Weed and Mary E. (Ayres) Weed, who were
married June 6, 1842.
Waring Stephen Weed (born December 31, 1816, at
Binghamton, N. Y., died October 1, 1900, at Bingham-
ton) was a merchant living at Binghamton. He was a
son of Stephen Weed (born September 8, 1785) of Stam-
ford, Conn.
Mary E. (Ayres) Weed (born May 1, 1819, at New
Canaan, Conn., died January 11, 1881, at Binghamton)
was a daughter of Alvah Ayres (born May 8, 1795, died
September 10, 1845) and Elizabeth (St. John) Ayres
(born August 1, 1795, died July 12, 1873).
Weed prepared for Yale at the Olmstead School
in Wilton, Conn., and entered Sheff in 1866, where
he took the Select Course. He was a member of
Theta Xi, and first lieutenant of the Undine Boat
Club in Senior year.
He was married at Binghamton, N. Y., on May
13, 1873, to Miss Kate Stewart of Binghamton,
Vassar '68, daughter of William Stewart. They have
four children: Robert Stewart Weed (born March
27, 1874, married Mary A. Mahan, June 1, 1899) ;
William Ayres Weed (born November 16, 1876) ;
Mary Stewart Weed (born May 21, 1883, married
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Gurdon H. Smith, November 8, 1906) ; and Charles
Waring Weed (born March 25, 1885).
Ever since graduation Weed has been a manufac-
turer and wholesaler of men's clothing. He is now
the head of the firm of Charles A. Weed & Co. He
has traveled over most of the United States, also in
Canada and Cuba. He is a Republican, has been a
member of the Board of Education of the city of
Binghamton, and is a member and a trustee of the
Presbyterian Church. He belongs to the Bingham-
ton Club and the Press Club of Binghamton.
William R. White
1529 Pine Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
No information has been obtainable of William
Robert White, '69 S.
Horace F. Whitman
Manufacturer Confections and Chocolates
411-421 Race Street, and 3801 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Horace Franklin Whitman, '69 S., was born in Phila-
delphia, Pa., September 7, 1848. He is the son of
Stephen F. Whitman and Lydia Ann (Rowland) Whit-
man, who were married in 1846, and had three other
children: Rowland Whitman, a graduate of Polytechnic
College, Philadelphia; Stephen F. Whitman, Jr. (died
in Philadelphia in 1880); and Albert M. Whitman.
CLASS OF 1869 8. 91
Stephen F. Whitman (born in 1823, at Doylestown,
Pa., died in 1888, at Philadelphia) was a manufacturer
living at Philadelphia.
Lydia Ann (Rowland) Whitman was born in 1823, at
Rowlandville, Pa.
Whitman prepared for Yale at the Friend's Cen-
tral School in Philadelphia, Pa., and entered Sheff
in September, 1866, where he took the Select Course.
He was a member of Theta Xi.
He was married at Philadelphia, Pa., October 6,
1871, to Miss Ida Susanna Cox, of Philadelphia.
They have one daughter: Lillian W. (born May 21,
1873, married Judge Henry J. McCarthy, and was
married a second time January 1, 1910, to Edward
Woolman).
Since 1871, Whitman has been a member of the
firm of Stephen F. Whitman & Son, manufacturers
of confections and chocolates at 411-421 Race Street,
Philadelphia, and is now the senior member of that
firm. He is a Republican. He is a member of the
Art and Union League Clubs of Philadelphia.
Willard W. Wight
Civil Engineer and Surveyor
Wellesley Hills, Mass.
Willard Wendell Wight, '69 S., was born in Natick,
Mass., May 11, 1848. He is the son of Willard A.
Wight and Lucy B. (Morse) Wight, who were married
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in 1843, and had one other child: a daughter, Isabella
L. Wight, a graduate of the State Normal School.
Willard A. Wight (born April 21, 1816, at Natick,
Mass., died October 25, 18Q2, at Natick) was a farmer
living at Natick. He was a New Englander of English
ancestry.
Lucy B. (Morse) Wight (born January 25, 1818, at
Natick, Mass., died November, 1892, at Natick) was of
New England and English parentage.
Wight prepared for Yale at the high school in
Natick, Mass., and entered Sheff in 1866, where he
took the Civil Engineering Course.
He was married at Newton Centre, Mass., on
January^, 1879< to Miss Abbie G. Caldwell of
Boston, Mass., a graduate of the State Normal
School in the Class of 1872, and daughter of Edward
G. Caldwell, an architect. She died September, 1892,
at Natick, Mass. He has four children: Roger
Willard Wight (born October 26, 1879, Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology '01) ; Isabel Caldwell
Wight (born July 26, 1881, Smith '03, Simmons
'04) ; Malcolm Gardner Wight (born March 27,
1884, Massachusetts Institute of Technology '06) ;
and Gwendolen Ross Wight (born February 7, 1886,
Smith '08).
Wight has been assistant engineer on the Athol &
Enfield Railroad; division engineer, Boston & Maine
Railroad; chief engineer of five electric street rail-
roads ; engineer for towns of Natick, Framingham,
Wayland, Wellesley, Needham, and Dover. Wight
CLASS OF 1869 S. 93
is a Republican. He was assessor, 1882-89; water
commissioner; sewer commissioner; chairman select-
men, 1894-96. He is a member of Meridian Lodge,
A. F. & A. M.; Parker Royal Arch Chapter, and
Natick Commandery, Knights Templar; "Mystic
Shriner."
Frederick E. Willits
Farming, Banking and Insurance.
Glen Cove, N. Y.
Frederick Everett Willits, '69 S., was born in Glen
Cove, N. Y., September 13, 1846. He is the son of
James Willits and Anna (Titus) Willits, who were
married November 23, 1837, and had two other sons:
Henry Titus Willits (born at Glen Cove, October 27,
1841), and Thomas Everett Willits (born at Glen Cove,
June 15, 1845).
James Willits (born June 10, 1813, at Westbury,
N. Y., died May 1, 1882, at Glen Cove) was a farmer,
of English parentage.
Anna (Titus) Willits (born January 11, 1812, at
Westbury, N. Y., died May 11, 1882, at Glen Cove) was
of English descent.
Willits prepared for Yale at the Gary Institute,
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and entered Sheff in Septem-
ber, 1866. Was Class president in his Senior year,
and has served as graduate Class secretary.
He was married at Jericho, N. Y., on September
25, 1872, to Miss Anna Willets, daughter of William
Willets, a farmer of Jericho, N. Y. They have had
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four children: Everett F. Willits (born August 14,
1874, at Glen Cove, died August 20, 1902, at Glen
Cove) ; Martha Valentine Willits (born February 2,
1876, at Glen Cove, died August 24, 1882, at Glen
Cove) ; Elizabeth Eames Willits (born July 27, 1878,
a graduate of Swarthmore, died June 30, 1903, at
Venice, Italy) ; and James Willits (born October 14,
1880, at Glen Cove, married Anna K. Valentine,
February 14, 1906).
Willits has always lived on the farm homestead
on which he was born, and has continued farming.
He has been interested in banking as president of the
Glen Cove State Bank, director of the Nassau County
Bank, director of the Bank of Hempstead Harbor,
and trustee and treasurer of the Roslyn Savings
Bank. He has also been interested in insurance as
director and treasurer of the Glen Cove Mutual
Insurance Company, and director of the Westchester
Fire Insurance Company of New York. He has been
vice-president of the Federal Safe Deposit Company
of New York, and a director of the Nassau Suffolk
Bond and Mortgage Guarantee Company of Min-
eola, N. Y. In politics, Willits is a Republican, being
supervisor of the town of Oyster Bay. He is a
member of the Society of Friends, and belongs to the
Nassau Country Club.
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1870 S
James W. Abbott, M. A.
Mining Engineer
Pioche, Nevada
James Whitin Abbott, '70 S., was born in Whitinsville,
Mass., August 29, 1846. He is a son of Jacob Jackson
Abbott and Margaret Fletcher (Whitin) Abbott, who
were married September 16, 1845, and had five other
children: Jacob Jackson Abbott, Yale '72 S., of Denver,
Colo.; Helen Louise Abbott (died August 22, 1892);
William Whittlesey Abbott, Yale '77 S. (died July 8,
1899, at Worcester, Mass.); Paul Whitin Abbott, Yale
'83 S., of Boston, Mass. ; and another daughter, who died
in early infancy.
Jacob Jackson Abbott (born July 17, 1813, at
Peacham, Vt., died December 3, 1878, at New Haven,
Conn.) was a clergyman, installed from 1846 to 1864 at
Bennington, Vt.; from 1864 to 1865 at Uxbridge, Mass. ;
was superintendent of the Washington office of the Chris-
tian Commission until after the close of the Civil War,
and from 1865 to 1875 was installed at Yarmouth, Me.
He graduated at Dartmouth College in the Class of '39.
In 1874 he received the honorary degree of D. D. from
Bowdoin College, of which for many years he had been
a trustee. His parents were born, lived, and died in
Vermont.
Margaret Fletcher (Whitin) Abbott was born Sep-
tember 4, 1817, at Whitinsville, Mass., where her parents
were born, lived, and died.
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Abbott prepared for Yale at Phillips Academy,
Andover, Mass., graduating there in the Class of
1864, and entering Yale College that year in the
Class of 1868, with which he graduated. Entering
Sheff immediately after graduation, he received the
degree of Ph. B. with the Class of 1870, and in 1871
he received the degree of M. A. from Yale.
He was married at Lake City, Colo., September
24, 1877, to Florence Wood of Topeka, Kan.,
daughter of Hon. S. N. Wood, a man of great dis-
tinction in Kansas history. Miss Wood graduated
in the Class of 1876 at Bethany College, Topeka,
Kan., receiving the Bishop Vail medal. They have
two children: Charles Whitin Abbott (born at Lake
City, Colo., December 5, 1878, married October 15,
1908, to Tilda Bartlett) ; and Ruth Beatrice Abbott,
Wellesley '04 (born March 24, 1881, married June
20, 1906, to Edward H. Letchworth, now deputy
attorney general of New York, to whom has been
born one child, Edward H. Letchworth, Jr., born
January 9, 1909).
In 1871-72 Abbott was assistant engineer, Kings
County Town Survey, under Samuel McElroy, with
headquarters at Brooklyn, N. Y. ; 1872-74, engineer
estate of William W'alter Phelps, Bergen County,
N. J., with headquarters at Hackensack and Engle-
wood ; 1875-83, mining engineer in general practice,
and deputy United States mineral surveyor, Lake
City, Colo. ; 1885-95, clerk of District Court, seventh
CLASS OF 1870 S. 97
Judicial District, State of Colorado, with office at
Ouray, Colo. ; 1895-96, manager Ybarra Gold Min-
ing Company, Calmalli, Lower California, Mexico;
1896-1900, general practice as mining engineer in
California, Oregon, and Colorado; August, 1900, to
June 30, 1905, special agent for the Rocky Mountain
and Pacific Coast Division, Office of Public Road
Inquiries, United States Department of Agriculture ;
since June, 1905, in general practice as mining engi-
neer with headquarters at Denver, Colo., Los
Angeles, Cal., and Pioche, Nev.
Abbott is a member of the American Institute of
Mining Engineers. He has always been a consistent
Republican.
His published works are : "The Hydraulic Elevator
in Placer Mining," Engineering and Mining Jour-
nal, March, 1898; a technical article on "Mountain
Road Construction," Year Book of the United States
Department of Agriculture, 1900 ; "Mountain Roads
as a Source of Revenue," showing how the United
States surpasses Europe in scenic attractions, if
developed in this country as they have been there,
and a technical article on "The Use of Mineral Oil
in Road Construction," the last two published re-
spectively in 1901 and 1902 in the Year Book of the
United States Department of Agriculture; a tech-
nical article on "Roads for Mines," Engineering and
Mining Journal, May 16-23, 1903; also a large
number of articles on different subjects, principally
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technical, published in periodical literature in various
parts of the United States.
Henry M. Bailey
Auditor
Security National Bank and 2109 Nebraska Street, Sioux City,
Iowa.
Henry Moore Bailey, '70 S., was born in Rutland, Vt.,
September 18, 1848. He is the son of Thomas R. Bailey
and Sophia E. (Moore) Bailey.
Thomas R. Bailey was born January 17, 1822, at New-
bury, Vt., and died March, 1897, at Rutland, Vt.
Sophia E. (Moore) Bailey was born August, 1825, at
Hinsdale, N. H., and died December, 1896, at Rutland.
Bailey prepared at the high school in Rutland,
Vt., and entered Sheff in 1867, where he took the
Select Course.
He was married June 21, 1888, at Sioux City,
Iowa, to Miss Mary L. Davis, a graduate of Smith
College, daughter of S. T. Davis, an attorney. They
have had four children: George D. Bailey (born June
6, 1890) ; Ruth S. Bailey (born December 10, 1894) ;
Thomas F. Bailey (born November 23, 1896) ; and
Donald M. Bailey (born March 23, 1900).
In 1906 Bailey became auditor for the Security
National Bank in Sioux City, Iowa, which position
he still holds.
CLASS OF 1870 S. 99
Charles T. Ballard
Flour Manufacturer, President, Ballard & Ballard Co.
Glenview, Jefferson County, Ky., and 910-916 East Broadway,
Louisville, Ky.
Charles Thruston Ballard, '70 S., was born in Louis-
ville, Ky., June 3, 1850. He is a son of Andrew Jack-
son Ballard and Frances Ann (Thruston) Ballard, who
were married April 27, 1848, and had four other children:
Bland Ballard (born October 29, 1851, died August 15,
1852); Abigail Churchill Ballard (born June 24, 1853,
studied at Vassar, died April 2, 1874, at Mentone,
France), Samuel Thruston Ballard (born February 11,
1855, a graduate of Cornell in the Class of 1878); and
Rogers Clark Ballard-Thruston, '80 S.
Andrew Jackson Ballard (born September 22, 1815,
at Shelby County, Ky., died August 17, 1885, at Louis-
ville, Ky.) was a lawyer living at Louisville, Ky. He
was at one time a member of the Kentucky Legislature;
also United States Commissioner and Clerk of the United
States Circuit and District Courts from the District of
Kentucky, 1861-69- He graduated at the Transylvania
University. He was a son of James Ballard and Susan
(Cox) Ballard. His father and grandfather came from
Virginia with Slaughter's Regiment in 1779. His
mother's family came to Kentucky from Virginia (now
West Virginia) about the same time.
Frances Ann (Thruston) Ballard (born November 30,
1826, at Louisville, Ky., died April 30, 1896, at Vienna,
Austria) was a daughter of Charles William Thruston
and Mary Eliza (Churchill) Thruston, both of whom
traced their descent to early Virginia families.
Ballard prepared for Yale at Gen. William H.
Russell's Military School in New Haven, Conn., and
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entered Sheff in 1867 with his Class, where he took
the Select Course. He was a member of Theta Xi,
and was captain and rowed bow oar on the Sheff
Boat Club in Senior year.
He was married at New Orleans, La., on April 24,
1878, to Miss Emilina Modest (Mina) Breaux, of
New Orleans, a graduate of Convent Sacred Heart,
N. Y., in the Class of 1876, and daughter of Gustave
Aurelian Breaux, a planter and lawyer (graduate
of the Harvard Law School) of Lafayette, La.
They have had eight children, all born in Louisville :
Abby Churchill Ballard (born February 16, 1879,
married June 1, 1899, to Jefferson Davis Stewart) ;
Emilie Locke Ballard (born September 18, 1880,
died December 10, 1886) ; Mary Thruston Ballard
(born November 25, 1882, died February 5, 1884) ;
Charles Mynn Thruston Ballard (born November 28,
1886, married Miss Paula Beauchamp, September 28,
1908) ; Gustave Breaux Ballard (born October 7,
1888) ; Fanny Thruston Ballard (born April 30,
1890) ; Churchill Ballard (born April 30, 1890, died
February 12, 1891) ; Mina Ballard (born July 13,
1893). '
Ballard was with Professor Marsh's first party
across the plains in 1870, and has since traveled
extensively. He is a Republican in politics, and is
a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He
is a member of the Pendennis Club and the Country
Club of Louisville, the University Club of New York
CLASS OF 1870 S. 101
City, the Chicago Club of Chicago, 111., and the
Missouri Athletic Club of St. Louis, Mo.
Thomas G. Bennett
President of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company
423 Prospect Street, New Haven, Conn.
Thomas Gray Bennett, 70 S., was born March 22,
1845, at New Haven, Conn. He is the son of Thomas
Bennett and Mary Ann (Hull) Bennett, who were
married April 25, 1838.
Thomas Bennett (born February 17, 1815, at New
Haven, Conn., died April 6, 1859) was a lawyer of New
Haven, Conn. His father, Joseph Bennett, born Decem-
ber 25, 1788, and his mother, Emilia (Lyon) Bennett,
born February 6, 1787, were married September 9, 1810.
Mary Ann (Hull) Bennett (born April 29, 1818, at
New Haven, Conn., died January 28, 1902) was the
daughter of Elisha Hull and Hulda (Ball) Hull.
Bennett prepared at General Russell's School in
New Haven, Conn., and entered Sheff in 1866, where
he took the Civil Engineering Course. He was a
member of Book and Snake.
He was married on May 9, 1872, at New Haven,
Conn., to Miss Hannah Jane Winchester, daughter
of Oliver Fisher Winchester, a manufacturer. They
have three children: Hope Bennett; Winchester
Bennett, '97 S. (married Miss Susan Silliman
Wright) ; and Eugene Bristol Bennett, '04 S.
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Bennett has been president of the Winchester
Repeating Arms Company since 1890. He was first
lieutenant and adjutant of the Connecticut Volun-
teers, August 28, 1862 ; second lieutenant of the
Twenty-eighth Connecticut Volunteers, November
25, 1862; first lieutenant of the Twenty-ninth Con-
necticut Volunteers, January 29, 1864 ; and captain
of the Twenty-ninth Connecticut Volunteers, Septem-
ber 27, 1864. He was mustered out of service in
November, 1865. He served as a member of the Yale
Corporation, elected by the alumni, from 1884 to
1902, when he declined to stand as a candidate for
reelection.
Townshend S. Brandegee
Botanist
Berkeley, Cal.
Townshend Stith Brandegee, '70 S., was born in
Berlin, Conn., February 16, 1843. He is the son of
Elishama Brandegee and Florence (Stith) Brandegee,
who had eight other children: Charles Brandegee,
Florence S. Brandegee, Robert B. Brandegee, Emily
Brandegee, Katherine Brandegee, Henry Brandegee
(died at Helena, Mont.), Arthur Brandegee, and Edward
N. Brandegee, '86.
Elishama Brandegee (born at Berlin, Conn., died at
Berlin, Conn., in 1884) was a physician. He graduated
from Yale in the Class of 1833, and the Yale Medical
School in 1838.
CLASS OF 1870 8. 103
Florence (Stith) Brandegee (born at Florence, Italy,
died at Berlin, Conn.) was a daughter of the consul at
Tunis. She belonged to the Boiling family of Peters-
burg, Va.
Brandegee served two years as a private in Co. G,
1st Connecticut, during the Civil War. He prepared
himself for college, and entered Sheff with his Class,
where he took the Civil Engineering Course.
He was married at San Diego, Cal., May 29, 1889,
to Miss Katherine Layne, a graduate of the Medical
Department of the University of California in the
Class of 1878, and daughter of Marshall Boiling
Layne. They have no children.
Brandegee has been civil engineer with the Atchi-
son, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, and with the
Denver & South Park Railroad; assistant topog-
rapher and botanical collector (one year) with
Hayden's exploring expedition ; assistant on forest
survey of Adirondacks, N. Y. ; forest topographer
for Northern Transcontinental Survey in Yakima
Region, Washington; forest map of Teton Reserva-
tion for United States Geological Survey. He has
collected plants throughout the whole of Lower Cali-
fornia, and the entire western United States for his
private herbarium.
Brandegee is an independent Republican. He has
been county surveyor of Fremont County, Colo. ;
city engineer of Canon City, Colo.; member of the
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Board of Education of San Diego, Cal. ; now hon-
orary curator of the University of California herba-
rium. He is a member of the California Academy
of Natural Sciences, and the San Diego Academy of
Natural Sciences, and a corresponding member of
the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Science, and
the New York Lyceum of Natural History.
His published works include numerous botanical
papers, etc., in Proceedings of California Academy,
in Zoe, and other botanical magazines, and publica-
tions of the University of California. His herbarium
and botanical library were presented to the Univer-
sity of California.
Daniel S. Brinsmade
President and Manager, Ousatonic Water Power Company
Derby, Conn.
Daniel Seymour Brinsmade, '70 S., was born in Trum-
bull, Conn., February 17, 1845. He is the son of Cap-
tain Daniel Styles Brinsmade and Catherine (Mallette)
Brinsmade, and has one brother, James R. Brinsmade of
Derby, Conn.; and one sister, Mrs. James R. Middle-
brook of Suffield, Conn.
Captain Daniel Styles Brinsmade (born February 22,
1808, died May, 1872) was the seventh generation in
direct descent from William Brinsmade, who came from
England to Dorchester, Mass., in 1630.
Catherine (Mallette) Brinsmade was daughter of
Robert Mallette of Trumbull, Conn., who was a grand-
son of John Mallette, a Huguenot refugee.
CLASS OF 1870 S. 105
Brinsmade prepared for Yale at the Gunnery
School, Washington, Conn., and entered Sheff in
1867, where he took the Engineering Course, and was
a member of Berzelius.
He was married on December 28, 1870, to Miss
Janette S. Pardee of Trumbull, Conn. They have
had five children: Frances Louise Brinsmade (mar-
ried to Clifford C. Gilbert) ; Daniel Edwards Brins-
made, '96 S. (married on June 9, 1904, to Miss
May Morgan; daughter of D. N. Morgan) ; Carolyn
Calhoun Brinsmade; Helen Brinsmade (married
William J. Morgan, February, 1903) ; and Wallace
Seymour Brinsmade, '08 S.
Brinsmade is a Republican. He has been president
of the Huntington Board of Education for the past
ten years, president of the Board of Directors of
the Shelton Public Library, town treasurer, a member
of the State Legislature, 1882, member of the State
Senate, 1909. He is a member of the Second Con-
gregational Church of Derby, and member of the
Masonic order and I. O. O. F., and the Union
League Club.
Charles P. Brooks
Civil and Mining Engineer
Residence, 280 A Street, Salt Lake City, Utah
Office, 228 Dooly Block, Salt Lake City, Utah
Charles Peter Brooks, '70 S., was born in Washington
Ville, Orange County, N. Y., August 21, 1851. He is
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the son of Charles Edward Brooks and Adeline (Cannon)
Brooks, who were married March 18, 1828, and had ten
other children, four of whom are now living: Ann E.
Brooks (died January 18, 1910); John I. Brooks;
Harrison Brooks; Henry C. Brooks; Thomas L.
Brooks (died May 17, 1900, at Washington Ville) ;
Madison Brooks (died April 21, 1849, at Washington
Ville); Fletcher M. Brooks (died March 27, 1902, at
Washington Ville) ; Edward C. Brooks (died September
12, 1883, at New York City) ; Francis D. Brooks (died
December 2, 1879, at New Hampton, N. Y.) ; and Mary
C. Brooks (died April 27, 1881, at Brooklyn, N. Y.).
Charles Edward Brooks (born August 12, 1805, at
Washington Ville, N. Y., died July 11, 1875, at 149 East
Eighty-seventh Street, New York City) was a farmer
living at Washington Ville; was supervisor of the town
of Blooming Grove, Orange County; superintendent of
the poor of Orange County, N. Y., 1864-70; and justice
of the peace. He graduated at Dr. Brown's School in
Newburgh, N. Y. He was a son of John I. and Hannah
Brooks, and a descendant of Jonathan Brooks, who was
of English descent and who came to this country from
the north of Ireland, and settled in New York about 1729
in company with the ancestors of Gov. DeWitt Clinton,
to whom he was related.
Adeline (Cannon) Brooks (born January 18, 1809, at
New York City, died January 11, 1875, at New York
City) was a daughter of Mott and Mary (Smith) Cannon.
She was of Huguenot descent, her ancestors having been
driven from France about 1700 and settling in New York
City.
Brooks, when fourteen years of age, attended
school at Chester, N. J., for one term, then accom-
panied the assistant principal of Chester Academy
to New Paltz, N. Y., and finished the school year
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re. In 1866, he entered Dr. Stiles' School at
kertown, N. J., of which Mr. S. S. Hartwell, '59,
was principal, and upon his advice, Brooks entered
Sheff in 1867, where he took the Civil Engineering
Course.
He was married at Salt Lake City, Utah, on
September 28, 1876, to Miss Millicent Amelia Godbe,
who died September 27, 1889, and who was a
daughter of William Samuel Godbe (died August 1,
1902), a merchant and mining operator at Salt Lake
City. He has three children by his first wife : Clara
Godbe (graduated from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn,
N. Y., married Harry J. Pitts, July 2, 1902, at Salt
Lake City) ; Miriam Brooks (a student at the New
England Conservatory of Music) ; and Marjorie
Brooks (married Levi J. Riter, June 8, 1910). He
was married again, on December 15, 1891, to Miss
Miriam Godbe, a sister of his first wife.
Brooks entered the city engineer's office in New
Haven, December, 1870. In June, 1872, he became
transitman and draughtsman on the Texas & Pacific
Railroad, traveling from Denver to El Paso over-
land with mule teams, working from there west to
the Pima villages, Arizona (west of Tucson). He
returned East by the way of Texas, traveling with
mule team, in June, 1873, worked at main office of
the company until November, then went to Chicago
and New York. In company with his present part-
ner, Mr. R. H. Browne, in March, 1874, he went to
108 BIOGRAPHIES
Salt Lake City, where they opened an office as civil
and mining engineers, under the name of Browne &
Brooks. They are engineers for a number of mines,
among the more prominent of which are the Silver
King, Daly, Judge, Grand Central, and Bullion Beck.
Brooks is also United States deputy, and mineral
surveyor for Utah, Idaho, Nevada and California.
He has been a Republican, but is not strongly
partisan. He was a member of the Salt Lake City
Board of Health, 1890-1903 ; county surveyor for
Salt Lake County, 1891-92; special engineer for
planning and constructing sewerage system of Salt
Lake City, 1888-91 ; a member of Board of Public
Works from 1905 to present time, his term expiring
January 1, 1912. He is one of the charter members
of the University Club of Salt Lake City.
Thomas E. Calvert
Chief Engineer, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
Hinsdale, 111., and 209 Adams Street, Chicago, 111.
Thomas Elwood Calvert, '70 S., was born at Newtown
Square, Delaware County, Pa., September 10, 1849.
He is the son of Isaac Anderson Calvert and Phoebe
(Holland) Calvert, who were married December 23,
1847, and had one other son, William R. Calvert, who is
a farmer at Newtown Square, Pa.
Isaac Anderson Calvert (born October 16, 1820, at
Upper Darby, Delaware County, Pa., died February 25,
1880, at Newtown Square, Pa.) was a farmer living at
CLASS OF 1870 8. 109
Newtown Square, and was a descendant of Quakers from
William Penn's colony.
Phoebe (Holland) Calvert (born August 1, 1826, at
Marple, Delaware County, Pa., died April 27, 1Q02, at
Lincoln, Neb.) was descended from Quakers and farmers
who came originally from England.
Calvert lived on a farm when not away at school.
He prepared for Sheff at Treemont Seminary,
Norristown, Pa., entering in the fall of 1867, and
taking the Civil Engineering Course.
He was married at Weeping Water, Neb., on
November 8, 1877, to Miss Eva Cecilia Shelton of
Shelton, Conn, (born November 17, 1852, died May
12, 1891, at Lincoln, Neb.), a graduate of Tabor
College, Iowa, and a daughter of Minor Shelton, a
farmer at Weeping Water, Neb. They had no
children.
Since leaving college he has been with the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy Railroad, first as assistant
engineer, later as chief engineer of lines west of the
Missouri River, about twenty years as general super-
intendent of lines west of Missouri River, and since
September 1, 1904, chief engineer of that system.
*Frederick H. Churchill
Electrician
Died 1881
Frederick Hosea Churchill, '70 S., son of William
110 BIOGRAPHIES
A. and Sarah B. Churchill, was born in New Britain,
Conn., March 27, 1848.
After graduating he began to study law and con-
tinued in a private office for nearly three years, after
which he spent a year at the Harvard Law School,
graduating in 1875. He was admitted to the bar
the same year, and practiced his profession success-
fully in New Britain until 1880. Previous to this
date, however, he became deeply interested in the
science of electricity, and had made a trip to Europe
with the special view of obtaining information con-
cerning the uses and adaptability of the electric
light. His studies and researches resulted in his
leaving his chosen profession and organizing at New
Britain the American Electric Company, a corpora-
tion now in operation and of which he was the mana-
ger up to the time of his death, which occurred
March 4, 1881.
Mr. Churchill married Annie, only child of the late
William H. Smith of New Britain, who, with three
children, survives him.
Dorr Clark
Retired, Ranchman
Green *Bay, Wis.
Dorr Clark, 70 S., was born in Clarkson, N. Y.,
March 9, 1849- He is the son of Norris Greenleaf
Clark and Grace Hubbard (Plumb) Clark, and brother
of A. E. Clark, '75 S., and Grace (Clark) Olmsted.
CLASS OF 1870 S. Ill
Norris Greenleaf Clark (born in Westerly, R. I.,
March SO, 1818, died July 22, 1876, at Batavia, N. Y.)
was a physician residing at Batavia.
Grace Hubbard (Plumb) Clark was born in West
Haven, Conn., March 17, 1807, and died March, 1894, at
Batavia, N. Y.
Clark prepared for Yale at Gen. Russell's Military
School in New Haven, Conn., and entered Sheff in
September, 1867, where he took the Engineering
Course, and was a member of Book and Snake.
He was married at Green Bay, Wis., on May 4,
1875, to Miss Allie C. Robinson, daughter of Albert
C. Robinson, a newspaper editor. They have two
daughters: Grace Robinson (married in October,
1901, to William Smith Williams) ; and Florence
Wilcox Clark (a graduate of Bryn Mawr in the
Class of 1902).
For twenty-five years Clark was a cattle man in
Texas and Montana ; for six years, a farmer in Vir-
ginia. He is now retired. In politics he is a Demo-
crat. He is a member of the Elks.
Alfred R Conkling
Lawyer
41 East Sixtieth Street, New York City, and 76 William
Street, New York City
Alfred Ronald Conkling, '70 S., was born in New
York City, September 28, 1850. He is a son of Fred
112 BIOGRAPHIES
A. Conkling and Eleonora (Ronalds) Conkling, who
were married October 19, 1848, and had three other
children: Frederick Gray Conkling, '69 (died April 3,
1871, at New Orleans, La.); Howard Conkling (born
December 7, 1855, a graduate of the New York Univer-
sity Law School) ; and Laura Ronalds Conkling.
Fred A. Conkling (born August 16, 1816, at Canajo-
harie, N. Y., died September 19, 1891, at New York
City) was a merchant with Conkling, Barnes & Shep-
pard, a member of the New York Legislature, 1856-
59, and a member of Congress, 1861-63. He was a son
of Judge Alfred Conkling and Eliza (Cockburn) Conk-
ling, who were married about 1800.
Eleonora (Ronalds) Conkling (born April 24, 1825,
at New York City, died November 21, 1879, at New
York City) was a daughter of Thomas A. Ronalds and
Maria D. (Lorillard) Ronalds, who were married about
1810.
Conkling attended boarding school at Morris-
town, N. J., and Yonkers, N. Y., and was prepared
for Yale at the school of Prof. G. W. Clarke in New
York City, entering Sheff in Junior year, 1868, and
taking the Mining and Metallurgy Course.
He was married at New York City, on April 11,
1896, to Miss Ethel Eastman Johnson, daughter of
Eastman Johnson (died April 5, 1906), a painter
of landscapes, interiors, and portraits. They have
three daughters: Murril R. L. Conkling (born in
Paris, March 16, 1897) ; Olga L. G. Conkling (born
in New York City, May 3, 1898) ; and Vivian E. H.
Conkling (born June 24, 1902).
CLASS OF 1870 S. 113
Conkling took one semester in Natural Science at
the University of Berlin, Germany. He was geolo-
gist in United States Engineer Corps surveys, in
1875-77. He graduated at Columbia College, Law
School, New York City, in 1879. In 1881-82, he
was United States assistant district attorney ; 1887-
88, New York City alderman; 1892 and 1895, mem-
ber of New York Legislature. He is a Republican.
He is a member of the Episcopal Church, and is
a member of the National Municipal League of
New York City, the Metropolitan and Republican
(formerly, 1896-1903, City Club) Clubs of New
York City and the Country Club of Tuxedo, N. Y.
He has made three trips to the far West and three
trips to Florida. He has traveled over Europe and
the East, and in Mexico ; also to the Chicago, Buffalo
and St. Louis World's Fairs. He is a trustee for
owners of real estate in New York City and is in
business at 76 William Street. He makes occasional
contributions to newspapers.
His published works are: "Appleton's Guide to
Mexico," January, 1884 (one volume, five editions) ;
"Life and Letters of Roscoe Conkling," February,
1889 (one volume), C. L. Webster & Co., New York
City; "City Government in the United States,"
September, 1894, D. Appleton & Co. (five editions) ;
"Handbook for Voters," a pamphlet, October, 1894,
D. Appleton & Co.
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Justus H. Grant
Engineer, City of Rochester
78 South Goodman Street, and City Hall, Rochester, N. Y.
Justus Herbert Grant, '70 S., was born in Auburn,
N. Y., June 19, 1849. He is the son of Justus Lewis
Grant and Abbey Janette (Mills) Grant, who were
married October 27, 1839, and had three other children:
Viola J. Grant (died in 1885) ; J. Lewis Grant, Jr.; and
Albert E. Grant (died July 22, 1905).
Justus Lewis Grant (born November 4, 1818, at
Nashua, N. H., died October 19, 1878, at Rochester,
N. Y.) was a railroad manager living at Auburn, N. Y.
He was a son of Justus Fales Grant, born in 1799, at
Wrentham, Mass., and Hannah (Hale) Grant.
Abbey Janette (Mills) Grant, born June 18, 1818,
at Preston, Chenango County, N. Y., is a daughter of
William Mills, of English descent.
Grant prepared for Yale at the Auburn Academy,
Auburn, N. Y., and entered Sheff in September,
1868, where he took the Civil Engineering Course.
He was married at Rochester, N. Y., on April 29,
1879, to Miss Caroline Louise Updike, daughter of
Scott William Updike. They have three children,
one son having died in infancy: Laura Annesley
Grant (born March 10, 1880) ; Charles Hastings
Grant (born September 25, 1883) ; and Richard
Herbert Grant (born April 9, 1887).
Grant is an independent Republican. He was
commissioner of public works, Rochester, N. Y.,
CLASS OF 1870 S. 115
1900-01. Since January 8, 1906, he has been special
assistant engineer of the city of Rochester. He is
a member of the American Society of Civil Engi-
neers, and the Engineering Society of Rochester,
N. Y. He is a member of the Unitarian Church.
Charles S. Hastings, Ph. D.
Professor of Physics, Yale University
248 Bradley Street, New Haven, Conn.
Charles Sheldon Hastings, '70 S., Ph. D. '73, was
born November 27, 1848, at Clinton, N. Y. He is the
son of Panet Marshall Hastings and Jane (Sheldon)
Hastings, who were married June 22, 1843.
Panet Marshall Hastings (born August 17, 1816, at
Clinton, N. Y., died June 4, 1898, at New Rochelle,
N. Y.) was for nearly fifty years the leading physician
in Clinton. He graduated from Hamilton College in
1838, and during his residence in Clinton gave several
courses of lectures at this college. He was the son of
Dr. Seth Hastings, Jr., born at Washington, Conn.,
August 23, 1780, the eldest son of Dr. Seth Hastings,
who was born at Hatfield, Mass., December 6, 1745.
When seventeen years of age Panet Marshall Hastings
moved with his parents to Clinton. He was long and
prominently connected with the Hartford Hospital and
the Old People's Home in Hartford, and the Hospital
possesses a portrait of him.
Jane (Sheldon) Hastings (born June 25, 1816, at
Hartford, Conn., died September 12, 1889, at Hartford,
Conn.) was of New England parentage on both her
father's and her mother's side.
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Hastings prepared at the Hartford Public High
School, and entered Sheff with his Class. He was a
member of Berzelius.
He was married on June 28, 1878, at Hartford,
Conn., to Miss Elizabeth T. Smith, daughter of
Elisha T. Smith. They have one child, Katharine
Panet Hastings.
After three years of postgraduate study, Hast-
ings received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
from Yale in 1873. He then went abroad, and spent
two years in the study of physics at the German
Universities of Heidelberg and Berlin, and one year
in Paris at the Sorbonne. He was made on Officier
de V Instruction Publique in 1889 and a correspond-
ing member of the Societa degli Spettroscopisti
Italiani. On his return to America in 1876 he
accepted the associate professorship of Physics at
Johns Hopkins of Baltimore, remaining there for
eight years, until 1884, when he was called to the
chair of Physics in Sheff. Professor Hastings is a
member of the National Academy of Sciences, a
Fellow of the American Association for the Advance-
ment of Science, and a member of the Graduates Club
of New Haven.
He is the co-author with F. E. Beach of a "Text
Book on General Physics," published by Ginn & Co.,
Boston, in 1899, and of "A Consideration of the
More Familiar Phenomena of Optics," published by
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, in 1901.
CLASS OF 1870 8. 117
*William A. Hinds
Editor and Publisher
Died 1910
William Alfred Hinds, '70 S., was born in Enfield,
Mass., February 2, 1833. He was the son of Samuel
Hinds and Lucy (Amsden) Hinds, who were married
January 10, 1826.
Samuel Hinds (born March 1, 1798, at Greenwich,
Mass., died February 16, 1873, at Belchertown, Mass.).
Lucy (Amsden) Hinds (born October 31, 1800, at
Petersham, Mass., died October 9, 1877, at Belchertown,
Mass.).
Hinds was a printer, stenographer and writer
before entering college, and prepared himself for
Yale, entering Sheff in 1867, and taking the Select
Course.
He was unmarried.
Hinds was editor of the Oneida Circular, 1870,
1871, 1872, and associate editor of the American
Socialist, 1876-79. He was president of the Madi-
son County, N. Y., Chess Club.
His published works include: "American Com-
munities and Co-operative Colonies," 1878, revised
edition, 1902, second revision, 1908.
Hinds had been president of the Oneida Commun-
ity since July, 1903. He died May 28, 1910, at his
home in Kenwood, N. Y.
118 BIOGRAPHIES
^Edward VanB. Hoes
Banker and Coal Dealer
Died 1904
Edward VanBuren Hoes, '70 S., son of John Van-
Alen Hoes, a lawyer, formerly of Kinderhook, N. Y.,
and Fannie (Reynolds) Hoes, was born in Ottawa,
LaSalle County, 111., February 16, 1849.
After graduation he was a banker in Lake City,
Colo., until about 1870, then in Chicago, 111., and
afterwards in Kingston, New Mexico, for some years
in Hermosilla, Mexico, and for the last three years
of his life engaged as general manager of the Pacific
Coal Company of Sonora, Mexico, with general
offices in Philadelphia, Pa., and in New York City.
He died at Asbury Park, N. J., August 4, 1904, at
the age of fifty-four years.
He married, February 16, 1885, Harriette,
daughter of John and Mary (Morgan) Haynes, who
survives him with no children.
William R. Hopson
Real Estate
224 Washington Avenue, Bridgeport, Conn.
William Rufus Hopson, '70 S., was born in Kent,
Conn., May 24, 1848. He is the son of George Hopson
and Ann Elisa (Fuller) Hopson, and brother of Rufus
Fuller, Linn Fuller, and Mrs. Julia Fuller Barnum.
CLASS OF 1870 8. 119
George Hopson (born February 16, 1824, at Kent,
Conn.) was a manufacturer with George Hopson & Co.,
residing at Kent, Conn. He was of American ancestry.
Ann Elisa (Fuller) Hopson (born in 1822, at Kent,
Conn., died December 6, 1898, at Kent, Conn.) was also
of American parentage.
Hopson prepared for Yale at Mr. Strong's School,
Bridgeport, Conn., and entered Sheff in September,
1867, where he took the Select Course.
He was married at Fall River, Mass., on October
15, 1881, to Miss Mariana Birch Slade, daughter of
A. K. Slade of Fall River. They have three daugh-
ters: Elizabeth Fuller Hopson (a graduate of Vassar
in the Class of 1905) ; Ann Elisa Canedy Hopson;
and Dorothy Slade Hopson.
Henry C. Humphrey
Chemist, Corn Products Refining Company
551 West 149th Street, and 26 Broadway, New York City
Henry Correll Humphrey, '70 S., was born in East
Windsor Hill, Conn., June 10, 1848. He is the son of
Henry Moore Humphrey and Ann O. Humphrey.
Henry Moore Humphrey (born at Philadelphia, Pa.)
was a physician, a graduate of Rush Medical College.
Ann O. Humphrey was born in New York City of
American parentage.
Humphrey prepared for college at Stamford,
Conn., attended Amherst for two years, and entered
Sheff in 1868, where he took the Chemistry Course.
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He was married in 1870, to Miss Florence Barnes
Thurston of Stamford, Conn. They had one daugh-
ter, Mary Humphrey (born 1872, at Dresden, Sax-
ony). He was married again in July, 1892, to
Miss Ada Eugenie Stout of Brooklyn, N. Y. They
have one son, Henry Correll Humphrey, Jr. (born
September 19, 1895, at Brooklyn, N. Y.).
Humphrey has been chemist with the Corn Pro-
ducts Refining Company of New York City, since
1901.
Augustus W. Littleton
Retired
Care London City and Midland Bank, Ltd., London, E. C.,
and 38, St. Margaret's Road, Oxford, England
Augustus Washington Littleton, '70 S., was born
February 27, 1848, at Edgefield, S. C. He is the son
of Jacob Littleton and Maria (Brady) Littleton, who
were married June 1, 1847, and had one other child, a
daughter, who died September, 1858, at the age of six
years, in Peoria, 111.
Jacob Littleton (born February 6, 1811, at Edge-
field, S. C., died April 10, 1890, at Lincoln, 111.) was
of English parentage, and spent the greater part of his
life in Peoria, 111.
Maria (Brady) Littleton (born December 14, 1827,
at St. Regis, N. Y., died July 6, 1869, at Mossville, 111.)
was of Irish descent.
Littleton prepared at the high school in Peoria,
111., and entered Sheff in September, 1866, where he
CLASS OF 1870 S. 1-M
took the Civil Engineering Course and was a member
of Book and Snake.
He was married March 4, 1884, at Peoria, 111., to
Miss Mary Gibson Griswold, daughter of Matthew
Griswold. They have one daughter, Julia Waters
Littleton, a graduate of St. Mary's School, Knox-
ville, 111.
After leaving Yale, Littleton lived for some two
years on his father's farm near Mossville, 111., after
which he went to St. Louis to serve an apprenticeship
in the gas business. That done, he was appointed
to the superintendency of the Peoria Gas Light &
Coke Company, where he remained one year, and
thence, in the same capacity, he went to Hannibal,
Mo., for a year and a half. In March, 1876, he
moved to Quincy, 111., where he was general manager
of the gas and electric companies for twenty-two
years, resigning in June, 1898. With his family he
then went abroad and leisurely traveled over the
greater part of Europe for two and a half years.
In December, 1900, he returned to America and
lived in California until March, 1904, when he went
abroad again, soon afterwards settling with his
family in Oxford, where, save for occasional trips to
the Continent, he expects to remain. Politically
Littleton was a Democrat until 1896, since which
time he has been a Republican.
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^Francis A. Lowe
Mining Engineer
Died 1883
Francis Asbury Lowe, '70 S., a native of Wash-
ington, D. C., died in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, on
March 14, 1883, in his thirty-seventh year, of small-
pox contracted while in the discharge of his duty as
a mining engineer.
After graduation at Sheff he studied also at the
Academy of Mines in Freiberg, Saxony, and in the
practice of his profession visited most of the impor-
tant mining regions of the United States and of
Mexico He was never married.
William D. Marks, C. E.
Engineer
Westport, Essex County, N. Y., and 720 Park Row Building,
New York City
William Dennis Marks, '70 S., was born in St.
Louis, Mo., February 26, 1849. He is the son of
Dennis Marks and Amira (Bacon) Marks, both
deceased.
Marks prepared for Yale at General Russell's
Military School in New Haven, Conn., and entered
Sheff in 1867, where he took the Civil Engineering
Course. Since graduation he has served as Class
Secretary.
He was married at Chattanooga, Tenn., in 1874,
to Miss Jeanette Holmes Colwell, who died in 1894,
CLASS OF 1870 8. 123
at Westport, N. Y. He has two daughters: Jean-
ette Augusta Marks (born 1875, in Tennessee), and
Mabel Marks (born 1876, in Philadelphia, Pa.).
Concerning his professional career the Engineer-
ing World recently said:
"William D. Marks, Ph. B., C. E., whose name has
appeared frequently in our pages as a writer on impor-
tant engineering statistical and economic subjects, is a
consulting engineer and statistician, making a specialty
of the construction and operation and of the finances of
gas and electric light and power enterprises. Since
January 4, 1906, he has been in the employ of the city
of New York as an expert gas and electric light engineer
and has, during all that time, been engaged under the
direction of Corporation Counsel Delany and Assistant
Corporation Counsel Burr in making investigations of
the cost of construction and of operation of the gas and
electric light companies supplying the city of New York.
In the year 1871 he entered the employ of the
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad as assistant
to the division engineer, and afterward became tran-
sit man on the Chicago & Northwestern Railway. In
1872 he was appointed resident engineer and account-
ant for the contractors building the Laclede gas works
in St. Louis, Mo. He remained with the Laclede Gas
Company until their works were completed and put in
operation, and then took up the building of railway
locomotives and machinery and of blast furnaces and
their machinery as a contractor until in 1876, when he
was appointed instructor in Mechanical Engineering at
Lehigh University upon the recommendation of the
faculty of Science at Yale. From 1876 until 1887 he
held the chair of the Whitney Professorship of Dynami-
cal Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania,
giving instruction in engineering and in mathematical
124 BIOGRAPHIES
study of force and motion, including electricity. In the
year 1884 he interrupted his service as professor on
leave of absence to become superintendent and organizer
of the scientific work of the International Exhibition of
the Franklin Institute at Philadelphia. In 1885 he was
chairman of the executive committee of Franklin Insti-
tute, which instituted and completed its well-known
standard series of experiments on steam and the steam
engine and boilers and on electricity and dynamos and
incandescent and arc light illumination. Though having
general charge and arrangement of all of this work, he
was specially in charge of the details of electrical meas-
urement and of photometric tests. In 1887 he relin-
quished his position in the University of Pennsylvania
to become engineer to the Philadelphia Edison Electric
Company and designed and built for that company a
10,000-H. P. electric light station, it being at that time
the largest individual station in the world. In 1892,
having completed the engineering construction and put
it in operation, he was made president of the Philadel-
phia Edison Electric Company and reorganized its busi-
ness, earning and paying in actual dividends to the stock-
holders 53 per cent in four years. In 1896 the Edison
Company of Philadelphia sold its property at a profit of
$1,000,000, that paying its stockholders 103 per cent
(dividends included) on its investment of $2,000,000.
In 1889 the Edison General Company of New York City
appointed Mr. Marks engineer and the then president,
Mr. Henry Villard, assured him of their intention to
shortly make him president, but after a few months he
preferred returning to Philadelphia. Since 1896, he
has given attention to the construction of electrical
apparatus and practiced as an engineer, being connected
with some fifteen or sixteen gas, electric light and elec-
tric railroad companies as manager, director or president,
undertaking for them, as was required, either the actual
construction of new works, the operation of going works
CLASS OF 1870 S. 125
and the organization or reorganization of their finances
and accounting departments. At all times, during his
technical work as engineer, he has been interested in and
given special attention to the accounting departments and
the finances of the enterprise with which he was con-
nected. Of late years, he has practiced as an engineer,
built and operated gas works in Durham, N. C., and
reorganized and operated gas works in Fostoria, Ohio.
Since 1876 he has been regularly employed as expert
engineer and accountant for gas works all over the
United States, in which Mr. Arthur W. Benson, president
of the Brooklyn Gas Light Company, and his associates,
were interested, and has made many expert reports to
them on their interests and works. Besides many scien-
tific papers and books on engineering, Mr. Marks has
written a work on the "Finances of Gas, Electric Light
and Power Enterprises," which has reached a third edi-
tion, selling over 5,000 copies. He is an honorary life
member of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia for
scientific service rendered, and was for some time chair-
man of its Committee on Science and the Arts; member
of the American Philosophical Society; Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science;
member of the American Institute of Electrical Engi-
neers; member of the American Gas Light Association,
and also of other technical societies. He has been
offered many elections to technical societies which he has
declined for lack of leisure."
Arthur W. Rice
Secretary and Treasurer, Connecticut Loan & Realty Co.
Residence, New Britain, Conn.
Arthur Woods Rice, '70 S., was born in Meriden,
Conn., March 9, 184Q. He is the son of Oliver Rice and
Mary Abby (Caldwell) Rice.
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Oliver Rice (born November 17, 1820, at Meriden,
Conn., died in 1886, at Meriden, Conn.) was a farmer.
Mary Abby (Caldwell) Rice was born May 23, 1823,
at Ipswich, Mass., and died January 24, 1907, at Meri-
den, Conn.
Rice prepared for Yale at the Gunnery School,
Washington, Conn., and at Williston Seminary,
Easthampton, Mass., and entered Sheff in 1867,
where he took the Civil Engineering Course.
He was married at New Britain on May 18, 1879,
to Miss Mary Spencer Babcock of New Britain,
Conn., a graduate of the New Britain High School.
They have had one son: Arthur Spencer Rice (born
August 19, 1880, died October 15, 1897).
Rice has been secretary and treasurer of the
Connecticut Loan & Realty Company of Hartford,
Conn., since July, 1905.
Evelyn P. Roberts
Engineer, President and General Manager, Mohegan Granite
Quarrying Company
Pierrepont Manor, Shrub Oaks, Westchester County, N. Y.,
and 18 Broadway, New York City
Evelyn Pierrepont Roberts, '70 S., was born in Fort
Leavenworth, Kan., December 25, 1848. He is the son
of Benjamin Stone Roberts and Elizabeth Pierrepont
(Sperry) Roberts, who were married in September,
1835, and had six other children: Benjamin Kearney
CLASS OF 1870 8. 127
Roberts (a graduate of Norwich University, Vt., in the
class of 1862, Brigadier General U. S. A. and Chief of
Artillery, 1905) ; Harris Lee Roberts (a graduate of the
United States Military Academy in the class of 1880,
Major U. S. A., 1905) ; and four sons who died in early
life.
Benjamin Stone Roberts (born November, 1810, at
Manchester, Vt., died January 25, 1875, at Washington,
D. C.) was a lieutenant, First Dragoons, United States
Army, ordered to old Fort Demoins, Iowa, and was with
the Army in Mexico, on frontier, and in Civil War. He
graduated at West Point in June, 1835, and was pro-
moted for "gallant conduct in face of enemy," five times
during the Mexican War and three times during the
Civil War; was brigadier general in 1862 and subse-
quently major general. He retired when on detail at
Yale College as "Instructor of Military Science and the
Art of War," in 1870. He was a grandson of one of the
first settlers of Manchester, Vt. His great-grandfather
Roberts was from Providence, R. I.
Elizabeth Pierrepont (Sperry) Roberts (born October,
1815, at Manchester, Bennington County, Vt., died
March, 1898, at Fort Hamilton, New York Harbor) was
a daughter of Anson Sperry and Laura (Pierrepont)
Sperry of South Farms, Conn., a great-great-grand-
daughter of James Pierrepont, the first minister estab-
lished in New Haven, who was one of the founders of
Yale College.
Roberts prepared for Yale at the Hopkins Gram-
mar School, in New Haven, Conn., and entered Sheff
in June, 1867, where he took the Engineering Course.
He was married at New York City, on July 5,
1903, to Miss Helen Francis Caleb of Elkton, Md.,
a daughter of a manufacturer of steel, Chicago, 111.,
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and a Civil War veteran. They have one son:
Benjamin Stone Roberts (born October 23, 1904, at
Fort Washington, Md.).
Roberts was assistant engineer, Dansville & Mt.
Morris Railroad, western New York, summer of
1870; assistant engineer, Northern Pacific Railroad,
in Oregon, Washington Territory, etc., 1870-75;
Spring Valley Water Works, San Francisco, 1875-
80; Canadian Pacific Railroad (contracting engin-
eer), in British Columbia, 1880-85; charge of explo-
ration for dams and reservoirs, Aqueduct Commission,
New York, 1885-93; building dams and reservoirs,
Croton Watershed, 1893-96; practiced profession
as civil and consulting engineer, New York City>
1896-1902. From 1902-06 developing Mohegan
Granite Quarries, Westchester County ; building, as
subcontractor, sections 10, 12, and 15 (about six
miles) of New York subway; erecting the Cathedral
of St. John the Divine, New York City ; and partici-
pating in the construction of sundry railways and
their operations in various parts of the United
States. Since about 1896, he has been president and
general manager of the Mohegan Granite Quarrying
Company.
Roberts is a Republican. He is a member of the
Episcopal Church, a warden of the church, and a
trustee of Jerry McAuley Cremorne Mission. He
is a member of the Yale Club, St. Anthony Club,
Calumet Club, Church Club, The Century Associa-
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tion, Balsom Lake Club, Down Town Association,
American Society Civil Engineers, Military Order
Loyal Legion, Sons of the Revolution, The Geo-
graphical Society, and other clubs and societies.
His published works are: "A History of the New
York Water Supply," Engineering News, October,
1892; sundry professional papers and articles pub-
lished or read at various times.
George D. Roseberry
President and Manager, Pottsville Bolt Company
1227 West Market Street, Pottsville, Pa.
George Douglass Roseberry, '70 S., was born in Potts-
ville, Schuylkill County, Pa., January 11, 184Q. He is
the son of John Washington Roseberry and Elizabeth
Sargent (Douglass) Roseberry, who were married in
May, 1846, and had ten other children, five of whom
died in early life. The living are : Mrs. Anne R. Hobart,
Mrs. W. M. Hall, Frank Roseberry, Clement H. Rose-
berry, and Blanche D. Roseberry.
John Washington Roseberry (born July 20, 1817, at
Orwigsburg, Schuylkill County, Pa., died March 31,
1893, at Pottsville, Pa.) was a lawyer residing first at
Orwigsburg, Pa., and later at Pottsville, Pa. He was
at different times a member of the Pennsylvania Legis-
lature, president of a bank, and president of the County
Bar Association. He was graduated at Orwigsburg
Academy. He was descended from the first Scotch and
Welsh settlers of southeastern Pennsylvania, who landed
in Philadelphia from 1680 to 1720. Many of his ances-
tors fought in the colonial and continental armies.
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Elizabeth Sargent (Douglass) Roseberry, born March
14, 1827, at Douglassville, Berks County,, Pa v was born
in the same town where her ancestors (Scotch) landed
in the early part of the eighteenth century. Her ances-
tors served the country in the Indian and Revolutionary
Wars.
Roseberry prepared for Yale at the public schools,
Pottsville, Pa., and at General Russell's School in
New Haven, Conn., and entered Yale in September,
1867, where he took the Mining Engineering Course.
He was a member of Theta Xi.
He was married at Pottsville, Pa., on October 20,
1877, to Miss Marietta Mudey, of Montreal, Prov-
ince of Quebec, Canada, who died January 26, 1904,
at Pottsville, Pa., a graduate of Pottsville High
School in the Class of 1877, and daughter of David
Mudey (died in 1867), a railroad ticket agent. He
has four children: Mary Margaret (born December
2, 1878, married George E. Runkle, November,
1905) ; Elizabeth Douglass (born June 25, 1881,
married Saul MacKeeby, October, 1904) ; John
Washington Roseberry (born July 8, 1884) ; and
George Douglass Roseberry, Jr. (born September
19, 1886).
Roseberry has been engaged in the manufacturing
business, running a bolt factory for the past thirty-
five years. He is an independent voter and has
never held public office. He is a member of Trinity
Protestant Episcopal Church of Pottsville. He is
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also a member of several social and athletic clubs, the
Outdoor Club, and Y. M. C. A. of Pottsville.
Alfred Stanton
No information about the biography or present
whereabouts of Alfred Stanton, '70 S., has been
obtainable.
George F. Stone
Teacher, American School for Deaf, Hartford, Conn.
690 and 991 Asylum Avenue, Hartford, Conn.
George Frederick Stone, '70 S., was born May 29,
1847, at Hartford,, Conn. He is a son of Collins Stone
and Ellen Jane (Gill) Stone, who were married April
29, 1839, and had six other children: Edward Collins
Stone, '62, M. A. '65 (died December 19, 1878, at Hart-
ford, Conn.); Louise Stone Watkinson; Kate Stone
Williams (died April 17, 1909, at Hartford, Conn.);
Alice Stone (died June 11, 1859, at Columbus, Ohio);
Jennie Stone (died August 3, 1862, at Columbus, Ohio) ;
and Nellie Stone Gleason.
Collins Stone, '32, M. A. '35 (born September 7,
1812, at Guilford, Conn., died December 23, 1870), was
the son of Timothy Stone, a farmer of Guilford, after-
wards of Durham, Conn., and Eunice (Parmelee)
Stone. He was a Congregational minister, was a deacon
of the Center Congregational Church, Hartford, Conn.,
principal of the Ohio Institution for Deaf and Dumb
for eleven years, and principal of the American Asylum
132 BIOGRAPHIES
for Deaf and Dumb in Hartford, Conn., for the last
seven years before his death.
Ellen Jane (Gill) Stone (born June 6, 1815, at
Middletown, Conn., died December 21, 1879, at Hart-
ford) was the daughter of Samuel Gill and Jane (Wat-
kinson) Gill of England.
Stone prepared at the Hartford Public High
School, Hartford, Conn., and entered Sheff in 1866,
where he took the Mechanical Engineering Course.
He was a member of Berzelius.
He was married on July 1, 1885, at Rochester,
N. Y., to Miss Mary Horsford Tryon, daughter of
James Seymour Tryon, who before his death was
cashier of the First National Bank, Hartford, Conn.
They have had four children: Tryon Stone (born
July 10, 1887, died September 2, 1887) ; Janet
Tryon Stone (born February 11, 1889) ; Rachel
Norton Tryon Stone (born November 19, 1890);
and Mary Tryon Stone (born July 1, 1892).
For two years after graduation Stone was mechan-
ical draughtsman for Colts Patent Fire Arms Manu-
facturing Company, and from 1874 to 1877 was in
the Bureau of Steam Engineering, Navy Depart-
ment, Washington, D. C. Since 1880 he has been
connected with the American School for the Deaf,
Hartford, Conn., as teacher.
He is a member of the Asylum Hill Congregational
Church, in which church he holds the position of
CLASS OF 1870 S. 133
clerk. He is also a member of the Connecticut His-
torical Society.
Clarence A. Warren
Insurance, Agent Louisville Insurance Company
918 Second Street, Louisville, Ky.
Clarence Augustus Warren, '70 S., was born in Louis-
ville, Ky., December 22, 1846. He is the son of Levi
Legg Warren and Mary Ann (Wood) Warren, who were
married January 5, 1835, and had seven other children:
William Bates Warren, Henry Clay Warren, Eugene
Clinton Warren, Rev. Edward LeRoy Warren, Ella
Maria Warren, Gary Ives Warren, and Minnie Wood
Warren.
Levi Legg Warren (born August 2, 1808, in Massa-
chusetts, died March 19, 1884, at Louisville, Ky.) was
a merchant with L. L. Warren & Co., and resided at
Fourth and Walnut Streets, Louisville. He was treas-
urer of Centre College, Danville, Ky., and of Danville
Presbyterian Theological Seminary ; president Falls City
Bank; trustee and chairman of Finance Committee of
Board of Trustees of Public Schools in Louisville;
prominent in founding the Normal School for Girls and
also Public School for colored children in Louisville;
treasurer for fund raised in United States and else-
where for the relief of people in the South after the
Civil War. He was a grandson of Silas Warren, who
fought in the Revolution, and a descendant of John
Warren (born in 1585 in England), who came to Water-
town, Mass., in 1630.
Mary Ann (Wood) Warren (born December 19, 1814,
in Massachusetts, died April 4, 1900, at Louisville, Ky)
was a daughter of Asa Wood and Polly Stoddard, and
granddaughter of Ezekiel Stoddard who fought in the
Revolution.
134 BIOGRAPHIES
Warren attended several schools in Louisville, Ky. ;
also attended the Presbyterian College for Boys ;
graduated from the Louisville Male High School in
1868, and entered Sheff in the fall of 1867, where
he took the Civil Engineering Course.
He was married at Louisville, Ky., on November
20, 1873, to Miss Cora Olive Sutcliffe, a graduate of
Mrs. Platt's Private School, and daughter of John
Edward Sutcliffe, a graduate of the University of
Medicine, New York City, a physician, druggist,
wholesale boot and shoe dealer, and banker of Louis-
ville, Ky. They have four children : John Sutcliffe
Warren (born October 3, 1874, married Cora Mil-
dred McGregor, February 10, 1903) ; Francis Wood
Warren (born January 14, 1878) ; Levi Legg War-
ren (born October 12, 1879) ; and Fannie Sutcliffe
Warren (born August 19, 1895).
Warren has been engaged in mercantile business.
He was in the wholesale boot and shoe business and
traveled for about fifteen years in the states of
Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, part of
Georgia, and a large part of Mississippi, making
trips East twice a year to visit factories and buy
goods. He has been interested financially in a num-
ber of projects and in real estate. Since November,
1898, he has been looking after the city business of
the Louisville Insurance Company, in which company
he has been a stockholder for a long time. He has
continually devoted much time to study and reading
CLASS OF 1870 S. 135
Warren is a member of the Masonic Order, Ma-
sonic Club, Sons of the American Revolution, Order
of Eastern Star. He is past master of Falls City
Lodge, No. 376, F. & A. M., and Past Commander of
Louisville Commandery, No. 1, Knights Templar.
He is a Democrat, but has refused to enter politics.
John G. Watson
Postmaster of Ayr, Ontaria, Canada
Ayr, Ontario, Canada
John George Watson, '70 S., was born at Gait, Prov-
ince of Ontario, Canada, August 21, 1847. He is the
son of John Watson and Mary (Urie) Watson, who
were married August 18, 1845.
John Watson (born June 12, 1820, at Glasgow, Scot-
land, died December 14, 1Q03, at Ayr, Ontario), was a
moulder living at Hamilton, and was warden of the
County of Waterloo and reeve of the village of Ayr.
Mary (Urie) Watson died April 25, 1851, at Ayr,
Ontario, Canada.
Wutson attended Oberlin College for a time, and
for a year before entering Yale went to a prepara-
tory school in New Haven. He entered Sheff in
1867, where he took the Mechanical Engineering
Course.
He was married at Ayr, Ontario, on May 9, 1871,
to Miss Margaret Boyd Hall of Ayr (born January
29, 1851), a daughter of William Hall, a farmer.
136 BIOGRAPHIES
They have had one son and one daughter : John Wil-
liam Watson (born May 17, 1872, at Ayr), and
Daisie Ellen Watson (born October 7, 1877, at Ayr,
died February 18, 1901, at Ayr).
He was connected with the John Watson Manu-
facturing Company of Ayr, making agricultural
implements of all kinds, from his graduation until
1903, when he became postmaster of the village of
Ayr. In politics he is a reformer; he is a member
of the Presbyterian Church. He belongs to the
Masonic order and I. O. O. F.
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1871 S
Horace Andrews, C. E.
Civil Engineer
125 Lancaster Street, Albany, N. Y.
Horace Andrews, '71 S., was born in New Haven,
Conn., March 19, 1852. He is the son of Horace
Andrews and Julia Russell (Johnson) Andrews, who
were married June 1, 1847, and had two other children:
William Henry Andrews (graduate of the Columbia Law
School in the class of 1869, who resides at Portland,
Conn.) ; and Prof. Ethan Allen Andrews, '81 S., Johns
Hopkins University '87, of Baltimore, Md.
Horace Andrews, Sr. (born April 27, 1819, at New
Britain, Conn., died February 13, 1901, at Brooklyn,
N. Y.), was a lawyer residing at New York City and
Tarrytown, N. Y. He graduated from Yale in the Class
of 1841, and attended the Yale Law School, 1843-
45. He was the third son and fifth of the ten children
of Prof. Ethan Allen Andrews, Yale 1810, a descendant
of John Andrews, one of the settlers and, in 1672, one
of the eighty-four proprietors of the ancient town of
Tunxis, named afterwards Farmington, Conn., and Lucy
(Cowles) Andrews, a daughter of Col. Isaac Cowles of
Farmington, and a descendant of Rev. Thomas Hooker,
who settled at Newtown (now Cambridge) Mass., in
1633.
Julia Russell (Johnson) Andrews (born July 24,
1826, died November 28, 1866, at New Haven, Conn.)
was a daughter of William Johnson, the son of Thomas
138 BIOGRAPHIES
J. and Hannah (Davis) Johnson and Mary Elizabeth
Welles, daughter of Noah Welles, M. D., and Euphemia
(Hoog) Welles, and granddaughter of Rev. Noah Welles.
Andrews prepared for Yale at the Hopkins Gram-
mar School and the Stiles French Private School,
both in New Haven, Conn., and entered Sheff in the
fall of 1868, taking the Civil Engineering Course,-
receiving the degree of Ph. B. in 1871, and C. E. in
1872.
He was married first at Hamden, Conn., on Octo-
ber 13, 1881, to Miss Adeline Louise Downer (died
December 8, 1893, at Albany, N. Y.), daughter of
Samuel R. Downer (born January 8, 1827, died
February 4, 1891) and Charlotte Root Forbes
(born February 1, 1829, died September 7, 1893) of
Hamden, Conn. He has had three children: Theo-
dore Andrews, '03 (born November 29, 1882, at
Albany, N. Y.) ; Bertha Agnes (born August 30,
1884, married James E. Maloney, M. D., September
25, 1903) ; and Alan Andrews (born February 21,
1887, died January 6, 1893, at Albany, N. Y.).
He was married, second, to Miss Frances Eleanor
Green, daughter of W. W. Green of Hull, England,
on June 15, 1910, at Hull.
Andrews was engaged on the United States Coast
Survey, 1872-78, being on Navy pay rolls the last
year in Florida; on New York State Trigonometri-
cal Survey, 1878-84; engineering inspector of New
CLASS OF 1871 S. 139
York State Board of Health, 1884-86. He designed
and superintended sewer construction in Bingham-
ton, N. Y., and in Bath (on Hudson), N. Y. ;
designed and supervised sewers of Plattsburg, N. Y.
In politics he is a Democrat, but has held no elec-
tive office. He was city engineer of Albany, 1886-
1900, seven terms of two years each, appointed by
the mayor and confirmed by the Common Council ;
was a member of the Albany Board of Health six
years ; member of Board of State Examiners for
Engineering Positions six years ; president of Board
of Plumbing Examiners for Albany five years. He
is a member of St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal
Church of Albany. He is a member of the American
Society of Civil Engineers and of its Board of Direc-
tion, 1908-10; a member of the American Society
Municipal Improvements, Deutschen Geometerverein,
and Fort Orange Club of Albany. He traveled in
England, France, Belgium and Holland in 1904 ; in
Jamaica in 1904; in Jamaica, Columbia and Costa
Rica in 1905 ; in Mexico in 1907 ; in England and
the Continent, including Italy, Switzerland and Ger-
many, in 1909; and in England, France and Ger-
many in 1910.
His published works are: two papers in "Final
Report of New York State Survey, 1887," also one
in an earlier report; several reports to New York
State Board of Health, 1884-85 ; annual reports as
city engineer of Albany, 1891-1900 (no reports were
140 BIOGRAPHIES
ever made prior to 1891) ; chapter on "City Sur-
veys" in Gillespie's "Surveying" (Staley), D. Apple-
ton & Co., 1897; several papers discussed in Ameri-
can Society Civil Engineers ; numerous contributions
to Engineering News of New York, and several
papers and reports in "Transactions American So-
ciety Municipal Improvements."
Edwin F. Bacon
Teacher, Oneonta, N. Y., State Normal School
Oneonta, N. Y.
Edwin Faxon Bacon, '71 S., was born in Lockport,
N. Y., June 2, 1832. He is the son of James Bacon and
Mary (Wright) Bacon, who were married April 28,
1819, and had seven other children: Mary Jane (mar-
ried Rev. M. L. Fuller, died in 1904, at Fenton, Mich.) ;
Cornelia (married Rev. D. T. Olcott, died July 21, 1864,
at Lockport, N. Y.) ; James Bacon (died in 1869, at
Kansas City) ; Rev. Albert M. Bacon (a graduate of
Shurtleff College, 111., died in Chicago, 111., October 31,
1898); Caroline A. (married Rev. Dr. Joseph Cross);
George W. Bacon, a publisher of London, England
(F. R. G. S) ; and a daughter who died in infancy.
James Bacon (born September 11, 1791, at Sandy
Hill, N. Y., died January 21, 1855, at Mount Pleasant,
Wis.) was a business man of Lockport, N. Y., from 1820
to 1847, after the latter date in Wisconsin. He was
constable and deputy sheriff at Lockport and post-
master at Mount Pleasant, Wis. He was a deacon in the
Baptist Church. In early life he was a teacher at Silver
Creek, N. Y. He was a son of Joseph Bacon, a farmer
of old New England stock, and Mary Gillett of Sharon,
Conn.
CLASS OF 1871 S. 141
Mary (Wright) Bacon (born February 13, 179*, at
Berlin (now New Britain), Conn., died July 29, 1864, at
Normal, 111.) was a daughter of Reuben Wright, a
soldier of the Revolution, and Martha Gridley of Ken-
sington parish in Berlin, Conn., and granddaughter of
Judah Wright.
Bacon engaged in various business employments
in the West and South before entering college. He
taught at Bloomington, 111., Norwalk, Conn., and
Wilmington, Del. He prepared for college at the
Illinois Normal University at Normal, 111., and at
the Peoria High School, and entered Sheff in Sep-
tember, 1868, where he took the Select Course.
While in college, 1870-71, he taught in the Hopkins
Grammar School in New Haven.
He is unmarried.
Since graduation in 1871, Bacon has been engaged
in teaching, study, travel, and writing. He has
visited Europe four times, in 1873-75, in 1882-85,
in 1897, and in 1900, spending in all about five and
a half years abroad. While in Paris he taught and
lectured in English at the "Institut Polyglotte." As
a teacher, he has devoted himself chiefly to French
and German. He taught in Hasbrouck Institute,
Jersey City, from 1877 to 1889 (excepting the
three years' absence abroad), and has been teacher
of French and German at Oneonta since the opening
of the school in 1889, recently also of Spanish.
His published works are: "Leitfaden zum Erler-
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nen der deutschen Sprache," a German text book,
Maynard, Merrill & Co., 1885; "New French
Course," a French text book, American Book Com-
pany, 1897 ; "New German Course," Maynard, Mer-
rill & Co., 1906; "The Passion Play at Oberammer-
gau as seen in 1900," in German and English, with
description of fifty scenes, used with illustrated lec-
ture; a lecture on "Success," delivered in Paris and
published in London; and "History of Otsego
County, N. Y., 1902." Under the pen name of
"Luke Sharpe," he is a constant contributor to
various country papers, on subjects of health and
culture, and is an occasional lecturer on these and
kindred topics.
[As this volume is going to press word is received
that Professor Bacon died in Oneonta, N. Y., on
Saturday, December 17.]
Luther W. Burt
Civil Engineer and Surveyor
124 Collins Street, and 39 Pearl Street, Hartford, Conn.
Luther White Burt, '71 S., was born in Hartford,
Conn., October 16, 1848. He is the son of Richard
Storrs Burt and Maria Asenath (Boardman) Burt, who
were married April 3, 1844, and had two other children:
Charles Richard Burt (secretary of the Connecticut Fire
Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn., for thirty-five
years, died November 20, 1907) ; and Lilla M. Burt of
Hartford.
CLASS OF 1871 8. 143
Richard Storrs Burt (born October 26, 1817, at East
Longmeadow, Mass., died April 21, 1895) was an insur-
ance agent with the Connecticut Fire Insurance Company
and resided at Hartford, Conn. He was a son of Luther
Burt, a farmer of East Longmeadow, and Mary (White)
Burt (born in Springfield, Mass), and a descendant of
Henry Burt, who came from England about 1630, and
was the ancestor of all Burts originating in Springfield,
Mass.
Maria Asenath (Boardman) Burt (born September
25, 1817, at Hartford, Conn., died June 26, 1892, at
Hartford, Conn.) was a daughter of Lewis Catlin Board-
man and Sophronia (Woodruff) Boardman of Hartford.
Burt prepared for Yale at the Stiles French
School in New Haven, Conn., and entered Sheff in
1868, where he took the Engineering Course.
He was married at Springfield, Mass., on May 6,
1875, to Miss Mary Alice Greene (died March 21,
1887), daughter of Albert Pownell Greene, a farmer
of Middletown, Conn. He was married again on
January 23, 1895, to Miss Mary Rose Francis,
daughter of Samuel H. Francis, a farmer of West
Hartford, Conn. His children are: Luther Harold
Burt (born February 29, 1876, a graduate of
Trinity College in the Class of 1900, now a practic-
ing civil engineer in State of New York, married
Miss Claudia LeSeur of Schuylerville, N. Y., April,
1902. They have one child: Richard White Burt,
born December 20, 1903) ; Alice Morgan Burt (born
October 27, 1877) ; Marian Lucy (born July 12,
144 BIOGRAPHIES
1883, married Dr. F. Herbert Gile, of Braintree,
Mass., October 5, 1909) ; Richard Greene Burt (died
in childhood) ; Daisy Helen Burt (died in infancy) ;
Arline Francis Burt (born December 8, 1895) ; and
Charles Everett Burt (born October 29, 1906).
Burt was city engineer and surveyor of Hartford,
1891-94, since which time he has been a consulting
engineer and surveyor with an office in Hartford. In
politics he is a Democrat. He is a member of the
Asylum Hill Church.
At the time of his candidacy for city surveyor of
Hartford, the Hartford Times (April 13, 1891)
printed the following editorial comment on his work :
"Mr. Luther W. Burt, the Democratic nominee for
city surveyor, .... spent a year or two under General
Ellis on the Government survey of the Connecticut River,
and then, for a half dozen years, rendered excellent ser-
vice as assistant city surveyor at the period when much
extra work was being carried on in Hartford, including
the layout of Franklin Avenue, the trunk sewer in that
avenue and the building of sewers in High and other
streets. The present valuable map of the city was in the
main prepared by Mr. Burt from his own special surveys.
"The engineering work of the Connecticut Western
railroad, under the superintendency of Major J. F. Jones,
was entrusted to Mr. Burt, and the excellent character
of his work is attested by the fact of his engagement by
Major Jones, within the past twelve months, for a half
year and more in laying out and developing the town of
Blacksburg, S. C., and in engineering work on the
"Three CV railroad, with which enterprises Major
Jones has been the moving spirit. Mr. Burt has planned
and built a railroad for the Middlesex Quarry Company ;
CLASS OF 1871 S. 145
has built sewers in Hartford, Norwalk, Danbury, New
Haven, etc., including the Boulevard trunk sewer in the
latter city, and has done a vast deal of other work in
Connecticut in the dozen years he has had an office as
independent surveyor and civil engineer in this city. He
will come to the position of city surveyor with an expe-
rience well qualifying him for the duties of the office."
* James C. Bush
Soldier and Editor
Died 1905
James Clark Bush, '71 S., only son and eldest
child of William Henry and Eliza Ann (Clark) Bush
of New Haven, Conn., was born in Waterbury,
Conn., October 31, 1850. His father was for many
years deacon in the First Congregational Church in
Waterbury. His mother was a daughter of John
Clark (Yale 1806) of that city. He had five ances-
tors who served in the Revolutionary War, one great-
grandfather having gone through the entire war and
received a pension.
The boyhood days of Bush were spent in Water-
bury and New London, Conn., in Scranton, Pa., and
in New Haven, Conn. In the last city he received
most of his early education, at Mr. Fabrique's School
and at General Russell's Commercial and Collegiate
Institute. Owing to the financial reverses of his
father, he left the Sheffield Scientific School during
Junior year, but subsequently received the degree of
146 BIOGRAPHIES
Bachelor of Philosophy, and was enrolled with his
Class in 1890. For a time he was assistant to the
city surveyor, and later for about a year served on
the engineer staff of the Air Line Railroad, then in
process of construction. Upon competitive examina-
tion he was then appointed from Connecticut to the
United States Military Academy at West Point,
entering as a cadet July 1, 1871 ; and was graduated
June 16, 1875, when he was commissioned second
lieutenant in the Fifth Regiment of Artillery. He
was also graduated from the United States School
of Application for Artillery Officers at Fort Monroe,
Va., in 1880, and from the United States School of
Application for Torpedo Training at Willet's Point,
N. Y., in 1882. His appointment as first lieutenant
in the Fifth Artillery bears the date of November
1, 1882, and he received his commission as captain in
the Seventh Regiment of Artillery March 8, 1898.
During his connection with the United States Army
he was at West Point until 1875 ; at Fort Trumbull,
New London, Conn., in 1875; Key West Barracks
and Fort Brooke, Tampa, Fla., until 1877; Fort
Monroe, Va., in 1880 ; Fort Brooke again, 1880-81 ;
Plattsburg Barracks, N. Y., 1881; and Willet's
Point, N. Y., 1882. He was stationed at Fort
Schuyler, N. Y., in 1882-83; was professor of mili-
tary science at General Russell's School, New Haven,
Conn., 1883-84 ; was at Fort Omaha, Neb., in 1884 ;
Fort Douglas, Salt Lake City, Utah, during 1884-
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87 ; at Fort Columbus, Governor's Island, New York
Harbor, during 1887-98. During the Spanish War
he was in service at Tampa, Fla., and in the autumn
of 1898 was stationed at Fort Adams, Newport,
R. I., where he remained until ordered to the Philip-
pines in 1901. He reached Manila in the spring of
1902, and was first stationed at Fort Santiago, but
later was transferred to a post about four miles
away. He was commissioned major in the Artillery
Corps, U. S. A., February 21, 1903; and early in
1904 he was placed in command of the Cuartel de
Espana and of the Artillery, District of Manila.
His health becoming somewhat impaired, he was
granted leave of absence for several months, which
he spent in travel in Japan. Shortly after his
return to Manila he suffered an attack of fever from
which he never fully recovered. He was ordered
home in June, 1904, and reached this country in
July, proceeding at once to Fort Warren, Boston
Harbor, Mass., where he was in command until his
last illness.
While at Governor's Island, he was post commis-
sary. In 1888, he was elected assistant secretary
and treasurer of the Military Service Institution;
also assistant editor of the Journal of the Institution,
having charge of the reprints and foreign reviews,
a department which he inaugurated. It was likewise
through his efforts that a change from a quarterly
to a bimonthly issue was effected. The magazine
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thus became better known and so valuable to officers
as to increase the membership in the Institution and
largely augment its funds, which he wisely invested.
In 1894 he became sole editor of the Journal, his
services for it ending when he took command of his
company during the Spanish- American War, in June,
1898. He wrote various articles for this Journal,
besides numerous translations from the French.
His more important writings are : "Development of
Submarine Mines and Torpedoes," 1890 ; "Strategy,
Tactics, and Policy," 1891 ; "Comment on the Three
Battalion Organization," 1893 ; "A Short History of
the Fifth Regiment of Artillery," 1895 ; "Historical
Sketch concerning the Walls of Manila," 1904, which
was published in the annual report of the command-
ing general of the Philippines Division.
His health was seriously undermined during his
Philippine tour, and after his return to this country
he suffered much from illness. Although urged to
seek needed rest, he kept bravely on at his command
at Fort Warren, where he was stricken with apoplexy
May 17, 1905, a second attack proving fatal on June
11. He was fifty-four years of age. He was buried
with military honors at West Point. He was a mem-
ber of the Church of the Ascension, Boston.
Major Bush married, January 8, 1880, Eleanor
Adams, elder daughter of Hon. Edwin M. Stanton,
LL. D., Yale '67, attorney general in the Cabinet
of President Buchanan, secretary of war in the
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Cabinets of Presidents Lincoln and Johnson, and
justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
He made his only European trip shortly after his
marriage. Mrs. Bush and one daughter survive him.
He also left three sisters residing in New Haven,
Conn., one of whom received the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy from Yale University in 1901.
George B. Chittenden, C. E.
Mining Engineer, Saddle Mountain Mining Company
Christmas, Ariz.
George Benjamin Chittenden, '71 S., was born in
Madison, Conn., December 25, 1849. He is the son of
Samuel C. Chittenden and Amanda Anne (Munger) Chit-
tenden, and a brother of Samuel Hosmer Chittenden, '67
S., and C. E. '75 (died at Washington, Conn., February
14, 1909).
Samuel C. Chittenden (born September 22, 1811, at
Madison, Conn., died December 3, 1886, at Madison,
Conn.) was a son of Samuel Chittenden, direct descend-
ant of William Chittenden, one of the founders of Guil-
ford, Conn. He carried on a lumber business for many
years and was one of the original projectors and stock-
holders of the Shore Line Railroad.
Amanda Anne (Munger) Chittenden (born November
27, 1813, at Madison, Conn., died January 12, 1901, at
Madison, Conn.) was a daughter of George Munger,
descendant of Nicholas Munger, one of the founders of
Guilford, Conn.
Chittenden prepared for Yale at the Guilford In-
stitute, Guilford, Conn., and entered Sheff in Sep-
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tember, 1867, where he took the Engineering Course,
receiving the degree Ph. B. in 1871, and the degree
of C. E. in 1873.
He was married at Washington, D. C., on
December 25, 1876, to Miss Ella Spencer Delano,
daughter of James S. Delano (a graduate of
Knox College, 111., in the Class of 1853, in the de-
partment second comptroller, United States Treas-
ury, at Washington, D. C.). They have three chil-
dren: Mira D. Chittenden (born in 1879, at Wash-
ington, D. C.) ; Horace W. Chittenden, '03 S. and
'04 F. (born in 1880) ; and Marjorie Lee Chitten-
den (born in 1884).
Chittenden entered the Coast Survey on gradua-
tion; was with the Geological Survey from 1873 to
1878; built water works dam, Washington, D. C.,
1883-85 ; and has been mining in the South and Far
West most of the time from latter date. Since 1901,
he has been general manager for the Saddle Mountain
Mining Company, Christmas, Gila County, Ariz.
He is a member of the Congregational Church.
^Russell W. Davenport, M. A.
Manufacturer
Died 1904
Russell Wheeler Davenport, '71 S., son of Rev.
James Radcliffe Davenport, D. D., Yale 1830, and
CLASS OF 1871 S. 151
Mehitable W. (Newell) Davenport, and grandson of
John Alfred Davenport, Yale 1802, was born in
Albany, N. Y., on November 26, 1849.
The year after graduation Davenport was instruc-
tor in Chemistry in the Sheffield Scientific School, and
then went to Germany, where he made a special study
of metallurgy and blast metal processes in Berlin.
In 1874 he entered the service of the Midvale Steel
Works at Nicetown, in the suburbs of Philadelphia,
as chemist, and in 1882 became superintendent. In
1888 he was appointed assistant superintendent, in
1893 vice-president, and in 1898 superintendent of
manufacture of the Bethlehem (Pa.) Iron Works,
where he successfully introduced the "open hearth"
process for the manufacture of steel armor. In 1899
he was made general superintendent of the Bethlehem
Steel Works, and in October, 1903, became general
manager and director of William Cramp & Son's
Ship and Engine Building Company in Philadelphia.
For his acquirements as a metallurgist, and his ser-
vices to the public in the work of building up the
U. S. Navy and in gun work for the Army, he received
the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Harvard
University in 1894, and the same degree from Yale
in 1898.
He lectured at Lehigh University in 1896 on ship
armor making, contributed to the American Journal
of Science, and wrote valuable pamphlets on iron and
steel manufacture. He died of pneumonia at his
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home in Philadelphia, on March 2, 1904, at the age
of fifty-four years.
He had married, on June 1, 1897, Cornelia Whip-
pie, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Whipple)
Farnum, and granddaughter of Bishop Whipple.
Mrs. Davenport survived him with a son. An elder
brother (Yale 1861) died in 1890.
Frederick S. Dickson
Maneskootuk, Rangeley, Me.
Frederick Stoever Dickson, '71 S., was born in Utica,
N. Y., June 24, 1850. He is the son of Hugh Sheridan
Dickson and Sarah Margaret (Stoever) Dickson, who
were married September 2, 1845, and had three other
children: Alan Hamilton Dickson, ex-'72, Mrs. Elizabeth
Dickson Lowrie, and Mrs. Ellen Dickson Wilson.
Hugh Sheridan Dickson (born May 22, 1813, at
Rathfreiland, County Down, Ireland, died October 17,
1887, at Philadelphia, Pa.) was a clergyman residing at
Philadelphia, Pa. He graduated at Union College in
1839 and at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1841,
and received the honorary degree of D. D. from Ham-
ilton College in 1841. He was a son of Alexander
Dickson, fifth in descent from Davis Dickson, minister
of Irvine, Scotland.
Sarah Margaret (Stoever) Dickson (born January 25,
1824, at Philadelphia, Pa., died January 29, 1898, at
Philadelphia, Pa.) was a daughter of Frederick Stoever
and Sarah (Reigart) Stoever, third in descent from Rev.
John Caspar Stoever, who established the first Lutheran
Church in Pennsylvania.
CLASS OF 1871 S. 153
Dickson prepared for Yale at the Hill School,
Pottstown, Pa., and entered Sheff in 1868, where he
took the Select Course.
He was married at Conshohocken, Pa., on Febru-
ary 17, 1874, to Miss Helen Hortense Hickman of
West Chester, Pa., daughter of John Hickman
(lawyer, district attorney, member of Congress,
1854-62, died March 23, 1875) and Eunice (Phelps)
Hickman, who were married December 1, 1839. He
has two children: Elizabeth Dickson (born November
14, 1874, a graduate of Miss Porter's School, Farm-
ington, Conn., married Maximilian Foster, June 25,
1904), and Frederick Stoever Dickson, Jr. (born
October 9, 1881, Yale '03 S.).
Dickson is officially connected with the telephone
business in Ohio, having been elected in 1902, presi-
dent of the following companies : Cuyahoga Tele-
phone Company, Federal Telephone Company,
United States Telephone Company, Stark County
Telephone Company, Youngstown Telephone Com-
pany, Zanesville Telephone Company, Lancaster
Telephone Company, Massillon Telephone Company ^
Columbiana Telephone Company, Citizens Telephone
Company, Fostoria and Findlay Telephone Com-
pany. On March 1, 1906, he joined the banking and
brokerage firm of A. O. Brown & Co. of 30 Broad
Street, New York City. In politics he is a Republi-
can. He is a member of the St. Anthony Club, New
York, and the Union Club, Tavern Club and Rowfant
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Club, all of Cleveland, and a member of "The Tit-
marsh Club," London, England. He was president
of the Associated Western Yale Clubs for the year
1907-08.
His published works are: "An Analysis of Black-
stone's Commentaries," Philadelphia, 1874 ; "An
Analysis of Kent's Commentaries," Philadelphia,
1876; "And The Wilderness Blossomed," Philadel-
phia, 1901; "Our Annual Execution by W. M.
Thackeray" (edited), Philadelphia, 1902; "A Biblio-
graphy of Thackeray in the United States," New
York, 190 ; "Telephone Investments and Others,"
Cleveland, 1905. Edited Keightley, Henry Fielding,
Cleveland; The Rowfant Club, 1908. Wrote an
article on Wall Street gambling, "The Poison of the
Street," for Everybody's Magazine, February, 1909.
William C. Durand
Banking, Secretary and Treasurer, Milford Savings Bank
Milford, Conn.
William Cecil Durand, '71 S., was born in Milford,
Conn., June 15, 1851. He is the son of Calvin Durand
and Sarah Cecil (Hunter) Durand, who were married
April 27, 1847, in Savannah, Ga., and had one other
child, a daughter, who died in infancy.
Calvin Durand (born February 2, 1802, at Milford,
Conn., died March 1, 1884, at Milford, Conn.) was a
merchant, residing at Milford, Conn., and New York
City. He was for fifty-six years a New York merchant,
CLASS OF 1871 S. 155
a member of the firm of Goodhue & Co., 64 South Street,
New York City. He was a son of William Durand and
Mary (Baldwin) Durand.
Sarah Cecil (Hunter) Durand (born February 5,
1823, at Savannah, Ga., died June 27, 1851, at Milford,
Conn.) was a daughter of Col. James Hunter and Eliza
Tuting (Cecil) Hunter.
Durand attended for three years Charlier's French
School, at 48 and 50 East Twenty-fourth Street,
New York City. Before entering college he had
made three trips abroad. He prepared at the Stiles
French School, at New Haven, Conn., and entered
Sheff in September, 1868, where he took the Select
Course.
He was married at Milford, Conn., on January 15,
1885, to Miss Lizzie C. Ford (died August 18, 1888,
at Milford). He was married again on June 17,
1890, to Miss Clara Baldwin Clark (died March 9,
1904, at Milford, Conn.), daughter of Robert W.
and Mary A. Clark. He was married a third time
to Miss Anna M. Keefe, August 1, 1908, at Milford,
Conn. He has no children.
Durand was a member of the Connecticut Legisla-
ture during the sessions of 1883-84, and 1889. He
was a state auditor of public accounts, 1889-91. In
politics, he is a Cleveland Democrat ; never voted for
Bryan but voted for William H. Taft, because he
was a Yale man. He is president of the Milford
Club, and treasurer of the Milford Yacht Club. He
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has been secretary and treasurer of the Milford Sav-
ings Bank since February 12, 1891, and treasurer
of the Taylor Library since 1894.
Charles H. Dwindle
Poultry Raising and Insurance.
Fulton, Sonoma County, Cal.
Charles Hascall Dwindle, '71 S., was born at Roch-
ester, Monroe County, N. Y., March 28, 184-7. He is
a son of John (originally Jeremiah) Whipple Dwindle
and Cornelia Bradley (Stearns) Dwindle, who were
married about August 11, 1841, and had four other
children, one of whom is living: Ella Cornelia (born
October 8, 1842, married Charles G. Pond of Brooklyn,
N. Y., deceased) ; Anna Louise Dwindle (born Sep-
tember 6, 1844, died September 21, 1882, at Berkeley,
Cal.); Herman Dwindle (born December 6, 1856, died
November 10, 1877, at Berkeley, Cal.) ; and Florence
Dwindle (born February 25, 1858, died March 5, 1885,
at Berkeley, Cal.).
John Whipple Dwindle (born September 9, 1816, at
Cazenovia, Madison County, N. Y., drowned in a ferry
ship at Port Costa, Cal., January 28, 1881, at the age
of sixty-four years) was the eldest child of Justin
Dwindle and Louisa (Whipple) Dwindle. He had four
brothers: Wm. H. Dwinelle, M. D. and dentist, New
York; Justin Dwinelle, brigade surgeon, U. S. Volun-
teers, Syracuse, N. Y. ; Samuel H. Dwinelle, judge of
15th District Court, San Francisco, Cal.; and James E.
Dwinelle, M. D., Baltimore, Md. ; and two sisters who
lived to maturity, and two brothers who died in infancy.
Justin Dwinelle, the father, was a farmer's son, born in
CLASS OF 1871 8. 157
Shaftsbury, Vt, in 1785, died in Cazenovia, N. Y., Sep-
tember 17, 1850. He studied at Williams College, but
graduated at Yale in 1808; was a lawyer, first judge of
Madison County, N. Y., member of the New York
Assembly and of the United States House of Repre-
sentatives; was of Huguenot ancestry. John Whipple
Dwindle, LL.D., who graduated at Hamilton College
about 1833, was a lawyer connected with the firm of
Shafters, Gould & Dwindle, San Francisco, Cal. He
resided at Cazenovia and Rochester, N. Y., and at
San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda, Cal.
He was a member of the Assembly of California, mayor
of Oakland, Cal., and a member of the Board of Regents
of the University of California. He drew the bill which
was the organic act of the University of California, and
pushed it through the Legislature. He married for a
second wife the widow of Mr. W. W. Chipman of
Alameda, Cal., and she survives him.
Cornelia Bradley (Stearns) Dwindle (born at Pom-
pey, Onondaga County, N. Y., April 18, 1819, died at
San Rafael, Cal., October 25, 1873) was the daughter
of Dr. Jehiel Stearns and Nancy (Hascall) Stearns, and
was educated at Pompey Academy, Cazenovia Seminary,
and Mrs. Record's School, Geneva, N. Y. A brother,
Joseph Hascall Stearns, was one of the founders of the
business known as the Selby Smelting & Refining Com-
pany of San Francisco, Cal. He died in 1883, at the age
of sixty-six years. He was unmarried. Jehiel Stearns
was a farmer's son, born at Rockingham, Vt., in 1790,
studied in Dr. Hastings' office at Charlestown, N. H.,
attended medical lectures at Dartmouth College, was
licensed to practice, and was assistant surgeon in the
United States Army in the War of 1812 to 1815. He
practiced in Pompey, N. Y., for over sixty years. He
was very skillful, and greatly beloved by his fellow men.
He received the degree of M. D. from Geneva Medical
College, "for merit." The Onondaga Medical Society be-
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stowed upon him the old Roman crown of laurel and oak
for distinguished service in civil life. He chose his pro-
fession as one that would give him opportunities to do
good to his fellows. He died October 8, 1878, at the age
of eighty-eight years, eight months and eight days.
Nancy, his wife, was one of the twelve children of Deacon
Joseph Hascall and Alice (Fitch) Hascall, and was prob-
ably born at Pawlet, but possibly at Bennington, or Rut-
land, Vt. She was a woman of very lovely character, and
deeply mourned by the community when she died, at
something like sixty years of age. Joseph Hascall was
a soldier in the Continental Army, afterwards a farmer.
He lived to be over eighty years old. Alice Fitch, his
wife, was a daughter of Rev. James Fitch, of Killingly,
Conn., a noted preacher. She was of small stature but
of high intelligence and great energy. She died at
Pompey, N. Y., at the age of ninety-three or ninety-five
years, and retained her faculties to the last. The Has-
calls were Baptists, and one of their sons, a clergyman,
maintained a boarding school at Hamilton, N. Y., out
of which grew the institution now called Colgate Univer-
sity. He also inaugurated a Baptist Theological Semi-
nary, which afterwards moved to Rochester, N. Y., and
Rochester University was an offshoot from it.
Dwinelle, born at Rochester, N. Y., went to Pom-
pey, N. Y., at the age of two years, returned to
Rochester at the age of six years, and when sixteen
went to Oakland, Cal. Not being strong, he had
attended school but little up to that age, but had
been tutored at home, particularly in French and
mathematics, the latter taught by professors from
Rochester University. He entered Oakland College
School in 1864, at the age of seventeen, and remained
CLASS OF 1871 8. 159
there two years. He then spent one year in Mc-
Clure's Academy, and the next year received private
instruction in mathematics from Watson A. Good-
year, Yale '63 S., entering Yale in 1868, at the age
of twenty-one years. He took a course preparatory
to agriculture at Sheff, where he was a member of
Berzelius, took the prize for proficiency in French,
and had honorable mention in botany and zoology at
graduation. He spent the summer vacation of 1869
at Cream Hill, West Cornwall, Conn., farming under
the instruction of the Hon. T. S. Gold. The summer
of 1870 was spent in Eastport, Me., with Professor
Verrill, collecting marine animals.
He was married June 10, 1885, at Woolsey Ranch,
Meacham Station, Cal., to Miss Marie Louise Wool-
sey (born in Brooklyn, N. Y.), daughter of Ezra
Woodhull Woolsey (born March 1, 1824, at Hunt-
ington, L. I., N. Y., died October 16, 1910), formerly
a merchant in New York, general agent for a Life
Insurance Company in San Francisco, and farmer at
Fulton, Cal. They have no children.
In 1871 Dwindle returned to Oakland, Cal., and
worked for the Pacific Rural Press while hunting an
agricultural opening. In 1872-73 he rented the land
where Berkeley now is, and raised hay. He invested
in the so-called "Tule lands," marsh lands in the delta
of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, making
money for a time and then losing all by a flood and
a mortgage. In 1874 he tried vegetable farming on
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these lands, was flooded out and contracted a fever
that impaired his hearing. This deafness has in-
creased with years. In 1875-76 he raised sheep in
Contra Costa County, Cal. The winter of 1876-77
was passed in San Diego County on a ranch. In
1877-78 he was engaged in the real estate business in
San Francisco, and from 1878 to 1885 he was a
lecturer on practical agriculture in the College of
Agriculture, University of California, Berkeley, Cal.
He also introduced the study of systematic and eco-
nomic entomology at this college. When he left in
June, 1885, he expected to return in a year, but
that summer he received such an injury to his right
eye that he never went back to teaching. In 1885
he traveled with his wife in California, by steamer to
Oregon, by rail to Yellowstone Park, and east to
New York. At Washington, D. C., he attended the
Convention of Representatives of Agricultural Col-
leges and Experiment Stations, as delegate from the
University of California. They then went to the
British Isles, France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria
and Germany for over a year, returning to California
in 1887, since which time he has engaged in fruit
culture, sheep raising, and mixed farming, in several
parts of California, but does not now own a farm.
In 1883 he spent his summer vacation in Colorado,
visiting Colorado Springs, Manitou, Denver, Fort
Collins and Estes Park. At Colorado Springs the
president of the then young college of that place
CLASS OF 1871 S. 161
urged him to take charge of the agricultural depart-
ment of that college, at a handsome salary, but he
declined, on account of family and other ties in Cali-
fornia, and because the elevation, about six thousand
feet, was unpleasant to him. In April, 1906, he had
an office as real estate and insurance broker, and
mining secretary, in San Francisco, but it was wiped
out entirely by the great fire, and his clients
scattered far and wide. He says : "I shall probably
spend the rest of my days in the country, and I
know of no better country than Sonoma County,
California. God made the country. Man made the
city, and he made a bad job of it." Since 1908 he
has been proprietor of the Orpington Yards (poultry
farm), and since December, 1909, has been county
sub-agent of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company of Milwaukee. He is also Fulton
agent for the Home Fire Insurance Company, of
New York.
Dwindle was president for two years of the first
State Board of Horticulture of California. His
military record is brief. During the war times of
1861-63 he obtained the privilege of drilling with
and wearing the uniform of "Pierce's Cadets,"
the pupils of a school in Rochester, N. Y., kept
by the Pierce brothers. Although he did not attend
the school he reached the rank of corporal. He
is a member of the Presbyterian Church of Fulton,
Cal., has been librarian of the Sunday school of the
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First Presbyterian Church of Oakland, Cal., and
treasurer of the First Presbyterian Church of Berke-
ley, Cal. He was a charter member of Temescal
Grange, North Temescal, Cal. In politics he is a
Republican.
Dwinelle edited The Cultivator's Guide, a semi-
monthly paper published at Sacramento from April
1, 1883, to March 15, 1884; read an essay on "Rust
in Wheat" before the State Board of Agriculture,
at Sacramento, Cal. ; and has delivered various ad-
dresses before State Horticultural Conventions, at
Sacramento, Jan Jose and San Francisco. He has
published reports on agricultural experiment work,
on the university grounds, in the University Agricul-
tural Reports of the College of Agriculture, and has
contributed numerous articles on agriculture, horti-
culture, animal industry, etc., to the Pacific Rural
Press, the Orchard and Farm, and other papers.
Charles A. Ferry, C. E.
Civil Engineer, with A. B. Hill, Consulting Civil Engineer
24, Edgewood Avenue, and 100 Crown Street, New Haven, Conn.
Charles Addison Ferry, '71 S., was born in Granby,
Mass., January 8, 1852. He is the son of Addison Ferry
and Margaret (White) Ferry, who were married Feb-
ruary 19, 1840, and had two other children: Lyman
Stewart Ferry, Yale '67 S. (died November 18, 1869);
and Jennette Ferry.
CLASS OF 1871 S. 163
Addison Ferry (born September 10, 1814, at Granby,
Mass., died February 23, 1853, at Granby, Mass.) was
a car builder, living at Granby and Springfield, Mass.
Margaret (White) Ferry (born February 3, 1820, at
Granby, Mass.) is of Pilgrim ancestry.
Ferry prepared for Yale at the high school in New
Haven, Conn., and entered Sheff in September, 1868,
where he took the Civil Engineering Course.
He was married at New Haven, Conn., on October
17, 1877, to Miss Rosella Elmira Briggs, a graduate
of the New Haven High School in 1875, and daugh-
ter of William A. Briggs. They have two daugh-
ters: Edna Louise Ferry (born August 13, 1883, a
graduate of Mt. Holyoke in the Class of 1905), and
Ruth Margaret Ferry (born December 4, 1900).
Immediately after graduation, Ferry entered the
city engineer's office, New Haven, Conn. ; in 1872 was
appointed assistant engineer in charge of sewer de-
partment ; in 1883 was appointed first assistant city
engineer. This position he resigned in 1892, to
enter the office of A. B. Hill, '69 S., and since June,
1892, has been principal assistant in this office. In
1891 Ferry received from Yale the degree of C. E.
He is a member of the Plymouth Congregational
Church, New Haven ; of the American Society of
Civil Engineers and the Connecticut Society of Civil
Engineers.
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Charles H. Greene
No information about the biography or present
whereabouts of Charles Henry Greene, '71 S., has
been obtainable.
*Charles W. Griswold
Engineer
Died 1878
Charles Woodford Griswold, '71 S., son of Thomas
F. and Mary Ann (Bishop) Griswold, was born in
New Britain, Conn., May 15, 1852.
He graduated at the New Britain High School in
1868, and then took the course in Civil Engineering
in the Sheffield Scientific School. After receiving
his degree he was employed temporarily on the U. S.
Coast Survey, and in October, 1871, went to New
York City, where he filled the position of engineer of
the Woodlawn Cemetery until his death. At the end
of January, 1878, he was attacked with a disease of
the brain induced by overwork, which after two or
three sleepless nights developed into acute mania.
At the urgent advice of his physician he was removed
to the asylum in Poughkeepsie, and died there, Feb-
ruary 3, 1878, in his twenty-sixth year.
He was married, October 9, 1872, to Miss Sarah
L. Garrett of Sullivan County, N. Y., who survived
him with three children.
CLASS OF 1871 8. 165
*John W. Griswold
Iron Manufacturer
Died 1902
John Wool Griswold, '71 S., son of John Augustus
and Elizabeth (Hart) Griswold, was born in Troy,
N. Y., on August 30, 1850. He was a grand-nephew
of General John Ellis Wool, a soldier in the War of
1812, the Mexican and Civil Wars. His father was
an iron and steel manufacturer, trustee of Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, mayor of Troy, member of
Congress, and a friend whose aid to Captain John
Ericsson at a critical time secured the construction
of the Monitor.
Griswold studied three years in the Sheffield Scien-
tific School, taking a special Course, but received
the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy and was enrolled
with his Class in 1898.
After finishing his course at New Haven he en-
gaged in specialties in iron manufacture, having
works at Troy and Sterling, 111. He was elected in
1890 a trustee of the Troy Savings Bank, and of
the Troy Orphan Asylum. He was a member and
trustee of the Second Street Presbyterian Church in
Troy. For some time past his residence had been in
Bennington, Vt.
He died suddenly of heart disease at Chicago, 111.,
on January 2, 1902, in his fifty-second year.
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He married in 1878 Sara Noyes, daughter of
George M. Tibbits, of Troy, N. Y. After her de-
cease he married in 1885 Sarah Perry, daughter of
Charles R. Randall, of New Bedford, Mass. The
latter survived him with two daughters and a son,
the son being a graduate at Williams College.
John N. Judson
Consulting Mining Engineer
25 Broad Street, New York City
John Nichols Judson, '71 S., was born in Bridgeport,
Conn., October 14, 1851. He is the son of Frederick
Joseph Judson and Catharine Ann Taylor (Chapelle)
Judson, who married October 18, 1843, at St. Mary's,
Ga., and had two other sons: Frederick Newton Judson
(a graduate of Yale in the Class of 1866, M. A. 1869);
and Isaac Nichols Judson (a graduate of Yale in the
Class of 1873).
Frederick Joseph Judson (born February 14, 1804,
at Old Mills, Bridgeport (then Stratford), Conn., died
February 6, 1862, at Bridgeport, Conn.) was a physi-
cian, living at Bridgeport. He was graduated at Yale
in the Class of 1824, and from the Medical School in
the Class of 1829. He was a son of Pixlee Judson and
Catharine T. (Nichols) Judson, both of whom were
descended from early settlers of Stratford, the first
settlement of Stratford having been made by William
Judson and his three sons.
Catharine Ann Taylor (Chapelle) Judson was born
in 1824 at St. Mary's, Ga., being the daughter of Dr.
Isaac Newton Chapelle, and died April 5, 1880, at St.
Louis, Mo.
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Judson prepared for Yale at General Russell's
School in New Haven, Conn., and entered Sheff in
the fall of 1868, where he took the Engineering
Course.
He was married at New York City, on February
24, 1900, to Miss Georgiana F. Beaver, daughter of
Jacob Henry Beaver of New York. They have one
daughter: Katherine Jane Judson (born at Brooklyn,
N. Y., May 14,1901).
Judson is a consulting mining engineer and metal-
lurgist with an office in New York. He is a member
of the Episcopal Church. Politically he is what is
called a Cleveland Democrat, having supported Pal-
mer in 1896, not voting in 1900 and supporting
Parker in 1904 and Taft in 1908.
George M. Keasbey
Lawyer, Member of Firm Edward Q. & George M. Keasbey
Union Building, Rooms 1020-1025, Newark, N. J., and
Brielle, N. J.
George Macculloch Keasbey, '71 S., was born October
25, 1850, at Salem, N. J. He is the son of Anthony
Quinton Keasbey and Elizabeth (Miller) Keasbey, who
were married in 1848. He has seven brothers and sisters,
all of whom are living: Edward Quinton Keasbey,
Princeton B. A. '69, M. A. '72, Harvard LL. B. '71;
Henry M. Keasbey; Rowland Parry Keasbey, Columbia
'82; Lindley Miller Keasbey, Harvard B. A. '88, Col-
umbia M. A. '89, Ph. D. '90, Strassburg, R. P. D. '92;
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Frederick Winston Keasbey, Columbia '92; Frances H.
Keasbey and Louisa E. Keasbey.
Anthony Quinton Keasbey, Yale '43, M. A. '63 (born
March 1, 1824, at Salem, N. J., died April 4, 1895, at
Rome, Italy) was the son of Edward Q. Keasbey, M. D.,
a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, and of
Mary Parry (Hertsen) Keasbey of Philadelphia. He
was a lawyer connected with Cortlandt Parker, and was
United States attorney for the District of New Jersey
for twenty-five years, 1861-86. He was married a
second time to Miss Edwina L. Miller (born August 20,
1826, at Morristown, N. J., died August 18, 1885), who
was the daughter of Jacob W. Miller of Morristown,
United States senator from New Jersey from 1840 to
1852, and of Mary Louisa (Macculloch) Keasbey.
Elizabeth (Miller) Keasbey died in 1854.
Keasbey prepared at the Newark Academy, New-
ark, N. J., and before entering Sheff in September,
1868, he studied for two years at Princeton, where
he entered in 1866. He took the Select Course at
Sheff and was a member of Theta Xi.
He was married on January 14, 1885, at Newark,
N. J., to Miss Annie Wing Lewis, daughter of
William M. Lewis, formerly a manufacturer, now
deceased. They have one child: Elizabeth Miller
Keasbey, born December 6, 1885, at Newark, N. J.
On leaving Yale, Keasbey went with Professor
Marsh on his expedition of 1871 to Kansas, Wyom-
ing, Oregon, and other states. On his return he
lived in Newark, and began the study of law in the
office of Parker & Keasbey. In 1873 he was con-
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nected with an expedition under Lieutenant Wheeler,
U. S. A., for explorations and surveys west of the
100th meridian. He traveled in New Mexico and
Arizona and in 1878 went to South America with an
expedition in connection with the Maderia & Mamore
Railroad, going up the Amazon to the falls of Made-
ria and doing some survey work. He then went back
to Newark and continued the study of law, being
admitted to the bar in 1875. He has practiced ever
since, first with the firm of A. Q. Keasbey & Sons,
and at present with his eldest brother, Edward Q.
Keasbey, being engaged in general and chancery
practice, corporation work, patent law, etc. He
was assistant United States attorney for a number
of years, and has traveled abroad on Government
business. He is a Republican, and is a member of
the Episcopal Church, and of the Essex Club of
Newark.
Joseph F. Klein, M. E.
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Lehigh University
Lehigh University, South Bethlehem, Pa., and 357 Market
Street, Bethlehem, Pa.
Joseph Frederick Klein, '71 S., was born October
10, 1849, at Paris, France.
Klein prepared at the public schools in New Haven,
and at Russell's Commercial and Collegiate Institute,
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New Haven, Conn., after which he worked in New
Haven shops. While thus engaged he prepared
himself for Sheff, entering in 1868. He afterwards
took a graduate course in Mechanical Engineering,
receiving the degree of D. E. in 1873.
He was married December 30, 1879, at Thomaston,
Conn., to Miss Ada Louise Warner, daughter of
Jonathan Marsh Warner, a farmer and mechanic.
They have had one son and one daughter: Arthur
Warner Klein, Lehigh University 1899 M. E. (born
November 17, 1880, at New Haven, Conn., married
Josephine Russell Brock of Huntington, L. I.,
N. Y.), and Mina Klein (born March 3, 1883, at
Bethlehem, Pa., married Noel Guilbert Cunningham
of Watertown, Conn.).
From 1878 to 1881 Klein was a tutor at the
Sheffield Scientific School. On December 1, 1881,
he became professor of Mechanical Engineering at
Lehigh University, which position he still holds.
Since 1907 he has been dean of the faculty of Lehigh
University, and during the spring of 1910 was acting
president of the University. He is independent in
politics, but has never held any public office. He is
a member of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers and Tau Beta Pi.
His published books are :
"Elements of Machine Design," Moravian Publication
Concern, Bethlehem, Pa.; "Mechanical Technology of
Machine Construction," Moravian Publication Concern;
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"The High Speed Steam Engine," D. Van Nostrand Co.,
New York; and "The Physical Significance of Entropy
or of the Second Law," D. Van Nostrand Co., New York.
The following translations from the German: "Weisbach
Herrmann's Mechanics of Machinery of Transmission,"
two volumes, John Wiley & Sons; "Zeuner's Technical
Thermodynamics," two volumes, D. Van Nostrand Co.
His magazine articles are:
"Absolute Zero of Temperature," Van Nostrand's
Engineering Magazine, April, 1880, Vol. XXII.; "Con-
T T
cerning or the Limit of Efficiency of Heat
TI
Engines," Journal of Franklin Institute for March and
April, 1879; "Table and Diagram for Determining the
Diameters of Speed Cones when Connected by an Open
Belt of Constant Length," Franklin Institute, May,
1880; "Cone Fully Diameters," No. 2, American Machin-
ist, October 22, 1881; "The Law of Proportional Re-
sistances," Journal of Engineering Society of Lehigh
University, November, 1889; and "New Constructions of
the Force of Inertia of Connecting Rods and Couplers,
and Constructions of the Pressures on their Pins,"
Journal of Franklin Institute, September-October, 1891.
George G. Lobdell
Manufacturer, Vice-President, Lobdell Car Wheel Company
1605 Broome Street, Wilmington, Del.
George Granville Lobdell, Jr., '71 S., was born in
Wilmington, Del., July 16, 1850. He is the son of
George Granville Lobdell and Adeline (Wheeler) Lob-
dell, who were married February 5, 1842, and had nine
other children: Maria Drew Lobdell (died February 24,
1892, at Philadelphia, Pa.); William Wheeler Lobdell;
Anna Prince Lobdell (died July 31, 1847, at Wilming-
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ton, Del.) ; Elizabeth Prince Lobdell (died August 28,
1855, at Wilmington, Del.); Carolyn Wheeler Lobdell;
Florence Delano Lobdell (married Harry Degen Zie-
gler, 71 S., on April 18, 1876, died January 6, 1908);
Alice Dike Lobdell; Howard White Lobdell (died
December 1, 1867, at Wilmington); and Addie Wheeler
Lobdell.
George Granville Lobdell, Sr. (born October 1, 1817,
at New York City, died March 1, 1894, at Wilmington,
Del.), was a manufacturer, with the Lobdell Car Wheel
Company of Wilmington. He was president of the
Lobdell Car Wheel Company, of the Wilmington &
Western Railroad Company, of the Masonic Hall Com-
pany and of the Farmers Bank. He was of New Eng-
land ancestry, both parents coming from Massachusetts.
Adeline (Wheeler) Lobdell (born April 12, 1817, at
Graf ton, Mass., died December 14, 1909, at Wilming-
ton, Del.) was also of Massachusetts parentage.
Lobdell prepared for Yale at Taylor's School in
Wilmington, and entered Sheff in September, 1868,
where he took the Chemistry Course.
He was married at Wilmington, Del., on April 17,
1878, to Miss Eva Wollaston, a graduate of the
Wilmington High School in 1875, and daughter of
Joshua Wollaston, a manufacturer. They have
three children: Edith White (born in Wilmington,
May 12, 1880, a graduate of Smith in the Class of
1902, married W. W. Pusey, 2d, October 20, 1905) ;
Ethel LobdeU (born April 30, 1884, married Fred C.
Seaman, April 4, 1908) ; and George Granville Lob-
dell, 2d, Yale '08 S. (born May 1, 1887). Two
sons, William and Arthur, died in infancy.
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Lobdell became connected with the Lobdell Car
Wheel Company, of which his father was president,
in January, 1872. He was made vice-president, the
position he now holds, in May, 1894. He is vice-
president of the Wilmington and Brandywine Ceme-
tery Company, a manager of the Wilmington Saving
Fund Society, and a member of several charitable
and social organizations. In politics he is an inde-
pendent Republican.
Thomas W. Mather, M. E.
Planter, Grower of Citrus Fruit
Miami, Fla.
Thomas William Mather, '71 S., was born at Crom-
well, Conn., April 30, 1850. He is a son of William H.
Mather and Mary A. (Brower) Mather, who had three
other children, all girls: Amelia C. Mather, Augusta
H. Mather (died in 1864, in New York City), and Mary
A. Mather.
William H. Mather (born at Middletown, Conn., died
at Cromwell, Conn., in 1856) was a farmer living last
at Cromwell, Conn. He was descended from Rev.
Richard Mather, who came from England and settled
in Dorchester, Mass., in 1635.
Mary A. (Brower) Mather (born in New York City,
died in 1883, at New Haven, Conn.) was of Dutch
descent.
Mather was a country boy following the changes in
residence of his step-father, Rev. E. Coton. He pre-
pared for Sheff at Rundels Academy in Bloomfield,
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N. J., entering in September, 1868, and taking the
Civil Engineering Course.
He was married at New Haven, Conn., on Febru-
ary 13, 1875, to Miss Margaret Wade Linton of
England, a daughter of William James Linton,
M. A., an engraver, artist and writer. They have
six children, four sons and two daughters : William
Linton Mather (born December 2, 1875; Yale '96
S.) ; Richard Mather (born October 3, 1877, Yale
'97 S., married October 23, 1901, to Miss Dorothy
Cone) ; Margaret (born April 6, 1880, Vassar '03,
married January 12, 1904, to Thaddeus Merriman) ;
Ulric Brower Mather (born June 8, 1883, Yale '04
S., married September 4, 1909, to Amy Thomas
French) ; Mary Emily Mather (born September 16,
1885) ; and Thomas Wade Mather (born May 16,
1888, Yale '10 S.).
He received the degree of Dynamic Engineer in
1873, and was in practice as draughtsman and me-
chanical engineer from 1873 to 1882. He was in-
structor in Engineering at the Sheffield Scientific
School from 1882 to 1894, and from 1894 to 1903
was principal of Boardman Manual Training High
School at New Haven, Conn. Since that time he
has been a grower of citrus fruits in Southern
Florida, with some practice as mechanical and
hydraulic engineer. He is independent in politics.
From 1897 to 1900 he was chief engineer of the
Naval Battalion, Connecticut National Guards.
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His published works arc : "Strength of Materials"
(text book), 1896, Boardman School Press ; "Applied
Mechanics" (text book), 1902, Boardman School
Press; "Flying Machines," in Popular Science
Monthly, 1885 ; "Address on Manual Training High
Schools," in "Proceedings of Society for Promotion
of Engineering Education," 1897 ; address as Presi-
dent of American Manual Training Society, 1896
and 1897 ; and various articles in scientific periodi-
cals.
Mansfield Merriman, C. E., Ph. D., Sc. D.
Consulting Civil Engineer
Winter Address, 1071 Madison Avenue, New York City
Summer Address, Milford, Conn.
Mansfield Merriman, '71 S., was born in Southington,
Conn., March 27, 1848. He is the son of Mansfield
Merriman and Lucy (Hall) Merriman, who were mar-
ried August 4, 1834, and had one other son, Henry John
Merriman.
Mansfield Merriman, the father (born December 17,
1802, at Southington, Conn., died June 2, 1871, at
Southington), was a farmer and carpenter living at
Southington, and was several terms selectman of the
town, several terms justice of the peace and judge of
probate, and one term representative from Southing-
ton to the Connecticut Legislature. He was a great-
grandson of Rev. John Merriman, who removed from
Wallingford to Southington about 1751, and a descend-
ant of Nathaniel Merriman, who was born in 1613, in
England, settled in New Haven about 1660, and in 1670
was one of the original settlers of Wallingford, Conn.
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Lucy (Hall) Merriman (born October 5, 1805, at
Wolcott, Conn., died September 18, 1880, at Southing-
ton, Conn.) was a descendant of John Hall, who came
from England to New Haven about 1638. Her mother
was Lucy (Dudley) Hall, whose grandparents lived in
Saybrook, Conn., and later in Wallingford, Conn.
In boyhood Merriman worked on a farm in sum-
mers and attended school (Lewis Academy, Southing-
ton) winters. In 1864 he worked in factories and
in 1865-66 in a printing office. He studied geometry
and surveying privately, and in 1866 was appointed
a county surveyor. His mathematical preparation
for college was done privately, without instruction,
during 1866-68. He entered Sheff in September,
1868, where he took the Engineering Course, receiv-
ing the degree of Ph. B. in 1871, and that of C. E.
in 1872.
He was married at New Haven, Conn., on June 5,
1875, to Miss Wanda Kubale (died March 10, 1889,
at Bethlehem, Pa.), daughter of Hans Emil Theodor
Kubale of Posen, Germany. He has five children,
one son having died in infancy : Thaddeus Merriman
(born April 6, 1876, at New Haven, Conn., Lehigh
C. E. 1897, married on January 12, 1904, to Miss
Margaret Mather, Vassar A. B. '03, daughter of
T. W. Mather, Yale '71 S.) ; Lucy (born November
20, 1877, Bryn Mawr A. B. '99, married to Frank
Malcolm Farmer, M. E. Cornell, '98, on June 6,
1906) ; Alice Pauline Merriman (born January 2,
CLASS OF 1871 S. 177
1882, at Bethlehem, Pa., Swarthmore A. B. '04);
Richard Mansfield Merriman (born December 9,
1883, Lehigh C. E. '06, married on June 2, 1909, to
Miss Anna K. Abendschain) ; and Norman Nathaniel
Merriman (born April 18, 1886, A. B. Lehigh '05).
Merriman was married again on May 26, 1891, to
Miss Anna Rosina Godshalk (died at Bethlehem, Pa.,
on January 8, 1907), daughter of Benjamin God-
shalk of Easton, Pa. On June 6, 1910, he was
married for the third time, to Miss Bazena Treat
Downes, daughter of Anson Treat Downes of New
York City.
He worked on the United States Engineer Corps,
1872-73; was engaged on bridge construction, 1873-
74; instructor in Civil Engineering, Sheffield Scien-
tific School, 1874-78 ; acting assistant United States
Coast and Geodetic Survey, in charge of triangula-
tion work in Pennsylvania, 1881-85. In 1876 he was
given the degree Ph. D. at Yale, the thesis for this
degree, "Elements of the Method of Least Squares,"
being published in 1877. He was professor of Civil
Engineering at Lehigh University from September
1, 1878, to September 1, 1907. He has done expert
work as consulting engineer, especially on hydraulic
cases and on bridges ; in 1903 was a member of the
special commission appointed by Mayor Low of New
York, to report on plans for Manhattan bridge.
Merriman was vice-president, Section D, of the
American Association for the Advancement of Sci-
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ence, 1894; president of the American Society for
Testing Materials, 1898-1900; president of the
Society for Promotion of Engineering Education,
1896. He is a member of the American Philosophical
Society, American Mathematical Society, American
Society Civil Engineers, and others. He is a Demo-
crat, in particular opposed to protection save for
revenue.
His published works are: "Elements of Method of
Least Squares," London, 1877; "Text Book on
Method of Least Squares," New York, 1884 (eighth
edition, 1901) ; "Mechanics of Materials," New York,
1885 (tenth edition, 1905) ; "Treatise on Hydrau-
lics," New York, 1889 (ninth edition, 1911);
"Strength of Materials," New York, 1897 (fifth edi-
tion, 1908) ; "Elements of Sanitary Engineering,"
New York, 1898 (third edition, 1906) ; "Precise Sur-
veying and Geodesy," New York, 1899, and addresses
as president of scientific organizations, articles on
mathematics and engineering, and cyclopaedia
articles. Jointly with J. P. Brooks he is author
of "Handbook for Surveyors," New York, 1895.
Jointly with H. S. Jacoby he is author of "A Text
Book on Roofs and Bridges," four volumes, New
York, 1890-1900. Jointly with R. S. Woodward he
is editor of "Mathematical Monographs," eleven vol-
umes, New York,. 1906. He was associate editor of
Johnson's (afterwards Appleton's) Cyclopaedia,
1892-98, writing and editing the articles on civil
CLASS OF 1871 S. 179
engineering. Since 1908 he has been editor-in-chief
of the "American Civil Engineers' Pocket Book,"
New York, 1911.
The honorary degree of Doctor of Science was
conferred upon him in 1906 by the University of
Pennsylvania.
Alfred L. Moore
Vice-President, General Manager, Superintendent, Moline
Wagon Company
620 Tenth Avenue, Moline, 111.
Alfred Louis Moore, '71 S., was born at Fond du Lac,
Wis., May 1, 1850. He is a son of Benjamin Franklin
Moore and Eliza Mary (Conklin) Moore, who were
married in 1844, and had nine other children, six boys
and three girls: Edwin Manning Moore, Henry Conklin
Moore, Mary Frances Moore, Herbert Charles Moore,
Frank Moore (died May, 1863), James Madison Moore,
Augusta Moore, Jessie Woodworth Moore, and George
Moore.
Benjamin Franklin Moore (born July 10, 1819, at
Waterville, Me., died February 20, 1904, at Fond du Lac,
Wis.) lived at Fond du Lac, Wis., and was of English
descent.
Eliza Mary (Conklin) Moore was born in 1827, at
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and died in August, 1904, at
Fond du Lac, Wis.
Moore prepared for Sheff at the high school in
Fond du Lac, entering in September, 1868, and tak-
ing the Civil Engineering Course.
He was married in Fond du Lac, Wis., on May 20,
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1875, to Miss Sarah Louisa Colman of Fond du Lac,
a daughter of Edward Colman. They have had two
children, one son and one daughter: Edward Colman
Moore (born January 22, 1877, Yale '99), and Alice
Moore (born March 15, 1892).
He is a Republican.
^Daniel H. Pierpont
Surveyor
Died 1874
Daniel Hobart Pierpont, '71 S., was the son of
Rufus and Harriet Pierpont, and was born in North
Haven, Conn., May 8, 1851.
Almost immediately after graduation he was em-
ployed by the United States Coast Survey, under Mr.
R. M. Bache, in the survey of the region about New
Haven, and was thus engaged until near the time of
his death. His health began to fail in the spring of
1873, and he died of a pulmonary affection, at his
father's residence in North Haven, May 17, 1874.
He was unmarried.
^Ferdinand E. Powell
Died 1872
Ferdinand Eugene Powell, '71 S., was born in
Lyonville, Uwchlan Township, Chester County, Pa.,
June 3, 1849.
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After graduating at the Sheffield Scientific School,
he entered Columbia College Law School. He died,
of a kidney disease, in New York City, May 20, 1872.
*John F. Quigley
Civil Engineer and Manufacturer
Died 1897
John Franklin Quigley, '71 S., oldest son of Philip
and Eliza Quigley, was born in Wilmington, Del., on
November 14, 1848.
After graduation he accompanied Professor Marsh
on a six-months' trip to the West for the collection of
fossils, and after his return engaged in business with
his father in his profession as a civil engineer. They
received the contract for building the Machinery and
Agricultural Halls at the Centennial Exhibition held
in Philadelphia in 1876, and soon after that date he
went into the manufacturer of wood-pulp. He built
and owned the Cliff Pulp & Paper Mills at Niagara
Falls, and afterwards engaged in a similar work at
Harper's Ferry, Va. At the time of his death he
was president of the American Hard Fibre Company
of Newark, Del.
He died suddenly, at his home in Wilmington, from
hemorrhage of the brain, on March 27, 1897, in his
forty-ninth year.
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He married on October 28, 1875, Martha E.,
daughter of Abel J. Barrett, formerly of Concord,
Mass., who survives him.
Frederick L. Sanford
Engraver on Wood
1382 and 828 Chapel Street, New Haven, Conn.
Frederick Lockwood Sanford, '71 S., was born at
New Haven, Conn., May 9* 1849. He is a son of Lock-
wood Sanford and Almirah (Smith) Sanford, who were
married April 7, 1844, and had one other child, Hen-
rietta F. Sanford (died at Middletown, Conn., March
2, 1902).
Lockwood Sanford (born April 5, 1817, at Nauga-
tuck, Conn., died November 22, 1890, at New Haven,
Conn.) was an engraver on wood. He was the son of
Elias Bristol Sanford and Sally (Lockwood) Sanford.
Almirah (Smith) Sanford (born February 15, 1810,
at East Windsor, Conn., died December 7, 1891, at New
Haven, Conn.) was the daughter of Asaph Smith and
Betsey (Abbey) Smith.
Sanford prepared for Sheff at the Stiles French
School in New Haven, entering in September, 1868,
and taking the Civil Engineering Course.
He was married at New Haven, Conn., on October
20, 1892, to Miss Isabella Lydia Brown of New
Haven (born October 10, 1863), a daughter of Wil-
liam Brown. They have no children.
CLASS OF 1871 S. 183
Immediately after graduating in 1871, he was
engaged in surveying in the vicinity of New Haven,
Conn., with Professor R. M. Bache of the United
States Coast Survey. In September, 1872, and until
July, 1876, he was with F. W. Beers of New York,
engaged in surveying in several of the western states,
in connection with the publishing of county atlases
or maps of different counties located in those states.
From 1876 up to the present time he has been en-
gaged as an engraver on wood at 828 Chapel Street,
New Haven, Conn., from 1876 to 1890 in connection
with his father, and since that time as proprietor of
the business.
Henry B. Sargent, M. A.
Vice-President and General Manager, Sargent & Co., New
Haven
247 Church Street, New Haven, Conn.
Henry Bradford Sargent, '71 S., M. A. 1907, was
born in New York City, March 4, 1851, the eldest son
of Joseph Bradford and Elizabeth Collier (Lewis) Sar-
gent. His brothers are: Edward Rupert Sargent, '80 S. ;
Joseph Denny Sargent, '81 S. ; George Lewis Sargent,
'81 S.; Russell Sargent, '84 S. (died April 16, 1904);
and John Sargent, '94 S. His brothers-in-law are:
Bruce Fenn, '77 S. ; William Acker Rice, '86 S. ; Samuel
Herbert Fisher, '89.
His father (born December 14, 1822, at Leicester,
Mass., died July 14, 1907, at New Haven, Conn.), the
founder and head of Sargent & Co., hardware manufac-
turers, was in public service in New Haven for many
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years, as town selectman, as member of the City Board
of Public Works, and from 1891 to 1895 as mayor of
the city. He was the third child of Joseph Denny and
Mindwell (Jones) Sargent, both of Leicester, Mass.,
and descendant of William Sargent, the first of the,
family in America, who came in 1638 from Northampton,
England, to Maiden, Mass.
His mother (born January 14, 1829* at Macon, Ga.,
died September 25, 1874, at New Haven, Conn.) was the
eldest daughter of Curtis and Jane (Collier) Lewis of
Macon, Ga.
Sargent lived in New York City from 1851 to
1857 ; in New Britain, Conn., from 1857 to 1864, and
thereafter in New Haven, Conn. He prepared for
Sheff at the New Haven High School, entering with
his Class in the fall of 1868, graduating in the Chemi-
cal Course.
In the summer and fall of 1870 he was a member
of the pioneer paleontological expedition under Prof.
O. C. Marsh on a six-months' exploration of the bad
lands west of the Mississippi River.
He was junior officer of the Sheffield Undine Boat
Club, and pulled bow oar on its six-oared crew. In
1871 he personally built, for the department racing
shell, the sliding seats used in winning the spring
race, being the first ever used in class races. He is
Secretary of the Class of 1871 S.
He was married at New Haven, Conn., December
4, 1879, to Miss Harriet Amelia Oaks of New Haven,
daughter of Charles Henry Oaks. Her brother,
CLASS OF 1871 S. 185
Henry Augustus Oaks (died 1885), was a graduate
of Yale of the Class of 1875. There were born three
sons and two daughters, all at New Haven : Elizabeth
Collier Sargent (born September 12, 1880) ; Ziegler
Sargent, Yale '03 (born December 10, 1881) ; Rhoda
Miles (born February 5, 1883, married on October
3, 1907, Robert Fingland Tilney, 2d, Yale '05);
Murray Sargent, Yale '05 (born August 30, 1884) ;
and Bradford Sargent (born January 1, 1890, died
February28, 1897).
On graduating, he entered the employ of Sargent
& Co., was soon made assistant superintendent, vice-
president since 1887, and for some years has been
general manager of the company. He traveled in
Europe in 1878 and 1909.
Since 1878 he has been a graduate member of the
Yale University Athletic Committee, through its
many changes in organization, and was for many
years its secretary. He was a director and treas-
urer of the Yale Field Corporation from 1880, the
beginning of its fund, to 1899, the Field Corporation
being later absorbed by the University.
In 1902 he was presented by the Class with a silver
loving cup. He was elected by vote of the alumni
a fellow of Yale in 1902, and reelected in 1908.
He was for several years a director of the Organ-
ized Charities in New Haven, and a trustee of the
National Savings Bank. He is now director of the
New Haven Dispensary, of the City Bank, a member
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of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences,
and of the New Haven Chamber of Commerce.
As a Republican he was elected and served as New
Haven city councilman for three terms, in 1883,
1884 and 1885. As a Mugwump he was active in
the Cleveland campaigns, and as a Free Trade Demo-
crat he has steadily refused to be a candidate for any
office.
The history of the development and change in the
religious opinions of Christendom, has led him to
avoid subscribing to any particular religious faith
to-day which theological evolution may warrant his
changing to-morrow.
He was formerly a member of the Reform Club of
New York. He is a life member of the Yale Uni-
versity Club, and a member of the Colby, Graduates,
Lawn, and Country Clubs of New Haven ; and of the
Yale Club, the Century Association, and the Ameri-
can Society of Mechanical Engineers of New York.
*Edward C. Terry
Inventor of Steam Turbines and Electrical Devices
Died 1908
Edward Clinton Terry, '71 S., was born in Plymouth,
Conn., December 10, 1850. He was the son of James
Terry and Elizabeth (Hollister) Terry, who were
married in 1844, and had no other children.
James Terry (born July 5, 1823, at Plymouth, Conn.,
died at Terryville, Conn.) was a manufacturer, president
CLASS OF 1871 S. 187
of the Eagle Lock Company at Terryville, Conn., and
was also a member of the State Legislature.
Elizabeth (Hollister) Terry was born in 1820, at
Glastonbury, Conn., and died in 1853, at Terry ville,
Conn.
Terry prepared for Yale at the public high school
in Hartford, Conn., and entered Sheff in 1868, where
he took the Civil Engineering Course. In Sheff he
was a member of Book and Snake, and of the Chess
Club.
He was married on February 28, 1872, at Terry-
ville, Conn., to Miss Louise Ellen Webster of Ply-
mouth, Conn., daughter of the late Benjamin Web-
ster. They had two children: James Terry (born
February 1, 1873, at Terryville, Conn., Yale '95 S.,
married on November 9, 1904, to Miss Leontine Mc-
Arthur Thomson), and Charles Webster Terry
(deceased).
Soon after graduation Terry became secretary of
the Hartford (Conn.) Meter Company, a company
formed to manufacture water meters of his invention.
As the result of his studies carried on through many
years he achieved a high reputation in hydraulic and
mechanical engineering and originated several devices
of great utility.
Having successfully applied his idea of transmit-
ting electric power over long distances by means of
wires, he founded the Farmington River Power Com-
pany for the transmission of electric power from the
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Farmington River to Hartford, a distance of twelve
miles. This was the first long-distance power plant
in the country, and of this he was secretary and a
director from its organization until his decease. He
was also construction engineer and general manager.
About 1888 he began his studies in steam turbines,
obtaining patents for those of high speed in 1893,
1899 and 1900, and in 1903, 1905 and 1908 for
those of low speed. He perfected a low-speed steam
turbine, organizing in 1906 for its manufacture the
Terry Steam Turbine Company, of which he was
president, and of which his son, James Terry, is the
secretary and treasurer. He had a wide reputation
as a man of high scientific ability and keen analysis.
He was a member of the American Society of Civil
Engineers, of the Hartford Club and of the Hart-
ford Golf Club. During the year 1901 he traveled
in Europe.
He died of pneumonia following a week's sickness
at his home, 175 Collins Street, Hartford, Conn., on
April 6, 1908, in the fifty-eighth year of his age.
Harry D. Ziegler
Director, Hunnis Distilling Company
214 South Forty-first Street, and 218 South Front Street,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Harry Degen Ziegler, '71 S., was born at Philadel-
phia, Pa., July 11, 1850. He is a son of George K.
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Ziegler and Elizabeth C. (Knemerlen) Ziegler, who were
married May 15, 1845, and had one other child, Caroline
B. Ziegler.
George K. Ziegler (born November 1, 1822, at Phila-
delphia, Pa., died September 21, 1878) was a merchant,
living in Philadelphia, and was a bank president and a
trustee of various institutions. He was of German
descent.
Elizabeth C. (Knemerlen) Ziegler (born May 2, 1822,
at Philadelphia, Pa., died April 23, 1883) was of
German descent.
Ziegler attended no preparatory school. He
entered Sheff in 1868, where he took the Chemical
Course and was a member of the Theta Xi Society.
He was married at Wilmington, Del., on April 18,
1876, to Miss Florence D. Lobdell of Wilmington, a
daughter of George S. Lobdell, a manufacturer of
car wheels and castings.
Since leaving college he has been a director of the
Hunnis Distilling Company. He is a believer in
free trade and is a hard money Democrat, but has
never voted a straight ticket. He has served in the
militia; the Government refused his services in the
Spanish-American War on account of age. He
attends the Protestant Episcopal Church and is a
Mason and a member of different social clubs.
BIOGRAPHIES
1872 S
Jacob J. Abbott, C. E., M. E.
Consulting Civil and Mining Engineer
1112 Race Street, Denver, Colo.
Jacob Jackson Abbott, '72 S., was born at Uxbridge,
Mass., May 19, 1850. He is a son of Jacob Jackson
Abbott and Margaret Fletcher (Whitin) Abbott, who
were married September 16, 1845, and had five other
children: James Whitin Abbott, Yale '68, '70 S.;
William Whittlesey Abbott, Yale 77 S. (died July 8,
1899, at Worcester, Mass); Paul Whitin Abbott, Yale
'83 S., of Boston, Mass.; and two daughters, neither
now living.
Jacob Jackson Abbott, the father (born July 17, 1813,
at Peacham, Vt., died December 3, 1878, at New Haven,
Conn.), was a clergyman, settled at Bennington, Vt.,
Uxbridge, Mass., and Yarmouth, Me. He graduated at
Dartmouth in the Class of 1839, and received the honor-
ary degrees of A. M. and D. D. respectively from Dart-
mouth and Bowdoin. He was general agent of the
United States Christian Commission, Washington, 1863-
65, and had various connections with educational work
at Dartmouth, Bowdoin, Yarmouth, Me., and elsewhere.
His ancestors were of New England stock from about
1635.
Margaret Fletcher (Whitin) Abbott (born September
4, 1817, at Whitinsville, Mass.) is of New England
stock, a descendant of Dwights and Whitings from the
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time of the Mayflower. She is still living at Whitins-
ville, Mass.
Abbott prepared for Sheff by himself, at Yar-
mouth, Me., and entered in 1869. While in col-
lege he played on the Class ball team, and took
entrance, Freshman and Senior prizes.
He was married at Dansville, N. Y., on February
26, 1877, to Miss Jenny Lind Farrington of Auburn,
Me., a graduate of Edward Little Academy in the
Class of 1868, and a daughter of Enoch Farrington,
a contractor and a tenor singer of wide reputation
who was one of the leaders at the Boston Peace Jubi-
lee. They have had seven children, four sons and
three daughters: Margaret Farrington (born
August 6, 1878, a graduate of Wolfe Hall, Denver,
in the Class of 1898, married in June, 1904, to
George Walton Blanchard of Auburn, Me., who died
January, 1906 ; married a second time, in July, 1908,
to Dr. John W. Robinson of Auburn, Me.) ; James
Dudley (born July 3, 1880, married June 14, 1906,
to Miss Mary Moore MacLean) ; Edward Farrington
(born April 3, 1882, Bowdoin 1903, married June 7,
1906, to Miss Mary Dana, twin daughters born in
1907 and a son in 1909) ; Jacob Jackson (born July
9, 1883, married September 1, 1909, to Miss Florence
Gary, who died in November, 1909) ; Catharine
Whitin (born November 3, 1887) ; Charles Cushman
(born September 22, 1889) ; and Dorothy (born May
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4, 1894, died August 28, 1896, at Lake City, Colo.).
All of the children were born at Lake City, Colo.
Abbott received the degree of C. E. in 1874, and
since that time has been engaged in the continuous
practice of his profession as engineer, in Colorado.
Since 1875, he has been a partner in the firm of
Abbott Brothers, Civil and Mining Engineers. In
politics he has always been Republican. He has
been mayor of Lake City, Colo., commissioner of
Hinsdale County, Colo., and a justice of the peace.
* James P. Bogart
Engineer and Surveyor
Died 1903
James Peter Bogart, '72 S., son of John and Hen-
rietta M. (Candee) Bogart, was born in New Haven,
Conn., on February 28, 1852.
For three years after graduation he was occupied
in surveying and engineering for the city of Bridge-
port, and then had charge of a party in the United
States Coast and Geodetic Survey about New Haven.
In May, 1891, he was appointed engineer of the Con-
necticut Shell Fishery Commission and served in
that capacity until 1892. He was the first engineer
chosen by the Commission after its organization, and
completed an extensive system of triangulation of
the coast from Guilford to the state line at Green-
CLASS OF 187& S. 193
wich. In 1887 he also surveyed the boundary line
between Connecticut and Rhode Island for the Inter-
State Commission. Since 1892 he had been employed
in private professional work. In 1895 he was elected
a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
From his youth he was a member of the First
Methodist Church, an officer of the Sunday school,
and for some time a member of the official board, but
during later years he attended Saint Paul's Protes-
tant Episcopal Church.
Mr. Bogart died of pneumonia at his home in New
Haven, on December 24, 1903, in the fifty-second
year of his age.
He married, on April 18, 1888, at Bridgeport,
Conn., Helen, daughter of Warren H. and Eliza H.
Day, who survives him with two daughters.
Wheeler DeF. Edwards, B. A., LL. B.
Lawyer
Everett, Wash., and Los Angeles, Cal.
Wheeler DeForest Edwards, '72 S., was born at
Astoria, N. Y., November 9, 1851. He is a son of
Walter Edwards and Sarah (DeForest) Edwards, who
were married April 29, 1830, and had no other children.
Walter Edwards (born November 20, 1801, at Hart-
ford, Conn., died April 29, 1882, at New York City)
was a lawyer living in New York. He graduated from
Yale in 1820. He was a son of Jonathan Walter
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Edwards, Yale 1789, and a great-grandson of Rev.
Jonathan Edwards, Yale 1720.
Sarah (DeForest) Edwards (born April 29, 1811, in
New York City, died November 29, 1881, in New York
City) was the daughter of Lockwood DeForest.
Edwards attended the College of the City of New
York, and entered Sheff in October, 1871, where he
took the Civil Engineering Course.
He was married in New York on October 19, 1881,
to Miss Emma L. Knox, a daughter of John Mason
Knox, a lawyer. They have two daughters:
Katharine Livingston Edwards (born February 13,
1884, University of Washington '05), and Helena
Roosevelt Edwards (born August 21, 1885, in New
York).
He is practicing law independently in Los Angeles,
Cal. In politics he is a Republican. He is a mem-
ber of the First Presbyterian Church of Everett,
Wash., and is the chairman of its Board of Trustees.
Joseph R. Gawthrop
President of Joseph R. Gawthrop & Son Co., Incorporated
Manufacturers of Commercial Fertilizers
Kennett Square, Chester County, Pa.
Joseph Ridgway Gawthrop, '72 S., was born in New-
lin Township, Chester County, Pa., May 16, 1850. He
is a son of James Gawthrop, Jr., and Sarah Coates
CLASS OF 1872 S. 195
(Ridgway) Gawthorp, who were married in Philadel-
phia, Pa., February 15, 1849, and had three other chil-
dren: Harry J. Gawthrop (born January 14?, 1856) ;
Mary H. Gawthrop (born July 9, 1851, died March 30,
1885, at Kennett Square, Pa.); and Charles G. Gaw-
throp (born January 16, 1864).
James Gawthrop, Jr. (born January 14, 1825, at
Newlin Township, Chester County, Pa., died June 6,
1888, at Kennett Square, Pa.), was a farmer and manu-
facturer living at Newlin Township and Kennett Square,
Pa. He was a son of James Gawthrop (born in 1781)
and Hannah (Marshall) Gawthrop (born in 1784) of
Chester County, Pa. James Gawthrop's antecedents
came from England, being descendants of Lord Gaw-
throp whose coat of arms is now preserved in the family.
Sarah Coates (Ridgway) Gawthrop (born October
20, 1826, at Philadelphia, Pa., died March 3, 1883, at
Kennett Square, Pa.) was a daughter of Joseph and
Esther (Coates) Ridgway of Philadelphia, Pa. Joseph
Ridgway was the son of Henry and Hannah (Burr)
Ridgway, whose antecedents have been traced back and
are of record through the Burr, Abbott, and Maule-
verer branch direct to King Edward I. of England, and
to sixteen of the barons who secured the Magna Charta.
Gawthrop was born in a log house on his father's
farm. He was taught by his mother until old enough
to walk a mile and a half to the public school at Oak
Hill; he then went to Martin Academy, Marl-
borough; then to Durnall's Academy, Unionville,
Pa. When seventeen years old he taught a public
school two terms and then went to Shortleigh Acad-
emy, Kennett Square, Pa., where he prepared for
Sheff. He entered the Class of 1871 in April, 1869,
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taking the Engineering Course; he continued in the
Class of 1871 until the end of Junior year, when he
was absent from college one year on account of poor
health, and subsequently entered the Class of 1872.
He was married at New Haven, Conn., on Feb-
ruary 20, 1879, to Miss Hattie M. Mason, a daugh-
ter of George William Mason (born April 10, 1830,
died June 22, 1872) and Mary Elizabeth (How-
land) Mason of New Haven. They have had four
children, one boy and three girls: Ridgway Mason
Gawthrop (born at Kennett Square, Pa., December
23, 1879) ; Elsie Love (born July 3, 1881, married
George B. Scarlett of Kennett Square, Pa., on
December 29, 1904) ; Lillian Maud Gawthrop (born
June 10, 1887, married Evans Rogers Jackson of
Kennett Square, Pa., on October 28, 1908) ; and
Rosalie Hannah Gawthrop (born June 28, 1895).
Gawthrop was assistant engineer in the City
Engineering Department, New Haven, Conn., from
1872 to 1876. From 1876 to 1888 he was a member
of the firm of J. Gawthrop & Co., Kennett Square,
Pa., manufacturers of commercial fertilizers. From
1888 to 1910, the name of the firm was Joseph R.
Gawthrop, he being the sole member. In January,
1910, he became president of Joseph R. Gawthrop
& Son Co., Incorporated, manufacturers of fertili-
zers at Kennett Square, Pa.
He is a Republican and from 1888 to 1891 was
a member of the Kennett Square Borough Council;
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he introduced Telford paving in Kennett Square.
He is a member of the Society of Friends, a member
of the Yale Alumni Association of Philadelphia, a
member of the University Club in that city, and a
member of the First Class in the Baronial Order of
Runnemede.
William S. Greene
No information about the biography or present
whereabouts of William Saunders Greene, '72 S., has
been obtainable.
*George W. Hawes, Ph. D.
Instructor
Died 1882
George Wesson Hawes, '72 S., was born December
31, 1848, in Marion, Ind., where his father, the Rev.
Alfred Hawes, Brown University 1841, was pastor
of the Presbyterian Church. He lost his parents at
an early age, and his youth was spent in Worcester,
Mass., from which place he entered the Sheffield
Scientific School in 1865. After two years he left
the School, to enter into business in Boston; but his
natural taste for scientific pursuits brought him
back to New Haven in 1871 to finish his course of
study.
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For the year after graduation he assisted Pro-
fessor Johnson in his chemical laboratory, and for
the next six years filled with marked success the
position of assistant and instructor in Mineralogy
and Blowpipe Analysis in the Scientific School. He
spent six months in the summer of 1878 in study in
Breslau, and in March, 1879, again went abroad, for
further study in Bonn and Heidelberg. He received
the degree of Ph. D. at Heidelberg in the summer of
1880, and then returned to his old place at New
Haven. In the following February he was made
director of the Geological Department of the Na-
tional Museum in Washington, which position he
held till his death. Overwork early in 1881, in con-
nection with an investigation of the building stones
of the United States, for the Census Report, de-
veloped symptoms of consumption in the fall of the
same year; and after a prolonged period of weak-
ness, he died at Manitou Springs, Colo., June 22,
1882, about a week after his arrival there, in the
thirty-fourth year of his age. He was never married.
Dr. Hawes had given evidence of superior promise
in the departments of mineralogy and lithology by
his publications, the most important of which was a
report in 1878 on the mineralogy and lithology of
New Hampshire, published as Part 4 of the Geology
of that state. In his private character singularly
pure and winning, he is sincerely mourned by all who
knew him.
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Daniel W. Hering, C. E., Ph. D., LL. D.
Professor of Physics and Applied Mechanics in New York
University
128 West 129th Street, and University Heights, New York City
Daniel Webster Hering, '72 S., was born at Smith-
burg, Md., March 23, 1850. He is a son of Joshua
Hering and Susannah (Harman) Hering.
Joshua Hering (born in October, 1806, at Johnsville,
Md., died in 1899, at Thurmont, Md.) was of Swiss and
German descent.
Susannah (Harman) Hering (born in 1817, at
Mechanicstown (now Thurmont), Md., died in 1876, at
Thurmont, Md.) was of German and English descent.
Hering passed his childhood in farming when not
at school, and schooling when not at farm ; he passed
the teachers' examination, and received his teacher's
certificate in 1861. He prepared for college at the
academy in Johnsville and in Westminster, Md., and
attended Western Maryland College for a time
before entering Sheff in September, 1869, where he
took the Civil Engineering Course. While in college
he was editor for Sheff on the Yale Courant in the
year of 1871-72, took the prizes for studies of Fresh-
man year and for Junior mathematics, and received
honorable mention in Senior engineering. He was a
member of Berzelius.
He was married in Baltimore, Md., on November
23, 1881, to Miss Mary Hollis Webster of Balti-
more, a daughter of Augustus Webster, D. D. They
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have two children: Doris Webster Hering (born at
Westminster, Md., Vassar '04) ; and Hollis Webster
Hering (born at Brooklyn, N. Y., Vassar '08).
Hering received the degree of C. E. from Yale in
1878, and from Western Maryland College he
received the degree of Ph. D. in 1895. In 1907 he
received the degree of LL. D. from the Western
University of Pennsylvania, now the University of
Pittsburg. He was division engineer on the Berks
County Railroad (now Reading & Lehigh Railroad)
in 1873 and 1874. He taught school in 1875 and
1876, and was fellow in Engineering at Johns
Hopkins University from 1876 to 1878. From 1878
to 1880, he was assistant engineer of the Baltimore
& Cumberland Valley Railroad. He was professor
of Mathematics in Western Maryland College from
1880 to 1884, and professor of Physics in the
Western University of Pennsylvania in the year
1884-85. Since July, 1885, he has been professor
of Physics and Applied Mechanics in New York
University; and since 1902, dean of the graduate
faculty in that institution.
In politics he is a Republican and independent.
He is a fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science and of the New York
Academy of Sciences, and a member of the American
Physical Society and of the National Geographic
Society.
He has published numerous articles in the follow-
CLASS OF 1872 S. 201
ing periodicals : Scientific American, Science, Popular
Science Monthly, Engineering News, Electrical
World, American Electrician, Youth's Companion,
Education, Compressed Air, "New International
Encyclopedia," "The Proceedings of the National
Educational Association," "The Annals of the New
York Academy of Sciences," and other periodicals
and pamphlets.
^Charles L. Johnson
Manufacturer
Died 1901
Charles Louis Johnson, '72 S., son of David Treat
Johnson, a contractor and builder and during the
Civil War captain of the Twenty-third Connecticut
Volunteers, was born in Ansonia, Conn., on March
15, 1850. His mother's maiden name was Sarah
Lindley.
Johnson had hoped to enter West Point and follow
his father's footsteps into the army, but failed to
secure an appointment. He was then at once
admitted to the Sheffield Scientific School.
For a few months after graduation he was a clerk
in the post office at Ansonia, but the following spring
entered the office of the Candee Rubber Company in
New Haven, with which he was continuously con-
nected thereafter. His ability was soon recognized,
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and a year later he became secretary of the company,
and in 1887 treasurer, with a general oversight of
the selling department. In 1892, when the United
States Rubber Company was formed, he was elected
secretary and director in charge of sales, and in
May, 1901, to the important and very responsible
position of general manager. He was also a member
of the executive committee and director of the com-
pany, and director of other companies for the manu-
facture of rubber and other goods. The office of
treasurer of the Candee Company he continued to
hold to the close of his life, but resigned that of sec-
retary of the United States Rubber Company in
1896. He was devoted to his business, and usually
took but short vacations, but in the summer of 1898
enjoyed an extended trip abroad. He frequently
wrote articles for the trade journals.
During the spring and early summer of 1901 Mr.
Johnson had not been at all well, but continued his
official duties, and later in the summer steadily im-
proved in health, and his death was entirely unex-
pected. It occurred at his home in New Rochelle,
N. Y., from hemorrhage of the brain, on October 8,
1901. He was fifty-one years of age. He was known
for his integrity and for an uncommon equability of
temperament.
He married, in Paris, France, in June, 1899,
Bertha, daughter of H. P. Moorhouse, for many
years the representative of the Candee Company on
CLASS OF 18W S. 203
the continent. Mrs. Johnson survives him with a
young son.
Cassius W. Kelly, B. A.
City Engineer of New Haven, Conn.
209 Norton Street, and City Hall, New Haven, Conn.
Cassius William Kelly, '72 S., was born at Pleasant-
ville, Vanango County, Pa., May 10, 1848. He is the
son of John Kelly and Sarah (Sigler) Kelly, who were
married May 6, 1847, and had three other children:
Lemuel Kelly, Mary L. Kelly, and Flint W. Kelly.
John Kelly (born April 15, 1823, at Titusville, Pa.,
died June 15, 1906, at Titusville, Pa.) was a business
man living at Pleasantville until 1865, at Erie, Pa., until
1896, and at Titusville, Pa., until his death. He was
the son of William and Mary Kelly of Titusville, Pa.,
who acquired the farm at Kelly Hill by actual settle-
ment under the laws of Pennsylvania.
Sarah (Sigler) Kelly (born January 6, 1827, in York
County, Pa., died August 21, 1855, at Pleasantville, Pa.)
was the daughter of Cornelius and Margaret Sigler.
Kelly prepared for college at Erie Academy in
Erie, Pa., and entered (in 1865) the Class of 1869,
Academic. After a year, for financial reasons, he
stayed out for a year and taught, then entered the
Class of 1870. After graduation he taught again
for a year in General Russell's Military School in
New Haven, and then entered Sheff as a Senior with
the Class of 1872, receiving the degree of Ph. B. at
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the end of the year. He took the Civil Engineering
Course.
He was married at New Haven, Conn., on October
2, 1876, to Miss Frances E. Hart of New Haven,
a daughter of William Hart. They have had four
children: Herbert Cassius Kelly (born August 16,
1881, Yale '03, died February 4, 1909); Miriam
Frances KeUy (born July 5, 1884, Mt. Holyoke '08) ;
Elsie Louise Kelly (born December 16, 1885) ; and
Myra Linsley Kelly (born November 14, 1888, and
died January 15, 1905).
Since January, 1893, Kelly has been city engineer
of New Haven. He is a Republican, and a member
of the Knights of Honor. He is a member of Dwight
Place Congregational Church, New Haven, and was
for five years a member of the prudential committee
of that church, and is again serving on that com-
mittee.
*Samuel T. Knapp
Banker and Broker
Died 1889
Samuel Trevor Knapp, Jr., '72 S., only son of
Samuel T. and Angeline M. (Winkler) Knapp of
New York City, was born on August 10, 1854, and
died in the same city on November 11, 1889, in the
thirty-sixth year of his age, from the effects of
pneumonia contracted in the preceding August.
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In Sheff he was a member of Theta Xi and after
graduating he had pursued a business career in New
York City, and at the time of his death was a member
of the firm of F. B. Freeman & Co., bankers and
brokers. He had never married.
^Harrison W. Lindsley, C. E.
Architect and Instructor
Died 1893
Harrison Wheeler Lindsley, '72 S., was born in
New Haven, on February 6, 1853, the eldest son of
Prof. Charles A. Lindsley, M. D. Yale 1852, and
Lydia L. (Harrison) Lindsley.
After graduating in 1872 and taking a further
course, of one year, in the engineering department,
with the degree of C. E., he spent a year or two in
New York, devoting himself to architecture. In 1875
he went to Europe and spent nearly three years at
VEcole des Beaux Arts in Paris, devoting his vaca-
tions to travel in Germany and England, visiting
some of the finest examples of architecture in those
countries. In 1878 he returned to New Haven, and
was engaged at once as instructor in Architecture
in the Yale School of the Fine Arts, entering at the
same time into practice as an architect.
In 1883 he was married to Miss Julia Irene Coe of
New Haven, who survives him. He removed to the
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city of New York in 1886, still pursuing his chosen
profession. After about five years in that city of
close and severe application, his health became im-
paired, and he returned again to his native place in
1891 and resumed his practice. He was again
invited to renew his connection with the college, and
engaged in the duties of instructor in Perspective
in the Art School.
In the discharge of his duty he was ever faithful
and conscientious, but his disposition was too modest
and retiring, his nature too refined and sensitive, to
be a successful competitor in the arts and practices
known to the world as "business." Only, the few who
knew him well could fully appreciate his worth both
professionally and as a man.
For some months before his death he had a pul-
monary trouble, which under the influence of an out-
door life and partial rest, was apparently improving ;
but he was attacked with pneumonia and after a brief
illness died in New Haven on the 29th of December,
1893, aged nearly forty-one years.
Frank O. Maxson, C. E.
Civil Engineer, U. S. Navy
647 East Capitol Street, Washington, D. C., or U. S. Naval
Station, Key West, Fla.
Frank Oscar Maxson, '72 S., was born at Stillman-
ville, Conn., August 8, 1851. He is a son of Frank Max-
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son and Juliet (Lanphear) Max son, who were married
November 27, 1848, and had four other children: Louis
William Maxson, Yale '76; Julia Ellen Maxson; Her-
bert Elmer Maxson; and Albert Edward Maxson (died
at Westerly, R. I., in 1864).
Frank Maxson (born November 11, 1822, in Rhode
Island, died October 11, 1Q02, in San Francisco, Cal.)
was a son of Asa Maxson and Mary (Chapman) Maxson.
Juliet (Lanphear) Maxson (born October 5, 1826, in
Rhode Island, died November 16, 1863, in Woodville,
R. I.) was a daughter of William Lanphear.
Maxson prepared for the Classical Course in col-
lege at the Norwich Free Academy, Norwich, Conn.,
passing the entrance examinations at Yale in 1869.
Preferring, however, mathematics to the classics, he
entered Sheff in the fall of that year, taking the
Civil Engineering Course, graduating at the head
of that division in 1872.
He was married in Washington, D. C., December
26, 1877, to Miss Evelyn May Van Doren of that
city, who graduated from the Washington Normal
School in 1875, and is a daughter of Rev. William
Theodore Van Doren, Rutgers '40, and Jane
Aletta (De Graw) Van Doren. They have three
children: Frank Theodore Maxson, M. D. Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania '02 (married January 5, 1904,
to Miss Anna Criswell Boyd) ; Evelyn Juliet Max-
son; and Louis Herbert Maxson, B. A. Boston Uni-
versity '06, and M. D. University of Pennsylvania
'10.
208 BIOGRAPHIES
Maxson taught mathematics and the sciences in
the Norwich Free Academy, 1872-73. He took the
postgraduate course in Civil Engineering at Sheff
in the year 1873-74. In July, 1874, he joined the
United States Geographical Surveys West of the
100th Meridian, under Lieut. George M. Wheeler,
Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., and during this and
succeeding field seasons mapped extensive areas in
Colorado, New Mexico, Texas and California. In
October, 1881, he left the survey, having been
appointed civil engineer, United States Navy. He
has been stationed since at the navy yards or sta-
tions at Pensacola, Fla. ; New York City ; Port
Royal, S. C. ; Boston, Mass. ; Washington, D. C. ;
Mare Island, Cal. ; Puget Sound, Wash. ; Norfolk,
Va. ; League Island, Pa. ; Portsmouth, N. H. ; Key
West, Fla. ; Cavite, P. I. ; and Olongapo, P. I.
He received the degree of C. E. from Yale in 1882.
He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and has
twice been made elder in that organization.
Robert D. M. Maxwell
Lawyer
810 West End Trust Building, Philadelphia, Pa., and 5908
Wayne Avenue, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa.
Robert Douglas Millholland Maxwell, '72 S., was
born July 12, 1852, at Baltimore, Md. He is the son
of William Davy Maxwell and Lydia E. (Millholland)
Maxwell, who were married October 2, 1851, at Balti-
CLASS OF 181% S. 209
more, Md., and had two other children : Mary Davy Max-
well (died October 4, 1909, at Wilmington, Del.), and
Ann Millholland Moore, who is still living at Wilming-
ton, Del.
William Davy Maxwell (born August 29, 1829, at
Baltimore, Md., died November 19, 1885, at his residence
at Wilmington, Del.) was a printer, the son of Joshua
and Mary Davy Maxwell of Baltimore, Md. He re-
sided at Baltimore, Md., and afterwards at Wilmington,
Del.
Lydia E. (Millholland) Maxwell (born in 1828, at
Baltimore, Md., died January 2, 1900, at Philadelphia,
Pa.) was the daughter of Robert Douglas Millholland
and Ann Day Millholland.
Maxwell prepared at F. Clarkson Taylor's Acad-
emy in Wilmington, Del., and entered Sheff in Sep-
tember, 1869, where he took the Select Course, and
was a member of Theta Xi.
He was married on April 25, 1882, at Philadel-
phia, Pa., to Miss Cora Ziegler, daughter of George
K. Ziegler, a merchant and bank president, who is
still living. They have had four children, all born
at Philadelphia: George Ziegler Maxwell (born July
4, 1883, died in 1885, at Philadelphia) ; Mary Davy
Maxwell, B. A. Wellesley '07, (born October 13,
1884) ; Robert D. Maxwell, Jr. (born August 23,
1887, died July 27, 1910, near Doylestown, Bucks
County, Pa.) ; and Harry Ziegler Maxwell, Yale '12
(born January 11, 1891).
Maxwell has been engaged in the practice of law
since September 20, 1875.
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^George N. Miller
Died 1904
George Noyes Miller, '72 S., son of John Ransom
and Charlotte (Noyes) Miller, was born in Putney,
Vt., September 13, 1845. In Freshman and Senior
years his residence was Wallingford, Conn., and in
Junior year Lenox, Madison County, N. Y. He was
a nephew of John Humphrey Noyes (Dartmouth
1830), founder of the Oneida and Wallingford Com-
munities, and was actively connected with their work
during a large part of his life, residing since 1880
at Niagara Falls, N. Y., New York City, and Short
Beach, Conn.
He married, at Oneida, N. Y., August 14, 1870,
Annie Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel M. and Lavinia
E. (Chapman) Kelly, and had a son and daughter.
Mr. Miller died at Short Beach, Conn., July 11,
1904, at the age of fifty-eight years.
^Charles T. Morse, LL. B.
Lawyer
Died 1889
Charles Theodore Morse, '72 S., the youngest son
of Gardner and Mary L. (Brigham) Morse, was
born in New Haven, Conn., April 4, 1853.
In Sheff he was a member of Theta Xi. After
graduation he took a course of study in the Yale
CLASS OF 1872 8. 211
Law School, receiving the degree of LL. B. in 1876.
For a time he practiced law in connection with the
Hon. Henry E. Pardee, and became much interested
in local political affairs. After serving in the
Common Council he was elected city clerk, and filled
that office from 1879 to 1881. Later, he was a mem-
ber of the staff of Governor Andrews, with the rank
of colonel.
He was of delicate constitution, and by reason of
failing health spent a large part of his later life in
travel. During the last year symptoms of consump-
tion appeared; and after spending the winter in
South Carolina, he went at the beginning of March
to California. He died in Pasadena, in that state,
May 12, 1889, in his thirty-seventh year.
He was married in February, 1887, to Miss Marion
Burrage of Boston, who survives him.
^Thomas P. Nevins
Died 1875
Thomas Perkins Nevins, '72 S., son of David H.
and Cornelia L. (Perkins) Nevins, was born March
1, 1850, in the city of New York, whence his parents
removed in 1859 to Water ford, Conn.
He was educated for the profession of a civil engi-
neer, but not finding any satisfactory opening he
abandoned the plan. The greater part of the two
212 BIOGRAPHIES
years after graduation he spent with friends in New
York City. In the summer of 1874 his health began
to fail, and after his return from a brief pedestrian
tour in England grew rapidly worse. In November
he returned to his father's house in Waterford, and
there died in January, 1875, aged nearly twenty-five
years.
Prof. Theophil M. Prudden, M. D., LL. D.
Formerly Teacher, now engaged in General Literary and
Scientific Work
160 West Fifty-ninth Street, New York City
Theophil Mitchell Prudden, '72 S., was born in
Middlebury, Conn., July 7, 1 849. He is a son of George
Peter Prudden and Eliza Ann Johnson, who were mar-
ried November 4, 1839, and had four other children:
Edward Payson Prudden (died April 14, 1843, at
Medina, N. Y.) ; Henry Johnson Prudden (died July
2, 1890, at New Haven, Conn.); Theodore Philander
Prudden, Yale 1869, M. A., B. D. 1873, D. D. Illinois
College 1890; and Lillian Eliza Prudden, Vassar 1875.
George Peter Prudden, Yale 1835, B. D. 1839, (born
February 13, 1816, at Orange, Conn., died August 20,
1872) was a clergyman living at Medina, N. Y., Middle-
bury, Southbury and Watertown, Conn. He was a de-
scendant of the seventh generation of Rev. Peter Prud-
den, founder of colony and pastor of the first church in
Milford, Conn.
Eliza Ann Johnson (born March 29, 1819, at South
Britain, Conn., died January 6, 1889) was a daughter
of Eben Johnson and Sally (Mitchell) Johnson.
CLASS OF 1872 8. 213
Prudden attended public and private schools in
various towns in New England and prepared for
Yale at Wilbraham Academy, Wilbraham, Mass.
He entered Sheff in 1869, where he took the Biologi-
cal Course, and the Medical School in 1873. In col-
lege he was scientific editor of the Lit, and a member
of Berzelius. He took the state scholarship and the
prize in mineralogy.
He is unmarried.
He received the degree of M. D. in 1875, and the
degree of LL. D. in 1897. After a year of hospital
service in New Haven, he spent two years in post-
graduate medical studies in Germany. From 1892
to 1909 he was professor of Pathology at the Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia Univer-
sity, New York City, since which time he has been
engaged in literary and scientific work. His sum-
mers have been spent in travel, chiefly in the United
States. One summer he hunted fossils with Prof.
O. C. Marsh, and for eight summers he wandered
with pack train over Colorado, Utah, Arizona and
New Mexico, locating prehistoric ruins. For politics
he believes in good citizenship.
He has been president of the New York Patho-
logical Society, and of the Practitioners Society of
New York, and is an honorary member of the Con-
necticut State Medical Society and of the Alumni
Association of the College of Physicians and Sur-
geons of New York, and one of the directors of the
2U BIOGRAPHIES
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. He is
a member also of the National Academy of Sciences,
the Association of American Physicians, the New
York Academy of Medicine, the American Associa-
tion of Pathologists and Bacteriologists, the Society
of American Bacteriologists, the New York Patho-
logical Society, the American Anthropological Asso-
ciation, the American Folk-Lore Society, the Ameri-
can Ethnological Association, the New York His-
torical Society, the American Geographical Society,
the Archaeological Institute of America, the Land-
marks Club, the Sequoia League, University Club,
the New York Athletic Club and the Century Club.
His bibliography is as follows:
"Beobachtungen am lebenden Knorpel," Firchorv's
Archiv, Bd. 15, 1879; "Contributions to the Structure
and Clinical History of the Multiple Neuroma," Amer.
Jour, of Med. Sciences, July, 1880; "On the Action of
Carbolic Acid upon Ciliated Cells and White Blood
Cells/' Amer. Jour, of Med. Sciences, January, 1881;
"An Experimental Study on the Action of Salicylic Acid
upon Blood Cells and upon Amoeboid Movements and
Emigration," Amer. Jour, of Med. Sciences, January,
1882; "Experimental Studies on the Transplantation of
Cartilage," Amer. Jour, of Med. Sciences, October, 1881 ;
"Cell Life and Animal Life," The Medical News, Octo-
ber 14, 1882; "Rhabdomyoma of the Parotid Gland,"
Amer. Jour, of Med. Sciences, April, 1883; "On the
Occurrence of the Bacillus Tuberculosis in Tubercular
Lesions," The Medical Record, April 14, 1883; "On the
Occurrence of Tubercles in which the Bacillus Tuber-
culosis is not Demonstrable by the Ordinary Methods of
CLASS OF 1872 8. 215
Staining," The New York Medical Record, June 16,
1883; "Manual of Normal Histology," 2d ed., 1884;
"Myxo-Sarcoma of the Optic Nerve with Hyalin Degen-
eration," The Archives of Ophthalmology, Vol. XIV.,
Nos. 2 and 3, 1885; "Cystic Kidneys with Large Bilat-
eral Perinephritic Cysts," 1885; "On Koch's Methods of
Studying the Bacteria," Report of the Connecticut State
Board of Health for 1885; "The Description of an Ade-
noma of the Caruncle," The Archives of Ophthalmology,
Vol. XV., No. 1, 1886; "An Experimental Study of
Mycotic or Malignant Ulcerative Endocarditis," Amer.
Jour, of Med. Sciences, January, 1887; "On Bacteria
in Ice and their Relations to Disease, with Special Refer-
ence to the Ice Supply of New York City," The Medical
Record, March 26, and April 2, 1887; "Our Ice Supply
and Its Dangers," The Popular Science Monthly, March,
1888; "Myxoedema," Amer. Jour, of Med. Sciences, July
and August, 1888; "On the Etiology of Diphtheria An
Experimental Study," Amer. Jour, of Med. Sciences,
May, 1889; "Studies on the Etiology of the Pneumonia
Complicating Diphtheria in Children," Amer. Jour, of
Med. Sciences , June, 1889; "On the Germicidal Action
of Blood-Serum and other Body-fluids," The Medical
Record, January 25, 1890; "Bacterial Studies on the
Influenza and its Complicating Pnuemonia," The Medi-
cal Record, February 15, 1890; "Studies on the Etiology
of Diphtheria," second series, The Medical Record,
April 18, 1891; "Glimpses of the Bacteria," Harper's
Monthly, April, 1891; "Studies on the Action of Dead
Bacteria in the Living Body," The New York Medical
Journal, June 6 and 20, 1891; "A Study of Experi-
mental Pneumonitis in the Rabbit," The New York Med-
ical Journal, December 5, 1891; "Drinking Water and
Ice Supplies and their Relations to Health and Disease,"
Published by the Knickerbocker Press, 1891 ; "The Ele-
ment of Contagion in Tuberculosis," The New York
Medical Journal, April 16, 1892; "Ice and Ice-Making,"
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Harper's Monthly, August, 1892; "Cholera and our
Quarantine Editorial/' Harper's Weekly, September
17, 1892; "Some Hygienic Aspects of Asiatic Cholera,"
Christian Union, September 17, 1892; "On the Poison-
ous Products of the Tubercle Bacillus," The New York
Medical Journal, September 10, 1892; "The Public
Health" ; "A Study on the Aetiology of Exudative Pleu-
ritis," The New York Medical Journal, June 24, 1893;
"Dust and its Dangers," Published by the Knicker-
bocker Press, 1894; "Concurrent Infections and the
Formation of Cavities in Acute Pulmonary Tuberculosis
An Experimental Study," The New York Medical
Journal, July 7, 1894; "Some Records of the Ice Age
about New York," Harper's Monthly, September, 1894;
"The Story of the Bacteria and Their Relations to Health
and Disease," Published by the Knickerbocker Press, 2d
ed., 1910; "New Outlooks in the Science and Art of
Medicine," The Popular Science Monthly, January,
1896; "A Summer Among Cliff Dwellings," Harper's
Monthly, September, 1896; "An Elder Brother to the
Cliff-Dwellers," Harper's Monthly, June, 1897; "Under
the Spell of the Grand Canyon," Harper's Monthly,
August, 1898; "Progress and Drift in Pathology," The
Medical Record, March 10, 1900; "Handbook of Patho-
logical Anatomy and Histology" (with Dr. Francis Dela-
field), 8th ed., 1907; "On the Great American Plateau,"
Putnam's, 1907.
Prof. Thomas H. Russell, M. D.
Professor of Clinical Surgery in Yale Medical School, and
Practicing Physician and Surgeon
79 Trumbull Street, New Haven, Conn.
Thomas Hubbard Russell, Ph. B., 72 S., M. D. '75,
was born in New Haven, Conn., December 21, 1851.
He is the son of William Huntington Russell and Mary
CLASS OF 1872 8. 217
Elizabeth (Hubbard) Russell, who were married August
29, 1836, and had four other sons: Talcott Huntington
Russell, B. A. Yale '69, LL. B. Columbia '71 (who was
instructor on Municipal Corporations in the Yale Law
School from 1892 to 1900); Phillip Gray Russell, B. A.
Yale '76, LL. B. Yale '78 L. (a member of Skull and
Bones Society, died from acute disease of kidneys caused
by appendicitis, July 21, 1900, at Washington, D. C.) ;
Edward Hubbard Russell, Ph. B. Yale '78 S. (a mem-
ber of Book and Snake Society at Yale, the inventor of
the "Russell Processes for silver ores," residing in Eng-
land) ; and Robert Gray (died from acute dysentery,
August 21, 1881, while a member of the Sophomore
class at Yale).
William Huntington Russell was born August 12,
1809, at Middletown, Conn., and died from apoplexy
May 19, 1885, at New Haven, Conn. He graduated at
the head of his class (valedictorian) in 1833 at Yale
College and was a member of Skull and Bones Society.
Later he was a tutor in college. Financial adversity
which caused him to be self-supporting in college com-
pelled him to give up studying theology and seek imme-
diate income from teaching. He was an educator and
founded and superintended for about fifty years a large
college preparatory school. He was a strong Aboli-
tionist and one of the founders of the Republican party.
Before the war he was the Connecticut representative
of the National Kansas Anti-Slavery Committee, and
to some extent was associated with John Brown, the
anti-slavery pioneer and martyr, who visited him a num-
ber of times at his house and appointed him trustee of
one of his wills. He had a military training before
entering College, having been for several years a cadet
in the famous Military Academy founded and con-
ducted by Capt. Alden Partridge, U. S. A., a grad-
uate of West Point and for twelve years previously pro-
fessor and military superintendent at the National
218 BIOGRAPHIES
Academy at West Point. General Sherman said that
Academy at one time almost rivaled West Point. At
the outbreak of the Civil War, first by appointment of
Governor Buckingham, and later by act of the Legis-
lature, he was appointed major general to organize the
state militia and prepare and forward troops for the
war. He held the appointment throughout the war and
for some years later. Such was his earnestness in the
prosecution of the war that, it being impossible to send
his five sons into the army (as he otherwise would have
done), because the oldest was only about thirteen years
of age and the youngest an infant, he hired five men
to represent them in the army, who otherwise would not
have enlisted. Immediately after his death the veteran
soldiers of Admiral Foote Post, G. A. R., passed the
following resolution: "Resolved, That on Saturday next,
May 30th, and on all future Decoration Days in which
we may participate, we will decorate the grave of Major
General William Huntington Russell in the same spirit
of affectionate respect with which we lay our garlands
upon the graves of our comrades." Sixteen years after
General Russell's death a meeting commemorative of his
public services was held in the hall of the New Haven
Colony Historical Society at which addresses were made
by Rev. E. S. Lines, President of the Society, and
other prominent men. He was a son of Matthew
Talcott Russell, Yale 1779 (tutor at Yale four years,
attorney at law, state's attorney, and thirty years
deacon in the First Congregational Church in Middle-
town) and of Mary (Huntington) Russell, oldest
daughter of Rev. Enoch Huntington, Yale 1759, a
member of the Yale Corporation twenty-eight years
(1780-1808), and secretary of the Yale Corporation
from 1788 to 1793. Three of his brothers were promi-
nent Congregational clergymen. Mary (Huntington)
Russell was niece of Samuel Huntington, LL. D. Yale,
signer of the Declaration of Independence, president
CLASS OF 1872 8. 219
of the Continental Congress in 1779, 1780 and 1781,
chief justice of the Superior Court, and governor of
Connecticut ten years, until his death. Eleven ancestors
of William Huntington Russell were college graduates,
of whom ten were prominent in the ministry and one
entered the legal profession; two were founders of Yale
College, four were members of the Yale Corporation,
one was a member of the Corporation of Harvard Col-
lege, and one was secretary of the Yale Corporation.
Rev. E. S. Lines, bishop of Diocese of Newark, presi-
dent of the New Haven Colony Historical Society,
wrote of General Russell that he had "a New England
ancestry than which one more distinguished could hardly
be named," again that "he threw himself into the anti-
slavery movement with all his heart," and that he "has
a high and influential place among those who made the
antislavery sentiment of the North and especially of New
England." Every male ancestor was a college grad-
uate from a date previous to the founding of Yale.
Since Yale was founded every male ancestor graduated
from Yale. Of the present generation all five sons
graduated at Yale except one, who died from acute
dysentery in Sophomore year. General Russell was
descended from a very prominent Puritan ancestry,
among whom were Rev. Thomas Hooker, one of the
greatest of the Puritan pastors, founder and first pastor
of Hartford, and Joseph Talcott, judge of the Supreme
Court, governor of Connecticut seventeen years (1724 and
1741) until his death in office, and one of the original
proprietors of Hartford. Various Russell ancestors
married into old and very prominent New England
families. Rev. William Russell, Yale 1709, sixteen
years member of Yale Corporation, and Rev. Jonathan
Edwards, Yale's most famous graduate and theologian,
and president of Princeton College, married sisters.
Kingsley History of Yale College states concerning Rev.
William Russell, Yale 1709, that he was offered the
220 BIOGRAPHIES
position of rector or president of Yale College "and was
the first of the Alumni to receive that honor from his
Alma Mater" but could not accept because "negotiations
with the people of Middletown for the removal of their
pastor were ineffectual." Many other prominent Yale
men were related by marriage in various generations.
Mary Elizabeth (Hubbard) Russell (born May 23,
1816, died December 11, 1890, at New Haven) was a
daughter of Thomas Hubband, professor of Surgery in
the Yale Medical Department from 1829 until his death
from dysentery in 1838, whose ancestry extended back
to the early Puritans. He was president of the Con-
necticut State Medical Society for five years, and one
of the Corporators (founders) of the New Haven Hos-
pital.
Russell prepared for Sheff at his father's school,
and in 1868 at Clinton, N. Y., where while residing
in the family of his uncle, Rev. Simeon North, D. D.,
LL. D. (previously eighteen years president of Ham-
ilton College), he studied under a private tutor. He
entered his Class in 1869. While in college he was a
member of Book and Snake Society.
He was married at New Haven, on December 21,
1882, to Miss Mary Munson of New Haven, a grad-
uate of European and American boarding schools,
and a daughter of Lyman Ezra Munson (Yale '51
L., formerly justice of the Supreme Court of Mon-
tana). Major E. L. Munson, U. S. A., Mrs. Rus-
sell's only brother, is a Yale graduate (B. A. Yale
1890, and M. D. Yale 1892) and is professor in the
Army Service School at Fort Leavenworth for
CLASS OF 187* S. 221
instruction of officers in the United States Army.
He published a large volume which was adopted by
the United States Government for that work and by
foreign governments. Thomas H. Russell has three
sons and two daughters: Mary Talcott Russell;
Thomas H. Russell, Jr., Ph. B. Yale 1906 S., M. D.
Yale 1910 (who in Freshman year was one of the
original founders of the Young Men's Christian
Association in the Medical Department and later its
secretary and president; he was president of the
Senior Class and representative of the Medical
Department on the Board of Directors of the Yale
Cooperative Corporation; at graduation he re-
ceived the "Cum laude" degree in medicine for gen-
eral excellence in all the studies and examinations of
the four years' course in medicine ; he has gone
for his second period of study in Germany, and is
a member of the Graduates Club and Lawn Club) ;
William Huntington Russell (a member of the Class
of 1912 in Yale, Academical Department) ; Eleanor
Russell; and Edward Stanton Russell, who intends
to enter Yale Academical Department.
After receiving the degree of Ph. B. in 1872, he
was requested by Prof. O. C. Marsh to be assistant
on his paleontological expedition, from which he
returned the following winter. At the close of the
expedition, Professor Marsh urged him to take up
paleontology as his life work, and subsequently made
other advantageous offers. He preferred, however,
222 BIOGRAPHIES
immediately to take up studying medicine, which he
commenced in December, 1872, and within a few
months became assistant to Francis Bacon, professor
of Surgery. He was Dr. Bacon's assistant six or
eight years. His father having suffered severe
losses by depreciation of real estate, Russell was self-
supporting by teaching mathematics and other sub-
jects during his entire course of study in the Medical
Department and later until he obtained sufficient
other income from medical practice. He received the
degree of M. D. in February, 1875, and commenced
practice at that time. In 1875, he was resident
physician and surgeon in the New Haven Hospital,
and during a number of years later was physician
to the New Haven Dispensary. He was assistant
(by appointment) to David P. Smith, professor of
Surgery, from 1877 until his death in 1880. He was
clinical lecturer on Surgery, 1880 to 1881, and from
1881 to 1883 was lecturer on genito-urinary and
venereal diseases in the Yale Medical Department,
and from 1883 to 1891 was professor of Materia
Medica and Therapeutics. From 1891 to the pres-
ent time he has been professor of Clinical Surgery,
and lecturer on Surgical Anatomy. He was attend-
ing surgeon (Visiting Staff) to the New Haven
Hospital thirty years (February, 1878, to Feb-
ruary, 1908), and from the latter date to the present
time has been consulting surgeon to the New Haven
Hospital. In 1886 he went abroad.
CLASS OF 1872 S. 223
He and his wife and all five of his children
are members of the First Congregational (Center)
Church, and in politics he has always been Repub-
lican. He is a member of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, the New Haven
Colony Historical Society, the American Medical
Association, the Connecticut Medical Society, the
New Haven County Medical Society, the New Haven
(City) Medical Association and the Graduates Club.
His published works are:
"Section on Fractures of Base of Skull, with Bibliog-
raphy," in Volume IX. of the Reference Handbook of
Medical Sciences, edited by Albert H. Buck, M. D., and
published by Wm. Wood & Co., in 1894; "A Practical
Argument against the Solvent Treatment of Stone in
the Bladder by Mineral Waters and Other Agents,"
Proceedings of the Connecticut Medical Society, 1892;
"Jejuno-ileostomy," New York Medical Journal, Decem-
ber 20, 1890; "New Remedies," Proceedings of the Con-
necticut Medical Society, in 1887; "Disease of the Pros-
tate Gland," Proceedings of the Connecticut Medical
Society, 1893; "Progress of Surgery," Proceedings of
the Connecticut Medical Society, 1893; "Prognosis of
Syphilis," Proceedings of Connecticut Medical Society,
1904; and "Progress of Surgery," Proceedings of Con-
necticut Medical Society, 1904.
Charles A. Tibbals
Rector, Episcopal Church of Holy Advent
Clinton, Conn.
Charles Austin Tibbals, '72 S., was born at West
Suffield, Conn., December 11, 1850. He is the son of
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Rev. Nathan Tibbals and Huldah Florilla (Kelsey)
Tibbals, who were married June 5, 1847, and had eight
other children: Abigail Clemmens Tibbals, John Angell
James Tibbals, Nathan Vincent Tibbals, Florilla Amelia
Tibbals, Maria Elizabeth Tibbals, Jennie Tibbals (died
in Brooklyn in 1870), Cyrus Foss Tibbals, and Lucy
Treat Tibbals.
Rev. Nathan Tibbals (born September 20, 1815, at
Milford, Conn., died November 18, 1898, at Brooklyn,
N. Y.) was a Methodist minister, the son of Elisha Tib-
bals, and a direct descendant of Thomas Tibbals, one
of the founders of Milford, Conn.
Huldah Florilla (Kelsey) Tibbals (born June 30,
1823, at Killingworth, Conn., died June 17, 1905) was
a daughter of David Parmelee Kelsey and Elizabeth
(Wilcox) Kelsey of Killingworth.
Tibbals prepared for Sheff at the Polytechnic
Institute in Brooklyn, N. Y., entering in September,
1872, where he took the Select Course. In college he
was a member of Theta Xi, and president of his Class
for all three years. Since 1877 he has served as
Class secretary.
He was married in Washington, D. C., on Novem-
ber 27, 1874, to Miss Mary Louise Watkins of Balti-
more, Md., a daughter of Thomas Coke Watkins.
They have one daughter and one son: Kate
Watkins Tibbals (born April 27, 1877, at Baltimore,
Md., Wellesley '99, Ph. D. University of Pennsyl-
vania '04), and Charles Austin Tibbals, Jr. (born
July 23, 1881, University of Wisconsin '04, M. A.
'06, Ph. D. '08).
CLASS OF 1872 8. 225
After leaving college, he studied for two years at
the Union Theological Seminary, leaving on account
of ill health. He taught for a year in Allegheny
County Academy. He was ordained deacon by
Bishop Whittingham in Baltimore, Md., December
13, 1877, and priest by Bishop Scarborough in Red
Bank, N. J., April 25, 1878. He was rector of
Trinity Church, Red Bank, N. J., from 1878 to 1881,
and rector of St. Peter's Church, Brooklyn, N. Y.,
from 1881 to 1886. He was rector of various par-
ishes in the dioceses of New Jersey and New York
from 1887 to 1893, was without a parish from 1903
to 1906, on account of ill health. In 1906 he became
rector of the Church of the Holy Communion, in
Norwood, N. J., in the diocese of Newark. In the
spring of 1908 he accepted the rectorship of the
Church of the Holy Advent, Clinton, Conn., which
is his present charge.
He is a member of F. & A. M., Jeptha Lodge,
Clinton, Conn. In politics he is an independent
Republican.
*Daniel W. Wardwell
Chemist
Died 1878
Daniel Wardwell Wardwell, '72 S., eldest son of
Samuel and Mary A. (Stillman) Wardwell, was born
in Adams, Jefferson County, N. Y., June 21, 1852,
226 BIOGRAPHIES
and died in New Orleans, La., of yellow fever, Sep-
tember 28, 1878, after an illness of about four days.
He entered the school from Rome, N. Y., and
immediately after graduating accepted a position as
assistant chemist in the coal tar works of Messrs.
Page, Kidder & Fletcher of New York City. In the
spring of 1877 he entered into a ten years' contract
with the Gas Light Company of New Orleans for
furnishing its ammoniacal liquor, and erected a fac-
tory in that city for the manufacture of sulphate of
ammonia, which he had operated with success for
about a year, when he was stricken down with the
prevalent fever, at the age of twenty-six. He was
unmarried.
^Frederick F. Weld
Engineer
Died 1890
Frederick Floyd Weld, '72 S., son of Captain
Frederick A. and Mary D. (Washington) Weld, was
born in Sag Harbor, L. I., N. Y., on February 19,
1850.
For about a year after graduation he was in the
employ of the United States Coast Survey, in the
survey of the Delaware River. In August, 1873, he
obtained a position as draughtsman and general
assistant in the office of the city engineer in New
Haven, which position he held until July, 1881, when
CLASS OF 1872 8. 227
he resigned in order to accept a more lucrative place
as managing engineer for a contractor on the Pitts-
burg & Western Railroad, in Pennsylvania. In the
summer of 1883, he accepted a position as assistant
engineer in charge of the construction of a system
of sewers in Waterbury, Conn., and so ably did he
conduct the work entrusted to him that when, a few
months later, a vacancy occurred in the office of city
engineer, he was at once selected for the purpose.
This office he held continuously until his death, in
Waterbury, on June 28, 1890, in his forty-first year.
For several years he had been a prominent and active
member of the City Board of Health, but, although
much of his thought and time had been given to
devising means for checking the ravages of pre-
ventable diseases, he was one of the first victims of
an epidemic of typhoid fever which visited Water-
bury in the summer of 1890.
He was married on December 15, 1874, in New
Haven, to Miss Mary V. Crockett, who survives him
with their two daughters.
William B. Welling
Banker and Broker
2 Wall Street, New York City
William Brenton Welling, '72 S., was born at Phila-
delphia, Pa., January 19, 1852, the son of Charles H.
and Katharine C. Welling.
228 BIOGRAPHIES
Charles Hunt Welling was born October 3, 1816, died
February 14, 1892.
Katharine Celia (Greene) Welling was born Septem-
ber 21, 1826, died December 2, 1908.
Welling went to school in Philadelphia and New
York. He entered Sheff in 1869, took the Chemical
Course for one year, and the Select Course for two
years. He was a member of Berzelius.
He was married in New York City on June 7, 1889,
to Gertrude Lindsay Howe of New York. Four
children: Brenton Welling (born September 8,
1889) ; Charles Hunt Welling (born November 10,
1890) ; Lindsay Howe Welling (born November 24,
1892) ; and Gertrude Nott Welling (born February
10, 1896).
Welling has spent his time since graduation in
Wall Street.
In politics he is a Democrat.
*Thomas W. Wright, M. A., C. E., Ph. D.
Professor of Mathematics at Union College
Died 1908
Thomas Wallace Wright, 72 S., was born at Gallo-
way, Scotland, August 3, 1842. He was the son of
Alexander Wright and Mary (Wallace) Wright, who
were married July 1, 1841, and had eight other children,
four sons and four daughters: John Wright (died June
22, 1893), Samuel Wright, Jane Wright, Elizabeth
CLASS OF 1872 S. 229
Wright, Margaret Wright (died August 11, 1874), Mary
Wright, Alexander Wright (died January 6, 1875), and
James Wright (died December 1, 1858).
Alexander Wright (born November 30, 1815, in the
Parish of Shirkcolm, Galloway, Scotland, died January
1, 1900, at Gait, Canada) was a millwright, with Goldie
McCulloch Company, in Galloway, Scotland. His
ancestry was Scotch.
Mary (Wallace) Wright (born December 13, 1821, at
Glenluce, Scotland, died August 6, 1901, at Gait,
Canada) was of Scotch descent.
Wright prepared for college at the Collegiate
Institute in Gait, Canada, and also attended the
University of Toronto, receiving the degree of B. A.
there in 1863, and being the gold medalist of his
Class in mathematics. He entered Sheff in January,
1872, for Senior year.
He was married at Detroit, Mich., on December
31, 1873, to Miss Francis E. Boughton of Schodac,
N. Y. (died February 20, 1877, at Detroit, Mich.),
a daughter of George Windfield Boughton, a farmer
of Novester, Mich. They had two sons: William
Howard Wright (born February 10, 1875, at
Detroit, Mich., Union College '95, married Miss
Beulah DeForest of Schenectady, on June 5, 1900) ;
and Frank Thomas Wright (born February 9, 1877,
at Detroit, Mich., Union College '99, married Miss
Jessie L. Rising of Portland, Conn., on September
16, 1903). He was married again at Gait, Canada,
on June 20, 1879, to Miss Margaret Taylor Hood,
230 BIOGRAPHIES
a daughter of Adam Hood, who died March 19, 1902,
at the age of eighty-five years. They had three
daughters: Jessie Wallace Wright (born February
19, 1882, at Detroit, Mich); Florence Margaret
Wright (born June 5, 1885, at Bethlehem, Pa., died
March 21, 1907, at Albany, N. Y.) ; and Marjorie
Wright (born September 2, 1888, at Schenectady,
N. Y.).
Wright received the degree of M. A. from Toronto
University in 1891, and the degree of Ph. D. from
Union College in the same year. From 1885 until
his death he had been professor of Mathematics in
Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. He traveled in
Europe in 1891, in 1893, and in 1897. He was a
Free Mason, Knight Templar, and a member of the
Presbyterian Church. He died September 13, 1908,
at his home in Schenectady, N. Y.
He was the author of "Adjustments of Observa-
tions" (second edition, 1906), Van Nostrand Com-
pany, New York, and of "Elements of Mechanics"
(seventh edition, 1906), Van Nostrand Company.
STATISTICS
STATISTICS
COVERING ALL THE GRADUATES OF THE FIRST TWENTY
CLASSES GRADUATED FROM THE SHEFFIELD
SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL, YEARS 1852 TO
1872, INCLUSIVE
In the following pages are given statistical tables
covering (1) vital statistics, (2) college fathers and
college children, and (3) occupations, for the 270 mem-
bers of the first twenty classes graduated from Sheff in
the years from 1852 to 1872, inclusive. The compila-
tion of tables including all of these early Sheff graduates
is made possible from the fact that the biographies of
all these graduates were gathered on the same blank
form, the lives of the 140 graduates of the classes from
1852 S. to 1867 S. having been published in one volume
about a year ago by Gen. W. W. Skiddy, '65 S., while the
classes from 1868 S. to 1872 S., inclusive, are published
in this volume. In considering these statistics it should
be born in mind that the records published in the present
volume are much more complete than those of the
earlier Sheff classes published in the preceding volume.
An effort has been made to neutralize the effect of
incomplete returns by considering only the actual
number reporting on a given subject in making up the
totals from which averages and percentages have been
computed.
Care has been taken in all these statistical tables to
give in detail the tabulated facts from which any deduc-
tions have been made, in order that future statisticians
may use these facts for other statistical studies, and in
order that any errors in tabulation may be easily detected
and rectified. The facts tabulated here should be of the
utmost interest and value to all statistical students, cover-
ing, as they do, all the graduates of the first two decades
234
STATISTICS
in the history of the second largest department of Yale
University. Space in this volume has permitted only
the most meager suggestions as to the deductions and
indications that may be drawn from these tabulated facts.
VITAL STATISTICS
The following table consists of a list of the 270 members of
the Sheff classes from 1852 to 1872, inclusive, with the date
of marriage of those reporting marriage, the age at death of
the deceased, and, so tar as reported, the number of children
born to each man, and the number of those in the family of
the subject, i.e. the number of the man's brothers and sisters,
including in the count himself. The children are subdivided
as to boys and girls; when the number of children has been
reported without differentiation as to sex the number is given
in parenthesis in the "boys" column.
Date of
Sod
V
bo
C.
)
O5 JJ-g
Name
Marriage
<&
Boys
Girls
MW-3.
'52 S
Blake
Dec. 25, 1855
29
84
5
1
Brewer
Aug. 14, 1858
30
82
tSept. 1, 1868
40
4
1
Brush
Dec. 23, 1864
33
3
2
Craw
Nov. 27, 1879
49
68
Shepard
Jan. , 1864
33
64
WeM
April 16, 1866
37
58
Weyman
f
32
'58 S
Chessman
March 6, 1854
22
51
2
2
Cochrane
Dec. 1, 1857
24
73
1
tApril 19, 1900
Henry
Jill son
McRuer
June 15, 1864
34
74
69
4
1
Palen
Sept. 19, 1860
28
69
3
1
Rogers
1857
28
60
'54 S
Crosby
42
2
Duvillard
Date unknown
31
1
Escall6n
Dec. 24, 1856
17
2
3
Mosman
Dec. 23, 1861
26
2
2
2
Parsons
April 1, 1875
43
3
Pierson
72
Terry
Jan. 8, 1861
30
75
3
2
11
'55 S
Allen
t
McGregor
More
April 16, 1857
28
68
1
1
St. John
J
Vengohechea
\
STATISTICS
235
Date of
i!
je at Death
*^W3 g
I |||j
Name
Marriage
<&
<
Boys
Girls (.
Qt/3o.
'55 S
Walcott
1857
26
69
2
1
Wilcox
Dec. 16, 1880
47
1
4
'56 S
Boisblanc
1872
87
56
1
1
Brinton
Jan. 1, 1863
31
2
4
5
Bronson
May 30, 1861
24
3
1
tDate unknown
1
Candee
SDate unknown
Jan. 15, 1865
33
72
3
1
tjan. 8, 1884
DeForest
54
Fuller
Sept. 20, 1859
25
70
Lvle
Morehouse
Oct. 15, 1861
26
2
1
5
Plata
Date unknown
54
Seely
Sept. 1, 1858
30
2
2
8
t June 7, 1867
Watson
\
Williams
March 10, 1868
31
71
4
1
2
'57 S
Curtis
$
Gilbert
I
Harger
Date unknown
41
1
Herrick
\
Kent
May 5, 1864
26
6
1
Martin
*
Meade
59
Pike
Dec. 28, 1863
30
5
4
Richards
Nov. 1, 1859
23
47
(4)
'58 S
Arosmena
t
Barker
Aug. 15, 1861
26
1
4
3
Blake
\
Gay
Oct. 21, 1862
28
4
Hodges
t
King
Dec. 22, 1863
24
58
1
2
Kittredge
Oct. 20, 1864
31
74
3
3
4
Pombo
Date unknown
64
4
4
Rockwell
June 20, 1865
31
69
1
3
Sackett
t
25
Sparrow
April 9, 1867
35
45
1
1
Wheeler
Oct. 12, 1866
32
2
'59 S
Booth
Date unknown
64
1
2
Dubois
Dec. 1, 1880
40
(5)
Dwight
Nov. 17, 1859
26
73
4
2
Harriott
Nov. 17, 1864
29
4
1
3
Porter
Aug. 24, 1864
25
70
3
3
7
Seely
Smith
May 28, 1876
Feb. 2, 1865
38
25
70
49
1
2
3
'60S
Twining
Coddington
Hearn
March 23, 1877
Date unknown
Oct. 3, 1882
42
40
51
61
(4)
3
Hutchinson
Tan. , 1887
47
48
Manice
Nov. 4, 1863
25
39
(4)
Rogers
2
'61 S
Sheafer
Allen
June 7, 1864
Dec. 17, 1861
27
25
71
2
3
9
236
STATISTICS
Date of
)c3 2ii ^ otn*rt
Name
Marriage
<&
<
Boys
Girls p
SSu
'61 S Bissell
Mav 20, 1875
40
3
6
Burrage
Nov. 30, 1854
24
69
3
Cifuentes
t
Martinez
I
Moore
Sept. , 1871
29
53
Raymond
f
Sands
i
50
'62 S Bunce
Feb. 16, 1865
26
1
1
5
Griffan
King
60
1
Mead
t
Parsons
Oct. 25, 1865
21
1
8
Ward
March 15, 1876
34
57
'63 S Goodyear
J
52
Hague
Nov. 14, 1893
53
(2)
Manning
Oct. 19, 1870
26
2
1
"
tNov. 18, 1880
Megia
'64 S Bill
57
Brownfield
Dec. 7, 1867
23
3
Burton
Dec. 10, 1901
55
58
Carpenter
Daggett
Farnsworth
May 31, 1868
June 28, 1874
Nov. 12, 1878
27
29
36
1
2
3
3
Roffe
March 23, 1876
32
2
Tiffany
Oct. 11, 1864
23
3
3
8
Van Harlingen
Aug. 31, 1882
37
2
5
'65 S Ford
+
Glenny
Holt
July 10, 1871
tjuly 15, 1902
Nov. 18, 1868
26
22
1
1
1
7
Leavens
Feb. 19, 1874
29
1
3
4
Massey
\
56
Mitchell
Date unknown
45
1
1
Palmer
48
Robinson
1882
36
Rogers
Sept. 26, 1896
51
Skeel
Jj
31
5
Skiddy
April , 1867
22
2
Stone
Aug. 18, 1881
37
2
1
Thomas
June 18, 1873
31
3
2
Throckmorton
38
Van Harlingen
'66 S Coit
Oct. 15, 1873
Nov. 3, 1870
30
25
61
2
6
4
3
Crooke
Oct. 29, 1874
34
2
9
Ebell
Sept. , 1874
34
37
Gauss
f
Linsly
1877
33
54
1
McAlister
Oct. 19, 1874
28
28
Macdonald
Matthias
March 1, 1892
May 15, 1867
48
46
1
2
6
'67 S Barbour
Date unknown
M
t 1892
58
1
Beeson
Date unknown
51
(2)
STATISTICS
237
Date of
3
"S
boci ha
2
o
Name
Marriage
<2
3 < Boys
Girls
'67 S Caldwell
Sept. 14, 1871
M
2
6
Chittenden
64
Ferry
26
Grove, P. H.
Grove, R. M.
July 7, 1873
Date unknown
88
30
50
1
2
Hubbard
Sept. 30, 1868
II
2
3
Mixter
Aug. 26, 1875
1
1
Niles
Dec. 31, 1869
H
72
Sheffield
1883
39
51
1
Smith
Wadsworth
Wells
June 29, 1882
July 2, 1867
Dec. 28, 1869
39
u
24
4
1
2
Whittelsey
Wood
Sept. 27, 1871
Date unknown
H
60
52
1
2
'68 S Andrew
Austin
July 28, 1881
June 7, 1881
38
35
4
3
2
Bailey
t
Barbour
Jan. 10, 1880
M
1
1
Beach
June 16, 1875
27
2
1
Blackstone
About 1869
H
51
1
tDate unknown
Bristol
Clark
July 18, 1903
Oct. 30, 1873
80
2U
67
8
1
Dudley
Eddy
May 6, 1873
Jan. 4, 1870
27
26
50
2
1
2
4
Evans
Finney
Sept. 5, 1872
29
Fowler
J
Guthrie
March 2, 1882
53
Hersey
Jackson
April 12, 1875
Nov. 21, 1871
M
25
61
61
1
1
McKell
Jan. 18, 1881
35
54
2
Needham
Noonan
$
Parshall
July 24, 1884
39
2
Redfield
Oct. 81, 1872
28
2
Renick
Dec. 29, 1874
27
2
Rockwell
42
Stone
24
Swift
Date unknown
47
1
Williams
Oct. 18, 1871
24
3
1
'69 S Abbot
Date unknown
42
2
Belknap
Dec. 2, 1874
25
1
4
**
tFeb. 21, 1894
Bissell
Brinley
Buck
April 24, 1877
April , 1872
80
22
1
1
3
Chidsey
Clarke
Date unknown
Unknown
4
1
Curtis
Oct. 29, 1873
88
2
1
DuBois
June 23, 1883
34
Folsom
Sept. 9, 1893
45
Hill
Hornblower
June 29, 1893
45
60
12
238
STATISTICS
5
afl-r
<u
Q
I
2^1
oJ
*o
2
3SJS
Date of
<V l-i
4>
o
"o "S'O *->
Name
Marriage
<&
<
Boys Girls '5
'69 S
Hulst
May 12, 1875
3
2
Johnson
Nov. 8, 1871
29
1
Kendall
$
Koon
Date unknown
39
(3)
Lowe
Dec. 28, 1871
22
2
3
5
Perry
Date unknown
1
1
4
u
tAug. 29, 1883
34
Pope
March 13, 187'9
tSept. 12, 1882
30
4
j
4
Skinner
Van Rensselaer
Jan. 7, 1872
Dec. 29, 1879
30
39
1
1
1
1
4
Weed
May 18, 1873
27
3
1
White
Whitman
Oct. 6, 1871
23
1
4
Wight
Tan. 2, 1879
31
2
2
Willits
Sept. 25, 1872
26
2
2
3
'70S
Abbott
Sept. 24, 1877
31
1
1
6
Bailey
Ballard
June 21, 1888
April 24, 1878
40
28
3
3
1
5
5
Bennett
Brandegee
May 9, 1872
May 29, 1889
27
46
2
1
9
Brinsmade
Dec. 28, 1870
25
2
3
3
Brooks
Sept. 28, 1876
25
3
11
44
tDec. 15, 1891
40
Calvert
Nov. 8, 1877
28
2
Churchill
Date unknown
33
(3)
Clark
May 4, 1875
26
(3)
2
Conkling
April 11, 1896
46
3
4
Grant
April 29, 1879
30
3
1
4
Hastings
June 28, 1878
30
1
Hinds
77
Hoes
Feb. 16, 18S5
36
Hopson
Oct. 15, 1881
33
3
4
Humphrey
July , 1870
t 1892
22
1
1
Littleton
March 4, 1884
36
1
2
Lowe
37
Marks
1874
25
2
Rice
May 12, 1879
30
1
Roberts
July 3, 1903
35
1
7
Roseberry
Oct. 20, 1877
28
2
2
11
Stanton
J
Stone
July 1, 1885
38
2
2
7
Warren
Nov. 20, 1873
27
2
2
8
Watson
May 9, 1871
24
1
1
'71 S
Andrews
Oct. 13, 1881
29
2
1
3
"
tjune 15, 1910
Bacon
8
Burt
May 6, 1875
27
2
3
3
Bush
Chittenden
tjan. 23, 1895
Jan. 8, 1880
Dec. 25, 1876
30
27
54
1
1
1
1
2
4
2
Davenport
Dickson
June 1, 1897
Feb. 17, 1874
48
24
54
1
1
1
2
4
STATISTICS
239
'71 S
'72 S
*|
2
* !s
fc"2i
J3 <U.S K
Date of
&
to
22|S
Name
Marriage
JN
Boys
Girls
Durand
Jan. 15, 1885
34
2
*
tjune 17, 1890
ii
Aug. , 1908
Dwinelle
Ferry
June 10, 1885
Oct. 17, 1877
38
25
2
5
3
Greene
$
Griswold, C. W.
Griswold, J. W.
Oct. 9, 1872
1878
20
28
26
52
(3)
2
M
t 1885
Tudson
Feb. 24, 1900
49
1
3
Keasbey
Klein
Jan. 14, 1885
Dec. 30, 1879
35
30
1
1
1
8
Lobdell
April 17, 1878
28
3
2
10
Mather
Feb. 13, 1875
25
4
2
4
Merriman
June 5, 1875
tMay 16, 1891
27
4
2
2
"
Date unknown
Moore
May 20, 1875
25
1
1
10
Pierpont
23
Powell
23
Quigley
Sanford
Oct. 28, 1875
Oct. 20, 1892
27
43
49
2
Sargent
Dec. 4. 1879
28
3
2
9
Terry
Feb. 28, 1872
22
58
2
1
Ziegler
Abbott
April 18, 1876
Feb. 26, 1877
26
27
4
3
2
6
Bogart
Edwards
April 18, 1888
Oct. 19, 1881
36
30
52
2
2
1
Gawthrop
Feb. 20, 1879
29
1
3
4
Greene
+
Hawes
34
Hering
Nov. 23, 1881
31
2
Johnson
Kelly
June , 1899
Oct. 2, 1876
49
28
51
1
3
4
Knapp
Lindsley
1883
30
36
41
Maxson
Dec. 26, 1877
26
2
1
5
Maxwell
April 25, 1882
30
3
1
3
Miller
Aug. 14, 1870
25
51
1
1
Morse
Feb. , 1887
37
Nevins
25
Prudden
5
Russell
Dec. 21, 1882
31
3
2
5
Tibbals
Nov. 27, 1847
1
9
Wardwell
26
Weld
Dec. 15, 1874
24
40
2
Welling
Wright
June 7, 1889
Dec. 31, 1873
tjune 20, 1879
87
31
66
3
2
1
3
9
tSecond marriage.
|Third marriage.
JNo information concerning marriage given.
240 STATISTICS
RECAPITULATION
Number married . . . 205, or 88 per cent of the
number reporting.
Number unmarried (living) . 8
Number unmarried (deceased) . 20
Number with facts of marriage
and family unreported . . 37
2TO
Average age at first marriage . . . 30.92 years.
Average age at death of those unmarried 44 years.
Number of sons born 257
Number of daughters born 245
Number of children (sex unreported) born . . 36
Total number of children reported . . . 538
Number of married men reporting facts concerning
children 182
Total number of children reported .... 538
Average number of children per family 3 (-.04)
Number of men reporting facts concerning brothers
and sisters 113
Total number of brothers and sisters, including
subject, reported ... . . . . 588
Average number of children per family, in this
previous generation .... -5.20
The above table shows an exceptionally large (88) per cent of
the reported men in the Class as married. The number of
children born also indicates that these early Sheff classes have
more than reproduced themselves, though the average size of
the families of these graduates is only a little more than half
as large as that of the families of their fathers. Statistics
of the Class of 1858, Yale College, with a report from 103 men,
give at forty years after graduation 79, or 77 per cent, of the
men married, with a total of 234 children, an average family
for the married men of just under 3, practically the same as in
these early Sheff classes. The Class of 1879, Yale College, in
1905 had out of a class of 137 some 112 or 81.8 per cent of the
Class married, and to this class had been born in 1905 138 sons
(approximately the same number of male children as the
STATISTICS 241
number of males originally composing the class) and 117
daughters, a total of 255 children, an average family of 2.28
children for each of the married men.
PARENTS WHO WERE COLLEGE GRADUATES
In this list are given the names of the fathers (and one
mother) of the members of the first twenty SheflF classes who
were college graduates. Honorary college degrees are not
mentioned in this table except in three cases where Yale gave
honorary degrees to men holding no college degrees in course.
The names of the parents are followed by the college from
which they graduated and the year of their graduation.
Parent
E. Blake
L. Weld
S. C. Henry
A. Terry
H. Bronson
J. De Forest
R. C. Wheeler
H. G. Dwight
A. C. Twining
A. Hague
O. E. Daggett
F. Farnsworth
J. Linsly
A. Caldwell
G. Mixter
J. Wadsworth
T. D. Wilcox
W. B. Bristol
H. Eddy
Mrs. S. H
Eddy
(Torrey)
J. A. Rockwell
G. Brinley
H. A. DuBois
J. G. Lowe
O. H. Perry
J. J. Abbott
A. T. Ballard
E. Brandegee
P. M. Hastings
H. M. Humphrey
B. S. Roberts
Institution
New York Medical School
Yale College
University of Pennsylvania
Yale College
Yale Medical
Yale College
Yale Medical
Yale College
Hamilton
Yale College
Hamilton
Yale College
Harvard
Yale College
College of Physicians and Surgeons,
Washington
Yale College
Yale College
Yale, Honorary
Yale College
Yale College
Yale Medical
Mount Holyoke Seminary
Yale College
Yale, Honorary
Columbia
Columbia, M. D.
Miami
Yale, Honorary
Dartmouth
Transylvania
Yale College
Yale Medical
Hamilton
Rush Medical
West Point
Year
of
Gradua-
tion
1818
1811
1821
1827
1826
1829
1816
1825
1820
1826
1828
1821
1826
N.Y. 1829
1836
1836
1841
1855
1825
1832
1851
1822
1868
1827
1830
1837
1875
1833
1838
1838
1835
242 STATISTICS
Year
of
Gradua-
Parent Institution tion
H. Andrews, Sr. Yale College 1841
T. R. Davenport Yale College 1830
H. S. Dickson Union 1839
Princeton Theological Seminary 1841
T. W. Dwindle Hamilton 1833
F. J. Tudson Yale College 1824
* Yale Medical 1829
A. Q. Keasbey Yale College 1843
T. JT Abbott Dartmouth 1839
W. Edwards Yale College 1820
C. A. Lindsley Yale Medical 1852
G. P. Prudden Yale College 1835
Yale Theological 1839
W. H. Russell Yale College 1833
RECAPITULATION
Total number of men in these first twenty Sheff
classes, reported at all as to parentage . . 235
Number who have reported fathers as college gradu-
ates i 38
Additional number who have reported fathers as
holders of Yale honorary degrees ... 3
Additional number who have reported mothers as
college graduates ...... 1
These fathers have received degrees from the following
institutions, among others:
Yale College 20
Yale Medical 6
Yale Theological 1
Yale Honorary ..... 3
Total Yale degrees 30
Hamilton ...... 4
Columbia 3
Dartmouth 2
Harvard ...... 1
Princeton Theological .... 1
The mother graduated from Mount Holyoke College.
The total number of individual colleges or universities repre-
sented with one or more degrees held by the fathers and the
mother is 15.
STATISTICS 243
CHILDREN WHO ARE COLLEGE GRADUATES
In this table are listed the children of the members of the
first twenty Sheff classes who are college graduates, with the
name of the institution from which they graduated and the
year in which their degree was received. The children are
listed in the order in which their parents' names appear in
these Sheff records (i.e. in the order of their graduation and
alphabetically within a given Class). In the case of daughters
"Miss" is prefixed to the name and the maiden name (father's
surname) given in all cases.
Name of Child
F. H. Blake
J. A. Blake
T. W.^Blake
H. Brewer
A. Brewer
C. Brewer
Daughter of Palen
Son of Palen
Son of Palen
Posada y Escallon
P. A. Mosman
C. T. Mosman
A. H. Jerry
Daughter of Terry
L. T. Wilcox
C. F. f Brinton
Miss A Seely
Miss S. G. Seely
H. H. 4< Seely
L. M. Seely
Miss C. T. Barker
L. E. Sparrow
F. H. Booth
B. H. Dwight
Daughter of Dwight
J. S. Porter
D. W. Porter
P. Sheafer
Miss F. M. Sheafer
T. A. Allen
G. F. Allen
&H. Bissell
iss M. Parsons
Institution
Yale, S. S. S.
Yale College
Yale, S. S. S.
Columbia, M. D.
Yale, S. S. S.
Yale, S. S. S.
Yale, S. S. S.
Yale College
Yale, S. S. S.
Wellesley
Haverford
Hahnemann Medical
St. Charles CoUege, London
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lehigh
Yale College
Yale, S. Sf S.
Smith
Yale, S. S. S.
Haverford
Haverford, M. A.
Syracuse
Middlebury
Middlebury
University of Vermont, M. D.
Middlebury
Wellesley, B. A.
Yale, S. S. S.
Yale College
Columbia, M. D.
Yale College
Vassar
Yale College
Yale College
Yale, S. S? S.
Ogontz
Yale, S. S. S.
Yale, S. S. S.
Princeton
Columbia
Columbia, M. A.
Year
of
Gradua-
tion
1882
1885
1886
1889
1890
1894
1897
1905
1908
1888
1892
1895
1887
1892
1898
1899
1896
1907
1902
1906
1891
1895
1891
1898
1902
1899
1908
1894
1883
1895
1897
244
STATISTICS
Name of Child
E. Howe (stepson)
W. B. Howe (stepson)
R. F. Manning
T. P. Manning
H. S. Manning, Jr.
T. M. Van Harlingen
W. Glenny
Miss F. R. Leavens
D. H. Leavens
T. L. Stone
F. L. Stone
W. S t< Thomas
L H. Thomas
F. F. Thomas, Jr.
W. W. Linsly
W. G. Caldwell
R. B. Hubbard
G. W. Mixter
Miss M. E. Wells
E. A. ^Wells
R. O. ^Wells
D. B. Wells
A. Wells
Miss S. S. Whittelsey
I. A. Andrew
A. M. Andrew
A. Austin
S. Y. Beach
L. Blackstone
H. S. Clark
Miss R. E. Eddy
H. T. Eddy
Miss E. M". Eddy
Miss B. E. Eddy
Miss H. F. Eddy
Miss M. C. Jackson
J. P. Jackson
D. M. McKell
W. S.
Miss A. W. Redfield
Miss M. J. Redfield
R. H. Williams
A. S. Williams
Miss E. Belknap
Miss M. Belknap
W. B. Belknap
C. E. Brinley
Institution
Yale College
Yale College
Yale, S. S. S.
Yale, S. S. S.
Yale, S. S. S.
Yale, S. S. S.
Yale, S. S. S.
Johns Hopkins, M. D.
Smith
Yale College
Harvard
Yale, S. S. S.
Rensselaer, C. E.
Columbia School of Mines, E. M.
Yale College
University of California
Yale College
Yale, S. S. S.
Kenyon, Ph. B.
Yale, S. S. S.
Wesleyan, B. S.
Yale College
Johns Hopkins, M. D.
Yale College
Harvard. LL. B.
Yale College
Yale, S. S. S.
Radcliffe
Yale, Ph. D.
Yale, S. S. S.
Yale, S. S. S.
Colorado School of Mines
Yale, S. S. S.
Yale College
Yale, S. S. S.
Vassar
University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota
Smith
Amherst
Year
of
Gradua-
tion
1898
1901
1892
1904
1907
1907
1894
1902
1900
1909
1903
1905
1896
1898
1902
1908
1901
1895
1891
1895
1893
1897
1901
1901
1904
1908
1907
1894
1906
1905
1898
1898
1899
1898
1910
1910
1895
1897
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1899
West Point 1904
Yale, S. S. S. Ex-1905
Leland Stanford, Jr., University 1908
University of Minnesota
Student for two years
University of Minnesota 1898
Cornell 1895
Yale, M. A. 1903
Cornell, M. E. 1901
Vassar 1898
Vassar 1903
Yale College 1908
Yale College 1900
Yale, S. S. S. 1901
STATISTICS
245
Name of Child
F. T. Buck
A. D. Chidsey, Jr.
T. M. Chidsey
Miss C. Curtis
C. P. Hulst
C. H. Lowe
T. G. Lowe
Miss C. S. Perry
O. H. Perry
T. H. Skinner
R. W. Wight
Miss L C. Wight
M. G. Wight
Miss G. R. Wight
Miss E. E. Willits
Miss R. B. Abbott
W. Bennett
D. E. Brinsmade
W. S. Brinsmade
Miss C. G. Brooks
Miss F. W. Clark
Miss E. F. Hopson
L. H. Burt
H. W.^Chittenden
F. S. Dickson, Jr.
Miss E. L. Ferry
Son of Griswold
A. W. Klein
Miss E W Lobdell
G. G. Lobdell, 2d
W. L. Mather
R. Mather
Miss M. Mather
U. B. Mather
T. W. Mather
T. Merriman
Miss L. Merriman
Miss A. P. Merriman
R. M. Merriman
N. N. Merriman
E. C. Moore
Z. Sargent
M. Sargent
J. Terry
E. F. Abbott
Miss K. L. Edwards
Miss D. W. Hering
Miss H. W. Hering
H. C. Kelly
Miss M. F. Kelly
F. T. Maxson
L. H. ^Maxson
Miss M. D. Maxwell
H. Z. Maxwell
Institution
Year
of
Gradua-
tion
1894
Columbia
Lafayette
Lafayette
Wellesley 1900
Yale College 1900
Gambier 1890
Yale College 1907
College at Haverhill, Mass
Yale, S. S. S. 1899
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1892
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1901
Smith 1903
Simmons 1904
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1906
Smith 1908
Swarthmore
Wellesley 1904
Yale, S. S. S. 1897
Yale, S. S. S. 1896
Yale, S. S. S. 1908
Pratt Institute
Bryn Mawr 1902
Vassar 1905
Trinity 1900
Yale, S. S. S. 1903
Yale, Forest 1904
Yale, S. S. S. 1903
Mount Holyoke 1905
Williams Undergraduate
Lehigh 1899
Smith 1902
Yale, S. S. S. 1908
Yale, S. S. S. 1896
Yale, S. S. S. . 1897
Vassar 1903
Yale, S. S* S. 1904
Yale, S. S. S. 1910
Lehigh 1897
Bryn Mawr 1899
Swarthmore 1904
Lehigh 1906
Lehigh 1905
Yale College 1899
Yale College 1903
Yale College 1905
Yale, S. S. S. 1905
Bowdoin 1903
University of Washington 1905
Vassar 1904
Vassar 1908
Yale College 1903
Mount Holyoke 1908
University of Pennsylvania, Medical 1902
Boston University 1906
University of Pennsylvania, Medical 1910
Wellesley 1907
Yale College 1912
246
STATISTICS
Name of Child
T. H. Russell, Jr.
W. H. Russell
Miss K. W. Tibbals
C. A. Tibbals, Jr.
W. H. Wright
F. T. Wright
Institution
Yale, S. S. S.
Yale, Medical
Yale College
Wellesley
University of Pennsylvania, Ph.
University of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin, M. A.
University of Wisconsin, Ph. D.
Union
Union
Year
of
Gradua-
tion
1906
1910
1912
1899
1904
1904
1906
1908
1895
RECAPITULATION
Total number of men of the first twenty Sheff classes
reported at all as to children .... 232
Total number of children reported born to these men 538
Total number of boys reported as college graduates 100
Total number of girls reported as college graduates 40
Total number of children reported as college graduates 140
(Holding a total of 161 reported degrees.)
These children have received degrees from the following
colleges and universities, among others:
Yale College 26
Yale, Sheff 39
Yale Forest 1
Yale Medical 1
Yale Graduate ..... 2
Total Yale degrees 69
Vassar 8
Smith 6
Wellesley 6
Columbia 6
University of Minnesota .... 6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology . 5
Lehigh 5
Harvard 2
Princeton ...... 1
Total number of individual colleges and
universities represented with one or
more degrees . . . . .43
The cumulative tradition of college education in families is
shown by the above tables. Whereas only 39 parents of the
members of these classes were college graduates, 140 of their
STATISTICS 247
children are reported to have completed a college course, with
doubtless more to follow. The growth of education for women
in America among families with college fathers is shown in
a marked degree. While only one mother of these early Sheflf
men was reported as a college graduate, forty of their
daughters have graduated at colleges; and in number of
degrees awarded to children of these men, second to Yale alone,
come three girls' colleges, Vassar, Smith and Wellesley. The
preference of these graduates of early Sheflf classes for Sheff
over any other department of Yale is indicated by the fact
that 39 of their sons graduated at Sheff to 26 at Yale College,
although the numbers graduating from Yale College have been
approximately twice as great as at Sheff during the two or
three decades when these sons were in attendance. The indica-
tion is that the records of college graduation is not nearly so
complete in the classes from 1852 S. to 1867 S. as in those
classes recorded in this volume; since only 57 children of those
earlier classes, recorded in the preceding volume, are given
as college graduates, while 83 children are so given for the
members of the classes recorded in this volume, although there
were more men recorded in the earlier volume than in this
one. If the previous records had been as complete as those
published in this volume the number of children with college
degrees might easily be swelled to more than twice 83 or to a
total of 166 or 170.
OCCUPATIONS
In the following paragraphs the members of the first twenty
Sheff Classes are listed according to the occupations in which
they are at present engaged, or in which they were engaged
before their death or retirement, or in which they were engaged
during the greater part of their life. Men who have engaged
in one or more occupations are included in parenthesis under
their earlier or minor occupations. These names in parenthesis
are not included in the totals given for the various occupations
nor in the table of undergraduate courses and occupations
following. In these paragraphs the name of each man is
followed by the numerals of his Sheff Class and by the abbre-
viated names of his undergraduate courses. The abbreviations
used are the following: the Biological Course, Bio; the Engi-
neering Courses, Eng (subdivided, where known, into CE, ME,
and MnE, referring to Civil, Mechanical or Mining Engineer-
ing) ; the course in Chemistry, Chem; the course in Natural
History, N H; the course in Mining and Metallurgy, Met; the
248 STATISTICS
Select Course, Sel; when the undergraduate course is unknown
a dash follows the Class numerals.
On page 250 is printed a table of the number of men from
each undergraduate course who are now engaged in each of
the eleven occupations, and the members from each course
who have engaged in no business or whose occupations are
unreported.
AGRICULTURE: Weld, '52 S., Chem; Brinton, '56 S., Chem; Bronson,
'56S.,C; Pike, '57 S., C E; fcay, '58 S., CE); Andrew, '68 S.,
MnE; Parshall, '68 S., Sel; Clarke, '70S., Eng; Dwindle, '71 S.,
Chem; Mather, '71 S., C E.
Total 9.
ART: Fuller, '56 S., C E; Parsons, '62 S., Chem; Linsly, '66 S., Chem;
Wadsworth, '67 S., ; Hornblower, '69 S., Eng; (Lindsley, '72 S.,
Eng.)
Total 5.
EDUCATION : Brewer, '52 S., Chem; Brush, '52 S., Chem; Shepard, 52 S.,
Chem; Jillson. '53 S., Chem; (Rafael E. y Escallon, '54 S., C E) ;
Parsons, '54 S., CE; More, '55 S., CE; Boisblanc, '56 S., C E;
De Forest, '56 S., CE; (Plata, '56 S., C E) ; (Seely, '56 S., Chem);
(Barker, '58 S., Chem); Blake, '58 S., Chem; (Rockwell, '58 S.,
Chem); Sackett, '58 S., CE; (Dwight, '59 S., Chem); Burton, '64 S.,
Chem; (Van Harlingen, '64 S., Chem) ; Barbour, '67 S., C E;
Mixter, '67 S., Chem; (Niles, '67 S., N H) ; (Smith, '67 S., N H) ;
Austin, '68 S., ME; Eddy, '68 S., CE; Williams, '68 S., NH;
Curtis, '69 S., Mn E; DuBois, '69 S., C E; Skinner, '69 S., C E;
Hastings, '70 S., Eng; Stone, '70 S., M E; Bacon, '71 S., Sel; Klein,
'TIS., Eng; Hawes, '72 S., Chem; Hering, '72 S., C E; Lindsley,
'72 S., Eng; (Prudden, '72 S., Bio); Wright, '72 S., Eng.
Total 27.
ENGINEERING (all branches): Cochrane, '53 S., C E; Henry, '53 S., C E;
Rogers, '53 S., CE; Crosby, '54 S., CE; Mosman, '54 S., C E;
Rafael E. y Escallon, '54 S., CE; (Candee, '56 S., C E) ; Martin,
'57 S., CE; (Meade, '57 S., C E) ; (Richards, '57 S., C E) ; Sheafer,
'60S., CE; Bissell, '61 S., C E; (Burrage, '61 S., C E) ; Bunce,
'62 S., CE; Ward, '62 S., CE; Daggett, '64 S., Mn E; Massey, '65 S.,
Sel; Robinson, '65 S., CE; Skeel, '65 S., C E; (Stone, '65 S., C E) ;
Thomas, '65 S., Chem; Throckmorton, '65 S., C E; Van Harlingen,
'65 S., CE; (Barbour, '67 S., C E) ; Chittenden, '67 S., C E; Ferry,
'67 S., CE; (Andrew, '68 S., MnE); Barbour, '68 S., CE;
(Hersey, '68 S., Sel); (Needham, '68 S., C E) ; Redfield, '68 S., CE;
(Rockwell, '68 S., C E) ; (Bissell, '69 S., C E) ; Clarke, '69 S., Eng;
Hill, '69 S., CE; Koon, '69 S., Eng; Van Rensselaer, '69 S., CE;
Wight, '69 S., CE; Abbott, '70S., Eng; (Brandegee, '70S., C E) ;
Brooks, '70S., C E; Calvert, '70S., C E; Grant, '70S., CE; Lowe,
'70 S., Eng; Marks, '70 S., Eng; Roberts, '70 S., Eng; Andrews,
'TIS., CE; Burt, '71 S., Eng; Chittenden, '71 S., Eng; Ferry,
'TIS., CE; C. W. Griswold, 'TIS., C E; Judson, '71 S., Eng;
Merriman, '71 S., Eng; Pierpont, '71 S., Eng; (Quigley, '71 S.,
Eng); Terry, '71 S., CE; Abbott, '72 S., Sel; Bogart, '72 S., Eng;
Kelly, '72 S., C E; Maxson, '72 S., C E; Weld, '72 S., Eng.
Total 48.
STATISTICS 249
FINANCE: Palen, '53 S., Chem; Wilcox, '55 S., CE; Candee, '56 S.,
CE; Richards, '57 S., CE; Gay, '58 S.. C E; Carpenter, '64 S., Sel;
Tiffany, '64 S., C E; Rogers, '65 S., Sel; Coit, r 66 S., Sel; Wells,
'67 S., C E; Bristol, '68 S., Chem; Renick, '68 S., Sel; Abbot, '69 S.,
Sel; Chidsey, '69 S., Sel; Johnson, '69 S., Sel; Perry, '69 S., Chem;
Willits, '69 S., Sel; Bailey, '70 S., Sel; (Hoes, '70 S., Sel) ; Rice,
'70S., CE; Warren, '70S., C E; Dickson, 'TIS., Sel; Durand,
'71 S., Sel; Knapp, '72 S., Sel; Welling, '72 S., Chem.
GOVERNMENT (Including army and navy): Duvillard, '54 S., C E;
Seely, '59 S., Chem; Evans, '68 S., Sel; Hersey, '68 S., Sel; Watson,
'70 S., M E; Bush, '71 S., .
Total 6.
LAW: Plata, '56 S., C E; King, '58 S., CE; (Harriott, '59 S., C E) ;
Manice, '60S., Cliem; Palmer, '65 S., CE; Caldwell, '67 S., CE;
Clark, '68 S., Sel; (Churchill, '70S., Sel); Conkling, '70S., Met;
Keasbey, '71 S., Sel; Edwards, '72 S., C E; Maxwell, '72 S., Sel;
Morse, '72 S., .
Total 11.
LITERARY: (Carpenter, '64 S., Sel); McAlister, '66 S., Sel; Hinds,
'70S., Sel.
Total 2.
MEDICINE: (Palen, '53 S., Chem); Kittredge, '58 S., C E; Sparrow,
'58 S., Chem; Booth, '59 S., C E: Dubois, '59 S., Chem; Twining,
'59 S., Chem; Hearn, '60 S., Chem; Hutchinson, '60 S., Chem;
Farnsworth, '64 S., Sel; Van Harlingen, '64 S., Chem; Wood,
'67 S., Chem; Swift, '68 S., Sel; Buck, '69 S., Chem; Russell, '72 S.,
Bio.
Total 13.
MERCANTILE: Chessman, '53 S., CE; Pierson, '54 S., CE; Terry, '54 S.,
CE; Walcott, '55 S., C E; Morehouse, '56 S., CE; Williams, '56 S.,
CE; Harger, '57 S., C E; Kent, '57 S., CE; Meade, '57 S., C E;
Arosmena, '58 S., C E; Pombo, '58 S., C E; Rockwell, '58 S., Chem;
Wheeler, '58 S., Chem; Harriott, '59 S., CE; Porter, '59 S., C E;
Smith, '59 S., CE; Manning, '63 S., Met; Bill, '64 S., Sel; Ford,
'65 S., ; Glenny, '65 S., Sel; Holt, '65 S., Sel; Leavens, '65 S.,
Sel; Mitchell, '65 S., ; Skiddy, '65 S., Chem; Stone, '65 S.,
C E; Matthias, '66 S., Chem; Beeson, '67 S., Sel; P. H. Grove,
'67 S.. Sel; R. M. Grove, '67 S., Sel; Hubbard, '67 S., Sel; Whittel-
sey, J 67 S., Chem; Blackstone, '68 S., Sel; (Bristol, '68 S., Chem) ;
Finney, '68 S., C E; Guthrie, '68 S a Sel; McKell, '68 S., Sel;
Needham, '68 S., CE; Rockwell, '68 S., C E; Belknap, '69 S., Sel;
Bissell, '69 S., C E; Brinley, '69 S., Chem; Lowe, '69 S., Sel; Pope,
'69 S., CE; Weed, '69 S., Sel; Whitman, '69 S., Sel; Ballar<f, '70 S.,
Sel; Bennett, '70S., CE; Brinsmade, '70S., Eng; Hoes, '70S.,
Sel; Hopson, '70S., Sel; Littleton, '70S., C E; Roseberry, '70S.,
MnE; (Warren, '70S., C E) ; Davenport, 'TIS., Chem; J. W.
Griswold, '71 S., Sel; Lobdell, '71 S., Chem; Moore, '71 S., C E;
Quigley, 'TIS., Eng; Sanford, 'TIS., CE; Sargent, 'TIS., Chem;
Ziegler, '71 S., Chem; Gawthrop, '72 S., Eng; Johnson, '72 S., Sel.
Total 61.
MERCANTILE SCIENTIFIC: Craw, '52 S., Chem; Weyman, '52 S., Chem;
Moore, '61 S., Chem; Crooke, '66 S., Met; Macdonald, '66 S., Chem;
Beach, '68 S., Sel; (Clark, '68 S., Sel); Dudley, '68 S., Sel; Hulst,
'69 S., MnE; Churchill, '70S., Sel; Humphrey, '70S., Chem;
Wardwell, '72 S., Sel.
Total 11.
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STATISTICS
MINISTRY : Jackson, '68 S., Sel; Tibbals, '72 S., Sel.
Total 2.
SCIENTIFIC: Blake, '52 S., Chem; (Brewer, '52 S., Chem) ; (Brush,
'52 S., Chem); Seely, '56 S., Chem; Barker, '58 S., Chem: (Rockwell,
'58 S., Chem) ; Dwight, '59 S., Chem; Rogers, '60 S., C E; Allen,
'61 S., Chem; Burrage, '61 S., CE; King, '62 S., Chem; Goodyear,
'63 S., CE; Hague, '63 S., Chem; Ebell, '66 S., N H; (Matthias,
'66 S., Chem); Niles, '67 S., N H; Smith, '67 S., N H; Brandegee,
'70S., CE; (Conkling, '70S., Met); Prudden, '72 S., Bio.
No BUSINESS: Sheffield, '67 S.,
'72 S., CE.
Total 15.
-; Folsom, '69 S., Chem; Nevins,
Total 3.
OCCUPATION UNREPORTED : McRuer, '53 S., C E; Allen, '55 S., C E;
McGregor, '55 S., C E; St. John, '55 S., CE; Vengohechea, '55 S.,
Coddmgton, '60S., CE; Cifuentes, '61 S., C E; Martinez, '61 S.,
CE; Raymond, '61 S., CE; Sands, '61 S., CE; Grinan, '62 S.,
CE; Mead, '62 S., CE; Megia, '63 S., CE; Brownfield, '64 S.,
CE; Roffe, '64 S., C E; Gauss, '66 S., CE; Bailey, '68 S., C E;
Sel.
Total 33.
TABLE SHOWING NUMBER OF MEN FROM EACH UNDERGRADUATE
COURSE WHO HAVE GONE INTO THE VARIOUS OCCUPATIONS
Course in Sheffield
PRESENT OCCUPATIONS
Agriculture
-
Education
bL
w
Finance
Government
1
Literature
Medicine
Mercantile
Mercantile
Scientific
Theology
Scientific
No Business
Is o
ft ft
II
Engineering
5
1
3
2
2
1
18
1
8
45
2
1
^ to co
2
2
1
1
5
3
1
1
1
2
I-" 00 to to
28
20
10
1
2
1
4
5
1
2
4
7
1
3
1
1
I
27
3
1
148
54
53
2
3
3
7
Select
Chemistry
Bioloffv .
Metallurgy
Natural History
Course Unreported. . .
Total for Each Occu-
pation
9
5
27
48
24
6
11
2
13
61
11
2
15
3
33
270
STATISTICS 251
The table comparing undergraduate careers with the occupa-
tions followed in after life may form the basis of a number of
most interesting considerations: such as the ability of a boy to
choose his career before finishing college; the influence of
college courses on future occupations, etc., etc. Striking facts
shown by the table are that out of 148 taking engineering only
45, not quite a third, have followed engineering careers. The
large number (27) of engineering students who have not
reported their biographies for these records probably indicate
the pioneer life of the engineer of a half century ago, spent in
the newly opened West and often lost to knowledge and record.
Of the 53 students of the Chemistry Course 31, about three
fifths, pursued careers of science, medicine or education related
to their undergraduate training. In general the members of
the courses in Chemistry, Biology and Natural History followed
careers which seem to indicate that they chose their under-
graduate courses with an eye to their future occupations; while
those in the engineering and metallurgy courses in general did
not. The students of the Select Course at least seemed to
know what subjects they did not want to take up, since of the
54 men in these courses only two have followed engineering and
two medicine, while none have gone into pure science. These
men have avoided scientific careers as carefully as they avoided
technical scientific studies in college.
INDEX TO BIOGRAPHIES
Abbott, J J , '72 S ....
PAGE
190
Eddy, H T , '68 S
PAGE
32
Abbott, J. W., '70S....
Abbot, W G , '69 S
95
56
Edwards, W. deF., '72 S.
Evans, B D , '68 S
193
35
Andrews, H., 'TIS
137
Ferry, C. A., '71 S
162
Andrew, W. M., '68 S..
Austin, L. S., '68 S
17
18
Finney, E. F., '68 S....
Folsom, J. R., '69 S
36
70
Bacon, E. F., '71 S
140
Fowler, J., '68 S
37
Bailey, G. F., '68 S ....
21
Gawthrop, J. R., '72 S .
194
Bailey, H M , '70 S .
98
Grant, J H., '70S
114
Ballard, C. T., '70S....
B arbour, S. A., '68 S...
Beach F C '68 S
99
21
23
Greene, C. H., '71 S....
Greene, W. S., '72 S...
Griswold C W , '71 S
164
197
164
Belknap, W. R., '69 S...
Bennett, T. G., '70S....
Bissell, R. A., '69 S....
Blackstone, J. deT., '68 S.
Bogart, J. P., '72 S....
Brandegee, T S , '70 S .
57
101
59
26
192
102
Griswold, J. W., '7 IS...
Guthrie, F. M., '68 S...
Hastings, C. S., '70S....
Hawes, G. W., '72 S....
Hering, D. W., '72 S....
Hersev, J C, '68 S . .
165
38
115
197
199
38
Brinley, C A , '69 S
60
Hill, A B , '69 S
71
Brinsmade E) S , '70 S
104
Hinds, W A , '70 S
117
Bristol, E. S., '68 S
27
Hoes, E. VanB., '70S..
118
Brooks, C. P., '70S....
Buck, F. D., '69 S
105
62
Hopson, W. R., '70 S
Hornblower, J. C., '69 S
118
73
Burt, L. W., '71 S
142
Hulst, N. P., '69 S
74
Bush, J C , '71 S
145
Humphrey, H. C , '70 S
119
Calvert, T. E., '70S....
Chidsey, A. D., '69 S
Chittenden, G. B., '71 S.
Churchill, F. H., '70S..
Clarke, C. M., '69 S....
Clarke, D., '70S
108
64
149
109
64
110
Jackson, G. A., '68 S...
Johnson, C. L., '72 S....
Johnson, E. W., '69 S...
Judson, J. N., '71 S
Keasbey, G. M., '7 IS...
Kelly, C. W., '72 S
40
201
76
166
167
203
Clark, A. G., '68 S
29
Kendall, J. G., '69 S
77
Conkling, A. R., '70 S ...
111
Klein, J. F., '71 S
169
Curtis, F. S., '69 S
65
Knapp, S. T., '72 S
204
Davenport, R. W., '71 S.
150
Koon, C. B., '69 S
77
Dickson, F. S., '71 S....
DuBois, A. J., '69 S
Dudley, H. M., '68 S...
Durand, W. C., '71 S...
Dwinelle. C. H.. '71 S..
152
66
31
154
156
Lindsley, H. W., '72 S...
Littleton, A. W., '70S..
Lobdell, G. G, '71 S...
Lowe, F. A., '70S
Lowe. H.. '69 S . .
205
120
171
122
78
254
Marks, W. D., 70S....
Mather, T. W., 'TIS...
Maxson, F. O., '72 S....
Maxwell, R. D. M., '72 S.
McKell, J. S., '68 S....
Merriman, M., '71 S
Miller, G N., '72 S
INI
PAGE
122
173
206
208
43
175
210
179
210
45
211
46
47
81
180
82
180
212
181
48
50
125
126
51
129
>EX
Russell, T. H., '72 S....
Sanford, F. L., '71 S
Sargent, H. B., '71 S
Skinner, J. J., '69 S
Stanton, A., '70S
PAGE
216
182
183
84
131
131
52
53
186
223
87
225
133
135
89
226
227
90
90
91
54
93
228
188
Stone, G F , '70 S
Stone, L B , '68 S
Moore, A. L., '71 S....
Morse, C T., '72 S
Swift, S., '68 S
Terry, E. C., '71 S
Needham, C. K., '68 S..
Nevins, T. P., '72 S
Tibbals, C. A., '72 S....
Van Rensselaer, R. S.,
'69 S
Noonan, F. G., '68 S
Parshall, L. B., '68 S...
Perry, H. H., '69 S....
Pierpont, D. H., '71 S..
Pope, C. H., '69 S
Wardwell, D. W., '72 S..
Warren, C. A., '70S....
Watson, J. G., '70 S
Weed, C. A., '69 S
Powell, F. E., '71 S
Weld, F. F., '72 S
Prudden, T. M., '72 S...
Quigley, J. F., '71 S....
Redfield, W. W., '68 S..
Renick A '68 S
Welling, W. B., '72 S...
White, W. R., '69 S....
Whitman, H. F., '69 S..
Wight, W. W., '69 S....
Williams, H. S., '68 S...
Willits, F. E., '69 S....
Wright, T. W., '72 S...
Ziegler, H. D., '71 S....
Rice, A. W., '70S
Roberts, E. P., '70 S
Rockwell, J. P., '68 S....
Roseberry, G. D., '70S..
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