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CLASS OF EIGHTY-FOUR
YALE COLLEGE
1880-1914
Edited by
LEONARD M. DAGGETT
CLASS SECRETARY
PUBLISHED FOR THE CLASS
1914
JUiM 4 1914
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TMB TUTTLE, MORBHOUSE * TAYLOR COMPANY
CONTENTS
PAGE
Preface
Chronological Account of Our Four Years at Yale . I
Class Poem ........ 41
Ivy Ode 47
Parting Ode 48
The Faculty ........ 49
Our Reunions ........ 68
Winter Dinners ....... 86
Biographies :
Graduates ........ 91
Former Members . . . . . . 381
Statistics :
Year of Birth . . . . . . . 426
Place of Birth 426
Occupations ....... 427
Marriages and Children ..... 428
Deaths 428
Societies ........ 429
Degrees 432
Members Present at Reunions .... 433
Class Gifts to University ...... 437
Locality Index ........ 439
Address List ........ 442
ILLUSTRATIONS
Class at Graduation .... Frontispiece
Our Freshman Eleven ...... 4
Our Freshman Nine ....... 8
A Sophomore Year Group . . . . . . 12
University Eleven, 1882-1883 ..... 18
Beebe's Pets 20
University Eleven, 1883-1884 . . .28
University Glee Club, 1884 ...... 30
An '84 Fence Group ....... 32
University Nine, 1884 ....... 34
Center Church ........ 37
University Crew, 1884 38
Lawrance Hall ........ 69
Class Boy ......... 71
Bicentennial Group ....... 78
Twentieth Year Reunion Group ..... 80
Twenty-fifth Year Reunion Group .... 82
At The Country Club, 1909 ...... 84
Old Brick Row QO
PREFACE.
The personality of the individuals, the kinship of our group,
our common memories, cherished the more because they can never
be re-lived in the same' company — these, our real possession, can-
not be recorded in this or any book. But if this record makes
these things more real to us, it will have well served its purpose.
Your secretary claims no credit to himself for this work, but
acknowledges a deep satisfaction which is ample reward for the
labor involved.
Due credit cannot be given to all who have assisted in its com-
pilation, or to the several sources from which material has been
freely appropriated. Acknowledgment is, however, due to the
Class Secretaries Bureau — and of course to John Halsey, who
has given much help, especially in compiling the history of our
four years at Yale.
We of '84 are a large family, for wives and children, our
associate members, all share our spirit of comradeship.
To each of that noble company may this book bear a message
of affection and loyalty in the name of the class.
LEONARD M. DAGGETT,
Secretary.
NEW HAVEN, CONN.,
May, 1914.
CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT OF OUR
FOUR YEARS AT YALE
PRELUDE
July 16, /#55 George Hudson Makuen was born.
Feb. 5, 1865 William McM. Speer was born.
1877 Pete Fosdick passed his entrance examinations.
1880 Most of the others passed theirs.
We hear much in these days of the stiff requirements for admis-
sion to Yale College. Lest we forget, here is what we had to
take without any preliminary take-off :
LATIN : Grammar, Composition, Prosody, Sallust or Caesar,
Vergil's yEneid, Georgics and Bucolics, Ovid's Meta-
morphoses, Cicero's Orations.
GREEK : Grammar, Composition, History, Xenophon's Ana-
basis, Herodotus, Homer's Iliad.
Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, English Grammar and
Geography.
Sixty-nine of the men who graduated passed their entrance
examinations without condition.
Sept. 75 In time-honored style we celebrated the eve of our
entrance to Yale by meeting the class of '83 at the Grammar
School lot. Like modern football, neither side won, but we
gained a virtual victory over the best team the Faculty could send
against us.
FRESHMAN YEAR
Sept. 16 College opened and '84 became a part of the history
of Yale. Our number is given in the Catalogue as 178. The
cautiously phrased certificate that Prof. F. B. Dexter, for the
examiners, issued to each of us was that, having been examined
for admission into this college, the party was admitted on proba-
tion, a member of the Freshman Class.
HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
In Freshman Year we had no optional courses. We began our
studies with the following1 Faculty :
Prof. E. L. Richards Euclid
Tutor A. T. Hadley Livy
Tutor A. W. Phillips Algebra
Prof. T. D. Seymour Odyssey
Tutor W. Merrifield Cicero
Our first class organization was a ball nine for the inter-class
series. The members were : pitchers, E. Sanf ord, Christian ;
catchers, Holmes, Wilcox; ist b., Plummer; 2d, Tompkins; s. s.,
Jenks ; 3d, H. Hopkins ; r. f ., Holmes, Wilcox ; c. f ., Boyd ;
1. f., Sanford, Christian.
Sept. 22 '84 v. 'Si, baseball game. We did not win.
Sept. 23 Jessup elected a member of the Glee Club.
Sept. 25 '84 v. S. S. S., baseball game. We won, 8 to 7.
Sept. 25 Freshman Societies initiations.
Campaign banner of Jeffersonian Club, which hung across
Chapel Street from the building in which Sigma Epsilon met, was
torn ,down, resulting in later abolition of Freshman Societies,
excepting Gamma Nu.
Sept. 27 Boyd appointed an editor of the News.
Oct. 6 Fall Regatta at Lake Saltonstall.
'84 v. '83 S. We won.
'84 Crew, C. Peck (Capt), Blodgett, S. W. Hopkins, Cain,
Merritt, Speer, Dodge, Bishop.
Oct. 9 Baseball. '84 v. '83. We lost, 7 to 10.
Oct. 20 Fall Athletic Games at Hamilton Park.
'84 ENTRIES:
Long jump Arnot
Pole vault H. Hopkins (winner)
Kicking football H. Hopkins (winner)
Quarter-mile McCreery
Bicycle race Bishop (winner)
Tennis Pollock
Oct. 25 Class divided by stand.
FIRST DIVISION.
Allen, Ailing, Allis, Andrews, Asher, Ayres, Bedell, Bigelow,
Blodgett, S. Booth, W. Booth, Boswell, Boyd, Buell, Burnam.
OUR FOUR YEARS AT YALE 3
Carr, Chapman, Cohen, W. Coley, Colt, Curtis, Daggett, Doolittle,
Eaton, Eliot, Evarts, Fountain, (iruener, Halsey, Hand, Holliday.
Holmes, Hovey, Jennings, Jernberg, F. Jones, Judson, Kvvai, E.
Lawrence, Lee, Lincoln, Lyman, S. McCalmont, McClellan,
Mayer, Mead, W. E. Nichols, W. T. Nichols, Oakford, Patterson,
C. Peck, V. Peck, Penniman, Platt, Porter, Samson, E. Sanford,
Savery, Seeley, Shelton, Speer, Spencer, Stein, F. Strong, W.
Strong, Swezey, Tomlinson, Tompkins, Tong, Tuttle, Twombly,
Wagner, D. Walker, Watrous, A. B. Wells, Whittlesey, N. G.
Williams, Wolcott, Wolf, Wood.
Oct. 50 Football. '84 v. Easthampton School. We won, one
goal to nothing.
'84 TEAM.
Lambert, Skinner (S. S. S.), T. G. Lawrance, Dawes, Tomp-
kins, Carpenter (S. S. S.), Spring (S. S. S.), Twombly, Reynolds,
Trowbridge (S. S. S.), Wurts (S. S. S.). Substitutes— Jenks,
Farwell.
Oct. CLASS OFFICERS ELECTED.
Boating:
President and Captain Bishop
Secretary and Treasurer J. Gray
Baseball :
President Pollock
Secretary and Treasurer Andrews
Captain Plummer
Football :
President Dawes
Secretary and Treasurer Trowbridge
Captain T. G. Lawrance
Oct. During this month occurred the Presidential Campaign.
Our class was represented in the Garfield & Arthur Battalion
of the College by a company led by H. C. Brown, Captain.
Nov. Curtis appointed an Editor of the Courant.
Nov. 10 Freshman Secret Societies abolished.
Xor. 10 Yale beat Columbia at football 13 goals, 5 touch-
downs, to o.
Xov. 77 Football game with Harvard '84 at Springfield. We
won with 3 goals, i touchdown, I safety; Harvard, o and 7
safeties.
OUR FOUR YEARS AT YALE 5
'84 TEAM.
Farwell, Skinner (S. S. S.), T. G. Lawrance, Dawes, Tomp-
kins, Carpenter (S. S. S.), Jenks, Twombly, Trowbridge
(S. S. S.), Wurts (S. S. S.), Thomson. Substitutes, Lambert,
Bentley.
Nov. 21 Yale beat Harvard at football at Boston, I goal, I
touchdown, to o. The Yale team were: Beck, '83; Bacon, '81 ;
Badger, '82; Camp, '80; Eaton, '82; Fuller, '81 ; Hull, '83;
Lamb, '81 ; Storrs, '82; Vernon, '81, and Watson, '81 S. (Cap-
tain).
Nov. 25 Yale played the Thanksgiving Day game with
Princeton in New York. No score. Princeton, 1 1 safeties ;
Yale, 5-
Nov. 28 Early Sunday morning prayers in Chapel discon-
tinued.
Nov. There is a tradition that at sometime in this month Bob
Kerr was elected a Class Deacon.
Dec. 4 Wilder appointed an Editor of the Record.
Dec. ii Merritt elected President of Class Boating Organiza-
tion in place of Bishop, resigned.
Jan., 1 88 1 CLASS FACULTY.
Prof. E. L. Richards Geometry
Prof. W. Beebe Chauvenet
Tutor A. T. Hadley Cicero
Prof. T. Peck Latin Composition
Tutor C. C. Camp Odyssey
Tutor W. Merrifield Herodotus
Jan. During the winter our Class Glee Club was organized as
follows : President, Marston ; Treasurer and Business Manager,
W. Strong; First Tenors, Jernberg, McClellan, E. Sanford,
Taylor; Second Tenors, Bowen, Lincoln, Marston, Swezey,
Wilcox ; First Bass, Bedell, Cromwell, Jessup, Phelps, Twombly ;
Second Bass, Hand, E. A. Lawrence, F. Strong, W. Strong,
Wilder.
Jan. // Election of Captain of Class Nine in place of Plum-
mer. Votes: Tompkins 71, Hopkins 20, Mayer i, Tong I.
Jan. 77 Freshman Debating Club organized. President,
Lambert ; Vice-President, Blodgett ; Secretary, Doolittle ; Treas-
urer, Lawrence ; Executive Committee, Foster and Reynolds.
6 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Feb. 7 "Bright College Years'' first sung by Glee Club.
Feb. 8 Junior Promenade.
Feb. 75 '84 flag raised on staff on top of old State House on
the Green. Twombly confesses to being implicated with another
in this outrage. The other is left blank to suit the fancy of the
many who now remember to have taken part.
Feb. 16 Lambert, Reynolds and Twombly elected class
deacons.
Feb. 21 Banger rush.
Feb. 22 Banger day.
Feb. 23 and 26 Winter games in gymnasium.
'84 entries: Tug of War — Bishop, Cain, Blodgett and Scott.
'82 won from '84.
Light-weight boxing: Pollock lost to Halsey, '83. Heavy-
weight boxing: Dodge won from Porter, later lost to Rogers, '83.
High-kick, Barbour competed.
March
CLASS FACULTY.
Prof. E. L. Richards Geometry
Prof. T. Peck Latin Composition
Tutor C. C. Camp Odyssey
Tutor W. Merrifield Herodotus
Prof. C. Northrop Rhetoric
Tutor A. L. Ripley Horace
March 7 Oakford appointed an Editor of the News.
April 2 Class Supper Committee elected : McMillan (Chair-
man), Lambert (Secretary), Pringle (Treasurer), Farwell, Hand,
Jenks, E. A. Lawrence, T. G. Lawrance, Pollock, Worcester.
This was a slate ticket nominated by a combination of Eating
Clubs. A Citizens Union Ticket was nominated in opposition and
was beaten. Terrible tales of corrupt balloting were told by
correspondence in the college press and as vehemently denied.
All bad blood was banished by everyone having a chance to throw
something at the Committee at the Class Supper.
April 9 Annual Prize Speaking at Gamma Nu. Spencer won
first prize, Lee, second.
April Freshman Debating Club officers: President, Blodgett ;
Vice-President, Reynolds; Secretary, Bedell; Treasurer, E. A.
Lawrence; Executive Committee, S. Booth, Wolf.
OUR FOUR YF.ARS AT VALE 7
May 4 Athletic Games at Hamilton Park.
'84 entries: 100 yds., Reynolds (third) ; half-mile, McCreery
(second) ; hammer throw, Merritt (second) ; lug-of-war, IJishop.
Blodgett, Dodge, Farwell ; '84 won from '83.
May 7 Yale beat Princeton at baseball at New Haven, 6 to 5.
Mov n Wilder elected Fence Orator.
May 14 Harvard beat Yale at baseball, 14 to 9.
May 14 Yale '84 v. Amherst '84 baseball, won by us, 14 to 3.
May 20 Medea performed by '83 at the New Haven Opera
House. In the cast were Jessup, D. Jones and McKee.
May 21 Spring Regatta at Lake Saltonstall.
'84 Crew: Blodgett, Cain, Wells, Speer, Dodge, Hyndman,
Merritt, Bishop. We lost to a picked crew.
May 21 Dartmouth beat Yale at baseball, 6 to 3.
May 21 Yale '84 v. Harvard '84, at Hamilton Park. \\V
won, 15 to 2.
'84 Nine : S. Booth, p. ; Hubbard (S. S. S.), h. ; Plummer, i b. :
Tompkins, 2 b. ; Jenks, 3 b. ; H. C. Hopkins, s. s. ; Wilcox, r. f . ;
T. G. Lawrance, c. f . ; Christian, 1. f .
After this game our class took undisputed possession of the
Freshman end of the fence which we had held temporarily at
various intervals through the year.
May 25 Yale beat Brown at baseball, 19 to 4.
May 28 Yale beat Harvard at baseball, 8 to 5.
June i Princeton beat Yale at baseball, 7 to 6.
June i Initiation into Sophomore Societies.
The system of Sophomore Societies of the '6o's and '/o's whose
names are embalmed in the fine songs that survive, was terminated
by Faculty edict. Their successors were founded without the
permission of the authorities and were not recognized officially
as existing. Their real activity began in our time and they grew
to be of such importance in the society system of the College that
later their continuance became an issue on the campus that was
dealt with by the Faculty, and the Junior Societies system was
reorganized to accommodate the withdrawal of the Sophomore
Societies. The men of our class who were elected were :
HE BOULE.
Andrews, Bishop, Blodgett, Brown, Dawes, Dawson, Ely, Far-
well, Hamill, H. C. Hopkins, S. W. Hopkins, Jenks, T. G.
Lawrance, E. A. Lawrence, McMillan, Merritt, Myers, Perkins,
OUR FOUR YEARS AT YALE 9
Pollock, Shelton, Tompkins, Waite, C. M. Walker, Wilcox, N. G.
Williams, Worcester.
ETA PHI.
Armour, Bigelow, Bristow, Cromwell, Dodge, Doolittle, Evarts,
Foster, Halsey, Hand, Jessup, Lambert, McDowell, Plu-lps.
Reynolds, Taylor, Trowbridge.
June 4 Yale '84 v. Harvard '84, at Cambridge. We won, 21
to 2. '84 Nine was same as in New Haven game.
June 8 Yale beat Dartmouth at baseball at New Haven. 15
to 5.
June n Yale beat Amherst at baseball at New Haven, 19 to 9.
June 21 Class Supper Committee appointed as Class Poet,
Catherwood, as Class Historians, Speer and C. Walker, as Class
Prophets, Boswell and Wolf.
June 21 The Sophomore Fence was presented to our class by
Foote, '83, and accepted for '84 by Wilder.
June 23 Class Supper at Black Rock, Conn.
This occasion is historically interesting as the last Freshman
Class Supper. With the Freshman Secret Societies it passed
away with our Class by vote of the Faculty.
These are the Toasts that appeared in print only :
Class of '84 Blodgett
The Nine Tompkins
Annuals Spencer
The Team T. G. Lawrance
Snab Bigelow
The Crew Bishop
The Faculty Reynolds
Ah me ! Conditions Christian
The Class Supper E. A. Lawrence
June 25 Yale beat Amherst at baseball, 6 to 3.
June 29 Commencement Awards : Woolsey Scholarship,
Gruener ; Hurlbut Scholarship, Burnam ; Third Freshman Schol-
arship, F. Jones.
Berkeley Premiums in Latin Composition: First, Blodgett,
Boyd, Burnam, Carr, Gruener, Twombly, D. Walker; Second,
Allen, W. Booth, Curtis, Savery, Spencer, Tong, Wolf.
Freshman Mathematical Prizes: First, Patterson; Second,
Cohen ; Third, F. Jones, D. Walker, A. B. \Vells.
10 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
July i Boat race at New London.
Yale won by 6 seconds. The Crew were Collins, '81 ; Fuller,
'Si; Rogers, '83; Guernsey, 'Si ; Hull, '83; Rogers, '80 S. ;
Storrs, '82 ; Folsom, '83 ; Coxswain, Mun Yew Chung, '83.
1881 The Yale Nine for this year were : Gardner, L. S. ;
Lamb, '8 1 ; Hutchinson, '80; Camp, '80; Walden, 'Si ; Hopkins,
'82; Watson, '8 1 S. ; Ives, '81 ; Badger, '82.
Besides winning the Inter-collegiate championship, this Nine
won from the professional nines of Providence, New York (2)
and Metropolitans, and played close games with those of
Worcester and Detroit.
Aug. 20 Robert Gray Russell died.
SOPHOMORE YEAR
1881-2 In this year the following members joined our class:
Carswell, Gale, Griffing, Hine, Lay, McAndrew, Makuen, Prouty
and Souther. Our members from China, excepting Kwai, left us
by order of their Government.
Our class in the Catalogue was enumerated at 167.
We had no optional courses offered to us in this year. The
Faculty that taught us the prescribed studies were :
Mr. Camp Euripides and Demosthenes
Prof. Tarbell Sophocles
Prof. Wright Horace, Tacitus and Catullus
Mr. Ripley Juvenal and Cicero's Letters
Prof. Richards Trigonometry
Prof. Phillips Analytics
Prof. E. S. Dana Mechanics
Sept. 14, 1881 '85 was inducted into the ways of Yale by the
usual Grammar School lot rush with our class.
Sept. /7 Resolutions adopted on the death of Robert G.
Russell ; Committee for the class, Lambert, Painter and Pardee.
Sept. 77 Dodge elected Captain of Class Crew.
Sept. 19 President Garfield died.
Sept. 20 Committee of students appointed to draw resolutions
on death of President, Evarts representing '84.
Sept. 20 Our literary lights were plunged into the arena of
competition by the announcement of subjects for Sophomore Com-
positions. "My Summer Vacation" was offered to the realists.
OUR FOUR YMAKS AT VALE I I
"An Essay on Man's Inhumanity to Man" was suggestive of our
opening relations with '85, "Wealth as a requisite for office" bade
those with ambitions pause to consider the facts of life, while
"An Essay on Reform" opened an avenue for the ventilation of
the views of those who would have changed those faets.
Scf>t. 21 Our class nine opened its season with a game with
'83 in which we were beaten 10 to 6.
Our Nine was : Jenks, c. ; Wilcox, h. ; H. C. Hopkins, s. ;
Christian, 1. ; T. G. Lawrance, m. ; Plummer, a.; Tompkins, b. ;
Holmes, r. ; S. Booth, p.
Sept. 28 Elections to the Glee Club of E. Sanford, McMillan,
Jessup and E. A. Lawrence.
Sept. 28 '84 beat S. S. S. at baseball, 5 to 3. Souther played
in place of Holmes.
Oct. i '82' beat '84 at baseball, 10 innings, 6 to 5.
Oct. 8 '84 played '85 at baseball at Hamilton Park. Game
called, on account of darkness, after 5 innings. Score, 4 to 4.
Rush and two or three wrestling bouts won by '84, after which
the freshmen were duly passed through the gate.
Following this event some burning protests against '83*5 unman-
nerly conduct in helping the freshmen were published in the News,
but '83 decided to stay in College and '84 was advised to forget it.
Oct. 12 Fall regatta, Saltonstall.
Eight-oared shell race, '85 beat '84 by 10^2 seconds.
Our Crew were : Blodgett, E. Wells, Cain, Hyndman, Merritt,
Armour, Dodge (Capt.), Lay (Stroke), Fountain (Coxswain).
Oct. 12 Further subjects for Sophomore Compositions were
announced. For those whose minds were filled with reflections
on the philosophy of defeat the subject "Waterloo" opened an
opportunity for relief, while for those who returned from Salton-
stall full of pessimism, "Does the World grow Happier?" invited
a deeper consideration of the mutability of fortune.
Oct. 75 Fountain sailed the "Peerless" in the Regatta of the
Yacht Club.
Oct. 19 Fall Athletic Games : T. G. Lawrance one of the
judges; Jenks on the Executive Committee ; Reynolds took part
in 220 yard run ; Doolittle in tennis tournament.
During this month the social life of South Middle came under
the ban of the authorities. Bonfires and disorder were depre-
cated, men were brought before the Faculty for discipline and a
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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
threat was made to vacate the building as a disorderly resort if
our manners did not mend.
During this month the columns of the News contained caustic
criticism of the action of the Gamma Nu Campaign Committee,
who were charged with having dissipated in wasteful extrava-
gances the initiation fees collected from '85. Of course it was
not so and the '84 Committee said so.
A SOPHOMORE YEAR GROUP
Oct. 24 '84 held a meeting to introduce cricket as a game,
formed a club and elected officers. This was highly commended
by the College press, but they never played any cricket.
Oct. 29 Football at Amherst, 2 goals, 4 touchdowns for Yale ;
Amherst, o. Tompkins and Farwell played as rushers.
Nov. i '84 organized a la-crosse club.
Nov. 2 Yale beat University of Michigan at football, 2 goals
to o. '84 players, Tompkins, Farwell and Twombly.
Nov. 5 Football at New Haven, Yale, 4 goals, 8 touchdowns ;
Amherst, o. Farwell and Tompkins on Yale team.
Nov. 5 '84 had a bonfire on the Campus in memory of the
defunct Freshman Societies.
Nov. 10 An appeal was made in the News to '84 to revive its
Society, but we were too busy with the joys of life.
OUR FOUR YEARS AT YALE 13
Nov. 12 Yale played Harvard at football at Hamilton Park-
in a pouring rain. Yale won, Harvard making 4 safeties. Tomp-
kins and Farwell on team.
Nov. 16 Yale beat Columbia at football in New York, one
goal to o. Farwell and Tompkins played.
Nov. 21 Harvard played Princeton a tie game at football.
Nov. 28 Thanksgiving football game in New York, Yale v.
Princeton. Nominally a draw but Princeton made 4 touches in
goal. The Yale team this year were Camp, '80; Bacon, '81 ;
Lamb, 'Si; Badger, '82; Knapp, '82; Storrs, '82; Beck, '83;
Hull, ' 83 ; Farwell, '84 ; Tompkins, '84, and Richards, '85.
Eaton, '82, Captain, was kept out of final games by an injury and
Storrs acted as Captain.
Dec. 14 The pressing needs of the college were voiced in the
Njws under the title of "What We Would Like to See," as fol-
lows :
A new "Gym,"
The Cross-walk to Beer's,
The State-House torn down,
Bath rooms in Durfee and Farnam,
Sunday afternoon trains for N. Y.
In view of later realizations these appear to have been proper
and moderate. As a measure of dissatisfaction they indicate a
pretty contented state of feeling with our times.
During the Christmas recess Charles Miner Boswell died.
Jan. 14, 1882 Meeting of class. Resolutions on death of
Boswell adopted ; Committee : Eaton, W. E. Nichols and Rey-
nolds.
Jan. 1 8 '85 displayed publicly a class banner which we were
called on to promptly remove from sight.
Jan. 28 Those who elected to take an optional in extem-
poraneous speaking in place of English Composition held a debate
with Prof. Northrop in chair. "Resolved: That the Abolition of
Mormonism is Practicable." Allis, leader for affirmative ; Wolf,
leader for negative.
Jan. 31 Sophomore Composition Prizes were announced.
First: Gale, W. E. Nichols, Wolf, Painter. Second: Cheney.
Boswell, Tomlinson, Potter, Foster. Third: F. Strong.
Urquhart, Spencer, Holden.
Feb. 7 Junior Promenade.
OF 1884, YALE CO!
In the morning- the flag pole on the New Haven Green dis-
played to the "Prom" guests a large banner with the numerals of
the freshman class. While our class chased the freshmen around
its base in the snow and the police came in third, A. B. Wells,
with the dexterity of a deep-sea sailor, climbed to the top of the
pole and removed the offending emblem.
In the evening- our class took part in the "Prom" at Carll's
Opera House.
Feb. 8 Our class held its class German at Armory Hall, led
by Doolittle and McMillan.
Feb. 20 Doolittle appointed an Editor of the News.
March I Preliminary Winter Games in the Gym. — Tug-of-
War: Dodge, Farwell, Jernberg, A. B. Wells. '84 won from '82.
Light-weight sparring : Pollock beaten by Bowman, '83 ; Phelps
beat Montgomery, '84 S. Middle-weight sparring : McDowell
beaten by Beckwith, '85. Light-weight wrestling: Lambert
beaten by Cummings, '82, Reynolds by C. Smith, '83. Middle-
weight wrestling: Lay beaten by Bigelow, '85.
Hamill, '84, on Executive Committee.
March 4 Final Games : '83 beat '84 at tug-of-war. Vault-
ing, Porter and Tuttle, won by Porter. Scott won on horizontal
bar. High Kick, Barbour and Makuen, Barbour won. Scott
competed in high jump. Phelps beat Bowman, '83, at light-
weight sparring. Feather-weight wrestling, Buist beaten by
Mallon, '85. Middle-weight wrestling, Souther beat Bigelow, '85.
March 8 Meeting of Athletic Association.
Jessup elected Secretary-Treasurer (88 votes) over T row-
bridge (79 votes).
March 15 The '84 Lacrosse Club elected : President, Cottle ;
Captain, McDowell ; Secretary-Treasurer, Oakford.
March 27 Broadway Sunday School elected Twombly, Super-
intendent, W. L. Strong, Secretary and Treasurer.
Bethany Sunday School elected Reynolds, Superintendent, Colt
and McCormick, Librarians.
April 24 Whittlesey elected Vice-Commodore of University
Yacht Club.
April 25 and 26 "Penikeese," by Buell, '83, was performed at
Carll's Opera House. '84 was represented in the chorus.
May i H. T. Shelton elected Secretary of University Boat
Club, Oakford, Assistant Treasurer.
OUR FOUR YEARS AT YALE 15
During this month Max Evarts added a badger to the com-
munity that got him into undesired notoriety by escaping and
making its home in the sewer at Chapel and State Streets.
May 4 '84 held its class-games at Hamilton Park.
The records are given for the purpose of modern comparisons.
Running long jump: Scott (i), McCormick (2), 18 ft. 4^ in.
loo yds.: Jenks (i), Dawes (2), iil/2 sees. 2-mile bicycle:
Patterson (i), D. Walker (2). 220 yds. : Reynolds (i), Tuttle
(2), 25 sees. Putting shot: Farwell (i), Porter (2), 28 ft.,
Z1A in. 5/2-mile: Lambert (i), Wilder (2), 2 min., 14^ sees.
Throwing hammer: Porter (i), Boyd (2), 64 ft., Sl/2 in. Mile
run: Wolcott (i), Spencer (2), 5 min., 25^ sees.
May 6 University Athletic Games at Hamilton Park. '84
entries were: i2O-yds. hurdle, Scott (3). ^2-mile, Lambert
(2). i oo-yds., Dawes competed. 22O-yds., Reynolds (2). Run-
ning long jump, Scott (i). Throwing hammer, Porter (2).
May 10 Yale beat Brown at baseball, 4 to 2.
May ii University Tennis Club Meeting, Doolittle elected
Secretary.
May 17 Spring Regatta at Lake Saltonstall. '84 Crew:
Blodgett, Armour, Scott, Dodge, Merritt, Souther, E. Wells;
Stroke, Lambert. '83 first, '84 second, '85 third.
May 17 Lacrosse match in New Haven, '84 v. University of
New York. '84 Team: Council, Cottle, McCormick, Jenks,
Barbour, Bowen, McDowell, Twombly, Ayres, Lincoln, W.
Strong. Tie game.
May 77 Glee Club elected E. A. Lawrence business manager.
May 22 Brown beat Yale at baseball, 9 to 8.
May 22 Omega Lambda Chi celebration on Campus.
May 23 Junior Society elections to '84. '83 searched for the
Novitiates with calcium lights and gave each the glad hand and
appropriated his visible supply of cigars.
May 24 Yale beat Amherst at baseball, 13 to i.
May 2=) Opening day of Yacht Club. The "Modesty" sailed
by Whittlesey.
May 26 Election of fence orator. Wilder, 54 votes; C.
Walker, 47 votes.
May 26 Junior Society Initiations. McMillan elected Custos
of D. K. E. and Jessup Chairman of Campaign Committee.
Doolittle elected Chairman of Psi U. Campaign Committee.
HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF l!
YALE COLLEGE
May 27 Harvard beat Yale at baseball, 10 to 7.
May jo Yale beat Princeton at baseball, 15 to 8.
June j Yale beat Dartmouth at baseball, 5 to 4.
June 6 Yale beat Dartmouth at baseball, 8 to 3.
June 6, 7 Sophomores drew for rooms for junior year. The
Faculty decided to abolish South Middle as a sophomore dormi-
tory and filled it with '84 men for junior year.
June p Regatta Yacht Club. Whittlesey sailed the "Curlew."
June 75 Yale Field Corporation organized.
June 15 Baseball Club meeting, S. Booth elected Secretary.
Football Club meeting, Hamill elected Secretary and Treasurer.
June 19 Dunham Boat Club meeting, Swift elected "Lieu-
tenant."
June 19 '84 elected to membership in University Club: Gov-
ernors, McMillan, Doolittle, Armour, Bowen, Waite. McMillan
elected Vice-President, Bowen, Secretary and Treasurer.
June 20 Tompkins elected Captain of football team.
June 20 Wilder presented sophomore fence to '85, and Rich-
ards, '85, responded for his class.
June 22 Yale beat Harvard at baseball, 5 to 4.
June 24 Princeton beat Yale at baseball, 8 to 7.
June 27 Yale beat Princeton at baseball, 9 to 5.
June 28 Commencement. Prizes to '84 announced.
English Composition, Second Term, 1st, Gale, Griffing, W. E.
Nichols, Painter, Wolf. 2d, Allis, Lyman, Makuen, F. Strong,
Twombly. 3d, Chapman, Daggett, Foster, Jennings, Prouty.
Declamation, ist, Makuen; 2d, Griffing and Stein; 3d, Jenks
and Spencer.
Mathematical, ist, Cohen; 2d, Patterson and Souther; 3d,
D. Walker and Wolcott.
June jo Yale beat Amherst at baseball, 21 to 8, giving Yale
the Inter-collegiate Championship.
1882 The Yale Nine this year were : Camp, '80 ; Badger, '82 ;
Hopkins, '82; Platt, '82; Jones, '83; Smith, '83; Hubbard,
'83 S.; H. C. Hopkins, '84; Wilcox, '84.
June jo Harvard beat Yale at New London^ by 3 seconds.
This was the "eel-grass" race. The Yale Crew were: Guernsey,
'81; Storrs, '82; Folsom, '83 ; Hull, '83 ; Parrott, '83 ; Rogers,
'83; Hyndman, '84; Flanders, '85 ; Plessner, '85, coxswain.
OUR FOUR YEARS AT YALE l^
JUNIOR YEAR
Sept. 14, 1882 College opened.
The following men joined our Class this year: Beck, Flowers,
Fosdick, Havens, D. A. Jones, Kinley, McKee, Pavey, Pratt,
W. Williams.
The Faculty who taught us this year were :
PRESCRIBED STUDIES.
Prof. E. S. Dana Physics
Prof. A. S. Wright Chemistry
Prof. Beebe Astronomy
Prof. Tarbell Logic
Prof. Beers English
Prof. Dexter American History
Mr. Hadley German
OPTIONALS.
Prof. Northrop English Literature
Prof. Beers English Literature and Anglo-Saxon
Prof. Knapp French and Spanish
Prof. Bendelari French and Spanish
Prof. Speranza Italian
Prof. Peck Latin
Prof. Packard Greek
Prof. Newton Mathematics
Prof. Eaton Botany
Dr. Thacher Zoology
Sept. 18 The bells for the new Battell chimes were installed,
the gift of Mrs. Ellen Battell Eldridge.
Sept. 18 University Lacrosse Club elected Cottle, President,
and Oakford, Secretary.
Sept. 20 '84 beat S. S. S. at baseball, 10 to 2. Our Class
nine this fall were : Tompkins, T. G. Lawrance, Booth, Souther,
H. C. Hopkins, Wilcox, Jenks, Tuttle, Lincoln, Holmes.
Sept. 27 '84 lost to '86 at baseball, 5 to 8.
Sept. 27 Junior Promenade Committee elected : T. G. Law-
rance, Wilcox, Lambert, Armour, Taylor, E. A. Lawrence, Daw-
son, Halsey and Hand. Committee elected Lawrance, Chairman,
and Wilcox, Floor Manager.
OUR FOUR YEARS AT YALE 1 9
The Committee entertained the class with a punch at the Quiet
House where some of the stored-up silence was shattered.
'848. asked for representation on the Committee and were
refused. Considerable feeling was expressed in subsequent com-
munications to the college press.
Sept. 29 '84 was represented in selections for the Glee Club
by Bowen, Jessup, D. A. Jones, E. A. Lawrence, McClellan,
McMillan and E. I. Sanford.
Sept. 30 '84 beat '85 at baseball, 9 to 5.
Sept. 50 The "Hyac" sailed by Gale won the pennant at the
Yale Yacht Club Regatta.
Oct. 7 Yale beat Wesleyan at football, 9 goals to o. '84 men
on team were: Beck, Dawes, Farwell, Hyndman, Tompkins.
Twombly.
Oct. 7 '84 beat '83 at baseball, 7 to i, making '84 the college
champions.
Oct. ii Fall Regatta at Lake Saltonstall, won by '83, '85 sec-
ond and '84 third. Judge at finish, Armour. Our Crew were:
Blodgett, Swift, Scott, Dodge (Capt), Merritt, Souther, E.
\\ 'ells, Lambert, Coxswain Kerr.
Oct. 14 Princeton beat Yale at lacrosse, 2 to o. The '84
men on the team were: Council, Cottle, Barbour, D. \Valker,
Bowen, Spencer, Ayres, McDowell, W. Strong and Lincoln.
Oakford was Yale umpire.
Oct. 18 Fall games of Athletic Association at Hamilton Park.
Tug-of-war: Dodge, Farwell, Holmes, E. Wells. '86 beat '84.
100 yds., Reynolds ran. 220 yds., Reynolds won. Throwing
hammer, won by Porter. Running broad jump, Scott competed.
Oct. 21 Yale beat Rutgers at football, 9 goals, 3 touchdowns,
to o.
Oct. 21 Princeton beat Yale in lacrosse at Princeton, 2 to i.
Jenks, referee; Cromwell, Yale umpire.
Oct. 21 Loring W. Andrews, '83, was accidentally killed
while gunning in the Sound.
Oct. 28 Yale beat Rutgers at football, 5 goals, i touchdown,
to i touchdown.
Oct. 28 Yale was beaten by Harvard in lacrosse in contest
for the Oelrich cup in New York. McCormick was added to the
team already given. At this meeting Bowen was second in long-
throwing of lacrosse ball contest.
OUR FOUR YEARS AT YAl.K 21
Oct. 28 The Hare and Hounds Club held llu-ir first run.
This was followed by several more on succeeding Saturdays.
The '84 men who took part in this social pastime were Boyd,
Cheney, Council, Eliot, Fountain, Gale, Hovey, Lyman, McCor-
inick, Reynolds, Spencer, Twombly, Urquhart, Wolcott, Wright
and Wolf.
Nov. 4 Yale beat Mass. Institute of Technology at football,
6 goals, 2 touchdowns, to o.
Nov. 8 Yale beat Amherst at football, 9 goals, i touchdown,
to o.
Nov. 18 Yale beat Columbia at football, n goals, 5 touch-
downs, to o.
Nov. 25 Yale beat Harvard at football, I goal, 3 touchdowns,
to o. A coach filled with '84 men was overturned at the Boston
Station and W. Williams was injured.
Nov. 28 The Junior Societies gave their Thanksgiving cele-
bration entertainments. The light of our histrionic talent was
hidden under the bushel of the Chapter Houses during junior year.
Another show was given in May at the initiation of the '85
members. The plays performed in D. K. E. were "Lend Me
Five Shillings," and in the spring, "The Emperor's Diamond,"
written by Wayland, '83. In Psi U. the title of the Comedy
was "Othello," but there is no dispute that Shakespeare was not
the author, and in the spring "The Grave ; the Groan ; the Gal-
lows," of disavowed authorship, if any. The actors in D. K. E.
were Cromwell, Dawson, Halsey, Hand, S. W. Hopkins, McCor-
mick, Merritt, Phelps, Pratt and N. G. Williams, and in Psi U.,
Hyndman, Jenks, Makuen, Taylor, C. M. Walker and Wilder.
And, of course, there were minstrels.
Nov. jo Yale beat Princeton at the Thanksgiving football
game in New York, 2 goals from touchdowns to i goal from the
field. It snowed the night before and the field was surrounded
with high banks of snow into which the players dove and
floundered. The Yale team this year were: Bacon, '81 ; Knapp,
'82; Hull, '83; Beck, '84; Farwell, '84; Hyndman, '84; Tomp-
kins, '84; Twombly, '84; Richards, '85; Terry, '85, and Peters,
'86.
Nov. The "Lit" Medal was awarded to W. E. Nichols.
Dec. 6 The astronomers took observations of the transit of
Venus across the face of the sun in open daylight. We were
22 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
sorry when it was over as we were assured that it would not
occur again until the year 2004.
Dec. 19 An article in the News gave us the information that
our former members from China had not been decapitated, as
rumored, but were being trained for future usefulness in their
native country.
January, 1883 Wilcox left College and Lambert was
appointed to act as Floor Manager at the "Prom," in his place.
Jan. 1 6 The Junior appointments were announced as fol-
lows :
Philosophical Orations: Bedell, Blodgett, W. Booth, Gale,
Gruener, F. Jones, Kinley, Souther, Spencer, Twombly, Wolf.
High Orations : Allen, Ayres, Boyd, Carr, Havens, Hine, Chap-
man, E. Lawrence, Mead, W. T. Xichols, Stein, D. Walker.
Orations : Burnam, W. Coley, Curtis, Daggett, Halsey, Judson,
Kwai, Lyman, Peck, Savery, Scharps, Seeley, F. Strong, W.
Strong, Tuttle, A. B. Wells, Wolcott.
Dissertations : Allis, S. Booth, Eliot, Griffing, Holden, Holmes,
Mayer, W. E. Nichols, Patterson, Platt, Porter, Wagner.
ist Disputes: Dawson, Foster, Holliday, Hovey, Lay, Lincoln,
McClellan, Makuen, Prouty, Tomlinson, Wright.
2d Disputes: Bigelow, Castle, E. Coley, Copeland, Hamill,
Jernberg, McAndrew, Painter, Penniman, Reynolds, Speer,
Swift, Whittlesey.
ist Colloquies: Carpenter, Hand, Hughson, Jennings, Pardee,
Samson, Shelton, Watrous, N. G. Williams, Wood, Worcester.
2d Colloquies : Doolittle, Eaton, Evarts, Fountain, Knight,
Lambert, McCormick, Potter, W. Sanford, Tompkins, Urquhart.
Jan. 24 Elections to "Lit" Board were held by '84. The vote
was Gale, in; Wolf, 97; Painter, 94; Foster, 94; Prouty, 80;
Ross, 68 ; Jenks, 33.
Jan. 25 This was followed by a Day of Prayer for Colleges.
Jan. 29 "Lit" Board organized: Gale, Chairman; Wolf,
Portfolio ; Painter, Memorabilia ; Prouty, Book Notices ; Foster,
Editor's Table.
Jan. 2() Junior Promenade festivities. Glee Club concert in
evening.
Jan. 50 Junior Promenade at Carll's Opera House.
Feb. i Class German at the Grays' Armory, led by Lambert.
OUR i-'oru YEARS AT VALE 23
Feb. 12 Yale Bicycle Club organi/cd, Patterson and Kim-
berly on Committee.
Feb. 16 News Board for iSS^-4 announced: Doolittle,
Lyman, McDowell, Oakford, Spencer.
Feb. i/ Courant Board for iSS^-4 announced: Bigelow,
Curtis, \\'ilder, McClellan, Fin. Ed.
Feb. 22 Meeting of Inter-collegiate Lacrosse Association :
McDowell, Vice-President ; Cottle on Executive Committee.
Feb. 24 Record Board for 1883-4 announced: Ross, E. San-
ford, Watrous, Halsey, Fin. Ed.
Record prizes awarded : for greatest number of published
poems, Lay ; for best humorous piece, Foster.
Feb. 28 Junior Exhibition speakers announced.
Chapman "Hugh Latimer"
Gale "The Birth of the Constitution"
Holden "Leon Gambetta"
Judson "Theodore Parker"
Makuen "Robert Burns"
Painter "Savonarola"
Twombly "Death of William the Silent"
Wolf "The New Civilization"
March 2 News Supper. All the '84 editors responded to
toasts.
March 5 '84 News Board took charge of paper.
March 7 Preliminary Winter Athletic Games at Gym.
Tug-of-war: '84 beat '86; team, Dodge, Farwell, C. M.
\Yalker, E. Wells. McDowell beat Fosdick, '83, at feather-
weight sparring. Light-weight wrestling, Holmes lost to Mal-
lon, '85. Middle-weight wrestling, Flowers lost to Bigelow, '85.
March 10 Final Games: '83 beat '84 in tug-of-war. Hori-
zontal bar, Scott competed. Jernberg lost to Vernon, '85, in rope
climbing. Light-weight sparring, McDowell lost to Bernard,
'85 S.
March 16 Junior Exhibition contest, Makuen won the Medal.
March 30 So many men chose Botany optional that the
Faculty limited the number to 30 selected by lot.
April 3 Meeting of Yale Athletic Association for election of
officers.
24 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
The vote for President was: Booth, 132; Reynolds, 126;
McDowell, 75 ; Hamill, 54.
April 4 Class Historians elected: Wilder, C. M. Walker,
Jenks, Havens, Botsford.
April 7 Meeting of Yale Tennis Club, Doolittle elected Presi-
dent.
April ii Yale University Boat Club meeting. Votes for
President were Merritt, 246; Oakford, 174. T. G. Lawrance
was elected to Auditing Committee and Hamill and X. G. Wil-
liams to House Committee.
April 13 Record Supper. E. Sanford responded to toast.
April 17 Courant Supper. The Faculty awarded 15 marks
apiece to the editors for their zeal in making a success of the
evening.
April 77 Inter-collegiate Tennis Association organized. Doo-
little elected Vice-President.
April 7p Blodgett and F. Jones purchased right to publish
Banner.
April 23 "Lit" Supper. All of the '84 editors responded to
toasts.
May 5 Yale beat Amherst at baseball, 3 to I.
May 8 Yale beat New York University, 4 to o, in lacrosse.
On team : Council, Cottle, McCormick, Spencer, McDowell, Lin-
coln, Ayres, Twombly.
May 12 Class Athletic Games at Hamilton Park. Winners
were: 100 yds., Reynolds; bicycle race, Patterson; kicking foot-
ball, Tuttle ; 220 yds., Reynolds ; shot-put, Porter ; throwing
lacrosse ball, Twombly ; hurdle race, Worcester ; hammer throw,
Porter.
May 12 Yale beat Harvard at baseball, 3 to o.
May 12 E. A. Lawrence elected President of Glee Club.
May 14 Performance of Faust by local singers for benefit of
Yale Navy. Bowen, Hand, Jessup and McClellan in Chorus.
May 16 Regatta on Harbor, rowed by moonlight on account
of detention by bad water. '84 beat '85 and '86. Our crew
were : Blodgett, Dodge, Scott, Tompkins, Beck, Merritt, E. Wells,
Lambert, Coxswain, Fountain.
May 19 Yale beat Brown at baseball, 6 to 4.
May 19 Yale beaten in lacrosse by Princeton, 3 to o.
OUR FOUR YEARS AT YALE 25
.Wen- n> Spring Athletic Meeting at Hamilton Park. Tug-
of-war, '84 lost to '86. Team: Dodge, Farwell, Holmes,
!•:. Wells.
Putting shot, Porter competed. Porter won throwing hammer.
Broad jump, Scott competed. Patterson competed in bicycle
race. 100 yds., Reynolds competed. 220 yds., Reynolds won.
Ma\ 24 Tap Day. '84 elected to Senior Societies.
Following these elections, a third Senior Society, later known
as "Wolfshead" was founded by Beck, Bowen, Bristow, Crom-
well, Dawson, Holliday, S. W. Hopkins, Merritt, McKee, Phelps,
Pratt, C. M. Walker, Wagner, N. G. Williams and Worcester.
May 26 Yale beat Harvard at lacrosse, 2 to i.
May 26 Yale beat Harvard at baseball, 5 to i.
.!/(/ v 30 Meeting of Yale Football Association : Hamill
elected President.
May 30 Yale beat Princeton at baseball, 5 to 4.
June 2 Yale beat Brown at baseball, 8 to o.
June 6 On account of dissatisfaction with the conditions
under which the regatta of May i6th was held, our crew agreed
to row another race with '86, although training had been broken
in the interval. In this second race '86 won.
June 1 Bowen was elected President of the University Club.
June 13 By beating Amherst 4 to 2, Yale won Inter-collegiate
championship in baseball.
June 14 Y. U. Baseball Club meeting. N. G. Williams was
elected President, having 83 votes to 56 for Cottle, and C. M.
Walker was elected Treasurer.
June 26 Yale beat Harvard at baseball, i to o.
June 28 Harvard beat Yale at New London by i min., i2l/2
sec.
The Yale crew were: Guernsey, 'Si ; Folsom, '83; Hull, '83;
Parrott, '83 ; Rogers, '83 ; Hyndman, '84 ; Flanders, '85 ; Peters,
'86; Tucker, '83, Coxswain.
July 4 Yale beat Harvard at baseball, 24 to 9. The Yale
nine this year were: Carpenter, '81 ; Childs, '83; Griggs, '83;
Hubbard, '83 S. ; H. C. Hopkins, '84; D. A. Jones, '84; McKee,
'84; Souther, '84; Terry, '85. Camp, '80, pitched in a game
against Harvard and S. Booth was substitute.
26 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
1883-84 SENIOR YEAR.
Sept., 1883 Stevens joined our class this year which was
enumerated in the Catalogue at 151.
The Faculty that taught us this year were :
President Porter ) ( Ethics, Human Intellect and
Prof. Ladd j j History of Philosophy
Prof. J. D. Dana Geology
Prof. Sumner Political Economy
Prof. Wheeler English Constitutional History
Prof. Phelps Municipal and Constitutional Law
OPTIONALS.
President Porter Theism
Prof. Wheeler History
Prof. Sumner Political Economy
Prof. Phelps International Law
Prof. Ladd Philosophy
Prof. J. D. Dam Geology
Prof. Wright Chemistry
Prof. Loomis Mineralogy
Prof. Newton Mathematics
Prof. Peck Latin
Prof. Seymour Greek
Prof. Knapp Spanish
Prof. Bendelari French and Italian
Prof. Whitney Linguistics
Prof. Niemeyer Art
Mr. Ripley German
The officers from our class on University organizations were:
Yale Boat Club, Merritt, President ; Dunham Boat Club, Merritt,
President, Swift, Captain; Yale Baseball Club, N. G. Williams,
President; C. M. Walker, Treasurer; H. C. Hopkins, Captain;
Yale Football Club, Hamill, President; Tompkins, Captain;
Vale Athletic Association, S. Booth, President ; Hare and Hounds
Club, Boyd, President; Wright, Secretary; Yale Glee Club, E.
A. Lawrence, President.
Our representatives on the Glee Club were: E. Sanford,
Bowen, D. A. Jones, McClellan, Jessup, Wilder, F. Strong, E. A.
OUR FOUR YEARS AT VAI.I. 27
Lawrence. When Lawrence left College later, Hand took hU
place.
On the College choir were: Bedell, Bowen, Hand, Jcs>up.
Knight, E. A. Lawrence, McClcllan, McKee, McMillan, K. San
ford, Taylor, Wilder.
Sept. 19 '84 beat S. S. S. at baseball, 5 to o. The '84 Xiiu
were: Hopkins, a.; McKee, s. ; Souther, h. ; Tompkins, b. ;
Booth, p. ; Jenks, c. ; Worcester, 1. ; Tuttle, m. ; Ayres, r.
Sept. 21 Meeting of Yale Bicycle Club. Kimberly elected
President and Patterson, Captain.
Sept. 21 Geological excursion to Mill Rock with Prof. Dana.
Sept. 22 '84 beat '87 at baseball, 5 to 3. Nine same as in last
game.
Sept. 25 Gale and Makuen announced as Editors of Pot-
Pourri.
Sept. 25 New members elected to Glee Club.
Sept. 26 Yale beat Wesleyan at football, 58 to o.
Sept. 29 Yale beat Wesleyan at football, 87 to o.
Sept. 29 '86 beat '84 at baseball, 5 to 4. Holmes and McCor-
mick played in place of McKee and Tompkins.
Oct. 2 Class elected Wolf Class Orator, E. Wells Poet, and
Holmes Statistician. Votes were: for Orator, Wolf, 49,
Makuen, 25, Speer, 9; for Poet, E. Wells, 56, Lay, 21, Pratt, 6.
Oct. 3 '84 beat '85 at baseball, 10 to o. Holmes played in
place of Tuttle. '84, '85 and '86 were tied for class championship.
Oct. 6 Yale beat Stevens at football, 48 to o.
Oct. 16 T. G. Lawrance died. Resolutions adopted at Class
Meeting, Lambert, Jessup and Hamill, Committee.
Short funeral service in Chapel, conducted by President Porter.
Bearers : Hull, Tompkins, Evarts, Foster, Lambert, Farwell,
Jessup. Class followed body to station.
Oct. 18 Funeral services in New York attended by most of
class.
Oct. 26 Lord Coleridge visited Yale and addressed students
in the Chapel. Audience sang "God Save the Queen" and
"America." President Porter in introducing him spoke of Yale
as a University, "not the oldest or richest, but the one in which
the country is most widely and faithfully represented, and where
the true old English curriculum is preserved."
OUR FOUR VKARS AT VALE 29
Lord Coleridge in his address advocated study of classics.
"Statement, thought, arrangement, however men may struggle
against them, have an influence upon them."
Oct. 27 Lacrosse Tournament in New York for ( k'lrich Cup.
Yale beat New York University, 2 to o, and lost to New York
team, o to 2.
Oct. 27 Fall Athletic Games were held at the new Yale Field.
Mamill, referee; N. G. Williams, Shelton and Jcnks, judgt^:
Worcester and Copeland, timers.
Oct. 31 Senior Geological excursion to Middletown.
Nov. 3 '85 beat '84 at lacrosse, 3 goals to i. '84 team:
Council, Cottle, McCormick, D. Walker, Eliot, McDowell, Ayres,
Scott, Tuttle.
Nov. 6 Yale beat Rutgers at football, 97 to o.
Nov. 14 '84 played S. S. S. at lacrosse, 2 to 2. Hovey,
Spencer, Wolcott and Fountain played in place of Council,
D. WTalker, McDowell and Scott.
Nov. 17 Yale beat Columbia at football, 93 to o.
Nov. 21 Yale beat University of Michigan at football, 64 to o.
Nov. 22 Matthew Arnold lectured at Opera House on 2ist
and attended Chapel on 22d and gave short address to students.
Nov. 22 Football was forbidden at Harvard, but the Faculty
afterwards reconsidered their action and allowed Thanksgiving
Day Game under modified rules.
Nov. 24 Yale beat Princeton at football at Polo Grounds in
New York, 6 to o.
Nov. 29 Yale beat Harvard at football at the Thanksgiving
Day Game in New York, 23 to 2. Harvard's touchdown was the
only point scored against Yale this year. The Yale team for this
year were : Bacon, '81 ; Knapp, '82 ; Hull, '83 ; Farwell, '84 ;
Hyndman, '84 ; Tompkins, '84 ; Twombly, '84 ; Bertron, '85 ;
Richards, '85 ; Robinson, '85 ; Terry, '85 ; Peters, '86 ; Dennen,
'87 ; McCrory, L. S.
Dec. 10 President's reception to senior class, Armour, Hamill
and Twombly, ushers.
Dec. 18 E. A. Lawrence went home ill and was never able to
return.
Jan. 5, 1884 During Christmas trip of Glee Club, their car
was telescoped near Louisville, Ky. Several members were badly
OUR FOUR YEARS AT YALE 31
injured. Bowen had nose broken and bruises. E. Sanford
injured slightly.
Jan. /_' Daggett appointed Financial Editor of Record in
place of Halsey.
./(?;/. _N Junior Class elected Lit. editors, but '84 board refused
approval and called new election.
Class -tood by action and hoard appointed its successors.
I:cb. i Election of Senior Committees, as follows:
I'roinciiiuic: C. M. Walker, Cottle, Daggett, Watrous, Bristow,
Council, Hand, Phelps, Patterson.
Class Supper: Holliday, \Yorcester, Wagner, Dawson, Hynd-
man.
Class Day: W. Strong, Lyman, Trowbridge, W. T. Nichols,
Wolcott.
L'lass Cup: Merritt, Cromwell, S. W. Hopkins.
Ivy I Ay res, F. Strong, D. Walker.
Class Secretary: Swift.
Promenade Committee elected Walker, Chairman, and Cottle,
Floor Manager.
At same meeting resolutions against Senior Societies were
introduced but defeated.
Feb. 2 Arrangements for sending a national lacrosse team
abroad, Cottle appointed one of five who are to choose rest of
team.
Feb. 12 Junior Promenade.
l:cb. /j Lambert led Senior German at Loomis Hall.
Feb. 21 Movement in senior class to revive Yale Chapter of
Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity.
Feb. 2() Xews Supper. Responses to toasts by Oakford,
Gale, Wilder, Lyman, McDowell and Spencer.
March 5 Preliminary Winter Athletic Games at Gymnasium.
Hamill and McDowell, judges. N. G. Williams, timer. Tug-of-
\var. J. O. McCalmont, Twombly, E. Wells, Wright. '84 beat '86.
Doolittle lost to Alcutt, '84 S., in light-weight sparring. Souther
lost to Lang, '85 S., in middle-weight wrestling.
March 8 Games continued. '84 beaten by Shefl in tug-of-war.
Speer lost to Goodwin, '87, in heavy-weight sparring. Holmes
lost to Warnock, '87 S., in light-weight wrestling. Scott lost to
Bertron, '85, in heavy-weight wrestling.
March 8 The Yale Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa revived.
OUR FOUR YEARS AT YALE 33
'84 members: Bedell, Blodgett, W. Booth, Gale, Gruener, F.
Jones, Kinley, Mead, Souther, Spencer, Twombly, Wolf, Allen,
Ayres, Boyd, Carr, Chapman, Havens, Hine, E. A. Lawrence,
W. T. Nichols, Stein, D. Walker.
March 17 Announcement that Mrs. Lawrance, mother of T.
G., has given $50,000 to found a dormitory (Lawrance Hall).
March 21 and 22 Minstrels and theatrical performance at
Carll's Opera House for benefit of Yale Navy.
MINSTRELS.
S. W. Hopkins, middle-man ; Bowen, McClellan, D. A. Jones,
E. I. Sanford, Hand, Wilder, Jessup ; Botsford, one of end men.
Botsford and Holmes, clog-dancers.
Cast of "The Baker's Daughter."
Hairoil Rottenpledge C. M. Walker
Lawrence Eastriver Merritt
Mr. Cabbage Judson
Old Green Copeland
Henry Clay Flips Botsford
Count of No Account X. G. Williams
A. B. C. Montvillian S. Wr. Hopkins
Dr. Whichdaughter Waite
Lily Ann, the Baker's daughter Dawson
Mrs. Nanny Toothcomb Taylor
Cantilie, Lily Ann's daughter Hyndman
The Beauty Jenks
Banjo Club made its first public appearance, including Higbee,
S. W. Hopkins and Watrous.
The Committee were : Armour, D. A. Jones, S. W. Hopkins,
Jenks, Merritt, C. M. Walker, N. G. Williams.
April 2 Resignation announced of Prof. Northrop to accept
the Presidency of University of Minnesota.
April 4 "Lit" Supper. Toasts were responded to by all the
'84 board and by Halsey, Spencer, F. Jones, E. Wells, Ross and
Bowen.
April 8 Record supper.
April 18 Cottle chosen a member of American Lacrosse
Team.
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April 21 Townsend prizes awarded to following, to compete
in June for DeForest Medal :
Allis — 'The Civil and Political Significance of the Reforma-
tion."
Chapman — "Hildebrand."
Gale — 'Turgenieff and Russian Politics."
Holden — "Turgenieff and Russian Politics."
Stein — 'Turgenieff and Russian Politics."
\\ olcott — "Bankruptcy Laws."
April 24 Yale lacrosse team beaten by the American team, 2
to i. On Yale team, McDowell, McCormick, Spencer, Ayres,
Twombly, Connell. On American team, Cottle.
May i At Lacrosse Tournament in New York for Oelrich
Cup, Yale beat Princeton, 2 to i, and played a no score game with
the Druids of Baltimore.
May 3 Yale beat Brown at baseball, 8 to 3.
May 10 Yale beat Harvard at baseball, 8 to i.
May 10 Yale beat New York University at lacrosse, n to o
Same '84 men on team as in game against American team.
May 14 Yale beat Dartmouth at baseball, 6 to 2.
May i/ Harvard beat Yale at baseball, 8 to 7, Harvard
making 4 runs in last inning.
May 24 Inter-collegiate Athletic Meeting. E. Wells on
University tug-of-war team.
May 24 Yale beat Amherst at baseball, 17 to 4.
May 24 Yale beat Harvard at lacrosse, 2 to i.
May 30 Yale beat Princeton at baseball on Polo Grounds, 16
to 3. Holmes caught instead of Souther.
May 31 Princeton beat Yale at lacrosse, 3 to i.
June 2 Yale beat Dartmouth at baseball, 12 to u.
June 5 Yale beat Amherst at baseball, 4 to 3.
June 9 Editorial in News on new sophomore cheer.
It is bad taste and out of place for them to make this noise. The
old cheer handed down from long ago was good enough for many
generations and why it is not for '86 we cannot see."
This cheer was first heard at Amherst game; it is now the
present Yale cheer.
June 17 Yale beat Brown at baseball, 9 to 6.
June IQ Yale beat Princeton at baseball, 9 to o.
36 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
June 20 Townsend Prize Speaking Contest. Gale was
awarded the DeForest Medal.
June 21 The appointment list at the end of Senior Year was
announced.
Philosophical Orations: — Gruener, W. Booth, Wolf, Twombly,
Mead, Pavey, Spencer.
High Orations:— Gale, Kinley, Souther, Bedell, Blodgett. F.
Jones, Chapman, Havens, Scharps, Carr.
Orations:— Hine, D. Walker, Allen, Boyd, Ayres, W. T.
Nichols, Stein, Wr. Coley, Flowers, Peck, Burnam, Kwai, Tuttle,
A. B. \Vells, Wolcott, W. Williams, Seeley, Halsey, Judson,
Holliday, Savery, F. Strong.
Dissertations: — W. Strong, Allis, Curtis, Daggett, Porter,
Lyman, Mayer, Patterson.
Disputes: — Holden, Wagner, Eliot, Tomlinson, Holmes ,
Hovey, Platt, Castle, Speer, Swift, Jernberg, Lay, S. Booth,
Foster, Samson, Whittlesey.
First Colloquies: — McClellan, WTood, Reynolds, Copeland,
Painter, Dawson, Hughson, Makuen, Pendleton, Wright, Lough,
Carpenter, McAndrew, E. Coley, Hamill.
Second Colloquies: — Jennings, Knight, Penniman, Bigelow,
Shelton, Fountain, Lambert, W. Sanford, Worcester, Pardee,
Potter, Hand, Eaton, Watrous, Colt, Evarts.
June 21 Harvard beat Yale at baseball, 17 to 4.
June 22 Baccalaureate Sermon by President Porter in Chapel.
June 23 Presentation Day exercises in Chapel in morning ;
Oration by Wolf on "The Demand for the Practical" ; Poem by
E. Wells, "A Puritan Idyl."
PRIZES AxxorxcED.
Douglas Fellowship W. Booth
Larned Scholarship Burnam
Clark Scholarship Gruener
Foote Scholarship Gruener
Berkeley Scholarship Holmes
\ ist, Patterson
Mathematical Prizes \ , _ ,
( 2d, Souther
Scott Prize, German Scharps
Cobden Club Medal Boyd
OUR FOUR YKARS AT VALE
37
Planting of class ivy at south transept of Chapel, Ivy Ode by
Lay, Parting Ode by Wells.
June 23 In afternoon, class histories read on Campus.
June 23 In evening, Senior Promenade in Alumni Hall.
June 21 Yale beat Harvard at baseball, <> to 2.
CENTER CHURCH
June 24 Glee Club Concert in Carll's Opera House.
June 25 Commencement exercises at Center Church.
The Orators were:
Potter — "Spurgeon and His Work."
Speer — "The Island of Sorrows."
Wolcott — "The Spirit of Discovery."
A. B. \Vells— "Alexander H. Stephens."
OUR FOUR YKAKS AT YALE 39
Judson — "Free Competition v. State Intervention in Relation
to Rent."
F. Strong— "The Spirit of the Age."
Spencer — "Final Purpose in Nature."
Makuen — "Wolsey in Shakespeare and in History."
Tomlinson — "Poverty and Degradation in Cities."
Allis— "Wendell Phillips."
Havens — "Reconstruction Not a Failure."
W. Booth— "The Progress of Liberality of Thought."
Gruener — "What Our Colleges are Doing for the Nation," with
the Valedictory Address.
Orations were accepted also from Boyd, Hine, Kwai, Kinley,
Lay, Mead, Pendleton, Samson and Wolf.
147 Degrees of B.A. were then conferred by President Porter.
June 26 Yale beat Harvard at New London, 17 sees.
The time, 20:31, was the fastest on record at that time. The
Yale Crew were : Parrott, '83 ; Scott, '84 ; Flanders, '85 ; Hobbs,
'85; Storrs, '85; Cowles, '86; Peters, '86; Patten, '86 S.
June 27 Yale beat Harvard at baseball at Brooklyn, 4 to 2.
The Yale Nine for this year were: Booth, '84; H. C. Hopkins,
'84 ; Holmes, '84 ; McKee, '84 ; Souther, '84 ; Terry, '85 ; Oliver,
'85S.; Bremner, '86; Brigham, '86; Odell, '86; Stewart, '86.
The following items of interest are selected from our published
Class Statistics :
25 of our members were sons of Yale graduates of classes from
'33 to '57.
Our average age was 22 yrs. 5 mos. 21 days, the youngest
class since '76.
Our average height was 5 ft. 7^4 in., from 5 ft. to 6 ft. 5 in.
Our average weight was 150.12 Ibs., from no to 210.
Our average expenses were, for freshman year, $916, sopho-
more year, $1,012, junior year, $1,158, senior year, $1,130;
average, $1,054.
69 entered with no conditions, 31 were always in first-division
and 96 at some time, 89 passed their course without condition.
84 were church members.
89 were Republicans, 29 Independents and 23 Democrats.
40 HISTORY OF THE CLASSy OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Our favorite study was Political Economy, most popular
Professor, President Porter, and most popular tutor, Mr. Ripley.
McMillan had the most votes for handsomest man with E.
Lawrence second and Shelton third.
Our favorites were :
Newspaper New York Times
Magazine Century
Actor Booth
Actress Modjeska
Prose writers Dickens and Thackeray
Poet Longfellow
Character in Romance Henry Esmond
Composer Beethoven
Book Shakespeare
CLASS POEM 41
CLASS POEM
A PURITAN IDYLL
By EDWARD WELLS, JR.
PRELUDE
There is a stern, sad music in the wave
Of the grey sea that laves New England's shore,
As though its pulses beat forevermore
To throb a requiem at the lonely grave
That Nature to her outcast children gave.
For the great mother, though her face be stern.
Finds, when her troubled children to her turn,
A refuge in her bosom for the brave.
And well the stout hearts of the Pilgrims sleep,
Trusted forever to that faithful breast !
Though men forget, the Earth remembers well
And in her pitying bosom hidden deep
She keeps the memory of them who rest,
And speaks it in the Ocean's endless swell.
*****
Hark, the low breeze of evening tells its talc. —
The half-forgotten memories of yore :
While the grim pines and hemlocks list'ning stand,
Into a whisper sinks the forest's wail,
As it repeats the story o'er and o'er, —
The story ocean thunders on the strand.
I.
It was an Indian-summer afternoon
That rested on New England, like a boon
By chary Nature sent, to cheer the shore
Familiar with her frowning moods before.
* * * # *
Northward the hilltops stretched in ragged line
Spiked with a bristling crest of spruce and pine
Whose rugged tops along the horizon made
Fantastic outlines of a grim stockade.
On every hand the virgin forest blushed
At Autumn's kiss, as a coy maid ambushed
Among the trees, waits till her lover nears
HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
And shows the scarlet when his step she hears.
Within the circle of the birchen shade
The Puritans a clearing rude had made,
Where clustered round their humble cabins stood,
*****
Grouped upon the shore the Pilgrims anxiously
With eager eyes looked out upon the sea.
Those sombre faces wore the deep-wrought lines
That only suffering's graving-tool defines,
And many a head long bent in sorrow's school
Bore silver traces of its iron rule ;
*****
Alone, along the shore somewhat apart
Paced the good minister with heavy heart
And eyes bent on the ground. Anon he raised
His head and at the ship intently gazed
And marked a figure at the bulwark stand
With kerchief fluttering farewell to the land,
And momently his smile awoke to chase
Like sunlight o'er the shadows of his face.
Saddest for him the sailing was that day
Which bore fair Dimmis from his sight away.
So sailed the vessel down the golden path
That lay in sunlight, like a yellow swath
Left by the reapers through the waving grain.
And sadly now the watchers turned again
Back to their homely tasks with steadfast mind
And hearts resolved, in toil, perchance, to find
Some charm, in dim forgetftilness to lay
The phantom sadness with its iron sway.
*****
Smaller the white sail grew, hid in the shroud
Of distance, till naught but a feathery cloud
Wavered a moment ere from sight it fell, —
Then o'er the horizon waved a sad farewell.
II.
As oft the deepest furrows of the share
At harvest most abundant fruitage bear,
So while the pastor watched the golden sky
Where he but late had seen his gladness die,
Xr\v hope began its blossoms to unfold
On the dry, withered branches of the old, —
For Pain's the angel hand that stirs the deep,
t'n fathomed recesses of life, where sleep
CLASS POEM 43
Its nobler thoughts and purposes, that pour
Their ceaseless tide on action's rugged shore.
And joy is but a flitting bird whose bn.ist
Frets the still pool where ripples soon find rest.
Touched by some kindly fairy's talisman
The phantoms of the pastor's grief were gone,
Lost in the inspiration's mighty sway
That o'er him came and swept at once away
His cobweb loneliness, the doubts and fears
That came to haunt him in his waning years.
The golden fleeces of the clouds, that lay
Athwart the sky, like curtains rolled away
As though, beyond their mystic confines kept
Entombed the unborn future silent slept,
Waiting for Time's omnipotent "Arise."
In panoramic view before his eyes
Appeared the scroll of heaven to unfold
In a prophetic vision, as of old
Ofttimes 'twas granted to some sage to see
Undimmed, the features of Futurity
Peer through the misty canopy of years,
With lips agrin, or eyes brimmed o'er with tears.
*****
He saw the white cliffs of his native shore
Breasting the flying spray with sullen roar
In solemn chorus to the old kirk bell
Whose time-cracked treble voice he knew so well.
Out of its ivy cowl the rugged spire
Lifted a warning finger, like a friar
Who beckons tim'rous Hope with outstretched hand
And points his journey to another land.
Gone was the picture from the pastor's sight
As weary day languishes into night,
And where it glowed a new light sprang apace
Shedding fresh beauty into Nature's face.
In vision stretched abroad from sky to sky
Rock-mailed New England lay beneath his eye, —
Yet lay so changed its face he scarcely knew
Save where it touched the changeless ocean's blue.
Stripped of its endless forest was the land.
*****
With various form life swarmed in town and mart;
Strong as the pulses of a nation's heart
Sounded the hum of life no more to cease
Chanting the glorious psalmody of peace.
Dim-outlined through the mist of days, not yet
Full-dawned, a gentle presence rose and met
44 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
And mingled with the rising mists and took
Form indistinct.
*****
As one who sees a soul in sculptured stone
Or living canvas, mightier than his own,
The pastor felt a reverential awe
Softly enfold his spirit, while he saw
That glorious picture of the future shine
Limned into being by a hand divine
Mocking the daring of his wildest dream.
How petty now did all his sadness seem
Merged in the future's bright immensity,
Lost, like a rain-drop in the shining sea!
*****
Slowly he turned busied with new-born thought
And pensively his lonely cabin sought.
III.
So the days passed and slowly waned the year,
And oft to Earth the leaves grown dull and sere,
Fluttered, like messengers sent on before
To herald Winter's coming to the door.
So the days passed and on her crimson bed,
Mourned by the weeping clouds, Autumn lay dead.
Then Winter came and o'er the hoary wold
The Sun peered up, ruddy with Winter's cold;
Like jousting knights before the tourney day
The naked trees armed for the coming fray,
And donned their creaking suits of icy mail
To dull the lances of the wintry gale,
Already couched, with thund'ring charge to pierce
Straight to those oaken hearts in onset fierce.
How drear and lifeless lay the forest now,
With death's cold seal on ev'ry snow-clad bough.
*****
Beside his lonely fire on many a night
The pastor sat, and by its flaring light,
Read in his book the hope whose cheering glow
Lighted the hearts of sages long ago,
*****
The while the minister conned o'er that page,
Bright with the record of another age.
The voices of its seers and prophets broke
The seal of silence kept so long and spoke
With a new meaning to his heart. The spark
Of hope that lit with fitful gleams the dark,
CLASS POEM 45
Cold evening of his life sprang up, alight.
Till all the horizon of his clay grew bright.
"Some day," he said, "though not pnvhaiuv in mine,
The shoot I plant will spread into the vine."
And at the thought, his lagging pulses thrilled
With a new life and nobler courage filled
His soul. From day to day he lived as one
Who through the long night watches for the Sun.
No more, the bleak rocks of New England loomed
A prison wall that shut out hope and doomed
To death, but a rough casket where a thought
Waited the master's cunning, to be wrought,
Though long the toil, into a peerless gem
To deck, one day, the Future's diadem.
So passed the days and grey-haired Winter drew
His magic circle, still, round birch and yew,
And still he shackled with his freezing glance
The laughing runnels spelled into a trance.
One night the pastor slept. The early day
Came like a gentle presence where he lay
And touched him softly; — all too softly came
To wake him from that rest. A ruddy flame
Broke from the lifeless embers with a gleam
As the long-prisoned soul wakes from life's dream
And leaves the ashes cold. The ocean surge
And wind-harped forest echoed forth their dirge.
He heard them not, but woke to life, full fain
Beyond the Silence, where hope lives again.
EPILOGUE
The future is Pandora's box, wherein
The various fabric of our lives is hid.
Sometimes with curious hand we lift the lid.
Eager to view the fate stored up within.
Sadness hides there, and grief with all its kin
Lurks darkly, — wasting moths, to mar and thieve
The bright-hued garb of happiness, — to weave
And silk-worm-like their own dark shroud to spin.
Yet from that dusty chrysalis of pain
At last grown fecund under Faith's warm ray
The butterflies of hope on fluttering wing
Out of their very shroud seize life again
And hover round us in the waning day
Of life, to rob the passing of its sting.
46 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Let time run on, till many a head is white
With dust of travel; run he ne'er so fast,
Hope surely will outstrip him at the last
And at the goal rest from the breathless flight.
Then come the years home in the sunset light,
As from the harvest field the creaking wain
Heaped with the harvest of the ripened grain,
Fit to be garnered at th' approach of night.
And what then if the morning-glory fold
Its petals, withered in the scorching noon,
Weary and faint, its feebleness outworn
Long ere the waning day? Is hope's death knolled?
Nay, — the flow'r sleeps. Evening will pass and soon
Its eyelids will unclose to greet the morn.
Considerable portions of the Class Poem are omitted for lack of
space, but we trust that its theme and finest parts are preserved.
IVY ODE 47
IVY ODE
Written by BEIRNE LAY and sung to the tune of the Drinking Song.
My classmates, we are now beginning
To run the earnest race of life.
High! high! in each the hope of winning,
Amid its tumult and its strife.
And we shall win, — each be victorious,
Who runs with courage and with might,
Who scorns to gain a prize inglorious,
Who follows duty, — seeks the right.
The victors in th' Olympic Races,
In olden times, strove not for gold ;
For hope of winning fame displaces
In hearts of heroes wealth untold.
They viewed the surging crowd of nations
They strove for glory and renown, —
To gain mid mighty acclamations
The prize, a simple Olive crown.
We plant thee, Ivy, and ere leaving,
Good wishes give we, one and all, —
That thou, a mantle thickly weaving,
May'st cover, broad and deep, this wall.
Our Alma Mater then shall gather
Thy leaves, each son who wins renown
Shall gain no prize of gold, — but rather
His brow shall wear the Ivy crown.
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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
PARTING ODE
By EDWARD WELLS, JR., Peekskill, X. Y.
Time throbs his life away,
Knelling our parting day
From yonder tow'r ;
Let the soft music well
Forth from the pealing bell,
The happy tale to tell
Of many an hour.
Forget we now the sad,
Remember but the glad
Days that have been ;
With courage taste the pain,
Deeply life's beaker drain
For joys that yet remain
Unquaffed therein.
Our foster-mother, Yale,
Who armed us, will not fail
Us in the fray :
Her blessing makes us leal,
Her glory whets our steel,
Through her we courage feel
For the long day.
When the day, sinking low,
Melts in the twilight glow
To rise no more,
Let the wan hands of age,
That coming night presage,
Inscribe life's final page
To 'Eighty-four.
THE FACULTY
\Yhen that happy throng rushed from the portals of Yale into
the outside world with a cheer, we left behind us at thc-ir desks
those patient friends of ours, the Faculty, some of them doubtless
wishing that certain of those careless youths would come and
receive the Godspeed we did not seek, some feeling disappointed
that others of us had not better fulfilled the promise of our
lies; innings. Doubtless some turned back to their desks disheart-
ened, whispering to themselves the half -expressed wish that they
might give their lives to a work less thankless, in the study and
laboratory rather than the class-room.
But let there be no mistake — let those who chance to read these
pages know that with the passing years the thoughts of all '84
men turn back more lovingly and gratefully to those who labored
with us so patiently, that the lives chronicled in this book have
been in no small part moulded by them, and in a greater degree
the character of the men of '84, which is not capable of portrayal
in words, but which makes them what they are. The man who
secludes himself in the search for truth finds a tangible reward
which he can see and enjoy, and is, in the end, a teacher as truly
as is he who sits in the class-room. But our education was given
to us by those who, in the daily life of the class-room, shaped the
habits of our minds, stimulated our thought and ambition and
gave us their example of sympathy and forbearance. No man
of us whose life is set forth in these pages takes credit to himself
for what he and his fellows have been enabled to do in the world,
without in his heart giving to our friends the Faculty some por-
tion at least of the love and honor we owe them. In this way
this history of our class is in large measure dedicated to those
who gave us such faithful service.
We cannot but feel that under modern conditions the present-day
students at Yale will not have some of the advantages which we
enjoyed. For the first two years we not only all studied the same
subjects, but all sat under the same teachers of those subjects —
and they were the highest in rank in the college of that day. The
same was largely true of the last two years, because we were
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allowed to elect a part only of our courses. All of us, not merely
those who elected advanced courses, were brought im<> contact
with the master minds of that day. The common memories
which hind us together in spirit are, so far as they are connected
with our regular work, memories of the same class-rooms and
the same influences from the same guides. ( )ur bonds must in
reason be closer than is possible under present conditions.
The history of our four years as already chronicled in this
book may seem to some to emphasize more than is right the
incidents of our college life which had no connection with our
educational growth. But while all these events were occurring
which are set out in detail, we were spending a large part of every
dav in the class-room and another large part in preparing our-
selves for the class-room. This life was a part of us — it was our
routine — and the mental stimulus which came to one man at one
time may have come to another man at another time and from
another source. Mental and moral development of the individual
is not only gradual but usually unconscious, that of the group
is even less an experience which can be dated and defined.
The following outline sketches of those who instructed us are
not intended as a measure of our tribute, but principally to give
information of their lives in the years since we graduated. They
will, with the accompanying photographs, doubtless recall to our
memories many an incident of college life.
MARK BAILEY. Descendant of Oliver Cromwell, and of Gen-
eral Ward of Washington's staff. Graduated Dartmouth 1849.
Instructor and professor of elocution at Yale for fifty years.
Died in New Haven, June 3, 1911.
WILLIAM McLEOD BARBOUR. Born Fochabers, Scotland, May
29, 1827, died Maiden, Mass., December $, 1899.
Graduated from Oberlin 1859, from Andover Theological Semi-
nary 1 86 1. Pastor in Peabody, Mass. ; professor in Bangor, 1868-
1877; professor and college pastor in Yale 1877-1887; principal
of the Congregational College in McGill University, Montreal,
1887-1896.
WILLIAM BEEBE. Born Litchfield, Conn., September 4, 1851.
Yale 73. Tutor in mathematics and astronomy at Yale, 1875-
PROF. TRACY PECK
PROF. HUBERT A. NEWTON
I'KOF. KDWAKD J. PHELPS
TIIK I-AI ri/rv 53
1882; assistant professor of mathematics and astronomy 1882-
1898; since then full professor. Published several textbooks in
mathematics.
HENRY AUGUSTIN BEERS. Born Buffalo, N. Y., July 2, 1847.
Yale '69. Studied law in New York, admitted to bar in 1X70.
and practiced a year; 1871-1875, tutor in English; 1875-1880,
assistant professor of English Literature; 1880 to present time.
professor of English. Has done much outside work, including
poetry, magazine articles, and more important work in hook form.
GEORGE BENDELARI. Harvard '74, studied at Harvard Law
School. Instructor in history and assistant professor of mod-
ern languages at Yale, 1883-88, received degree A.M. (Hon.)
from Yale in 1888. Then went into journalism and (1911) con-
nected with New York Sun.
CHARLES CLARK CAMP. Born Meriden, Conn., December 4,
1855. Yale '77. 1880-1882, tutor at Yale in Greek; 1882-1884,
attended Berkeley Divinity School; 1884-1887, assistant minis-
ter at St. Paul's Church, New Haven; 1885-1889, rector of St.
James', Westville, and All Saints' Mission, New Haven; 1889-
1893, rector of Christ Church, Joliet, 111.; 1893-1904, professor of
New Testament exegesis and literature at Seabury Divinity
School, Faribault, Minn. ; 1900-1904, rector of St. James' Church,
St. Paul. Died December 30, 1904, at Faribault, Minn.
FRANKLIN CARTER. Born Waterbury, Conn., September 30,
1837, graduated at Williams 1862, professor of Latin there
1865-1872, professor of German at Yale 1872-1881 and president
of Williams from 1882-1901.
Author of "Life of Mark Hopkins" and published a trans-
lation of Goethe's "Iphigenia in Tauris." Retired, living in Wil-
liamstown, Mass.
EDWARD SALISBURY DANA. Born New Haven, November 16,
1849, son °f Professor James Dwight Dana (professor of geol-
ogy and mineralogy) and Henrietta Frances (Silliman) Dana.
Yale '70. Studied at Scientific School, Heidelberg and Vienna.
Appointed 1874 tutor of mathematics, physics and chemistry;
1879, assistant professor of physics; 1890, full professor. Is
PROF. DANIEL C. EATON
PROF. THOMAS D. SEYMOUR
PROF. J. W1LLARD GIBBS
PROF. ELI AS LOOM IS
THE FACULTY 55
editor of American Journal of Science; helped in preparation of
Century and Webster's Dictionaries; revised new edition of
Dana's System of Mineralogy.
JAMES DWIGHT 1).\\.\. Horn I'tica. X. Y.. Kehniary 12, 1813.
Yale '33. 1833-1835 served as instructor to midshipmen «.n vessel
of U. S. Navy; 1836-1838, assisted Professor Sillinian. at this
time liriii- in- out System of Mineralogy ; 1838-1842. mineralogist
and geologist to U. S. exploring expedition under Commodore
\Yilkes, on the results of which he wrote three large volume-.
In 1846, became editor of American Journal of Science; iX;<>.
appointed Sillinian Professor of Geology at Yale, a chair specially
endowed for him. \\ rote several textbooks on geology and
mineralogy, as well as five editions of his System of Mineru/o-v.
Died April 14, 1895.
FRANKLIN BOWDITCH DEXTER. Born September n, 1842.
Yale '6 1. 1861-1863, taught Greek in Collegiate and Commercial
Institute in New Haven; 1864-1867, tutor, first in mathematics
and then in Greek in Academic, Department; assistant libra-
rian 1869; registrar 1869-1892; secretary to the University
1869-1899; Larned Professor of American History 1877-1888.
Degree LL.D. conferred by Yale 1902. Living in New Haven.
He has written many articles and several books, dealing almost
entirely with the early history of New Haven and Yale College.
DANIEL CADY EATON. Born September 12, 1834, at Fort Gra-
tiot, Michigan Territory. Yale '57, and Harvard (B.S. 1860).
During war, served in commissary department ; in 1864, elected
professor of botany, giving instruction largely in Scientific School.
Published a standard work on Ferns of North America and many
botanical papers. Died June 29, 1895.
JOSIAH WILLARD GIBBS. Born New Haven, February n,
1839, son of Josiah Willard Gibbs, LL.D. (Yale 1809), who was
professor of sacred literature at Yale from 1824-1861.
Yale '58. Tutor in Latin and later in natural philosophy, 1863-
1866; 1871, after five years' study elected professor of mathe-
matical physics at Yale, which he held till his death, April 28,
1903.
Was most widely known for his work in thermodynamics, which
attracted the world-wide attention of physicists, and was later
PROF. C. NORTHROP
PROF. W. G. SUMNER
PROF. WILLIAM I. KNAPP
PROF. H. P. WRIGHT
PROF. A. M. WHEELER
PROF. (.TSTAVK I. STOECKEL
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keenly interested in vector analysis. Was the founder of the
Mathematical Club of the University and gave most valuable
contributions to its discussions. Received a Ph.D. from Yale in
1863, and from the University of Erlangen in 1893 ; Doctor
of Mathematics from the University of t'hristiania in 1902; and
high honors from learned societies in many lands.
. \KTIH-R TWINING I I. \DLKY. Born New Haven. April 23,
iS5<>. son of Professor James H. and Anne (Twining) Haclley.
Yale '76. Studied two years at the University of Berlin ; tutor
at Yale for four years in Greek, German and logic; 1883-1886,
lecturer on railroad administration, and then professor of politi-
cal economy till his election to the presidency of the University,
in iS(.)9. He was dean of the Graduate School 1892-1895, com-
missioner of labor statistics of Connecticut 1883-1887, and assist-
ant editor of the Railroad Gazette.
President of American Economic Association 1898 and 1899,
chairman of the R. R. Securities Commission, a trustee of the
Carnegie Foundation since 1905, Roosevelt Professor at Univer-
sity of Berlin 1907-1908, a member of many learned societies,
and recently elected a director of N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R.
He has published "Railroad Transportation — Its History and
Laws'' (1885), "Economics — An Account of the Relations
between Private Property and Public Welfare" (1896), "Ken-
nedy Lectures before the N. Y. School of Philanthropy," Yale
lectures on the "Responsibility of Citizenship," "The Education
of the American Citizen" (1901), "Freedom and Responsibility"
(1903), "Standards of Public Morality" (1907), "Baccalaureate
Addresses" (1907), and was American editor of the loth edition
of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
WILLIAM IRELAND KNAPP. Born New York, March 10, 1835,
died in Europe, 1908.
Graduated from Colgate University, professor of modern lan-
guages there 1860-1865, then at Vassar 1865-1867, and at Yale
1879-1892. In 1892 went with President Harper to the Univer-
sity of Chicago and remained till 1895. His later years were
spent in Europe, mostly in France and Spain.
Published Spanish and French textbooks, edited several Span-
ish authors, wrote a "Life of George Borrow" and in 1900 edited
Borrow's "Lavengro and Romany Rye."
PROF. T. D. DANA
PROF. A. W. WRIGHT
PROF. F. B. DHXTI.R
PROF. E. S. DANA
PROF. K. L. RICHARDS
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GEORGE TRUMBULL LADD. Born Painesville, Ohio, January nj.
1842. Graduated at Western Reserve 1864, and at Anclover
Theological Seminary 1869; held pastorates in Ediuhur-, Ohio,
and Milwaukee, 1871-18/9; appointed professor of philosophy
at Bowdoin in 1879, and at Yale in 1881. In 1895-1896 was a
member of the Harvard faculty. Was made professor emeriin>
at Yale in 1906. He was afterward professor in Western
Reserve for several years.
Among his many publications are: "Introduction to Philoso-
phy," "Physiological Psychology," "Philosophy of Knowledge,"
"Lectures to Teachers on Educational Psychology," etc.
Was twice invited by the Imperial Educational Society of
Japan to deliver courses of lectures, and in 1892 and again in
1899 lectured at the Doshisha at Kyoto, Tokio, Hakone and
Kobe, and was decorated by the Emperor with the third order of
the Rising Sun. In 1899-1900 lectured on philosophy and the
philosophy of religion at Calcutta, Madras, and elsewhere in
India.
His writings have been adopted as textbooks in Russia, India,
Japan, etc.
One of the founders of the American Psychological Associa-
tion and delegate to the International Congress in Paris in 1900.
His home is in New Haven.
ELIAS LOOMIS. Born Wilmington, Conn., August 7, 1811, died.
New Haven, August 15, 1899. Yale '30. Tutor, 1833-1836;
studied a year in Paris ; was professor of mathematics in Western
Reserve, 1837-1844; professor of natural philosophy in the Uni-
versity of New York, and professor of natural philosophy and
astronomy at Yale from 1860 till his death.
Was the first person in America to get a view of Halley's
comet on its return in 1835 and published his observations and
computations of its orbit in the American Journal of Science.
Wrote more than one hundred scientific treatises, and pub-
lished textbooks on mathematics, astronomy, natural philosophy
and meteorology, which had a sale of over half a million copies.
Left his entire estate to the University.
WKHSTER MERRIFIELD. Born Williamsville, Vt., July 27, 1852.
Yale '77. Tutor in Latin, 1880-1883; appointed professor of
PROF. THOMAS A. THACHER
REV. W. M. B ARBOUR
PROF. A. \V. I'll 1 1. 1. IPS
PROF. MARK HAILEY
THE FACULTY (n
Latin and Greek in University of North Dakota in 1884 and
elected president in 1891. The University greatly developed
under his administration and he largely shaped the educational
system of the state.
Left the University of North Dakota in n;o<> — was elected
President of the University of Montana. Is now living in
Pasadena, Cal.
HUBERT ANSON NEWTON. Born Sherburne, X. Y., March 19,
1830. Yale '50. 1853, tutor of mathematics, with care of whole
department on account of the illness and death of Prof. Stanley ;
1885, professor of mathematics. Was deeply interested in devel-
opment of Yale Observatory, was one of fifty original members
of the National Academy, and a member of many learned socie-
ties at home and abroad. Died in New Haven, August 12, 1896.
CYRUS NORTHROP. Born Ridgefield, Conn., September 30,
1834. Yale '57. Admitted to bar, 1860, and held minor politi-
cal positions for two years. 1862, editor of the New Haven
Daily Palladium. 1863, elected professor of rhetoric and Eng-
lish literature at Yale. 1884, elected president of the University
of Minnesota. Recently retired and is now living in Minneapolis.
TRACY PECK. Born Bristol, Conn., May 24, 1838. Yale J6i.
Tutor at Yale 1864-1867. After four years of study and teach-
ing in various places, elected professor of Latin language and lit-
erature at Cornell. 1880-1908 professor of Latin at Yale, now
professor emeritus. Work at Yale mainly with graduate stu-
dents. Was one of the founders of the American School of
Classical Studies at Rome, has been its director, and now lives in
that city, where he continues his studies. Author of many arti-
cles and addresses, joint editor with Prof. C. L. Smith, of Har-
vard, of the College Series of Latin Authors.
EDWARD JOHN PHELPS. Born Middlebury, Yt., July n, 1822,
died New Haven, March 9, 1900.
Graduated from Middlebury College 1840, studied at Yale Law
School, admitted to bar in 1843, settled in Burlington in 1845.
Was Comptroller of the Treasury 1851, president of the Ameri-
can Bar Association 1881-1885, Kent Professor of Law at Yale
PROF. W. BEEBE
c:\
TUTOR WEBSTER MERRIFIELD
TUTOR ARTHUR T. HADLEY
i
TUTOR ALFRED L. RIPLEY
TUTOR V. I:. TARI'.I I.I.
TUTOR C. C. (AMI-
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1881-1885 and again 1889-1900. Minister to England, 1885-
1889, and senior counsel for the I'nited States in the Hering Sea
arbitration.
. \\DRK\V \YHKKI.KR I ' 1 1 1 1 .i .i PS. IJoni Griswold, Conn., March
14. 1844. '738. Began as tutor at Yale in 1876, was assistant
professor, and later professor of mathematics, dean of Graduate
School, made professor emeritus in 1906. Has been president
of the board of trustees of the Hotchkiss School. Published a
series of mathematical textbooks, very widely used in schools
and colleges. Is living in New Haven.
XOAH PORTER. Born Farmington, Conn., December 14, 1811.
Yale '31. Tutor 1833-1835, ordained in 1836 as pastor of the
Xe\v Milford Congregational Church, 1842 removed to a church
in Springfield, 1846 elected professor of moral philosophy and
metaphysics at Yale, which he held until his death. 1871-1886,
president of Yale. Died March 4, 1892. Author of many books
and magazine articles, and editor-in-chief of Webster's Diction-
aries from 1860.
EUGENE LAMB RICHARDS. Born Brooklyn, December 27, 1838.
Yale '60. 1868 appointed tutor in mathematics at Yale, 1871
assistant professor, and 1891 full professor. In 1906 he was
made professor emeritus. 1892-1901 a director of the Yale Gym-
nasium, which was built largely through his persistent efforts.
Published a large number of magazine articles and two books :
"Plane and Spherical Trigonometry with Applications" in 1878-
1879 and ''Elementary Navigation and Nautical Astronomy" in
1902.
He died at Beach Haven, N. J., August 5, 1912.
ALFRED LAWRENCE RIPLEY. Born Hartford, November 6,
1858. Yale 78. Studied at Harvard Medical School for a year;
tutor in Latin at Yale 1880-1882; studied at Berlin 1882-1883;
then tutor and assistant professor of German at Yale until 1888,
when he went into the banking business in Boston. Elected vice
president of the National Hide and Leather Bank in 1890, then
of the State National Bank, of which he has been since 1908
the president.
64 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Elected a Fellow of Yale University in 1899 and since 1900
a member of the prudential committee. Received the degree of
M.A. from Yale.
Has lectured frequently on currency reform, and published
in the Yale Review — ''Currency and State Banks" (1894) and
"Two Plans for Currency Reform" (1898). In 1898 presented
to Yale five hundred German books, forming the nucleus of the
seminary library in the German department.
JAY WEBBER SEAVER. Born Craftsbury, Vt., March 9, 1855.
Yale '80, M.D. '85, M.A. '92. Instructor in Yale gymnasium
1883-1892, 1892-1904 associate director. Instructor in New
Haven Normal School of Gymnastics since 1892, president of
Chautauqua School of Physical Education, president and medical
director of American Institute of Physical Culture.
THOMAS DAY SEYMOUR. Born Hudson, Ohio, April i, 1848,
died New Haven, 1907. Graduated Western Reserve 1870;
studied at Berlin and Leipsic 1870-1872; professor of Greek in
Western Reserve 1872-1880; appointed professor of Greek at
Yale in 1880. Received LL.D. from University of Glasgow
in 1901.
Editor of the "Series of Greek Authors," editor of the Classi-
cal Review, and edited editions of Homer and Pindar.
Made an honorary member of the Archaeological Society of
Athens in 1895, associate fellow of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences in 1898, chairman of the Committee of the
American School of Classical Studies in Athens in 1887, and
vice president of the American Archaeological Institute in 1897.
JOEL SUMNER SMITH. Born Paxton, Mass., September n,
1830. Yale '53. Studied and taught music in New Haven for
twenty years. In 1874 undertook (without compensation) an
exhaustive catalogue of the Lowell Mason Library of church
music, and in 1875 was put in charge of the Linonian and Broth-
ers Library. 1894 given rank of assistant librarian of University
Library. To him the library owes a library of six thousand
volumes of representative Russian literature and many additions
to the musical department. Died February 13, 1903.
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CARLO LEONARDO SPERANZA. University of Padua, J. D.
Instructor in Italian at Yale 1879-1882. Instructor at Columbia
1885-1902, then professor of Italian at Columbia. Died 1911.
GUSTAVE JACOB STOECKEL. Born Maikammer, Germany, 1819,
died Norfolk, Conn., May 17, 1907. First head of Depart-
ment of Music at Yale, instructor in vocal music 1855 ; Battell
professor of theory of music 1890 till 1894, when made professor
emeritus. Was college organist for many years, compiled the
college hymnal, arranged many songs, including " 'Neath the
Elms,'' which he adapted from an old German recruit march.
Received degree Mus.D. from Yale 1864.
WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER. Born Paterson, N. J., October
30, 1840. Yale '63. Studied abroad three years, then made tutor
in mathematics, later in Greek. In 1869 he resigned to become
first assistant to the rector of an Episcopal Church in \c\v
York, and later was rector of a church in Morristown. 1872
returned to Yale as professor of political and social science, which
he held until his retirement in 1909. For over twenty-five years
a member of the Connecticut State Board of Education.
Received LL.D. from Yale 1909. Died April 17, 1910.
FRANK BIGELOW TARBELL. Born Groton, Mass., January i,
1853. Yale '73, and valedictorian. 1873-1874, Douglas Fellow,
studying philology; 1874-1876, in Europe; 1876-1882, tutor at
Yale, usually in Greek; 1879, received Ph.D.; 1882-1887, assist-
ant professor of Greek; 1887-1888, in Europe; 1888-1889, annual
director of American School of Classical Studies at Athens ;
1889-1892, taught Greek and classical archaeology at Harvard;
1891-1893, head of American School at Athens; 1893-1894, asso-
ciate professor of Greek at University of Chicago; i894~present
time, professor of classical archaeology. Has published three
books and many articles on classical subjects.
THOMAS ANTHONY THACHER. Born Hartford, January n,
1815, died New Haven, 1886. On his father's side he was
descended from the first minister of the Old South Church of
Boston ; on his mother's from Rev. Thomas Buckingham of Say-
brook, one of the founders of Yale College. Yale '35. Taught
66 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
a short time in the Academy in New Canaan, one year in Ogle-
thorpe, Ga., and December i, 1838, entered upon his life-long
career at Yale: as tutor till 1842, then for forty-two years as
professor of Latin.
In 1843-1845 spent two years studying in Germany and Italy,
and tutored for several weeks the Crown Prince of Germany,
afterward Emperor Frederick, and his cousin Frederick Charles.
JOHN SEYMOUR THACHER. Born New Haven, Conn., June 10,
1856, son of Thomas Anthony and Elizabeth (Day) Thacher.
Yale '77. 1880-1881, tutor in mathematics; 1880, received M.D.
from College of Physicians and Surgeons; 1881-1883, on stanC
of Bellevue Hospital; 1883-1885, in State Emigrant Hospital
on Ward's Island, N. Y. Is attending physician and pathologist
at the Presbyterian Hospital and clinical lecturer in medicine in
College of Physicians and Surgeons.
ADDISON VAN NAME. Born Fenton, N. Y., November 15,
1835. Yale '58. Spent one and a half years in foreign study,
becoming a tutor in 1862, and from 1862-1866 instructor in
Hebrew in the Theological Seminary. From 1865 to 1905 libra-
rian of the college library. Has written articles on philological
subjects. Is living in New Haven.
ARTHUR MARTIN WHEELER. Born Weston, Conn., June 21,
1835. Yale '57. Studied theology a year at Andover; tutor at
Yale 1861-1864. After four years of study in Europe, became
professor of history in 1868, holding it until 1906, when he became
professor emeritus. Is living in New Haven.
WILLIAM DWIGHT WHITNEY. Born Northampton, Mass.,
February 9, 1827, died New Haven, June 9, 1894. Graduated
from Williams in 1845, studied at Yale in 1849 and 1850, and
then went to Germany to study philology and Sanscrit at Berlin
and Tubingen. In 1854 appointed professor of Sanscrit at Yale
and in 1870 also professor of Comparative Philology.
Published many translations of Hindu works and a Sanscrit
grammar; was a large contributor to the Sanscrit dictionary,
a member of the American Oriental Society, writing a large part
of the volumes published by that Society, and editor-in-chief of
the Century Dictionary.
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Published in 1867 "Language and the Study of Language,"
and also German and French grammars.
ARTHUR WILLIAMS WRIGHT. Born Lebanon, Conn., Septem-
ber 8, 1836. Yale '59. Tutor 1862-67, part of which time he was
working on a new edition of Webster's Dictionary, preparing the
chapters on orthography and rules for spelling certain classes of
words. 1868-1871, professor of physics and chemistry at Wil-
liams, then professor of the same at Yale, and in charge of the
Sloane Physical Laboratory from 1885 till 1906, when he became
professor emeritus. Is author of many scientific papers, chidly
on electricity and astronomical subjects and a member of vari-
ous learned societies. Is living in New Haven.
HENRY PARKS WRIGHT. Born Winchester, N. H., November
30, 1839. Before entering college served until 1863 with the
Fifty-first Massachusetts Volunteers, and then finished his studies,
graduating from Yale, 1868. After two years of teaching in
Cincinnati, became tutor in Greek and Latin at Yale. From
1871 was assistant professor of Latin for five years and then
Dunham professor of Latin, and till 1909 dean of the College
Faculty. Ph.D., Yale '76. Is living in New Haven.
OUR REUNIONS
1887
A detailed account of our triennial reunion was published in
our Triennial Record. Portions of that account of permanent
interest are here reproduced verbatim, not only because of such
interest but also because the Record was not in durable form and
copies are rare.
Our triennial reunion was attended by about ninety-eight mem-
bers. Headquarters were opened Monday, June 27, in the old
Athenaeum. On Tuesday, at the Alumni meeting, Gale responded
for our class. At the business meeting of the class, at which
Wilder presided, a report of the finances of the class was read
by Swift, the secretary; W. F. Booth was chosen to respond for
the class at the Alumni Dinner on Commencement Day ; Blodgett,
Reynolds and Swift were appointed a committee to draft resolu-
tions on the deaths of E. A. Lawrence and Kimberly; Merritt,
Cromwell and S. Hopkins were appointed a special committee, to
which was referred the subject of class memorials. The secre-
tary was empowered to appoint a committee to arrange for and
conduct the Sexennial. The business meeting was followed by a
class prayer meeting in Dwight Hall, led by Lambert. After the
return from the Harvard game at the Yale Field, "we gathered
in front of South, and forming around our flags, we marched past
the fence, cheering and being cheered, until the first halt was
made in front of Lawrance Hall. With uncovered heads, three
times three were given as our first salute to the building on the
Yale Campus, which is ever to perpetuate the memory of our
best loved member.' President Woolsey's house was next cheered,
and we then proceeded to Hillhouse Avenue, where the familiar
face of President Porter greeted us, and, as we halted before
his residence, his genial smile recalled many a class-room incident
under his kindly administration. In response to our cheers, he
spoke as follows :
I thank you most cordially for this expression. I am gratified more
than I can express that you take pains to come here to-night. It is
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69
exceedingly pleasant and I am rejoiced to see you in such numbers, and
I hope you have great satisfaction in seeing your old instructors and
renewing old times, in making new resolutions, new aspirations for the
time to come. And of course you do not forget your old classmates,
some of whom are with you no longer. The Lawrance building will remind
you of one. None of us will ever forget Lawrance. He will always
be dear to us as long as the building stands. And now, what shall I
say, except that I wish you all the best things, and you may know what
LAWRANCE HALL
the best things are. I dare say some of the experiences you had in col-
lege you have talked over and over again, though they may have been
the sad, manly experiences of your life. And now my hope is that you
may go forth and that Yale teachings and Yale men may continue to
form some part of the world's warp and woof. This is all I can say to
you, and I bid you good evening.
When the residence of President Dwight was next visited and
cheered, he responded as follows:
Gentlemen: I suppose that you feel that the college has grown younger
since you graduated, having a new president; but the mistake was on
your part. You should have graduated three years later, and then you
70 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
would realize that I am old enough to speak when I have time for prepara-
tion. But as you have graduated so early, and I did not know until last
week some time that you expected to come here, I have been unable to
write out what I had intended to say, although I see in front of me a
young man who would have been willing, if I had notified him, to write
out a speech for me. I can, therefore, congratulate you that you gradu-
ated three years ago, that you have had so much experience of life
since, that you are going to have a quiet meeting this evening, that the col-
lege will remember you on account of this meeting and that the college
survived the departure of my class and your class and still continues to
give blessings to coming generations. I understand that your class is a
little larger than the class graduating, to-morrow, in your own estima-
tion, and a little bit smaller in the estimation of the class of to-morrow.
Being here now, I am inclined to take the side of the class graduating
to-morrow and rejoice in the fact that it is the largest class that ever
graduated. I notice you don't applaud this. Well, I didn't suppose you
would. I present to you my good wishes that you will make one of the
classes of the future and in proportion to the standard you may go by,
and may be in the future, as you have in the past, and may your class
be equal to '87 or any other Class which has ever graduated, except
1886, of which a representative stands in the yard, and the Class of 1849,
to which I am happy to say I myself belong. May success ever attend
you; may you have much enjoyment to-night; may you never forget the
college, and may you remember that when I call upon you to help Yale
University in its progress you are bound by a solemn pledge, given by
one of your own members this morning, and that you must push from
behind while I pull from before.
The presentation of the class cup to our class-boy, Thayer
McMillan, born April 20, 1885, and the class dinner took place at
Loomis Hall, Speer acting as toastmaster. Speer, in his opening
address, said in part:
. . . We are all glad to see so many men here to-night. I would that
not only all of us fellows should sit around this board, but that Kim
and Boswell and Peck, Ed. Lawrence and dear old Tom, all the old boys
whose earthly preparatory school days are over, were here too. Per-
haps they are. Possibly at this moment those seemingly vacant seats are
filled by the old boys who are holding their spiritual reunion with the
Class of '84, of which they were the best beloved members.
But we are here not only to commemorate this triennial of the class,
but to celebrate this child of the class, Thayer McMillan, our class boy
(three times three were given for Thayer McMillan and his ancestor).
May this boy be a true man, sturdy in early manhood and his joyful old
age. I am not here to say what a great boy he is ; I am not to say
how much we rejoice with his father; the fates have been kind to our
classmate; our hearts go out with his in confidence in the manliness of
his first-born.
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The presentation address was delivered by Havens, from whose
speech the following extracts are made. After a hunmnnis refer-
ence to the hopes of other men that they mi-lit achieve the honor
won hv McMillan, he said:
But all this is past now, if not forgotten. Our individual disappoint-
ments, except, of course, in a few instances, are merged in our class pridr,
and we rejoice to crown you, handsome father of a handsomer son; with
all the honor, praise and glory which your unequalled record demands and
deserves. Other classes have presented cups to bawling babies, mewling
THAYER MC MILLAN IN l88j
in their nurse's arms, mere bundles of long clothes, red-faced and tooth-
less, bald and anonymous ; but you bring us a manly son, reflecting
already the graces of his mother, and yet withal the very image of his
dad. . . .
Tell him of the strength of Hyndman and the length of Eliot; of the
pluck of Tompkins and the piety of our deacons; tell him of the grace
of Spencer and father Prout, of the eloquence of Makuen, the genius of
Wagner, the wit of Wilder and the diction of Eddy Gale. Teach him to
study with Gus Gruener, to pitch with Dan and Sam, to catch with
Souther and to row with trusty Scott.
It is in this spirit then that we are met to-night to honor you, Thayer
McMillan, as our class-boy and I have the pleasure to present to you, in
behalf of the Class of Eighty-four, this cup.
72 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
May the sorrows of your life all drown in it, your joys ten thousand
times ten thousand o'erflow it ; may your life be as perfect and your
character as symmetrical as the well-rounded circle of its brim. Cherish
it, my boy, as in some small measure a token of the esteem we bear your
mother, the love we bear your father and the pride we feel in you. Long
life, health, success and happiness, — these are the wishes of our class for
our class-boy.
A poem was then read by Ed Wells, from which the follow-
ing verses are selected :
See the class is assuming the godfather's role
With the dignity born of that lofty position,
And a duplicate glory illumines each jowl,
For the joy of a philoprogenitive mission
By proxy awakes a response in each soul.
You can draw the blue veil from the face of the sea,
You can wrest from its bosom the storm-hoarded treasure,
But your vaunting philosopher, brash though he be,
Lays his plummet aside, for no plummet can measure
The still subtle visions that flood infancy.
The immutable laws of heredity shape
The unfolding of life in force, time and direction.
And we mannikin puppets unconsciously ape
Our ancestors' model in mind and complexion,
Nor their virtues improve nor their errors escape.
If this logic of science is true you'll admit
Our little ^neas a fortunate fellow,
Here's a ready-made character just to his fit,
'Tis a suit of his father's, its colors are mellow
With the tints of Yalensian wisdom and wit.
While his talents, and virtues a numberless host,
By descent and inheritance bravely recruited,
Hurry by in review with bravado and boast,
Draw the resonant cork, let each goblet be fruited
With the soul of the vineyard, this be your toast:
May Dame Fortune the best from her storehouses send
As Dame Fortune is lavish, Miss Fortune be chary;
May his heart at the throne of his intellect bend,
May his head and his heart undivorceably marry,
May the world be his debtor and heaven his friend.
OUR REUNIONS 73
The following is the official toast list :
THE CLASS ....................................... Gustave F. Gruener.
"Cynthia prima fuit, Cynthia finis crit." —
YALE UNIVERSITY .................................... Edward C. Gale.
"It is my honor and my love to free
Her blasted fame,
From the least spot or thought of blame." — Herbert.
THE FACULTY ........................................ Amos P. Wilder.
"But what good came of it at last?
Quoth little Peterkin,
Why, that I cannot tell." — Southey.
THEOLOGY .......................................... George W. Judson.
"A little, round, fat, oily man of God." — James Thomson.
LAW ........................................... Henry T. Shelton, Jr.
"A few termes coude he, two or three,
That he had learned out of some decree ;
No wonder is, he heard it all the day." — Chaucer.
OUR [MARRIED MEN ............................... Joseph G. Holliday.
"On my knees I pardon crave for this offence,
Which did from love and true affection first commence/' — Old Ballad.
OUR BUSINESS MEN ................................... Ray Tompkins.
"I cannot raise my worth too high,
Of what vast consequence am I." — Gay.
OUR JOURNALISTS .................................. Robert H. Lyman.
"No critics had a sourer air,
They forced their way through draggled folks,
Who gaped to catch Jack Pudding's jokes.
They borrowed tickets for the show,
And got of course the foremost row." — Gay.
OUR LEGISLATORS ..................................... Henry A. Bishop.
"On folly's lips eternal tattlings dwell." — Samuel Bishop.
OUR PHYSICIANS .................................. Ellsworth Eliot, Jr.
"Hath this fellow no feeling of his business
That he sings at grave-making?"— Shakespeare.
74 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
A reading- of the responses to the toasts brings freshly to
memory those peculiarly appropriate and well-delivered speeches
and their enthusiastic reception. Unfortunately space requires
that we reproduce only a few extracts of more permanent interest
than the rest. Gruener said in part as follows :
. . . You all know the story of the famous Grecian who, at the Olym-
pic festival, had the remarkable honor and happiness of seeing his two
sons win first prizes. How, as his two boys laid the prizes at his feet,
a bystander, moved by the sublimity of the sight, cried out, "Now die,
O Isagoras, for thou hast experienced the greatest honor that can
fall to a mortal's lot !" and the old man in excess of joy fell dead at
his sons' feet. Thus it was with all college customs and usages, which
'84 was the last class to enjoy. It was time for them to die, for they
had lived to be honored by that great class, and further life meant noth-
ing more. What better time for the Freshman Societies to pass away,
than when they could have as their pall-bearers and chief mourners the
best lot of men that ever entered their halls?
What could be the good of Sunday morning chapel to a class that came
into college at the time with the introduction of the ulster? When an
ulster and a pair of shoes were toilet enough for anybody? And the
freshman class supper! Never before had this event been celebrated
with such eclat; it had reached its highest glory and death could not come
at a better time. The faculty fully appreciated the fact. . . .
Sophomore Year, South Middle! What a flood of recollections!
Air-filled gas-pipes, coal-scuttles and trunks, cannon fire-crackers and dyna-
mite bombs ! Truly I have never been able to find the least fault with the
"powers that be" for taking Old South Middle away from the sophomore
class. One thing was always noticeable about our class, and that was the
power of growth, which produced a corresponding growth in the officers
over us. Eighty-four had developed a remarkable aptitude in writing
sick excuses, and straightway, the system of "cuts" was introduced.
So it was always. In junior year, the quality of our literary men was
so high that it was recognized that eight men could say as much and
say it better than ten men of any other class; hence, eight became the
number of Junior Ex. men. . . .
But breaking up all customs and usages is, however, not our only
glory. Do you remember how we broke all records in other things? How
our class graduated 150 men, the largest number of its own men that
any class had ever graduated ? Do you remember that great "Triple
Victory," the grandest record Yale has ever made in athletics? In what
a halo of glory '84 left college?
And to-day its reputation is great. To-day you hear men speak of the
class of '84 with admiration and respect. But our greatness comes, not
because we have so many geniuses in our class, for we have none. Our
class was a class of solid, good common-sense fellows, the men that it
is Yale's boast that she turns out, men who have made the history of
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our college and our country, who, to-day, compose its elm f strength and
pride. Our greatness comes from our frank, hearty good-fellowship; a
good-fellowship based upon our appreciation of each other's good quali-
ties, a good-fellowship that began in the very beginning of our career
and marked it to the end; a good fellowship that has accompanied us
ever since and brings back to our Triennial the largest number of men
ever back at the reunion of any class — a good fellowship, and its neces-
sary result, a deep and lasting friendship that, I know, will attend us
always and keep us firm friends until a star shall stand against each n.mu
in the Triennial catalogue, and '84 shall have become a thing of the past.
Wilder spoke in part as follows :
I had hoped that this toast would have been assigned to a low-stand
man. It seems almost like a breach of confidence for one who graduated
with the same rank as the class poet; . . . for one who has grubbed
for Greek roots and other equally dry vegetation with a Seymour; for
one who has sat on "Andy" Phillips' knee and whose little hand has
been guided by "Andy's" for two years about a curve, every part of which
is equally distant from a point within called the center, in a vain attempt
to find a sidetrack — such is the man, Mr. Chairman, whom you have com-
pelled to respond to the toast of that eminently respectable, well-fed and
not altogether ill-meaning body of men — I refer to the Yale faculty.
Daniel Webster made no defence for his Massachusetts because it needed
none. So I make no defence for the Yale faculty; there is none to be
made. . . .
And, fellows, I cannot forbear from saying here, in a serious vein,
that perhaps no other picture of college memories has left a deeper
imprint on my recollection, and, I believe, has left a more lasting impres-
sion on my character, than the remembrance of the kindly, scholarly,
spiritual face of the great Porter talking in a fatherly way to that
crowd of careless, heedless, yet, after all, reverent boys, lying about the
room in every idle position which his gentleness tolerated — talking to
them as to his equals of the great truths of mental and moral philosophy —
a field in which a world delights to honor him. I know now, knew then,
little that he said. But, careless as we were, twinged occasionally in the
conscience by the thought that we were wasting opportunities, simply to
watch his grand face, as the afternoon shadows deepened about the
little group, was to learn that mind is above matter; that the soul may
grow more and more like its divine source ; that it is better to be right
than wrong ; to be pure than impure. . . .
Yale does stamp her sons with an individuality. It may be that only
the young men of personality come to New Haven, but I am inclined to
think there are very ordinary American boys that come here, but they
mingle for four years under the elms with the boy from California, from
New York, from the South and from the Islands of the Sea, and in the
class room they look up for four years into the faces of the Porters, the
Danas, the Wrights — here, classmates, is where the imprint of Yale
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individuality is cast; and if we ever have or ever intend to achieve any-
thing, let us bring the laurels back to Yale and lay them where they
belong, at the feet of the faculty.
Returning to the Campus, as the Triennial Record says, "The
silence of three years was broken in a way that, to some of us,
recalled the night that old Scott sent Yale's boat far ahead of
the crimson, and crowned the victories of our course with a
triple crown."
We were fortunate enough to see at New London another Yale
victory as an incident of our triennial.
The committee in charge of the triennial were Merritt, Crom-
well and S. W. Hopkins.
Aside from our delight at seeing one another again, and the
other emotions natural to any triennial reunion, there came to
us at that time a feeling which hardly found expression, but
which will be recognized by any one of us who reads the address
above quoted, made to us by our dearly beloved President Porter,
from whose hand we had received our degrees, and then reads
that of President Dwight.
1890
Our sexennial reunion was attended by about sixty-six men.
At our business meeting, held on June 24, in the old Chapel,
Merritt presiding, Daggett was chosen secretary and Buist was
appointed to represent the class at the Alumni dinner on Com-
mencement day. Swift, on his departure for Japan in 1888, had
turned over the papers held by him as class secretary to E.
Wells, who at this meeting rendered his report and declined to
serve longer, though he was authorized to complete the compila-
tion and publication of the sexennial record, which he was very
willing to do. W. F. Booth spoke for the class at the meeting
of the Alumni in the forenoon.
After the ball game, our class, with the decennial class, '80,
combined our bands and marched in parallel columns to Presi-
dent Porter's and President Dwight's. We had our dinner that
evening at Hill's Homestead, Savin Rock, where Wilder presided,
and where speeches were made also by Merritt, Havens, Gruener,
Pavey, Buist and Bishop. At the race on Friday, about thirty
of the class were together on the observation train.
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1894
Our decennial reunion was attended by eighty-one men, count-
ing all those who were here at any time during the week. On
Tuesday, June 26, at the business meeting Swift presided and
the secretary reported the amounts which had been turned over
by him to the Alumni University Fund in the name of the class,
beginning in 1891. He also reported the removal of the Class
ivy to the east wall of the Art School building, made necessary
by the alterations in Battell Chapel, against which the ivy was
originally planted. Cromwell, Trowbridge and the secretary
were appointed to arrange for the next reunion. Holliday was
chosen to respond for the class at the Alumni dinner. At the
meeting of the Alumni Tuesday morning, the speaker who had
been selected by the committee of the Alumni to respond for
the class failing to appear, Judson volunteered, and did himself
and us credit. We took special cars for the Yale Field with
Pope's Military Band and witnessed a rather lifeless game.
After the usual call upon President Dwight and our visit of
respect to Lawrance Hall, we were greeted by Professor Eugene
L. Richards at the entrance to the new gymnasium and listened
with much delight to his warm words of recognition and welcome.
The dinner was held at Harmonic Hall, seventy-four men
attending, Evarts presiding. Speeches were made by Buist, Rey-
nolds, Curtis, Foster and Porter. Thirty-six members of the
class attended the race at New London on Thursday.
These were the times when the beautiful old Campus as we
had known it was entering upon its transition to the quadrangle
as we see it now. The disappearance of the old fence and the
institution of other changes, as was to be expected, aroused a
sentiment which found expression in some of the speeches made
at the dinner, in consequence of which there was afterwards
some newspaper discussion. The sentiment was also put in
concrete form in the shape of a reproduction of two lengths
of the old fence, which we placed where our old fence used
to be and used it as a rallying point.
1899
About forty men were present at our quindecennial reunion,
which was opened by a business meeting in Osborn Hall, Tues-
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day, June -.7, Oakford presiding. The death of Cromwell hav-
ing occurred since the last reunion, Halsey acted as one of the
committee of arrangements and at this meeting the same com-
mittee, namely. 1 )aggett, Halsey and Trowbridge, were continued.
with authority to arrange for a reunion at the time of the bicen-
tennial. \Ye had Colt's Band of Hartford, and held our dinner at
Lenox Hall, at which Halsey presided, and impromptu speeches
were made by Buist, Bishop, Chapman, Cottle, Foster, Phelps,
Tompkins, D. Walker, W. Williams. F. Jones and Judson.
1901
We had no formal reunion in connection with the bicentennial
celebration of the University in October, 1901, but there were
seventy members of the class present at one time or another
during the week. We had headquarters during the four days
at rooms in the Young Men's Republican Club, corner of Temple
and Crown streets, where a light lunch was served on each day.
A novel plan was carried out by which those who wished to do so
had sleeping quarters on board the Sound steamer C. H. Northam,
at Heaton's wharf. While the formal exercises and events
arranged for the occasion were of great interest and the love
and respect of all of us for Yale and her history were renewed,
two other features, perhaps incidental, gave us unusual pleasure
and made a lasting impression. The reunion brought together
men of all classes and we saw, as we seldom have the oppor-
tunity, the men of those classes whose reunion years never
coincide with ours, and the presence of President Roosevelt and
of the distinguished gathering of statesmen, church dignitaries,
authors, educators, musicians, men of science and war heroes,
was in itself sufficient reward for those who came.
The celebration formally began with services in Battell Chapel,
Sunday morning, October 20. On Monday there were formal
addresses of welcome and responses by guests, and in the evening
the memorable torchlight parade, in which thousands of Yale
graduates participated. The graduate column included at its
head one member of the Class of 1845 and five of the Class
of 1850, among whom was Rev. Albert Booth, the father of
two of our classmates. On Tuesday afternoon, there was a
football game at the Field, and in the evening the Yale Dramatic
Association presented on the Campus scenes from the history
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of the college, at which it was said there were present more
than one-half of the living Yale graduate-. ( )n the morning
of Wednesday, the climax came in the conferring of honorary
degrees in the Hyperion Theatre, at which ceremony even so
venerable a class as '84 found themselves so far in the rear of
the procession that they just managed t«» squeeze into the top-
most gallery. It will be remembered that on this occasion
President Roosevelt electrified the audience by his forceful
assertion, "I have never yet worked at a task worth doing that
I did not find myself working shoulder to shoulder with some
son of Yale.'' Our present President Wilson received a degree,
Litt.D. One of the pleasures of the bicentennial was a glimpse
that we had of our old friend Cyrus Northrop, who attended
as the President of the University of Minnesota.
Our classmates had no great part in the arrangements for
the bicentennial, though on the sub-committee, which had in
charge the raising of funds, we note the names of Foster, Gale,
Halsey, and Taylor. No doubt all members of the class who
were not present recognized the occasion in feeling if not
in form, perhaps some of them by taking part in the formal
celebrations which were held in distant places, as F. Strong,
for instance, did in Oregon.
1904
Our twentieth year reunion began Sunday, June 26, by the
opening of our headquarters, which we held during the week
in the parlors of the Young Men's Republican Club. The
business meeting was held on Tuesday, at which the secretary
was requested to publish a class record, and the committee which
had charge of this reunion was continued to take charge of
the next, namely Daggett, Halsey and Trowbridge. Seventy-
two men were present at the luncheon served at the hall of the
Young Men's Republican Club Tuesday noon, after which the
class attended the Harvard- Yale game in a body. In the evening
we visited President Hadley and were addressed by him, cheered
the memory of our beloved President Porter at his house and
of Tom Lawrance at Lawrance Hall, then sat down to dinner
in the banquet hall of the Young Men's Republican Club, seventy-
four men present. Fred. Jones acted as toastmaster and speeches
were made during the evening by Buist, Cain, Evarts, Foster,
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Gale, Halsey, Judson, Merritt, Tompkins, Wagner and \\Olf.
A goodly number attended the Yale-Harvard race at New
London as usual.
1909
Our twenty-fifth-year reunion will live in the memory of all
present as without question the best that we ever had. The
fact that our classmate, Fred. Jones, was about to assume his
new position of Dean of the Academic Department, the presence
of President Taft at the Commencement exercises, the presence
with us of some men who had not been to any former reunion
since graduation and the new realization of the memories whidi
we, as '84 men, have in common with one another, all contributed
to make the time one of peculiar pleasure. The following
account was prepared for the Yale Alumni Weekly by the
secretary :
The Class of 1884 celebrated its quarter-century reunion with ninety-
nine men, over three-fourths of the living members of the class return-
ing. Commodious headquarters were maintained from Saturday before
Commencement until the day after the boat race, at the Thacher House,
255 Crown Street. Meals were served in the headquarters regularly and
a large tent, electric lighted and furnished with tables and chairs, formed
a chief gathering and lounging place during the entire week. Sixty of
the men had rooms in the Hutchinson dormitory and all the returned mem-
bers were housed near the headquarters.
Sunday afternoon thirty of the men went to Bridgeport, at the invi-
tation of Henry A. Bishop, on his steam yacht Akela, took dinner at
the Bridgeport Yacht Club. Monday noon the class took luncheon at the
New Haven Country Club, to which were invited the wives and chil-
dren of the members, ninety-three in all being present. At the Alumni
meeting, Tuesday morning, Rev. Edward M. Chapman of Lyme, Conn.,
responded for the class. The compliments paid by President Hadley to
Frederic S. Jones, the incoming college dean, were enthusiastically
received, as was the tribute from President Taft at the Alumni dinner
the next day to Commissioner William Williams. Tuesday noon the wives
and families were invited to take lunch with the class in the tent at
headquarters and there were present in all about one hundred and
thirty. All took special cars for the baseball game at Yale Field, where
the men of the party occupied seats together on the open stand. After
the victory, headed by the Governor's Foot Guard Band, the class marched
back to headquarters and then paid their respects to Dean Wright at
his home on York Street; to the memory of "Tom" Lawrance at Law-
ranee Hall; to the memory of President Porter, at his old home; and
cheered and listened to ex-President Dwight and President Hadley. On
the return the class stopped at the house of Leonard M. Daggett, the
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secretary, on \Yall Street, to cheer tin- wives and families of tin- dais,
who were there being entertained by Mrs. Daggett. The reunion dinner
was held at the Young Men's Republican Club hall, at which niiu-ty-
five men were present. Ray Tompkins presided and there were spcechrs
by l\ Strong, Penniman, Wolf, Hyndman and l;rederic S. Jones. Some
two hundred lantern slides, prepared by Lambert and thrown upon tin-
screen under his direction, were shown, including many views of the old
buildings as they were when '84 was in college and pictures of many
of the men, professors and athletic teams. Sixty-live members remained
and attended the boat race on Thursday and the headquarters were not
closed until Friday noon.
A large fund was raised from which the expenses of the
reunion were paid, a sum set aside for the publication of this
record, and a generous sum turned over to the University. The
terms of the gift to the University were expressed in a vote of
the class, which, with further particulars, may be found later in
this book, where are set forth all contributions made in the name
of the class for the use of the University.
1914
The day of our thirtieth reunion is, when we go to press, not
yet come, but arrangements have been made for the headquar-
ters, June 13 to June 20, at the Music School, the former home
of President Dwight, corner College and Wall streets.
WINTER DINNERS
1886
A reunion dinner of '84 men was held at Delmonico's, March
6, at which verses by E. Wells, entitled "A Masque by the Way,"
were read. Speer presided and the toasts were: "Our Poets,''
I-. Wells, Jr.; "84," J. T. Swift; "The Bar," F. K. Curtis;
"Our Orators," G. H. Makuen; "Our Journalists," R. H.
Lyman ; "Yale," E. A. Merritt. The following men were pres-
ent : Behrisch, Bowen, Bristow, E. Coley, Colt, Curtis, Crom-
well, Dodge, Doolittle, Eaton, Ely, Evarts, Farwell, Foster,
Fountain, S. Hopkins, Kerr, Kimberly, Lambert, Lough, Lyman,
Makuen, Merritt, W. E. Nichols, Pringle, Ross, Shelton, Speer,
Swift, Tomlinson, Tuttle, Wagner, A. B. Wells, E. WTells, Wood
and Worcester.
1902
Members of the class living in Xew York and neighboring-
states had a reunion at the Yale Club in New York, December
13, 1902. Halsey presided and speeches were made by Eliot,
Evarts, Foster, Gruener, Lambert, Makuen, Painter, Pavey, Pen-
niman, Tompkins, Twombly and W. Williams. In addition to
those who spoke, the following were present: Behrisch, Boyd,
Bristow, W. B. Coley, Colt, Curtis, Daggett, Dodge, Ely, Foun-
tain, Holden, H. C. Hopkins, S. W. Hopkins, Jennings, Lincoln,
Lyman, Mead, Peck, Platt, E. I. Sanford, W. H. Sanford,
Scharps, Shelton, Speer, Taylor, E. Wells and Wood.
1907
March p. The following members of the class dined together
at the Yale Club in New York : Allen, Behrisch, Boyd, Bristow,
Cain, Chapman, W. B. Coley, Colt, Daggett, Doolittle, Eliot,
Gruener, Halsey, Henry C. Hopkins, Sidney W. Hopkins, Hovey,
Hyndman, Jennings, Makuen, McAndrew, Merritt, Painter,
Pavey, Peck, Phelps, Speer, Spencer, W. L. Strong, Taylor,
Trowbri.l-r. Twombly, Edward Wells, William Williams, Wood,
and H. A. Bishop. Hyndman acted as toastmaster.
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No set speeches were expected or made. Those present took
appropriate action concerning- the recent death of McMillan.
1908
April 4. The dinner was he-Id at the Yale Club, at which
Ilyndman presided and the following spoke: Allen, Ayres,
Bishop, Boyd, Bristow, Curtis, Daggett, Eliot, Gruener, Halsey,
Havens, Lambert, Makuen, Painter, Pardee, Pavey, Peck, Penni-
man, Porter, Reynolds, Scharps, Tompkins and Twomhly.
There were also present: Behrisch, Carpenter, W. Coley, Colt,
Dodge, Holden, Hovey, Jennings, Jessup, Kerr, Phelps. \\ .
Strong, Taylor, E. Wells, and Wood.
1909
January 16. Dinner at the Yale Club in New York, at which
plans for the twenty-fifth-year reunion in June were discussed
at length. Hyndman presided. Those who spoke during the
evening were : Armour, Bishop, Curtis, Evarts, Foster, Gruener,
Halsey, Hovey, Lambert, Merritt, Painter, Pavey, Peck, Speer
and Twombly. Besides these there were present Behrisch, Boyd,
Bristow, Carpenter, W. B. Coley, Dodge, Eliot, Farwell, Foun-
tain, Havens, Holden, Hopkins, Jennings, Lyman, W. E. Nichols,
Pardee, Shelton, Trowbridge and Wood.
1910
March 26. Dinner at the Yale Club in New York, at which
Hyndman presided and several informal speeches were made
during the evening, including one by Dean Jones, telling some of
his experiences in his new position at Yale. The following men
were present: Ayres, Behrisch, Bentley, Boyd, Bristow, Buist,
Carpenter, W. B. Coley, Dodge, Doolittle, Eliot, Gruener, Halsey,
Havens, Holden, Hovey, Hughson, Hyndman, F. Jones, Lambert,
Lyman, Mayer, Painter, Pavey, Peck, Penniman, Reynolds, W. L.
Strong, Taylor, Tompkins, Twombly and W. Williams.
1911
January 15. Dinner at the Yale Club in New York, at which
Hyndman presided and the following men were present: Allen,
Bentley, Bishop, Bristow, Carpenter, Chapman, W. B. Coley>
88 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Colt, Cottle, Curtis, Daggett, Eliot, Fountain, Gruener, Halsey,
Havens, Holden, Holmes, Hopkins, Hovey, Hyndman, Jessup,
Kwai, Lambert, Lyman, McCormick, McAndrew, Makuen, Mead,
Painter, Pavey, Peck, W. L. Strong, Taylor, Tompkins, Tong,
Trowbridge, and Twombly. The reunion was of unusual inter-
est because of the presence of Tong, one of our Chinese students,
who was recalled by his government during our sophomore year
and who at this time met many of the men whom he had not
seen since that time. He was able to call many of us by name
and entertained us by recalling many incidents which were still
fresh in his mind and which had been more readily forgotten by
us. He created much amusement by telling how he learned
from Merritt, that enthusiast, the song which he was always
singing, of which the refrain was "Cold day when we get left.
Whoop it up for '84," and how he carried that song back to
China and sang it there to the great mystification of all who
heard him. Tong made the speech of the evening, being closely
questioned by several members present, who were especially
interested in hearing what he had to say of the new regime
in China. Other speakers during the evening were Allen, Chap-
man, Cottle, Curtis, Daggett, Gruener, Halsey, Havens, Holmes,
Lyman, McCormick, Painter, Pavey, Tompkins and Twombly.
1912
March I. Dinner at the Yale Club, at which, as usual, Hynd-
man presided, and at which the following men were present:
Cain from Chestertown, Aid. ; Kwai from Washington, D. C. ;
Allen from Springfield, Mass. ; Dawes from Pittsfield, Mass. ;
Holmes from Providence, R. I. ; Makuen from Philadelphia, Pa. ;
McCormick from Harrisburg, Pa. ; Daggett, Gruener, and Trow-
bridge from New Haven, Conn.; Bishop and Peck from Bridge-
port, Conn. ; Dodge and W. Strong from New Brunswick, N. J. ;
Hyndman from Xewbunjli, X. Y., and Carpenter from Sheko-
meko, N. Y. ; and from New York, Bentley, Bristow, \V. Coley,
Curtis, Eliot, Halsey, Holden, Hovey, Painter, Pavey, Scharps.
Taylor, Twombly, W. Williams and Wood. Informal speeches
were made by Gruener, Cain, Dai^vtt. P.ishop, Dawes, Halsey,
Holden. Makuen, Pavey and Twombly. Holmes read some verses
which IK- had composed on his way to the dinner, and Hovey
told of tin- r.orup expedition to Crocker Land under the auspices
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of a committee of which Hovey was a im-mbcr. The evening was
enlivened by a visit to '82, who were having a similar diniu-r in
an adjoining room, and the return \ i-it made to us by that class.
1913
March 15. A dinner was held at the Blackstone llou-1 in
Chicago, at which the following nu-n were present: Bigelow,
Farwell, Gale, Hamill, Havens, Holliday, Jernberg, Kinley,
Knight, Mayer, Marston, Patterson, Pollock, Spencer, Stein,
Tomlinson, C. M. Walker, Wolf and A. I',. Wells. The occasion
was a very unusual one and was very successful. The men
arranging it had the senior class pictures of those who were
expected to be present reproduced in the form of a blotter, and
many memorabilia were used in decorating the table, including
the original '84 flag that was flung to the breezes from the old
State House, was captured by '83 and recaptured from them, a
portion of the old Jeffersonian Club flag, the tearing down of
which was the immediate cause of the abolition of the freshman
societies, the '85 flag, which was raised to the top of the flag-
pole on the Green and captured by our class on the morning of
the Junior Promenade, also a part of the clapper of the old
chapel bell. Greetings were read from many of the class who
wished they could be present and who will certainly make an
effort to be present if Chicago ever gets up another class dinner.
1914
March 13. The Yale Alumni Dinner was held in New York
and by the request of its managers our class dinner, which had
been scheduled for February 27, was omitted, and the members
of our class who attended the large dinner sat together. On
Saturday, the I4th, several members of the class took lunch
together at the University Club in Xew York.
BIOGRAPHIES OF GRADUATES
Frederic S. Allen
Lexicographer
G. & C. Merriam Co., Springfield, Mass.
Residence, 83 St. James Avenue, Springfield
Frederic Sturges Allen was born in Xorwalk, Conn., October
i, 1861, son of Alfred Burr Allen and Caroline (Sturges) Allen,
who were married November 6, 1854, and had one other son,
Willard Increase.
Alfred Burr Allen (born in Norwalk, Conn., deceased) wa>
a son of Increase Allen and Sally (Patchen) Allen, and through
his mother a descendant of Charles Chauncey, president of
Harvard from 1663 to 1671.
Caroline (Sturges) Allen (born in Fairfield, Conn., deceased)
was a daughter of Jonathan Sturges.
92 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Allen prepared at the Norwalk and Bridgeport public schools,
and in college was a member of Gamma Nu, took second prize
Berkeley Premium for Latin composition, second Winthrop
prize, High Oration junior appointment and Oration appoint-
ment for Commencement.
After graduation Allen went to Winona, Minn. In October
of the same year he returned to New Haven and in November
began work on Webster's International Dictionary, then being
prepared for publication. Finishing work on that dictionary in
June, 1890, he entered the Yale Law School, taking the degree of
LL.B. in 1892. He practiced law in New York City, in partner-
ship with John Holden of our class, under the firm name of
Holden & Allen, from 1892 to 1902, meantime continuing to do
dictionary work.
Since 1898 he has been next to the editor-in-chief of the edi-
tions of Webster's International and of Webster's New Inter-
national Dictionary.
In 1902 he withdrew from the practice of the law and gave
his whole time to the work of preparing the 1910 edition of the
dictionary, being at the head of an editorial corps of general
editors and specialists. He himself was also the law specialist,
contributing definitions in law and allied subjects. After the
completion of the 1910 edition, Allen went to Atlanta, where he
stayed until April, 1910, then returned to Springfield and again
took up his former work. He has in preparation a dictionary
of synonyms, fuller and more exact than those now in use.
He has written a number of articles on legal, dictionary and
linguistic subjects for "Johnson's Universal Encyclopaedia,"
"Appleton's Universal Encyclopaedia," "The New International
Encyclopaedia," "Nelson's Encyclopaedia" and "A Cyclopedia of
Kdncation." He has published the "Principles of Spelling
Reform" and one or two other pamphlets.
He is a member of the New York Yale Club, of the Associa-
tion of the Bar of New York City and of various literary and
legal societies.
He married, April 9, 1895, Annie M. White, daughter of
Luther Waterman White of North Adams, Mass. They have
one child, Marian Caroline, born June 9, 1896, in New York City.
BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES
Wallace S. Allis
Lawyer
91 Main Street, Norwich, Conn.
Residence, 14 Elm Avenue, Norwich Town.
Wallace Steele Allis was born in Brookfield, Vt., August 7,
1859. His parents, Andrew Steele Allis and Laura Maria
(Walbridge) Allis, were married July 19, 1854, and had two
other children : Egbert H., of Brookfield, Vt., and Mrs. Gertrude
(Allis) Hardy, of Amherst, Mass.
Andrew Steele Allis (born Brookfield, Vt., September i, 1821,
died July 26, 1894), a farmer, was the son of Elisha Allis and
Mary (Steele) Allis, both of Brookfield.
Laura (Walbridge) Allis (born January 20, 1834, Brookfield,
Vt.) is the daughter of William Walbridge and Maria (Car-
penter) Walbridge.
Allis prepared for Yale at the Norwich Free Academy, Nor-
wich, Conn., and in college was a member of Psi Upsilon, took
a prize for English composition in sophomore year, a Townsend
Premium and was a Commencement speaker.
94 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
After graduation Allis taught in the Norwich Free Academy
from 1884 to 1889. He studied law in the office of Jeremiah
Halsey, while teaching, in 1888 was admitted to the New
London County bar and has practiced law in Norwich since that
time. He traveled abroad during the summer of 1888.
Among the corporations which he has represented as attorney
are the Chelsea Savings Bank since 1902 ; City of Norwich since
1909; the Dime Savings Bank and the Uncas National Bank.
Since 1896 he has been a director in the Uncas National Bank and,
since 1903, its president.
In politics Allis is a Republican. He was state senator in
1901-1903, prosecuting" attorney for the Criminal Court of Com-
mon Pleas, 1906-1909, and city attorney of Norwich for several
years. He is a member of the Second Congregational Church of
Norwich, has been chairman of its Society's Committee and
superintendent of its Sunday school.
He is a member of the Chelsea Boat Club, Arcanum Club,
Open House Club, and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
He married in Norwich, September 14, 1904, Alice Adams
Lathrop, a graduate of Norwich Free Academy in 1887, daughter
of Edwin Lathrop, a graduate of Scituate Academy, R. I. They
had one child, Lydia Campbell, born April 28, 1907, died May
5,, 1907-
Allison V. Armour
10 West 43d Street, New York City
Residence, 83 Stockton Street, Princeton, N. J.
Allison Vincent Armour was born in Chicago, 111., March 18,
1863. His parents were George Armour and Barbara (Allison)
Armour.
George Armour, a merchant, was born in Campbelltown, Scot-
land, April 24, 1812, and died in Brighton, England, in 1881.
1 1 <.' was one of a group of Scotchmen who settled in Chicago
in its early days, financed its first banking house and were for
many years closely identified with the city's financial prosperity.
He was the first president of the Art Institute, president of the
Board of Trade, trustee of the Y. M. C. A. and director of
various local companies.
I'.arbara (Allison) Armour was born in East Kilbrich, Scot-
land, May 15, 1826, and died in Charleston, S. C., in March, 1898.
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95
Armour prepared at the Harvard School in Chicago, and in
college was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon, Eta Phi, Psi
Upsilon and Scroll and Key, rowed on the class crew in sopho-
more year, was one of the board of governors of the Yale Uni-
versity Club, and on the junior promenade committee.
After graduation he spent some time abroad and the following
spring entered the Hide and Leather National Bank of Chicago.
In 1886 he left the bank and gave his whole attention to the
management of family and other estates. He has spent much
of his time abroad; in the earlier years with his mother, after-
wards on account of his wife's health, until her death.
He has taken much interest in yachting, has studied navigation,
qualified as master mariner and commanded his own steam
yacht on several cruises in Central American and eastern waters,
finding much pleasure and interest in accompanying and assist-
ing archaeological explorations in Yucatan, and later in the
islands of the Mediterranean, in Italy, and in Greece. For
several years he has had the unusual privilege of personal
acquaintance with Emperor William of Germany, who on June
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28, 1912, conferred upon him the Order of the Red Eagle of the
second class.
In politics Armour is a Republican, "generally." He is a
member of the University, Union, and New York Yacht clubs
of New York, the Bath Club of London, the Imperial Yacht
Club of Kiel, the Imperial Automobile Club of Berlin, and the
Chicago and University clubs of Chicago.
He married in Chicago, December 10, 1885, Anne Louise Kel-
ley, a graduate of Miss Porter's School, Farmington, Conn.,
daughter of David Kelley, an iron merchant. Airs. Armour
died in Nice, France, April 3, 1890.
Francis O. Ayres
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, i Madison Avenue,
New York City
Residence, Scarsdale, New York
Francis Oliver Ayres was born in Oakham, Mass., February
16, 1862. His parents, Moses O. Ayres and Hannah Ingalls
i I aniliam) Ayres, were married January 20, 1854, and had two
BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES 97
other children : Alice (Ay res) Smith (Wellesley '83), and Win-
field (Boston University '86).
Moses O. Ayres (born New Braintree, Mass., July 28, 1826,
died Oakham, Mass., December, 1895), a graduate of Leicester
Academy, was a manufacturer, held town and county office and
was a State Senator. His family had f«»r many years been
residents of Oakham.
Hannah Ingalls (Farnham) Ayres was born in North Andover,
Mass., August 28, 1830.
Ayres prepared at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and
in college was a member of Delta Kappa and Delta Kappa Epsi-
lon, played on the lacrosse team, on the class baseball team in
junior year, was a member of the class ivy committee, had High
Oration junior appointment, and Oration appointment senior
year.
After graduation he taught in the King school in Stamford,
Conn. He then went to New York and studied law, attend-
ing the Columbia Law School, and was admitted to the bar in
1889. He was for a time in the office of Arnoux, Ritch &
\Voodforcl.
Since June, 1892, Ayres has been connected with the Metro-
politan Life Insurance Company of New York City, of which he
was elected fourth vice president in 1903.
Politically he is a Republican.
He is a member of the Yale, Manhattan, and Crescent Athletic
clubs of New York City.
He married in Newburgh, N. Y., December 4, 1907, Vera
Quaid, a graduate of St. Gabriel's School in Peekskill, daughter
of John H. Quaid, a wholesale grocer of Newburgh, N. Y.
They have two children : Francis Oliver, Jr., born in Madison,
N. J., September 21, 1908 and Margaret Fancher, born in New
York City, September 25, 1911.
*Charles E. Bedell
Died September 28, 1900
Charles Edwin Bedell was born in Montclair, N. J., May 19,
1863, son of Edwin F. Bedell and Caroline L. (Cunningham)
Bedell, who were married August n, 1862, and had six other
7
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children: Edith; Frederick (Yale '90); Marion C. (wife of
George W. Harris) ; Helen L. (Teachers College '96) ; Eliza-
beth C. (Smith '99) ; and Rayner M. (Cornell '02).
Edwin F. Bedell (born New York, February 13, 1838, died
Xn\ ember 21, 1912) was a son of Menzies Rayner Bedell and
Rhoda (Holsart) Bedell, and for many years was a member of
the firm of Cooper, Hewitt & Co., iron manufacturers, but later
retired from active business and resided in Montclair, N. J.
Caroline L. Cunningham (born January 22, 1840) is a daugh-
ter of Andrew Cunningham, who was a flour merchant of New
York and at one time treasurer of the city of Brooklyn.
Bedell prepared at the High School in Montclair, and in
college was a member of the class glee club, took Philosophical
Oration appointment junior year and High Oration appointment
senior year.
After graduation he spent a short time at home, then some
months on cattle ranges in Indian Territory and Nebraska,
re-turning in the fall of 1885, and in January, 1886, he entered
the employment of the New Jersey Steel & Iron Company, with
BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES 99
which company he remained until the time of his death. His
work had to do especially with the construction of bridges and he
won recognition and confidence and early advancement to a
responsible position as one of the engineers of the company. Ik-
did much important work, including the construction of the Park
Avenue viaduct of the New York Central Railroad in Harlem.
In a notice published after his death in the I-'n^inccrhi^ ami Min-
ing Journal, his advancement in this line of work was referred
to as being quite remarkable for a man who had not had in col-
lege a technical engineering course, but the old-fashioned aca-
demic training, and his progress was attributed to his mental
training, absolute integrity, thorough loyalty and intelligent
appreciation of the problems of his work.
In 1900 he was engineer in charge of the steel work on the
\Yilliamsburg Bridge, then being built over the East River
between New York and Brooklyn, and was superintending the
work upon the Brooklyn span of the bridge. In trying to avoid
a swinging derrick he made a misstep, fell through the net-
work of steel and wooden beams to the ground, and died within
an hour after his admission to the hospital.
The following extracts are made from an obituary notice pre-
pared by Boyd of our class: "He was a man greatly loved by
all his classmates, being distinguished for his purity of character,
absolute integrity of purpose, and the kindliness of his judg-
ments. ... In his professional life he was marked not
merely by his ability, generally recognized to be of a very unusual
order, but also by his deep and successful interest in the welfare
of those under his direction. In more than one instance he was
able, by the confidence which he inspired in employees and
employers alike, to adjust difficulties, prevent strikes and save
suffering and loss. . . . Bedell, a few years after graduating
from college, had a deep religious experience, and while this
made no change in his conduct of life, which had always been
exemplary, yet it mellowed and enriched his nature to such a
degree that all who knew him were strengthened by the privilege
of observing the nobility of his character and motives."
He married July n, 1894, Elizabeth Trippett, a graduate of
Teachers College, daughter of Joseph Trippett of Montclair,
N. J. They had two children: Alan Trippett (born Montclair.
100 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
1896), and Charles Malcolm (born Montclair, May 2, 1899),
who with Mrs. Bedell are living in Montclair. Alan graduates
at the High School, June, 1914, with a high stand and expects
to go into forestry work in Arizona. Charles will enter the
High School, September, 1914.
Gabriel I. Behrisch
Lawyer
Title Guarantee & Trust Company of New York City
175 Remsen Street, Brooklyn
Residence, 61 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn
Gabriel Isidore Behrisch was born in Indianapolis, Ind.,
September 20, 1863. His parents, Bernhard Behrisch and Han-
nah Theodora (Krause) Behrisch, were married June 18, 1862,
and had five other children: Leo (died October, 1865), Menno
(died May 21, 1906), Ralph (Norwich Free Academy '96),
Xatulk-. and Clara (Norwich Free Academy '84, and Connect-
icut State Normal School '86).
Bernhard llchrisch (born Dobrzyca, Province of Posen,
Germany, February 22, 1836), a merchant, now retired and liv-
BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES IOI
ing in Brooklyn, N. Y., came to this country in 1854. He was
the son of Gabriel Behrisch, who resided early in life in Jarot-
schin, Posen, and Hannah Behrisch, of Dobrzyca, Posen.
Hannah Theodora (Krause) IJdmM-h (born Neustadt an
der-Warthe, Posen, Germany, February 28, 1845, died Norwich,
Conn., January 16, 1892) was the daughter of Isidore and
Rebecca Krause, who resided in Neustadt until they came to
New York City in 1847.
Behrisch prepared for Yale at the Norwich Free Academy,
and in college was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon.
Immediately upon graduation, he entered the office of Wait
& Green, attorneys at Norwich, and was admitted to the bar
from their office in June, 1886. In September of the same year
he opened an office in Hartford and remained there until Novem-
ber of 1887. He then returned to Norwich and practiced law,
at the same time helping his father in the conduct of his business.
In 1889 he removed to New York, entering the office of Horwitz
& Hershfield and remained with them until June of 1890. In
September of that year, he became an examiner of titles in the
office of the Title Guarantee & Trust Company of New York;
on July i, 1895, was appointed a reader of titles, his duties being
to supervise the work of the examiners, and on March 14, 1905,
he became one of the counsel for this and its allied companies,
which position he now holds.
Behrisch is a Democrat, believes in free trade, gold currency
and state rights. He is a member of the Brooklyn Institute of
Arts and Sciences, the New York Yale Club and the Economic
Club of New York.
He married, December 25, 1912, Lillian E., daughter of Adolph
J. Grinberg of New York.
Nelson P. Bigelow
Lumber Merchant
5 North La Salle Street, Chicago, 111.
Residence, Lake Forest, 111.
Nelson Pendleton Bigelow was born in Racine, Wis., July 19,
1862. His parents, Anson Alexander Bigelow and Emma Whit-
more (Ullman) Bigelow, were married in Racine, Wis., Decem-
102 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
her 13, 1859, and had one other child, Emilie S. (Bigelow^
Hapgood, wife of Xorman Hapgood, editor of Collier's ITcckly.
Alison Alexander Bigelow (born Washington County, X. Y.,
November 7, 1833, died Chicago, 111., October 13, 1895), son of
Anson and Eliza Moons Bigelow, was in the lumber business
with Pendleton & Bigelow of Racine, Wis., and afterwards
founded Bigelow Brothers of Chicago. He was president of the
Chicago Lumberman's Exchange in 1881. The Bigelow family
came to New England about 1620 from England. This branch
moved to New York late in the eighteenth century.
Emma Whitmore (Ullman) Bigelow (born Constantine, Mich.,
July 3. 1840, died November 19, 1911) was the daughter of
I. J. t'llman and Delia Maria (Johnson) Ullman.
Bigelow prepared at the Chicago High School and in college
was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon, Eta Phi, Psi Upsilon,
Scroll and Key, and mi the editorial board of the Yale Conrant.
In July, 1884, he he- an business with the Bigelow Brothers
and Walker Company and the Fourche River Lumber Company,
of both of which companies he is now president. He has been
P.KKiKAI'IIIES GRADUATES 103
secretary of the First State Pioneers Society siiuv it- ««ri-in in
1899, was a member of the Municipal Lodging I louse Committee
of the City Homes Association which eMaMNied the Chicago
.Municipal Lodging House, and is a member of the Chicago
Plan Commission.
In politics lie was a Mugwump until Hi-van's lir>t campaign.
He is a member of the University, Chicago, Commercial and
( hiwentsia clubs.
Me married in Philadelphia, Pa., November 23, 1893, Sophia
Dallas Borda, daughter of Eugene Borda. Her father was a
graduate of Ecole Centrale, Paris, '48, was for many years in
the coal business in Philadelphia and died in 1897. They have
two children: Matilda, bora January 15, 1895, in Chicago, and
An-nii Alexander, born January i, 1897, in Chicago.
*George R. Blodgett
Died December 4, 1897
George Reddington Blodgett was born in Bangor, Me., Sep-
tember 17, 1862, son of George Blodgett (Williams College '57)
and Mary S. (Pond) Blodgett, who had four other children:
Benjamin Pond, Frederic Swasey, and two daughters who are
deceased.
George Blodgett was an officer in the Civil War and carried on
a successful tanning business in Bucksport, Me., which is now
carried on by his sons, Benjamin and Frederic, already named.
He died March 4, 1912.
Mary S. (Pond) Blodgett is the daughter of Rev. Enoch
Pond (Brown 1813), who for twenty-six years was president of
the Bangor Theological Seminary and the author of many books
and articles on theological subjects. She is now living in Bucks-
port.
Blodgett prepared at Phillips Academy, Andover, and in col-
lege was active and prominent as an athlete and student, as well
as socially. He rowed as a member of the class crew in five
eight-oared shell races, was president of the class debating
society sophomore year, one of the editors of the Yale Banner
senior year, took first prize Berkeley Premium Latin composition
freshman year, Philosophical Oration appointment junior year
104 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
and High Oration appointment senior year, was a member of
Delta Kappa, He Boule, Delta Kappa Epsilon and Skull and
Bones.
Blodgett's faithful energy never flagged. While at school he
met most of his expenses by reading aloud four hours a day
to a theological student, and had a hard struggle to pay his way.
He continued to earn his expenses while in college, and after
graduation entered the Patent Office in Washington, where the
only position available at the time was that of dusting models in
the basement. He rapidly made his way, however, was
appointed assistant examiner of patents, and, while filling that
position, took for three years the night course in law at the
Columbian University. In 1888 he began practice as a patent
lawyer in New York, becoming connected with the Bentley-
Knight Electric Railway Company. In 1889, when that company
was amalgamated with the Thomson-Houston Electric Com-
pany of Boston, he removed to Boston, and later formed with
Bentley (Yale '80) the legal firm of Bentley & Blodgett, giving
special attention to electrical patents and acting as counsel for
BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES 105
the General Electric Company. \\ lu-n the General Electric
Company removed its headquarters to Schenectady, Blodgett
settled in Schenectady and took charge of the patent department.
At the time of his death he had attained a position of wide influ-
ence in the affairs of the company, and a high reputation as an
expert in electrical science.
Early in the morning of December 3, 1897, Mrs. Blodgett was
awakened by the flash of a lantern and a man's voice at their
bedside and awakened Blodgett just as the robber ordered them
to throw up their hands. He sprang up, saying to his wife, "1
am no coward," but was hardly on his feet before the man fired,
at a distance of less than six feet, and ran. Blodgett pursued
him, unconscious of his wound, but the ball had entered the lower
abdomen, and he died the next day. The General Electric Com-
pany offered a reward of five thousand dollars for the appre-
hension of the man or men guilty, and followed their trail
relentlessly and successfully.
Blodgett married, in New York, April n, 1893, Katharine
Buchanan Burr, daughter of Charles H. Burr, and had three
children: Reddington (born January 30, 1894, died in infancy) ;
George Reddington (born 1895), entered Yale Academic in
Class of 1916; Katharine Burr, born 1898, after her father's
death.
* Samuel A. Booth
Died December 3, 1898
Samuel Albert Booth, the second child and eldest son of the
Rev. Albert Booth and Louisa (Tristram) Booth, was born in
Litchfield, Conn., February 3, 1860. His father (born 1825)
lived in Springfield, Mass., graduated from Yale in 1850, and
in 1852 from the Union Theological Seminary. As a Methodist
minister he had appointments in several towns in Connecticut.
Further details of Booth's immediate family and of his ancestry
may be found in the biography of his brother, Wilbur F. Booth.
He prepared at the Episcopal Academy in Cheshire, and in
college was a member of Delta Kappa, Psi Upsilon and Skull
and Bones. He played on class nines, on the consolidated base-
ball club in sophomore year, and on the university nine, first as
a substitute and in senior year as a regular member.
106 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
After graduation he taught for two years in the Shattuck
School at Faribault, Minn., tog-ether with Wilder and Frederick-
Jones. In the meantime, however, he was studying law, and in
June, 1886, was admitted to the bar and settled in Minneapolis,
lie was at first in the firm of Ripley, Brennan & Booth, later
Ripley & Booth, then with George P. Douglas (Yale 1889),
and the following year joined his brother Wilbur, who had been
appointed general solicitor of the St. Louis and Minneapolis
:
Railway Company. At this time, however, his health had begun
to fail, and he died from cancer a year and a half later, on
: nber 3, 1898, in Minneapolis. At one time he with Wilbur
Unnth and Fred Jones kept house together as bachelors. His
faithful professional work and his open-hearted companionship
won him the respect and affection of a very large circle of
friends, among whom were the Yale men of other classes in
this section. The devotion of these friends to him during his
l«mg and trying illness spoke plainly of the place he had won
in their hearts.
I le was unmarried.
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107
Wilbur F. Booth
Judge of State District Court, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Residence, 69 South Eleventh Street, Minneapolis
\Yilbur Franklin Booth was born August 22, 1861, in Seymour,
Conn. His parents, Albert Booth (born August 22, 1825, Spring-
field, Mass.) and Louisa (Tristram) Booth (born June 29, 1829,
in England) were married March 30, 1857, and are both now
living in Bridgeport, Conn.
Albert Booth, a graduate of Yale Academic Department in
1850, was a clergyman, now retired. His parents were Samuel
C. Booth and Eunice (Day) Booth, and through Samuel he is
descended from Robert Booth, one of three brothers who settled
in New Haven in 1639.
Louisa (Tristram) Booth is the daughter of William Tris-
tram, of Sheffield, England.
Booth's parents have had seven other children : Ella Louisa
Disbrow (Hartford Female Seminary), Samuel Albert (Yale '84,
108 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
died December 3, 1898), George Frederick, Minnie Day (Smith
'90), James Robert, and two who died in infancy.
Booth prepared at the Episcopal Academy in Cheshire and in
college was a member of Delta Kappa, Psi Upsilon, and Skull
and Bones. He took a second Berkeley prize in Latin compo-
sition, was Douglas Fellow, had Philosophical Oration appoint-
ments both junior and senior years and was salutatorian of the
class.
He was the first of the salutatorians to escape the requirement
of delivering an address in Latin. The college press of the time
referred to it as an escape for his audience.
After graduation Booth studied at Yale on the Douglas Fellow-
ship, entered the Yale Law School in 1886 and graduated with
the degree of LL.B. June, 1888. During these years he was
instructor in the Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven, and
in December, 1888, began his professional life in St. Paul, in
partnership with Peters (Yale '86, of football and crew fame)
under the firm name of Peters & Booth.
In 1894 he was appointed general solicitor of the St. Louis &
Minneapolis Railroad Company, and for several years gave his
attention principally to the affairs of that company.
In 1901 he formed a partnership with Charles J. Tryon and
practiced under the name of Tryon & Booth.
On May 20, 1909, he was appointed by the Democratic Gov-
ernor a judge of the Minnesota District Court to fill a vacancy,
and in November, 1910, was reflected to that office by a popular
vote in the Republican district, though himself a Democrat.
He is a member of the Graduates Club of New Haven, the
Minneapolis Club, the Minnikahda Club and University Club of
Minneapolis, and of the Town and Country Club of St. Paul.
He is unmarried.
Carl E. Botsford
Lawyer
Elgin, 111.
K evidence, 472 Division Street, Elgin
Carl Eastman Botsford was born in St. Charles, Kane Co., 111.,
October 2, 1861, son of Richard Botsford, who was a lawyer of
Elgin, 111.
BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES 109
Botsford entered our class sophomore year from the freshman
class of Beloit College, Beloit, Wis. In college he was a member
of Delta Kappa Epsilon and one of the class historians.
After graduation he was in the real estate business in Elgin,
till 1886, then was editor of the Elgin Democrat, and is now
practicing law in the firm of Botsford, Wayne & Botsford.
He married February 6, 1889, Louise A. Kerber, and has one
child, Aloisa L., born May 30, 1893.
Franklin D. Bowen
Woodstock, Conn.
Franklin Davis Bowen was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., October
29, 1860. His parents, Henry Chandler Bowen and Lucy Maria
(Tappan) Bowen, were married June 6, 1844, and had three
other sons: Clarence W. (Yale '73), Herbert W. (Yale '78),
and John E. (Yale '81).
Henry Chandler Bowen (born Woodstock, Conn., September
n, 1813, died Brooklyn, N. Y., February 24, 1896), a lineal
110 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
descendant of Griffith Bowen, Boston, 1638, was the founder,
editor and proprietor of the Independent.
Lucy Maria (Tappan) Bowen (born Boston, Mass., February
17, 1825, died Brooklyn, N. Y., March 25, 1863) was the
daughter of Lewis Tappan and Susannah (Aspinwall) Tappan.
The father of the last named, William Aspinwall, served as
surgeon in the battle of Bunker Hill.
The Bowen family early settled in Woodstock, Conn., and
some of the original property there is still held in the family.
Bowen was prepared by a tutor and in college was a member
of the freshman glee club, university orchestra, university
lacrosse team, university glee club, Delta Kappa, Delta Kappa
Kp^ilon, Wolf's Head, and was treasurer and president of the
University Club.
He was connected with the Independent for ten years after
graduation. He then retired and has traveled quite extensively
abroad and in this country.
Politically he is an Independent Republican.
He is unmarrk'il.
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Robert M. Boyd, Jr.
Lawyer
203 Broadway, New York City
Residence, 96 Prospect Avenue, Montclair, N. J.
Robert Munro Boyd, Jr., was born in Montclair (then Bloom-
field), N. J., May 5, 1863. His parents, Robert Munro Boyd
and Kate Baldwin (Crane) Boyd, were married November 9,
1859, and had two other children: Susie B. and Bertha L.
Robert Munro Boyd, Sr. (born Winsted, Conn., August 5,
1834), a descendant of John Alden of the Mayflower, and the son
of Samuel Boyd and Sylvia (Coe) Boyd, was a merchant in New
York City from 1851 to 1907, is now retired and has filled public
and church offices in Montclair, his home.
Kate Baldwin (Crane) Boyd (born West Bloomfield, N. J.,
November 19, 1839) is the daughter of Matthias Crane and
Susan (Baldwin) Crane. She is a lineal descendant of Robert
Treat, governor of Connecticut in 1688, also of Abraham Pierson,
first president of Yale College.
112 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Boyd prepared at the Montclair High School, and in college
was a member of Delta Kappa and Psi Upsilon, won a Berkeley
Latin prize in freshman year and the Cobden Club medal for pro-
ficiency in political economy in senior year, had High Oration
junior appointment and Oration appointment senior year, was
member of the News Board one year and president of the Yale
Society of Natural History.
After graduation he studied law in the Columbia Law School,
taking his LL.B. degree in 1886, and at the same time took a
course in the School of Political Science, receiving the degree of
M.A. In May, 1886, he was admitted to the New York bar,
shortly afterwards entered the office of Davies & Rapallo, and
later spent a year with the Title Guarantee & Trust Company.
In May, 1888, he formed a partnership with S. J. Murphy
( Aniherst '81) and Herbert M. Lloyd (Harvard '83), with whom
he practiced under the firm name of Murphy, Lloyd & Boyd for
several years. In 1900 he opened an office in Montclair also and
has since practiced in both New York and New Jersey.
He was elected as a Republican to the House of Assembly of
the New Jersey legislature in 1901, and again in 1902 and 1903,
and was town counsel of Montclair, N. J., from 1906 to 1910.
He is a member of the Congregational Church.
He is a member of Phi Delta Phi (Columbia chapter), the Bar
Association of New York, Psi Upsilon Club of New York, Mont-
clair Club, Montclair Athletic Club and the Society of Colonial
Wars of New Jersey.
He married in New London, Conn., October 26, 1898, Mary
Edith Bancroft, daughter of Eugene A. Bancroft, then a major
in the United States Army, and stationed at New London.
William B. Bristow
Lawyer
2 Rector Street, New York City
Residence, 149 West 5;th Street, New York City
William Benjamin Bristow was born January 28, 1861. in
Hopkinsville, Ky. His parents, Benjamin Helm Bristow (born
June 21, 1832, Elkton, Ky., died June 22, 1896, New York City >.
and Abbie Slaughter (Briscoe) Bristow (born February 16, 1835,
BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES 1 1 3
Lewis County, Mo.), were married November 21, 1854, and had
one other child, Nannie (Bristow) Draper, wife of Eben S.
Draper (died April 9, 1914), recently governor of Massachusetts.
Benjamin H. Bristow was a well-known lawyer and statesman,
graduate of Jefferson College 1851, served in the Civil War as
lieutenant colonel of the 25th Kentucky Infantry and colonel of
the 8th Kentucky Cavalry, was seriously wounded at the battle of
Shiloh, was United States attorney for District of Kentucky
1866-1870, solicitor-general of the United States 1870-1872, and
secretary of the treasury 1874 to 1876. At the Republican con-
vention in 1876 he was prominently named as a candidate for
the presidency of the United States. After retirement from
office he practiced law, first in Louisville and afterwards in New
York.
The family had been for several generations settled in Virginia
and afterwards in Kentucky. Francis Marion Bristow (father
of Benjamin H.) was a lawyer of Elkton, Ky., member of the
Kentucky legislature and of the Constitutional Convention of
114 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
1849, and served two terms in Congress as representative. He
died in 1863.
William B. Bristow prepared at private schools and in college
was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon, Eta Phi, Psi Upsilon,
Wolf's Head and of the senior promenade committee.
After graduation he studied in Columbia Law School (LL.B.
1886), and was admitted to the bar in New York, in 1886. The
following year he spent in Europe and began practice in New
York, September, 1887. January i, 1890, he became the junior
member of the firm of Bristow, Peet & Opdyke, and in 1903
formed the firm of Opdyke, Ladd & Bristow, which in 1909 was
dissolved. Since then he has been practicing alone.
He is a Republican in politics, a member of the Presbyterian
Church, and of the Metropolitan and University clubs, Down
Town Association, Bar Association, all of New York, the New
York State Bar Association, Ardsley, The Kentuckians, Zoolog-
ical Society of New York, and Boone and Crockett Club.
He married November n, 1907, Louise Roman Baldwin,
daughter of Columbus C. Baldwin, of New York City. They
have one child, Louise R., born October 24, 1909, in New York.
Henry Buist
Lawyer
30 Broad Street, Charleston, S. C.
Residence, 37 King Street, Charleston
Henry Buist was born on a plantation in Charleston County.
S. C., March 3, 1863. His parents, George Lamb Buist and
Martha Allston (White) Buist, were married in Charleston, May
22, 1862, and had nine other children : Louisa Hall, Alonzo White
(died August 28, 1868), Mary Edwards (died May 19, 1881),
Eliza Ingraham (Buist) Rivers, George Lamb (Yale '96), Abbot
White, Blake Leay (died April 17, 1877), Thomas Jones, and
Martha Allston (Buist) Ackerson.
George Lamb Buist, Henry's father, was born in Charleston,
September 4, 1838, and died there May 31, 1907. He attended
Charleston College, but left before graduation to take up the
study of law, in the practice of which, as well as in social and
public life in Charleston, he won much distinction. He repre-
BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES 115
sented Charleston County for many years in botli branches of the
South Carolina legislature, was a trustee of the Charleston Col-
lege and at the time of his death was chairman of the Board of
School Commissioners for Charleston County. He was descended
from Henry Buist (born about 1690, in Fifeshire, Scotland), whose
son, Arthur Buist, the great-grandfather of George Lamb Buist,
was the Laird of Pittuncarthy, in the Parish of Abernethy, County
Fife. Rev. George Buist, D.D., who afterwards settled in
Charleston, was the third child of Arthur Buist, was educated at
St. Andrews University and Edinburgh, and was well-known as
a profound scholar. Upon the recommendation of the author-
ities of Edinburgh University, he was called to the Scotch Presby-
terian Church of Charleston, S. C, and in 1793, at the age of
twenty-three, moved to Charleston, and thereafter held a leading
position among the educated people of that city. He married
Mary Somers of South Carolina. One of his sons, George Buist,
grandfather of our classmate, was educated at South Carolina
College, practiced law, and was for nearly a quarter of a century
ordinary for Charleston County, performing duties now per-
Il6 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
formed by probate judges. The third generation of the family,
the children of George, numbered thirteen, of whom George
Lamb Buist was one. The mother of George Lamb Buist was
Mary Edwards (Jones) Buist.
Martha Allston (White) Buist (born Charleston, October 21,
1840) is the daughter of Alonzo J. White, whose father, John
Blake White, was a lawyer and artist of distinction, of English
descent. His family have lived in South Carolina for several
generations.
Buist prepared at the Connecticut Episcopal Academy in
Cheshire, having before that attended private schools. In col-
lege he was a member of Delta Kappa and Psi Upsilon, and was
active in organizing a debating club in our senior year.
He spent the summer of 1884 traveling in Europe, returned to
Charleston in the fall of the year and immediately commenced
the study of law with his father's firm, Buist & Buist. In the
summer of 1885, he took a special course in law at the University
of Virginia under Professor John B. Minor, the noted law
instructor of that institution. He was admitted to the South
Carolina bar in December, 1885, and commenced practice as
junior member of his father's firm. He has never entered poli-
tics, having devoted his entire time to his profession. His son
George, now associated with him, represents the fourth successive
generation of his family in that profession in Charleston.
He has been captain of the Palmetto Guard of Charleston, is a
pew holder in St. Paul's Episcopal Church, is a member of the
Tniversity Club of New York City, Charleston Country Club.
Carolina Yacht Club, St. Andrews Society, New England Society,
( ierman Friendly Society, all of Charleston, the American and the
South Carolina Bar Associations.
He married at the Acton Plantation, Sumter County, S. C,
October 20, 1887, Frances Gualdo Ravenel. Her father. Dr.
St. Julien Ravenel (Charleston Medical College '40), later studied
in Paris, and died in 1882. They have four children, all born
in Charleston: George Lamb, born September 30, 1888 (Yale
'10) ; Harriott Ravenel, born October 5, 1890; Henry, born
December 14, 1895, and Frances Gualdo Ravenel, born July
16, 1897.
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117
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John M. Burnam
Professor of Latin
University of Cincinnati, Ohio
Residence, 3411 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati
John Miller Burnam was born in Irvine, Ky., April 7, 1864.
His parents, Edmund Hall Burnam and Margaret Schackelford
(Miller) Burnam, were married March 27, 1857, and had two
other children, Lucy and Sarah, both of whom died in infancy.
Edmund Hall Burnam (born Richmond, Ky., May 9, 1832),
son of Thompson Burnam, graduated from the University of Mis-
souri, 1849, and received the degree of A.M. from the same
university in 1851. He is pastor of a Baptist church at Rich-
mond, Ky. Thompson Burnam (born near Raleigh, N. C, 1789)
was brought as an infant by his parents (John Burnam and Ann
(Foot) Burnam) from North Carolina to Kentucky in a caravan
of settlers. John, the father of Thompson, had served in the
continental armies at Yorktown, Cowpens, and Eutaw Springs.
Margaret Schackelford (Miller) Burnam (born Richmond,
Ky., June 6, 1834, died 1866) was a daughter of General John
Il8 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Miller and Elizabeth Jones (Goodloe) Miller of Albemarle
County, Ya. John Miller (born Madison County, Ky., 1798) had
the rank of major-general in the State militia, and of colonel in
the Union Volunteer service, and was appointed by President
Lincoln collector of internal revenue. He was mortally wounded
in 1862 in an engagement at Richmond, Ky.
Burnam attended the Central University, Richmond, Ky., and
Washington University, St. Louis, but received most of his early
education from his father. In college he won the Hurlbut
Scholarship, the first Berkeley Premium in Latin composition, the
Larned Scholarship and had Oration appointments both junior
and senior years. He received the degree of Ph.D. in 1886 from
Yale.
After graduation and two years' study at Yale for his doctor's
degree, Burnam traveled extensively in England, Scotland, Ger-
many, Switzerland, Spain, Italy and France. In 1910 he made a
special trip to France, Spain, Portugal and Italy to gather material
for a long serial designated "Palaeographia Iberica," to be pub-
lished in Paris in French, which will require several years for
completion. The work from a prospectus appears to be a col-
lection of facsimile reproductions of three hundred ancient Latin
MSS. from Spain and Portugal, with explanatory notes. He
has been Professor of Latin and French at Georgetown College,
Ky. (1889-91), Assistant Professor of Latin at the University
of Missouri (1891-99), and Professor of Latin at the Uni-
versity of Cincinnati since 1900. He has a library of more
than 3400 volumes, containing texts, dictionaries, grammars,
and facsimile plates, in twenty-eight languages. He can speak
French and Italian fluently and is familiar also with Spanish,
German, Latin and Russian.
Burnam is a member and trustee of the Baptist Church, and in
politics a Democrat.
He has contributed to the American Journal of Archaeology.
Romanic Revieiv and other learned publications, among such con-
tributions being an article on "The Early Gold and Silver Manu-
scripts," in Classical riiil<>lo^\, and has written several books,
among them :
The Paris Prudentius; pp. 38, printed privately, Cincinnati, 1900.
The So-called Placidus Scholia to Statins; pp. 37, Univ. of Cinti.
Press, 1902.
Glossemata de Prudentio, pp. 102; edited from the Vatican and Paris
MSS., Univ. of Cinti. Press, 1905.
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Summary Catalogue of Part of the Library of J. M. Burnam, edited
by owner; pp. 84, Univ. of Cinti. Press, 1906.
Commentaire anonyme sur Prudence d'apres le ms. 413 de Valenciennes ;
pp. 300, A. Picard et Fils, Paris, 1910.
Un Fragment d'Ecriture onciale. Extrait des Melanges Chatelain ; pp.
6, Champion, Paris, 1910.
The Scribe of the Oaths of Strassburg; his Nationality. Reprint from
the Romanic Review for January, New York, 1910.
Palaeographia Iberica, H. Champion, Paris, No. I, was published in
1912. Part II is in print and nearing completion; Part 111 r\ists in MS..
and has been shipped to the publisher.
Becerro de Benevivere. Reprint from the Romanic Review, Vol. II,
1911, No. 3 and No. 4 (Texts Latin and Old Castilian).
An Old Portuguese Version of the Rule of Benedict, from Alcobaca
MS., No. 300 (agora 231), Cincinnati University Studies, KJII.
Receipts from Codex Matritensis A 16 (ahora 19), Cincinnati Uni-
versity Studies, 1912.
A Brief Catalonian Medical Text. Romanic Review, Vol. IV, No. 3,
1913.
(In press.) Miscellanea Hispanica. To appear in an early number of
Modern Philology. (Etymological, philological and historical material
all hitherto unpublished and derived from several Spanish MSS.)
He is a member of the Masonic order, Literary Institute of
Cincinnati, Cincinnati Whist Club, American Institute of Archae-
ology, American Philological Association, Classical Association
of West and South, Gesellschaft fur Romanische Litteratur of
Gottingen, The New Palaeographical Society of London, and the
Societe franchise pour la reproduction des manuscrits a peintures,
of Paris.
He is unmarried.
James W. Cain
President of Washington College, Chestertown, Md.
James William Cain was born in New Haven, Conn., Septem-
ber i, 1860. He is the son of Patrick John Cain and Mary
(Kelley) Cain, who were married January 25, 1853, and had
seven other children: Bridget (died in New Haven, 1855), Rose
A. (Cain) Coyle (died in New Haven, 1909), Thomas M. (died
in New Haven, 1883), Patrick J. (died in Brooklyn, N. Y., 1909),
John F. (died in New Haven, 1872), Mary E. (died in New
Haven, 1872) and Joseph E. (died in New Haven, 1902).
Patrick John Cain was born in Scarthorn, Ireland, 1833, and
died in this country, March 28, 1909.
Mary (Kelley) Cain was born in Roscommon, Ireland, 1833,
and died in New Haven, October 18, 1876.
120 HISTORY OF Till-: CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Cain prepared for college in the public schools of Xew Haven.
While in college he was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon and
for two years of the '84 class crew.
After graduation he was principal of the Lewistown Academy,
Lewistown, Pa., until 1886, then went to St. John's College,
Annapolis, Md., and remained there until 1903, when he was
elected president of Washington College, Charlestown, Md.
During his connection with St. John's College, he was successively
instructor, professor, vice president, and treasurer from 1889 to
1901. Such time as he could spare from his duties as teacher he
has devoted principally to the study of economics and social
science. He attributes his inclination in this direction to the
influence of Professor Stunner's teaching. He modestly dis-
claims having written or compiled any literary works of impor-
tance, but he has compiled ''Facts and Figures Concerning the
Financial History of the United States," for use especially in
St. John's College, and has in preparation for publication "The
Science of Economics," and a series of addresses on the
general tlu-nu-. "The Immanence of God." He received the
e of M.A. from Yale in 1893, LL.D. from St. John'- in
1903 and from t "nivrrsity of Pittsburgh in 1912.
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He attends the Episcopal Church, and in politics is a Democrat.
He was president of the Board of School Trustees, Annapolis,
from May, 1897, to June, 1900, member of the Maryland State
Board of Education from 1903 to 1910, and of the Maryland
Education Commission from 1909 to 1910.
He married in New Haven, Conn., December 25, 1890, Rose
(Vcilia Mallahan (St. Elizabeth's School '80), a daughter of
Matthexv Mallahan (died January, i8(jj). They have five chil-
dren, all born in Annapolis, Md. : James Mallahan (Washington
College '10), born July i, 1892; Virginia Mary, born March 2,
1894; Rosalie, born June 19, 1896; Edward Joseph, born
October 26, 1898; and Genevieve, born October 13, 1900.
Willson Carpenter
Farmer
Shekomeko, N. Y.
Willson Carpenter was born in Stamford, N. Y., October 7,
1861. He is the son of Isaac S. Carpenter and Sarah R.
(Willson) Carpenter, who were married September 5, 1860.
122 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Isaac S. Carpenter (born Stamford, N. Y., June 24, 1828, died
July 28, 1898), a farmer, was the son of Morgan Carpenter.
Sarah R. (Willson) Carpenter was born in Smithfield, N. Y.,
May 2, 1836, and is still living.
Carpenter prepared at Williston Academy, Easthampton, Mass.,
and in college was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon and
Psi Upsilon.
He spent some years in the West after graduation, and was at
one time in the First National Bank of Helena, Mont. In 1893
he returned to his home and for several years has been managing
a large farm which he owns in Shekomeko, Dutchess County,
N. Y.
In politics he is a Republican.
He is unmarried.
*Charles E. Carr
Died October 23, 1888
Charles Eugene Carr was born in New Haven, March 9, 1863,
the son of Patrick and Mary Ann Carr, who were married in
1862, and had two other children, Ellen and Katharine.
His paternal grandfather was a schoolmaster in Ireland, but
Patrick Carr (born 1828, died 1886) was unable to secure train-
ing for the same profession on account of narrow means, and
came to America, where he became a gardener in a private family
in New Haven.
Mary Ann Carr was born in 1842 in a village near Quebec and
was of Irish stock, though the family had lived in Canada for
many years.
Carr graduated from the Hillhouse High School with an excel-
lent rank, and in college took a Berkeley Premium freshman year
and had High Oration appointment in junior and senior years.
He was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon.
While doing his college work, he was tutoring and teaching in
the night schools, for his contribution to the family income had
U'gun when he started a paper route at nine years of age, and
ceased only with his death.
The first year after graduation he attended the Yale Law
School, but in the summer of 1885, he and W. B. Coley of our
BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES 123
class went to Portland, Oregon, to teach in the Bishop Scotl
Grammar School. He was the classical teacher there for two
years, and then in the Portland High School for a third year.
During this time he continued his preparation for the law by
working in a private office, and was admitted to the Oregon bar.
He now, however, felt the need of a larger income to provide
for his mother and sisters, so in August, 1888, he moved to Ritz-
ville, Oregon, where he took a position in a large wholesale store,
but before he had been there two months, he was taken with
typhoid fever and died after an illness of only ten days.
He was unmarried.
Our Sexennial Record, speaking of his death, says :
"His classmates will remember him as one of those men who, without
possessing extraordinary brilliancy, was to be relied upon for his
thoroughness and accuracy. Quiet in manner and studious in his habits,
he did not impress himself rapidly upon the class, but by the end of the
four years he stood equally high in scholarship and in the respect of
his associates. He built slowly but well. And every report which had
come from the Western home of his choice promised a steady progression
along the line of development on which he had come so far."
124 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Neville H. Castle
Lawyer
Nome, Alaska
\\-ville Hart Castle was born in San Francisco, Cal., February
15, 1863. His parents were Michael Castle (born London, Eng-
land, October 27, 1824, died San Francisco, October 29, 1896), a
merchant, and Matilda (Levy) Castle (born Bristol, England,
December 7, 1840).
Castle prepared under private tutors and at private schools in
San Francisco, London and Paris, his first trip abroad being made
via Panama in 1868. In college he was a member of Delta
Kappa, Delta Kappa Epsilon and the California Club.
After graduating from college Castle attended the Hastings
Law School in San Francisco, and was admitted to practice by
the Supreme Court of California in 1886. For a short time he
was clerk in the office of Doyle, Galpin & Scripture, and then
started practice alone in San Francisco. Of this period of his
1it\. he says: "It goes without saying that my opportunities for
BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES 125
self-improvement were abundant and undisturbed." He then
took up practice in San Jose, Cal., where he remained until iS«jS.
practicing the larger part of the time in partnership with the Hon.
J. B. Lamar, under the firm name of l.aniar & Castle. After
leaving San Jose he spent some months in Guatemala on legal
business, and in 1900 went to Alaska, settling in Council, where he
engaged in mining, practicing law, and became editor and pro-
prietor of the Council News, a weekly paper. In October, 1908,
he moved to Nome and opened a law office, and in 1909 was
appointed assistant United States attorney for the Second Judi-
cial Division of Alaska.
Concerning a part of his experience in Alaska, he writes as
follows : "For several years I resided in a little place which
probably you would only find on a Post Office directory or a
government map of Alaska, called Council, practicing my profes-
sion and also engaged in mining, sinews of war being furnished
by the former for the latter. Shortly after my arrival in Alaska,
I formed a law partnership with a Yale man, Lanier McKee, who
has written a very creditable book entitled 'The Land of Nome,'
to my mind the best account of early conditions here that has
been published, not excluding Jack London's and Rex Beach's
somewhat inflamed articles and descriptions."
After the election of 1912 he again wrote: "Ever since last
January I have been in sole charge of this office, my chief
leaving me, without any assistance whatsoever, in charge of a
jurisdiction embracing an area extending from 59 to 71 north
latitude and from 148 to 169 west longitude; the responsibility
has been considerable but much of the work is interesting, bring-
ing one face to face with conditions not within the ordinary
experience of city dwellers. Last winter I took a trip by dog
team from Nome to Cape Prince of Wales, returning by another
route, something under four hundred miles in all, with the
thermometer ranging between 15 and 50 below zero but suf-
fering practically no inconvenience throughout the trip."
He was then anticipating that the change in administration
would mean his retirement from office.
Besides his editorial work on the Council Ncivs, he has con-
tributed to newspapers and magazines in both prose and verse,
including some fiction in the Overland Monthly in 1886, two
articles in 1889 in the same magazine telling of his trip to Guate-
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mala, more recently a long article on Alaska in the Sunset Maga-
zine, verses published in the New York Times (1905) entitled
"On the Ice Trail to Alaska," and other occasional verses in the
same paper, among" them "The Question" and "A Linguistic
Tragedy."
He married in San Francisco, February 4, 1897, Mary Crit-
tenden Scott (died in Italy, June, 1910), who was the daughter
of Henry H. Scott, a merchant.
Edward M. Chapman
Clergyman
Lyme, Conn.
Pastor of the First Congregational Church, Old Lyme
Edward Mortimer Chapman was born in Old Saybrook, Conn.,
September 27, 1862. His parents, Robert Chapman and Maria
Green (Shepard) Chapman, were married October 8, 1861, and
had one other child, Frederick Shepard (Yale '94).
Robert Chapman (born Old Saybrook, Conn., December 8,
1831) is the son of George H. Chapman and Lucia (Tully)
BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES 127
Chapman, and sixth in descent from Robert Chapman, the first
settler in Saybrook in 1635, a part of whose original lands he still
holds. He is a farmer, has also other business interests, and has
held various positions in the town and church.
Maria Green (Shepard) Chapman (born Essex, Conn., April
19, 1842) is the daughter of Frederick Shepard, M.D., Yale '34,
Med., and of Maria Green, both of old New England families.
Maria Green was the daughter of Timothy Green, merchant and
shipbuilder in East Haddam, and of Mrs. Lucretia (Hathaway)
Knowles of Fairhaven, Mass. Timothy Green's father, Captain
James Green of the second Connecticut Light Horse regiment,
took part in the campaign against Burgoyne, and his wife, Ruth
Marshall, was of Mayflower descent. Frederick Job Shepard
(Yale '73) and John Woodruff Shepard (Yale '79) are brothers
of Mrs. Chapman.
Chapman prepared at the Seabury Institute of Old Saybrook,
and at the Morgan School, Clinton, Conn. He lived "at home in
Saybrook and received education of the most valuable sort from
his boyhood's experience in the old New England community,
with its church, schools, wholesome demand for work and large
opportunity for outdoor life." He passed entrance examinations
with the Class of 1883, and taught part of the next year. In
college he was a member of Psi Upsilon, won sophomore com-
position prize (third) ; spoke for Junior Exhibition; spoke for
DeForest prize in senior year, took High Oration appointments
both junior and senior years, and received the John A. Porter
Prize after graduation in 1887.
After graduation from Yale, Chapman taught two years in the
King School, Stamford. He entered the Yale Divinity School,
September, 1886, but spent much of the years 1887 and 1888 in
Texas and Colorado, graduating from the Divinity School in
1890. He was pastor of the First Congregational Church in
Rochester, N. H., from 1890 to 1892 ; associate pastor of the
Central Church, Worcester, Mass., from 1893 to 1899; pastor
North Church, St. Johnsbury, Vt, from 1900 to 1905 ; acting
pastor Forest Church, Detroit, Mich, 1905 ; pastor of the First
Church, Old Lyme, Conn., from 1906 to the present time.
He writes: "My life has gone on placidly and busily with
much happy variety in it. I have had my share of travel, some-
times for fun and sometimes for fish (which are also fun), but
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never quite so much travel as I wanted. There have been chances
to be something else than a minister, but the ministry still looks
good to me, its work seeming big, varied, and mightily worth
while." When he refers to chances to be something else than a
minister, he doubtless refers to invitations which he has had to fill
professorships. Chapman has been frequently invited to preach
at Sunday morning services at Yale and is always welcomed by
the students.
He is "generally a Republican but quite capable of voting for
a Democrat." He is a member of the American Historical
Association, American Geographical Society, Winthrop Club,
University Club of Boston and the Graduates Club of Xew
Haven.
He has done considerable writing. For the Sexennial Record,
he wrote : "A weak-minded English editor has also seen fit to
accept one or two magazine articles." In 1901 he published in the
Boston Congregatioualist a series of articles on "A Century's
Influence upon (i) The Conscience of Christendom, (2) The
Poor Man's Chance of Livelihood, (3) The Lot of the Dependent
Classes, (4) The Worth of Human Life, (5) The Church's
Sense of Responsibility." He has also published "The Dynamic
of Christianity" (Houghton, Mifm'n Co., Boston, 1904), ''English
Literature in Account with Religion" (Houghton, Mifrlin Co.,
Boston, and Constable & Co., London, 1910), "The New Eng-
land of Sarah Orne Jewett," Yale Review, October, 1913; "Rural
Cooperation," Yale Review, April, 1914 and editorial and review
articles in American and English magazines.
In 1910 he was delegate from Connecticut to the American
Commission upon Agricultural Cooperation and in 1913 delegate
again to the same Commission upon Agricultural Cooperation
which visited Europe to investigate systems of rural credit and
the general conditions of rural life.
He married in Essex, Conn., June 28, 1894, Isabel Northrop,
who attended for a time Wellesley College, daughter of John
Edward Northrop, for many years treasurer of Comstock,
Cheney & Co., of Ivoryton, Conn. They have two children :
Edward Northrop, born in Worcester, Mass., April 4, 1895
(Yale '17), and Lucia Ttilly, born in Worcester, Mass., February
14, 1898.
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George M. Cheney
Litchfield Shuttle Company, Southbridge, Mass.
Residence, 8 Edwards Street, Southbridge, Mass.
George Marvin Cheney was born August 24, 1861, in South-
bridge, Mass. His parents, John M. Cheney and Martha L.
(Litchfield) Cheney, were married July 17, 1855, and had no
other children.
John M. Cheney (born Southbridge, Mass., April 28, 1832, died
January 5, 1907) was a manufacturer, connected with the Litch-
field Shuttle Company. He was of English descent.
Martha L. (Litchfield) Cheney was born in Oxford, Mass.,
October 17, 1834, and is still living.
Cheney prepared at the Williston Seminary, Easthampton,
Mass., in college was a member of Delta Kappa and took a prize
(second) for English composition in sophomore year.
After graduation he studied law about two years in an office
in Worcester, Mass., and then went West and engaged in
brokerage and commission business in Denver for three years.
He then returned to Southbridge and took part in the active man-
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agement of the Litchfield Shuttle Company, of which his father
was treasurer. He has had occasion to travel much, principally
in this country. He is secretary and treasurer of the American
Shuttle Company of Boston.
In politics he is a Republican.
He married in Manchester, N. H., June 30, 1903, Edith N.
Byrne, daughter of Charles Bryne (Edinburgh University 1869,
died January n, 1914).
*James M. Claggett
Died January 7, 1897
fames Milton Claggett was born in Northboro, Worcester
County, Mass., December 31, 1862, and was the son of James
P. Claggett.
He prepared for college at Lawrence Academy, Groton, Mass.,
though at the time he entered Yale the family had moved to
Hollis, N. H. In college lie was a member of Gamma Nu.
[mmediately after graduating he settled in Eatontown, N. J.,
\\IKTC lu- orgaiii/A-d the Maple Grove Academy and conducted it
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until 1889, when he went to New York, and taught there eight
years in the public schools. During that time he took two terms
of study in the Columbia Law School. He was about to
complete his preparation for the law when he was taken ill with
an acute attack of neuralgia in the face, which resulted fatally
after a week's illness. He died in New York City January 7,
1897, and was interred at Hollis, the home of his parents.
He was unmarried.
*George E. Cohen
Died October 9, 1896
George Eugene Cohen was born in Pittston, Pa., July 24, 1862,
the son of Henry Cohen and Amelia Auerbach. Mrs. S. J. Free-
man of Pittston is a sister.
He prepared at the Kingston Academy, in college was a mem-
ber of Kappa Sigma Epsilon, and took mathematical prizes in
freshman and sophomore years.
After graduation he studied law and was admitted to the bar
in 1886, following which he practiced in Wilkes-Barre, but
132 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
resided in West Pittston. On October 9, 1896, while in the
County Court House in Wilkes-Barre, he died of a sudden attack
of heart failure.
He married, August 30, 1888, in Pittston, Lillian Stein, of
Montgomery, Ala., and had two sons: Harold Stein, born Bay-
shore, L. I., June 26, 1889, a graduate of the Medical College of
Western Reserve University; and Stanley, born Scranton, Pa.,
August 3, 1890. Mrs. Cohen has married again and the boys have
taken their stepfather's name of Feil.
Edward H. Coley
Rector of Calvary (Protestant Episcopal) Church, Utica, N. Y.
Residence, 1103 Howard Avenue, Utica
Edward Huntington Coley was born in New Haven (West-
ville), Conn., August 22, 1861. His parents, James Edward
Coley and Mary Gray (Huntington) Coley, were married May
29, 1860, and have had two other children: Mary Pearsall, wife
of William < i. Staples of Westport, Conn., and Francis Chase.
BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES 133
James Edward Coley (born Westport, Conn., October n,
1832) was a son of Samuel M. Coley and Althea (Hurlbutt)
Coley; grandson of Ebenezer Coley, Jr., and Rachel (Goodsell)
Coley; great-grandson of Captain Ebenezer Coley and Abigail
(Morehouse) Coley. Captain Ebenezer Coley (see also biog-
raphy of William B. Coley in this book) was commissioned cap-
tain, Connecticut Militia, by Governor Trumbull, May 14, 1770.
Later he joined the Colonial Army, was made corporal and was
with Washington's army at the siege of Boston. The Captain's
commission is in the possession of E. H. Coley. James Edward
Coley, a clergyman (B.A. Trinity College 1855, and M.A. from
the same college 1858), has been assistant minister of St. James's
Church, New London, Conn., from 1858 to 1859; rector of St.
James's Church, Westville, Conn., from 1859 to 1862; rector of
St. Peter's Church, Monroe, Conn., from 1862 to 1877; principal
of School for Boys, Westport, Conn., from 1877 to 1892; min-
ister in charge of St. Matthew's Church, Wilton, Conn., from
1884 to 1892; minister of Grace Church, Hamden, Conn., from
1895 to 1897; minister of All Saints' Church, New Haven, from
1898 to 1900; and rector of Grace Church, Hamden, Conn., July
i, 1900, to the present time.
Mary Gray (Huntington) Coley (born New Milford, Conn.,
February 22, 1836, died Westport, Conn., October 29, 1891) was
the daughter of Rev. Enoch Huntington (Yale 1821), and of
Charlotte (Taylor) Huntington, of New Milford, Conn., grand-
daughter of Rev. Nathanael Taylor (Yale 1745), chaplain in the
War of the Revolution. She was granddaughter of Enoch
Huntington (Yale 1785), great-granddaughter of Rev. Enoch
Huntington of Middletown, Conn. (Yale 1759), great grand-niece
of Governor Samuel Huntington, a signer of the Declaration of
Independence, and descended from Simeon Huntington and
Sarah (Clark) Huntington, original settlers of Norwich, Conn.
Coley prepared at his father's school, Westport, Conn., and in
college was a member of Gamma Nu in freshman year.
After leaving college Coley attended the Berkeley Divinity
School in Middletown, Conn., graduating in 1887. He was
ordained deacon in the Holy Trinity Church, Middletown, Conn.,
June i, 1887; ordained priest in St. John's Church, Stamford,
Conn., March 23, 1888, having been assistant minister in that
church for one year, was associate rector of the same church
134 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
from 1893 to 1897; minister in charge of Christ Church, in
Savannah, Ga., from 1888 to 1889; rector of St. Mary's Church,
South Manchester, Conn., from 1889 to 1893; rector of Calvary
Church, in Utica, N. Y., from April, 1897, to the present time.
He was nominated for coadjutor-bishop of Central New York in
June, 1902, and stood fourth in the list of twenty-one nominees
on the second ballot. He was registrar of the Diocese of Central
New York for eight years, until 1905 ; dean of the Second Mis-
sionary District of Central New York four years, until 1908; is
a member (five years) and secretary (four years) of the standing
committee, also examining chaplain of the Diocese of Central
New York. He has given a course of lectures in Berkeley
Divinity School on "The Workman and his Work."
In 1912 he was given the degree of S.T.D., by Syracuse
University.
Politically he is a Republican. In 1909 he was appointed by
Governor Hughes a manager of the Utica State Hospital for the
Insane, and reappointed by Governor Dix in 1912. In January,
1912, he was elected president of the Oneida Historical Society
of Utica.
He married in Stamford, Conn., October 23, 1889, Julia Seely
Covell (Catharine Aiken School '81), daughter of Silas Lewis
Covell (graduate of Troy Polytechnic Institute) and sister of
Harry N. Covell (Ph.B. Yale '83). They have three children:
Marjory Covell, born in South Manchester, Conn., January 15,
1892; Elizabeth Huntington, born in Stamford, Conn., January
J3> J895; Mary Huntington, born in Utica, N. Y., January 24,
1901.
William B. Coley
Surgeon
40 East 41 st Street, New York City
Residence, 521 Park Avenue, New York City
William Bradley Coley was born January 12, 1862, in Wcstport,
('••mi., the son of Horace Bradley Coley and Clarina Bradley
(Wakeman) Coley. His parents had one other child, Carrie E.,
who marrk-d Dr. Frank Gorham, and died in 1892.
Horace Bradley Coley (born June 29, 1829) was a farmer in
Westport, Conn. He was descended, through William and
BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES
'35
Eunice (Fanton) Coley and Morehouse and Abigail (()-doni
Coley, from Capt. Ebenezer Coley, who was a captain of militia
prior to the Revolution and served as a corporal during the Revo-
lutionary War (see also biography of Edward H. Coley, 'S.j. in
this book). Capt. Ebenezer Coley was descended, through David
and Mary (Hyde) Coley, Sergeant Peter and Hannah (Couch)
Coley, and Peter and Sarah (lly.K-i C'olcy. from Samuel and
Ann (Prudden) Coley. Samuel Coley was one of the forty-four
original planters who settled in Milford, Conn., in 1639, having
come to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1631.
Clarina Bradley (Wakeman) Coley (born Greenfield, Decem-
ber 15, 1837, died Westport, Conn., 1863) was descended, through
Silas and Abbie Bradley (Wheeler) Wakeman, Ashael and Polly
(Wakeman) Wakeman, John and Esther (Bradley) Wakeman,
John and Catherine (Gilbert) Wakeman, John and Martha (Hub-
bell) Wakeman, Rev. Samuel and Hannah (Goodyear) Wake-
man, from John and Elizabeth (Hopkins) Wakeman. The last
named was in turn descended in direct line from Francis Wake-
man, of Bewdley, Worcestershire, England, and Ann Goode of
136 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Eastham, England. The first John Wakeman emigrated to
Hartford in 1640, and held many important public offices in the
Colonies. The second John (Capt. John) was captain of the
Train Band of Fairfield. The fourth John served in the Con-
necticut Militia in the Revolutionary War and Ashael served in
the War of 1812.
Coley prepared at the private school of Rev. James E. Coley in
Westport, Conn., and at the Easton Academy, in college was a
member of Gamma Nu, and took Oration appointments both
junior and senior years.
After graduation he spent two years in Portland, Oregon,
teaching in the Bishop Scott Grammar School, then two years in
the Harvard Medical School, receiving his degree of M.D. in
1888. He then served as interne at the New York Hospital
under Doctors William T. Bull and Robert F. Weir. From 1890
to 1897 he was instructor in surgery at the Post Graduate Medical
School; from 1897 to 1909 lecturer in clinical surgery, and asso-
ciate in Columbia University Medical School; in 1909 was
appointed professor of clinical surgery in Cornell University
Medical School ; was made secretary and later chairman of the
Collis P. Huntingdon Fund for cancer research of the General
Memorial Hospital; is attending surgeon to the Hospital for
Ruptured and Crippled, and attending surgeon to the General
Memorial Hospital.
In addition to his bachelor's and medical degrees, he received
an honorary degree of Master of Arts from Yale in 1910, and
the same degree from Harvard in 1911. When his honorary
degree was given to him at Yale, his achievements were in the
presentation in part epitomized thus : "He has shown himself a
successful practitioner, an able teacher, and an energetic and
daring investigator, whose discoveries have conquered skepticism
and forced their way to honor. He is of world-wide celebrity in
the treatment of hernia, cancer, and inoperative malignant tumors.
He has harnessed into benign cooperation the bacillus prodigiosus,
and discovered healing agencies in erysipelas. He has made the
wrath of disease to praise him."
In politics he is an Independent Republican. He is a member
<>f the Brick Presbyterian Church in New York, has served as
first lieutenant of the Medical Reserve Corps, and is a member of
many learned societies, including the American Medical Associa-
BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES 137
tion, American Surgical Association, Southern Surgical and
Gynecological Association, New York Academy of Medicine,
New York Surgical Society, New York Pathological Society,
Therapeutic Club, Harvard Medical Society of New York, New
England Society and American Academy of Sciences.
The following formidable list of his publications, monographs
and addresses is but a partial indication of his activity:
Chapter on "Cancer." XXth Century Practice of Medicine, 1898, Vol.
XVII.
"Treatment of Cancer." Reference Hand Book of the Med. Sciences,
1892.
"Hernia." Dennis' System of Surgery, 1896.
Chapter on "Hernia." International Text Book of Surgery (Warren
& Gould), 1898.
Chapter on "Hernia." Keen's Surgery, 1907.
Chapter on "Hernia." Progressive Medicine, last fifteen years.
"Contribution to the Knowledge of Sarcoma." Annals of Surgery,
September, 1891.
"The Treatment of Inoperable Malignant Tumors with Living Cultures
of the Streptococcus of Erysipelas." American Journal of Med. Sciences,
1892.
"The Parasitic Origin of Cancer." Am. Medico-Surg. Bulletin,
September, 1893.
"The Treatment of Inoperable Malignant Tumors with Toxins of
Erysipelas and Bacillus Prodigiosus." Transactions Am. Surg. Ass'n,
1894. and Am. Jour, of Med. Sciences, July, 1894.
"Further Observations upon the Treatment of Malignant Tumors with
the Toxins of Erysipelas and Bacillus Prodigiosus, with a Report of
160 Cases." Johns Hopkins Bulletin, No. 65, August, 1896.
"The Influence of Injury upon the Development of Sarcoma." Annals
of Surgery, March, 1898.
"Late Results of the Treatment of Inoperable Sarcoma with the Mixed
Toxins of Erysipelas and Bacillus Prodigiosus." Phil'a Med. Jour., May
25, 1901.
"Amputation at the Hip-Joint for Sarcoma," with a Report of / cases
without Mortality. Trans. South. Surg. & Gynecological Ass'n, 1903, and
Am. Medicine, Vol. VII, No. 2, January 9, 1904.
"Observations upon the Symptomatology and Treatment of Sarcoma."
Address on Surgery at Annual Meeting of Lehigh Valley Med. Ass'n,
Transactions of 1903.
"The Limitations of the X-Ray in the Treatment of Malignant Tumors."
The Med. News, January 31, 1903.
"Late Results of the Treatment of Inoperable Sarcoma by the Mixed
Toxins of Erysipelas and Bacillus Prodigiosus." Am. Jour, of the Med.
Sciences, March, 1906.
138 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
''Sarcoma of the Long Bones." Annals of Surgery, March, 1907.
"Hodgkin's Disease a Type of Sarcoma." N. Y. Med. Jour., March
30, 1907.
"The Treatment of Sarcoma with the Mixed Toxins of Erysipelas and
Bacillus Prodigiosus." Boston Med. & Surg. Jour., Feb. 6, 1908.
"Further Evidence in Support of the Theory that Hodgkin's Disease
is a Type of Sarcoma." Transactions Am. Surg. Ass'n, 1908.
Address before the Royal Soc'y of Medicine. "The Treatment of
Inoperable Sarcoma by Bacterial Toxins (the Mixed Toxins of the
Streptococcus Erysipelas and the Bacillus Prodigiosus)." Proceedings of
the Royal Soc'y of Med., Nov., 1909.
"A Plea for More Conservative Treatment of Sarcoma of the Long
Bones." Jour, of the Am. Med. Ass'n, Jan. 29, 1910.
"The Treatment of Inoperable Sarcoma with Bacterial Toxins (the
Toxins of the Streptococcus of Erysipelas and of Bacillus Prodigiosus)."
Trans, of New Hampshire Med. Soc'y, May 12, 1910.
"Sarcoma of the Clavicle : End Results following Total Excision."
Transactions of the Am. Surg. Ass'n, 1910.
"Hydrocele in the Female." Annals of Surgery, July, 1892.
"The Operative Treatment of Hernia, with a Report of 200 Cases."
Annals of Surgery, April, 1895.
"The Disadvantages of Non-absorbable Sutures in Operations for the
Radical Cure of Hernia." N. Y. Med. Jour., Feb. 29, 1896.
"The Management of Hernia in Infancy and Childhood." The Medical
News, Dec. 18, 1897.
"Observations upon the Operative Treatment of Hernia at the Hospital
for Ruptured and Crippled." Wm. T. Bull and Wm. B. Coley. Annals
of Surg., Nov., 1898.
"The Radical Cure of Hernia." The address in Surgery, delivered at
the Canadian Med. Ass'n, Toronto meeting, 1899. Montreal Med. Jour.,
Sept., 1899.
"The Radical Cure of Inguinal and Femoral Hernia." Transactions
Am. Surg. Ass'n, 1901.
"The Radical Cure of Hydrocele by Minute (2-minim) Injections of
Carbolic Acid." Wm. B. Coley and Preston A. Satterwhite. N. Y.
Medical Jour., March 20, 1902.
Clinical Lecture on Hernia — given at the Old Dominion Hosp., Rich-
mond, Va., May 9, 1902. The Old Dominion Jour, of Med. and Surg..
Oct., 1902.
"The Management of Hernia in Infancy and Childhood, with Results
of Operative Treatment." Jour. Am. Med. Ass'n, Jan. 14, 1905.
"Results of 1,500 Operations for the Radical Cure of Hernia in
Children. Performed at the Hosp. for Ruptured and Crippled between
1891 and 1904." Wm. T. Bull and Wm. B. Coley. Med. Record, March
18, 1905.
"The Radical Cure of Femoral Hernia." Annals of Surgery, October.
1906.
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"Import of 2,000 Operations for the Radical Cure of Hernia, Performed
at the Hospital for the Ruptiuv.l and Crippled from 1890 to 1907. Wm.
T. Bull and Wm. B. Coley. Jour. Am. Med. Ass'n, Sept. 21, 1907.
"Industrial Accidents in Relation to the Development of Hernia."
International Jour, of Surg., Feb., 1908.
"The Treatment of the Undescended or Maldescended Testis Associated
with Inguinal Hernia." Annals of Surg., Sept., 1908.
"Inguinal Hernia in the Female." Annals of Surgery, Sept., 1909.
He married in Newton, Mass., June 4, 1891, Alice Lan-
caster, daughter of Charles Bartlett Lancaster, a manufacturer
of Boston. They have had three children, two of whom are now
living: Bradley Lancaster, born December 23, 1892 (Yale
1915) ; Malcolm, born November 29, 1896, died September 23,
1901 ; and Helen Lancaster, born September 2, 1907.
Harris D. Colt
Lawyer
30 Broad Street, New York City
Residence, 515 Park Avenue, New York City
Harris Dunscomb Colt was born in New York City, March
19, 1861, His parents, Harris Colt and Catherine (Dunscomb)
Colt, were married April 9, 1857, and had two other children:
Francis S. and Richard C, (B.A. Yale '85).
Harris Colt (born Hartford, Conn., November 30, 1817, died
New York City, November 28, 1889) a merchant with Collins
& Company of New York City, was son of Elisha Colt of Hart-
ford and Lucretia (Davis) Colt, and descended from John
Colt, who came from Colchester, England, about 1634, settled
at Dorchester and removed to Windsor, Conn., about 1638.
Catherine (Dunscomb) Colt (born New York City, May 28,
1834) is of an English family who came to this country from
Bermuda. Her father, Edward Dunscomb, graduated from
Columbia in 1827.
Colt prepared at the Columbia Grammar School, New York
City, and took examinations for Columbia College, but later
decided to enter Yale. In college he was a member of Delta
Kappa and Psi Upsilon.
140 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
After graduation he studied law at the Columbia Law School,
receiving his LL.B. in 1886. He became connected with the firm
of Lord, Day & Lord, and remained with them until 1891. He
practiced alone until 1894, when he became a member of the
firm of Stearns & Curtis, of which Curtis, '84, was one of the
partners, and in 1897 their present firm, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost
& Colt, in which both Colt and Curtis are partners, was formed.
Colt in his earlier years of practice gave special attention to the
law of real estate titles, and for several years his work has
rlikth related to corporations and trust estates, especially the
latter.
He is a Democrat. He is a member of the Episcopal Church,
has been a member of Squadron A, New York National
< iuard. is a member of the University, Metropolitan and
Grolier clubs, being one of the council of the last, Down Town
iation and Yale Club, all of New York City; the Gradu-
< lub of New Haven, the New York Bar Association, Par-
maehenee Club, and Society of Iconophiles (active member).
r.lur.KA I'll IKS — GRADUATES
141
He has given much attention to the collection of old print-,
especially such as relate to New York City.
He married in Flushing1, N. Y., December 17, 1894, Elizabeth
H. Bowne, daughter of Robert Southgate Bowne (deceased).
They have one child, Harris Dunscomb, Jr., born in New York
City, January 30, 1901.
*Frederick Connell
Died January i, 1909
Frederick Connell was born in Scranton, Pa., June 9, 1859,
son of William P. Connell, a hardware dealer of Scranton,
and Alida (Hurd) Connell.
He prepared at Williston Seminary and in college was a mem-
ber of Kappa Sigma Epsilon, the Yale lacrosse association, and
the senior promenade committee.
After graduation he studied law in the office of Willard &
Warren in Scranton and was admitted to the bar of Lacka-
wanna County, but soon gave up the law and entered the hard-
142 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
ware business, becoming a member of the firm of W. P.
Connell & Sons. In this he was engaged at the time of his death.
Connell died of pneumonia on January i, 1909, at his home in
Scranton.
On November 23, 1886, he married Emily Augusta Baxter,
daughter of John Baxter, of Philadelphia. Mrs. Baxter died
several years ago. They had two sons : Frederick Van Buren
Baxter, born September 13, 1890, and Francis Ballentyne Baxter,
born June 7, 1895.
*Charles W. Copeland
Died November 13, 1909
Charles Wilson Copeland was born in Brooklyn, June 21, 1863,
the son of Charles E. and Helen (Brown) Copeland, who had
also two daughters.
Copeland prepared at the Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn, and in
college was a member of Delta Kappa, and Delta Kappa Epsi-
1' n. was coxswain of the class crew and took part in track ath-
BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES
'43
letics. He was an extensive reader and \\rll infonnol in history
and music.
After graduation he was connected for many years with his
father's firm, Copeland & Bacon, manufacturers of mining-
machinery, being established in New York from 1884 to 1887,
from 1887 to 1890 in Philadelphia, and from 1890 to 1899 in
Chicago. In 1899 he associated himself with the Edison Elec-
tric Illuminating Company, Brooklyn, remaining with them until
his death, November 13, 1909. The class was represented at the
funeral by Halsey, Colt, Behrisch and Eliot.
Edmund P. Cottle
Lawyer
920 Ellicott Square, Buffalo, New York
Residence, 187 North Street, Buffalo
Edmund Petrie Cottle was born in Buffalo, N. Y., July 6,
1861, son of Octavius Orlando Cottle (born Stockton, Chau-
tauqua County, N. Y., June 14, 1832, died Buffalo, N. Y., Feb-
ruary 25, 1912) and Fannie Ford Petrie (born Little Falls, N. Y.,
144 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
died Buffalo, May 13, 1902), who were married September 6,
1860, and had four other children: Frances Ford (Cottle)
Sheldon (wife of Theodore Butler Sheldon), Wellesley College
(special), (died Buffalo, N. Y., October 29, 1903); Charles
Clarence (died Buffalo, N. Y., May 19, 1909) ; Marion Weston,
Wellesley College (special), also of the New York Law School;
and Jennie Williams, Wellesley College (special).
Octavius O. Cottle, son of Major Philip S. Cottle (born
Martha's Vineyard, 1805, died Fredonia, N. Y., March 5, 1873)
and Harriet Biron Weston (born Ashford, Conn., 1804, died
Fredonia, N. Y., March 16, 1885), who were married at
Charlemont, Mass. May I, 1826, was a gradaute of Fredonia
Academy, was admitted to the bar in 1853 in Buffalo, and was a
successful and prominent lawyer, being in active practice up to
the time of his death. Major Philip S. Cottle was also a law-
yer of prominence, was twice elected county judge of Chautau-
qua County, served in the War of the Rebellion as a captain in
the 49th New York, was incapacitated by fever, but after par-
tial recovery, again entered service, reaching rank of major in
the 78th United States Colored Infantry.
Fannie Ford (Petrie) Cottle was the daughter of Jo ram
Petrie (Little Falls, N. Y.) and Frances Ford (Albany and Troy,
N. Y.), daughter of Philip Ford Vanderheyden (Troy, X. Y.).
She died May 13, 1902, in Buffalo.
Cottle attended private schools, Central High School in Buffalo,
and the Little Falls Academy, also Williston Seminary, East-
hampton, Mass. In college he was especially prominent as a
lacrosse player, being president and member of the freshman
lacrosse team, president of the university lacrosse association
and member of the university team. He left shortly before
Commencement senior year with the American lacrosse team
upon a foreign trip. That team played Yale, Harvard, Prince-
ton, New York University, Boston, Young America Cricket Club,
r.altinioR-. and thirteen games in England and Ireland, losing but
one game and that by one goal. Cottle's position was cover
point. He was a member of Delta Kappa and Psi Upsilon. and
in senior year a member of the senior promenade committee, of
which he was elected floor manager, but did not serve on account
of his absence in Europe with the lacrosse team.
BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES 145
On account of his absence at Commencement, he did not
receive his degree until 1885, but on petition of our class, he was
enrolled with us by the corporation.
After graduation he studied law in Buffalo with his father,
took two years special courses at the Buffalo Law School, and
was admitted to the bar in 1887. He was associated in practice
with his father until the death of the latter and has also been
active in the management of the Ellicott Brick Company in
manufacturing brick.
Cottle in 1885 entered as a private in the 8th Brigade Signal
Corps of New York, and from that time continuously until his
retirement in February, 1911, was very active in military service
of the State, especially during the Spanish War. In October,
1886, he was made second lieutenant in the 74th New York
Infantry, first lieutenant in March, 1890, captain in November,
1892, lieutenant colonel in June, 1894; served as lieutenant colo-
nel of the 2Oist New York Volunteer Infantry for nine months
during the Spanish War, during which service he was provost
marshal of the Second Division of the Second Army Corps on
the staffs of Gen. George W. Davis and George M. Randall.
Afterwards he was appointed aide-de-camp on the staff of Gov-
ernor Roosevelt, and in February, 1911, was retired at his own
Bequest from service in the New York National Guard, being
brevetted colonel for over twenty-five years of meritorious ser-
vice. When mustered out United States service, the citizens of
Greenville, S. C, presented him with a sword as a testimonial of
their appreciation of valuable services rendered the city by him as
provost marshal, and on his retirement from the 74th New York
Infantry, the officers of the regiment gave him a dinner and
presented him with a very handsome "Grandfather's" clock.
He attends the Presbyterian church and is a Republican in
politics. He is a member of the University Club of Buffalo
and other social, fraternal and military associations.
He married on June 26, 1902, Bessie Edgar McKenna, daughter
of William Alexander McKenna (formerly a merchant of
Detroit, Mich., now deceased) and Belle Brewster. They
have two children : Frances McKenna, born May 24, 1903 ; and
Edmund Petrie, Jr., born October 8, 1904.
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*Henry B. Cromwell
Died May I, 1896
Henry Bowman Cromwell, born December 8, 1863, was the
youngest son of the late Henry B. Cromwell. A brother, George
Cromwell, was in the Class of '83.
The family was of well-known Quaker stock, and his father
(born 1828, died 1864) had a brilliant though brief career as a
merchant and shipowner. He was the founder of the Cromwell
Steamship Company, which did business in many domestic ports.
When the war began, he sold all his vessels to the government
and built two large steamers, which plied between New York
and New Orleans. In spite of his close business association with
the South, he was an ardent supporter of the North throughout
the war.
Crom wc-11 prepared at the Brooklyn Polytechnic, and in col-
was a member of the Yale University Club and of Delta
Kappa, Eta Phi, Delta Kappa Epsilon and Wolf's Head.
After graduation IK- was connected with the Cromwell, N. Y.
<S X. ( ). Steamship ('mnpany and was also a partner in the firm
of G. & H. B. Cromwell, breeders of registered Jersey cattle at
BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES 147
"Fairview Farm," Statcn Island. In later years he was presi-
dent of the Walker Chemical Company. He was an active mem-
ber of the University Club and other social organizations in
Now York and was a prominent Mipporter of the Westminster
Kennel Club. As a member of the class cup committee, and
of the reunion committee of the class, he was active and untiring
in the planning and conduct of our class meetings after
graduation.
"In college his social and manly qualities secured him many
warm friends among those of his time, and their affection and
esteem for him increased as time developed their appreciation
of his genuine and kindly nature. His response was always ready
in sympathy or assistance for those who went to him in need and
many acts of generosity were done in unrecorded channels because
of the modest silence that accompanied his acts of kindness. His
conduct and bearing were always marked by extreme directness
and he was of a singularly open nature and free from affecta-
tion. His enthusiasm for and unbegrudging interest in his
friends' success was shared with his never flagging interest in
his college and class. . . .
"He was suffering from ill health in the spring of 1894 and
characteristically postponed paying any particular attention to
his own condition until he had carried through the plans for the
class reunion. . . . He (then) found himself considerably
weakened in strength and for the first time discovered that he
was suffering from consumption. The rapidity with which the
disease progressed required his practical isolation in the Adiron-
dack Mountains for the past two years, where his strength gradu-
ally wasted away before the progress of the disease, terminating
in his death at Saranac Lake on the morning of May I, 1896.
During his long and trying illness he never lost his brave com-
posure or his interest in his classmates and their affairs, and to
the end lent his failing strength to kindly acts of loving con-
sideration for those around him. In his death, his classmates
will mourn the loss of one whose active association with all
class interests will be greatly missed and who was bound to them
in their affections by no ordinary ties."
(The quotations are from a notice published in the Yale Alumni
Weekly.}
He was unmarried.
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F. Kingsbury Curtis
Lawyer
Curtis, Mallet-Prevost & Colt, 30 Broad Street, New York City
Residence, Tuxedo, New York, or
126 East 62d Street, Xew York City
Frederick Kingsbury Curtis was born February 3, 1863, in
.V-w York City, son of William Edmond Curtis (born Water--
town. Conn., 1824, died Watertown, July 6, 1880) and Mary
Ann Scovill (died York, Maine, August 3, 1909), who were
married in 1850 and had two other children: William Edmond
(Trinity '75) and H. Holbrook (S. S. S. '77).
William Edmond Curtis was a graduate of Trinity College,
1844, from which he later received an honorary degree of LL.D..
and was a lawyer and judge of prominence in New York, serv-
19 judge and chief justice of the New York Superior (now
Supreme) Court, and chief justice of the New York Supreme
Court. He was for many years president of the Board of Edu-
cation of Xew York, trustee of Trinity College, and held other
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positions of trust. His father, Holbrook Curtis, lived in Water-
town, Conn., and was judge of the Connecticut Superior Court.
Mary Ann (Scovill) Curtis was daughter of William Henry
Scovill of Watertown, one of the founders of the bravs industry
in America, and trustee of Trinity College.
Curtis attended private schools in Watertown and New York
and was five years at St. Paul's School, Concord. He passed his
entrance examinations with the Class of '83, but entered with
our class.
In college he was editor of the Yale Courant for three years,
a member of Delta Kappa and Psi Upsilon, took a second Ik-rkc-
ley prize for Latin composition in freshman year, an Oration
appointment junior year.
After graduation he studied at the Columbia Law School, from
which he graduated in 1886, and began practice in New York
City with the firm of Davies, Cole & Rapallo. Afterwards he
became a member of the firm of Stearns & Curtis, of which
Harris D. Colt, '84, later became a member, and the firm name
was changed to Stearns, Curtis & Colt. In 1897, the present
firm, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost & Colt, was formed. He has in his
professional life represented manufacturing corporations, elec-
tric, elevated and steam railroads, steamship corporations, and
has been chiefly engaged upon organization and reorganization
work and litigation in Federal courts. He was especially active
in earlier years in defending the elevated railroads in the numer-
ous land damage and injunction suits involving the rights of
the companies in the streets of New York. Later he became
interested in the island of Porto Rico and took an active part in
the financial development of the electric and other corporations
there. At the time of the failure of Charles W. Morse and his
banks he had much to do in the receiverships and litigation, act-
ing as counsel for the steamship corporations concerned. He has
also been adviser of the New York Board of Fire Underwriters
and the Committee of Foreign Underwriters. His busy profes-
sional life has not prevented him from taking active interest in
charitable and public work, and artistic, economic and sociological
subjects.
He is a member of the Episcopal Church, and of the Union,
Metropolitan, University, Tuxedo and other clubs.
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He married (i) Marian Scott Hare, daughter of James Mont-
gomery Hare, on October 28, 1890. She died March 30, 1903.
They had one child, Mary Emlen, born December 20, 1891, died
Oyster Bay, L. L, July 10, 1892; (2) Cornelia Day McLanahan,
of Washington, D. C, on June 14, 1905, in London, daughter of
George William McLanahan of Washington. They have two
children: Helen Kingsbury, born New York, March 12, 1906,
and Cornelia McLanahan, born New York, March 13, 1908.
Leonard M. Daggett
Lawyer
42 Church Street, New Haven, Conn.
Residence, 60 Wall Street, New Haven
Leonard Mayhew Daggett was born in New Haven, November
23, 1863, son of David Lewis Daggett and Margaret Donaldson
(Gibbons) Daggett, who were married in 1854 and had two
ntluT children: David (Yale '79), born 1858; William G. (Yale
'80), born January 8, 1860, died September 18. 1910.
BIOGK A I ' 1 1 I IS — GRADUATES 1 5 I
David Lewis Daggett (born 1820, died 1-Vbruary, 1896) was
descended from John Domett, who came over with Governor
\Yinthrop in 1630 and settled in Watertown, Mass. John's son,
Thomas Daggett, married a daughter of Thomas Mavhew. who
was governor of Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard and the Elizabeth
Inlands. David Daggett, fifth in descent from John, came to New
Haven from Attleboro, Mass., graduated from Yale in 1783 and
practiced law in New Haven. He was many times elected to the
General Assembly, served one term in the United States Senate,
was appointed in 1826 Kent Professor of Law in Yale, and was
for a short time chief justice of the Supreme Court of Connect-
icut. Leonard Augustus, son of David, graduated from Yale
in 1807, and David Lewis (Yale 1839) practiced medicine in
New Haven for fifty-three years.
Margaret Donaldson Gibbons was daughter of William Gib-
bons, a physician, of Wilmington, Del., and descended from John
Gibbons, a Quaker, from Wiltshire County, England, who settled
in Chester County, Pa., in 1683.
Daggett prepared at the Hopkins Grammar School and in col-
lege was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon and Psi Upsilon,
of our senior promenade committee, took a third prize in English
composition sophomore year, an Oration junior appointment,
and was financial manager of the Record after Halsey resigned
that position.
After graduation he taught for a year in the Hopkins Gram-
mar School, then studied in the Yale Law School, from which
he graduated in 1887. While in the Law School he took prizes
for the highest marks at examinations both junior and senior
years and received honorable mention in competition for the
John A. Porter prize.
After a year as clerk in the office of Townsend & Watrous, in
New Haven, he started practice alone, but soon associated him-
self with Henry C. White (Yale 'Si), with whom he continued
practice, first under the firm name of White & Daggett, then
White, Daggett & Tilson, White, Daggett & Blake, White, Dag-
gett & Hooker, and since 1913, Bristol & White. In 1890 he
was a member of the board of councilmen of Xevv Haven, from
1894 to 1896 judge advocate general on the staff of Governor
Coffin, from 1901 to 1908 corporation counsel of the city, and
152 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
from 1894 to 1910 instructor in the law of wills in the Yale Law
School.
At our sexennial reunion he was elected class secretary,
in which capacity he is the compiler of our careers in this book —
and so far as the record is untrue may truthfully be called the
"author."
He married, in New Haven, February 17, 1906, Eleanor Evelyn
Cutler (Smith '92), daughter of Evarts Cutler, deceased,
formerly of New Haven.
Henry L. Dawes
Lawyer
Residence, 107 South Street, Pittsfield, Mass.
Henry Laurens Dawes was born in North Adams, Mass., Janu-
ary 5, 1863. His parents, Henry Laurens Dawes and Electa Allen
(Sanderson) Dawes, were married May i, 1844, and had
five other children: Anna L., Chester Mitchell (Yale '76), born
in North Adams, Mass., July 14, 1855, and three sons who died
in infancy.
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Henry Laurens Dawes, Senior (born 1'unnnin^tnn. Mass.,
October 30, 1816, died Pittsfield, Mass., February 5, 1903), was
the son of Mitchell Dawes and Mercy (Burgess) Dawes, both of
Cummington, Mass. He graduated from Yale in \X$), receive 1
the degree of LL.D. from Williams (1869) and from Yale
(1889), and was a distinguished lawyer and statesman. He was
district attorney, representative and senator in the Massachusetts
Legislature, commissioner to five civilized tribes, twice declined
appointment to the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, was in 1857
elected a representative in Congress, and from 1875 until his
voluntary retirement in 1893, served continuously in the United
States Senate.
Electa Allen (Sanderson) Dawes (born Ashfield, Mass., Janu-
ary 30, 1822, died Pittsfield, April 15, 1901) was the daughter
of Chester Sanderson and Anna (Allis) Sanderson, both of
Ashfield, Mass.
Dawes prepared at Phillips Exeter Academy, and in college
was a member of Delta Kappa, He Boule and Psi Upsilon,
played on the freshman football team and was president of the
freshman football association.
Dawes studied law at Pittsfield, and subsequently in Boston
with the firm of Hyde, Dickinson & Howes, practiced for a time
in Chicago, and afterwards returned to Pittsfield, where he has
practiced as a partner in the firm of Pingree, Dawes & Burke
since 1890.
Politically he is a Republican.
He married in Pittsfield, Mass., September 29, 1897, Catherine
Pingree, daughter of Thomas Perkins Pingree, a lawyer of
Pittsfield. They had one child, Henry Laurens, 3d, born in
Pittsfield, January 13, 1901, died in Pittsfield, June 16, 1910.
*James M. Dawson
Died 1888
James Martin Dawson was born in Wilmington, N. C, April 26,
1861, son of James Dawson and Missouri (Martin) Dawson, who
had one other child, Fannie Gray, born in 1859, died about 1905.
James Dawson (born Belfast, Ireland, 1813, died New York
City, December 29, 1882), coming to North Carolina as a young
154 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
man, first worked for his older brother in the drygoods business,
and later went into banking, from which he retired some years
before his death. Mrs. Dawson was born in 1824 and died Feb-
ruary 7, 1888.
Dawson prepared at the Trinity School, Tivoli, N. Y., and
entered college with '83, but joined our class in freshman year.
He was a member of Delta Kappa, Delta Kappa Epsilon and
Wolf's Head, the class supper and junior promenade committees.
After graduation he spent a year or more in Europe, much of
the time in company with our classmate C. M. Walker. On his
return he went into business in Wilmington, N. C., but died in
1888, of typhoid fever, after a long and painful illness, which
finally affected his mind.
The following is quoted from our Sexennial Record :
"Dawson will be remembered by his classmates as a bright-
minded, gentle fellow with a peculiar, almost feminine, charm of
manner. Never robust in physique, he commended himself to
his friends by his frank, ingenuous character, which won the
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"55
affection that sterner stuff would have commanded. His mind
was quick and grasped ideas rather intuitively than logically. He
learned easily, had a good knowledge of human nature, and the
same qualities of mind and heart which gave him so warm a place
in the affection of his class would have made for him a successful
career in business life."
Fred H. Dodge
Instructor in Physical Culture
Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J.
Residence, 116 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick
Fred Herbert Dodge was born in Freedom, Maine, March 7,
1860, son of James Henry Dodge (born Exeter, Maine, 1828,
died Providence, R. I., 1872) and Isabel (Barstow) Dodge (born
Unity, Maine, 1842), who were married June 8, 1859.
Dodge prepared at the High School in Bangor, Maine, and in
college was a member of Eta Phi, Psi Upsilon, and rowed three
years as captain of the class crew.
156 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
After graduation he studied physical culture under Dr. Sargent
at Harvard, was instructor at the Y. M. C. A. Gymnasium at
Scranton, Pa. (1889-90), was at one time engaged with the firm
of Porter & Wooster, brass manufacturers, in Boston, was
instructor in physical culture in Bates College, Maine (1890-91),
for a time engaged in the manufacture of gymnastic apparatus
and sporting goods in Waterville, Maine, and since 1892 has been
devoting himself to the work of physical instruction, first, at the
Atheneum Gymnasium, afterwards at the Harvard School Gym-
nasium, both in Chicago, at the University of Illinois at Urbana,
and since 1896 at Rutgers College. He has given much time and
study to photography. Several years ago he became interested
in the organization and management of summer camps for boys,
and in recent years has had the administrative charge of such a
camp on Schoodic Lake, not far from Bangor, known as Camp
Five Islands.
He is a member of the College Gymnasium Directors and the
American Association of Amateur Photographers.
He married in Bangor, Maine, June 4, 1892, Agnes Louise
Hastings, daughter of Moses Mason Hastings, of Bethel, Maine.
Julius T. A. Doolittle
Lawyer
Union City National Bank Building, Utica, N. Y.
Residence, 257 Genesee Street, Utica
Julius Tyler Andrews Doolittle was born in Utica, N. Y.,
October 18, 1861, son of Charles Hutchins Doolittle and Julia
Tyler (Shearman) Doolittle. They were married December I,
1847, and had four other children: Charles A. (Amherst
'72), William S. (Yale '76), Maryette A., wife of Judge Alfred
C. Coxe of the United States Circuit Court, and Mary I>abel.
Charles Hutchins Doolittle (born Herkimer, N. Y., March i<>.
1816, died at sea May 21, 1874; Amherst '36, LL.D. '72), at one
time mayor of Utica, N. Y., and justice of the Supreme Court,
State of New York, was son of Harvey W. Doolittle, M.D., of
Herkimer, N. Y., and Hannah (Hutchins) Doolittle of Killingly,
Conn. Harvey's father, Joel Doolittle, was in the 3d Connecticut
Regiment, Revolutionary War.
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157
Julia Tyler (Shearman) Doolittle (born Rochester, N. Y.,
April 7, 1823, died Utica, N. Y., November 20, 1904) was the
daughter of William Pitt Shearman and Maryette (Andrews)
Shearman, whose father, Samuel J. Andrews, graduated from
Yale in 1785, and whose grandfather, Samuel Andrews, gradu-
ated in 1759. William Pitt Shearman was born in Kingston,
R. I., and came to Rochester, N. Y., in 1815.
Doolittle prepared at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., and in
school was a member of the cricket team. In college he
was a member of Delta Kappa, Eta Phi, Psi Upsilon, Scroll
and Key, and during junior and senior years was associate
editor of the Yale News. He was one of the board of governors
of the Yale University Club, president of the Yale tennis asso-
ciation, and one of the founders and the first vice president of
the intercollegiate lawn tennis association.
He taught in St. Paul's School, Concord, for one year after
graduation, then attended the Columbia Law School, but after a
few months was compelled by illness to return to Utica. He was
158 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
admitted to the bar in 1887, and has since practiced in Utica. In
February, 1905, he was appointed by the governor of New York
State, special surrogate of Oneida County, N. Y., to fill a vacancy
for the remainder of the year, and for a part of the time was
acting surrogate. He is a member and, since 1888, has been a
vestryman of Grace Church (Episcopal), Utica.
He is a Republican.
He married in Utica, N. Y., February 8, 1893, Sophia Mann,
graduate of Mrs. Piatt's School, Utica (1884). Her father,
James Ford Mann (entered Yale with the class of 1859, but left
college in 1857), was a lawyer of Utica, and died there, May 15,
1902. They have had four children, all born in Utica : Louise
Shearman, born December 19, 1893, died December 6, 1899;
Maryette Andrews, born January u, 1896; Sophia Mann, born
May 13, 1901 ; Julia Tyler, born November 9, 1904.
*Frederic W. Doringh
Died May 29, 1888
Frederic William von Henig Doringh was born in Bristol,
R. I., October 18, 1862, eldest son of Charles H. R. Doringh and
Serafina B. (Smith) Doringh, who were married in Cuba,
October n, 1854, and had two other children: Pauline Natalie
and Richard Leopold (died August 14, 1894).
Charles H. R. Doringh (born Saxony, June 3, 1811, died
Rio, Ya., January 22, 1902) was of the old German nobility, his
grandfather having held a position at the court of Saxony. He
graduated from the University of Leipsic with the degree of
M.D. and knew Bismarck, who was there at the same time. He
was a distinguished scholar, familiar with nine languages and
skilled in various sciences. In 1848 he left Germany and went
around the world, finally landing in Cuba, where he remained
twenty-five years. He then removed to Bristol, R. I., where he
spent his later years as an administrator of estates.
Serafina B. Smith (born Cuba, July 9, 1831, died Stamford,
July 26, 1906) was the daughter of Richard Dimock Smith and
Hannah Borden Smith. After Dr. Doringh's death she married
(2) Walter Channing Barclay, and had a daughter, Edith
Barclay.
BIOGRAPH IES — GRADUATES I 5 9
Frederic Doringh prepared at St. Paul's and was a member of
Delta Kappa, Delta Kappa Epsilon and the Yale University Club.
After graduation he bought the Revanna Vineyard at Rio,
Albemarle Co., Va., and by his industry and perseverance brought
it to a high standard. While returning one day late in May, 1888,
from Charlottesville, to his home, four or five miles out of the
town, over a road which had been badly washed by heavy rains,
his dogcart was overturned by striking against a stone, and he was
thrown out and struck on his head. He was found insensible by
friends passing, a little later, and was taken to his house. A day
or two later, paralysis developed and a fatal injury to the spine
was discovered, causing his death on Tuesday, May 29, in his
26th year.
He was a member of the Episcopal Church. The following is
quoted from the notice in our Sexennial Record :
"Xo one who did not know Doringh intimately would be justi-
fied in characterizing him. To the casual observer he was a man
intellectually quick and somewhat dogmatic in his opinions. He
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was genial and sociable, with abundant self-confidence and savoir-
faire; but, as sometimes happens with men of similar character,
he was exceedingly sensitive at heart. Naturally impulsive and
outspoken, he was strong in his friendship and not less decided
in his antipathies. He had considerable critical taste in music,
literature and art, for the cultivation of which his chosen business
gave him opportunity. His genial presence and hearty friendship
filled a place in the recollections of '84 that his death will leave
forever vacant."
Charles E. Eaton
Retired
209 Park Avenue, Orange, N. J.
Charles Edwin Eaton was born in Seymour, Conn., March 17,
1862, son of Edwin Wales Eaton and Frances Marion (Swift)
Eaton, who were married January 10, 1861, and had two
other children: Wilfred Ernest (Yale '85, died in Liberty, N. Y.,
November 4, 1907) and Frank Wales (Yale 'oo).
Edwin Wales Eaton (born Chaplin, Conn., June 25, 1836, died
New York City, January 13, 1896) was a silk manufacturer with
BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES l6l
the Nonotuck Silk Company, and for many years treasurer and
director in his corporation and president of the board of trus-
tees of his church. His grandfather, James Eaton (born Tol-
land County, Conn., 1762, died, 1814), fought in the Revolution,
acquiring the rank of captain.
Frances Marion (Swift) Eaton was born in Seymour, Conn.,
October 22, 1840.
Eaton attended several schools in East Orange, and later was
prepared for Yale by Dr. David Andrew Kennedy, Yale '74.
He graduated from the Columbia Law School, was admitted to
the bar of New York in 1886, and practiced in New York until
1892, when he entered the Nonotuck Silk Company, to be in busi-
ness with his father and brother. In 1902 his health broke down
and he was obliged to discontinue regular business. Since that
date he has attended to the affairs of his family, has engaged in
lines of philanthropic work, and has continued studies in history,
politics and economics. At various times he has traveled in
Europe, especially in England and Italy ; — also in the West
Indies, Central America, and in this country.
Since 1884 he has been a Cleveland Democrat. He is a mem-
ber and trustee of the Congregational Church, a member of
the New York Yale Club, and of several reform, literary and
philanthropic societies in New Jersey.
He married in Orange, N. J., January 10, 1894, Sarah Car-
lisle Lord, daughter of Manton Eastman Lord, who during his
lifetime was in the woollen business.
Ellsworth Eliot
Surgeon
34 East 67th Street, New York City
Ellsworth Eliot was born June 6, 1864, in New York, son of
Ellsworth Eliot (born North Guilford, Conn., September 15,
1827, died New York, December 9, 1912) and Anna Stone (born
Boston, December 13, 1826, died New York, January 23, 1905),
who were married in May, 1856, and had two other children :
Anna (died May, 1899) and Laura.
Ellsworth Eliot, the father, was a son of Wyllys Elliott and
Lucy Camp, and a graduate of Yale in 1849, receiving also the
162 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
degree of M.A. in 1852, and in the same year his degree of
M.D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He
was a practicing physician in New York, president of the
County and State Medical societies and a trustee of the College
of Physicians and Surgeons. He volunteered as a surgeon at
the outbreak of the Civil War and served at Antietam.
Anna (Stone) Eliot was the daughter of Joshua Stone and
Ruth S. Sumner.
Eliot prepared at the school of Dr. Calliser in New York, was
a member of Delta Kappa, was the tallest man of the class in
college, and as such, the proud bearer of the class standards at
commencement time and at many of our reunions since.
Since graduatinn he has devoted himself constantly and suc-
cessfully to the study and practice of surgery, and by ability and
skill has achieved a position as a leader commensurate with his
pliv-ical stature. After three years' study at the College of
Physicians and Surgeons, he received his degree in 1887, and
served on the surgical staff of the New York Hospital until
December, 1889. He then spent ten months abroad in study. In
BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES 163
1896 he was appointed visiting surgeon at Gouverneur Hospital;
in 1900, visiting surgeon of the Presbyterian Hospital, of which
lie had for several years before been an assistant visiting surgeon ;
in 1900, lecturer on clinical surgery at the College of Physicians
and Surgeons ; has been chairman of the surgical section of the
New York Academy of Medicine, president of the New York
Surgical Society and, during his busy professional life, has con-
tributed to professional journals many articles, especially concern-
ing abdominal surgery. Recent articles are :
The Legal Responsibility of the Surgeon and Practitioners which the
I so of the X-ray Involves. Annals Surg. Assn., 1913.
Co-existing Lesions of the Gall-Bladder and Kidney. Annals Surg.,
1914.
Ligation of the First Part of the Right Subclavian Artery. Annals
Surg. Assn., 1912.
He is an Independent in politics, a member of the Episcopal
Church, of the University and Century clubs of New York, and
of other societies and organizations.
He married Lucy Carter Byrd of New York City, June 15,
1904, daughter of George Harrison Byrd. They have two
children : Evelyn Byrd, born June 14, 1906, and Lucy Carter,
born May 8, 1913.
* Max well Evarts
Died October 7, 1913
Maxwell Evarts was born in New York City on November 15,
1862, son of William Maxwell Evarts and Helen Minerva
(\Yardner) Evarts, who were married August 30, 1843, and had
eleven other children: Charles Butler (Yale ex- '66), born Feb-
ruary 17, 1845, died December 10, 1891 ; Roger Sherman, born
January 29, 1847, died February 4, 1849; Allen Wardner (Yale
'69), born December 10, 1848; William (Harvard 72), born
March 3, 1851, died, 1878; Hettie Sherman, born November
28, 1852; Mary, born July 16, 1854; Helen Minerva, born
March 8, 1856; Elizabeth Hoar, born January 4, 1858; Sherman
(Yale '81) and Prescott (Harvard '81), born October 10, 1859;
Louisa Wardner, born June 10, 1861.
William Maxwell Evarts (born Boston, February 6, 1818,
died Xew York, February 28, 1901) was of the Class of '37,
i64
HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
prominent as a lawyer and statesman, but probably best remem-
bered by the present generation as United States Senator from
\e\v York, from 1885 to 1891. He held many other high public
positions, and took part in many important trials, including the
I.emmon Slave case, as counsel for the State of New York, the
Henry Ward Beecher trial, Andrew Johnson's impeachment, as
counsel for the President, the contest before the Electoral Com-
mission, as counsel for President Hayes, and the Geneva Arbi-
tration, as counsel for the United States.
Evarts had no recent photograph taken but this snapshot shows him
evidently enjoying himself at Windsor.
Helen M. (Wardner) Evarts was born June, 1820, in Wind-
sor, Vt., and died December 28, 1903.
Evars prepared at St. Paul's School, Concord, and in College
a member of Delta Kappa, Eta Phi, Psi Upsilon, and Skull
and Bones.
After graduation he studied two years at the Harvard Law
Si-linol and in 1886 began practice in New York, in the office of
Seward, Da Costa & Guthrie, with whom he remained f. mi-
years. From 1890 to 1893, he was assistant United States dis-
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trict attorney for the Southern District of New York, and in
recent years was active in the councils of the Harriman lines,
having been elected a director in 1904 of the Southern Pacific
Company, general counsel in 1910 of the Oregon Short Line and
the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company, and having taken
a prominent part in the litigation incident to the distribution of
the assets of the Northern Securities Company. After the sepa-
ration decree he became counsel for the Southern Pacific
Company. He had also been a director of the Pacific Mail Steam-
ship Company and the Union Pacific Land Company. His prac-
tice took him many times before the United States Supreme
Court in cases calling for the highest grade of professional service
in which he fully demonstrated his unusual ability.
For many years he had made his home in Windsor, Vt., the old
home of his father's family, where he voted and took an active
part in local affairs. In 1906 he was elected to the Vermont
State legislature. He was president of the State National Bank
of Windsor and an officer and director of several local manufac-
turing and business companies. In farming and the breeding of
fine cattle he took a special interest, which was shown not only
by the conduct of those enterprises on a large scale, but also by
active participation in the meetings of the Vermont State Fair
Association, of which he was for some time president. Those
who knew him well can picture him at one of the meetings of
that association, during President Roosevelt's term, referred to
in this extract from a local paper.
' 'Twas a great week for President Max Evarts. His state fair won a
signal success; his 'big boss' graced the occasion as his guest; his
daughter carried off the prize in the tilting contest, and his woodchopper
made good his boast and his bet."
The bet referred to was that one of his countrymen could cut
clown, hew, saw and pile a certain number of cords of wood
between sunrise and sunset.
The feeling of his townsmen after his death is well expressed
in the following extract from resolutions of the Windsor Board of
Trade :
"He believed in Windsor, with its rugged scenery, nestled in this beau-
tiful valley. He gave of his energies and fortune generously to expand
its manufacturing industries, promote its growth and develop its agricul-
ture. He was a steadfast friend, a public-spirited townsman, a leader,
1 66 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
yet ready to meet all cheerfully, without ostentation — a man without
guile, a man of the people, whose loss is widely lamented."
He married in New York City, April 23, 1891, Margaret Allen
Stetson, who survives him with five children: Margaret Allen,
born New York City, August 16, 1892 ; Mehitable Sherman, born
Windsor, Vt, May 17, 1894; Jeremiah Maxwell (Yale 1917),
born Windsor, January 28, 1896; Mary, born Windsor, Decem-
ber 26, 1898; Josephine, born Windsor, August 16, 1901. Mrs.
Evarts is living at Windsor.
Arthur L. Farwell
Merchant
The John V. Farwell Company, 102 S. Market Street, Chicago, 111.
Residence, Lake Forest
Arthur Lincoln Farwell was born in Chicago, January 17, 1863,
son of John Villiers Farwell and Emeret (Cooley) Farwell, who
were married March 8, 1854. and had four other children: John
V. (Yale '79), Francis C. (Yale '82), Fannie F. Turtle, and
Abby F. Ferry.
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John Villiers Farwell (born Campbelltown, N. Y., July 29, 1825,
died Lake Forest, 111., August 20, 1908) was the well-known mem-
ber of The John V. Farwell Co., wholesale dealers in dry goods.
His parents were Henry and Nancy (Jackson) Farwell. He was
descended from Henry Farwell who settled at Concord, Mass., in
1635-
Kmeret (Cooley) Farwell (deceased) was born January 25,
1826, at Granville, Mass. Her parents were Noah Cooley and
Sophronia (Parsons) Cooley.
Farwell prepared for college at the Lake Forest Academy. In
college he was prominent in athletics, especially football, and also
socially. He was a member of the freshman class supper com-
mittee, freshman and university football teams, on the tug-of-war
team, a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon, He Boule, Psi Upsilon
and Scroll and Key.
Since graduation he has been connected with The John V.
Farwell Company in Chicago, of which firm he is now the second
vice president.
He married at Lake Geneva, Wis., September 25, 1894,
{Catherine I sham, of Chicago, 111., daughter of Ralph Nelson
I sham, a physician, now deceased. They have five children :
John V., 3d, born November 22, 1895 ; Ralph L, born March 28,
1897; Arthur, born January 31, 1900; Julian L, born November
10, 1901 ; and Elinor, born January 3, 1905.
George W. Flowers
Lawyer
719 Frick Building, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Residence, 737 Pennsylvania Avenue, Irwin, Pa.
George Washington Flowers was born near Whitehall, Pa.,
May 15, 1860, son of John Horning Flowers and Sarah A.
(Lenhart) Flowers, who were married June 25, 1855, and had
four other children : Joseph F., Grant L., John H., and Anna A.
(died Greensburg, Pa., October 25, 1894).
John Horning Flowers (born Baldwin, Pa., February 24,
1821, died Irwin, Pa., April 24, 1898) was a farmer in Baldwin
and later in Irwin. He was the son of George and Elizabeth
(Horning) Flowers and a great-grandson of George Flowers,
1 68 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
an early settler of Philadelphia, who was a descendant of Roger
Flowers of Rutland, England, speaker of the House of Commons
from 1415 to 1422.
Sarah A. (Lenhart) Flowers (born near Irwin, Pa., Decem-
ber 25, 1834) is the daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Bach-
man) Lenhart and great-granddaughter of Christian Lenhart
of York County, Pa., a soldier in the Revolutionary War, also
great-great-granddaughter of Andrew Byerly of Lancaster, Pa.,
a soldier in the armies of Gen. Braddock and Col. Bouquet in
the colonial wars.
Flowers taught two years after leaving the public school, then
prepared for college with a private tutor, entered sophomore
year at Washington and Jefferson College, and joined our class
in the fall of junior year. He took an Oration appointment
senior year.
After graduation he entered the law office of Hon. George
W. Guthrie in Pittsburgh, was appointed prothonotary of West-
moreland County in 1888, and admitted to the bar in 1889.
In 1890 he established and edited the Irunn Republican, soon
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after purchased the Irwin Standard and merged the two into
the Republican-Standard. In 1892 he was one of the organizers
of the First National Bank of Irwin, and since 1909 has been
the vice president. He founded the public library of Irwin in
1894. Since 1900 he has been a director of the Parker.slmri;
Iron and Steel and allied companies.
He is a Republican, a deacon in the Reformed Church in the
United States, a member of the Union Club, University Club
of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Press Club, Western Pennsylvania
Historical Society, Century Club, vice president of the Pennsyl-
vania Council of Community Clubs, and president of the Irwin
Chamber of Commerce.
He married in Irwin, June 24, 1894, Sara E. Gregg, nee Cole,
daughter of Henry C. Cole.
William Fosdick
Stamford, Conn.
William Fosdick was born in Stamford, Conn., August 25,
1859, son of William Robbins Fosdick and Elizabeth Jarvis
(Ferris) Fosdick, who had seven other children: Samuel P.
170 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
(Yale '79), Robert A. (Yale '83), Ellery R., Joshua B., Kneeland
S., Elizabeth F., and Harriet J.
William R. Fosdick (born Westchester, N. Y., April 19, 1817,
died New Brighton, N. Y., December n, 1891) was a leather
merchant and president of the St. Nicholas National Bank of
New York. He was descended from one of the same name, who
was one of the early Dutch settlers of Manhattan in 1640.
Elizabeth Jarvis (Ferris) Fosdick was a daughter of Joshua
B. Ferris (Yale '23) of Stamford and Sally H. (Peters) Ferris,
both of New England Puritan ancestry. Mrs. Ferris was a
granddaughter of Dr. Samuel Peters (Yale 1757), who wrote
a "General History of Connecticut" in 1781, in which he originated
the story of the so-called "Blue Laws" of the New Haven Colony.
Since graduation Fosdick has lived in Stamford, "engaged in
neither profession nor business." He married March 12, 1892,
Linnie I. Elliott, and has one son, William Fosdick, Jr., born
April 4, 1893.
Reginald Foster
Lawyer
87 Milk Street, Boston, Mass.
Residence, 48 The Fenway, Boston
Reginald Foster was born in Worcester, Mass., January 2,
1863, son of Dwight Foster and Henrietta Perkins (Baldwin)
Foster, who were married August 20, 1850, and had seven other
children: Alfred D. (Harvard '73), Emily B., wife of Dr. James
K. Thacher (Yale '68), Roger (Yale '78), Mary R., wife of
Rev. Bradley Oilman (Harvard '80), Burnside (Yale '82), and
Elizabeth S.
Dwight Foster (born Worcester, Mass., December 13, 1828,
died Boston, April 18, 1884, Yale '48, LL.D. Yale 1871), a law-
yer, attorney general of Massachusetts during the Civil War. a
judge of the Supreme Court of that State, was the son of Alfred
Dwight Foster of Worcester, and grandson of Dwight Foster
(Brown 1774) of Brookfield, Mass., who was member of Con-
gress, chief justice of the Massachusetts Common Pleas Court
and United States Senator as well as member of the Constitu-
tional Convention of 1779. Another ancestor was Brigadier-
General Joseph Dwight. who was a member of the Colonial
BIOGRAPII IES — GRADUATES I 7 I
Council from 1733 to 1751, and second in command in the assault
on Louisburg in 1745.
Henrietta Perkins (Baldwin) Foster (born New Haven, Conn.,
April 2, 1830, died Boston, January 15, 1910) was a daughter of
Roger Sherman Baldwin (Yale 1811), granddaughter of Judge
Simeon Baldwin, and great-granddaughter of Roger Sherman,
all of New Haven. Roger Sherman was the New Haven signer
of the Declaration of Independence, and his family since that
day have been prominent in the social and intellectual life of
Xew Haven and other places.
Foster prepared at the Boston Latin School and at Noble's
School in Boston. In college he was a member of Delta Kappa,
Eta Phi, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Skull and Bones, an editor of the
Yale Literary Magazine, and took two prizes (a second and a
third) in English composition sophomore year.
After graduation he attended the Boston Law School and since
his admission to the bar has practiced in Boston, with Alfred
D. Foster until 1898, and since then, as a member of the firm of
Foster & Turner. Much of his business has had to do with the
172 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
affairs of the Boston & Albany Railroad Company, of which he
has been for several years a director. He is a trustee, or director,
in several important concerns, among them the Boston Terminal
Company, Pemberton Building Trust, Old Colony Trust Com-
pany, New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, and the
United Fruit Company. He has spent considerable time traveling
in Europe, both for health and pleasure.
He married in Boston, March 8, 1893, Harriette Story Law-
rence, daughter of Abbott Lawrence (Harvard '49). They have
four children: Ruth, born Boston, January 3, 1894; Lawrence,
born August 9, 1898; Reginald, Jr., born November 10, 1899,
and Maxwell Evarts, born August 27, 1901.
Gerard Fountain
Architect
103 Park Avenue, New York City
Residence, Scarsdale, N. Y.
Gerard Fountain was born in New York, October 25, 1861,
son of Gideon Fountain and Mary Elizabeth (Keech) Fountain,
who were married in 1848 and had eight other children : George
H. (Yale e.v-^6)t Gideon E., Anna Augusta (Rutgers Female
College '75), Mary Ada (Mrs. F. S. Winston, Rutgers Female
College '76), Lillie May (Mrs. Boover Caldwell), Ollie Belle
(Mrs. J. H. Briggs), Helen E. (Mrs. Harvey Genung), and
L. Ernestine.
Gideon Fountain (born Staten Island, N. Y., August i, 1828,
died New York, November 25, 1900) was a builder in New
York. He was of Huguenot descent on both sides, his forefather,
Charel de Fontagne, having come to America from Rochelle,
France, in 1658, and his mother being descended from the
Egberts, who came over in 1630.
Mary (Keech) Fountain (born New York, 1829, died Septem-
ber 16, 1877) was of English and Huguenot ancestry. Her great-
grandfather, who came over about 1750, was a Tory during the
Revolution and lost all his property by confiscation.
Fountain prepared at Emerson's School, New York, and in col-
lege was a member of Delta Kappa and Delta Kappa Epsilon
and was coxswain of the class crew in two regattas.
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173
After graduation he engaged in the real estate business in the
firm of Fountain Brothers, New York. In our sexennial record
he reports: "After two and a half years of hard work I found
there was nothing in the business for me and quit it to go into
cable railroading. During part of this time Harry Prouty lived
with me, and later W. T. Nichols joined us. Railroading was
better now, and I was satisfied to keep on until, in November.
1890, I was called home by the serious illness of my brother.
a Xew York builder. I am now engaged in finishing his contracts,
and expect afterward to keep on in the same profession. My
record then since the last one, is three happy, unmarried, irre-
sponsible years."
He reports that he has had plenty of work and some play,
that his work for the last few years has been almost entirely the
making of plans for country houses. He intends that his girls
shall go to Bryn Mawr, where their mother graduated, and his
boy to Yale.
In Scarsdale he has been vice president of the fire company
and still "runs with the machine," was for four years com-
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missioner of highways, and for a number of years has been mem-
ber of the Republican Town Committee.
April 28, 1898, he married Anne Elizabeth Miller Caldwell
(' IJryn Mawr '97), daughter of John Caldwell, of Edgewood
(now Pittsburgh) Pa., and treasurer of the Westinghouse Air
Brake Company. Their children are: Audrey Elizabeth, born
Stockbridge, Mass., August 5, 1900; Olivia Caldwell, born
Pelham Manor, N. Y., August 18, 1902; John Caldwell, born
Scarsdale, October 27, 1905 ; and Katrina, born February 10,
1909.
Edward C. Gale
Lawyer
Security Bank Building, Minneapolis, Minn.
Residence, 2115 Stevens Avenue, Minneapolis
Kdward OKMKTV ( ialc was born August 21, 1862, in Minne-
apolis, son of Samuel Chester Gale and Susan (Damon) Gale,
who wen- married October, 1861, and had four other children:
Alice (Smith '87, wife of David P. Jones), Anna
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wife of Clarkson Lindley), Marion (Smith '94), and Charles
Sunnier (Yale '95).
Samuel Chester Gale (born Royalston, Mass., September 15,
1827) was a graduate of Yale 1854, has been prominent in Min-
neapolis as an attorney and has also engaged actively in the real
estate business. He has been alderman and president of the City
Council, member of the Board of Education and of the Library
Board, president of the Board of Trade, president of the Minne-
apolis Exposition, and has held other public positions. He is
descended from Richard Gale, who settled in Watertown, Mass.,
in 1638, and is supposed to have emigrated from Suffolk County,
England.
Susan (Damon) Gale (born Holden, Mass., May 7, 1833, died
Minneapolis, February 20, 1908) was the daughter of Samuel
Damon, a woollen manufacturer, who was prominent politically.
She was descended from John Damon of Reading, England, who
settled at Lynn, Mass., in 1633.
Gale prepared at the High School in Minneapolis, attended the
University of Minnesota two years and then entered our class
in sophomore year, September, 1881. In college he was a mem-
ber of Psi Upsilon and Scroll and Key, took a first prize in Eng-
lish composition sophomore year, was editor of the Yale Literary
Magazine (chairman of the board), editor of the Pot-Pourri,
was a speaker at the Junior Exhibition, won the DeForest prize,
took Philosophical Oration appointment in junior and Oration
appointment senior year.
After graduation he spent a year in travel and study in Europe,
then a year studying law in Minneapolis, and a year at the Har-
vard Law School, where he took the degree of Master of Arts.
Since his admission to the bar in Minneapolis in 1887, he has
been practicing law, at first in association with his father, and
since 1901 as a member of the firm of Snyder & Gale. He has
also been active in other lines of public and business life, has
served as member of the Public Library Board of Minneapolis,
the Municipal Art Commission, the State Art Commission of
Minnesota, the Pure Water Commission of Minneapolis, the Civic
Commission, the State Anti-tuberculosis Commission, the Minne-
apolis Society of Fine Arts, and other similar boards. He has
recently been elected president of the Yale Alumni Association
of the Northwest.
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Until the silver issue in 1896 he was a Cleveland Tariff-Reform
Democrat; is now a Republican. He is a trustee of the First
Congregational Church, and a member of the Minneapolis, Uni-
versity, Lafayette and other clubs.
He married June 28, 1892, in Minneapolis, Sarah Belle Pills-
bury, daughter of John Sargent Pillsbury, well known as a manu-
facturer and a governor of Minnesota. They have had two
children: Edward Pillsbury, born July 30, 1895, died August 3,
1895 ; and Richard Pillsbury, born October 30, 1900.
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Gustav Gruener
Professor of German in Yale University
146 Lawrance Hall, New Haven, Conn.
Gustav Gruener was born in New Haven, Conn., March 30,
1863, son of Leopold Gruener and Katharine Elisabeth (Kern)
Gruener, who were married January 24, 1856, and had six other
children: Leopold, Theodore, Edward Otto, Henry Robert,
Hippolyte (Yale '91, Ph.D. '93), and Alfred George.
BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES I 7 7
Leopold Gruener (born Hitzkofen, Province of Hohenzol-
lern, Sigmaringen, Germany, died New Haven, March i, 1884)
came to this country after the Revolution of 1848 and settled in
New Haven, where he was an upholsterer by trade.
Katharine Elisabeth (Kern) Gruener (born Morsheim, Klu-n-
ish Palatinate, Germany, June 5, 1828, died New Haven, October
3, 1902) was the daughter of an innkeeper and farmer, who left
Germany on account of the Revolution of 1848.
Gruener attended the German- American and public schools, and
graduated at the Hillhouse High School, New Haven. In col-
lege he was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon, freshman
debating society, Psi Upsilon and Skull and Bones, won the
Woolsey scholarship, first Berkeley Latin composition prize, the
Winthrop scholarship, had Philosophical Oration appointments
both junior and senior years and, as the highest stand man of
the class, delivered the valedictory address at Commencement.
After graduation he remained at Yale for graduate study,
chiefly in German, holding the Clark and Foote scholarships for
two years. In 1885 he was appointed instructor in German, and
held this position while continuing his studies. The years 1887-
89 were spent in Germany, studying at Berlin and Munich, one
year in the company of his classmate, Frederick S. Jones, and
the vacations were spent in travel. In the fall of 1889 he
returned to Yale as tutor of German, to which position he had
been elected before leaving. Upon the expiration of the regular
term he was made assistant professor of German in 1892. In
1897 he was appointed professor of German. One year (1893-
94) was spent farming to recover from a nervous breakdown,
and one year (1904-05) in Germany in further study. He took
his Ph.D. at Yale in 1896 and was honored by the degree of
Litt.D. in 1909, from Washington College, Md.
He is an Independent Republican. He has served in the Grays,
Company F, 2d Regiment, C. N. G., is a member of the Lawn
and Graduates clubs, of New Haven, and has been twice elected
first vice president of the Modern Language Association of
America.
Gruener has edited three German novels, with introduction and
notes — Gottfried Keller: "Dietegen," published by Ginn & Co.,
1892; Hermann Sudermann : "Frau Sorge," published by Holt
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& Co., 1900 ; E. J. A. Hoffmann : "Fraulein Scuderi," published
by Holt & Co., 1907.
He has also written several technical articles on German litera-
ture and has edited German exercises and verb lists.
He is unmarried.
John R. Halsey
Lawyer
141 Broadway, New York City
Residence, 141 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn
John Rogers Halsey was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., September
23, 1864, son of John Rogers Halsey and Frances Anna (Dall)
Halsey, who were married December i, 1859, and had six other
children: Charles (Yale '83, died November 28, 1898, in Tuc-
son, Ariz.), William (died October 25, 1907, at Ferris, Cal.),
Hamilton R., Augusta R. (Halsey) Tilclen, Harriet and Caroline.
John Rogers Halsey vborn New York City, May 16, 1841,
died Brooklyn, October n, 1894) was formerly a merchant, with
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the firm of William Halsey & Co., New York, and was the son
of Thomas Rogers and Phoebe (Walker) Rogers, both born in
Ireland. He was adopted by Charles Halsey and took his name.
Frances Anna (Dall) Halsey (born New York City, October
15. 1839, died Brooklyn, May 30, 1897) was the daughter of
Charles Dall and Susan (Lowber) Dall, and a descendant of
Peter Lowber, who came from Amsterdam, Holland, in 1684, and
settled in Delaware, near Dover.
Halsey prepared at the Polytechnic Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y.,
and passed examinations for Yale in 1879, then took post-gradu-
ate work at the Polytechnic Institute for a year. In college he
was a member of Delta Kappa, Eta Phi, Delta Kappa Epsilon
and Scroll and Key, of the D. K. E. campaign committee, the
junior promenade committee, financial editor of the Yale Record,
and received Oration appointments both junior and senior years.
He attended the Columbia Law School for one year, 1884-85,
and was admitted to the bar in May, 1886, since which time he has
practiced law in New York City. From 1893 to J897 he was a
partner in the law firm of Tierney & Halsey and is now in the
firm Halsey, Kiernan & O'Keeffe. He was a Democrat until
1896 and since then has been an Independent.
Halsey is a member of the Yale and University clubs in New
York, the Bar Association of New York City, Englewood Country
Club of New Jersey and the Graduates Club of New Haven,
Conn.
To members of the class it is unnecessary and to others it is
impossible to describe adequately Halsey's relation to the class.
He has faithfully served as a member of reunion committees,
has arranged and conducted our winter dinners at the Yale Club
in New York, has presided over our reunions and acted as our
guide and friend on every occasion. Others besides our class
have had the benefit of his executive ability and his intimate
knowledge of Yale men and Yale affairs, and he is often called
upon to help on Yale occasions in New York, memorably as a
member of the committee to arrange the dinner to President
Taft at the Waldorf.
He is unmarried.
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Robert W. Hamill
The Lyon Company, 234 South La Salle Street, Chicago, 111.
Residence, Clarendon, 111.
Robert Walbridge Hamill was born in Chicago, December 8,
1863, son of Charles Davisson Hamill and Susan Frances (Wai-
bridge) Hamill, who were married in 1861, and had seven other
children: Charles (Yale '90), Henry (died Chicago, 1868),
Frank (died 1883), Paul (died Montreal, 1908), Philip (Yale
'98), Lawrence (Chicago '02), and Frances E., wife of Edward
J. Phelps (Yale '86).
Charles Davisson Hamill (born Bloomington, Ind., November*
1839, died Chicago, January 4, 1905) was the son of Dr. Robert
C. Hamill and Eliza (Davisson) Hamill. He was a grain mer-
chant of Chicago, of Scotch-Irish ancestry, descended from one
of two brothers who came to this country early in the eighteenth
century from County Antrim, Ireland, and settled first in
Virginia.
Susan Frances (Walbridge) Hamill (born Ithaca, N. Y., June.
1837, died Chicago, April 20, 1909) was the daughter of Henry
BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES l8l
Walbridge and Fannie (Thompson) Walbridge. Her family
were early settlers in Connecticut.
Hamill attended the Harvard School in Chicago. In college
IK* was a member of Kappa Sigma Kpsilon. lie I'oule and Psi
I'psilon, secretary and treasurer of tlie class boat club, secretary
and treasurer and afteruanN proident of tbe university football
a— "ciation, and one of the executive committee of the athletic
association.
After graduation he became a member of the Chicago Board
of Trade, was for several years a dealer in grain and exporter
of grain. Since 1900 he has been active in the management of
timber properties and lands in the South. In 1910 he became
secretary and treasurer of The Lyon Company, and is at the head
of several turpentine companies in Florida, Mississippi and Ala-
bama, and of a land development company in Mississippi.
He is a member of the University Club, Chicago.
He married in Chicago, June 22, 1892, Katherine Lyon,
daughter of John Bacon Lyon, a grain and timber merchant of
Chicago. They have four children : Robert Lyon, born April
4, 1899; Katherine, born February 2, 1901 ; Emily, born Novem-
ber 9, 1902, and Frances, born March 30, 1904.
Horace E. Hand
Fruit Grower
Anaheim, Cal.
Horace Edward Hand was born in Montrose, Pa., November
21, 1862, son of Alfred Hand and Phebe A. (Jessup) Hand,
wrho were married September 11, 1861, and had five other chil-
dren: Harriet Jessup (Wellesley '86), William Jessup (Yale
*S/, Alfred, Jr. (Yale '88), Charlotte (Wellesley '92), and
Miles Tracey (Williams '94 and Cornell '97).
Alfred Hand (born Honesdale, Pa., March 26, 1835), Yale '57,
a distinguished lawyer and judge of Scranton, Pa., has long been
one of the best known and most highly honored men of his sec-
tion. He has been Judge of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania,
and delegate to International Peace Commissions in Washington
(1906) and New York (1907).
Phebe A. (Jessup) Hand (died April 25, 1872) was the daugh-
ter of William Jessup of Montrose, Pa. After her death Judge
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Hand married Miss Helen E. Sanderson of Beloit, by whom he
has several children.
Hand prepared at the School of the Lackawanna, in Scranton.
In college he was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon, Eta Phi,
Delta Kappa Epsilon, Yale University Club, of the senior
promenade committee, sang three years in the college choir and
also two years on the university glee club.
After graduation he studied law in Scranton, was admitted to
the bar in 1886, and for several years was a member of the firm
of Jessups & Hand. Afterwards he was for a time in the legal
department of the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad in St.
Louis, and since 1910 has been conducting a fruit ranch in
Anaheim, Cal.
He married in Montrose, Pa., September 28, 1887, Mary Buell
Mulford, daughter of William J. Mulford. They have two
children: Anna Mulford, born March 14, 1890 (married Fred-
erick Morris Sayre of Granite City, 111., September 18, 1912),
and Katherine, born June 12, 1894.
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James S. Havens
Lawyer
1015 Insurance Building, Rochester, N. Y.
Residence, 490 East Avenue, Rochester
James Smith Havens was born in Weedsport, N. Y., May 28,
1859, son of Dexter Eber Havens and Lucy Bell (Smith )
Havens, who were married November 23, 1853.
Dexter Eber Havens (born Windsor, Vt, July 31, 1805, died
Weedsport, X. Y., December 17, 1882) was a merchant, the son
of William V. Havens, son of Simeon Havens of Ashford,
Windham County, Conn.
Lucy Bell (Smith) Havens (born Sherburne, Chenango
County, N. Y., January I, 1824, died Rochester, N. Y., June 23,
1904) was the daughter of James S. Smith and Percis (Bell)
Smith.
Havens prepared at the Monroe Collegiate Institute, Elbridge.
N. Y., entered college with the class of 1882, was obliged to leave
in sophomore year because of ill health, returned and entered '84
1 84 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
in sophomore year. In college he was a member of Psi Upsilon,
one of the five class historians, had High Oration appointments
both junior and senior years, and was a speaker at Commence-
ment.
In 1894, he formed the partnership of Foote & Havens, of
which James B. Perkins afterwards became a member. Mr.
Foote was appointed a justice of the Supreme Court and Mr.
Perkins was sent to Congress. Havens afterwards became con-
nected with the firm formerly known as Harris & Harris, and
in 1907 the firm Harris, Havens, Beach & Harris was formed,
of which he remained a partner until January, 1912, when he
formed a partnership with his nephew, Samuel M. Havens, under
the firm name of Havens & Havens.
He has always been a Democrat. As early as 1888 he began
his political activity by stumping the county for Roswell P.
Flower for governor. In 1892, he was again active in the
presidential campaign of that year. In 1904 he represented his
district at the St. Louis Convention, where he and his associates
supported Judge Alton B. Parker. Upon the death of James
B. Perkins, then representing the Rochester District in Congress,
Havens was nominated as his successor and was elected at a
special election April 19, 1910, defeating the prominent Republi-
can politician, George W. Aldridge, by nearly six thousand votes,
in a district which, at the last previous election, had given a
plurality of more than ten thousand for a Republican. The elec-
tion of Havens over Aldridge excited wide comment and Havens
was afterwards repeatedly mentioned for the Democratic candi-
dacy for governor of New York at the next election. Since
1911 he has resumed the practice of law.
He is a member of the Unitarian Church.
He married in Rochester, N. Y., January 16, 1894, Caroline
Prindle Sammons (Rochester Free Academy '82), daughter of
Jacob S. Sammons. They have four children: Lucy Prindle,
born in Rochester, October 21, 1894; Mary Eleanor, born in
Rochester, January 30, 1897; James Dexter, born in Rochester,
January 16, 1900, and Nathaniel Foote, born in Rochester,
August 17, 1903.
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Howard H. Higbee
Teacher
2121 East p6th Street, Cleveland, Ohio
Howard Haines Higbee was born in Lodi, Ohio, August 13,
1861. He prepared at Brooks Academy, and in college was a
member of Delta Kappa and Psi Upsilon.
After graduation he studied at Leipsic, Johns Hopkins, and
Cornell, was assistant to Wyatt and Saarbach, industrial and
analytical chemists in New York 1891-92, studied chemistry
and allied subjects in Munich 1892-93, then again in Johns Hop-
kins, receiving the degree of Ph.D. in 1895.
In 1895-96 he was research assistant in organic chemistry to
Prof. A. Michael, Tufts College, and from 1896-1900 profes-
sor of general and physical chemistry in Hamilton College and
for four years professor of physics and chemistry in Antioch
College, Yellow Springs, Ohio.
He has published numerous papers in scientific journals.
He married September 5, 1888, Florence Johnson, a graduate
of \Yooster University, daughter of Mrs. Isaac Johnson of
\Yooster, Ohio.
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Roderick W. Hine
Superintendent Public Schools, Dedham, Mass.
Residence, 61 Dwight Street, Dedham
Roderick Whittelsey Hine was born February 9, 1858, in
Lebanon, Conn., son of Orlo Daniel Hine and Ellen Caroline
(Whittelsey) Hine, who were married October 13, 1843, and had
five other children: Charles Daniel (Yale '71), Daniel (died
Lebanon, Conn., July i, 1866), Laura (Hine) Carrington, Edith
Caroline (Smith '83), and Grace E. (died Lebanon, Conn.,
October 15, 1883).
Orlo Daniel Hine (born New Milford, Conn., October 28, 1815,
died New York City, August 9, 1890) was a graduate of Yuk
in 1837 and of Yale Theological Seminary, 1840, and spent a
large part of his life in Lebanon, Conn., where for thirty years
he was pastor of the First Congregational Church. He served
shorter pastorates in Clinton, Woodstock and Killingly, Conn.,
Fair Haven, Vt., and Pontiac, Mich. In 1866 he was elected to
the Connecticut legislature. He was the son of Daniel and Lucy
(Chamberlain) Hine, of \\-\v Milford.
BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES lS;
Ellen Caroline (Whittelsey) Hine (born Clinton, Conn., April
i, 1821, died Winsted, Conn., March 15, 1900) was a daughter of
Friend and Sylvia (Stannard) Whittelsey. and on her father's
side descended from John Whittelsey, one of the early settlers of
Saybrook. On her mother's side she was descended from Joseph
Stannard of Haddam and Westbrook. She also traced her
descent from Rev. Samuel Mather, one of the ten founders of
Yale College.
Hine prepared at Williston Seminary, Easthamptmi. Mass., and
entered Yale with the Class of '81, but left college early in his
sophomore year, returning- later to begin sophomore year with
our class. He was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon, Alpha
Kappa and Psi Upsilon, had High Oration appointment junior
year and Oration appointment senior year.
After graduation he taught in Bristol, Waterbury, West Hart-
ford and Norwich, Conn., and since 1893 has been superintendent
of public schools in Dedham.
He is a Republican in politics and a member of the Congre-
gational Church.
He married in Newington, Conn., November 23, 1888, Mary
Atwood Kirkham, daughter of John Stoddard Kirkham. Mrs.
Hine died at Coin, Germany, February 16, 1906. He has
three children: Roderick Paul (Bowdoin 'n), born Norwich,
Conn., November 25, 1889; Harold Kirkham (Bowdoin 'u),
born Norwich, Conn., February 26, 1891; Grace Ellen (Welles-
ley 1915), born Newington, Conn., June 18, 1893.
John Holden
Lawyer
141 Broadway, New York City
Residence, 8 Stephenson Boulevard, New Rochelle, N. Y.
John Holden was born in Clifton, N. Y., March 30, 1862, son
of Isaac Holden and Esther S. (Stead) Holden, who were mar-
ried in 1858, and had four other children : Susan G. ; Helen
(studied at the Univ. of Berlin) ; Charlotte Jamieson (Bryn
Mawr '03) ; and Frank (Yale ^-'98, Cornell).
Isaac Holden (born Preston, Conn., June 11, 1832, died New
York City, June, 1903) graduated from Dartmouth in 1852,
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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
also received an M.A. from Dartmouth, and was a lawyer and
manufacturer in Bridgeport, Conn.
Esther S. (Stead) Holden was born in Norwich, Conn., 1840.
Holden prepared at the Bridgeport High School, and in col-
lege was a member of Gamma Nu, took a third prize in English
composition sophomore year and was a Junior Exhibition and a
Townsend prize speaker.
He is a lawyer in New York City, and has been a partner
in the firm of Holden & Rogers since 1900. Allen of our class
was for some years associated with him in practice.
In politics he is a Democrat. He is a member of the New
Kn^land, Huguenot Yacht, Wykagyl Country clubs and the New
York Bar Association.
He married in Sterling, Mass., November 22, 1892, Lucy Flor-
ence Heywood (Smith '84), daughter of William S. Heywood, a
I nitarian minister. They have two children: Heywood (Yale
'158.) born December 24, 1893, and Constance, born December
5-
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189
Joseph G. Holliday
Lawyer
906 La Salle Building, St. Louis, Mo.
Residence, 5137 Washington Avenue, St. Louis
Joseph Glasby Holliday was born in St. Louis, September 14,
1861, son of Samuel Newton Holliday and Maria Fithian
(Glasby) Holliday, who were married September 24, 1860, and
had two other children: Ida Rebecca (died St. Louis, March 8,
1878), and William Harrison (Harvard '85).
Samuel Newton Holliday (born Pike County, Mo., October
30, 1829, died St. Louis, February 20, 1902) was the seventh
of nine children of Joseph Holliday and Nancy (McCune) Hol-
liday, graduated from Cumberland University in 1855, and prac-
ticed law in St. Louis. Joseph Holliday, Samuel's father, was
born in Bourbon (now Harrison) County, Ky., was a member
of Dick Johnson's regiment of mounted riflemen at the Battle
of the Thames, and removed to Missouri in 1817. William Hol-
liday, Joseph's father, was born in County Down, Ireland, and
came to America in 1772.
190 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Xancy (McCune) Holliday 's grandfather was a soldier in the
Revolutionary War.
Maria Fithian (Glasby) Holliday (born St. Louis, Mo., April
9; 1841, died Pasadena, Cal., February 3, 1886) was a daughter
of Alban H. Glasby and Nancy Adams. Her grandfather, Wil-
liam Glasby, was a native of Pennsylvania, and his wife, Ruth
Ann Reid, was of English Quaker antecedents.
Holliday prepared at Smith Academy in St. Louis. In col-
lege he was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon, Psi Upsilon and
Wolf's Head, divided with Pavey the Scott prize in French, and
had Oration appointment senior year.
After graduation he studied law at Washington University in
St. Louis, receiving his degree in 1886, magna cum laude. Since
that time he has been practicing law in St. Louis, at first with
his father and later alone, devoting himself principally to probate
matters.
He describes himself as a Cleveland Democrat, Anti-Imperial-
ist, Anti-Federal-Income-Tax, and is a member of the Presby-
terian (South) Church, in which he has been deacon and elder.
In 1907, he was president of the Yale Alumni Association of St.
Louis.
He married in Kansas City, Mo., July 15, 1885, Harriet Eliza-
beth Alexander, daughter of Harriet Wiles and Richard Nichols
Alexander, deceased. They have six children: Samuel Newton
(Yale '08 ), born St. Louis, Mo., June 21, 1886; Ida Rebecca
(Smith '10), born St. Louis, Mo., February 26, 1888, married
Charles Edward Bascom (Yale ex-oi S.), April 10, 1912; Joseph
Harrison (Yale '13), born St. Louis, Mo., May 6, 1890; Florence
Alexander, born St. Louis, Mo., October 26, 1892; Elizabeth
Harriet, born St. Louis, Mo., August 14, 1896; Richard Alexan-
der, born St. Louis, Mo., July n, 1908. A daughter, Mary
Elizabeth, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Bascom, February 15, 1913.
Samuel Newton Holliday (Yale '08) was the first son of any
member of the class of '84 to enter Yale.
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Charles E. Holmes
Insurance
Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York
Outlook Building, Columbus, Ohio
Charles E. Holmes was born February 2, 1863, in North Ston-
ington, Conn., son of Wheeler H. Holmes and Esther A. (Smith)
Holmes, who were married September I, 1858, and had three
other children: John (born Mystic, Conn., died 1907), Ardelia
(born Mystic, Conn., died 1900), and Caroline.
Wheeler H. Holmes (born North Stonington, Conn., May 6,
1834, died Dover, S. Dak., December 20, 1895) was son of David
Holmes and grandson of Thomas Holmes. The first American
ancestor, George Holmes, came from Essex County, England, in
1637, and members of the family fought in King Philip's War,
the French and Indian War, the Revolution and War of 1812.
One of them was at the Battle of Lexington.
Esther A. (Smith) Holmes was born in Mystic, Conn., May
i, 1829. Her father fought at Waterloo. Her mother was
192 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
descended from the Whipples, who were active in Revolutionary
days, and one of whom was a signer of the Declaration of
Independence.
Holmes prepared at the Free Academy in Norwich, Conn.,
and in college was a member of Delta Kappa and Psi Upsilon,
played on the class and university baseball teams, won a Berkeley
scholarship, and as class statistician published at the end of
senior year the annals of our class in college.
After graduation he went to Nebraska with Doringh of our
class and for a short time engaged in cattle-ranching, was for
three years principal of the high school in Ainsworth, after that
taught at Rushville in the same State, was admitted to the bar in
1889 and began practice in Harrison, Neb., but his attention was
afterwards diverted to business, and since August i, 1906, he has
been district manager for the Mutual Life Insurance Company
of New York, first in Sioux Falls, S. Dak., and from 1910
until 1914 in Providence, R. I., and now in Columbus, Ohio.
He organized the bank of Harrison in 1890. While in
Harrison, Holmes raised a company of volunteers to protect
the settlers from raids which might be made by the Sioux
Indians, and saw some service. The uprising was ended by the
battle of Wounded Knee. Having studied and collected fossils
in northwestern Nebraska and the bad lands of South Dakota,
purely for his own pleasure, he was induced in 1889 and 1890
to conduct two geological expeditions into that region in the inter-
est of Vassar College, and found, besides other good specimens,
three of daimonelix. He has published three books: ''From
Court to Court," "Birds of the West" and "Happy Days."
Our twenty-fifth-year reunion was the first time our classmates
had seen Holmes since graduation. They could not be blamed
for calling upon him immediately to dance a clog as he used to
do on the Psi U. stage when in college. They might, however,
have been more interested in hearing him tell of his varied experi-
ences in the West, and in hearing him recite some of his poems
from his little book, "Happy Days," which bring to the reader
or hearer a whiff of the free air of the western plains and towns,
and the simple sentiment of a college-bred man who still has
his classics in his mind. The ambition of the author of the
poems is well expressed in the last two lines of the "Afterword" :
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"I should be happy, should a friend remark,
He sings a little like the meadow lark."
His "Birds of the West" shows that he might easily find inspira-
tion, if not example, among the bird songsters. It is especially
interesting as the notes of an actual observer who is a nature lover
and has been to school children a nature teacher. It is cleverly
and informally written. While in the West, he delivered many
addresses on the Indians, the Black Hills and Bad Lands, West-
ern Birds and Mammals, as well as those of a political or patriotic
nature, and in the campaign of 1912 in Providence took the stump
for the Progressive party. After this campaign he was elected
Chairman of the State Central Committee of the Rhode Island
Progressives.
He is a member of some fraternal organizations and of the
National Association of Audubon Societies.
Holmes married in Dover, S. Dak., June 15, 1903, Josephine
Collier Etter of Harrisburg, Pa., daughter of John C. Etter, a
clergyman. Mrs. Holmes studied at the Ithaca Conservatory of
Music and the Curry School of Expression in Boston, Mass.
*Henry C. Hopkins
Died September 8, 1908
Henry Caleb Hopkins, born in New York City, January 8, 1863,
was the son of Henry Hopkins and Mary Elizabeth (Cornell)
Hopkins, who were married in New York in 1857. He had two
brothers who graduated at Yale, Samuel C. ('82), and Charles
Y. ('96). A sister is the wife of Herman Livingston (Yale '79).
Henry Hopkins was born in New York in 1820, the son of
Caleb Hopkins of New York and Keturah Hill of Catskill, in
which latter place he died in 1872. The first American ancestor
came from England in 1620 and settled in Plymouth.
Mary E. (Cornell) Hopkins (born 1833, died 1887) was the
daughter of Samuel Mott Cornell of New York and Emeline
Howland of New Bedford.
Hopkins prepared for college at St. Paul's School, Concord,
where he took a prominent part in school athletics. In college
194 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
he soon became conspicuous as a baseball player, being a member
of his class nine in freshman and junior years and playing for
three seasons on the university nine, of which he was captain in
his senior year. He was a member of Delta Kappa, He Boule,
Delta Kappa Epsilon and Scroll and Key.
After graduating he remained at home for a year and then
entered the New York office of Kidder, Peabody & Co. Later
he held the responsible position of cashier of the United States
National Bank of New York City until 1897, when that bank
was merged with the Western National Bank.
In 1896 he had a severe attack of typhoid fever, and in Feb-
ruary, 1897, he went abroad to regain his shaken strength. On
his return he engaged in the business of private banking as a
member of the firm of Bickley & Hopkins, formed February i,
1899, but retired in 1901, devoting his time to his private business
affairs.
In 1904 he bought a farm at Ridgefield, Conn., and left \c\v
York to live in the country.
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He died at Ridgefield on September 8, 1908, of chronic diffused
nephritis of long standing, and was buried in Woodlawn Ceme-
tery, New York City, on September 11.
Hopkins was thorough and conscientious in everything that
he undertook. His steady rise in his chosen business of bank-
ing, before his health failed, proved this. But his interests were
not confined to business, his wholesome interest in what others
were doing and thinking, and in their successes, appreciation
of faithful workmanship in art as well as in business, enriched
his own life and made more stimulating the ready and open-
hearted companionship which he so freely offered to others.
On October 24, 1903, he married Emilie Florence Jones,
daughter of Frederick W. Jones of New York City and Eliza
G. (Lattimer) Jones. Mrs. Hopkins is living at Bedford Hills,
Mt. Kisco P. O., N. Y.
Sidney W. Hopkins
Lawyer
15 Dey Street, New York City
321 West Q2d Street, New York City
Sidney Wright Hopkins, Jr., was born in New York City,
February 18, 1862, son of Sidney Wright Hopkins and Anna
Maria (Clark) Hopkins, who were married June n, 1855, and
had two other children: Ella Coddington and Anna Maria,
wife of Edward F. Sanford.
Sidney Wright Hopkins, Sr. (born Newburgh, N. Y., August
23, 1836, died December 11, 1913), a retired merchant, was the
son of Edwin Augustus Hopkins (born on Long Island) and
Cornelia Ann (Golden) Hopkins (born on Long Island). Begin-
ning in New York as an importer and dealer in metals, he later
founded the firm of E. A. & S. W. Hopkins, which dealt largely
in railway supplies and financed several important railway pro-
jects. He was active in the reorganization of the People's Gas
Light and Coke Company of Chicago and in other enterprises,
and from 1879 until his death one of the trustees of the Dry
Dock Savings Institution of New York. He was of Rhode
Island Quaker ancestry, the family removing to Long Island
before the Revolution.
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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Anna Maria (Clark) Hopkins (born New York City, Septem-
ber 24, 1837) is the daughter of Thomas J. Clark, whose father
was Amos Clark, and Rebecca (Bloodgood) Clark.
Hopkins prepared at Phillips Academy, Andover, and in col-
lege was a member of Sigma Epsilon, He Boule, Delta Kappa
Epsilon and Wolf's Head, rowed on our class crew freshman
year, and was elected senior year a member of the class cup
committee.
In June, 1886, he received the degree of LL.B. from the
Columbia Law School. After admission to the bar, he practiced
law until 1888 as a member of the firm of Sewell & Pierce, and
afterwards alone, until May 27, 1903, when he became a mem-
ber of the legal department of the American Telephone & Tele-
graph Company. As one of the staff of the general counsel of
that company, he is busily and absorbingly occupied, and divides
his time between the New York and Boston offices.
He married in New York City, September 4, 1909, Evelyn
Briggs, daughter of Thomas Jefferson Briggs, a manufacturer
of New York City.
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Edmund O. Hovey
Curator, American Museum of Natural History, New York City
Residence, 115 West 84th Street, New York City
Edmund Otis Hovey was born September 15, 1862, in New
Haven, Conn., son of Horace Carter Hovey and Helen Lavinia
(Blatchley) Hovey, who were married November 18, 1857,
and had three other children: Helen Carter (Hovey) Ellin-
wood (Mt. Holyoke College 1878-79; graduate Claverack Col-
lege, N. Y., 1883), Samuel Blatchley (died 1869, aged five years),
Clara Louise (Hovey) Raymond (Wellesley College 1892-95).
Horace Carter Hovey (born Rob Roy, Ind., January 28, 1833),
a graduate of Wabash College, Ind., 1853, and of Lane Theo-
logical Seminary, 1857, received also honorary degrees of Master
of Arts and Doctor of Divinity from Wabash College in 1856 and
1907. He was ordained in 1858, has had several pastorates in
Congregational and Presbyterian churches, and was pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church of Newburyport, Mass., from 1893 to
1909, when he retired. He is the son of Edmund Otis Hovey,
198 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
who graduated at Dartmouth, 1828, and Andover Theological
Seminary, 1831, and was one of the five home missionaries who
founded Wabash College at Crawfordsville, Ind., in 1832, and of
Mary (Carter) Hovey of Thetford and Peacham, Vt. Through
six other lineal ancestors he traces his descent to Daniel Hovey,
son of Richard Hovey, of Waltham, England, who came from
England to Ipswich, Mass., in 1635.
Helen Lavinia (Blatchley) Hovey (born North Madison, Conn.,
April 23, 1830) is the daughter of Samuel Loper Blatchley and
Mary A. (Robinson) Blatchley, both of whom came from old
Connecticut families.
Hovey graduated at the high school in New Haven, having
lived with his parents, before he entered college, in New Haven,
Florence, Mass., New Albany, Ind., Peoria, 111., and Kansas
City, Mo. In college he was a member of Delta Kappa, Gamma
Nu, of which he was treasurer, and Delta Kappa Epsilon.
After graduation he was principal and superintendent of
schools in Janesville, Minn., and in Elk River, Minn., then came
to New Haven and was assistant to Prof. Samuel L. Penfield in
the mineralogical laboratory of Sheff, was three years (1888-91)
assistant principal and one year (1891-92) principal of the high
school in Waterbury. Since then, he has given his whole time
to geology. He studied at Heidelberg for two semesters, was
assistant on the United States Geological Survey in 1890 and
again from 1901 to 1906, and was in charge of the collection and
installation of the Missouri mineral exhibit of the Chicago Expo-
sition, 1892-93. In 1894 he was appointed assistant curator in
the Department of Geology and Invertebrate Palaeontology in the
American Museum of Natural History, becoming associate cura-
tor in 1901, and in 1909, curator. He has been a delegate from
the American Museum of Natural History to the seventh, ninth,
tenth and eleventh international geological congresses, vice presi-
dent of the New York Academy of Sciences in 1905 and 1906,
recording secretary of that society in 1907, secretary of the Geo-
logical Society of America since 1907, editor of the Annals of the
New York Academy of Sciences, has published a great many
articles in technical journals, the Annals of the New York Acad-
emy of Sciences, the Bulletin of the Geological Society of
America, in Nature (London), La Nature (Paris), and some
German magazines. In 1902, in collaboration with Professor
BIOGRAPH IBS — GRADUATES I 9 9
\\ bitfield, lie compiled a catalogue of 500 pages of "Types and
Figured Specimens in the Palaeontological Collections of the
Geological Depart UK -m of the Museum of Natural History."
He is a member of many of the societies for the advancement
of ^enlngical learning and research and is corresponding member
of the Sociedad Cientifica "Antonio Alzatc," Mexico.
These details do not by any means tell of his work, or of the
pleasure that be has taken in telling of it. He is best known to
the public as a daring and persistent investigator of volcanic
eruptions. After the eruption of Mount Pelee, he visited Mar-
tini(|tie, Soufriere, St. Vincent, and has made several trips for
special investigation of that region, in some of them being
accompanied by Mrs. Hovey, who has shared some of his inter-
esting adventures. He has traveled through Central Europe,
Russia (including the Urals, Caucasus and Ararat), the Mediter-
ranean, Austria, the Lesser Antilles, especially Martinique and
St. Vincent, rather widely over Mexico, and very many parts of
the United States. He has delivered many popular lectures,
among them one on the ''Wind Cave of South Dakota" which he
had explored, and has written upon the "Great American Cav-
erns." In 1908, he was chairman of the Committee of the New
York Academy of Sciences in charge of the exercises in com-
memoration of the birth of Darwin and the publication of
Darwin's book on Natural Selection.
Hovey received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Yale
in 1889, is a member of the Presbyterian Church, held the office
of deacon in the First Congregational Church in Waterbury from
1891 to 1894, and elder in the Fourth Presbyterian Church in
New York since 1896. In politics he is a Republican with inde-
pendent opinions.
He married in New Haven, Conn., September 13, 1888, Esther
Amanda Lancraft, daughter of Henry Samuel Lancraft, an
oyster grower of New Haven. Mrs. Hovey was a graduate of
Mount Holyoke College in 1886. They have had three children :
Henry Lancraft, born July 7, 1893, died in early infancy; Otis
Lancraft, born October 17, 1894, died September 17, 1896; Cor-
nelia Helen, born October 25, 1896, died in early infancy.
200 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Frank C. Hughson
Wholesale Lumber Merchant
i Lumber District, Albany, N. Y.
Residence, Loudonville, Albany County, N. Y.
Frank Campbell Hughson was born in Peterboro, Ontario.
September 26, 1861. His father, John Coonley Hughson (born
Broome, N. Y., October 4, 1820, died Loudonville, N. Y., January
15, 1893), was a lumber merchant and manufacturer. His
mother was Ellen (Campbell) Hughson (born Rochester, N. Y.,
March 18, 1827, died Loudonville, September 20, 1903). Hugh-
son writes: "Details of the families of my parents, prior to the
American Revolution, are not available, as these data did not come
to them owing to the death of their parents when they were very
little. My father's ancestors came to America a considerable time
before the Revolution, but what we know of them is tradition
and that they came from England. My mother's father was a
Scotchman and her mother an Irish lady. They settled in
Rochester, N. Y., early in the la>t century." Other children
BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES 2OI
were: Emily H. (died October 5, 1882), Aurena (died May 4,
1868), Mary K. (died October 18, 1910), Louise M., Ward C,
John C., and ( iertrude E.
Hughson studied at the Albany I'»o\V Academy for five years
before entering Vale and in college was a member of Kappa
Sigma Epsilon.
After graduation he went into the lumber business with
Hughson & Co., Albany, becoming one of the linn in 1891, and
since the death of his father, its principal member.
He is a member and trustee of the Fourth Presbyterian Church
of Albany, and belongs to the Fort Orange and University clubs
and the Albany Historical and Art Society. He says: "In regard
to my personal record, I have to say that since graduation from
college it has been too uneventful, outside of my business, to
make interesting reading. Being neither a married man, nor
professional, nor literary, nor military, nor political, I shall have
to leave all these headings blank."
William H. Hyndman
Lawyer
56 Second Street, Newburgh, N. Y.
Residence, 8 Liberty Street, W. H., Newburgh
\\illiam Hugh Hyndman was born in Newburgh, N. Y., Octo-
ber 13, 1 86 1, son of Robert Hyndman and Elizabeth (Gibb)
Hyndman, who were married in Baltimore, Md., June 15, 1853,
and had five other children: Sarah J. (Hyndman) Stewart,
David J. (died Newburgh, June 21, 1905), Joseph C., Robert
(died Newburgh, November 14, 1904), and Elizabeth G. (died
Newburgh, March 23, 1883).
Robert Hyndman (born County Antrim, Ireland, December
10, 1828, died Newburgh, N. Y., August 18, 1906) was a mer-
chant in Newburgh. He was one of the organizers of the First
United Presbyterian Church of Newburgh, and at the time of
his death had been for many years the ruling elder of that church.
He was the son of Cunningham Hyndman and Sarah (Murdock)
Hyndman, of Irish and Scotch antecedents.
Elizabeth (Gibb) Hyndman (born County Antrim, Ireland.
October 12, 1831, died Newburgh, August 10, 1905) was the
202 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
daughter of David Gibb and Fanny (Weir) Gibb, of Irish and
Scotch antecedents.
Hyndman prepared at Banks' Institute, Newburgh. In college
he was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon and Psi Upsilon,
rowed on the class crew two years and the university crew two
years, and played on the university football team two years.
Since May 16, 1889, he has been practicing law. He held the
office of city recorder of Newburgh, from January i, 1895, until
January i, 1911, having been elected four times successively on
the Republican ticket. For five years he served in the National
Guard of the State of New York (1885 to 1890) as a member
of the Tenth Separate Company of Newburgh, N. Y.
He is a member of the board of trustees of the Calvary Presby-
terian Church, and is also a member of Newburgh Lodge, No.
309, F. & A. M. ; Highland Chapter, No. 52, R. A. M. ; Hudson
Commandery, Knights Templar, No. 35 ; Mecca Temple, Ancient
Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; Newburgh Lodge,
No. 247, Brotherhood Protective Order of Flks.
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203
Since his college days Hyndman has acquired a facility in act-
ing as presiding officer, perhaps from his experience as city
recorder, and winter class dinners at the Yale Club in New York
in recent years have had given to them life and spice by his
readiness as toastmaster.
He married in Newburgh, N. Y., April 19, 1904, Bessie Lc-i-h-
ton Harden (Newburgh Academy '92), daughter of William
Homans Marden, an engineer of Newburgh.
Paul E. Jenks
Secretary, Publishing Office of the London Times
70 Yamashitacho, Yokohama, Japan
Residence, 3566 Negishimachi, Yokohama
Paul Emott Jenks was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 6, 1862,
son of Grenville Tudor Jenks and Persis Sophia (Smith) Jenks,
who had three other children : Almet Francis (Yale '75 ; LL.B.
Columbia '77), Tudor Storrs (Yale '78; LL.B. Columbia ?8o),
Mabel (Miss Porter's School, Farmington, Conn., ?8o).
204 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Grenville Tudor Jenks (born Boston, October, 1830, died
Saratoga, N. Y., 1870), a lawyer of Brooklyn, N. Y., was the
son of Rev. Francis Jenks, a Unitarian clergyman, the proprietor
and editor of the Christian Examiner, and Sarah Hurd (Phillips)
Jenks of Boston. His family was of Welsh-English origin, his
ancestor, Joseph Jenks, coming from Colebrook, England, in 1642,
and settling in Lynn, Mass. The founder of the Jenks family in
America was an iron worker, who came by invitation of the
Massachusetts colony to establish iron works. He was the first
patentee of America, and made the first fire engine and cut the
dies for the 'Tine Tree Shillings." Some of his descendants
have been prominent in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Penn-
sylvania. Sarah Phillips was the daughter of John Phillips, the
first mayor of Boston, and was a descendant of Governor Dudle}-
of the Massachusetts colony, who claimed descent from the great
Dudleys of England and used their coat of arms.
Persis Sophia (Smith) Jenks was the daughter of General
Roland Smith, of Townsend, Vt. (connected with the Massachu-
setts militia), and Lucy (Snow) Smith of Vermont. Her family
was of Scotch and Irish origin, her ancestors coming to this
country in 1730 and settling in Windsor, Vt.
Jenks prepared at the Polytechnic of Brooklyn and at the Hop-
kins Grammar School, New Haven. In school days he was playing
baseball. In college he was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon,
He Boule, Psi Upsilon and Skull and Bones, the freshman class
supper committee, played on the freshman baseball and football
teams, was winner of class championship in lawn tennis, won
third declamation prize in sophomore year, and was Yale reporter
for the New Haven Register.
After graduation he went to Waterbury and was in the employ-
ment of the Scovill Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of
brass, for two years. He then took a position in the Citizens
Bank of Waterbury, where he remained for three years. From
1888 to 1892, he held a position in the city treasurer's office in
Brooklyn, N. Y., from which he was, as he puts it, "asked to
resign because the reform treasurer wanted to put two men in
my place so as to strengthen his political life in two doubtful
districts." Jenks intimates that the final fate of the reform treas-
urer was not preferable to his own. After leaving the city
treasurer's office, he engaged in business in New York. In 1898
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he took as a vacation trip a bicycling tour all through Europe. an<l
then went on to Japan to represent J. B. Millet Company of
Boston. Since that time he has not seen the elms of old Yale.
He has remained in Japan, has engaged in business, much of the
time as a commission merchant, but lately in the publishing office
of the London Times, as secretary in charge of correspondence.
He writes: "I have not made Rockefeller unduly jealous, but I
own some Japanese houses and sign rent receipts every month.
. . . and when an old class- or a young classman from Yale
appears, I give him the grip, and try to forget the dampness of
old South Middle walls during freshman rains."
Jenks sent the class secretary in 1904 an account of a ball game
in which he took part. The account must have been written by
himself, though the only reason for believing so is the modest
omission of any but the slightest reference to his own part in the
game. About the only fact the secretary could glean from the
account was that he had been given a base on balls.
Jenks wrote a series of articles which appeared in Outing, in
which, under the title "My Westering Wheel," he described a
bicycle ride from Genoa to Biarritz.
He is unmarried.
*Charles J. Jennings
Died April 23, 1910.
Charles Jesup Jennings, born in Seneca Falls, N. Y., September
27, 1859, was son of Rev. William J. Jennings and Matilda
Dimon (Greene) Jennings, who were married March 26, 1850,
and had six other children: Isabella Seeley, William Augustus,
John Joseph (Yale '76; died 1900), Susan Maria (Mt. Holyoke
'79), James Henry ('84 S.) and Anna Meade.
Rev. William J. Jennings (born New Canaan, Conn., April 7,
1822, died Bristol, Conn., October 5, 1895) was the son of Jesup
T. Jennings and Isabella (Lee) Jennings. He graduated at Yale
in 1843 and from the Yale Divinity School, was ordained in
1850, held charges at Black Rock, North Coventry and Redding,
Conn., and was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Seneca
Falls, N. Y. The family came of Puritan ancestry, and settled
in Fairfield County about 1630, some of its members serving in
the Indian wars and the Revolution. Their interests have always
206 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
been in farming, which the later generations have practiced on
an extended scale on their ancestral lands.
Miranda (Greene) Jennings was the daughter of Russell
Greene of Miller's Place, N. Y., and a graduate of Mt. Holyoke
Seminary in 1848. She died in Redding, Conn., in 1891.
Jennings prepared for college at the Hopkins Grammar School,
though with considerable family sacrifice. Later during his col-
lege course, he spent several terms in teaching, thus earning
means to complete his studies, but still maintaining his place in
the class. In college he was a member of Gamma Nu, and won
a prize for English composition in his sophomore year.
On graduation he was at once appointed principal of the Hunt-
ington (L. I.) High School, then regarded as the best school
of secondary grade in New York State. He remained there
fourteen years, raising even higher the standard of the school,
and attempting, as he says, "to ground young people in princi-
ples of morality, justice, and learning" and "to send to our
Alma Mater some students who will do her credit." In Septem-
ber, 1898, shortly after the consolidation of Jamaica with the City
BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES 207
of New York, he became principal of the five public schools and
the High School of the old town of Jamaica. Under his leader-
ship in the next twelve years, the High School grew from an
enrollment of 112 to 973.
Besides devoting himself earnestly to his school work he was
an elder in the Central Presbyterian Church of Huntington, trus-
tee of the First Presbyterian Church of Jamaica, secretary of
the Xew York Schoolmasters' Club and prominent in many
organizations connected with school work.
He was taken with typhoid fever and after an illness of three
weeks died at his home in Jamaica, April 23, 1910, at the age of
fifty.
He married December 24, 1898, Edith Hubbard Warren (Wel-
lesley 1890), daughter of the Rev. George F. Warren, D.D., and
Emma B. Warren. They had two children. Hazel Glover, born
November I, 1896, and Warren, born in 1900.
It is a matter of regret that Mrs. Jennings is unable to furnish
a recent photograph.
Reinert A. Jernberg
Professor of Theology, Chicago Theological Seminary
20 N. Ashland Boulevard, Chicago, 111.
Residence, 2027 Fowler Street, Chicago
Reinert August Jernberg was born in Fredrikshald, Norway,
November 30, 1855, son of Peter August Jernberg and Anne
Margrete (Skjoldahl) Jernberg, who were married April 5,
1854.
His father, Peter August Jernberg (born Arboga, Nerike,
Sweden, November 25, 1826, died Fredrikstad, Norway, May 20,
1870) was a shoemaker, and his more remote paternal ancestors
were farmers.
Anne Margrete (Skjoldahl) Jernberg (born in Rasvaag, Flek-
kefjord, Norway, February 10, 1835) is living with Jernberg in
Chicago.
Jernberg attended the Gymnasia and Latin Schools at Sarps-
borg and Fredrikstad in Norway until he was sixteen years of
age. He then went to sea for six years, two of which he spent in
the United States Revenue Service. After arrival in this country,
he attended the Greenwich Academy, East Greenwich, R. I. He
208 . HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, VALE COLLKC.I-:
made his way through college by his own efforts and, as he says,
was too busy for social activities. He was a member of Delta
Kappa Epsilon, member and treasurer of the class glee club.
After graduation he studied one year at the Yale Theological
Seminary and went to North Dakota in the summer vacation as
a home missionary. Passing through Chicago on his way back,
he was requested by the faculty of Chicago Theological Seminary
to remain there to teach a class of Scandinavian countrymen.
He has ever since been connected with that institution. He
received from it the degree of Bachelor of Divinity in May, 1887,
and of Doctor of Divinity in May, 1910. While he was still
keeping his Scandinavian class, he preached for two years in ;i
mission chapel in Chicago, and later became pastor of a Congre-
gational church, which was built up from a small beginning
chiefly by his individual effort.
In 1894 he was appointed professor of exegetical and practical
theology in the Dano-Norwegian department of the seminary,
and since 1890 has been a director of that department. At the
twenty-fifth anniversary of that department in 1910, the board of
BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES 209
directors and faculty of the Chicago Theological Seminary, by
special resolution, expressed their appreciation of his character
and service.
For ten years he was the editor and publisher of a Norwegian
weekly, EzrangelisteHj to which he- still contributes. This paper
has from its beginning rendered a peculiar service in bringing
into communication with one another and uniting in their work
the churches of the Norwegian and Danish people in the Xorth-
west. The influence which Jernberg has had in the Northwest
among his people can be appreciated only by seeing the testi-
monials and honors heaped upon him in recognition of his
services.
In 1890 Jernberg went to Sweden and Denmark for study, and
some years later made a tour of Europe. Concerning his visit in
1890 to Norway and the meetings and services conducted by him
at that time, he says : "A conservative estimate makes the number
of people addressed in these meetings over 13,000. The acquaint-
ance made in this way has done much to bring the work in
Norway and Denmark into close sympathy with the work in this
country, so that while the churches over there occasionally send
us a young man to educate, we in return send them a minister."
He has almost always voted the Republican ticket in the national
elections. In local and state politics he is an Independent. He
is a member of the Union Park Congregational Church of
Chicago, for three and a half years was Sunday school
superintendent, and is now deacon.
He married in Boston, Mass., May 5, 1887, Sarah Emily Libby
(died Chicago, 111., January 23, 1910), daughter of Arthur
Libby of Boston, and has two children : Prudence Emily,
born Chicago, March 12, 1888, and Arthur Reinert, born Chicago,
January 3, 1894.
William H. Jessup
Lawyer
423-4 Connell Building, Scranton, Pa.
Residence, 815 Madison Avenue, Scranton
William Henry Jessup was born in Montrose, Pa., July 25,
1858, son of William Huntting Jessup and Sarah Wilson (Jay)
Jessup, who were married in Scranton, Pa., October 5, 1853,
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210 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
had five other children: Lillian (Vassar ^--'78, wife of Albert
C. Leisenring), Mary Chandler (died May 23, 1893), George
Scranton (died April 16, 1897), Sarah Louise (Miss Dana's
School) and Annie (Jessup) Woodin (Miss Dana's School).
William Huntting Jessup (born Montrose, Pa., January 29,
1830, died Scranton, Pa., January 16, 1902), a graduate of Yale
in the Class of '49, was a prominent lawyer of Scranton. Three
of his brothers were also Yale graduates, two of whom, Henry
H. and Samuel, were missionaries in Syria. He was in active
military service in 1862 and 1863, at the time of the invasion of
Pennsylvania, was in the convention which nominated Lincoln
for his second term, also the convention which nominated Grant,
and was judge of the Common Pleas Court in Scranton. Fifty-
two years after graduation, he enthusiastically took part in the
celebration of the Yale Bicentennial, marching in the procession.
His father, William Jessup (Yale '15, and Hamilton LL.D.
1848), was a prominent resident of Montrose, Pa. William
Huntting Jessup's mother was Amanda (Harris) Jessup, of
Southampton, L. I.
BIOGRAPII IES GRADUATES 2 1 1
Sarah Wilson (Jay) Jessup was born in Belvidere, N. J., and
died in Montrose, Pa., June, 1905.
Jessup prepared at Williston, Easthampton, Mass., and in col-
lege was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon, Eta Phi, Delta
Kappa Epsilon, Scroll and Key, president of the freshman base-
ball association, chairman of Delta Kappa Epsilon campaign
committee, treasurer of the university athletic association, and a
member of the glee club quartette for four years.
After graduation, he studied law and went into practice in
partnership with his father. Since his father's death in 1902, he
has been practicing alone and has substantial business interests
outside of his profession. He was a member of the National
Guard of Pennsylvania for seven years, is a member of the l-'irst
Presbyterian Church of Scranton, and is a Republican in politics.
He married in Upland, Pa., October 21, 1890, Lucy Ada
Stotesbury, daughter of James May Stotesbury, a manufacturer
of Chester, Pa. They have three children: William Huntting
(Yale '15), born in Scranton, October 15, 1891; James May
(Yale '16), born in Scranton, December 23, 1893; Christine
Katharine, born in Scranton, December 26, 1894.
Daniel A. Jones
Dentist
746 Chapel Street, New Haven, Conn.
Residence, 629 Chapel Street, New Haven
Daniel Albion Jones was born October 23, 1860, in Barkham-
sted, Conn., son of Daniel Albion Jones and Emeline Blakeslee
(Roberts) Jones, who were married March 20, 1855. A
daughter, Eveline, is now Mrs. Frederick B. Street.
Daniel A. Jones (born Barkhamsted, March 2, 1833, died
Danielson, June 21, 1864) was a dentist of Danielson, where he
was also well known as a public speaker and philanthropist. He
was descended from William Jones, a lawyer of London. wli<>
came to New England in 1660 in the same ship with Goffe and
\Yhalley, the Regicides, is said to have secreted them for
a month in his home, was magistrate of New Haven colony
from 1662 to 1692, and then deputy governor until 1706.
212 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Emeline Roberts Jones (born Winchester, Conn., July 26, 1836)
was recognized as the pioneer woman dentist at the First
Woman's Congress, held in Chicago in 1893. She has prac-
ticed since 1855. She is descended on both sides from honorable
Xew England ancestry.
Before entering college, his family lived in Danielson, Conn.,
and Uniontown, Pa. He prepared at the Hopkins Grammar
School, entered college with the Class of '83, and became a mem-
ber of our class in our junior year. He was prominent as a base-
ball player, especially as pitcher, was on the university ball teams
three years, and was also prominent as a singer and whistler on
the glee club. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.
For some years after graduation, he played on professional
ball teams, afterwards attended the Harvard School of Dentistry,
receiving his degree in 1889, and since then has practiced con-
tinuously in New Haven. In 1892 he took his degree of M.I).
from the Yale Medical School.
He is a member of the Pilgrim Church in Fair Haven, a mason.
Republican in politics, and has been a member of the 2d Com-
pany of Governor's Foot Guards of Connecticut. In 1897 he was
BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES
2I3
elected treasurer and in 1899 secretary of the State Dental
Society.
He married in New Haven, June 20, 1889, Emma Aurelia
I'.eadle, graduate of Abbott Academy, dau-liter of Jo^-pli Keadle
and sister of John Beadle (Yale '86). Airs. Jmu-- died Decem-
ber n, 1908, at Plantsville, Conn.
Frederick S. Jones
Dean of Yale College, New Haven, Conn.
Residence, 671 Prospect Street, New Haven
Frederick Scheetz Jones was born in Palmyra, Mo., April 7,
1862, the son of George Crow Jones and Caroline Ash (Scheetz)
Jones, who were married April 22, 1851, and had three other
children, all of whom are living: Marie May, Henrietta Ord,
and Elizabeth Scheetz.
George Crow Jones (born Wilmington, Del., October 8, 1817,
died Monroe City, Mo., February 27, 1881) lived successively in
\Yilmington, Del., Palmyra, Mo., and Chicago. He was a gradu-
ate of Princeton, 1838, having also from Princeton the degree
of M.A. in 1841, and of the Jefferson Medical College. He was a
214 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
physician with the DuPont Powder Mills, Wilmington, from
1849 to 1857, was assistant surgeon in the Third Missouri Cav-
alry of 1861-1862, and came of a line of staunch Presbyterians
of Scotch and Irish blood.
Caroline Ash (Scheetz) Jones (born Philadelphia, Pa., Febru-
ary 19, 1828, died Monroe, Mo., February 22, 1884) was of
German and French ancestry. Her father, George Scheetz, was
pastor of old Trinity Church, Oxford (near Philadelphia), for
over forty years. Her grandfather, Joseph Eugene Capelle, was
in the army of Lafayette, serving as a surgeon on the personal
staff of the General.
Jones prepared at the Shattuck School, Faribault, Minn., at
which school he also did some teaching during his preparatory
course. In college he describes his occupation as "chiefly mak-
ing a living and abusing Billy Judson." In fact, he was in
demand as a very efficient private tutor and his kindly and effec-
tive aid is remembered with gratitude by many of his classmates.
He was a member of Psi Upsilon and Skull and Bones, was
awarded the third Freshman scholarship in freshman year, in
freshman and sophomore years won several mathematical prizes,
was editor of the Banner, took Philosophical Oration appoint-
ment junior year and High Oration appointment senior year.
After graduation he taught one year in Faribault, where he
had prepared, filling the chair of history and elocution. In 1885
he went to the State University of Minnesota at Minneapolis to
take charge of the department of physics, and after being there
two years, in 1887 went to Europe, spending two years there in
study, a part of the time at the University of Berlin and part at
the Polytechnic School at Zurich. In 1889 he returned to the
University of Minnesota, having been elected professor of
physics and electricity, and until 1909 remained at that university.
In 1902 he was appointed dean of the School of Engineering, and,
as the right-hand man of President Cyrus Northrop, soon made
his mark as an administrative officer, bringing the department of
which he had charge to a position of great power and promi-
nence. He encountered some problems which are not faced by
those connected with our own university, in dealing with the
board of regents and with the legislature, upon which the uni-
versity was dependent for its grants. In 1909 he was offered
and declined the presidency of the University of South Dakota,
BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES 215
and at the time of President Cyrus North rop's retirement was
announced and looked upon as his probable successor. In 1909
he returned to Yale, having been elected dean of Yale College,
that is, of the academic department. He received from Yale in
1892 the degree of M.A.
He is a nuMiiher of the American Physical Society, a fellow
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
a member of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Edu-
cation, and has delivered many addresses and written various
articles on scientific and educational topics. In politics he is
an Independent Republican, and is a member of the Episcopal
Church.
As administrative officer of Yale College, he has successfully
solved many difficult problems and is growing in power and
popularity.
When South Middle was remodeled and re-christened Connect-
icut Hall, some of his intimate friends in the class generously
contributed to equip the new office in that building which Dean
Jones now occupies, and callers will find him surrounded by
pleasant reminders of old college days. The Dean's official table
is made from the old piano which accompanied McClellan and
other songsters of the glee club in their rehearsals of the good
old songs.
He married in Kirkwood (St. Louis ). Mo., June 4, 1890, Mary
Western Gill (Mary Institute, Washington University 1880),
daughter of George H. Gill, a merchant of St. Louis. They have
two children: George Gill (Yale '14), born in Minneapolis,
September 17, 1891, and Ellen Boclley, born in Minneapolis, May
15, 1893.
George W. Judson
Clergyman
Residence, 101 North Main Street, Winsted, Conn.
George William Judson was born in Stratford, Conn., March
28, 1859, son of George Thompson Judson and Mary (Fairchild)
Judson, who had four other children: Lewis F. (died 1901),
Thomas Wells (died 1909), Mrs. W. P. Beers of Larchmont,
N. Y., and Mrs. G. W. Terry of New York.
George Thompson Judson (born Stratford, Conn., January 13,
1820, died in 1881) was the son of Stiles Judson, and descended
2l6 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
from William Judson. William Judson, pioneer ancestor, was
born in Yorkshire, England, came to America in 1634, and was
the first settler of Stratford in 1638. His son Joseph represented
Stratford for thirteen years in the General Assembly, and since
that time each generation of the family has had its representative
from Stratford in the General Assembly. Joseph served in King
Philip's War. Daniel Judson, later in the family line, served as
ensign and as captain in the French and Indian War, and was a
member of the General Assembly when the members of that body
took the Oath of Fidelity in August, 1777, under Governor
Trumbull. Stiles, Daniel's son, served in the Revolutionary army
in the battle of Long Island, at the burning of Danbury, and
commanded a company at the time of Tryon's invasion. Stiles
(2) as lieutenant responded with his company to the call to repel
the British invasion of Connecticut in the War of 1812. He was
George Thompson Judson's grandfather.
Mary (Fairchild) Judson was born in Stratford, Conn., in 1822,
and died there in 1883. The Fairchilds were also descended from
one of the original settlers of the town of Stratford.
BIOGRAPH IES GRADUATES 2 1 7
Judson prepared at the academy in Stratford. In college he
was a member of Psi Upsilon, a speaker in the Junior Exhibition
and at Commencement, and took Oration appointment both
junior and senior years.
He studied at the Yale Divinity School, graduating there with
the degree of B.D. in 1887, and was immediately called as pastor
of the Congregational Church at ( )range, Mass., where he
remained until 1898. Then he accepted the pastorate of the
Congregational Church of Winsted, Conn., at which place he has
since remained.
He married in Stratford, Conn., June 28, 1888, Minnie Eliza-
beth Atwood, daughter of Charles Atwood, of Stratford. They
have one child : Margaret Atwood, born November 5, 1899.
*Ernest B. Kimberly
Died May i, 1887
Ernest Buckingham Kimberly was born in New Haven, Jan-
uary 9, 1862, the son of Henry W. Kimberly of Falkner's Island,
Conn., and Ann E. (Lane) Kimberly of Monroe, Conn. His
father was a joiner and moved to New Haven.
2l8 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Kimberly prepared at the Hillhouse High School and secured
his college course only at the cost of much self-denial and active
labor. He was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon.
After graduation he secured a position in New York in Gib-
bons & Beach's Fifth Avenue School for Boys, where for three
years he taught as one of the headmasters. In April, 1887, when
he was just commencing to reap the benefit from the struggle
of his earlier years, he was prostrated by an attack of pleuro-
pneumonia and was brought home, where he died May i, after
a few days' illness accompanied by great suffering. The class
was represented at the funeral by Chapman and Hovey as bearers.
He was unmarried.
David Kinley
Dean of Graduate School, University of Illinois, Urbana, 111.
Residence, 1101 West Oregon Street, Urbana
David Kinley was born August 2, 1861, in Dundee, Scotland.
son of David Kinley and Jessie Preston Shepherd, who were
married in 1858. Both parents were natives of Dundee, Scot-
land.
BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES 219
David Kinley, Sr., died in Philadelphia, in 1909.
Jessie Preston (Shepherd) Kinley was the daughter of Mun^n
Shepherd and Janet (Eraser) Shepherd, and died in Andover,
Mass.. in 1896.
Kinley prepared at Phillips Academy, Andover, entered our
class as a junior in 1882, won some mathematical and English
prizes, took Philosophical Oration appointment junior, and High
Oration appointment senior year.
After graduation he became principal of the High School at
North Andover, Mass., where he remained until 1892, when In-
received an appointment as assistant professor of economics in
the University of Wisconsin. In 1894, he was appointed pro-
fessor of economics in the University of Illinois and in 1906,
dean of the Graduate School, both of which positions he con-
tinues to occupy. He took the degree of Ph.D. at Wisconsin in
1893 and received that of LL.D. from Illinois in 1908. Kinley
has been a diligent student in economics, especially in the eco-
nomics of finance, and has written many articles and delivered
many addresses on economic subjects. He was from 1906 to
1908 a member of the Illinois Industrial Insurance Commission,
was appointed a member of the Tax Commission but did not
accept the appointment, was in 1910 United States Delegate to
the Pan-American Conference, and in the same year a delegate
to the Chilean Government at the Centenary of Independence.
The following is a list of his publications :
"The Influence on Business of the Independent Treasury.'' Annals of
the American Academy, Vol. 3, pp. 180-210, 1892.
"History, Organization and Influence of the Independent Treasury of
the United States." New York, 1893.
"Ethical Basis of Labor Legislation." Bulletin of the Christian Social
Union, 33 pp.
"Credit Instruments in Retail Trade." Journal of Political Economy,
1895, Vol. 3, pp. 203-217.
"Credit Instruments in Business Transactions." Journal of Political
Economy, Vol. 5, pp. 157-174, 1897.
"Trusts." Published as No. i, Vol. 3 of Progress, 66 pp., Chicago,
1899-
"Credit Currency and Population." Journal of Political Economy.
December, 1901.
"European Feeling towards the United States." Forum 32; 217-225,
October, 1901.
"The Social Aim in Education." Illinois State Teachers Association,
December, 1902.
220 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
"Relation of the Credit System to the Value of Money." Publications
American Economic Association, 3d series, 5-6, December, 1904.
"Money; a Study of the Theory of the Medium of Exchange." New
York, 1904.
"The Popular Opinion of Teachers and Teaching." School and Home
Education, June, 1905.
''Democracy in Education." Proceedings, Western Section of Normal
111. Teachers Assn., Dixon, 111., October, 1905.
"The Education of the Farmer." Illinois Agriculturist, Vol. II, Xo.
3, December, 1906.
"The Field of Accountancy." Journal of Accountancy, Vol. II, No.
3. July, 1906.
"Objections to Bank-deposit Insurance." Review of Reviews, 37,
345-347, March, 1908.
"True Relation of the United States Treasury to the Money Market."
American Economic Association Publications, 1907.
"Democracy and Scholarship." Science, New York, October 16, 1908.
"The Center of Agricultural Productions." Cyclopedia of American
Agriculture, Vol. IV, 1909.
"Movement of Population from Country to City." Cyclopedia of
American Agriculture, Vol. IV, 1909.
"Professor Fisher's Formula for Estimating the Velocity of the Cir-
culation of Money." Publications of the Am. Statistical Assn., March.
1910.
"The General Course a Citizenship Course." Contribution to a
Symposium on the Teaching of Elementary Economics. Journal of
Political Economy, June, 1910.
"The Use of Credit Instruments in Payments in the United States."
Rep. Nat'l. Monetary Commission, Washington, 1910, 229 pp.
"The Independent Treasury and the Banks." Rep. Nat'l. Monetary
Commission, Washington, 1910, 370 pp.
"Promotion of Trade with South America." Economic Review, Vol.
I, No. i, March, 1911.
"Objections to a Monetary Standard based on Index Numbers."
Am. Econ. Rev., 1913.
"Renewed Extension of Government Control of Economic Life."
Proc. 26th Ann. Meeting, A. E. A., Am. Econ. Rev., March,
He married June 22, 1897, in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, Kate Ruth
Xeal, daughter of George R. Neal of that town.
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221
Newell C. Knight
Bond Broker
308 New York Life Building, Chicago, 111.
Residence, 1326 Asbury Avenue, Evanston, 111.
Newell Clark Knight was born in St. Louis, April 25, 1862, son
of Augustus Knight and Fanny Colburn (French) Knight, who
were married February 17, 1857, and had three other children:
Daniel Augustus (died St. Louis, Mo., September 13, 1862),
Harry French, and Eugene Colburn (University of Illinois
M.D. '98).
Augustus Knight (born Solingen, Germany, December 30,
1829, died Washington, D. C., March 12, 1906) was the son of
John Daniel Knight and Hannah Maria Knight, and was brought
to this country by his parents in his infancy. He was a whole-
sale dealer and manufacturer of boots and shoes, and sole owner
of Fiske, Knight & Company of St. Louis.
Fanny Colburn (French) Knight (born Needham, Mass., June
4, 1838, died St. Louis, Mo., March 26, 1881) was the daughter
of Calvin French and Mary (Clark) French.
222 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Knight prepared at Washington University (now Smith
Academy), St. Louis, Mo., and then tutored one year, as at that
time the academy was not advanced to the entrance standard. In
college he was a member of the college choir, Kappa Sigma
Epsilon and Psi Upsilon.
After graduation Knight entered the factory of the Hamilton-
Brown Shoe Company of St. Louis, with the intention of making
a shoe manufacturer and merchant of himself, following the line
of business activity of his father. He worked ten hours a day
on the machines and at the bench, but the confinement proved too
much for his health. At this time he was married and with his
wife spent three months in the Rockies of Colorado and Nevadas
of California.
In 1886, he accepted a position as secretary of the Davidson
Investment Company of Wichita, Kansas, and remained in
Wichita until 1893. During his second year there he with-
drew his own and his family's interests from the Davidson Invest-
ment Company, and in 1889 formed the Knight Investment Com-
pany, of which he was vice president and co-manager with his
brother Henry. When the Populists carried Kansas in 1893, they
concluded to liquidate their company and retire from that State,
which they did.
He then went to Chicago, where in 1896 he formed a partner-
ship with Reuben H. Donnelly, under the firm name of Knight,
Donnelly & Company, for the conduct of their business as stock
and bond brokers. They built up a considerable business, but in
1905 the firm failed. Knight does not hesitate to tell of this inci-
dent and he should be allowed to state it in his own words :
"That I should ever have to face such a situation had really
never dawned on me, but face it I did. We made a speedy settle-
ment, turning over not only all the assets of the concern, but the
home in Evanston and my entire expectancy in my father's estate.
This left me not only at financial zero, but at the minus quantity
point; for I always look upon honorable deficits to creditors as
actual ones. I found, however, that while poor in purse, I was
rich in family and friends, and am able to say with all sincerity
that the past five years have been the happiest of my life. . . .
Augustus worked his way through Yale, almost without a dollar
of help, graduating in 1910, and accomplished wonders. Francis
BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES 223
(Yale 1912) has worked his way through and is not one whit
behind his brother. Katharine is a student at Smith.
"Forgive me, fellows, if all this seems too personal, but it i>
the best of my life and I can't keep it hack. When a great and
unlocked- for joy has come to a man, following what unquestion-
ably was an overwhelming sorrow, it is only right that he should
bear testimony to the 'faith that is in him'; so I follow the
impulse of my heart, and also Daggett's instructions and write
'in my own way/
"In sixty days from the time of our failure, our affairs were
settled. I then went to Colorado, put a pack on my back and
tramped the mountains, the valleys and the parks. After thirty
days of this I was as eager to come back as I had been to go. I
wanted work — no, not work — wages!"
He then in 1905 entered the Royal Trust Company as manager
of its bond department. In 1907 he began to do business for
himself under the firm name of Newell C. Knight & Company,
to deal in municipal and corporation bonds.
An incident characteristic of Knight's energy and spirit is his
work as president of the Four Mile League and Chief of Police
of Evanston in 1901. In his words: "The League was an asso-
ciation of a dozen business men, lawyers, bankers and the presi-
dent of the Northwestern University, to keep the sale of liquor
out of Evanston. I fought the fight for a couple of years only to
find that I was bucking the police force; and when James A.
Patten was elected mayor and a good man was made city attorney,
I felt it my duty to change my position from bucking the police
to bossing them. I therefore tendered to Mayor Patten my
services as chief of police without pay ; he appointed me and we
had a merry time for the next twelve months. Did the force
reform? It did. Did we clean the town? We did. And I
believe the beneficent results of the work done then still live."
He is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Evanston,
111., and in politics an Independent ; voted for Cleveland, McKin-
ley, Roosevelt and Taft; declares himself for sound money, tariff
for revenue without protection, income tax, the proper control of
interstate corporations, etc.
He married in St. Louis, Mo., June 30, 1886, Annie Louise
Sloss (Mary Institute, St. Louis, '82), daughter of James Long
224 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Sloss of St. Louis, member of the firm of Gilkeson & Sloss, cotton
factors. They have five children: Augustus, born Wichita,
Kans., July 23, 1887 (Yale '10) ; Francis McMaster, born
Wichita, December 12, 1890 (Yale '12) ; Katharine, born
Wichita, May 27, 1892 (Smith '14) ; Newell Sloss, born Evans-
ton, February 28, 1896; Nancy Louise, born Evanston, December
25, 1897.
Augustus married March 24, 1913, Katharine Earl French of
Evanston, 111. They have a daughter, Virginia Bayless, born
January 12, 1914.
Yung Kwai
Diplomatic Service
Chinese Legation, 2001 Nineteenth Street, Washington, D. C.
Residence, Watkins Avenue, Bethesda, Md.
Yung Kwai was born March 2, 1861, at Sinhui, in the province
of Kwangtung, China. Coming to the United States in 1873 as
a Chinese government student, he was put under the guardian-
ship of Mrs. H. R. Vaille of Springfield, Mass., and prepared
at the Springfield High School. In college he was a member of
BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES 225
Kappa Sigma Kpsilon and had ( )ratinn appointaicnl junior and
senior years.
The first year after graduation he spent in the service of the
Chinese Legation at Washington, and the Chinese Consulate in
New York. The following year he took a graduate coin
the Sheffield Scientific School, and the next year a omr^e in
chemistry at the Columbia School of Mines. After some months
of teaching in New York City, he entered the diplomatic -rrvirc
of the Chinese Government on October 14, 1890, and is now
first secretary of the legation.
K\vai is a member of the Church of the Covenant (Presby-
terian).
He married on May 23, 1894, Mary Elizabeth Lyon Burn-
ham, daughter of Alfred Van Burnham of Springfield, Mass.
Their children are: Burnham, born in New York, February 7,
1897; Elizabeth, born in Springfield, August 18, 1898; Gertrude,
born in Washington, January 6, 1900; Addison, born in Wa^h-
ington, July 17, 1902; Dana, born in Washington, October 6,
1904, and Marina, born in Washington, August 10, 1909.
Alexander Lambert
Physician
43 East /2d Street, New York City
Residence, 36 East 3ist Street
Alexander Lambert was born in New York City, December
15, 1861, son of Edward W. Lambert and Martha M. (Waldron)
Lambert, who were married September 9, 1858, and had nine
other children: Samuel W. (Yale '80), Mary (died 1862),
Elliott C. (Yale '86), Sally (Lambert) Richards (married Dick-
inson W. Richards, Yale '80), Katharine, Edith (Lambert)
Barbour (wife of William R. Barbour, Yale '80), Ruth (Lam
bert) Cheney (wife of Knight Dexter Cheney, Yale '92), Adrian
V. S. (Yale '93), and Gertrude H. (died New York 1883).
Edward W. Lambert (born Boston, Mass., February 14, 1831,
died New York, July, 1904), a graduate of Yale in 1854, also
receiving the honorary degree of A.M. from Yale in 1857, was
a physician in New York City and was chief medical director
of the Equitable Life Assurance Company from the origin of the
15
226
HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
company until his death. He was descended from Francis
Lambert, who came to Boston from Rowley, England, in 1639,
and established the town of Rowley in Massachusetts Bay. Jona-
than, fourth in line of descent from Francis, served in the War
of the Revolution, and was present at West Point at the time
of Arnold's treason. William G., Jonathan's son, removed from
Boston to Xew York City. He married Sarah Perley, of a
prominent Massachusetts family, one of whose ancestors, Francis
Perley, was a captain in the French and Indian War, and another,
William, had command of a company of militia at the battle of
Hunker Hill. Edward W. was the son of William G.
.Martha M. (Waldron) Lambert (born Portsmouth, N. H.,
September 14, 1833, (ned New York, February n, 1913) was
the daughter of Samuel Waldron and Martha (Melcher) Wal-
dron of Portsmouth, N. H., both of whose families settled there
about 1637.
Lambert prepared at Gibbons & Beach's School in Xew York
and passed his entrance examinations with the Class of '83, but
BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES 227
entered with our class. In college he was a member of Delta
Kappa, Eta Phi, Delta Kappa Epsilon and Skull and Bones,
rowed three years on the clas^ now, played on the freshman
football team, captained the second football eleven, was class
deacon, and on the junior promenade committee.
After graduation he took a year in Short", getting his I'li.l'.
in 1885, then studied medicine at the College of Physicians and
Surgeons in New York, graduating in 1888, and taking sec-
ond honor prize. He was then for a short time assistant physi-
cian in the Sloane Maternity Hospital, won by competitive
examination a place on the house staff of Bellevue Hospital,
where he served until October, 1889, after which he was for a
year resident physician in the Midwife Dispensary. After spend-
ing some time abroad in travel and study, he began practice in
New York. He has been president of the New York County
Medical Association, was on the committee which settled the old
medical fight in New York State, is treasurer of the New York
State Medical Association, has been one of the vice presidents
of the American Medical Association, is visiting physician to
Bellevue Hospital, consulting physician to New York Infirmary
for Women and Children, Perth Amboy (N. Y.) Hospital,
Xyack (N. Y.) Hospital, Greenwich (Conn.) Hospital, and has
been professor of clinical medicine at Cornell University Medi-
cal College since 1898. He is first lieutenant in the Medical
Reserve Corps, U. S. A., and has published many articles in the
professional journals.
In the spring of 1905, Lambert accompanied President Roose-
velt on his vacation bear hunt in Colorado, and as family
physician attended his distinguished patient after the attempted
assassination by Schrank in October, 1912. He is a member of
the Brick Presbyterian Church of New York.
Lambert, while in college, probably knew and was known by
his classmates more generally than any other man in the class.
He added much to the enjoyment of our twenty-fifth-year reunion
by reproducing by lantern slides pictures of our college times and
mates.
He has usually voted the Republican ticket, but generally
''splits it to suit myself." He is a member of the Yale, Century
and University clubs of New York City.
228 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
He married in New York, April 23, 1895, Ellen Waitstill
Cheney, daughter of Knight Dexter Cheney (Brown Hon. A.M.
'90), a silk manufacturer of South Manchester, Conn.
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
With Chittenden: Some Experiments on the Physiological Action of
Uranium Salts. Stud. Lab. Physiol. Chem., New Haven, 1889, pp.
1-18.
Congenital Absence of the Right Kidney; Displacement of the Left
Kidney. Med. Rec., New York, 1895, XLVIII, p. 169.
The Treatment of Typhoid Fever with Typhoid Thymus Extract.
New York Med. Jour., 1895, LXI, pp. 524-526.
A Study of Tetanus and its Treatment. New York Med. Jour., 1897,
LXV, pp. 754-763-
Sunstroke as it Occurred in New York City during 1896. Med. News.
New York, 1897, LXXI, pp. 97-109.
A Case of Primary Sarcoma of the Heart. New York Med. Jour.,
1898, LXVII, pp. 210-212.
Abscess of the Liver of Unusual Origin. New York Med. Jour., 1898,
LXVII, p. 177.
Use of Antipneumococcus Serum. Jour. Am. Med. Ass., XXXIV, pp.
900-902.
With W. B. Coley: Embolism of the Mesenteric Artery. Med. News,
1902, LXXXI, pp. 451-454.
The Present Ideas of Immunity. New York State Jour. Med., 1903,
III, pp. 7-I5-
The Physiologic and Therapeutic Actions of Alcohol. New York
State Jour. Med., 1903, III, pp. 436-443.
The Adaptation of Pure Science to Medicine. Jour. Am. Med. Ass..
1904, XLII, pp. 1669-1672.
Strain of the Heart in Growing Boys. Med. Chron., Manchester, 1905.
4. S., VIII, pp. 278-294.
Pneumonia. New York State Jour. Med., 1905, V, pp. 77-83.
A Few Considerations in the Treatment of Various Cardiac Conditions.
New York State Jour. Med., 1905, V, pp. 195-199.
Treatment of Various Cardiac Conditions. Merck's Arch., 1905, VII
pp. 385-389-
Some Statistics and Studies from the Alcohol Wards of Bellevue
Hospital. Med. & Surg. Rep., Bellevue Hospital, I, pp. 1 13-1 54.
The Medical Treatment of Duodenal and Gastric Ulcer. Jour. Am.
Med. Ass., 1906, XLVII, pp. 845-849.
Un Cas de Hernie Inguino — Scrotale Gauche Contenant le Caecum et
1' Appendice. Mont pel. Med., 1906, XXIII, pp. 122-124.
Alcohol. Modern Medicine (Osier), I, pp. 157-202.
Korsakow's Psychosis. Modern Medicine (Osier), I, pp. 196-200.
With Wolf: The Metabolism of Nitrogen and Sulphur in Pneumonia.
Jour. Biol. Chem., 1907-8, III, pp. XIX.
BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES 229
Cardiac Complications of Acute Rheumatism. Jour. Am. Mecl. Ass.,
1908, L, pp. 74I-74.V
The Obliteration of the Craving for Narcotics. Jour. Am. Med. Ass.,
1909, LIII, pp. 985-989-
The Treatment of Alcohol and Morphine Addictions. New York
State Med. Jour., 1910, X, pp. 4-8.
\\ith Wolf: Protein Metabolism in Pneumonia. Arch. Int. Med., 1910,
V. pp. 406-448.
Help for the Victims of Narcotics. Med. Mag., 1910, XIX, pp.
279-282.
The Treatment of Drug Addiction. Jour. Am. Med. Ass., 1911, LVI,
P- 503-
The Transmission of Typhoid Fever and its Prevention by Vaccination.
Jour. South Carolina Med. Ass., 1911, VII, pp. 257-268.
The Use of Salicylates in Rheumatism. Jour. Am. Med. Ass., 1911,
LVII, pp. 898-900.
*Thomas G. Lawrance
Died October 16, 1883
*Thomas Garner Lawrance was born in Philadelphia, Pa., June
i, 1862, son of Francis Cooper Lawrance and Frances Adelaide
(Garner) Lawrance. Other children were: Francis Cooper
Lawrance (Sheff. '77, died Pau, France, March 18, 1904),
\Villiam Garner and Frances Margaret, Lady Vernon.
Francis Cooper Lawrance (born New York, October 27, 1830,
died Pau, France, August 17, 1911), the son of Thomas Lawrance
of New York, and Margaret lerland, was a resident of New York
until 1885, after which time he lived at Pau.
Frances Adelaide (Garner) Lawrance (born July n, 1835, died
Pau, May 4, 1908) was a daughter of Thomas C. Garner of New
York and Frances Matilda Thorn.
Lawrance prepared at Williston Seminary. In college he was
a member of Delta Kappa, He Boule, Psi Upsilon, and Skull and
Bones ; was captain of our class football team, a member of our
baseball nine in freshman year, on our freshman class supper
committee and chairman of our junior promenade committee.
His death, occurring as it did, at the opening of senior year,
when all members of the class were drawn more closely together
in companionship by the feeling that we must soon be separated
* The Corporation conferred upon Lawrance a post obiit degree B.A.,
that he might rank as a graduate member of the class.
230 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
and enter upon the larger life of the outside world, and at a time
when he himself had won his way to the hearts of all and was
full of the promise of the best to which we were all looking for-
ward, was a shock to us, the lasting effect of which will be felt
so long as any of us survive.
On the day of his death, our class met and passed the following
resolutions :
"Inasmuch as we have lost by death our beloved comrade Thomas
Garner Lawrance,
We, his classmates, would testify our love for him who for three years
has so nobly played his part among us as friend and classmate.
Also, would we make known the keen sense of our own loss and our
deep and heartfelt sympathy with the family of him, our well beloved,
who, gifted as he was with a great heart and a most noble disposition,
was so imbued with that rare feeling of sympathy with others that he
needed but to be seen to be loved.
For the Senior Class in Yale College,
ALKXANDIR LAMBERT,
WILLIAM H. JESSUP,
ROBERT W. HAM ILL."
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In the afternoon a short funeral service was held in Battell
Chapel, at which were present many members of the faculty and
men from other classes, after which the class followed the remains
to the station. The pall-hearers from the class were Hull, Tmnp-
kins. Kvarts. Foster, Lambert, Harwell, Jessup. The funeral
services were held the next morning at the Church of the Trans-
figuration in New York.
The following is taken from an editorial in the Yale Ncivs of
October 17:
"Throe years with all their cherished associations have witnessed the
birth and growth of friendships, which, in after years, widely scattered
though we may he, will cause our happiest recollections to cluster ahout
the college of our youth. We are now visited with the saddest of the
losses which are in after time to strengthen and hallow these memories
of the past. Thomas Garner Lawrance, he who was esteemed, admired,
beloved preeminently among us all, is no more with us."
The following notice is reprinted from our Triennial Record:
"•'None knew thee but to love thee.' There needs no memorial to
awaken or refresh our recollection of Tom Lawrance. Who has for-
gotten him? In which of our hearts lives he not to-day as he did three
years ago? Our grief at his loss has doubtless softened, but our love
for him stands firm as ever.
Lawrance Hall will for the future connect Tom's name with Yale,
but his own life among us so identified him with our college life that
no record of the Class of '84, whensoever it be written, can be complete
without his name.
From the very outset of our college course, Tom Lawrance was ever
the central figure of our class. About him there was always an atmos-
phere of friendliness, irresistible in its attraction to those who approached
him near enough to feel its spell. His personal magnetism and winning
manner were, to many of us, the first influences that tempted us from
the shyness, reserve and natural distrust that attended our earliest days
at college, and it was largely due to Tom and his influence that, in those
early days, we were inspired with the deep interest and affection towards
one another, which binds the Class of '84 together as few college classes
are bound.
There was a power in Tom's smile and greeting, which words cannot
describe, save that it broke through and scattered one's sense of loneli-
ness and gloom, and seemed to whisper 'here is one at least whom you
may trust and love.' And truly, for, from the first, Tom was our best
beloved, without rival and without peer. Around him we grouped our
friendships, and, however narrow was our individual circle of friends, in
it was Tom Lawrance. Tom Lawrance's smile kept me in college,' said
232 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
one of our class, just before graduation, and in explanation he told how
towards the end of our freshman year, after a long and hard struggle
with poverty and its pride, and desperate efforts to earn enough to
remain in college, which had engrossed too much of his time to allow
of much acquaintance with his classmates, he had become embittered,
and so discouraged and sensitive, that it seemed to him as if no one
of his classmates cared whether or not he stayed in college. Every
man's hand seemed against him, he was righting a losing fight, and had
about determined to give it up and leave college. While in this state
of mind Tom Lawrance met and spoke to him one day casually, but
with that glorious manner and smile of his, and in a moment, all uncon-
sciously, the sympathy so hungered for was given. There was awakened
the feeling, that here was one, at least, who cared for and was interested
in him, and thence arose hope and the idea that there might be others,
misjudged in his bitterness, who, had they understood, would have come
to him ; and he determined to persevere in college. In his renewed
struggle he was successful, and becoming known to his classmates, he
became intimate with and beloved by many of them, who, when they
knew, respected him the more for the hardships he had undergone. Thus
it was, that from this chance meeting, one of us was graduated from
college with his character at once sweetened and broadened, who, but
for Tom Lawrance, would have broken off a soured and disappointed
man, whom the world might never cure. Doubtless this was but one
of many far-reaching results, that blossomed from Tom's chance looks
and words, and even this one he knew not of, nor yet its need. Only,
his heart was so brimful of kindliness and human sympathy, that, all
unconsciously, it worked a cure. Light-hearted and careless enough
about most things, he was, as were we all; but, from his very nature,
he could not wound another's feelings, or close his eyes to the troubles
of those about him. It was not in Tom Lawrance to make a parade of
his generosity, and it was only after his death, that certain of his poorer
classmates, who had known him but slightly, found that money which had
come to them, as they had been led to believe from some worthy person
outside of the college, and which had tided them over hard places, and
enabled them to stay in college, had come from Tom Lawrance, and
that the one who was the life of all that was gay and joyous in college,
and the center of those whose college life, untroubled by care, seemed
but a constant song, still had had thoughts and sympathy for those of
his classmates who, less fortunate, were struggling with poverty for
an education. All unknown and unsought, he had stretched out his
hand and helped them. What wonder, then, that we loved him, and
what wonder that we love him still? In each of us Tom saw but the
best qualities, perhaps, because we turned our best side towards him,
as naturally as the sunflower seeks the sun. At all events, it was often,
by learning to see one another with his eyes, that some of us formed
friendships which had else been lost to us; for Tom was always anxious
that his friends should know and like each other. Even his death drew
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some of us closer together. Sensitive, alike, to our joys and our sorrows,
Tom was the first we sought in times of happiness, the first who sought
us in times of trouble. So he went his way amongst us like a sunbeam,
creeping in and out the darks and shadows of our hearts and lives, and
scattering warmth and light athwart them, knowing not half tin- good
done, but meaning it all. Such lives are rare indeed, and, however
short they be, as was Tom's, they leave their mark on our hearts
and cannot be forgotten."
To these words little can now be added, except that with the
passing years we mourn his death no less keenly and are increas-
ingly grateful for his life among us.
Soon after his death, his family gave to the University the
money with which to build in his memory Lawrance Dormitory.
Edward A. Lawrence
Died August 31, 1884.
Edward Ashton Lawrence was born in Prairie City, 111., July
25, 1861, son of Charles B. Lawrence and Margaret Marston
Lawrence, who were married February 5, 1851.
234 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Charles B. Lawrence (born Vergennes, Vt., December 17, 1820,
died Decatur, Ala., April 8, 1883), son of Villee Lawrence, was
a lawyer of prominence in Illinois and at the time of his death
was chief justice of the Supreme Court of that State.
Margaret (Marston) Lawrence (born Carlisle, Cumberland
County, England, February 22, 1829) is still living and is the
daughter of Thomas Marston and Jane (Graham) Marston.
Lawrence prepared in the Chicago High School, graduating
with high honors. In college he was a member of Kappa Sigma
Epsilon, He Boule, Psi Upsilon and Scroll and Key, a member
of our freshman class supper committee, our freshman glee
club, junior promenade committee, and university glee club.
of which he was president in senior year. He took High Oration
appointment junior year.
Lawrence was compelled to leave college in December of our
senior year, and in July, 1884, he was taken for a trial of the
waters at Wiesbaden and Schwalbach, Germany, but sank gradu-
ally after leaving this country and died at Wiesbaden, August
3 1 st. He was interred in Galesburg, 111.
The brief recital of his activities while in college is in itself
enough to show that when he came among us he was already
matured beyond his fellows and had great mental power. His
popularity will attest his personal character and the charm of his
companionship. At Commencement his name was enrolled with
our class as a graduate in view of his high standing in scholar-
ship and because his absence was unavoidable. The following
is quoted from the triennial record :
"His illness, falling upon him as it did, in the midst and at the height
of our college life, thrusting him out forever from the world of college
affairs, in which his enthusiasm and interest were so deeply centered,
came to him as the heaviest of trials.
But the courage of his patience through the weary months of suffering,
as every hope ebbed slowly out of his life, was but characteristic of the
man.
* * * * *
From the first, unusual qualities of mind and heart made Ed. Lawrence
beloved as well as prominent in the class.
With the tact of a sensitive disposition, generous and manly in the
extreme, yet almost womanly in his tenderness and sympathy, he became
the intimate of men of every mind.
His genial and hearty good will and fellow feeling seemed to find the
brighter side of all with whom he came in contact.
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235
But underlying this was a certain gravity of mind. ;i deliberate fair-
ness and breadth of view, which rendered his judgment accurate as well
as magnanimous, and won for him an influence of a kind enjoyed by
few other men in the class.
It is indeed a sad, as it is an unnecessary, office to eulo^i/c the noble
qualities of one whom we all recall with the sincerest regard and admira-
tion, and to whom so many of us were so warmly attached."
Beirne Lay
Teacher
St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H.
Residence, St. Paul's School, Concord
Beirne Lay was born June 3, 1862, in Huntsville, Alabama, -<m
of Henry Champlin Lay and Elizabeth Withers (Atkinson) Lay,
who had eight other children: Henry C. (Rensselaer Polytech-
nic Institute), George William (Yale '82), Louise (died July
23, 1905), and three sons and two daughters who died in infancy
or early childhood.
Henry Champlin Lay (born Richmond, Va., December 6, iS_>}.
died September 17, 1885), a bishop in the Episcopal Church.
236 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
was a graduate of the University of Virginia with the degrees
of A.B. (1842) and A.M. He also received the honorary degrees
of LL.D. from Cambridge University, England; D.C.L. from
Hobart College, and D.D. from William and Mary College. He
was the son of John Q. Lay, of Lyme, Conn., and Lucy (May)
Lay. of Petersburg, Va. The original Lay ancestor came from
Lyme, England, about 1642, and settled in Laysville, Conn., now
known as Lyme.
Elizabeth Withers (Atkinson) Lay (born Lunenburg County,
Ya., January 8, 1828, died Baltimore, Md., February 17, 1909)
was on the maternal side descended from the Withers family of
Virginia, who came from England between 1725 and 1750.
Lay prepared at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H. In college
he was a member of Psi Upsilon, rowed on the class crew in the
fall regatta of sophomore year, was president of the Berkeley
Association and was selected as a speaker at Commencement, but
volunteered to remain silent as there was not time to hear all
who were eligible. He wrote our class ivy ode.
After graduation he studied one year at the Columbia Law
School, spent another year in a law office in Erie, Pa., then a
year in Baltimore in the office of Morrison & Bond, and was
admitted to the Maryland bar in 1887. After practicing alone
one year, he returned to the office of Morrison & Bond. He con-
tinued in practice in Baltimore until 1895, a part of the time as
assistant district attorney of that city, then accepted a position
as teacher of mathematics in St. Paul's School, Concord, where
he has since remained.
While in college he contributed some poems to the college
papers, and has done similar work since, on occasion. He has
also written for the journals some southern dialect stories, among
them "Whar's My Christmus?" (Atlantic, 1902) and "Hya-a-ar!
Dump! H'yer! H'yer!" (Atlantic, April, 1903). As already
stated, he composed the class ivy ode. In 1888 he read a poem
by invitation at the annual meeting of the St. Paul's School
Alumni Association, and in 1892 delivered an address on "Liberal
Education" before the Literary Association of the School.
He is a member of the Episcopal Church, and in politics a
Cleveland Democrat, though voting several times the Republican
National ticket, and is a graduate member of the Elihu Club
(Yale).
BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES 237
He married at Berkeley Springs, W. Va., April 4, njo/, Marion
Colston Hunter, daughter of John Harrison Hunter, deceased,
of Berkeley Springs, who was a physician, a graduate of the
University of Maryland Medical School. They have three chil-
dren: Sophia Hunter, born March 10, 1908; Beirne, Jr., born
September I, 1909, and John Hunter, born January 14, 1911.
James O. Lincoln
Physician
40 Front Street, Bath, Me.
Residence, 330 Front Street, Bath
James Otis Lincoln was born in Bath, Me., December 27, 1862,
son of George Mitchell Lincoln and Frances L. (Berry) Lincoln,
who were married May 30, 1860, and had two other children :
Charles M. and Mary L.
George Mitchell Lincoln (born Bath, Me., February 27, 1842,
died Portland, Me., February 25, 1904) was the son of Ebed
Lincoln and Ann E. (Young) Lincoln, and a descendant of the
branch of the Lincoln family, which settled in Hingham, Mass.
238 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Frances L. (Berry) Lincoln (born Georgetown, Me., April n,
1838) is the daughter of Joshua L. Berry and Mary L.
(Doughty) Berry, both of English lineage.
Lincoln prepared at the high school in Bath, Me., and in college
was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, played on both the class
and university lacrosse teams, and was a member of the class glee
club. He left college before graduation, but on petition of many
of the class was given his degree several years later and regularly
enrolled with the class.
After leaving college he taught in the high school in Bath for
four and a half years, during which time he sent fifty boys to
Bowdoin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale and other
colleges. He then studied medicine at Bowdoin College, and in
1892 received the degree of M.D., graduating second in rank in
his class. After studying a year in New York City, he returned
to Bath, where he has been practicing since that date, with a short
intermission. He is much interested in music. He is director of
the Kennebec Yacht Club, has been city physician, a member of
the School Board and attends the Winter Street Congregational
Church.
He married in Bath, Me., October 30, 1895, Georgie Louise
Drake (Bath High School '89), daughter of James Brainerd
Drake (died July, 1905), a ship broker.
Ernest St.G. Lough
Planter
19 Liberty Street, Cumberland, Md.
Residence, 51 Washington Street, Cumberland
Ernest St. George Lough was born May 20, 1863, in Brooklyn,
X. Y., son of George Forbes Lough and Rosalie (St. George)
Lough, who were married in 1860.
George Forbes Lough (born Bermuda, January i, 1825, died
Xew York City, October 13, 1892) was an exporter and importer
in Xew York City. His father, John Lough, and two preced-
ing generations were graduates of Oxford University, and min-
isters of the Church of England. The first John Lough was
rector at Sittingham, Kent, England, and conducted, about the
year 1700. a school, well known as a preparatory school for
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Oxford, which his son continued. John, the -r;m<l father of
Ernest, after graduating from (Jueen'x I 'olle^e. < Kford. came to
I'.ennuda in 170,5, where he continued in the mini-try of the
Church.
Rosalie ( St. George) Lough (died ( Mohcr. iSf»5) wax a liural
descendant of Randolph St.George Tucker, who came from
Bermuda to Virginia he fore the Revolution, was a -ivat consti-
tutional lawyer, had a part in drafting the (. 'on-titutioii of the
I nited States, was afterwards a senator from Virginia, and dur-
ing the Revolution led a successful expedition by sea to his
native liermuda for the capture of British supplies held there.
Lough prepared at the Brooklyn Polytechnic School and in
college was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon and Psi Upsilon.
After graduation he entered his father's office and later became
a member of the firm, G. F. Lough & Co., importers and
exporters, doing a large business in Xew York with the West
Indies and later with South Africa. Since 1908 he has con-
fined his attention to the coffee and cocoa estate known as
240 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
L'Hermitage at Trois Rivieres, Guadeloupe, French West Indies.
He is "proprietaire" of the estate, which is the largest in Guade-
loupe, and has found it necessary to spend much of his time on
the estate in personal management.
He is a member of the Episcopal Church, and a director in
the Bermuda Hotels Company, the Trinidad Glance Pitch Com-
pany, Trinidad Electric Light Company, and Trinidad Manjak
Company.
He married in Cumberland, Md., September 25, 1894, Eloise
Lowndes Roman, a graduate of Mrs. Read's School (New York)
and daughter of J. Philip Roman, president and founder of the
Second National Bank of Cumberland, Md.
Robert H. Lyman
Journalist
The World, Park Row, New York City
Residence, 204 West Seventieth Street, New York City
Robert Hunt Lyman was born in Huntington, Mass., March 3,
1864, son of Samuel Tinker Lyman and Augusta Hayden (Kirk-
land) Lyman, who were married April 19, 1849, and had three
other children: Charles P. (Ripon College), Eugene K. and
Cassius S. (Yale Ph.B. '82).
Samuel Tinker Lyman (born Chester, Mass., August 5, 1824,
died Holyoke, Mass., October 3, 1900), a graduate of the State
Normal School, Westfield, Mass., was a merchant, of the firm of
S. T. Lyman & Son. He was postmaster at Huntington and held
various city offices at Holyoke, Mass. He was descended from
Richard Lyman, whose ancestry is traced back to Alfred the
Great, King of England, and who came from England in 1631,
settled first in Charlestown, and was a member of the church
of which Eliot, the Indian apostle, was pastor. He afterward-
removed to Hartford, 1636, and his name is inscribed on a stone
column in the rear of Center Church, Hartford, erected in
memory of the first settlers. Richard, his son, who came with him
from England, removed about 1655 to Northampton. His son
John settled in Hadley, and commanded the Northampton troops
in the Indian wars. Major Elias Lyman, great-grandson of John.
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24I
was member of three provincial congresses (1774-5) and of tin-
expedition which captured Louisburg. Samuel, grandson of
Elias and father of Samuel Tinker Lyman, served as colonel in
the War of 1812.
Augusta Hayden (Kirkland) Lyman ilx.rn .\-a\vani. Ma — ..
January 12, 1830, died Holyokc, Ma — .. July n, 1909) was a
granddaughter of a Revolutionary soldier of the family that pro-
duced the Rev. Samuel Kirkland, missionary to the Indians, and
President John Thornton Kirkland of Harvard College. Her
great-grandfather was the Rev. Daniel Kirtland (Yale 1720).
The ancestor Nathaniel came from England in 1635.
I .yinan prepared at the high school in Holyoke and at Williston
Seminary, Easthampton, Mass., and passed his examinations in
1879 f°r Amherst College, but waited a year and entered Yale
with our class. In college he was a member of Delta Kappa,
Delta Kappa Epsilon, of the Yale News Board in senior year, of
the class day committee, took a second prize in English composi-
tion sophomore year and Oration appointment junior year.
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242 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
After graduation he joined the city staff of the Springfield
Republican, December i, 1884. He went to New York and the
Herald staff January 23, 1887, and was that paper's Albany legis-
lative correspondent in 1888. He was made night editor that
year. In July, 1889, he went to Europe and, after three months'
travel, was made managing editor of the London edition of the
New York Herald. He returned to the New York staff in Feb-
ruary, 1890. A year later he was made managing editor of the
New York Recorder, and held this position for eighteen months,
until July, 1892. After two or three months on the Times, fol-
lowed by three on the Associated Press — United Press, he went
on the editorial staff of the New York World. This was January
23, 1893, and three months later he was made night editor. Since
that time he has done little writing, has been engaged chiefly in
executive work, and has traveled much. Together with Mr.
Pulitzer and the managing editor of the World, he was indicted
for criminal libel against the United States Government in 1909.
This action was taken by direction of President Roosevelt in con-
nection with the publication of articles in the World relating to
the Panama Canal. The indictments were ultimately quashed,
the courts holding that they were not authorized by the statute
upon which they were professedly founded.
It is perhaps unnecessary to add that in politics he calls himself
an ''Independent Democrat."
He is a member of the Manhattan Club, the New England
Society of New York, the Delta Kappa Epsilon Association of
New York, and the National Geographical Society.
He married (i) in New York, April 19, 1892, Juva Louise
La Burtte Kennedy (ceremony performed by the Rev. E. H.
Coley, '84), a graduate of the State Normal College 1887 (died
Brooklyn, May 18, 1893), daughter of Charles Kennedy, on gen-
eral staff of the Northern Pacific Railroad, St. Paul. He mar-
ried (2) in Albany, N. Y., September 27, 1904, Harriet Lyman
Munson, daughter of Samuel Lyman Munson, a manufacturer of
that city. They have one daughter, Susan Elizabeth, born New
York, November 18, 1905.
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243
George J. McAndrew
Superintendent of Schools
Mamaroneck, Westchester County, N. Y.
Residence, 134 Prospect Avenue, Mamaroneck
George John McAndrew was born in Forestville, Chautauqua
County, N. Y., December 20, 1858, son of Donald McAndrew and
Margaret (Rennie) McAndrew, who were married October, 1856,
and had four other children: Margaret, wife of D. C. Smith, Jr.,
Isabella (died February 8, 1901), Martha Ellen, wife of George
K. Knight, Barcelona, Porto Rico, and Mrs. Agnes Trescott of
Pawtucket, R. I.
Donald McAndrew (born Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland, March 10.
1833) and his wife came to this country shortly after their mar-
riage, and settled on a farm in Forestville, N. Y. The ancestors
of both were friends and companions of the poet, Robert lUirns.
Members of the McAndrew family have been prominent in vari-
ous ways, one of his brothers having been largely instrumental in
introducing the Australian ballot system, another being prominent
244 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
in Van Diemen's Land. One of his father's brothers raised and
trained as broadswordsmen a detachment of Scotchmen, who took
part in the defeat of Napoleon's Old Guard at Waterloo, he him-
self losing his life in the battle.
Margaret (Rennie) McAndrew (born Dailly, Scotland, Feb-
ruary n, 1829, died April 16, 1912) was of Scotch and English
descent. She was one of a large family, having ten brothers and
sisters, who have become prominent in various quarters of the
globe. One was a vice chancellor of the exchequer under Queen
Victoria, another deputy governor of Queensland, another promi-
nent in colonial service in New Zealand, another principal of a
bank in Praetoria, another chief engineer of a railroad in the
Argentine Republic. The youngest of her brothers was a cor-
poral in the British Army in the War of the Crimea, died on his
way home and was buried at Piraeus in Greece.
McAndrew prepared at the Forestville Free Academy, Forest-
ville, N. Y., and the Fredonia Normal School, Fredonia, N. Y.,
also attended Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y., one year. He
was principal of the Ellicottville Union School, 1879-80, and prin-
cipal of the Ellington, N. Y., Academy, 1 880-81, and entered our
class in sophomore year, 1881.
In college he made first division standing in last term of sopho-
more year, which was maintained until near the end of junior
year.
He has been a high school principal or a superintendent of
schools since graduating from Yale; 1884-1888, principal of the
high school at Pawtucket, R. I. ; 1888-1890, sub-master Hillhouse
High School, New Haven, Conn.; 1890-1893, superintendent of
schools, Plattsburgh, N. Y. ; 1893-1900, superintendent of schools.
South Orange, N. J. ; 1900-1901, president Montana State Normal
School ; 1902 to present date, superintendent of schools, Mamun >-
neck, N. Y. He spent one summer vacation in Europe, chiefly in
Germany. In 1893 he received the degree M.A. at Yale, con-
ferred for post-graduate work.
He is a Republican in politics, a member of the Presbyterian
Church, and of the F. & A. M., Apawamis Lodge, No. 800.
He married in Forestville, N. Y., April 25. 1888, Sylvia Hurl-
In TI ( Mt. Holyoke Seminary '87), daughter of Le Roy Hurlbert,
a banker of Forestville. They have four children: Mary John-
son, born Forestville, September 26, 1890; Hurlbert, born Platt>-
BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES 245
burgh, N. Y., December 3, 1892 (New York University '13) ;
Georgia, born South Orange, N. J., December 20, 1894, and
Marjorie, born South Orange, N. J., April 16, 1898.
*John O. McCalmont
Died November 3, 1906
John Osborn McCalmont, son of Samuel Plumer McCalmont,
a lawyer, and Harriet (Osborn) McCalmont, was born in Frank-
lin, Pa., January 28, 1864. Further details of his family may be
found in the record of his brother, Samuel P. McCalmont, Jr.
McCalmont prepared partially at a private school but gradu-
ated from the Franklin High School. In college he was a mem-
ber of Delta Kappa.
After graduation he returned to Franklin and began the study
of law in his father's office, but accepted appointment as princi-
pal of the Franklin High School in August, 1884. After two
years he resigned in order to take up again his legal studies, and
in April, 1887, was admitted to the bar, becoming junior partner
in the office of McCalmont & Osborn.
246 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
In June, 1889, he married Virginia, daughter of Hon. Robert
Simpson of Wheeling, W. Va., and for the next three years
devoted himself to his wife, whose health necessitated their liv-
ing in a warm climate. After her death in El Paso, in 1892, he
roumed his practice at the Yenango County Bar, where he
quickly won recognition as a most brilliant lawyer. He was a
Republican, but not active in politics.
He died November 3, 1906, in Franklin, after being seriously
ill for only two weeks.
Samuel P. McCalmont
1532 Liberty Street, Franklin, Pa.
Samuel Plumer McCalmont was born January 31, 1862, in
I rankliii. Pa.. M»II of Samuel Plumer McCalmont and Harriet
(Osborn) McCalmont, who were married in April, 1859, and had
four other children: John O. (B.A. Yale '84, died Novem-
ber 3, i^/o. Harriette (McCalmont) Stone, B.A., M.D., James
Donald (died November 29, 1912), Constance (McCalmont)
Humphrey (Smith '</3), and David B. (Yale '978.).
BIOGK. \1'11 IKS — GRADUATES 247
Samuel Plumer McCalmont (born Franklin, September 10,
1823, died July 13, 1904) was a prominent lawyer and at one
time a member of the Pennsylvania legislature. 1 1 is father,
John McCalmont, was of Scotch-Irish descent and an early settler
of Sugar Creek Valley.
Harriet (Osborn) McCalmont (born Sherman, N. Y., Jan-
uary 31, 1836, died Franklin, December 24, 1912) was of Eng-
lish and Welsh parentage.
McCalmont prepared at the Franklin High School and at a
private school, and in college was a member of Delta Kappa.
After graduating he entered the University Medical College,
New York City, being admitted to practice in 1889. Shortly
after this his health became delicate and he has been unable since
to perform active work of any kind.
He is unmarried.
Edwin McClellan
Manufacturer
8 Wells Street, Oxford Street, London, England
Cambridge, New York
Edwin McClellan was born in Argyle, Washington County,
N. Y., April 25, 1861, son of John A. McClellan and Mary Jane
(Gilchrist) McClellan, who were married May 29, 1855, and had
four other children: Franklin W. (Union College), Caroline
(McClellan) Smith, Robert, and Mary Johnston.
John A. McClellan (born Hebron, Washington County, N. Y.,
February 19, 1827, died Cambridge, N. Y., May, 1893), a farmer,
was the son of Col. William McClellan and Margaret (Randley)
McClellan. Robert McClellan (born 1716, Meiklenox, Parish of
Buttle, Scotland), father of William, came with his wife to this
country in 1774, settled first in Brumley, Vt., and in 1784
removed to Hebron, N. Y.
Mary Jane (Gilchrist) McClellan (born Argyle, Washington
County, N. Y., June 5, 1834) is descended from Protestants who
came from the north of Ireland about 1780 and settled at Argyle.
McClellan prepared at Claverack, N. Y., and in college was a
member of Psi Upsilon and Scroll and Key, of the class glee club,
the university glee club for two years, and was financial editor of
the Yale Courant.
248 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, VALE COLLEGE
After graduation he taught one year in a private school in
Cincinnati, then went into business life, being connected for sev-
eral years with the McMillan Typesetting and Distributing Com-
pany, first in Albany and afterwards in New York. For about
seven years he had charge of advertising for the W. T. Hanson
Company, manufacturers of medical specialties at Schenectady.
He afterwards became treasurer and manager of the Foster-
McClellan Company, which was organized in 1898 to handle the
foreign business of the Foster-Milburn Company, dealers in
proprietary medicinal articles, of which latter company he is now
vice president. He has spent much of his time in organizing
branches of the business in all parts of the world, and makes his
home in London when he is not visiting the uttermost parts of the
earth. In his travels he has visited Australia, China twice, South
Africa twice, India twice, and Kgypt three times. He is a mem-
ber of the First Dutch Reformed Church of Schenectady.
McClellan took an active and generous part in tilting up a part
of Old South Middle for the official use of our classmate, Dean
Jones.
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249
In a recent letter he says: "I see but few classmates on this
side of the water. I wish you would put after my name in the
da-- hook a note asking members of the class to write the
addre>s at the head of this sheet in their note books and when
they visit London to conic and look me up."
1 Ic married in Schenectady, N. Y., August 4, 1904, Helen Liv-
ingston Mynderse, daughter of Barent Aaron Mynderse (Union
College '49), a physician in Schenectady.
Henry McCormick, Jr.
Cameron Building, Harrisburg, Pa.
Residence, 101 North Front Street, Harrisburg, Pa.
Henry McCormick, Jr., was born in Harrisburg, Pa., October
15, 1862, son of James McCormick and Mary Wilson (Alricks)
McCormick, who were married May 25, 1859, and had five other
children: James, Jr. (Yale '87), William (Yale '87), Donald
(Yale '90), Robert (Yale 'oo), and Eliza.
James McCormick (born Harrisburg, Pa., October 31, 1832),
a graduate of Yale '53, also having honorary degree of M.A.
250 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
from Yale, is a banker and lawyer of Harrisburg. For thirty-
two years he was a trustee of the James McCormick Estate, con-
sisting- of farms, iron industries, flour mills and real estate. His
father, James McCormick, a lawyer, was born near Harrisburg
in 1801 ; the latter's grandfather was born in Ireland and settled
near Harrisburg in 1765.
Mary Wilson (Alricks) McCormick (born Harrisburg, Pa.,
November 24, 1833, died August 6, 1891) was the daughter of
Herman Alricks, a lawyer in Harrisburg. Her ancestors on both
sides lived in the vicinity of Harrisburg previous to the Revolu-
tion.
McCormick prepared at the Harrisburg Academy. In college
he was a member of Delta Kappa and Delta Kappa Epsilon,
played on the class baseball team one year and on the class and
university lacrosse teams.
After graduation he spent a few months in travel and then
entered business life in Harrisburg, where he has remained, hav-
ing an active part in the management of several corporations,
principally manufacturing concerns. He has attended exery class
reunion held at New Haven and many of the winter dinners in
Xew York. In politics he is a Democrat.
He is unmarried.
Henry C. McDowell
Judge United States Court
Government Building, Lynchburg, Va.
Residence, 1314 Clay Street, Lynchburg
Henry Clay McDowell was born in Louisville, Ky., August 24,
1861, son of Henry Clay McDowell and Anne (Clay) McDowell.
who were married May 21, 1857, and had five other children:
Xannette (McDowell) Bullock, William A. (Yale '85), Thomas
C., Julia (McDowell) Brock, and Madelein (McDowell)
Breckinridge,
Henry Clay McDowell, Sr. (born Fincastle, Va., February <i.
1832, died Fayette County. Ky., November 18, 1899), son of
Dr. William A. McDowell and Maria (Harvey) McDowell, a
graduate of Kentucky t'liiveiMty with the degree of B.L.. was
a lawyer and fanner of Fayette County, Ky. He was assistant
adjutant general of United States volunteers with rank of cap-
tain at the iK'ginning of the Civil War, and afterwards lieutenant
BIOGRAPH IES GRADUATES
251
colonel of the 62d Kentucky regiment. He was president of the
Kentucky Union Railroad Company, and of the Kentucky Breed-
ers Association.
Anne (Clay) McDowell (born Lexington, Ky., July 14, 1837)
is of Huguenot and English descent, daughter of Henry Clay,
Jr., and Julia Prather.
McDowell prepared at Williston Seminary, Easthampton,
Mass. In college he was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon,
Eta Phi, Psi Upsilon and Scroll and Key, was captain of both
the class and university lacrosse teams, business manager of the
Nezvs in senior year, and was in junior year featherweight spar-
ring champion.
In June, 1885, he took his degree as Bachelor of Laws at the
University of Virginia and practiced first in Lexington, Ky.,
then for several years at Big Stone Gap, Va., in 1899 removed
to Louisville, and in 1903 to Lynchburg, Va. Since 1901 he has
been Judge of the United States District Court for the Western
District of Virginia, to which position he was appointed by Presi-
dent Roosevelt. In 1908 he delivered an address before the
Virginia State Bar Association on "Some Misapprehensions as
252 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
to Federal Procedure and Jurisdiction," and has contributed
articles on legal topics to the Virginia La-ic Journal.
He married at Rogersville, Tenn., July 5, 1893, Louise Clay,
daughter of Henry Boyle Clay (Transylvania '59), a farmer at
Church Hill, Tenn.
Oliver McKee
American Manager Encyclopaedia Britannica Company
35 West 32d Street, New York City
Residence, Whitredge Place, Summit, N. J.
Oliver McKee was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., May 2, 1861, son
of Joseph McKee and Lydia (Dodds) McKee, who were mar-
ried in 1845.
Joseph McKee (born Belfast, Ireland, 1816), after coming to
tlii- country, was a merchant in Brooklyn, N. Y. He and his
ancestors were strong Presbyterians, having migrated from Scot-
land to the north of Ireland.
Lydia (Dodds) McKee (born in 1825, died Brooklyn, N. Y.,
as also of Scotch-Irish descent.
BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES 253
McKee prepared at the Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn and
entered college with '83, but was a member of our class the last
two years of our course. He was a member of Kappa Sigma
Kpsilon, He Boule and Delta Kappa Epsilon (all with '83) and
of Wolf's Head (with '84), played on the '83 freshman baseball
team, and on the university nine our senior year.
After graduation he was on the reporting staff of the \Y\v
Haven AYr^x, was correspondent for the New York Evening
Post, and World, in 1886 went to New York as a reporter on the
//"(>/•/</, in 1887 went to Boston and was New England corre-
spondent for several years, and in 1896 left the World f<»r the
Journal. In 1899 he became connected with Clark's Company,
Limited, of London, and since that time has been acting for that
company in marketing the Encyclopaedia Britannica, with head-
quarters in London, but making extended stays in India, Japan
and other eastern countries. He has circled the globe three
times. Life in the eastern countries has enabled him to make
some study of that part of the world, which he has found very
absorbing. He has studied the art and art products of China
and Japan, making an interesting collection of antique Chinese
porcelains. In March, 1896, an article was published in Lippin-
cott from his pen, entitled "The Horse or the Motor." He has,
of course, as a newspaper man, done more important literary
work, but not over his own name.
He married in Litchfield, Conn., November n, 1886, Julia
Lucretia Wilber, daughter of Alvin Wilber, a merchant of Litch-
field. They have four children: Wilber (Yale '09, later at Har-
vard Law School), born August 23, 1887; Dorothy, born
November 2, 1889; Oliver, Jr., born December 2, 1893, and
Elmore McNeill, born March 28, 1895.
*William C. McMillan
Died February 21, 1907
William Charles McMillan was born in Detroit, Mich., March
i, 1861, son of Hon. James McMillan and Mary L. (Wetmore)
McMillan, who were married in 1860, and had four other chil-
dren: James H. (Yale '88), Philip H. (Yale '94), Francis (Yale
'97 S.), and Amy.
254 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
James McMillan (born 1838, died 1902) was of Scotch-
Canadian parentage, spent his boyhood in Hamilton, Ontario,
graduated from Canada College, but moved to Detroit, where he
entered the hardware business. Later he was deeply concerned
in the development of Detroit, organized the Michigan Car Com-
pany, built the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railroad and
was largely interested in shipbuilding and lake transportation.
He was chairman of the Michigan Republican State Central Com-
mittee and three times elected United States Senator.
McMillan prepared in the public schools and under private
tutors in Detroit, and in college was a member of Delta Kappa,
He Boule, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and Skull and Bones, was vice
president of the Yale University Club in 1882, member of its
board of governors 1882-83, sang in the college choir and the '84
glee club through the greater part of his course, and in the Yale
glee club in his junior year. In senior year he received the largest
vote (23) for the handsomest man of the class.
Immediately after graduation he went abroad and was married
in St. George's Church, London, on July 15, 1884, to Marie
BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES 255
Louise Thayer, daughter of Frank N. Thayer of Boston, Mass.
On his return to Detroit he became secretary of the Michigan
Car Company, and after three years' service, in which he showed
remarkable executive ability, he was appointed general manager
of the company, and became at about the same time actively inter-
ested in the management of several business corporations.
Less than five years after his entrance into business his father
was sent to the Senate, and he undertook the labor and responsi-
bilities of his father's enterprises. His own special interest lay in
navigation, and to him is due the organization of the Detroit and
Buffalo Steamship Company and the development of the Detroit
and Cleveland Navigation Company, which gave the Great Lakes
the finest passenger service of the time. His business interests
were as follows :
Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Company, president and general
manager; Detroit & Buffalo Steamboat Company, general manager;
Michigan Steamship Company, director; Wolverine Steamship Company,
director; Duluth & Atlantic Transportation Company, vice president;
Detroit Shipbuilding Company, president; American Shipbuilding Com-
pany, director; Michigan Malleable Iron Company, president; Detroit
Seamless Steel Tube Company, president; Monarch Steel Castings Com-
pany, president; Detroit Railroad Elevator Company, treasurer; Detroit
Iron Furnace Company, secretary; Peninsular Sugar Company, director;
Detroit Union Railroad Depot & Station Co., director ; Michigan State
Telephone Company, chairman executive committee; Union Trust Com-
pany, chairman executive committee; First National Bank, director;
State Savings Bank, director; Grace Hospital, treasurer; Detroit
Walker-Gordon Laboratory Company, president; Detroit Hotel Com-
pany, president ; Cass Farm Company, Limited, director ; Detroit
Manufacturers' Railroad, treasurer; Cleveland & Toledo Line, president
and general manager; Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York,
trustee; Frank Whitney Painting Company, president; Pontchartrain
Hotel Company, president.
In addition, he was a keen student of all kinds of science, and
his medical library, especially in the foreign publications, was
probably unequalled by any similar collection in the state.
His interest and sympathy with all classes naturally led him
into politics, where, following his father, he became one of the
leaders of the Republican party of Michigan. In August, 1902,
he was urged to become a candidate for a vacancy in the United
States Senate, but after careful consideration he declined in the
broad interest of his party, and several years later, just before
256 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
his death, he took part in a senatorial campaign, being defeated
by Senator Smith, but at this time he was too ill even to consult
with his lieutenants, though he followed the contest closely.
His death, caused by pneumonia complicated by a chronic
trouble of the heart, occurred February 21, 1907. At the funeral
one hundred leading citizens of Detroit acted as bearers, and "as
a mark of respect to Mr. McMillan's memory, many manufactur-
ing plants and mercantile establishments were closed during his
funeral, while all over the city and on shipping in the river and
at the docks, flags were flown at half mast" (Detroit Free Press).
In an editorial from the same paper it is said: "He took his place
in the ranks of the hard workers when he entered business. He
never gained a position he did not merit. The assertion of his
natural qualities raised him to the rank of a leader. He was
advanced to high positions in the world of commerce because he
was qualified to fill them. He succeeded to his father's place
because he was the man best fitted for it. In that position he
expanded with the interests he dominated and became, perhaps,
the greatest force in Detroit's period of greatest progress."
At a reunion of '84 in New York City, on March 9, 1907, a
resolution of sympathy was adopted and sent to the family.
McMillan left two children: Thayer, the class boy, born April
20, 1885; and Doris, born February 5, 1896. Thayer entered
Yale in the class of 1909 but did not complete his course. He
married in Boston, on October 15, 1907, Anne Davenport Russell
of Detroit, and has three children : Helen R., born November 27,
1908; Marie Louise, born December 25, 1909, and James, born
July 27, 1911.
George H. Makuen
Physician
1627 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
KV>i<lence, 1301 Potter Street, Chester, Pa.
George Hudson Makuen was born in Goshen, N. Y., July 16,
1855, son of George Makuen and Ellen Gertrude (Magennis i
Makucn. who were married September 4, 1854.
Makm-n (horn I'.elfa-t. Ireland. May 7, 1823, died
Goshen, N. Y., April 23, 1899) was a farmer of Scotch ante-
cedents.
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257
Ellen Gertrude (Magennis) Makuen (born Limerick, Ire-
land, January i, 1833) was of English antecedent-.
Makuen prepared at the Centenary Collegiate Institute, Hack-
ettstown, N. J., and entered our class in January, 1881. In col-
lege he was a member of Psi Upsilon and Scroll and Key, took
a second prize in English composition sophomore year, took first
prize in declamation the same year, won the first prize in the
Junior Exhibition, and edited the Pot-pourri in senior year.
For several years after graduation he taught elocution and
oratory in the National School of Oratory, Philadelphia, and
studied medicine. After receiving the degree of M.D. from
Jefferson Medical College in 1889, he began practice and entered,
after several years of general practice, upon the specialty of
laryngology and otology. He has given especial attention to
defects of the speech and of the voice. It is in this latter field
that he is best known, having written extensively on the sub-
ject. He is the author of many articles on diseases of the
throat, nose and ear, a member of numerous medical societies,
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258 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
and was in 1899 elected president of the American Academy of
Medicine. In 1897 he was elected professor of defective speech
at the Polyclinic Hospital and College for Graduates in Medi-
cine at Philadelphia. In 1904 he was elected president of the
Yale Alumni Association of Philadelphia and presided at the
dinner, and as a representative of that association has addressed
the Alumni of Yale and other colleges. He is a member of the
Art Club of Philadelphia. In politics he is an Independent
Republican.
He married in Chester, Pa., December 20, 1900, Nancy Baker
Dyer, daughter of George Baker, a banker of Chester, Pa.
Isaac H. Mayer
Lawyer
208 La Salle Street, Chicago, 111.
Residence, 4417 Drexel Boulevard, Chicago
Uaar llmry Mayer was born in Chicago, 111., July 6, 1864,
the son of Henry D. Mayer and Clara (Goldsmith) Mayer, who
were married in 1847, a"d na<^ seven other children: David, Ber-
BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES 259
nard, Levy (Yale Law School '76), Jacob, Fanny, Bertha Lep-
man, and Henrietta (Mayer) Schlesinger.
Henry Mayer (born Bavaria, Germany, October i, 1807,
died Chicago, 111., July 6, 1887) was a merchant in Chicago.
Clara (Goldsmith) Mayer was born in Bavaria, Germany,
June 14, 1820, and died in Chicago, 111., February 25, 1904.
Mayer prepared in the Chicago High School, and in college
was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon.
After graduation he studied law in Chicago, and has since his
admission to the bar in 1886 diligently and successfully prac-
ticed in that city. He became a member of the firm of Kraus,
Mayer & Stein in 1890, and continued as member of succeeding
firms. Moran, Mayer & Meyer; Mayer, Meyer & Austrian; and
at present Mayer, Meyer, Austrian & Platt.
He married in Chicago, 111., December 30, 1891, Rosa Meyer,
daughter of Max A. Meyer, a merchant of Chicago, now
deceased. They have four children: Robert H., born Chicago,
January 18, 1893 (Yale 1913) ; Walter M., born Chicago, March
12, 1897; Frank D., born Chicago, January 16, 1899, and Clara
Louise, born Chicago, May 16, 1907.
Charles A. Mead
Head Master Carteret Academy
291 Essex Avenue, Orange, N. J.
Residence, 425 William Street, East Orange
Charles Abernethy Mead was born in New York City, Novem-
ber 21, 1862, son of Melville Emery Mead and Elizabeth Burr
(Hyde) Mead, who were married December 27, 1856, and had
two other children: Ralph Melville (Long Island College Hos-
pital, M.D. 1879) and Percy Winthrop.
Melville Emery Mead (born New York City, September n,
1833) attended Wesleyan College, and now resides in Norwalk,
Conn., engaged in the fire insurance business. His father was
Ralph Mead, who came to New York from Greenwich, Conn.,
early in the I9th century and established a successful wholesale
grocery business at Coenties Slip. Ralph served in the War of
1812 as private in the Second Artillery. Ralph's father,
Edmund, was a member of the Committee of Safety of Green-
260 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
\\-\ch during the Revolution. Earlier ancestors in the Mead line
represented Greenwich in the colonial legislatures, and the first,
William Mead, settled at Wethersfield, from County Kent, Eng-
land, in 1635, but soon removed to Greenwich.
Elizabeth Burr (Hyde) Mead (born Auburn, N. Y., February
17, 1838, died Norwalk, Conn., May 14, 1908) was the daughter
of Joseph B. Hyde and Elizabeth Hinsdale (Biirr) Hyde. Joseph
B. Hyde was a native of Groton, Conn., but the family removed
t< .\\-\v York early in his life. His father, Erastus Hyde, was
born at Bozrahville, near Norwich, Conn. James Hyde, father
of Erastus, served in the Revolution as captain in the Fourth
Connecticut Infantry, and Col. Simon Lathrop, grandfather of
Erastus, commanded the Connecticut regiment which took part
in the capture of Louisburg.
Mead prepared in the public schools of South Norwalk, Conn.,
and took Philosophical Oration appointments both junior and
M-ninr year- in college.
Afu-r -raduation lie taught in P.ett.-' Military Academy, Stam-
ford, one year, in the Pott-viHe. Pa.. High School three years,
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and three years in the Dearborn-Morgan School in Orange,
X. J. In 1901, with David A. Kennedy (Yale '74), he founded
the Carteret Academy for hoys, in Orange, and has been head
master in that school ever since, teaching especially mathematics
and science.
He is a Cleveland Democrat, a member of the Congregational
Church, a Freemason, an active member of several teachers'
organizations, and of the New England Society of Orange, ilu
Civics Club, the Norwalk Yacht Clu1>, and the Yale Club.
He is unmarried.
Edwin A. Merritt
Lawyer. Public Service
Potsdam, New York
Residence, Potsdam
Edwin Albert Merritt was born in Pierrepont, N. Y., July 25,
1860, son of Edwin Atkins Merritt and Eliza (Rich) Merritt,
who were married May 5, 1858, and had three other children :
Arthur Willson, Parker Rich and Darwin Fenton.
262 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Edwin Atkins Merritt (born Stidbury, Vt., February 26, 1828).
the son of Noadiah Merritt and Relief (Parker) Merritt, received
the honorary degree of LL.D. from St. Lawrence University,
Canton, X. Y. He began practical life as a surveyor and became
a resident of St. Lawrence County in 1841. In 1859 he was
elected, and in 1860 reflected, a member of the Assembly, was a
member of the Constitutional Convention of 1867, was appointed
in 1869 naval officer of the Port of New York, in 1877 surveyor
of the Port of New York, and in 1878 collector of the port (his
appointment to this position is said to have started among Repub-
licans, the famous factional war of the "Conkling-Arthur era").
He was consul general in London from 1881 to 1886. He
served in the Civil War as quartermaster of the 6oth New York
regiment and was afterwards quartermaster general on the staff of
Governor Fenton. In 1911 his "Recollections" were published in
book form, giving reminiscently many incidents of his long and
active career. His grandfather, Noah Merritt of Vermont, served
six years in the Revolution. The line runs back to Henry Merritt,
who came to this country from the County of Kent, and was one
of the founders of Scituate, Mass.
Eliza (Rich) Merritt was born at Canton, N. Y., December 5.
1827.
Merritt prepared at the State Normal School in Potsdam. In
college he was a member of Gamma Nu, He Boule, Delta Kappa
Epsilon and Wolf's Head, rowed on the class crew, was substi-
tute on the university crew two years, president of the class boat
club three years, president of the university boat club one year,,
and was a member of the class cup committee.
After graduation he spent a year abroad, a part of the time-
as deputy consul general at London, after which he studied law in
Potsdam, was admitted to the bar in 1904, and has since prac-
ticed there. He soon, however, became interested in the quarry-
ing of "Potsdam Red Sandstone" and other business enterprises.
and in politics. He is treasurer of the Northern Power Company
and of the Potsdam Electric Light & Power Company, and a
• li tutor and treasurer of the Hannana Falls Water Power Com-
pany. He is a Republican of the "Old Guard," was super-
visor of the town of Potsdam from 1896 to 1903, and wa>
elected to the New York Assembly from the Potsdam District
BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES 263
(Second District of St. Lawrence County) each year from 1902
to 1911 inclusive, for several years being the leader of the
Republican side of the house. In 1908 he was a candidate for
speaker of the house, but withdrew in favor of James W. Wads-
worth, and was made speaker of the 1912 session. He has been
chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, has served on
many other important committees, and taken a prominent part
in the framing of many important measures. He was chairman
of the Legislative Investigating Committee, which after extended
investigation of "graft" (holding forty-two public sessions and
hearing 184 witnesses) reported in 1911 concerning corrupt prac-
tices in elections, and recommended important changes in the
insurance laws. Of Merritt's position, the correspondent of the
New York Evening Post said, as early as 1907: "Of Assembly-
man Merritt, it must still be said that he remains the ablest single
member of the lower house. ... It should not be forgotten
that no single man contributed more to the drafting of the Pub-
lic Utilities bill than Merritt, and his high talent has generally
been exercised for public interest. A few more men of Merritt's
intellectual force would add much to the importance of the
Legislature/'
In July, 1912, by the death of George R. Malby, representing
Merritt's district in Congress, a vacancy was created and there
seemed to be but one man to fill it. Since that time Merritt has
been continuing in Washington the active career begun in his
own state.
The full list of Merritt's political honors would go far toward
filling this book ; but among them may be mentioned that he has
been first vice president of the New York State League of Repub-
lican Clubs, a delegate to Republican State Conventions and a
member of the State Republican Committee. He has not escaped
severe criticism and caricature, but has apparently borne both with
stoic equanimity.
He is a member of the military order of the Loyal Legion and
of several Masonic orders.
He married in Potsdam, X. Y., January 24, 1888, Edith Sophia
Wilcox (State Normal School '84), daughter of Edward Hall
Wilcox of Potsdam. They have one child: Esther Mary, born
in Potsdam, June n, 1894.
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Alexander Newton
Teacher and Clergyman
Seminary, Mississippi
Residence, Seminary
Alexander Newton was born in Summit, Miss., December 4,
1859, son of Rev. Oscar Newton and Susan Maria (Colton)
Newton, who were married August 5, 1856, and had two other
children: Cora (Newton Institute '87), died Crystal Springs,
Miss., 1896, and Osma (Newton Institute '88).
Rev. Oscar Newton (born Livingston, Miss., October 20, 1830,
died March 26, 1913), a graduate of Union Theological
St-minary, New York C'ity, was the teacher of a private school
in Crystal Springs, Miss. His father, Rev. Alexander Newton,
wno was born in Tennessee, moved to Mississippi about 1850,
tau-ht in Mississippi College, Clinton, Miss., moved to Jackson,
Miss., engaged in the ministry, and died December 4, 1859.
Susan Maria (Colton) Newton (born Longmeadow, Mass.,
September 13. 1*31. died Crystal Springs, Miss., December 31,
BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES 265
1904) was educated at Pittsfield, Mass., and was the daughter of
Rev. Simeon Colton of Raleigh, N. C., who taught in Monson
Academy, Monson, Mass., and in Mississippi College, Clinton,
Miss., and was a clergyman in North Carolina.
Newton prepared at his father's school in Crystal Springs, Miss.
After graduation he spent three years in the Union Theological
Seminary, New York, taking his degree in 1887, then spent one
year in Y. M. C. A. and mission work in New York City, was
licensed to preach by the Presbytery of New York in 1888, and
in that year located at Rodney, Miss. He was minister in the
Rodney Presbyterian Church, and since 1900 has been located at
Seminary, Miss. Since 1909 he has been giving all his time to the
work of teaching. It is evident from his family statistics that
domestic cares have claimed his attention to a considerable degree.
He is one of the few who have never attended a class reunion,
but his letters to the secretary and regular contributions to the
Alumni Fund show that he cherishes his associations with Yale
and '84.
He married in Rodney, Miss., October 4, 1894, Alice Mackie,
daughter of John Mackie (died 1890) of Rodney. They have
had eight children : John, born March 29, 1896, died shortly after
birth; Cora, born August 20, 1897; Susie Isabelle, born Decem-
ber 27, 1898; Osma, born July 20, 1900; George Alexander, born
January 12, 1902; Meliora, born December 21, 1903; Mackie,
born April 14, 1905, and Henry Colton, born May 24, 1910.
William T. Nichols
Writer
141 Russell Street, Manchester, N. H.
William Theophilus Nichols was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on
March 31, 1863, son of William N. Nichols and Isabella M.
(Blackman) Nichols, who were married April 9, 1862. Henry
D. Nichols (Cornell '96, M.D. Univ. Penn. '99) is a half brother.
William N. Nichols (born Newtown, Conn., May 29, 1827, died
Cincinnati, February 12, 1894) was a merchant of Cincinnati
in the firm of Lockwood, Nichols & Tice. He was a son of
Theophilus Nichols (1796-1870) and the seventh generation from
266 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Sergeant Francis Nichols who settled in Stratford about 1639
and trained its inhabitants in military discipline.
Isabella M. (Blackman) Nichols (born Newtown, Conn.,
December 9, 1840, died Cincinnati, January 24, 1865) was a
daughter of Dr. George C. Blackman of Newtown and Cincinnati,
a brigade surgeon of volunteers in 1862.
Nichols prepared at the Woodward High School in Cincinnati,
and at the Newtown Academy, Newtown, Conn. In college he
a member of Delta Kappa and Psi Upsilon, took High Ora-
tion appointment junior, and Oration appointment senior year,
and was elected by the class a member of the class day committee.
After graduation he was with the Xew Haven Morning AV^vr.
IS reporter and later as city editor, and from 1887 to 1893
was on the staff of the Xew York Times, being stationed in Chi-
cago one year (1888) as correspondent for that city. In 1894
he removed to Cincinnati, where for a time he was city editor of
the Cincinnati Tribune, and for two years engaged in literary
work. In 1896 he removed to Manchester. X. II., and after serv-
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ing a few months as editorial writer on the Manchester I'nion,
became the managing editor of that paper, which position he
filled until May I, 1910. Since then he has "been doing maga-
zine work and the like — fiction principally." He wrote over his
own name three novelettes "My Strange Patient," "A Whim and
a Chance," and "As Any Gentlemen Alight," which appeared in
Lippincott's Magazine 1894-1896, "The Ninepin," Popular
Magazine, 1910 (novel), "The Unwilling Guest," Popular
Magazine 1911 (novel), "The Riverside Budget," American
/MM'. 1912-13 (serial), "The Adventures of a Beneficiary,"
Fa nn and l:i reside, 1912-13 (serial) ; also some short stories, in
Centura. Pearson's, }'oittli's Companion, Cavalier, etc.
On November 18, 1896, he married Helen Fletcher Hull
(Bartholomew English and Classical School '83), daughter of
Leverett R. Hull, a merchant of Cincinnati. They have two
children: Florence Hull, born in Manchester, N. H., October 12,
1897, and Leverett Hull, born in Manchester, October 14, 1901.
James W. Oakford
Lawyer
Board of Trade Building, Scranton, Pa.
Residence, Waverly, Pa.
James William Oakford was born in Scranton, Pa., June 5,
1859, tne son °f Richard Adolphus Oakford and Frances Carey
(Slocum) Oakford.
Richard Adolphus Oakford (born Philadelphia, Pa., December
6, 1820, died Antietam, Md., September 17, 1862), a graduate of
Lafayette College '37, was a colonel in the I32d Pennsylvania
Volunteers.
Oakford prepared at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass.
In college he was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon, Delta
Kappa Epsilon, and Scroll and Key, assistant treasurer of the
university boat club, an editor of the Yale News for three years,
and secretary of the university lacrosse association.
After graduation he studied law in Scranton and was admitted
to the bar in 1886. At first he practiced as a member of the firm
of Price & Oakford, afterwards alone, but later gave up active
practice and has for some years given his attention to business.
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principally lumber in West Virginia and Georgia. In 1902 he
was appointed judge advocate on the staff of Major General
Charles Miller, commander of the Pennsylvania National Guard.
He is a member of the Episcopal Church.
He married in Thomasville, Ga., March 12, 1902, Mary Throop
Manness of Scranton, Pa. They have two children: Frances
Slocum, born November 10, 1903, and Mary, born September 26,
1909.
George W. Osborn
Physician
888 Broad Street, Bridgeport, Conn.
Residence, 888 Broad Street, Bridgeport
George \Yakeman Osborn was born in Easton, Conn., Novem-
ber 6, 1860, son of David Hull Osborn and Melissa (Banks)
( Khnrn. \vli<> were married June 14, 1857, and had two other
children: Orlando Banks and David Franklin.
David Hull < Kh..rn i horn Weston (now Easton), Conn., Jan-
uary 20, 1821, died Easton, Conn.. May 18, 1897) was a descend-
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269
ant in the sixth generation from Captain Richard Osborn, \vlm
came from London in 1634 in the ship llopcwcll, settled in Ilini;-
ham. Ma>s.. in 1635, and afterwards lived in New Haven about
fourteen years. For his services in the Peqtiot War he was
granted eighty acres of land in Fairfield, where he settled ab»>ut
1653. The family have since lived in Fairfield, Weston and
Easton, Conn.
Melissa (Banks) Osborn (born Weston, Conn., September
15, 1835, died Bridgeport, Conn., June 14, 1900) was a daughter
of Medad and Polly (Betts) Banks and descended from John
Banks, a lawyer by profession, who came from England, settled
first in Windsor, Conn., and afterwards, about 1643, ^n Fair-
field. Nathan Banks, the grandfather of Melissa, served in the
Revolutionary War.
Osborn prepared at Staples' Academy in Easton, Conn., hav-
ing in the course of his preparation taught district school in
Easton for a few months. In college he was a member of
Gamma Nu.
270 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
After graduation he studied at the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, receiving his degree, M.D., in 1887. He then served
one year as house physician in the Bridgeport Hospital, and since
the termination of that service has practiced in Bridgeport. For
eight years (1888-1892 and 1895-1899) he was city physician and
surgeon in the Emergency Hospital, has been since 1889 medical
examiner for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, since
1905 pediatrist at the St. Vincent's Hospital, Bridgeport, and
surgeon to the Fire Department, was formerly and is now a mem-
ber of the Bridgeport Board of Health, of which he was at one
time president, and has been physician and examiner for several
fraternal and benefit organizations. He has been a vice presi-
dent of the Bridgeport Medical Association and an active mem-
ber of that and other professional organizations, is high in the
ranks of fraternal organizations, and is a member of the Connect-
icut Society Sons of the American Revolution. Since 1908 he
has been president of the Democratic Association.
He married in Peabody, Mass., December 27, 1888, Nellie
Maria Boynton (Salem Normal School '81), daughter of James
A. P.ovnton of Peabody. Mrs. Osborn is descended from John
P.Mvntnn, who settled in Rowley, Mass., in 1638, and from James
Boynton, ^'ho was killed in the battle of Bunker Hill. They
have had four children: Lelius Boynton, born November 7,
1890, died July 3, 1891 ; Beatrice Melissa, born April 18, 1892 :
Helen Eugenie, born February 20, 1897; Richard Galen, born
December 14, 1903.
Henry McM. Painter
Physician
62 West 55th Street, New York City
Residence, 62 West 55th Street
Henry McMahon Painter was born in West Haven, Conn.,
July 12, 1863, the son of Henry Wheeler Painter and Abigail
Maria (Kitrhing; Painter, who were married in 1856.
Henry Wheeler Painter (born West Haven, Conn., April 30,
1831, died Xortli Haven, Conn., January 17, 1908), a graduate
of Yale, M.D., '56, was a physician in West Haven. His
people came to New Haven Colony in 1695, from Massachusetts
BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES
271
Day, settled in West Haven, and the family continued living
there until 1890. A collateral branch still occupies the Painter
house, this cousin and Henry McMahon Painter being the only
male representatives of the line now living. The father of
Henry Wheeler Painter was Thomas A. Painter.
Abigail Maria (Kitching) Painter (born Southbridge, Mass.,
November 15, 1836) is still living. Her father came from York-
shire and her mother from Lancashire, England.
Painter prepared at Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven.
In college he was a member of Delta Kappa, Psi Upsilon and
Skull and Bones, won two first prizes in English composition in
sophomore year, was a speaker at the Junior Exhibition and an
editor of the Lit.
After graduation he took a year in the Sheffield Scientific
School (Ph.B. 1885) and three years at the College of Physicians
and Surgeons, where he received his degree of M.D. in 1888.
He served as interne in the Bellevue Hospital in New York, and
272 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
since then has practiced in New York City, specializing in obstet-
rics, in which he has won an unusually high reputation. He is
professor of clinical obstetrics, College Physicians and Surgeons,
Columbia University, New York City; attending surgeon Lying-
in-Hospital, City of New York, and attending obstetrician, New
York Nursery and Child's Hospital.
In politics he is a Republican, and is a member of the council
of the Grolier Club.
He married in New Haven, Conn., June 30, 1891, Carrie Amelia
Stevens, daughter of Hiram Stevens, a manufacturer of Xew
Haven. They have two children : Sidney, born New York City,
September 23, 1902; Thomas, born New York City, November
6, 1905.
Charles L. Pardee
Clergyman
Rector St. Michael's Church, Naugatuck, Conn.
Residence, St. Michael's Rectory, Naugatnck
Charles Laban Pardee was born in New Haven, Conn., July 7,
1864, son of Charles Hezekiah Pardee and Anna Eliza (Austin)
Pardee, who were married May 17, 1859, and had three other
children: Susie (born 1860, died in infancy), Emma Austin
(born 1 86 1, died 1909), and William O. of New Haven (born
1866).
Charles Hezekiah Pardee (born New Haven, Conn., Novem-
ber 8, 1830, died Orange, N. J., August 18, 1905), an ex-member
Yale, 1854, was a manufacturer of New Haven. He was the son
of Laban Pardee and Mary (Thompson) Pardee. Laban's
father, Joseph, fought against the British in Tryoivs invasion.
George Pardee, immigrant ancestor and first rector of the Hop-
kins ( irammar School, settled early in New Haven, where he
taught the "town" school for a short time, beginning in 1662. He
allowed twenty pounds from the town funds, the remainder
to be paid by those who sent scholars to the school. In the vote
of the town, Pardee was advised "to be careful to instruct the
youth in point of manners, there being a great fault in that
respect, as some expressed." The discontinuance of the school
was caused by the absorption of the New Haven Colony into
Connecticut.
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273
Pardee prepared at the Hopkins (iraiinnar School in New
Haven. In college he was a member of Delta Kappa and Psi
Upsilon.
After graduation he studied for the ministry at the Berkeley
Divinity School (Episcopal), Middletown, from which he received
his degree, Bachelor of Divinity, in 1887. While studying la-
acted as private secretary to Bishop John Williams. He was
ordained deacon in 1887 by Bishop Williams and also by him
ordained priest the following year. He has been successively
minister in charge of St. Luke's, East Bridgeport; Nativity,
North Bridgeport; and the Mission in West Bridgeport, Conn.
(1887 to 1889) ; rector of Christ Church, Stratford, Conn. (1889
to 1891) ; rector of St. Andrew's Church, Waverly, Iowa (1891
to 1894) ; rector of St. Paul's Church, Kittanning, Pa. (1894 to
1896) ; rector of St. Andrew's Church, South Orange, N. J.
(1896 to 1909) ; and in February, 1909, became and is now
rector of St. Michael's Church, Naugatuck, Conn.
He has been active in diocesan commissions during his ministry,
was dean of convocation while in Iowa, is now member for Con-
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274 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
necticut of the Joint Diocesan Sunday School Commission, and
since 1909 has been editor of the Whittaker Sunday School Mag-
azines (issued quarterly). His published works include: "The
\Vav to the Altar" (Thos. Whittaker, Inc., N. Y. City, 1907),
"The Three Hour Service" (Thos. Whittaker, Inc., N. Y. City,
1906), and "The What and Why of Confirmation" (Church
Literature Press, N. Y. City, 1912). The degree of D.D. was
conferred upon him by Washington College.
He married in Farmington, Conn., February 7, 1888, Emilie
Marie Charpentier, daughter of Leopold Rene Charpentier (grad-
uate of a French University), now deceased. They have three
children: Rene Mead, born Bridgeport, Conn., November 13,
1888, Yale '10; Marie Anna, wife of Robert Palmer Marshall,
born Stratford, Conn., March 29, 1890, and Charles Laban, born
K manning, Pa., November 25, 1894.
George W. Patterson
Professor of Electrical Engineering
I'niversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Residence, 2101 Hill Street, Ann Arbor
George Washington Patterson was born in Corning, N. Y.,
February I, 1864, the son of George Washington Patterson and
Frances De Etta (Todd) Patterson, who were married September,
i Shi. and had three other children: Catharine Louise (wife of
Frank W. t'randall), Vassar '84; Hannah Whiting (wife of
1 larry F. Forbes), art student, Vassar (died Rockford, 111., 1903) ;
Frances Todd (wife of Lieut. William H. Faust, U. S. Navy),
Vassar '88.
George Washington Patterson, Sr. (born Leicester, N. Y.,
February 25. iSj6. died Westfield, N. Y., April 29, 1904), a
graduate of Dartmouth College '48, M.A. '51, was a banker in
Westfield, X. Y. He was the son of George Washington Pat-
terson and Hannah Whiting (Dickey) Patterson, was president
of the school board of Corning, held other public and also church
offices in Corning and Westfield, N. Y., and was secretary of his
daM (1848) in Dartmouth College. Our classmate's grand-
I'atlu-r. the tir>t ( io.r^v Washington Patterson, served many
terms in the New York Assembly, was twice speaker of the house
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275
and in 1877 was elected to Congress. His father, Thomas, was
lieutenant of militia in the Revolution. The Pattersons and
Dickeys were Scotch-Irish, coming- to Londonderry, N. H., from
the north of Ireland early in the i8th century.
Frances De Etta (Todd) Patterson (born Toddsville, N. Y.,
November 4, 1838, died Cooperstown, N. Y., June 14, 1909),
daughter of Zerah Todd and Martha (Carr) Todd, was
descended from Christopher Todd, an early settler of New
Haven, and from several other old New Haven families. Chris-
topher (born Pontefract, West Riding, Yorkshire, January 12,
1617) was one of the fifty Puritan settlers who came to Massa-
chusetts with Davenport and Eaton, and was one of the eighteen
signers of the original compact. He died in New Haven in
1686.
Patterson prepared at the School of Languages in New York
City. In college he gave special attention to mathematical
studies, taking in that subject first prize freshman year, second,
sophomore year, and first, senior year. He was a member of Psi
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Upsilon, president of the bicycle club, and on the senior prom-
enade committee.
After graduation he spent a year in Europe, a portion of the
time studying- at Berlin, afterwards studied in the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, from which he received the degree of
Sc.B. in 1887. He then for one year was in the Institute of
Technology as an assistant instructor, and after that in the fac-
tory of the Thomson-Houston Electric Company of Lynn. He
then took a year in the Harvard Law School for his own satis-
faction but not with the intention of practicing. In 1889 he went
to the University of Michigan as an instructor in physics and
has remained with that university since, being appointed in 1891
assistant professor of physics, and in 1905 professor of electrical
engineering. Since going to Michigan he has spent two years
of study in Europe, the first, 1898 and 1899, receiving the degree
of Ph.D. at Munich, the second, 1910 and 1911. He also took
the degree of M.A. at Yale in 1891. Among his published works
are: ''Electrical Measurements" (with H. S. Carhart), Allyn
& Bacon, Boston, 1895; "Industrial Photometry" (from French
«>t~ A. Palaz — translated by Patterson assisted by his wife), D.
Van Xostrand Company, N. Y. 1893; "Revolving Vectors/' The
Macmillan Co., 1911; various papers on electrical subjects pub-
li-hed in riiysical Review for the most part, except thesis for
Ph.D. published in the Annal dcr Ph\s., 1899.
He has found time to interest himself actively in other matters
besides his work of research and teaching, having been chairman
of the board of the university in control of athletics, a member
and a vestryman of St. Andrew's Church, of which he has
been treasurer for many years, a director of the First National
Bank «>f Ann Arbor, of the Ann Arbor Cattle Company and the
Dana Cattle Company. He is also president of the Patterson
Library at Westfield, N. Y.
lie married in Adrian. Midi., July 2, 1890, Merib Susan Row-
ley (University of Michigan '«>(», daughter of Josiah Cass Row-
ley, formerly engaged in mercantile business in Adrian, now
deceased. They have three children: Gertrude, born May ^o.
l8gi, ha- attended I'.aldwin Sclmnl. I'.ryn Mawr. Pa., and the
Master's Sclmnl. Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. ; George Washing-
ton, 4th, born January 19, 1893 (Yale '141; Robert Rowley, bom
July 31, iS.,;. preparing for Yale, at Mill School.
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f
Frank D. Pavey
Lawyer
Pavey & Moore, 32 Nassau Street, New York City
Residence, 829 Park Avenue, New York City
Frank Dunlap Pavey was born in Washington Court House,
Ohio, November 10, 1860, son of Madison Pavey and Mary
Lucretia (Dunlap) Pavey, who were married April 17, 1855, and
had five other children: Charles C. (Wooster '82, Yale Law
School LL.B. '84), George M. (Yale '88, Yale Law School LL.B.
'90), Mary S. (Wellesley '93), Fannie and Mattie, both of whom
died in infancy.
Madison Pavey (born Fayette County, Ohio, June 25, 1831,
died Dallas, Texas, November 3, 1906) was a lawyer in Wash-
ington C. H., Ohio, a member of the State Senate of Ohio, and
prosecuting attorney of Fayette County, Ohio. He was
descended from Samuel Pavey, born in New Hampshire, 1710,
who removed to Caroline County, Md., and thence to Harrison
County, Ky., where he died at the age of ninety-three years.
278 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Daniel, father of Madison, with his wife and first baby and all his
worldly goods on one horse, emigrated to Highland County, Ohio,
whither his father, Jesse, had already removed. He and his
father were successful farmers.
Mary Lucretia (Dunlap) Pavey (born in York County, Pa.,
October 26, 1831) is the daughter of John Dunlap and Susan
(Brooks) Dunlap. Her ancestors were well-to-do farmers of
York County. One of them, Samuel Wallace, served as captain
in the Cumberland County militia in the Revolution. His father,
John Wallace, was a Scotch covenanter, and fled to Ireland, where
he lived and died.
Pavey prepared at Wooster, Ohio, and attended Wooster Col-
lege before joining our class at the beginning of junior year. He
easily adapted himself to the life and class-rooms of Yale, bein£
elected to Delta Kappa Epsilon by his own class, dividing with
Holliday the Scott prize in French junior year, and taking Philo-
sophical Oration appointment at graduation.
After graduation he studied two years at the Yale Law School
(LL.B. '86) and after two years of travel and business in the
West and South, came back and took a year of graduate work in
the Yale Law School (M.L. '89). After a short time in the
employ of the Title Guarantee & Trust Co., New York City, he
began practice in New York. In 1894, he was elected to the New
York Assembly as an Independent Republican, in antagonism to
the Republican machine on various political questions, and for
the three following years was member of the State Senate.
In both houses he was identified with political legislation
and legislation on public education and public charities. Dur-
ing these years he was much associated with Nestor Ponce
de Leon, a Cuban lawyer, who had escaped from the Spanish
military authorities when under sentence of death and had estab-
lished himself in New York. Through him Pavey made acquaint-
ance with a large number of Cuban refugees and merchants. At
the close of the Spanish-American War, he was retained by the
leading business interests of Spain to act as legal advisor of their
representatives in Paris during the negotiations of the treaty of
peace between Spain and the United States, in order that the
commercial, industrial and financial interests of the Spaniards in
Porto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines might be fully protected.
BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES 279
Later he represented Knglish and Spanish companies, having
business in those countries, in various negotiations at \\ 'asliin-t« MI.
particularly in the matter of governmental contracts or conces-
sions. In 1901, he was the representative in the United States
of the commercial organizations of Cuba in their campaign for the
reduction of the American tariff on Cuban products; in 1903, he
was counsel for the Panama Legation over the canal treaty ; in
1906, counselor of Legation of Ecuador at Washington; and in
1909, one of those who organized the American Embassy Associa-
tion, of which he became secretary and treasurer. The associa-
tion aims to promote the provision of proper residences and offices
for our representatives at foreign capitals.
He has published articles on "State Control of Political Parties"
(Forum, March, 1898) and the "Open Door Policy in the
Philippine Islands" (North American Review, November, 1899).
"Sale of American Securities in France" (North American
Review, December, 1909). "The Sherman Anti-Trust Law"-
Address at National Business Congress, Chicago, December 12,
1911.
He is a member of the Union League, Delta Kappa Epsilon and
New York Yacht clubs.
He married in Boston, Mass., December 17, 1910, Jeanne M.
Roulet, daughter of James Felix Roulet of Neuchatel, Switzer-
land.
Vincent C. Peck
Head Master of the University School, Bridgeport, Conn.
Residence, 836 Fairfield Avenue, Bridgeport
Vincent Charles Peck was born in Trumbull, Conn., February
n, 1863, the son of Charles Wesley Peck and Mary Jane (Shel-
ton) Peck, who were married October 7, 1857, and had one other
child.
Mary Jane Peck, after the death of Vincent's father, married,
November 21, 1866, William Edgar Beers.
Charles Wesley Peck (born Stratford, Conn., December 16.
1829, died Trumbull, Conn., June 28, 1864) was a member of
the firm Nichols, Peck & Co., carriage manufacturers, of Trum-
bull, a prominent leader in town and church affairs and a speaker
and writer on political and religious subjects. He was the son
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of Lewis Peck and Hannah (Wheeler) Peck, and grandson of
Job Peck and Martha (Wells) Peck. Through the last-named,
and also through his mother, Vincent traces his lines back to
Gov. Thomas \Velles. Joseph Peck, the earliest of the Peck line
in this country, removed to Milford from New Haven in 1649.
Mary Jane (Shelton) Peck was daughter of Judson Curtiss
Shelton and Hannah (Lewis) Shelton, and descended from Dan-
iel Slielton, who came to this country from Deptford, York-
shire, settled in Huntingdon, Conn, (then included in Stratford)
and married in 1692 Elizabeth, daughter of Governor Samuel
Welles of Wethersfield. Through her mother she was descended
from Philo Lewis, a soldier of the Revolution, and Benjamin
Lewi-, an early resident of New Haven, also from Francis Nich-
ols, one of the tir-t -eventeen settler- and founders of Stratford.
Peck prepared in the district school of his ancestral town.
Xichols, Conn., and the high M hool of Derby. In college he
was a member of (lamina Nu and took Oration appointments
both junior and senior years.
BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES 281
After graduation he taught for a time in West Philadelphia,
and afterwards in the Hamilton School in Philadelphia. In 1892
he removed to Bridgeport, where he has since taught, having
been for several years owner and head master of The University
School, which he himself founded. He has found it necessary
to teach in many different subjects, but inclines more toward
mathematics, though Latin is a "close second." He has given
especial attention to evening classes for the benefit of young men
in factories, stores, and offices. He is a member of the First
Congregational Church in Bridgeport, and a Republican (Inde-
pendent) in politics.
He married in Nichols, Conn., June 26, 1888, Estella Nichols
Plumb (died Philadelphia, Pa., February 13, 1891) of Trumbull,
Conn., daughter of Elliott Beach Plumb, of the firm of Plumb
& Winton, wholesale provision dealers in Bridgeport, Conn.
They had one child: Ruth Estelle (born Philadelphia, Pa., Jan-
uary 31, 1891, died Bridgeport, Conn., October 6, 1891).
Benjamin H. Pendleton
Merchant
Horn & Co., 40 Drumm Street, San Francisco, Cal.
Residence, 1308 Webster Street, Oakland, Cal.
Benjamin Horn Pendleton was born in Shanghai, China, Octo-
ber 20, 1862, the son of James O. Pendleton and Mary Louise
(Horn) Pendleton, who were married September n, 1859, and
had one other child: Helen W.
James O. Pendleton (born Wabasha, Minn., August 9, 1828,
died Shanghai, China, July 2, 1870) was a master mariner of
Stonington. He was of American colonial descent, his ancestor
Captain James Pendleton having settled in Stonington about
1680, previous to which he had fought in the Narragansett
wars.
Mary Louise (Horn) Pendleton (born Stonington, Conn.,
April 19, 1834) was the daughter of Jonas Joshua Horn.
Pendleton prepared at the Free Academy in Norwich, Conn.,
and in college was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon.
After graduation he entered the firm of Horn & Co., whole-
sale dealers and importers of tobacco, and has continued in
282 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
the management of that firm. He lives in Oakland and has been
a member of the Oakland City Council since 1903 and its presi-
dent since 1908.
He is a member of the University Club of San Francisco and
the Nile Club of Oakland.
He is unmarried.
James H. Penniman
Literary Work
Residence, 4326 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
James Hosmer Penniman was born in Alexandria, Va., Novem-
ber 8, 1860, son of James Lanman Penniman and Maria Davis
(Hosmer) Penniman, who were married August 17, 1859, and
had one other child: Josiah Harmar (Univ. of Pennsylvania '90,
Ph.D. Univ. of Pennsylvania, LL.D. Univ. of Alabama and Univ.
of Maryland).
James Lanman Penniman (born Cincinnati, Ohio, July 9, 1832,
died Philadelphia, Pa., August 2, 1890), a graduate of Yale '53,
mOGRAPIllES— GRADUATES
283
M.A. '56, was a lawyer in Philadelphia. He was the son of Obediah
Penniman, chemist of Cincinnati ; grandson of Hon. James Lanman
(Yale 1788) of Norwich, Conn., United States Senator, Judge of
Supreme Court of Errors of Connecticut, and member of the
convention which framed the Connecticut constitution of 1818;
and great-grandson of Hon. Charles Church Chandler, Wood-
stock, Conn., a graduate of Yale, member of the First Congress
of the United States, and lineal descendant of James Pennyman,
who came to Boston in the ship Lion, 1631, and married Lydia
Eliot, sister of John Eliot, the apostle to the Indians.
Maria Davis (Hosmer) Penniman (born Concord, Mass., Feb-
ruary i, 1831, now deceased) was descended from the Hosmer
family, which was one of about twelve families that settled in
Concord in 1635 and have lived there ever since. Her father,
Abel Hosmer, was born and died in the same house, the third
house the family built on that farm. A number of her direct
ancestors, Hosmers, Davises and Prescotts, served in the
Revolution, and some were killed in the Concord fight.
284 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Penniman in early youth lived in Washington, D. C, and later
in Norwich, Conn., finishing his preparation at the Norwich
Academy. In college he was a member of Delta Kappa.
After graduation he taught, at first in Maryland, then, as head
of the Lower School, in the DeLancey School in Philadelphia,
until 1913. He is now devoting himself to literary work.
He is well-known as the author of many text-books in
English, his specialty among which are: "Common Words
Difficult to Spell" (1891), "Prose Dictation Exercises
from the English Classics" (1893), "The School Poetry Book,"
"Penniman's New Practical Speller" (all published by D. C.
Heath & Co., Boston), and the following published by C. W. Bar-
deen, Syracuse, N. Y. : "Practical Suggestions on School Govern-
ment," "Success," "Books, and How to Make the Most of Them"
(1911) ; also "Criminal Crowding of the Schools" (The Forum,
May, 1895, and January, 1896), and other articles in The Forum,
Journal of Education, etc. He is now at work on a Life of
Washington.
He is an active member of several geographical societies, of the
Yale Club, New York City, and the Societe de Sport de ITsle
de Puteaux, Paris, and has made twenty trips to Europe, visiting
Russia twice, the North Cape, Constantinople, and other remote
places.
He is unmarried.
*Charles P. Phelps
Died January 13, 1912
( harles Pierpont Phelps was born in Burlington, Yt., October
7, 1861, son of Edward John Phelps and Mary (Haight) Phelps,
who were married August 12, 1847, and had three other chil-
dren : Edward Haight (Yale '70), died Detroit, Mich.. March
22, iSX4, Frank Shurtleff (died Burlington, Yt., July 27, iSf>3),
and Mary Haight ( Phelps) Loom is.
Edward John Phelps (born Middlebury, Vt, July u, 1822,
died New Haven, Conn., March 9, 1900), a graduate of Middle-
bury College, with the honorary degree of LL.D. from Harvard,
was a lawyer in Burlington, Vt. He was comptroller of the
t'nited States Treasury, president of the American Bar Associa-
BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES 285
tion, minister to England 1885-9, senior counsel for the United
States in the Behring Sea arbitration at Paris, and Kent Pro-
fessor of Law at Yale from 1881 until his death.
Mary (Haight) Phelps was born in Monkton, Vt, July 26,
1827, and died in Uurlington, Vt., March 6, 1909.
Phelps prepared at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H. In
college he was a member of Delta Kappa, Eta Phi, Delta Kappa
Epsilon and Wolf's Head, of the class glee club and of the senior
promenade committee.
After graduation he traveled abroad, was for a time in the
offices of the Michigan Central Railroad Company at Detroit,
and in November, 1885, was made second secretary of the United
States Legation at London, under his father. In 1889 he
returned to this country, was for a short time in business in St.
Paul, and later went into the brokerage business, at first in Bos-
ton and later in New York, where he remained until his death.
He was successively with Lamprecht Bros. & Co., of Boston ;
manager of the Boston office of Harvey Fisk & Sons ; a mem-
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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
ber of the firm of Cushman, Fisher & Phelps, Boston, and of its
successor, C. P. Phelps & Co. ; with the American Consolidated
Pine Fibre Company, New York, of which he was president ;
with Kean, Van Cortlandt & Co., New York, for several years ;
with Kountze Brothers, New York ; and at the time of his
death with Hirsch, Lilienthal & Co., New York.
He married (i) January 25, 1893, Lillian, daughter of the
Rev. Gemont Graves of Burlington, Vt, from whom he was
divorced in 1906; and (2) in Philadelphia, Pa., January n,
1908, Minnie Woodbury Braithwaite, of Barbados, West Indies,
daughter of George Moe Braithwaite, now deceased. They had
one daughter, Mary Haight, born January, 1911.
His death was the sudden termination of a short illness, of
pneumonia, which was not thought to be serious. On Sunday,
January 14, the day after his death, services were held at his
home, 472 West End Avenue, New York City, and on the i6th
he was buried in Green Mount Cemetery at Burlington, Vt.,
from the old Phelps homestead. Bristow of our class was one
of the bearers at the funeral in Burlington.
Clarence N. Platt
Physician
152 Franklin Street, Astoria, X. Y.
Residence, 152 Franklin Street, Astoria
Clarence Nathaniel Platt was born in New Haven, Conn.,
October 29, 1865, son of Charles Nathaniel Platt and Elizabeth
Abigail (Prindle) Platt, who were married May 2, 1859, and had
three other children: Charles W., Edith and Minnie, all of
whom are living.
Charles Nathaniel Platt (born Milford, Conn., February 23,
1820, died New Haven, Conn., 1905) resided at 17 Lyon Street,
New Haven, and was descended from Richard Platt, one of the
early settlers of New Haven who with sixty others formed a
church settlement at Milford in 1639.
Elizabeth Abigail (Prindle) Platt was born in West Haven.
Conn., May 25, 1831 and died September, 1912.
Platt prepared in the public schools and Gile's School in New
Haven.
1UOGR AIM I IKS— GRADUATES
287
After graduation he studied music, in 1886 entered the New
York Homoeopathic Medical School, from which he graduated
in 1888, and began practice in 1889. He is practicing as a
physician in Astoria, and has since 1898 been physician to the
Queens County Jail. He is a member of the Masonic and other
fraternal organizations, a member and vestryman of St. George's
Church, and served three years in the ranks of the Seventh
Regiment of New York. While a busy practitioner, he has yet
kept up his interest in music and writes that he has directed boy
choirs, male choirs, glee clubs, opera and oratorio.
He married (i) in Bridgeport, Conn., February 15, 1887,
Katherine Meeker (died May 27, 1897) of Bridgeport; (2) on
February 4, 1901, Edith May Tisdale. They have three children:
Xatalie Seymour, born August 2, 1905 ; Clarence Halsey, born
.August i, 1908, and Elizabeth Tisdale, born July 26, 1909.
288 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
*Edwin L. Porter
Died July 5, 1908
Edwin Lewis Porter was born January 25, 1862, in New Cum-
berland, W. Va., son of tbe Hon. George McCandless Porter and
Sarah (Lewis) Porter.
Porter prepared at the Hopkins Grammar School and in col-
lege was a member of Gamma Nu and Psi Upsilon, and distin-
guished for hammer throwing in the athletic contests. Having
entered college during the administration of President Noah
Porter, he inherited from this illustrious predecessor the title
"Prex," by which he was soon better known than by his own
abbreviated "Ed."
After graduation he studied law in the office of Miller £•
McBride in Pittsburgh, Pa., in April, 1887, was admitted to the
I Vnn-vlvania bar, and practiced successfully in that city for ten
years. In 1897 he was made secretary of the Mercantile Trust
Company, and from 1899 until his resignation in November, 1903,
was vice president and a director in the company.
BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES 289
In 1903, th£ financial crisis, which was especially severe in
Pittsburgh, swept away his comfortable fortune, and overwork
and worry broke down his health. Accompanied by his wife he
went to Southern California early in January, 1904, in search of
rest and recuperation. He returned to Pittsburgh the following
summer greatly improved in health, and immediately attacked the
problem of repairing his shattered fortunes. After a close study
of the situation, he associated himself with the Pittsburgh agency
of the Equitable Life Assurance Society. From the start his suc-
cess was remarkable, and in the four years before his death he
had become one of the leading life insurance men of the United
States. During the latter half of this time it was rare when
Porter's name was not at or near the top of the periodical lists
sent out by the Equitable Company showing the rank of its agents
in the amount of business done. Throughout his life he was a
most enthusiastic Yale man, attending regularly the class reunions
in New Haven, being present at the meetings of the Western Fed-
eration of Yale Clubs in Chicago and Cleveland, and as far as
possible a regular contributor to the University Alumni Fund. He
was a member of the Shadyside Presbyterian Church, had an
active interest in the Young Men's Christian Association and
numerous other philanthropic works, and was president of the
Hancock County Society.
He died of pneumonia, following pleurisy, at his home in
Pittsburgh, July 5, 1908.
Shortly after his graduation, on September 30, 1884, he mar-
ried Fanny L. Morgan, daughter of Jeremiah Morgan, of Pitts-
burgh, and his eldest son, Morgan, born October 21, 1885, was
a good second for the class cup. Morgan has since graduated
from Yale in the class of 1909, and is now doing statistical work
for The Goodyear Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio. Two other
children were born later: Emily Scott and George McCandless,
born 1892, who graduated in 1911 from the Carnegie Technical
Schools, Pittsburgh, and has just finished his apprenticeship
course at Westinghouse.
290 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Edward W. Potter
Clergyman
Residence, 723 Elm Street, New Haven, Conn.
Kdward Wright Potter was born in East Hartford, Conn.,
September 17, 1858, son of Giles Potter (Yale A.M. 1855) and
Martha Hubbard ( Wright) Potter, who were married December
2, 1857, and had three other children: Mary Redfield, Martha
Julia and Williams Adams.
< iiles Potter (born Lisbon, Conn., February 22, 1829) was at
one time principal of East Hartford Academy, assistant principal
Connecticut Literary Institution, principal of Hill's Academy,
Essex, Conn., and was agent of Connecticut State Board of Edu-
rution for thirty-eight years, beginning in 1873. He has been
ekrtman and acting school visitor and representative for
the town of Essex, and is now a resident of New Haven. He
^ the son of Elisha Payne Potter and Abigail (Lathrop) Potter.
BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES 291
One of his ancestors was Major Fitch, who in 1703 deeded to
Yale 637 acres of land, and in a Idler still preserved by the
college purposed to furnish the glass and nails for a college house.
The Potter line goes back to Anthony and Elizabeth (Whipple)
Potter, who located in Ipswich prior to 1648, and gave to the
Ipswich Church a silver communion cup which is still in posses-
sion of that church.
Martha Hubbard (Wright) Potter (born Cummington, Mass.,
April, 1829) is the daughter of Rev. David Wright, a Baptist
minister, who was pastor of churches in New York, Massachu-
setts and Connecticut, and at one time missionary to the Indians
on Martha's Vineyard. Her mother was a daughter of Rev.
Thomas Goddard, a merchant in Newport, R. L, who afterwards
became a Baptist minister and was pastor at Griswold, which is
now Jewett City, Conn.
Potter's early youth was spent in Essex, Conn., where he
attended Hill's Academy. He later attended the Connecticut Lit-
erary Institution at Suffield, from which he graduated with vale-
dictory honors and taking first essay prize. In college he was
a member of Gamma Nu and a Commencement speaker.
After graduation he studied at the Rochester Theological Sem-
inary, graduating in 1887, but at that time the Seminary did not
give degrees to its graduates. He was ordained pastor of the
Rockville, Conn., Baptist Church in 1887, and was, after resigning
that pastorate in 1894, successively pastor of Baptist churches in
Windsor, Vt. (1895-1897), Bradford, N. H. (1897-1904), Jewett
City, Conn. (1904 to 1913). In Jewett City on one Sunday he
baptized thirty-four converts and the two following Sundays
twenty-nine, and on another Sunday took seventy-five new mem-
bers into the church. By request of the editor of the Watchman,
he published in that paper an account of this remarkable revival.
While in Bradford he founded and edited a local church paper,
the Visitor. His sermon before the New Hampshire Conference
of Baptist Ministers in 1900 was also published. He is now
field speaker and associate secretary for the Connecticut Tem-
perance Union and lives in New Haven.
He is a Republican, was school visitor of the town of Vernon,
Conn., 1891-1894, and a member of the Rockville Council,
Royal Arcanum.
292 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
He married at Suffield, Conn., October 20, 1887, Clara Maria
Fuller (Connecticut Literary Institution), daughter of Luther
Hathaway Fuller of Suffield, Conn. They have two children:
Clara May, born Rockville, Conn., May 2, 1889; Edward Keeney,
born Rockville, Mav, 1891.
Albert H. Pratt
Cattle-raising and Agriculture
Springervillc, Ariz.
Summer residence, Rochester, Mass.
Albert Henry Pratt was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., September
3, 1861, son of Calvin Edward Pratt and Susan Taber (Ruggles)
Pratt, who were married in 1860, and had eight other children.
Calvin Kdwanl I'ratt (born Princeton, Mass., January 23, 1828,
died KodiokT, Mass., August 4, 1896) was of English and
Scotch descent. His grand father on his father's side was Cap-
tain Joseph Pratt of Shrewsbury, Mass., and on his mother's \\a-
Deacon Sannul St rat ton of Princeton, Mass., a soldier in the
BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES
293
War of 1812. He practiced law in Worcester, Mass., and New
York City, and was a judge of the Supreme Court of New York
from 1870 until his death. When the Civil War broke out, Mr.
Pratt raised the 3ist New York Volunteers, went to the front
as colonel, in 1862 was made brigadier general of volunteers,
and was engaged in the battles of Hull Run, West Point, Games'
Mills, South Mountain, Antietam and Frcdericksburg.
Susan Taber (Ruggles) Pratt (born Rochester, Mass., Decem-
ber 15, 1836) is of Scotch descent. Her ancestors settled in
Rochester over two hundred years ago.
Pratt attended boarding school at Lanesboro, Mass., and
entered college with '83, but appears in the catalogue as a mem-
ber of our class sophomore year. He was a member of Delta
Kappa (with '83), He Boule, Delta Kappa Epsilon and Wolf's
Head.
Since graduation he has been engaged in cattle-raising and
agriculture in Apache County, Ariz., and in 1910 purchased a
ranch on which he is raising thoroughbred cattle. He is a
Democrat and was justice of the peace, has been a candidate for
sheriff and for the legislature but was defeated, and is a member
of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion.
He is unmarried.
294 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
*Henry W. Prouty
Died January 23, 1911
Henry Woodruff Prouty was born in Concord, Ohio, Decem-
ber 23, 1858, the eldest son of Edward Varney Prouty and Betsy
Ann (Woodruff) Prouty, who were married September 21, 1857.
A second son, Willis E., born in 1863, is still living in Concord.
Edward Prouty (1827-1887) was a farmer of considerable
prominence in the Western Reserve, where he held local public
offices for many years. He was descended from Richard Prouty
of Scituate. Mass., who received recognition in the public records
during King Philip's \Var as a "Valient Soitldier of Scittuat"
and was voted land and a money allowance.
Prouty attended the local schools until 1878, when he entered
tlu- preparatory department of < >berlin College and two years
later the freshman class. The following year he entered Yale
as a sophomore and quickly won recognition as a writer, being
elected editor of the )'<//(• Litcniry Ma-a-inc in junior year. He
was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, and took a prize for Eng-
lish composition in sophomore year.
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He graduated from the Albany Law School in 1885, and set-
tled in Chicago, where he was admitted to the bar in 1887 and
began to practice. In 1890 he went to Seattle, where he formed
the firm of Hawley & Prouty, but after two years the firm moved
to Chicago. The firm was dissolved in September, 1899, and
Prouty practiced alone until the last two months of his life, when
he joined Aaron C. Harford as the firm of Prouty & Harford
(formed November, 1910).
His work was confined to corporation, real estate and probate
law and he handled many important affairs. He spent a great
deal of time on a case involving matters in Honolulu, which was
decided in his client's favor by the Supreme Court of the United
States shortly before his death, under the title of Bierce, Ltd. vs.
Waterhouse. The case had been won in the trial court, and
reversed in the Territorial Court, but in order to appeal to the
Supreme Court, a special law had to be enacted by Congress
granting such right of appeal. Prouty's client then appealed and
was successful. Prouty, although in poor health, spent six weeks
on this case in Washington and upon his return went to the hos-
pital, where he died. During this work he made two trips to the
Hawaiian Islands.
In the midst of his successful law practice, about 1906, he dis-
covered that he had carcinoma of the tongue, and from that time
began a steady and nerve-racking struggle. He went to New
York for treatment every few months, held what practice he
could, and expended his savings on care of himself, but still
devoting himself to his professional duties to the last day of his
life. Even his most intimate friends never heard him complain.
In April, 1910, he went to Heidelberg, where a serious operation
was performed by Professor Czerny. It was apparently success-
ful and he returned to Chicago and organized the firm of Prouty
& Harford, already mentioned, but later the old trouble reap-
peared on the other side, and he died quite suddenly at the
Henrotin Memorial Hospital in Chicago, January 23, 1911.
The following is quoted from a memorial written for the
Chicago bar by our classmate, Henry Wolf :
Always fond of books and reading and naturally a student, Mr. Prouty
early in his life acquired the habits of a scholar, and all through his
professional career his work was characterized by careful investigation
of facts, thorough research of the law, deep study of principles and clear
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logical treatment. To him the law was not a trade or money-making
business, but an applied science, a noble profession. Success was not
measured by the dollar sign, but by conscientious observance of the
lawyer's oath, and so he always endeavored to be true to the highest aims
and the finest ideals of his profession regardless of the cries from the
market place.
Mr. Prouty never married. For many years he made his home in one
of the most prominent clubs in the city, and there, surrounded by his
books and papers, he lived the quiet, dignified and reserved life of a
scholarly lawyer.
James B. Reynolds
Lawyer
Residence, 105 West 40th Street
Residence, 151 Central Park \\cst, New York City
James Bronson Reynolds was born in Kiantone, X. Y.. March
17. iS6i, the son of William Thomas Reynolds and Sarah Maria
(Painter) Reynolds, who were married October. iS4S, and had
OIK- other child: Annie Maria ( U'ellc^ley '81).
BIOGRAPHIES — GRADUATES 297
William Thomas Reynolds (born West Haven, Conn., Novem-
ber 1 8, 1825, died North Haven, Conn., February 25, 1899) Yale
'45, Andover B.D. '48, was a clergyman, and for the last thirty
years of his life lived in North Haven, Conn. He was the son
of James Reynolds of West Haven. The family came about a
century and a half ago from Chester, England.
Sarah Maria (Painter) Reynolds (born Westfield, Mass.,
October 15, 1826, died North Haven, Conn., August 20, 1898)
was the daughter of Henry M. Painter, of West Haven, Conn.
The family came to this country in the i8th century.
Reynolds prepared at the Hopkins Grammar School, and spent
one year at the Hartford High School after passing his entrance
examinations. In college he was a member of Delta Kappa, Eta
Phi and Psi Upsilon, played on the class football team freshman
year, took part as a runner in track games, was elected a class
deacon, was secretary and afterwards president of the Yale
Y. M. C. A., and was active in religious work, serving as super-
intendent of the Bethany Mission.
After graduation he traveled abroad for a year, then studied
at the Yale Divinity School (B.D. '88). In February, 1889, he
went abroad as the European representative of the American
Student Young Men's Christian Association, remaining until
July, 1892, during which time he visited nearly all the principal
universities of Europe, and came in contact with many of the
leaders in religious activity and social reform in the countries
visited. In 1893 he was for three months in Chicago, serving
as president of three congresses connected with the Chicago
Exposition. At that time he was offered the position of secre-
tary of the University of Chicago and lecturer on education, and
was also invited to become headworker of the University Settle-
ment in New York City. He chose to engage in social and
political reform rather than in university work, and accepted the
invitation of the Council of the University Settlement. In 1894,
after beginning his work at the University Settlement, he was
a member of a committee of seventy, formed to secure the defeat
of Tammany Hall and the election of a non-partisan mayor. Its
work was successful, and after the election he acted as secretary
of several committees appointed to carry out the reforms planned
by the committee of seventy. In 1895 he was appointed a mem-
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ber of the tenth ward board of trustees of public schools and
helped to secure legislation abolishing" the trustee system and the
substitution therefore of a single Board of Education for the
entire city. In 1897 the Citizens Union was formed as an inde-
pendent municipal organization in preparation for the election
of the first mayor of the consolidated Greater New York. He
was chairman of the sub-committee on plan of organization and
subsequently chairman of its executive committee during the
campaign of 1897. Though unsuccessful, the Citizens Union
polled 150,000 votes, 50,000 more than the number cast for the
regular Republican ticket. In 1898 Reynolds began the study
of law, taking a two-years' course at the New York Law School,
but not taking a degree. In 1900 he served as member of the
New York Tenement House Commission appointed by Governor
Roosevelt. In 1901 he was chairman of the New York County
Committee of the Citizens Union, and after the election became
secretary to the mayor, Mr. Seth Low.
At the end of his term in 1904, Reynolds went abroad for
two years, being specially commissioned by President Roose-
velt to inquire into the consular service in the Far East. Shortly
after his return from abroad, he was appointed by President
Roosevelt special commissioner regarding the affairs of the Dis-
trict of Columbia and spent two winters and part of the third in
Washington in connection with that work; at the same time by
the President's appointment, he joined with Commissioner Neill
of the Bureau of Labor in an investigation of the stock yards of
Chicago; was a delegate to the Republican National Convention
from the Sixteenth Congressional District of New York ; and
chairman of a special commission appointed by the President
to investigate labor conditions in the Panama Canal work and
make recommendations. He made other special investigations
regarding the immigration service, serving as a member of the
New York State Immigration Commission. At the end of
I 'resident Roosevelt's term, he took up the practice of law and
entered actively into the tight for social and political reform in
New York City. In January, 1910, he was appointed assistant
district attorney of the County of New York and was immediately
aligned as counsel to the additional grand jury summoned to
investigate the white slave traffic. He is now counsel for the
. \nu-riran Social Hygiene Association.
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Reynolds is a member of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian
Church, of the Century and other clubs, and a vice president of
the Social Reform Club.
He married in London, England, July 16, 1898, Florence
Blanchard Dike (special student Smith '83), daughter of Henry
Albyn Dike, a wholesale wool merchant of New York City.
Clinton Ross
Literary Work
Binghamton, N. Y.
Clinton Ross was born in Binghamton, N. Y., July 31, 1861,
son of Erastus Ross and Cornelia Frances (Corbett) Ross, who
were married in 1851 and had three other children: Frederic E.
(Cornell), Harry C. (Andover), died December n, 1903; Cor-
nelia Corbett, wife of Edwin Trowbridge Hall (Yale '86).
Erastus Ross (born Brookdale, Susquehanna County, Pa., June
21, 1824, died Binghamton, July 4, 1907) was a prominent busi-
ness man of Binghamton, and during his life presented to Bing-
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hamton the Ross Park, built the Ross Memorial Church as a
memorial to his mother, was trustee of the Binghamton State
Hospital, and was active in the organization and development of
the Merchants Bank and the Binghamton railroad system. The
Ross family came originally from Rossshire, Scotland, settling
first in New Hampshire, afterwards in northern Pennsylvania
and southern New York. The family of Elizabeth Drake, who
was the mother of Erastus Ross, came from Cornwall and Devon-
shire, England.
Cornelia Frances (Corbett) Ross (born Corbettsville, N. Y.,
October 28, 1828, died October, 1910) was a daughter of Cooper
Corbett and granddaughter of Robert Corbett of Philadelphia,
whose family came from Shropshire. Her mother was Cornelia
Bayless, born in Princeton, N. J., of French Huguenot stock.
Ross prepared at Phillips Academy, Andover, and the Bing-
hamton High School, and while at Andover was editor of the
Philo Mirror and the Philip plan. In college he was a member
of Delta Kappa and Delta Kappa Epsilon, was editor of the
Record and was known as a facile and brilliant writer.
After graduation he spent some time in Binghamton in the
care of his own and his family's business interests, some time in
travel, and all of his time in literary work. He afterwards
removed to New York, where he continued his literary work, a
part of the time connected with the Evening Sun, until 1899.
About that time he was injured by a street sign falling upon him
and striking his head. This unfortunate accident broke down
his health, and he has since 1900 lived at home in Binghamton,
and writes that he is physically well and strong. Up to the time
of his accident he was a prolific writer of shorter works of fiction
and short stories in various magazines. Among his published
books are the following: "The Silent Workman," "Gallery of a
Random Collector," "Adventures of Three Worthies," "The
Speculator," "Improbable Tales," "Two Soldiers and a Politi-
cian," "The Countess Bettina," "The Puppet," "The Scarlet
Coat," "The Meddling Hussy," "Bobbie McDuff," "A Trooper of
the Empress," "Zaleka," "Heroes of our War with Spain,"
"Chalmette," "Blackfriars Battle Tales."
The Class Secretary has had many cordial letters from Ross
which show his continued regard for \\\^ da»inuU's, and >how at
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the same time his keen interest in the modern literary and dra-
matic work of the university students.
His present address is Glenmary, Owego, N. Y.
He is unmarried.
Henry J. Ryder
Manuacturer
Corner Prince and Lemon Streets, Lancaster, Pa.
Residence, 620 North Duke Street, Lancaster, Pa.
Henry Jacob Ryder was born in New Haven, Conn., October
i, 1861, son of Adam Ryder and Henrietta (Heymann) Ryder.
Adam Ryder (born Munich, Germany, July 8, 1816, died Octo-
ber 14, 1884) was of German antecedents. He resided in New
Haven.
Henrietta (Heymann) Ryder (born in Germany, March 15,
1832, died Lancaster, Pa.) was of German descent.
Ryder prepared at the New Haven High School, and in college
was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon.
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After graduation he studied at the Yale Law School, graduat-
ing in 1886. He engaged in business for a short time in Altoona,
Pa., returned to New Haven and practiced law for a time, then
became associated with S. R. Moss, cigar manufacturer in
Altoona. Since January, 1889, he has been in the cigar manu-
facturing business in Lancaster, Pa., with S. R. Moss until 1894;
from that year until 1900 as a member and general manager of
Moloney & Co., and from 1900 with the firm of S. R. Moss again.
This firm was incorporated in 1905 as the S. R. Moss Cigar
Company of which Ryder is a stockholder and of which he has
been secretary since its inception. In politics he is Democratic,
with independent proclivities.
He married in Lancaster, Pa., September 6, 1892, Estelle G.
Hirsh, a daughter of Abram Hirsh, a merchant of Lancaster, now
deceased. They have two children : Fannie Hirsh, born Lan-
caster, Pa., June 21, 1894; Adrian Hirsh, born Lancaster, June
10, 1896.
*Harry G. Samson
Died January 28, 1890
Harry Gilbert Samson was born in Zanesville, Ohio, August
2, 1862, the second child of Almon and Anna Louise (Greenley)
Samson of Richmond, Ind.
He prepared at the Richmond High School and at Earlham
College and in college was a member of Delta Kappa and Delta
Kappa Epsilon.
After graduating he studied law in the office of Hon. John \Y.
Heron of Cincinnati, was admitted to the bar in the fall of 1886,
and immediately after removed to Minneapolis where he prac-
ticed until his death, which occurred January 28, 1890, after a
three weeks' illness of pneumonia. One of our class who knew
him well wrote the following for our Sexennial record:
During our course at Yale and after we were graduated, it has been
our misfortune and sorrow to part with several of our classmates, who
not only as students, but also as men, held a very warm place in our
hearts, and were respected and esteemed by all those with whom they
came in contact. And now, just before our Sexennial, came news of
the death of another beloved one, sadder than usual in the suddenness
of the attack, that not only deprived us of one of our most valued class-
mates, but that also suddenly checked the career of one who, in his
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profession and life-work, had made such an auspicious beginning. Harry
Samson was, in truth, a man whose loss we can poorly sustain. Though
modest and retiring, his hearty, cheerful disposition, his wisdom and
courteousness, made his more intimate friends admire and love him.
A friend to all in need, a most hearty supporter of the weak, his kind
acts will long be remembered and cherished by many who were bene-
fited by him. His life, after graduation, was marked by the same spirit
that characterized him as a student and companion. His untiring energy,
combined with his cordial, winning manner, made friends of all. Cer-
tainly no prospect of a brighter future could be entertained by any of
us, when suddenly he is removed from our midst. Surely with such
noble qualities, with such manliness and self-devotion to his fellow men,
Harry Samson will always hold a warm place in our memories and will
forever be dear to our hearts.
Edward I. Sanford
University Club, New York City
Munro & Cie, Paris — May to Nov., Brown, Shipley & Co., London
Edward Isaac Sanford was born in New Haven, Conn.,
December 12, 1862, the son of Edward Isaac Sanford and
Sarah Jane (Lyon) Sanford, who were married June, 1849,
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and had one other child: Fannie L., wife of Lewis Hotchkiss.
She died May, 1912.
Edward I. Sanford, Sr. (born New Haven, June 4, 1826, died
there July 13, 1893), was the son of Elihu and Susan (Howell)
Sanford, graduated from Yale in 1847 and from the Yale Law
School in 1849, practiced his profession in New Haven until
he was appointed a judge of the Superior Court of the State
in 1867 and held that office until his death. He was a member
of the State Senate 1864-1865.
Sanford prepared at the Hopkins Grammar School. In col-
lege he was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon, He Boule,
Psi Upsilon, and Scroll and Key, of the college choir, the class
glee club two years, and the university glee club two years,
and was on the Record board.
After graduation he spent a year abroad in travel and study
at Hanover and Gottingen, then in October, 1885, returned to
this country and entered the Yale Law School, from which he
graduated in 1887. After admission to the bar in New York
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City, he entered the office of Hornblower, Byrne & Taylor, with
whom he was associated until 1902, after which he practiced
alone for several years. He is not now in active business, and
has spent much of his time abroad, especially in Paris and
London.
He married in New York City, June 13, 1893, Amy Bradish.
daughter of George Bradish of New York. Mrs. Sanford dk-d
April 22, 1899.
William H. Sanford
Yale Club, New York City
Newtown, Conn.
William Henry Sanford was born in Newtown, Conn., Novem-
ber 10, 1861, the son of Aaron Sanford and Flora Jane (Beards-
ley) Sanford, who were married in 1848.
Aaron Sanford (born Redding, Conn., 1825. died Xewtown,
Conn., February 10, 1902) was sheriff of Fairfield County,
Conn., member of the Connecticut legislature, selectman of Xew-
town and president of the Xewtown Savings P>ank. He was the
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fourth Aaron Sanford in the line of descent, all of whom lived
in Redding. One of the Aarons was a captain in the Revolu-
tion. The family first settled in Stratford, Conn.
Flora Jane (Beardsley) Sanford (born Munro, Conn., 1822,
died January 14, 1908) was a descendant of the Beardsley and
Tousey families of Connecticut.
Sanford prepared at the Newtown Academy. In college he
was a member of Psi Upsilon.
After graduation he taught in Weston, Conn., then was with
the Caxton Advertising Agency, Cincinnati, Ohio, for a short
time. In 1887 and 1888 he taught in New York and in June,
1888, entered the employ of the Century Company in New York,
and remained until July, 1910, in the advertising department of
that company, which publishes the Century Magazine and St.
Nicholas. In 1910 he was compelled by ill health to give up
business for a time and for two years lived an out-door life at
Edgartown on the island of Martha's Vineyard. There he
regained his health and is now abroad.
*Ward W. Savery
Died June 19, 1896
Ward Webster Savery was born in Wareham, Mass., May 16,
1860, the eldest child of Rufus L. and Harriet W. (Hathaway)
Savery. Charles L. Savery of Marion, Mass., is a brother.
He prepared at Tabor Academy, Marion, and in college took
a Berkeley Premium for Latin composition in freshman year,
and Oration appointments in junior and senior years.
After graduation he taught in the Harry Hillman Academy
at Wilkes-Barre, but contracted an affection of the throat, which
forced him to remove to New Mexico in the fall of 1885. In
the Sexennial record he writes: "I taught a private school at
Socorro, N. Mex., for one year, and then, abandoning town life,
I struck out for the prairies of northeastern New Mexico. Here
I 'took up' 320 acres of land under the prescription and timber
culture laws, built a little house on my 'farm/ fenced in my
land, and went to 'patching it' in approved western style. Here
I spent three years learning the ways of the 'wild and woolly
cowboy* and the native New Mexican, otherwise known as
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'Greaser.' I divided my time between 'punching cows' on the
range and improving my claim. In the summer of 1888, the
D. T. & Ft. W. Railroad went through New Mexico, within two
miles of my place, and a little town sprang up near me. Soon
afterward I proved up on my claim, and my health being fully
reestablished, determined to leave New Mexico. In the fall
of 1889 I came to Chicago, where I secured the position of
superintendent of public schools and principal of the high school
at Sheldon, 111., where I now reside. I have recently sold my
ranch in New Mexico, and shall probably make my home in
Illinois." At the same time he also studied law in the Lake
Forest University, and in 1892 was admitted to the bar. "After
this his health again failed, and in 1893 he went with a sister,
who was also in feeble health, to Redlands, Cal., where she
soon died and he continued for two years to struggle on. In
June, 1895, he was obliged to give up and return to his parents
in Marion, where good care and home comforts prolonged his
life for another year. He died there on June 19, 1896, in his
3/th year." (From the Yale Obituary Record, 1897.)
308 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Benjamin Scharps
Lawyer
32 Broadway, New York City
Residence, 340 West 86th Street, New York City
Benjamin Scharps was born in Newburgh, N. Y., July 21,
1864, son of Simon A. Scharps and Rose (Kurtz) Scharps, who
were married October 12, 1863, and had one other child: David
(Yale '90).
Simon A. Scharps (born in Germany, May 24, 1836, died
Newburgh, N. Y., July 27, 1896), of German descent, was a mer-
chant and banker in Newburgh, N. Y., and held various offices
in church and societies.
Rose (Kurtz) Scharps (born New York City, October, 1844,
died New York, May 3, 1909) was of German parentage.
Scharps prepared at the academy in Newburgh. In college he
was a member of Delta Kappa, took the Scott prize in German
senior year, had Oration appointment junior year and High
Oration senior year.
After graduation he studu-d law in the- office of Fullerton &
Rushnmre in New York, was admitted t«> tin- bar in 1886, became
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managing' clerk of the same firm and was admitted to partnership
in 1890. Afterwards the partnership was changed to Fullerton
\- Scharps, and is now Scharps & Scharps.
He is unmarried.
James F. Scott
Physician
P. O. Address, McLean, Fairfax County, Va.
James Foster Scott was born in Futtehgurh, India, January
22, 1863, son of James Long Scott and Eliza Jane (Foster)
Scott, who were married August 16, 1853, and had three other
children: a daughter who died in infancy, Hetty Elizabeth (Mt.
Holyoke College '79), and Frank Foster (M.D. Univ. of
Penna. '77).
James Long Scott (born Coatesville, Pa., October 27, 1812,
died Dehra, India, January 2, 1880), a graduate of Washington
and Jefferson College B.A. '33, having also a degree from Prince-
ton Theological Seminary, was a missionary in India. His great-
grandfather, John Scott, was a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian, corn-
ing from the north of Ireland and settling in Chester County,
Pa., in 1720.
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Eliza Jane (Foster) Scott (born Milford, Pa., November 7,
1826, died "Woodstock," Landour, N. W. P., India, June 2,
1892) came of old New England stock, some of her ancestors
having also settled in Long Island long before the Revolution.
Scott first learned Hindustani, and remembers India slightly
and the voyage around Cape Horn. He attended Hastings
Academy in Philadelphia, in college was a member of Delta
Kappa Epsilon, and always active in rowing, being a member
of the class crew and in senior year of the varsity crew.
After graduation he spent five years in Europe. In 1888 he
received the degrees of M.B. and C.M. from Edinburgh, and in
1893 tne degree of M.D. from the same university. From Edin-
burgh he went to Vienna, where he took post-graduate courses
for six months. During his holidays and after his courses at
Vienna he took occasion to travel widely over Europe. For three
years he was in the Volunteer Medical Staff Corps of the British
Army.
In the autumn of 1889 he settled in Washington, and soon
thereafter was appointed interne at the Columbia Hospital, later
becoming visiting obstetrician. Early in 1898 he went to the
Klondike and Alaska and was present at the great avalanche
near Chilkoot Pass, in which upwards of eighty men lost their
lives. A blizzard and illness held him for a week in a tent on
the mountains near the Pass. At the wild town of Dyea he was
upon the point of performing a legitimate surgical operation with
a revolver upon a rough fellow, who, fortunately, calmed down.
He writes : "With two companions I sledded our combined
outfits to Lake Bennett. There we whip-sawed lumber and
built two boats, one for carrying our three tons of impedimenta,
and one for prospecting. We followed the river, shooting all
the rapids, to the mouth of the Stewart river, where we cached
our goods in a log cabin which we made. We prospected up
the Stewart river and sunk two shafts on a 'pup' of one of its
tributaries. Finding no gold there, we floated on to Dawson,
where we built two large log cabins. My companions left me in
February, 1899, running back with a dog-team about 600 miles
to the coast. I stayed in Dawson for a year, practicing my pro-
fession and locating a claim on Hunker creek. I left Dawson
in a sail-boat, 22 feet long, and made what was considered a
journey of 1,800 miles by myself alone down the Yukon and
on the r.erinir Sea. For seven weeks I was absolutely limited to
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my own company and dependent upon my own resources. There
were many arduous and many interesting incidents. A storm on
Bering" Sea drove me to land upon an uninhabited island, where
I was marooned for two days. The experience on the rough
sea in a keelless river-boat was impressive. I encountered many
Indians and found it easy to be extremely polite when alone
among- them. With the Eskimo of Bering Sea I fell in love
and retain a high regard for them as they then were.
At St. Michael's I was robbed by a Chinaman of a large sum
of money and gold dust. I am glad to have had the experience of
having- been adroitly ''bunkoed" while in the Western States.
The Northwest and Alaska taught me much, and the seven weeks
of solitude I regard as a priceless tuition, instructing me to look
inwards for true wealth. It was impressed upon me that one
'cannot bring home the wealth of the Indies unless he carries
the wealth of the Indies with him.' '
He has traveled quite extensively elsewhere, and has spent a
long time in Bermuda and Nassau.
''For upwards of twenty years I have been pursuing studies
in ethics and philosophy and have written with great care my
conclusions, which I hope to condense and publish in due time.
I believe that Plato was correct in insisting that no man was
competent to teach ethics until he had worked upon it for twenty-
one years. A longer time than this is needed for Scott.
About three years ago I purchased a twenty-five-acre island in
the Potomac, ten miles above Washington, which I felt justified
in naming "Kalokagathon/' It has palisades 70 feet high and
is finely wooded. Situated in a deep gorge of the Potomac, its
setting- is just what I enjoy. On this island I have built two
small houses with my own hands, and hope eventually to have
several comfortable cabins, and expect to finish my writing here.
My desire is to make the camp hospitable to those who are in
search of intellectual honesty regarding the noimal expression of
life. My protection from false conclusions is the scientific
method, or logic. I do not feel that I have abandoned the medi-
cal profession, but believe it to be the large function of the
physician not only to preserve the body in health but also to
direct its powers to their proper end. I believe that I can expend
my energies most serviceably in this manner, and in this my
work I find profound mental satisfaction.
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I particularly wish to say to my classmates, ere asterisks adorn
our names in the University register, that my scientific exami-
nation of ethics has left me satisfied that the eternal norms
which Jesus accented are right. Ignoring the bias of old beliefs,
I have attacked Christianity with all my powers and find that it
is in its pure form able to withstand all criticism. I regret to
say that I believe that theologians in general are ignorant of the
meaning of Christianity ; it is as though physicists had failed to
comprehend the laxvs of gravity and had added a mass of fool-
ish notions to them. I am convinced that no sane man would
reject the everlastingly true teachings of the Master of ethics,
any more than he wrould dispute the facts of physics. Without
doubt no man is able to live normatively and successfully with-
out strict adherence to the laws which govern all the departments
of his life. After years of investigation, which led me far afield.
I now find that my matured purpose, the goal of my writing, is
the restoration of true Christianity. I consider it bad form to
be negatively priggish, and therefore insist on this brief refer-
ence to matters of the utmost moment."
He is the author of "The Sexual Instinct," E. B. Treat & Co.,
N. Y., 1898; second edition, 1908. He is unmarried.
The photograph here reproduced was taken about 1896. Scott
has none more recent.
Charles S. Seeley
Stenographer
2084 Third Avenue, New York City
Residence, 181 Stratford Road, Bridgeport, Conn.
Charles Scott Seeley was born in Fairfield, Conn., October 31,
1861, son of Ezra S. Seeley and Mary A. (Jackson) Seeley, who
were married June i, 1854, and had three other children: Sam-
uel J. (died Fairfield, Conn., September 21, 1907), Frank S.,
and Mary E.
Ezra S. Seeley (born Easton, Conn., June 22, 1818), a farmer
of Easton, is still living, and comes of a family whose home for
several generations has hern in \Yeston (now Easton) and Fair-
field. His mother, Esther Mallett, was a descendant of John
Mallett, a Huguenot, who settled at \e\v Rochelle, N. Y.
Mary A. (Jackson) Seeley (born Kastmi. c'min.. June 17,
1827) is a daughter of Samuel and Eliza (Hill) Jackson, whose
family has also for several generations lived in Easton.
BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES
3'3
Seeley prepared at the Staples Academy in Easton. In col-
lege lie was a member of (lamina Xu, and took Oration appoint-
ments both junior and senior years.
After graduation he taught for two years, first at Norwalk,
Conn., afterwards at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., then studied stenog-
raphy and has since followed that profession, working in
business houses in New York.
He married in New York City, September 25, 1906, Anna M.
Kraft, daughter of John B. Kraft of Barnesville, Pa. They
have one child: Lila Jackson, born December 8, 1907.
Henry T. Shelton
Lawyer
Sanford Building, Bridgeport, Conn.
Residence, 241 Courtland Street, Bridgeport
Henry Tweedy Shelton was born in Bridgeport, Conn., July
27, 1862, son of Henry Tweedy Shelton and Josephine (Lyon)
Shelton, who were married November 3, 1857.
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Henry Tweedy Shelton, Sr. (born Bridgeport, Conn., August
29, 1831, died December 23, 1889), was the son of Henry Shel-
ton and Mary Ann (Tweedy) Shelton, and grandson of Rev.
Philo Shelton (Yale 1775), the first Episcopal minister ordained
in the United States.
Josephine (Lyon) Shelton (born Bridgeport, November 3,
1833) is daughter of Hanford Lyon and Hetty Ann Thomp-
son. Her grandmother, Hetty's mother, remembered sitting <>n
*
George Washington's knee when she was a child and he \\a^
stopping at her father's tavern. Richard Lyon, ancestor of
Hanford, is said to have been one of three soldiers who were on
guard before the banquet hall at Whitehall when King Charles I
was executed, and to have witnessed the execution, afterwards
fleeing to this country.
Shelton prepared at the Hopkins Grammar School. In col-
lege he was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon, He Boule and
Psi Upsilon, and secretary of the university boat club.
He studied at the Yale Law School ('86) winning the Jewell
prize for highest marks in examinations at graduation, spent
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315
one year in the office of Townsend & Watrous in New Haven,
then practiced in Bridgeport several years in the office of the
tinn in which he became a partner — the firm name at that time
being Stoddard, Bishop & Shelton. Since about 1895 he has
practiced alone, devoting himself to the management of a few
large estates. In the last few years he has spent much time
abroad.
He married in Washington, D. C., March 23, 1907, Frances
Isham of Manchester, Vt., daughter of Edward Swift Isham,
now deceased (Williams '57), a lawyer in Chicago.
Oliver T. Sherwood
Chemist
New Rochelle, N. Y.
Oliver Taylor Sherwood was born in Southport, Conn., October
9, 1861, son of Elisha C. Sherwood of Southport.
He prepared at the Hopkins Grammar School and in college
was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon and Psi Upsilon.
316 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
After graduation he became connected with the Southport
National Bank, of which his father was president, was later
appointed cashier, and retained that position until 1903.
He is now living in New Rochelle, N. Y.
He married October 28, 1885, Margaret Ann Roberts of New
York City, and has two children: Morris Perry, born May 15,
1887, and Margaret Taylor, born October 4, 1898.
John I. Souther
Residence, 1523 East Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio
John Ira Souther was born in Worcester, Mass., February 25,
1861, son of Samuel Souther and Mary Frances (Towle) Souther,
who were married June 29, 1847, and had five other children:
Anna Blanchard, Framingham Normal School; William Towle,
Yale and Harvard Medical School; Samuel Adams (died May 5,
1898); Abigail Clement; and Mary Webster (died September,
1905).
BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES 3 I 7
Samuel Souther (born Fryeburg, Me., February 26, 1819, died
in Battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1864) graduated from Dart-
mouth College in 1842 and from Bangor Theological Seminary in
1845, and later received an honorary degree of LL.D. He
preached as a missionary in Massachusetts and Maine, became
pastor of the Congregational Church in Belfast, Me., in 1847, was
a representative in the General Court in Boston in 1862 and 1863,
enlisted in the United States Army in 1863, was presented with
a colonel's sword and trappings by Governor Andrew of Massa-
chusetts, and fell in the Battle of the Wilderness, May, 1864.
Mary Frances (Towle) Souther (born Fryeburg, Me., August
9, 1825) is the daughter of Dr. Ira Towle and Sarah (Clement)
Towle.
Souther attended the high school in Worcester, Mass., and the
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, from which he received the
degree of B.S. in 1881, standing third in the class and elected by
his class its valedictorian. He joined our class at Yale in sopho-
more year, was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, rowed two
years on the class crew, played on the class baseball team three
years, and on the university team junior and senior years, won
the middle-weight wrestling contest sophomore year, took second
prizes in mathematics both sophomore and senior years, received
Philosophical Oration appointment junior year and High Oration
appointment senior year.
After graduation Souther taught physics and geometry at the
Worcester High School for one year, then conducted a chemical
laboratory on Gogebic Range, Ironwood, Mich. In March, 1892,
he was made assistant superintendent of blast furnaces of the
Illinois Steel Company, in South Chicago; from 1895 to 190x3
was superintendent of blast furnaces of the Bellaire Steel Com-
pany at Bellaire, Ohio, and from 1900 to 1914 superintendent of
furnaces of the Cambria Steel Co. at Johnstown, Pa. Early in
1914 he removed from Johnstown to Cleveland.
He is a member and vestryman in the Episcopal Church.
He married in Cleveland, Ohio, January i, 1889, Kate A. Ful-
ler, daughter of Samuel Augustus Fuller, of Cleveland. They
have had four children: Helen Fuller, born Hurley, Wis.,
November 30, 1889, graduated Rosemary Hall, Greenwich, Conn.,
1909, married Newton Keith Hartford (Harvard '0x9), April 14,
1914; Julia Fuller, born Ironwood, Mich., September 18, 1891,
HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
died in infancy; Hugh Stirling (Yale '148.), born Chicago, 111.,
July 14, 1893; and Arthur Fuller (University School, Cleveland,
preparing to enter Yale, September, 1914), born Cleveland, Ohio,
January 13, i!
William McM. Speer
Lawyer
233 Broadway, New York City
Residence, Sparkill, N. Y.
William McMurtrie Speer was born in Huntingdon, Pa., Feb-
ruary 5, 1865, son of Robert Milton Speer (born Cassville, Pa.,
September, 1838, died New York, June, 1890), a lawyer, and
Martha E. (McMurtrie) Speer (born Huntingdon, Pa., Novem-
ber, 1840, died November, 1876).
Speer prepared at the Hill School in Pottstown, Pa. In col-
lege he was a member of Delta Kappa and rowed two years on
the class crew.
After graduation he combined newspaper work with the study
of law, being reporter for the Morning News, New Haven, for
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the New York Star, and for several years on the staff of the
New York Sun.
He studied at the Albany Law School, graduating in 1887.
In 1890 he was selected by Mayor Grant of New York as his
private secretary, and in 1893 was elected editor of the Albany
Ji-^us. He has for some time given his attention to his law
practice in New York, having- for several years been especially
engaged in legal work for the city in the proceedings for secur-
ing the Catskill water supply. In August, 1912, he was appointed
by the corporation counsel to represent the city in the aldennanic
investigation arising out of the Rosenthal murder. He con-
fesses to an interest also in farming.
He married in Baltimore, Aid., April 26, 1899, Margaret
I Inward Post, daughter of Richard B. Post of Baltimore. They
have two children: Margaret Howard, born November, 1900,
and Eleanor Post, born January, 1903.
Selden P. Spencer
Lawyer
300 Broadway, St. Louis, Mo.
Residence, 4457 Washington Boulevard, St. Louis
Selden Palmer Spencer was born in Erie, Pa., September 16,
1862, the son of Samuel Selden Spencer and Eliza Deborah
(Palmer) Spencer, who were married October 20, 1858,^ and had
two other children: Kate, and Amelia Putnam (died in Erie,
Pa.).
Samuel Selden Spencer (born Hadlyme, Conn., May 29, 1826,
died Daytona, Florida, January 8, 1910), Yale '48, was a lawyer
in Erie. He was an elder in the Park Presbyterian Church and
clerk of session for thirty years. He was the son of William
Spencer and Deborah (Selden) Spencer.
Eliza Deborah (Palmer) Spencer (born Saratoga Springs,
X. Y.) was the daughter of Eliza Doanda Palmer and Dirck
Lefferts Palmer.
Spencer prepared in the public schools of Erie and at the
Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven.
In college he was a member of Gamma Nu and Delta Kappa
Epsilon, an editor of the Yale News senior year, played on the
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lacrosse team, took second prize Berkeley Premium in Latin
composition freshman year, a prize in English composition sopho-
more year, a prize in declamation, and Philosophical Oration
appointments both junior and senior years.
After graduation he studied at the St. Louis Law School,
the legal department of Washington University, was admitted
to the bar in 1886, practiced until 1896, when he was elected
judge of the Circuit Court at St. Louis, and since his retirement
in 1903 from that position lias been actively practicing at the
bar. He has several degrees to his credit: LL.B. (Washington
t'niversity), A.M. (Westminster College '92), Ph.D. (West-
minster College '96), Hon. M.D. (Missouri Medical College
'96), Hon. LL.D. (Westminster College '09). He was appointed
a lecturer in 1892, and in 1893 professor of medical jurisprudence
in Missouri Medical College, and was in 1895 president of the
Missouri liar Association. His present firm. Spencer & Donnell,
was formed in October, 1911. Before his election to the bench
he was prominent in politics as a Republican, was in 1895 elected
a member of the State legislature and served on many impor-
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tant committees, and after the expiration of his judicial term, was
in 1905 agreed upon by the Republicans of the legislature as a
candidate for United States Senator, but failed of election — as
any Republican in Missouri would.
He is a member of the Presbyterian Church, the Sons of Colo-
nial Wars, Sons of the Revolution, Military Order of Foreign
Wars and of the New England Society of St. Louis, of which
he has been president.
He married in St. Louis, Mo., December 8, 1886, Susan Mary
Brookes (Lindenwood College '83), daughter of James Hall
Brookes (Miami College), a prominent Presbyterian clergyman
of St. Louis, who died in 1897. They have had five children :
James Brookes, born January 15, 1888 (Yale '10) ; Selden Pal-
mer, born April i, 1889 (Yale '12) ; David Wade, born July 8,
1890 (died in infancy) ; Oliver Wade, born December 19, 1892
(Yale '17) ; Susan Palmer, born August 19, 1893 (died July 28,
1894).
Sydney Stein
Lawyer
First National Bank Bldg., Chicago, 111.
Residence, 5522 East End Avenue, Chicago
Sydney Stein was born in Chicago, 111., February 26, 1862,
son of Solomon Stein and Bebette (Hirsh) Stein, who were
married in 1853.
Solomon Stein (born Pilsen, Bohemia, Austria, December 25,
1825, died Chicago, 1888) was a manufacturer in Chicago.
Bebette (Hirsh) Stein was born in Jungbunzlau, Bohemia,
September, 1835, and died in Chicago, February 13, 1911.
Stein prepared at the Chicago High School. In college he
was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon, took a declamation
prize freshman year, High Oration appointment junior year,
Oration appointment senior year, and Townsend Premium.
After graduation he studied law and has practiced in Chicago.
He has been a member of the firm of Stein, Meyer & Stein,
"since its organization ages ago," and was twelve years Master
in Chancery of the Supreme Court of Cook County.
In politics he is "regarded as a Democrat, believes in country
above party, and votes as he pleases; is unalterably opposed to
trusts whether small or large."
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He is a member of the Jewish Church and of several clubs.
He married in Chicago, September 25, 1897, Clara Meyer
(Chicago High School), daughter of M. A. Meyer, a merchant
of Chicago. They have two children: Edith, born September
25, 1898, and Sydney, Jr., born October 23, 1901.
Frank B. Stevens
Journalist
45 Milk Street, Boston, Mass.
Residence, 19 Birch Hill Road, Newtonville, Mass.
Frank Burton Stevens was born in Dover, N. H., February 28,
1861.
He entered '83 and joined our class in senior year.
Since leaving college he has been connected with various
papers: managing editor of the Telegram and Hud get, Troy,
N. Y., 1884-89; editor of Boston Globe, 1889-91; business man-
ager of Boston Journal and Boston Herald, 1904-10; and from
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323
1891 to 1901, was in the firm of Frank B. Stevens Co., adver-
tising agents.
He was on the staff of Gov. Roger Wolcott, 1897-99, and also
of Gov. Bates, 1903-04. In 1904 he was sent as alternate-at-large
to the National Republican Convention at Chicago.
He is a member of the University Club of Boston and of
numerous other clubs and societies.
He married August 31, 1891, Alary Priscilla Sears of Boston.
They have two children : Mary Sears, born June 10, 1892, and
Frank Burton, Jr., born February 16, 1894.
*John H. Stevenson
Died November 23, 1911
John Henry Stevenson was born in New York City, June 27,
1861, the eldest son of John Henry Stevenson and Henrietta
Louise (Stavey) Stevenson, who were married on March 2, 1859,
and had two other sons: Frederick A. (Yale '88) and Edward
A. (Yale '88). His father (born New York City, June 4, 1839)
was a naval officer, who served in the United States Navy dur-
ing the Civil War, was retired with the rank of Pay Inspector,
and died in Brooklyn, June 14, 1899.
324 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Stevenson prepared for college at the Adelphi Academy in
Brooklyn, where the family were living, he and Copeland enter-
ing from the same school. In college he was a member of Delta
Kappa and Delta Kappa Epsilon.
After graduation he spent one year at the Yale Law School,
and the succeeding year worked in an attorney's office in Xew
York, and completed the course at Columbia, receiving the degree
of LL.B. in 1886. He was admitted to the bar in September,
but for the rest of the year was away on a vacation, "a sort
of an otinm cum dig., to recuperate, as it were," he says in his
sexennial letter. From 1887 to 1889 he was in the office of
Anderson & Man in New York City, but gave up that position
when his father was ordered to Annapolis, and for a year worked
with him as assistant keeper of the naval stores.
In October, 1890, Stevenson writes: "I have again changed
my base, and am now with the Edison General Electric Com-
pany in the fixture and decorative bronze department." Later
he entered the New York office of the American Telephone &
Telegraph Company, where he remained from 1892 until his
death, November 3, 1911.
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325
From an obituary notice written by a classmate, we quote :
"His death was the culmination of a long period of suffering,
but he allowed so little indication of his feelings to escape that
his classmates generally knew nothing of his malady, and even
his business associates were unaware of its seriousness."
He married April 21, 1896, Charlotte-, daughter of James
Francis and Charlotte Amelia Bulkley, of Brooklyn. She is
living in Brooklyn with a son, John Henry, born October 22,
1898, studying at Adelphi Academy.
Frank Strong
Chancellor of the University of Kansas
1345 Louisiana Street, Lawrence, Kans.
Frank Strong was born in Venice, Cayuga County, N. Y.,
August 5, 1859, son of John Butler Strong and Mary (Foote)
Strong, who were married November 25, 1852, and had two other
children: Inez Eliza (born September 26, 1856, died in infancy),
and Otis (Yale '85).
John Butler Strong (born Scipio, Cayuga County, N. Y., March
31, 1831, died November 5, 1881) was a farmer of Cayuga
326 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
County, held several local offices, and was at one time collector
of internal revenue with headquarters at Auburn. He was a
descendant of Elder John Strong, who came to Dorchester in
1630 and later settled in Northampton, Mass.
Alary (Foote) Strong (born Venice, N. Y., March 25, 1834)
is a daughter of Jared Foote, a physician, and traces her ancestry
to the earliest settlement of Massachusetts.
Strong, before coming to Yale, was for a time clerk in his
father's office in Auburn, N. Y., and finished his preparation at
the Auburn High School.
In college he was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon and Psi
Upsilon, sang on the class glee club, was first bass on the univer-
sity glee club, a member of the class ivy committee, took one third
prize and one second prize in English composition sophomore
year, and Oration appointments both junior and senior years.
He also wrote for the Lit and News, and was active in Y. M. C. A.
work.
After graduation he studied one year at the Yale Law School
and, while there, won the John A. Porter prize (university prize
for best essay). He then taught one year in the Auburn High
School, was admitted to the bar in Rochester, N. Y., in 1886, and
practiced two years in Kansas City, Mo. In 1888 he gave up the
law for educational work and was principal of the St. Joseph,
Mo., High School four years, and superintendent of schools in
Lincoln, Neb., three years. He then studied for his doctor's
degree in the Yale Graduate School, at the same time teaching
history in the Hillhouse High School. In 1899 he was chosen
president of the University of Oregon, and while there was chair-
man of the Committee of the State Teachers' Association to draft
courses for the Oregon high schools. In 1902 he was elected to
the position which he now holds at the head of the University of
Kansas. He has received the following degrees: M.A. (Yale
'93), Ph.D. (Yale '97), LL.D. (Baker University and University
of Oregon, '09), and is the author of several books and many
articles and addresses, chiefly in historical research, a partial list
of which follows :
Benjamin Franklin: A Character Sketch. The Patriot Series, Uni-
\rr>ity Association, Chicago, 1898.
The Causes of Cromwell's West Indian Expedition. American His-
I\i-vu-\v. January, 1809.
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A Forgotten Danger to the New England Colonies. Annual Report
of American Historical Association; also published in the- New England
Magazine, 1899.
Annual Report of President of the Board of Regents and the Univer-
sity. University of Oregon Bulletin, 1901.
Inaugural Address. Graduate Magazine, University of Kansas, 1902.
The Minimum Conditions, Environment, etc., that should be Considered
Favorable to Graduate Work. Transactions and Proceedings of the
National Association of State Universities, 1905.
Report of the Board of Regents of the University of Kansas for
Biennium ending June 30, 1906.
The Responsibility of the University Man. The Graduate Magazine,
1905.
The Needs of the University. The Graduate Maga/.ine, 1908.
The Problem of Moral and Religious Education in the University.
Religious Education Magazine, 1908.
A Standard Type for State Universities. Proceedings of National
Association of State Universities, 1907.
The Problem of Higher Education in States that Maintain more than
one College or University. Proceedings of National Association of
State Universities, 1908.
Response for Western Universities (delivered at the installation of
Edmund Janes James, Ph.D., LL.D., as President of the University of
Illinois). Illinois Bulletin, 1906.
Address (delivered at the exercises celebrating the 50th anniversary
of the founding of Baker University). Baker University Bulletin, 1909.
The Government of the American People (with Joseph Schafcr).
Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1902.
The Church in Relation to College and University Students.
Congress Addresses, Messages of the Men and Religious Forward
Movement, Vol. I. Association Press, 1912.
Some Educational Problems in Kansas. Science, Nov. 21, 1913.
Control and Management of Athletics. Transactions and Proceedings
of the National Association of State Universities, 1912.
Imagination in College, a Symposium. The Nation, March 19, 1914.
In addition to his work in historical research, he had, even
before he went to the University of Oregon, given close study
and attention to unity in school work and the proper correlation of
studies. As Chancellor of the University of Kansas he has not
only won a position as a successful administrator, but has been
called upon as an adviser in public educational problems. He is,
among various offices, chairman of the Rhodes Scholarship Com-
mittee for Kansas.
He married in St. Joseph, Mo., June 24, 1890, Mary Evelyn
Ransom (St. Joseph High School '89), daughter of William Ziba
328 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Ransom, a contractor of St. Joseph, Mo. They have had four
children: Otis Ransom, born St. Joseph, Mo., April 27, 1891, died
Lincoln, Neb., August 4, 1894; John Butler, born Lincoln, Neb.,
June 5, 1893, died Manitou, Colo., August 14, 1894; Alary
Evelyn, born Lincoln, Xeb., July 9, 1895 ; Frank Ransom, born
Lawrence, Kans., April 4, 1908.
William L. Strong
Manufacturer
The Old Bridge Enameled Brick & Tile Co., Old Bridge, N. J.
Residence, 93 College Avenue, New Brunswick
William Lord Strong was born in Pittston, Pa., June 5, 1863,
son of Theodore Strong and Mary (Benedict) Strong, who
were married in 1854, and had one other son, Theodore Clinton
(Yale 78). died 1878.
Theodore Strong (born Somers, Conn., January 25, 1820, died
I 'it t -ton, I 'a.. March 28, 1907) was president of the First
National Bank of Pittston, Pa., for almost fifty years. He pre-
pared for Yale, but owing to failing health gave up his course
BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES 329
and engaged in business. His father, Rev. William Lightbourne
Strong (born Salisbury, Conn., October 18, 1782 ; died August
31, 1859), graduated from Yale in 1803, was the son of Adoni-
jah Strong, who was a lawyer in Salisbury, Conn., served as
colonel of militia in the Revolution, and had an honorary degree
from Yale in 1786. The family line runs back to ''Elder" John
Strong, who settled at Dorchester, 1630, and removed to North-
ampton, 1659.
Mary (Benedict) Strong died in Pittston, Pa., in 1869.
Strong prepared at the Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) Academy. In
college he was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon and Psi Upsi-
lon, of the class day committee, and took an Oration appoint-
ment junior year.
After graduation he traveled abroad for a year, then was
(1885 to 1888) connected with the Chicago branch of the Wash-
burn & Moen Manufacturing Company of Worcester. He then
went to the State of Washington and became interested in
several business enterprises, among them the Bank of Waits-
burg. which he organized, and of which he was president, and
the Spokane Furniture Company, at Spokane Falls. In June,
1893, he became interested in the manufacture of brick and tile
in New Jersey, and entered the Old Bridge Enameled Brick and
Tile Company, of which he has been president for more than ten
years. He is an elder in the Presbyterian Church.
He married in Spokane, Wash., June 16, 1891, Dorothy Wilkis-
son, daughter of Charles K. Wilkisson, a merchant of Plainfield,
N. J. They have three children : Theodore, born June 24, 1892
(Yale '14) ; William Lord, Jr., born July 20, 1894; and Dorothy,
born January 17, 1897.
John T. Swift
Teacher
7 Fujimi-cho, Azabu, Tokio, Japan
John Trumbull Swift was born in Colchester, Conn., April 3,
1861, the son of Solomon Everest Swift (M.D. University of
Xew York) and Almira M. (Lathrop) Swift, who were mar-
ried August 18, 1858, and had two other children: Rebecca
Lathrop (born 1859, died in infancy), and Caroline Louise
(born in 1863).
33° HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Solomon Everest Swift (born Farmington, Conn., July 27,
1819, died Colchester, Conn., February, 1898) was a physician
in Colchester, and the son of Dr. Zephaniah Swift of Farming-
ton, and Xelly M. (Everett) Swift.
Almira M. (Lathrop) Swift (born York, 111., January 5, 1822,
died Redlands, Cal., 1901) was the daughter of Charles Lathrop
of Lebanon, Conn., who was on the government survey of Illi-
nois and Missouri. Her mother was Roxey (Chapman) Lathrop
of South Glastonbury, Conn.
Swift prepared at the Bacon Academy, Colchester, Conn. In
college he was a member of Delta Kappa and Delta Kappa
Epsilon, rowed one year on the class crew, and was elected secre-
tary of the class.
Ever since graduation he has been engaged in mission and
i-durational work, now for more than twenty years in Japan.
In engaging in this work in Japan he was among the pioneers
and was backed to a large extent by contributions from Yale.
In 1900 he was given by Yale the degree of M.A. From 1885
to 1887 he was assistant secretary of the Y. M. C. A. of Xc\\
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York City (23d Street) ; from 1888 to 1889, instructor in the
Meiji Gakuin (Presbyterian College), Tokio; from 1889 to
1898, secretary for Japan of the International Committee of the
Y. M. C. A. (New York) ; and from 1900 has been teaching in
Tokio in the colleges of the Japanese Government. Since 1904,
the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War, lie has been corre-
spondent for Japan of the Sun (New York), and during the war
he also served as honorary secretary of the "Perry Relief Asso-
ciation of Japan," organized by American residents to help the
families of Japanese soldiers and sailors.
He is a member of the Tokio Club, councilor of the Asiatic
Society of Japan, member of the executive committee of the
American Asiatic Association of Japan, member of the executive
committee of the International Press Association of Japan, and
honorary secretary of the Yale Association of Japan.
His work as class secretary, while he held that position, was
carefully and efficiently done; he published one class record at
the time of the triennial reunion. At the time of his departure
for Japan, he turned over the archives and work to Edward
Wells, Jr., who published our Sexennial Record.
He married in East Orange, N. J., April 25, 1889, Belle Wal-
lace Newman, daughter of George A. Newman of East Orange
(died 1912). They have had eight children, all of whom were
born in Tokio: Alida, born November 13, 1890; Dorothy, born
October 24, 1891, died in infancy; Everest Lathrop, born Sep-
tember 5, 1893; David Wallace (Episcopal High School, Alex-
andria, Va.) and Paul Tennant, born April 8, 1896 — Paul died in
infancy ; Carolyn Elizabeth, born August 23, 1901 ; Howard
Newman, born September 21, 1902; and Leonora Parsons, born
July 2, 1908.
William A. Taylor
Merchant
Taylor, Clapp & Co., 109 Worth Street, New York City
Residence, 18 East Sixty-sixth Street, New York City
William Ambrose Taylor was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., June
13, 1862, son of Franklin E. Taylor and Mary E. (Rhoades )
Taylor, who were married February 13, 1851, and had three
other children: Frank R. (died Norway, Me., February 3, 1910).
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Alice G. (wife of William T. Lawrence), Lucia T. (wife of
Albert Douglas, Chillicothe, Ohio).
Franklin E. Taylor (born Chester, Mass., January 6, 1825,
died Brooklyn, June 30, 1898) was in the dry goods commission
business with Lawrence, Taylor & Co., and was a director and
trustee of the Brooklyn Savings Bank and Franklin Trust Com-
pany. He came of a Massachusetts family, and on his mother's
side was descended from Roger Clap, an original settler of Dor-
chester, of the same family which gave to Yale Rev. Thomas
Clap, rector (president) of the college from 1740 to 1766.
Mary E. (Rhoades) Taylor (born Manlius, N. Y., July 1831,
died Poland Springs, Me., September, 1897) came of English
ancestry who settled in New York State.
Taylor prepared at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H. In
college he was a member of Delta Kappa, Eta Phi, Psi Upsilon,
and Scroll and Key, of the class glee club, the junior promenade
committee, the board of governors of the University Club, and
of the executive committee of the Yale Athletic Association.
After graduation he spent two years in study in Germany,
and then entered business with his father's firm, Lawrence, Tay-
BiOGRAPiiiKS — <;K.\W. \TI-:S 333
lor & Co., dry goods commission merchants in New York, of
which the present firm is the successor. He became a member of
the firm in 1893, has since continued in that business and i>
senior partner of the firm now known as Taylor, Clapp & Co. I le
is a director of the Merchants National Bank of New York, and
of some industrial corporations, a member of the Sons of the
Revolution, the New England Society, of the Touring Club of
France and Italy, and of several New York clubs. Considerable
of his time has been spent in foreign stay and travel, and in
September, 1910, he made the record trip from Baden Baden
to Mannheim as a passenger in the airship Zeppelin VI a few
days before she was destroyed.
He married in Brooklyn, N. Y., January 26, 1892, Jessie Still-
man (Farmington '87), daughter of Thomas E. Stillman, a
graduate of Colgate University and a lawyer at 54 Wall Street,
now deceased. They have had three children: Thomas Still-
man (born Brooklyn, N. Y., November 15, 1892, died December
27, 1894), Henry Calhoun (Yale '17), born Brooklyn, N. Y.,
January 14, 1894; William Ambrose, Jr. (born April 9, 1896).
Joseph Tomlinson
Manufacturer
Cox Multi-Mailer Co., 552 West Harrison Street, Chicago, 111.
Residence, 1232 North State Street, Chicago
Joseph Tomlinson was born in Huntington, Conn., March 15,
1863, son of Joseph Tomlinson and Anne Tappan (Brewster)
Tomlinson, who were married in 1857, and had three other chil-
dren: Helen B., Rosa T. Shelton (wife of Rev. Chas. W. Shel-
ton), and Annie T. Sanford (Wellesley B.S. 1893).
Joseph Tomlinson, Sr. (born Huntington, Conn., December 27,
1828, died Shelton, Conn., November 6, 1902), was superintendent
of the Star Pin Company of Huntington, and held several public
offices in Huntington and Shelton, such as judge of probate, town
judge, town clerk, etc. His father, a physician, was also named
Joseph, and the family ever since the early settlement of Stratford
have lived in that town or its neighborhood.
Anne Tappan (Brewster) Tomlinson (born Montreal, Canada,
December 2, 1833, died Shelton, Conn., June 10, 1902) was a
334 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
daughter of Rev. Cyrus Brewster and descended from Elder
\Yilliam Brewster, the Plymouth colonist.
Tomlinson prepared at the high school in Derby, Conn. In
college he was a member of Gamma Nu, and in sophomore year
took a second prize in English composition.
After graduation he took a position as private tutor, part of
the time in New York, part in Mamaroneck, and later traveled
extensively with his pupil and the pupil's family, spending one
winter in California and the larger part of a year on a trip around
the world. In 1888 he spent a short time in business in Hartford,
and in 1889 went to Sioux Falls, S. Dak., where, in association
with others, for fifteen years he owned and conducted the Ar^ its-
Leader of that place. Since 1905 he has been general manager
of the Cox Multi-Mailer Company, inventing and selling news-
paper addressing machines, for a time in New York, but during
recent years in Chicago. He owns a large farm at Bethel, Conn.,
which he finds more interesting than profitable.
He married in Sioux Falls, S. Dak., November 14, 1900,
Blanche Morris Bliss, of Sioux Falls.
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Ray Tompkins
Banker
Chemung Canal Trust Company, 415 West Water Street, Elmira, N. Y.
Residence, 409 North Main Street, Elmira
Ray Tompkins was born in Lawrenceville, Pa., January 28,
1861, son of Tamerlane Burt Tompkins and Britannia (Millard)
Tompkins, who were married December 23, 1851, and had one
other child: Charles Millard (died Elmira, N. Y., June 29,
1900).
Tamerlane Burt Tompkins (born Taunton, Mass., July 3, 1821,
died Elmira, N. Y., April 2, 1889) was a lumber manufacturer of
Elmira. He traced his descent to John Alden, Thomas Rogers
and Elder William Brewster, all Mayflower Pilgrims.
Britannia (Millard) Tompkins (born Tioga, Pa., April 24,
1823) is a daughter of Ambrose Millard of Saratoga, X. Y..
and Mary (Gordon) Millard, who was born in Sheffield, Berk-
shire County, Mass., and belonged to the Gordon clan (Scotch).
Tompkins prepared at Williston Seminary, Easthampton,
336 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Mass. In college he was a member of Delta Kappa, He Boule,
Psi Upsilon, and Skull and Bones, captain of our freshman base-
ball team, rowed on the class crew one year, played three years
on the university football eleven, of which he was captain the last
two years.
After graduation he went into the wholesale grocery business
in Elmira, later becoming junior member of the firm of C. M.
& R. Tompkins and, since the death of his brother, owner of that
business. In 1903 he became vice president, and is now presi-
dent of the Chemung Canal Trust Company. Since 1901 he has
been president of the Elmira Water, Light & Railroad Company.
His interest in football at Yale has brought him back to Xew
Haven for short stays several seasons, when he has been called
upon by the undergraduates and coaches for advice and assistance
He married in Elmira, N. Y., September 6, 1903, Sarah Ross
Wey (Farmington School), daughter of William C. Wey, a
graduate of the Albany Medical School and a physician of
Elmira, N. Y.
*Frank D. Trowbridge
Died November 5, 1913
Frank Dean Trowbridge was born in Bridgetown, Barbadoes,
W. I., March 16, 1861, son of Winston John Trowbridge and
Margaret Elford (Dean) Trowbridge, who were married August
31, 1854, and had four other children: Winston John (Yale
'79), Florence Maud (wife of Horatio M. Reynolds, Yale '80),
Elford Parry (Yale '87), Constance B. (wife of Warren B. Kel-
logg). Mary Trowbridge Townsend, daughter of Winston by a
former marriage, married Judge William K. Townsend ( Yale
'70-
Winston John Trowbridge (born New Haven, Conn.. May 10,
1820, died New Haven, November 6, 1864) was a shipper of the
firm of Henry Trowbridge's Sons. The Trowbridge family
have, since the earliest days of New Haven, been prominent in
it- business and social life. Thomas, the first of the family to
come to the country, came as early as 1636 from Taunton, Som-
ersetshire, where the family had lived for generations, and set-
tled in Dorchester, Mass., removing to New Haven in 1639. He
in shipping between England, the West Indies and the
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337
Colonies, a business in which the family later were most success-
ful. He returned to England, leaving here his three sons, one
of whom, Thomas (2), was a successful merchant in New Haven
and filled many local offices, was one of the first trustees of the
Hopkins Grammar School, and probably saw active service in
King Philip's War. Daniel, grandson of Thomas (2), graduated
from Yale in 1725, commanded vessels for several years, after-
wards became a merchant and left a large fortune for those days.
Rutherford, son of Daniel (1744-1825), produced a large part
of the saltpetre used in the Revolution, and with other volun-
teers went out to the West Haven Green to resist the British
invasion of New Haven. Henry, son of Rutherford (1799-
1849), started life as a sailor and later engaged in trade with
the West Indies, finally establishing the New Haven firm, the
successive members of which followed that trade for many years.
Winston John, son of Henry and father of our classmate, went
to Barbadoes to take charge of the sugar interests of the firm,
and remained there. For several years he was United States
Consul for that and the adjacent islands.
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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Margaret Elford (Dean) Trowbridge (born New Haven,
Conn., December 22, 1828, died New Haven, January 2, 1903)
was the daughter of James Edmund Prior Dean and Eliza Ellen
(Jarman) Dean. Her grandfather was Captain James Dean of
Hartford who was lost at sea about 1800.
Trowbridge prepared at the Hopkins Grammar School and
Black Hall School, Lyme, Conn. In college he was a member
of Delta Kappa, Eta Phi, and Delta Kappa Epsilon, was sec-
retary and treasurer of the class football club, and member of
the class day committee.
In May 1888, he began his business career as a clerk in the
National New Haven Bank, with which he remained until his
death, being appointed teller in 1890, cashier in 1902, and in
1905 president. He was for several years treasurer of the Sink-
ing Fund Commission of the City of New Haven.
This simple story of continuous work and progressive promo-
tion in one institution is brief, but bespeaks the character of the
man. Never failing in constant attention to the details of the
banking business, both in its internal administration and its
larger relations to the business life of New Haven, never misled
by any vision of personal achievement, he guided the "Old Bee
Hive Bank" successfully on a safe course, always watchful of
the weather. The soundness and fair name of the bank was
his first care, in which he took just pride and for which all give
him deserved credit.
Always an enthusiastic lover of out-door exercise, especially
of walking and sailing, he tramped the hills and valleys of Con-
necticut and Massachusetts, and sailed the waters of Long Island
Sound as few, if any, other men have done. In the season, the
rising of the sun found him obeying the impulse of his father-
in turning the prow of his boat, sail or motor, toward the open
sea. In the football season, Yale had no more loyal and inter-
ested supporter. Into anything which he undertook he put his
whole strength and spirit. Several years ago he strained a mus-
cle of the heart, a misfortune which finally cost him his life, after
a two months' illness, on November 5. K;I%V lie \va> a member
of Center Church in New Haven.
He married in Davenport, la.. May if>. iSS<j. Carolyn Haven
Hubbell, daughter of George E. I lubbcll of Davenport, and had
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339
two children: Margaret Dean, born New Haven, November 2,
1890, married Allen Fletcher Marsh (Yale 'ioS.) of Chicago,
and Mary Brewster, born New Haven, May 23, 1894.
Mrs. Trowbridge is living in the family home, No. 230 Chmvr
Street, New Haven.
Joseph N. Tuttle
Lawyer
Tuttle & Coughlan, 154 Nassau Street, New York City
Residence, 349 Main Street, Madison, N. J.
Joseph Nathaniel Tuttle was born in Madison, N. J., April 14,
1863, son °f Samuel Lawrence Tuttle and Margaretta (Thomp-
son) Tuttle, who were married January 15, 1861, and had one
other child : \Yilliam Parkhurst.
Samuel Lawrence Tuttle (born Bloomfield, N. J., August 25,
1815, died Madison, N. J., April 16, 1866), Princeton B.A. 1837,
and graduate of Auburn Theological Seminary, was a Presby-
340 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
terian clergyman, and secretary of the American Bible Sociel
at the time of his death. He was the son of Rev. Jacob Tuttle
(born in New Vernon, N. J., 1786, died Jersey, Ohio, 1866) and
Elizabeth Ward (born Bloomfield, N. J., 1787, died Jersey, Ohio,
1871), who were married August 22, 1814. One of the family
line was Daniel Tuttle of Hanover, N. J., whose five sons fought
in the War of the Revolution. The family goes back to William
Tuttle, who with his wife and family landed at Boston in 1635
and removed in 1639 to New Haven, where they bought of one
Joshua Atwater the land on the corner of College and Chapel
Streets on which Osborn Hall and South Middle now stand.
Margaretta (Thompson) Tuttle (born Madison, N. J., May 4.
1832, died April 26, 1863) was the daughter of Lewis Thompson
(born Madison, N. J., 1790, died at the same place 1878) and
Hannah Jane (Butler) Thompson (born Madison, X. J., 1792.
died at the same place 1868). The Butlers were a Virginia
family, one of whom, William, the father of Hannah, came to
New Jersey with Washington's army and located there.
Tuttle prepared at Phillips Academy, Andover, after attending
the Madison Academy.
In college he was a member of Delta Kappa and Delta Kappa
Epsilon, played on the class baseball nine in junior and senior
years, and took Oration appointments both junior and senior
years.
He taught Latin in Morris Academy for a year and a half after
graduation, then spent six months in the office of Judge Peabody
of New York City, studying law, and one year at the Columbia
Law School ; was admitted to the bar in July, 1888, and became
managing clerk for Marston Niles, then law assistant in Horace
E. Deming's office, New York City. January i, 1898, he formed
the firm of Ford & Tuttle, which continued until 1906, when his
partner, John Ford, was elected to the Supreme Court bench in
New York City. He continued the business under his own name
until 1908, when he formed the firm of Tuttle & Coughlan, which
still continues. He has always practiced law in New York City.
He married in \Tew York City, April 5, 1904, Frances Vacher
Roundey (West End Ave. School, New York City, 1892), daugh-
ter of Benjamin Bray Roundey of New York, now retired and
living in Madison, N. J. They have two children: Margaretta.
born April 21, 1906; Wainwright, born November 7,
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341
Henry B. Twombly
Lawyer
Putney, Twombly & Putney, 2 Rector Street, New York City
Residence, Hobart Avenue, Summit, N. J.
Henry Bancroft Twombly was born in Albany, N. Y., Novem-
ber 10, 1862, son of Alexander Stevenson Twombly and Abigail
Quincy (Bancroft) Twombly, who were married December 23,
1859, and had four other children: Edward Lambert (Yale '81,
Harvard Medical School '85), Alexander Hamilton (Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology '87), Clifford Gray (Yale '91, Har-
vard Divinity School '94), and Howland (Yale '96, Harvard Law
School 'oo).
Alexander Stevenson Twombly (born Boston, March 14, 1832,
died Newton, Mass., November 19, 1907), a graduate of Yale
1854, with also the honorary degree, Doctor of Divinity, from
Yale, was a well-known clergyman of Boston and held many pub-
lic and church positions, including that of a trustee of the Boston
Public Library. He was descended from Ralph Twombly, who
342 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
settled in Dover, N. H., in 1656, and, on his mother's side, from
Thomas Perley of Ipswich, member of the Massachusetts legis-
lature in 1692, from Capt. Francis Perley of the French and
Indian War, and Capt. William Perley, who fought at the Battle
of Bunker Hill and through the Revolutionary War.
Abigail Quincy (Bancroft) Twombly (born Boston, March 21,
1833) is a direct descendant of John Rowland of the Mayflower,
and of Capt. Robert Gray, who discovered the Columbia River in
1791, establishing the title of the United States to the Northwest
Territory. The Gray family traces its descent from Rollo, cham-
berlain to Robert, Duke of Normandy, and Lord de Gray, who
fought with William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings.
Twombly spent his early years in Albany, N. Y., Stamford,
Conn., and Boston. He finished his preparation at the Boston
Latin School, where he was captain of the football and baseball
teams and captain in the Boston School Regiment. He passed his
entrance examinations for Harvard and was the only boy of his
class to come to Yale.
In college he was a member of Delta Kappa, Psi Upsilon and
Skull and Bones, was a prominent football player during his
whole course, playing on the class eleven freshman year, as sub-
stitute on the university team sophomore year, and upon the uni-
versity team the last two years. He was also a member of the
class and university lacrosse teams. He was one of our class
deacons, sang on the class glee club, was a member of the fresh-
man debating club, took first prize, Berkeley Premium, for Latin
composition freshman year, and second prize in English composi-
tion sophomore year, was a speaker at the Junior Exhibition, and
took Philosophical Oration appointments both junior and senior
years.
After graduation he went to the Harvard Law School, and
while there played on the Harvard lacrosse team in 1885, won the
college championship and Oelrichs cup, also played on the "Gen-
tlemen of Boston" football team. In 1886 he spent a short time
abroad. After his return he was admitted to the bar in New
York in 1887, when he entered the office of the corporation coun-
sel, in which he remained as junior assistant until 1891. After
practicing a short time alone, he became a partner in the firm of
Putney & Bishop, which became Putney, Twombly & Putney in
1900. Mr. Putney, Sr., having died in 1904, the firm has con-
BIOGKA I'll IKS GRADUATES 343
tinued practice under the same name, Twombly being the senior
partner. His practice has been general in character, but he has
been called upon to give special attention to corporation and tax
law. He has been a member of the board of education and
examiner in Summit and a member of the Summit board of
health. His activity in outdoor life and recreation has continued,
and he states with justifiable satisfaction that he can occasionally
hit a golf ball "into the middle of next week," that he spends his
summer vacations in Canada, fishes for trout, bass and muske-
longe, and still plays baseball. He has always been active in
church work, is a member of the Central Presbyterian Church
of Summit, superintendent of the Sunday school and of the
Neighborhood House Mission, of which he was one of the
founders, the constituency of which includes fifteen different
nationalities. Several other organizations, of a more social
character, largely owe to him their existence.
He married in Boston, Mass., September 12, 1889, Frances
Doane, daughter of Thomas Doane, civil engineer, who con-
structed the Hoosac Tunnel and the Central Vermont Railroad,
and was chief engineer of the Northern Pacific R. R. and the
Boston & Maine North Station, and was founder of Doane
College, Crete, Nebraska. They have one child, Edward
Bancroft, born February 25, 1891 (Yale '12).
Henry R. Wagner
Smelting
American Smelting & Refining Company, 165 Broadway, New York City
Engineers' Club, New York City
Henry Raup Wagner was born in Philadelphia, Pa., September
27, 1862, the son of Jacob Frederick Wagner and Eliza (Kemp)
XYagner, who were married December 25, 1861.
Jacob Frederick Wagner (born Hamburg, Pa., October 7, 1816,
died October 17, 1892) was a manufacturer in Philadelphia, and
was of German- American descent.
Eliza (Kemp) Wagner (born Philadelphia, Pa., October 14,
1828) is of English descent, her ancestors coming from York-
shire. She is now living in Atlantic City.
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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLKC.E
Wagner prepared at the Friends High School in Philadelphia.
In college he was a member of Delta Kappa, Delta Kappa Epsilon
and Wolf's Head.
After graduation he studied at the Yale Law School (LL.B.
'86), was admitted to the bar and started practice in Kansas City
in 1887. He very soon became interested in mining and has since
1887 been engaged in that business, living much of the time in
other countries. In 1890-1891, he was connected with the Census
Bureau, collecting mineral statistics in Denver and New York ;
from 1891 to 1893 was with the Globe Smelting and Refining
Company in Denver; in 1894-1895 was representative in Mexico
of K. P. Allis & Co., makers of mining machinery; became con-
nected in 1898 with M. Guggenheim's Sons and spent the greater
part of the next four years in Chile for them ; in March, 1903,
went to London, where he remained about four years as repre-
sentative of the American Smelting and Refining Company ; and
in 1907 went to Mexico, where he has since remained as a mem-
ber of the executive committee of the Southern Department of
that company. In London, South America and other countries,
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Wagner has improved his opportunities to collect rare books and
pamphlets relating to special topics of historical interest, and in
1907, by special deposit of his collection in the Yale University
Library, made it available to students. He has made valuable
additions to it since that time. Concerning his collection and its
deposit the librarian in his report in August. i<)<>7. made the fol-
lowing statement :
The accessions of tin- year were largely swelled by the generous deposit
by Mr. Henry !\. Wagner, B.A., 1884, of his remarkable library. Mr.
Wagner has long devoted himself to skilfully collecting material on
the history and industries of South America, as well as rare English
political tracts and works in economics, especially upon the bimetallic
controversy. These, numbering 6,430 items, he has deposited in our
Library, where they have been added to our corresponding material
and made available to students. Space forbids describing minutely the
character of these books. We may, however, mention that among them
are a considerable number of Defoe items, which strengthen our collec-
tion, already important in that branch of English literature. Books
of South American travels, publications of South American learned
societies, and government documents are particularly well represented.
Equally important is his collection of books and tracts of the South
American liberation period. Economic and historical tracts of the seven-
teenth and eighteenth centuries are many of them of unique value.
The literature of the South Sea Bubble, the Bank Act of 1844, the history
of English currency at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and the
India currency controversy are particularly well covered by collections
of rare pamphlets and addresses. A numerous collection of Californian
pamphlets during the fifties of the last century are also of peculiar
value. A relatively small part of Mr. Wagner's books duplicate those
we already have. These are not included in the above total.
\Yagner is a member of the American Institute of Mining
Engineers, the Royal Statistical Society of London, and the
Society of Arts and Sciences, London. He has had published,
"Irish Economics, a Bibliography, 1700-1783." Privately printed,
London 1906.
No recent word has come from Wagner, but we understand
that at the beginning of the troubles in Mexico he retired to
El Paso and is now (May, 1914) in New York.
He is unmarried.
346 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Charles M.
Judge, Circuit Court, Cook County, 111.
Court House, Chicago
Residence, 1128 North La Salle Street, Chicago
Charles Morehead Walker was born in Coving-ton, Ky., Sep-
tember 23, 1859, son of Samuel J. Walker and Amanda (More-
head) Walker, who were married October 7, 1858, and had five
other children: Samuel J. (Yale '88), William Ernst (Yale
'<ji S.), Marguerite, Carolyn and Amy.
Samuel J. Walker (born Campbell County, Ky., January 7,
1827, died Chicago, April 16, 1884) went into business for him-
self at the age of eighteen and before he was twenty-five had
financed and built the Kentucky Central Railroad, the principal
railroad of Kentucky. Soon afterward, foreseeing the great
prospects and possibilities of Chicago, he went there and invested
heavily in real estate. His investments multiplied until in 1872
he was rated as many times a millionaire. In the great panic
BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES ^7
of 1873, however, he sustained severe losses, which he never
recovered.
Amanda (Morehead) Walker (born Frankfort, Ky., died
Washington County, Miss., December, 1868) was daughter of
Charles S. Morehead, Governor of Kentucky from 1854 to 1858.
Walker prepared at the High School, Lakeview, 111., and in
college was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon, He Boule, Psi
Upsilon and Wolf's Head, pitcher on the freshman baseball nine,
one of the tug-of-war team, treasurer of the university baseball
club, one of the class historians, and member of the senior prome-
nade committee. He took star parts in several dramatic perform-
ances given in Psi Upsilon and also in public. While in college
he also did much newspaper work.
After graduation he studied law in the office of William C.
Goudy and at Union College of Law, was admitted to the bar in
Chicago, 1886, and practiced there for a time as one of the firm
of Collier & Walker, and later in association with Charles M.
Sherman.
He was elected to the Chicago Board of Aldermen in 1896 and
again in 1898, and took a leading position for honest administra-
tion of city affairs and in advocating city improvements, serving
as chairman of the judiciary committee of the city council, and
on the finance, track elevation and other important committees.
In 1899 ne was appointed corporation counsel of the city by
Mayor Harrison, retaining that position until 1903, and making
a fine record. He conducted many very important cases, includ-
ing that against the Illinois Central Railway establishing the
public rights in the made land on the Lake front, and the litigation
compelling the traction companies to give transfers.
In 1903 he was elected a judge of the Circuit Court of Cook
County, and again in 1909 for a second term of six years. The
Court consists of fourteen judges and disposes of much business
of importance and public interest. For a portion of his term he
has been chief justice.
Walker has always been in politics a Democrat, as would be
known by his political association with Carter Harrison, a school-
mate and playmate of his early youth. Walker's energy, ability
and qualities of leadership have won him many tributes in the
public press — and, incidentally, many more or less accurate pic-
348 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
tures of his alert features have appeared in the newspapers.
From one Chicago paper of 1897 the following extracts are made :
"The dynasty of the 'Hinky Dinks' and the 'Bath Houses' is tottering.
It is trembling, falling under the influence of the new type of alderman.
The very men who have been inclined to deride and ridicule the gentle-
man in the council have begun to sing a new song. They want the
gentleman for the leader. They are planning to make the brainiest gentle-
man of them all the mouthpiece of the administration. . . .
Mr. Walker went into the council at a sacrifice. There was a call
in his ward for a change. He had never been in politics. He was not
a politician by taste or preference. It meant an absolute financial loss
to him. He is a lawyer and time is money. The people with whom he
lived begged him to make the race in the name of civic patriotism. He
told them he did not know the first principles of the game of aldermanic
elections, but he would run provided there was no assessment and the
people would make in time as much sacrifice for him as he would for
them in being elected. The ward was safely republican by 1,500. It had
had a bad alderman by as safe a majority. The old-timers laughed at the
young man who appeared at the meetings.
He was so different from them that they missed the best signs of a
man's nature. They overlooked the signs which stood for determination,
grit, leadership and pugnacity. They prepared to eat him up as they
had eaten up all other democrats who had come their way in the ward.
They did not gauge their meat. It was bigger than they could handle.
He had not been in the council chamber six months before the two-
fisted chaps had learned they had read him wrong — found themselves
convinced by him against their wills. He won them because he was a
gentleman — honest, square, fair, considerate, able to see a good heart even
in an alderman whose grammar was eccentric and whose hair was cut
with a clipping machine."
He is a vestryman of the Ascension Episcopal Church of
Chicago. As opportunity has offered during his busy profes-
sional and judicial life, he has traveled abroad, in the West and
in Canada.
He married in New York, April 4, 1888, Harriet Warner,
daughter of Wyllis Warner (Yale ex- '56) and granddaughter of
Wyllis Warner (Yale '26), who was treasurer of Yale College
from 1832 to 1852, and secretary of the college from 185* till his
death in 1869. They have four children: Amy Morehead (Bryn
Mawr 'i i ), born Chicago, March 29, 1890 ; Harriet Warner, born
Chicago, October 16, 1892, married to John Paul Welling, Feb-
ruary 19, 1914; Charles Morehead, born Wheaton, 111., August 3,
', and Carolyn, born Chicago, July 12, 1899.
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Dean A. Walker
Clergyman
Pastor West Parish Church, Andover, Mass.
Present address, 105 Hancock Street, Auburndale, Mass.
Dean Augustus Walker was born in Diarbekir, Turkey, Feb-
ruary 3, 1860, the son of Augustus Walker and Eliza Mercy
(Harding) Walker, who were married October 16, 1852, and had
one other child: Helen Buck (Wells College, Aurora, N. Y., '89).
Augustus Walker (born Medway, Mass., October 30. iSjj.
died Diarbekir, Turkey, September 13, 1866), a graduate of
Yale '49, and of Andover Theological Seminary '52, was a mis-
sionary in Diarbekir, Turkey, under the American Board of Com-
missioners for Foreign Missions from 1853 until his death in the
cholera scourge of 1866. He was the son of Dean Walker of
Medway (now Millis), Mass., seventh generation in descent from
''Widow Walker" of Rehoboth, Mass., 1643, and brother of
Horace Dean Walker (Yale '41), who died at Palatine Bridge,
N. Y., November 4, 1885.
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Eliza Mercy (Harding) Walker (born Waltham, Mass.,
December 24, 1826, died Auburndale, Mass., January 15, 1906)
was the daughter of Rev. Sevvall Harding and Eliza (Wheeler)
Harding, and sister of John Wheeler Harding (Yale '45), and
William Greenough Harding (Williams '57).
Walker prepared in the public schools of Newton, Mass. In
college he was a member of Delta Kappa and Psi Upsilon, was
substitute on the lacrosse team, member of the class ivy com-
mittee, took two prizes (third) in mathematics, first Berkeley
Premium in Latin composition, High Oration appointment junior
year and Oration appointment senior year.
After graduation he taught one year in the Hopkins Grammar
School in New Haven, then one year as professor of languages in
Colorado College at Colorado Springs. He then took the course
in the Yale Theological Seminary, giving especial attention to the
study of Semitic languages, and graduating with the class of '89.
From 1889 to 1892 he taught, part of the time as principal, in the
preparatory department of the Syrian Protestant College at
Beirut, Syria, where he had one hundred and twenty-five students
in his charge, and gave his spare time to the study of Arabic.
From 1893 to 1895 he was fellow and extension lecturer at the
University of Chicago, from which he received his Ph.D. degree
in Semitics in 1895. From 1895 to 1900 he was professor of the
English Bible and social sciences at Wells College, Aurora, N. Y.
In 1901 he accepted a call to the Congregational Church at South
West Harbor, Maine, but in 1904 resigned his pastorate there on
account of ill health. Since 1908 he has been pastor of the West
Parish Church (Congregational) at Andover, Mass., but is now
taking an interval of rest and living for a few months at Auburn-
dale.
In 1890 he received from Yale the degree of M.A.
He married in Newton, Mass., June 16, 1896, Mary Ladd Smith
(Newton High School), daughter of William Spooner Smith
(Amherst '48), now a retired Congregational clergyman, living in
Worcester, Mass. They have adopted a boy whom they have
named Wendell Augustus Walker, born January 31, 1909.
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*Charles A. Watrous
Died January 20, 1899
Charles Ansel Watrous was born in New Haven December 5,
1863. His parents were George Henry Watrous and Harriet Joy
(Dutton) Watrous, who were married May 14, 1857, and had
two other children: George Dutton (Yale '79), and Elizabeth
Eliot (married E. V. Raynolds, Yale Ph.B. '80), died January
ii, 1900. By a second marriage in 1874, to Lily Mary Graves
of Litchfield, Mr. Watrous had four other children : Maud
(Watrous) Grazebrook, Eliot (Yale '99), Henry Dutton (died
July 31, 1896) and Francis Melzar (Yale '09).
George Henry Watrous (born Bridgewater, Pa., April 26, 1829.
died New Haven, July 5, 1889) was a son of Ansel and Denis
(Luce) Watrous and the descendant of a Welsh ancestor who
came to New England early in the seventeenth century. He was
a graduate of Yale (B.A. '53, LL.B. '55) and widely known as an
eminent lawyer. He served several terms in both branches of the
state legislature, held various municipal offices, and was president
35 2 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad from 1879 to
1887.
Harriet Joy Button was a daughter of the Hon. Henry Button,
governor of Connecticut in 1854, a judge of the Supreme Court of
Errors in this state, and Kent professor of law at Yale. One of
her ancestors, John Punderson, was among those chosen to settle
the civil government of New Haven at the historic meeting of
the free planters of the Colony on June 4, 1639, and, in conse-
quence, was one of the seven who by their covenant founded the
First Church of Christ in New Haven. Another ancestor,
Andrew Eliot, was pastor of the North Church in Boston, refused
the presidency of Harvard College, and saved the manuscript of
Governor Hutchinson's History of Massachusetts Bay from the
mob during the British occupation of Boston.
Watrous prepared at the Hopkins Grammar School, and in
college was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon, and Psi Upsilon,
one of the editors of the Yale Record, and a member of the
senior promenade committee.
After graduation he studied for a year in the Yale Law School
and then went to Colorado, where he spent some time on a cattle
ranch, and later was employed on the staff of the Denver Repub-
lican. In 1887 he took a position on the New York Evening Sun,
first as city editor, and two years later in reporting the financial
markets, in which his work soon commanded attention, leading to
the successful development of that department of the paper under
his direction. He at this time also published articles on financial
subjects in other periodicals. About this time he also wrote a
short play called "Jack's Little Dinner," and occasionally con-
tributed to Life.
In 1892 he had a severe case of typhoid fever and for two years
was obliged to give up active work. This time he spent abroad.
On his return home he became connected with the firm of H. B.
Hollins & Co., in the business of investigating and advising invest-
ments, and in 1895 formed a partnership with Charles Fairchild
of the New York Stock Exchange, and Arthur Lincoln, under the
title, Charles Fairchild & Co., bankers and brokers. He was a
member of the University Club, Marine and Field Club, and at
one time a member of Troop A, of the National Guard of New
York. In January, 1899, he had an attack of appendicitis, and
after about a week's illness an operation was found necessary.
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from which he failed to rally and died on January 20. The
funeral was held in New Haven, and Bristow, Halsey, Dai^vtt.
H. C. Hopkins, Jenks, Trowbridge, Wood, Slu-llmi, and I.. I.
Sanford of our class were bearers.
The Yale Alumni ll'cckly said of him:
There is no one who knew "Chas." Watrous who will not, hearing
of his death, feel a deep sense of personal bereavement, as well as
regret that his life was not spared to permit the full development of
power and success which it promised. Such a combination of happiness
and warmth of feeling, readiness of mind, soundness and strength of
perception, is very rare. His life had many interests. In business he
was already successful and his judgment, ability and energy would surely
have won him high position.
But what a man achieves in business is not the measure of his man-
hood. Watrous will be best remembered for his social qualities — not
mere good companionship, but the higher qualities of friendship and
affection, which are founded in character, together with the readiness
of mind and wit which quickens fellowship. From men and books, and
from all things, he selected what was true and discarded what was false
and trivial. His friendship was of the loyal, hearty and generous kind
which forgives weaknesses without overlooking them — which helps
without wounding.
Those who knew him intimately, know, too, that he loved books
almost as much as he loved people, and that he could give with his
pen a happy turn to the little incidents and especially the humorous
incidents of life. . . .
As a man should, he grew in power and enthusiasm, so that, while
all loved him, in College and out, those who have been closest to him
in the later years will realize best how full his life was of promise, both
to himself and them.
Albert F. Welles
The Mesa, Las Vegas, N. Mex. (last reported address)
Albert Foote Welles was born in Durham, Conn., March n,
1862, the son of Joel W. and Jennie E. Wells.
He prepared at Joseph Gile's School, New Haven.
On leaving college he was engaged for a time in various busi-
ness enterprises and in May, 1886, took a position on the staff of
the New Haven Palladium.
He afterwards entered the Yale Law School, did not complete
his course, but was appointed assistant clerk of the New Haven
Probate Court, where he served faithfully for several years,
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being appointed clerk in 1898. In 1904 he served as chairman of
the Democratic Town Committee. Since his retirement from the
Probate Court he has been in Chicago and other western cities.
On July 3, 1902, he married Miss Phoebe A. Thomas of Xew
Haven.
Arthur B. Wells
Lawyer
19 South La Salle Street, Chicago, 111.
Residence 1334 North State Street, Chicago
Arthur Brattle Wells was born in Chicago, 111., November 23,
1862, the son of Frederick Chapin Wells and Clara (Latimer)
\Vdls, who were married August 18, 1857.
Frederick Chapin Wells (born Salisbury, Conn., October 10,
1830, died Wheaton, Du Page County, 111., October 7, 1904) was
a manufacturer in Chicago. He was a descendant of Thomas
Wells, an early governor of Connecticut and, on the maternal
side, of Rev. Charles Chauncey, second president of Harvard
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College, and Elder William Brewster, who came over in the
Mayflower.
Clara (Latimer) Wells (born Abingdon, 111., October 26, 1837,
died Wheaton, Du Page County, 111., October 7, 1904) was a
descendant of Jonathan Latimer, who in the Revolution was cap-
tain of a company of which Xathan Hale was a member and
whose regiment was under command of Benedict Arnold at the
battle of Saratoga. The Latimers were a prominent family of
Xew London County, Conn., descended from Elder William
IJrewster of the Mayflower. Joseph Latimer, with his father and
six brothers, removed to Tennessee in 1790, and his son Jonathan,
father of Clara, moved from Tennessee to Illinois.
Wells prepared in the Chicago public schools. In college he
was a member of Gamma Nu, took a third prize in mathematics
freshman year and Oration appointments both junior and senior
years.
After graduation he spent one year at the Chicago Law School,
then one year at the Columbia Law School. He took the degree
356 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
M.A. at Columbia in 1866. He then began and has since con-
tinued practice of the law in Chicago, first as clerk in the office of
William J. Hynes, afterwards alone. In 1900 he formed his
present partnership, Wells & Blakeley, with John M. Blakeley
(Ph.B. Yale'86).
He is a Republican in politics, a vestryman in the Episcopal
Church, a member of the Chicago Yacht Club, one of the execu-
tive committee of the Passavant Memorial Hospital, has traveled
considerably in Canada and in this country, and states in his
record that he has a summer home in the Adirondacks, at Keene
Valley, where he would be happy to see any of the class that may
be in that neighborhood. His especial interests in his few
moments of relaxation are telescopic astronomy and microscopy,
also music.
He married in Chicago, 111., June 14, 1893, Jane Creigh Stearns,
daughter of John Kirk Stearns (died January 2, 1904), general
agent Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company. They have
had four children: Creigh, born January 7, 1895, died March
29, 1902; Eleanor O., born October 16, 1897; Beatrice, born
May 29, 1900, died October 27, 1903, and Frederick Chapin, born
June i, 1902.
*Edward Wells
Died July 19, 1908
Edward Wells was born November 25, 1862, son of Edward
Wells and Hannah H. (Nassau) Wells, who were married Octo-
ber 21, 1856, and had two other children, Anna Hamill and
Charles Nassau.
Edward Wells, Sr. (born Durham, N. Y., December 2, 1818,
died Peekskill, N. Y., October 9, 1896), was a prominent lawyer
of Peekskill and held a distinguished position in the state as an
orator and public speaker. He was elected district attorney of
Westchester County for two terms, but declined a third nomina-
tion.
Hannah (Nassau) Wells was the daughter of Dr. Charles W.
Nassau of Lawrenceville, N. ].
Wells prepared at the Peekskill Academy and in college was a
member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon and Delta Kappa Epsilon,
rowed in four races on our class crew and was class poet.
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Six years after graduation he writes: "A year at the IVekskill
Military Academy, where I taught rhetoric and English literature
during1 1884-85, and a year as instructor in ( ireek and Latin at
Dr. Callisen's school in New York City, taught me as much as I
did my pupils. I attended the Columbia Law School during
1885-87, receiving the degree of A.M. in 1886 from the School of
Political Science. I served my clerkship in the offices of Roscoe
I'mikling and of my father, and was admitted to the bar in May,
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1887, and in the same month formed with my father and Hon.
Hiram Barney the firm of Barney & Wells. Since then I have
been practicing law at in Broadway, New York."
In 1891 this firm was dissolved and he and Hon. Avery D.
Andrews continued the Business under the name, Wells &
Andrews, until 1900, after which he practiced alone. He did
considerable work for the corporation counsel's office in New
York. After a short illness and an operation for appendicitis, he
died July 19, 1908, at his home in Peekskill, where he and his
sister had lived together for several years.
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He was always a staunch Democrat and took a keen interest in
the business, social and political life of his neighbors. He was
one of the founders of the Peekskill Lodge of Elks and held high
office in that order in the State of New York, was in 1907 the
Democratic nominee for district attorney of Westchester County,
and was at the time of his death corporation counsel of the vil-
lage of Peekskill. He had taken active part in politics both in
Peekskill and in New York City, and was frequently called upon
in Westchester County for campaign speeches and public
addresses. He was one of the original stockholders and always a
director of the Highland Democrat Company, a newspaper pub-
lishing corporation of Peekskill, organized in 1903, was a member
of the bar associations of the City of New York, Westchester
County, and New York State, a trustee of the Finch School, New
York City, director of the Putnam Spring Water Company, also
of the Ikonograph Company, and a member of many clubs and
societies.
He cultivated his taste for poetry and at one time published a
book of sonnets, besides reading poems at the '84 Triennial, the
D. K. E. convention in Washington, January 1887, the semi-
centennial of the Peekskill Military Academy in 1883, and again
on June 16, 1908, at the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founda-
tion of the academy. He was then president of the Alumni Asso-
ciation of the academy. On the last occasion he read a poem on
"The Practical Age," from which the following excerpts are
especially worthy of permanent recognition :
Oh where are the epics majestic, Miltonic,
Oh where are the narratives sparkling, Byronic,
The splendors that glowed in Lord Tennyson's thought,
The spell of the magic that Longfellow wrought?
Our Brownings, our Shelleys, our Drydens, our Popes,
Are chanting the praises of somebody's soaps,
And the twentieth century rivals of Keats
Grow fat on the rhythmics of pickles and meats.
See, see the fine lyric that points out with care
Some new panacea for saving the hair ;
And note the majestical march of the line,
Which tells you that straw-food for breakfast is fine.
No more we acknowledge a debt to the past
F<>r the Practical Age is upon us at last,
The standard of commerce, impartial prevails
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In the making of verse and the forging of nails,
And the men who create and the men who produce
Are tested alike by the touchstone of use.
The author is he who has dug in a ditch.
Or invaded the haunts of the criminal rich.
Or disguised as a hobo by railway and camp
Has studied the ways of the genuine tramp;
With this, or still better with six months in jail,
Success is assured him, he scarcely can fail.
And music ! How good Saint Cecilia must weep
If ever she leans o'er the fathomless deep
That stretches from earth to the vault of the skies
And hears the faint hum of the sounds that arise.
For music's no longer the "heavenly maid,"
'T is no longer an art, 't is not even a trade ;
You can buy it in boxes or rolls at the shop,
Load up your machinery, pull out the stop,
And hear rag time or opera, song and refrain
Till you swoon with delight, — or the neighbors complain.
In the wider domain of the college and school,
They are learning to follow the practical rule,
Called "fitting a man for his business in life,"
A surgical process that puts in the knife
Full up to the hilt in the good old "Humanities,"
In elegant learning and other like vanities.
Some day the Republic of Labor will find
Its well-earned repose in the Kingdom of Mind,
And an epoch Augustan will come to anneal
This practical era of iron and steel, —
An age which shall prove the philosopher's dream
Of the Physical vanquished, the Spirit supreme.
For the ultimate flower of mind must mature
From the heart of a people, whose life is secure
In the strength of its purpose, the light of its living,
The truth of its beauty, the joy of its giving.
So the age needs no Shakespeare, perhaps, after all,
But it cries out aloud for a Lincoln or Paul.
An earlier effort, "A Masque by the Way," read at a gathering
of '84 men at Delmonico's, March 6, 1886, contains this prophetic
verse :
Of all the cackling broods that Yale
With fostering care could hatch,
The chicks she raised in Eighty-four
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Promise one day to match, —
To say the least, in crowing power,
Fifty-three's fabled batch.
He married April 24, 1889, in New York City, Bertha Reid,
daughter of Aaron Bertrand Reid, and had one son, Edward
Bertrand, born February 3, 1890.
Henry L. Whittlesey
Lawyer
743 Tremont Building, Boston, Mass.
Residence, 10 Regent Street, West Newton, Mass.
I k-nry Lincoln Whittlesey was born in Chelsea, Mass., Novem-
ber 30, 1862, son of Corydon M. Whittlesey and .Maria L. ( Ayer)
Whittlesey, who were married June i, 1849.
Corydon M. Whittlesey (born Old Saybrook, Conn., May jS.
1825, died February 18. KH^ ) was a builder before his retirement
from active business. He was the son of Daniel Whittlesey and
was at one time a member of the Connecticut House of Reprc-
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sentatives. He was descended from Ambrose Whittlesey, who in
1732 married Elizabeth Mather, granddaughter of Rev. Samuel
Mather, one of the founders of Yale.
Maria L. (Ayer) Whittlesey (born Old Saybmok, Conn..
March 16, 1826, died West Newton, Mass., March i, 1906) was
the daughter of William Travis Ayer and Louisa (Clark) Ayer.
Whittlesey prepared at the Hopkins (Jrammar School. In col-
lege he was a member of Gamma Nu and an enthusiastic member
<>f the yacht club, sailing in many of its regattas.
After graduation he studied two years at the Boston University
Law School (LL.B. 1886) and in the office of Richard H. Dana.
After admission to the bar, he traveled abroad, and in January,
iSS;r, began practice in Boston. He was for some time associated
with Albert D. Bosson. After the dissolution of that partnership,
IK- practiced alone until 1907, when he formed his present part-
nership with G. F. Wales. From 1891 to 1903, he was clerk of
the police court of Newton, Mass., and was at one time an alder-
man of Newton.
He is a member of the Congregational Church.
He married in West Newton, Mass., July 6, 1889, Lillian Eddy,
daughter of Caleb F. Eddy. They have four children: John
Kddy. born May 25, 1890; Emilie, born October 17, 1891 ; \Yiii-
nifred, born January 25, 1898, and Catherine Charlotte, born
May 10, i8<
Amos P. Wilder
Diplomatic Service
Residence, 2350 Prospect Street, Berkeley, Cal.
Amos Parker Wilder was born in Calais, Me., February 15,
1862, son of Dr. Amos Wilder and Charlotte (Porter) Wilder,
who had two other children : Dr. Julian Wilder of Augusta, Me.,
and Mrs. George Hobson of Brooklyn, N. Y. Charlotte
(Porter) Wilder was twice married and had also another child.
George P. Additon of Bath, Me.
Amos Wilder (born near Calais, Me., 1824, died 1894) went
to Baltimore and studied dentistry in his youth, but at the age of
forty-five went into the business of manufacturing oil cloth in
Hallowell, Me. His family came from Hingham. Mass., and his
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mother was a Lincoln. The records show that Abraham Lin-
coln's ancestors came from Hingham.
Charlotte (Porter) Wilder (born Milltown, New Brunswick,
1830, died Brooklyn, N. Y., 1907) was a daughter of George M.
Porter, one of the leading lumber merchants and ship owners of
the St. Croix Valley. He was president of the first railroad in
that section.
Wilder prepared at the Augusta (Maine) High School, with
one year at the Highland Military Academy in Worcester, Mass.
In college he was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon. Psi
Upsilon and Skull and Bones, a member of the Record board
freshman year, fence orator both freshman and sophomore years,
sang on the class and university glee clubs, was a Con rant editor
senior year, and one of the class historians.
After graduation he taught one year at Bartlett's School in
Old Lyme, Conn., the second year in Faribault, Minn., with
Samuel A. Booth of our class; was a reporter on the Philadelphia
Press in 1886 and iSSj; fn.ni 1888 to 1892, editor of the Xe\v
Haven Palladium, during which time he look his Ph.D. at Yale:
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worked in New York on the Mail and Express and Commercial
.-lihrrtiser; in 1894 he took a partial interest, afterwards
enlarged, in the State Journal, Madison, Wis., which he retained
until 1912; in 1906 was appointed consul at Hong Kong; and in
1909 consul general at Shanghai, which position he held until
February, 1914, when he resigned.
On leaving Shanghai he was tendered a farewell reception by
the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce and other organiza-
tions in China, at which were expressed the regrets of all that he
was leaving the country. He is now at Berkeley, California,
enjoying a rest.
The gift of expression by tongue and pen, — the power to put
into words the thought, the principle, the emotion and the humor
of life — has caused all who hear and read to marvel. He has told
his own story ; — with the foregoing brief outline of his experience
in mind, listen to him as he tells it.
Speaking of his boyhood, he says : "I was 'all over the place'
as became a boy, — went to the public schools, peddled things,
carried water for elephants, worked in a grocery, and especially
in a bookstore at odd hours, and picked up telegraphing, Mr.
Munsey, the publisher, then being the town 'operator' and taking
an interest in me. While in this frenzy of egotism I think I will
add that before putting up the shutters of 'Frank Pierce's store'
at night, it was the custom of the older clerks to lift me up on
the counter for 'a few remarks/ at one time by request taking
the form of a farewell to the Senate."
Of his college life : "I 'made' the Record in freshman year but
was soon dismissed for incompetency. This was the severest
humiliation I have ever known — I do not like to recall the pitiful
and even perilous dejection in my little room on High Street ; — but
I learned the valuable lesson that one may rally from defeat.
. . . Withal I do not recall my college days with much satis-
faction. I was in terror at times of being 'dropped' and in my
relations to my mates I felt ever 'beating beneath what I was the
man I might be.' The memories, however, of choice men in the
student body and in the faculty, the out-door life, the emotions
of youth, and the aspirations — shabbily as I responded to them —
make a rich legacy to which I cling. . . . While I was too
immature and undisciplined to know what was going on in the
class-room, yet having associated with as good men as the nation
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was producing at that time, and noting that in some ways I held
my own, I emerged with a feeling that I had parts to an extent
and need not be inferior unless I so elected."
Of the time when he was editor of the New Haven Palladium:
"I have never dared to consult the files of that period — what miles
of nonsense my pen must have reeled off — but there was no one
to edit my copy and I could at least be myself. I had a director-
ate of business men to deal with, and they were a kindly lot. This
quick transition from a sense of abysmal failure to Quinnipiac
fame confirmed my theory that one should never be permanently
discouraged. ... It was during this period that I obtained
the Ph.D. degree, attending lectures at odd hours during the day
and often taking up my books after leaving the newspaper office
at midnight . . . An editorial on 'The Big Four' finished me
in New Haven and once more I grew thoughtful."
Of his entrance into Wisconsin journalism and of experiences
of his life there: "The year 1894 was an eventful one for me.
I took a western trip in the spring, seeking an opportunity to
invest in some modest daily newspaper, convinced that salaried
journalism was not a secure calling for such as I. Madison,
\Vis., was on my itinerary. Here I tried to sell some literary
articles to the chief owner and editor of the State Journal, at the
same time suggesting he sell me an interest in his paper mainly
on credit. He declined both propositions and I left for Mil-
waukee. A telegram, however, called me back and he later told
me my persistence had made an impression. I had saved nearly
$5,000 (I was now 32) and with the aid of college and other
friends I secured a quarter interest, and in 1901, by like rashness,
obtained a controlling interest. There is nothing about the car-
rying of a large debt I do not know except the satisfaction of
paying it off. However, eventually I hope for this supreme joy.
. . . The first winter in Wisconsin I secured leave from the
newspaper to do 'extension lecturing' in connection with the
University, — six lectures on Municipal Government in six differ-
ent cities in the lumbering country in the northern part of the
State. I gave the same course at the New York Chautauqua in
1896, and in the summer of 1909 talked there on 'China/ I early
discovered a knack at making speeches, especially of a light and
unimportant character, and in the preparation of these I labored
much. I wrote occasional magazine articles. Meanwhile I was
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getting my roots into Wisconsin ;m<l learning the State. With
the leading i)aper of the Capital city under my control in the
later years, I was necessarily a factor, hut my aggressive attitinK1
on the liquor question was one factor that debarred nu- from
enjoying full confidence of political leaders."
( )f the time spent in the consular service: "We landed in 1 long
kong May 7, 1906, and here I spent three interesting years. A
British colony, I learned to respect the solid qualities of these
masters in dealing with alien peoples. ... I had a summer
trip to Europe many years ago. The first year in China I made
a tour bisecting- the southern half of the Empire, visiting parts
where white men have rarely been. The second year I spent
seven weeks in the Philippines, becoming convinced of the altru-
istic and important nature of our occupation — an object lesson in
colonization. . . . The third year I had an opportunity to see
Japan. Then followed a trip home, whither my family had pre-
ceded me. On June i, 1909, I entered upon my duties as consul
general at Shanghai. Of late I have visited Peking and Man-
churia. ... I have seen a good deal of Chinese schools
and students and look to the leaven of foreign-educated, and
especially American-educated Chinese youth, to show the Empire
the way to honesty and efficiency in government."
Of his inability to attend the twenty-fifth reunion he wrote:
"I feel like a boy who has overslept the unloading of the circus.
The climax of life happened and I was not there ! ... It will
be pleasant to exchange letters with any of the class. I have
made good friends in other relations, but it is only in the golden
years of boyhood that such an intimacy can be woven as binds
those who remain of Yale '84."
But others have been listening to Wilder — all his life he has
been compelling the attention of audiences, in New York, Wis-
consin and other western states and cities, and during his consular
service in China.
The Chautauqua lecture course to which he refers was prob-
ably a continuation of his study and discussion of the problems
of municipal government, a long paper on which, entitled "The
Municipal Problem," was read before the New Haven Chamber
of Commerce, in 1891. In April, 1911, he was elected president
of the University Club of Shanghai, which numbers among its
members many graduates of American universities. In 1912 he
366 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
made a stay of some months in this country for his health and
disposed of his interest in the State Journal.
He is a member of the Congregational Church of Madison and
has held the office of deacon.
He married December 3, 1894, Isabel Niven, a daughter of
Dr. Thornton M. Niven, a contemporary of Garfield at Williams,
who for over thirty years was a clergyman of the Presbyterian
Church, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. They have five children: Amos
Niven, born Madison, Wis., September 18, 1895 (Oberlin '17) ;
Thornton Niven, born Madison, April 17, 1897; Charlotte Eliza-
beth, born Madison, August 28, 1898; Isabel, born Madison,
January 13, 1900, and Janet Frances, born Berkeley, Cal., June 3,
1910.
Nathan G. Williams
General Sales Manager
The Pfaudler Co., 217 Cutler Building, Rochester, N. Y.
Residence, 15 Buckingham Street, Rochester
Nathan Gallup Williams was born in Detroit, Mich., December
9, 1 86 1, son of Nathan Gallup Williams and Helen Clarissa
(Dunham) Williams, who were married April 14, 1859.
Nathan Gallup Williams, Sr. (born Salem, Conn., June 28,
1833, died Detroit, Mich., August 8, 1896), was a manufacturer,
with the Williams Malt Company of Detroit, and was appointed
receiver of the Detroit Electric Light & Power Co., May, 1899.
He was a son of Warren Williams and Elizabeth Stanton
(Gallup) Williams, descendant of an old Connecticut family living
in Salem for several generations. The Stanton line goes back
to Thomas Stanton, who settled in Hartford as early as 1639,
fought with special bravery in the Pequot War, was much in
demand as an interpreter in transactions with the Indians, and
acted as interpreter in the purchase from the Indians of the land
on which New Haven is located. He was one of the founders of
Stonington.
Helen Clarissa (Dunham) Williams (born Bedford, Ohio,
October 30, 1838, died December 7, 1866) was the daughter of
David Burroughs Dunham, whose family came from Williams-
town, Mass.
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367
Williams attended the public schools of Detroit and for one
\ ear before entering college studied with a private tutor.
In college he was a member of Delta Kappa, He Boule, Delta
Kappa Epsilon and Wolf's Head, president of the university
baseball association, vice president of the intercollegiate baseball
association and on the D. K. E. campaign committee.
After graduation he remained in Detroit until 1909, first with
Williams & Co., maltsters, of which firm he later was secretary
and treasurer, later as manager of the Graham Twist Drill Com-
pany, and from 1894 to 1909 as general manager of the Detroit
Twist Drill Company. In 1909 he removed to Rochester, N. Y.,
where he has since been general sales manager of the Pfaudler
Company, manufacturers of glass enameled steel tanks. He is
a director of the Central Bank of Rochester, a member of
the Sons of the American Revolution, in 1908 succeeded
McMillan of our class as president of the Yale Alumni Associa-
tion of Michigan for two years, and in 1913 was elected vice-
president of the Rochester Yale Alumni Association. He has
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devoted himself consistently to his business, believing", as he says,
that "a man was reasonably smart who knew one business and
knew it well."
He is a Republican, a member of the Episcopal Church, and of
several clubs in Detroit and Rochester.
He married in Rochester, N. Y., October 14, 1891, Mary Belle
Brewster, daughter of Henry Pomeroy Brewster of Rochester,
who is engaged in literary work. They have two children :
Nathalie, born Detroit, Mich., July 6, 1892; Warren, born
Detroit, September 24, 1899.
William Williams
Lawyer and Water Commissioner of New York City
Municipal Building, New York City
Residence, University Club, i West 54th Street
William Williams was born in New London, Conn., June 2, 1862,
the son of Charles Augustus Williams and Elizabeth (Hoyt)
Williams, who were married August 28, 1861, and had one other
child, Mary H.
BIOGRAPHIES— GRADU \ i ES
Charles Augustus \\"illianis (born New London, Conn., March
15, 1829, died Washington, D. C, December 31, ]S(^(;) was the
son of Major Thomas \Y. \\'illiains, who he-Id a commission in
the War of 1812, and grandson of General William William- of
Stonington, who held a commission in the War of the Revolution.
The first Williams ancestor, Robert Williams, came from Eng-
land to Koxbnrv, Mass., about 1643, and William Williams, the
signer of the Declaration of Independence, was of the same
family in a collateral line.
Elizabeth (Hoyt) Williams (born Elizabeth, N. J., March 4,
iS^i ) was a descendant of Rev. Jonathan Edwards.
Williams spent a part of his early youth at Honolulu, was from
1873 to 1876 at school at Vevey, Switzerland, then attended for
five years the "Real-Gymnasium" at Wiesbaden, Germany.
He joined our class at the beginning of junior year, was a
member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, and took an Oration appoint-
ment senior year.
After graduation he traveled for a time, then entered the
Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1888. While
there he contributed to the Harvard Law Review (February,
1888) an article on "A Creditor's Right to his Surety's Securi-
ties." He then entered the office of Simpson, Thacher & Bar-
num in New York. In 1892 and 1893 he was working in
Washington and Paris as junior counsel for the United States
in the Bering Sea Arbitration with Great Britain. This
was the third great arbitration between the United States
and Great Britain. The leading counsel for this country \vere
Messrs. Carter and Phelps, and for Great Britain, Sir Charles
Russell and Sir Richard \Vebster, later Lord Chief Justice. The
result was a disappointment to the American counsel, because
the arbitrators compromised and did not apply the remedy urged,
that is, the total prohibition of pelagic sealing. This total pro-
hibition has since been enacted by treaty.
In 1893 he opened an office in New York and later was asso-
ciated with William B. Anderson. In 1902 he was appointed by
President Roosevelt commissioner of immigration at New York
and energetically set to work to correct abuses on Ellis Island,
in which he was most successful. In 1905 he resigned, and until
1909 practiced law, but was then, much against his will, per-
suaded by President Taft to accept a reappointment, and until
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1913 gave himself to the arduous duties of administration at
Ellis Island. He was at work there in his office at the time of the
explosion of the barge-load of dynamite at a Jersey City dock in
February, 1911, which caused much damage to the buildings
at Ellis Island, but he luckily escaped injury.
Most of us know and appreciate in a general way the exacting
requirements of the position on Ellis Island, but few realize
that the report for the year ending June 30, 1911, showed that
749,642 aliens were inspected at the port of New York and of
these 14,500 were deported. The commissioner has not only to
supervise the administration which through an official force of
about 650 cares for and inspects this enormous number of immi-
grants, but he has also to meet, consider, and in many cases resist
the schemes of interested parties, and to stand the brunt of public
criticism and attack which is levelled upon him at the instigation
of those who are unsuccessful in their attempts to evade the law.
During his second term, especially, Williams gave much attention
to the exclusion of mentally defective aliens, delivering public
addresses on the subject, and otherwise advocating more effective
safeguards.
After retiring from Ellis Island in 1913 Williams sought rest
abroad, but his services were demanded in city administration,
and in February, 1914, he was appointed by Mayor Mitchel Com-
missioner of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, and immediately
entered on the work of that office.
He has always been an enthusiastic mountain climber, has
scaled many of the Alpine peaks, and is a member of the Eng-
lish Alpine Club. As one of a party, in the organization of
which he himself had a large part, he joined in a special expedi-
tion for the purpose of climbing Mt. St. Elias, an account of
which attempt, written by him, was published in Scribner's
Magazine, April, 1889. In the same magazine, he also published
an article on "The Charm of Mountain Climbing," in May, 1908.
In that article he answers thus a question which must often be
asked :
"I know that most readers of this article will expect to be told
wherein the attractions of the sport consist, and of these it is
very difficult to convince any one who has not fallen a victim to
them. A very general impression prevails that a desire to risk
BIOGRAPHIES GRADUATES 371
life or perform some reckless feat is the underlying motive of
most ascents in the High Alps. Ruskin has, I believe, said that
climbers regard mountains as 'greased poles.' If seriously
intended, this remark is based on dense ignorance as to the
aspirations of the true mountaineer. His fondness for the
sport might be sufficiently explained by mere reference to the
indescribable attraction which the mountains have for some.
But amongst other and more specific reasons may be cited the
opportunity afforded to indulge in wholesome physical exercise
for long periods in fine air, to walk through and camp out amidst
scenery of extraordinary beauty and grandeur, to observe phases
of nature that can be seen only above the snow line, and to
measure strength with certain obstacles of nature, to overcome
which requires not only technical skill in climbing, coupled with
some powers of physical endurance, but the use of the mind as
well."
The average reader would be justified, especially after seeing
the illustrations which accompany Williams' articles, in believing
that a large part of the fascination must be the sense of overcom-
ing difficulties and that the sense of accomplishment must almost
equal the other more evident rewards of effort.
He celebrated his release from his arduous service at Ellis
Island in 1913 by renewing his acquaintance with the peaks and
glaciers of Switzerland, and has had privately printed an account
of this trip, illustrated.
At the outbreak of the war with Spain, Williams enlisted as a
private in Troop A, N. Y. Vol. Cavalry, but was soon made
commissary of subsistence in the Volunteer Army, with rank of
Major. He had charge of the transport Chester on a voyage to
Porto Rico and return, but on return to New York was taken ill
with typhoid fever and incapacitated for further service.
In 1906 Yale gave him an honorary degree of M.A.
He is a Republican, a member of the Episcopal Church, and of
the University, Metropolitan, Century, Down Town and Riding
Clubs of New York, the Metropolitan of Washington and the
English Alpine in London. He is unmarried.
372 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Herbert W. Wolcott
Lawyer
822 Williamson Building, Cleveland, Ohio
Residence, 5005 Carnegie Avenue, Cleveland
Herbert Walter Wolcott was born in Chicago, 111., November
25, 1861, son of Samuel Wolcott and Harriet Amanda (Pope)
Wolcott, who were married November I, 1843, an(l na(l nine other
children: Samuel Adams (^A'-Yale '66), Henry Roger (Yale
'96 Hon.), Edward Oliver (Yale '70), died Italy, March I, 1905,
Harriet Agnes, William Edgar (Oberlin '74), Katheryn Ellen,
Anna Louise, Clara Gertrude (Smith '83), and Charlotte Augusta
(Smith '86), wife of Charles Francis Bates.
Samuel Wolcott (born East Windsor, Conn., July 2, 1813,
died February 24, 1886), a graduate of Yale '33, and of Andover
Theological Seminary, receiving also the honorary degree of
S.T.D. from Marietta College in 1863, was a clergyman of the
Congregational Church, having held pastorates at Longmeadow,
Mass., Belchertown, Mass., Providence, R. I., Chicago, 111., and
r.iocu \i-ii IKS — GRADUAT1 S 373
Cleveland, Ohio. He was descended fn.ni Roger Wolcott, Gov-
ernor of Connecticut 1750 to 1754, grandson of Henry Wolcott,
one of the early settlers of Windsor. Conn.
Harriet Amanda ( Pope) \\'olcott (born Millbury, Mass., June
2(). iSji. died Longmeadow. Mass.. February 5, 1901) was of
Knglish descent, her family having lived in New Knglaiid for six
or seven generations.
Wolcott attended the public schools in Cleveland, with one year
at Phillips Academy, Andover.
In college he was a member of Kappa Sigma Kpsilon and I )elta
Kappa Epsilon, took a third prize in mathematics sophomore year,
( )ration appointments both junior and senior years, was a Town-
send prize speaker senior year, a Commencement speaker and a
member of the class day committee.
After graduation he studied law in Denver, then took a year at
the Columbia Law School, and started practice in Kansas City,
Mo. With Wagners assistance, he organized the University
Club and the Yale Alumni Association of that city. In 1894 he
removed to Cleveland and practiced there until 1899, when he
became interested in an electric line from Kansas City to Leaven-
worth, took charge of its construction, and on its completion
became general manager, continuing in charge of the line until its
sale in 1905. He then took up practice again in Kansas City,
living in Leavenworth.
In 1909 he went to New Mexico to finance some electrical work,
and had headquarters at Alamagordo, and later spent about a
year in Houston, Texas, but recently returned to Cleveland, where
he is now practicing. In 1898 and 1899 he was elected a
Republican member of the Ohio Senate from Cleveland and \va>
in the thick of the contest which resulted in the election of Mark
Hanna to the United States Senate by one vote. While living in
Leavenworth he was a member and trustee of the Plymouth Con-
gregational Church.
He married in Cleveland, Ohio, October 5, 1898, Nettie May
Gabriel, daughter of William Henry Gabriel, of the Gabriel Car-
riage & Wagon Co., Cleveland, Ohio. They have had four chil-
dren: Mary Gabriel, born Leavenworth, April 30, 1902; Harriet
Amanda, born Leavenworth. July 22, 1905; Edward Oliver, born
September 12, 1911, died at Houston, Texas, June 9, 1912, and
Henry Roger, born Cleveland, Ohio, August 4, 1913.
374 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Henry M. Wolf
Lawyer
134 South La Salle Street, Chicago, 111.
Residence, 3914 Ellis Avenue, Chicago
Henry Milton Wolf was born November 15, 1860, in Rock
Island, 111., son of Moses Wolf and Bertha (Rothschild) Wolf,
who were married October 24, 1854, and had two other children:
Albert H., who studied at the universities of Berlin and Strass-
Imrg, Germany, and William, who died March 17, 1868.
Moses Wolf (born in Hohenzollern-Hechingen, Kingdom of
Wurtemburg, October 28, 1822, died Chicago, January 29, 1896)
was a merchant in Chicago until his retirement from active busi-
ness about 1880.
Bertha (Rothschild) Wolf (born in Nordstettin, Germany,
May 31, 1827, died February 13, iS<n) was the daughter of a
merchant.
\\"<>lf graduated at the Chicago High School in iS/S, but as he
had studied neither Greek nor Latin, he devoted the next two
years to these subjects at the preparatory school of the old I'ni-
BIOGRAPHIES— GRADUATES 375
versity of Chicago and with private tutors. In college IK- was a
member of Kappa Sigma Kpsilon, took a Berkeley Latin pri/e.
two first Knglish composition pri/.es, took Philosophical ()rati«>n
appointment both junior and senior years, spoke in the Junior
Kxhibition. \\a- an editor of the )'<//«• Literary Mn^u.::inc. and
class orator. He also assisted Professor W. I. Knapp in junior
year by reading proof for his "Modern Spanish Readings," and
did other literary work.
In August, iSS_j, lie began his law studies with the firm of
Dupee. ludah \- \\'illard of Chicago, to which he was admitted
as a junior partner in October, 1886, shortly after his bar exam-
inations. The firm now stands as Judah, Willard, Wolf & Reich-
maun. During these early years he wrote a few reviews for a
local journal and also an occasional article, but since then pro-
fessional duties have taken practically all his time. He has "made
it a point to travel when he was not working and so has visited
nearly every state and territory in the United States, also Canada,
British Columbia, Alaska, Mexico, etc., and has made numerous
trips to Europe/'
He is a member of the Jewish church and of many Chicago
clubs, and is "a Republican with independent tendencies."
He is unmarried.
Joseph Wood
Lawyer
141 Broadway, New York City
Residence, Sayville, Long Island, N. Y.
Joseph Wood was born in Riverhead, L. I., N. Y., August 12,
1862, son of John Wood and Matilda Mehitable (Vail) Wood,
who were married February 14, 1851, and had two other children :
Mary Ellen and James Tuthill (e.r-'S^ Columbia School of
Mines).
John Wood (born Brookhaven, L. I., N. Y., February 5, 1819,
died Sayville, N. Y., December 20, 1886) was a merchant of Say-
ville. He was postmaster at Sayville, justice of the peace of the
town of Islip, Suffolk County, N. Y., county clerk of Suffolk-
County (1862-1868) and supervisor of the town of Islip from
1872 to 1881 (inclusive). He \vas a son of Joseph Wood, who
came from Yorkshire, England, about 1800, and Sally Hallock
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of Quogue, L. I., who was a descendant of early English settlers
of eastern Long Island.
Matilda Mehitable (Vail) Wood (born Riverhead, L. L, March
25, 1827, died Sayville, L. L, April 18, 1901) was a daughter of
Gamaliel Vail and Harriet (Wells) Vail, descendants of English
settlers of New England (Vails of Salem, Mass. Colony).
Wood prepared at the Hill School, Pottstown. Pa., after
attending public schools in Sayville, and the Xewark (Del.)
Academy,
In college he was a member of Delta Kappa and Delta Kappa
Epsilon.
After graduation he went to the Columbia Law School, receiv-
ing his degree in ?86. He also took the degree »»l" M.A. the same
year in the School of Political Sciences. He has ever since prac-
ticed law in New York. For a time he also practiced in New
Jersey, having an office in Jersey City, and for several years ha>
had an office in Sayville, dividing his time between Sayville and
New York. In 1902 he was nominated on the Democratic ticket
f<>r county judge of Suffolk County, but was defeated.
BIOGU Ai'im.s — GRAnr.vi BS Ml
He is a member of the I'niversity Club, New York City, past
master of the Counetquoh Lodge, F. & A. M., and member of
the South Side Yacht Club, Loin; Island.
He married in New Castle County, Del., March 4, 1891, Ellen
Purves Tybout (Miss Thomas's School, "Wilmington), daughter
of George Zebulon Tybout. now deceased. They have two chil-
dren: Elizabeth Maxwell Tybout, born New Castle Co., Del.,
March 7, iStjj (Miss Porter's School, Farmingtnn. ('<>nn., 1910),
married Walter Lispenard Suydam, Jr., March 25, 1913, and
Ellen Tybout, born Sayville, N. Y., May 29, 1896 (Miss Porter's
School).
Harry A. Worcester
Railroad Manager
C. C. C & St. L. R. R. Offices, Cincinnati, Ohio
Residence, Keys Crescent, 1935 Madison Road, Cincinnati
Harry Augustus Worcester was born in Albany, N. Y., Novem-
ber 18, 1862, son of Edwin Dean Worcester and Mary Abigail
(Low) Worcester, who were married April 30, 1855, and had
six other children: Edwin Dean (Yale '/6), George Henry
(Annapolis '75), Franklin Eldred (Yale '82, Ph.D. and M.E.,
died Helena, Mont., March 3, 1891), Charles Frederick (died
Albany, N. Y., August 16, 1860), Wilfred James (Yale '85), and
Margaret Dows.
Edwin Dean Worcester (born Albany, N. Y., November 19,
1828, died New York City, June 13, 1904) had a large connec-
tion with railroad work, being for many years secretary of the
N. Y. C. & H. R. R. R. Co. ; also vice president of the L. S. &
M. S. Ry. Co., and vice president of the Michigan Central R. R.
Co. He was also director and officer of many subordinate roads,
connected with the New York Central system. He was the son
of Eldad Worcester, who was born in Tewksbury, Mass., 1794,
moved to Albany, N. Y., in 1826, a lawyer, and was the
eighth generation from Rev. William Worcester, who came
to this country from England and was pastor at Salisbury, Mass.,
1638 to 1643. The family had always lived about Lowell and
Tewksbury, Mass. The mother of Edwin Dean Worcester was
Sarah Chickering of Andover, Mass., born June 23, 1795, died
April 3, 1869.
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Alary Abigail (Low) Worcester (born Albany, N. Y., October
30, 1830, died Stonington, Conn., July 20, 1906) was a daughter
of Warren S. Low, born Crescent, Saratoga County, N. Y.,
March 9, 1806. He moved to Albany in 1820, and was a
machinist. He was the seventh generation from Thomas Low,
who came from England to Ipswich, Mass., in 1645. Her mother
was Mary Armenia (Walker) Low, born in Oak Hill, Greene Co.,
X. Y., who was the sixth generation from Philip Walker, who
came to Rehoboth, Mass., from England, in 1653.
Worcester attended the State Normal School and was six years
at the Albany Boys' Academy.
In college he was a member of Delta Kappa, He Boule, Psi
Upsilon and Wolf's Head, of the freshman and senior class sup-
per committees and played on the class nine three years.
After graduation he spent five months in Europe, then entered
railroad work on December 22, 1885, as clerk in the Grand Central
Depot, New York City, and was there until May, 1889. He
entered the superintendent's office of the L. S. & M. S. Ry. Co.,
lUifTalo, N. Y., as clerk, August 4, 1890; became assistant train-
master, Youngstown, Ohio, on same railroad, August 4, 1891 ;
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was made superintendent on same road as follows: llillsdale,
Mich., February i, 1892; Detroit, Mich., June I, 1896; Buffalo,
November i, 1902; Chicago. February I, 1905; was then trans.
f erred to the Michigan Central l\. 1\. as assistant general super
intendent on April 15. 1905, and made general superintendent
November 9, 1905 ; was then transferred to Lake Shore & Michi-
gan Southern Railway as general superintendent February 15,
1906, and ( Vtober i, 1906, was sent to the C. C. C. & St. L. Ry.
as assistant general manager at Cincinnati, Ohio, and in 1913 was
appointed general manager of the C. C. C. & St. L., the
Peoria and Eastern Ry. Co., and the Cincinnati Northern R. R.
Co. This synopsis of activity and successive promotions in rail-
road service will mean much to all who know Worcester and are
able from that acquaintance to picture to themselves his untiring
mental and physical energy.
He is a trustee of the Seventh Presbyterian Church, Cincinnati,
Ohio, and member of many clubs in Cincinnati and Detroit, and
of the University clubs of New York City and Chicago.
He married in Detroit, Mich., October 18, 1905, Elizabeth
Howard Whiting, daughter of John Talman Whiting, of Detroit,
who was formerly general manager of the Anchor Line on the
Great Lakes.
Edward A. Wright
State Civil Service Commissioner
Room 55 State Capitol, Hartford, Conn.
Residence, 17 Huntington Street, Hartford
Edward Augustus Wright was born in Cromwell, Conn.,
August 25, 1862, son of Samuel Augustus Wright and Ann
Maria (Butler) Wright, who were married September 8, 1858,
and had two other children: Willis Benton (Yale Ph.B. '81),
and Alice May (died Aleriden, Conn., 1869).
Samuel Augustus Wright (born 1822 in Massachusetts, died
Auburn, N. Y., 1870) was the son of Samuel Wright and Olive
(Benton) W right and traced his descent from James Wright of
Milford and Durham (1698).
Ann Maria (Butler) Wright (born Cromwell, Conn., died
Meriden, Conn., 1868) wras a descendant of Richard Butler,
a deacon in the church of Rev. Thomas Hooker, who came with
his church members from Boston and settled Hartford in 1636.
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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
\Yright went to school in Meriden, Conn., Auburn, N. Y..
Cromwell, Conn., Middletown, Conn., and finished preparation
at the Hillhouse High School, New Haven.
In college he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon, the
bicycle club, hare and hounds club, and natural history society.
After graduation he entered the Connecticut Indemnity Asso-
ciation of Waterbury and was its secretary from 1884 to 1894.
and actuary until 1896. From 1896 to 1913 he was with the
Hartford Life Insurance Company in Hartford, and from 1905
assistant to the vice president. In November, 1913, he was
appointed (after competitive test) chief examiner and secretary
to the Connecticut State Civil Service Commission.
He is a Republican and a member of the Congregational
Church of Cromwell, Conn.
He married in Cromwell, Conn., April 25, 1888, Sarah F.dwanK
Wilcox, daughter of George Savage Wilcox. now deceased.
They have one child: Frances \Vilcox, born \Yaterbury, Conn..
March 9, 1894.
BIOGRAPHIES OF FORMER MEMBERS
Arthur N. Ailing
Physician
257 Church Street, New Haven, Conn.
Arthur Nathaniel Ailing was born in New Haven, July I, 1862,
the son of George Ailing, a manufacturer, and Mary (Alverson)
Ailing.
Ailing prepared at the Hopkins Grammar School and entered
with our class, but was obliged to leave in freshman year on
account of illness. At the end of two years he reentered with
'86, and graduated with that class.
After graduation he took a year of advanced work in chemistry
and biology in the Scientific School, and then, after a winter in
the West for his health, entered the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, from which he graduated in 1891. Having specialized
in diseases of the eye, ear and throat, he became assistant in
Dr. Knapp's Eye and Ear Hospital in New York, but returned
to New Haven in 1893 to enter private practice.
Since then he has held the following positions : assistant sur-
geon in the New York Ophthalmic and Aural Hospital, 1897-
1901 ; in the Yale Medical School, lecturer on ophthalmology,
1893-1894, instructor 1894-1902, professor since 1902; chief of
the Eye Clinic in the New Haven Dispensary since 1896; and
ophthalmic surgeon in the New Haven Hospital since 1905. He
is also a member of the American Ophthalmic Society, the New
York Ophthalmic Society, and fellow of the New York Academy
of Medicine.
He has published many articles in medical journals, and in
1905 a book on "Diseases of the Eye."
On October 27, 1887, he married Frances Walker, daughter of
George L. Walker of Pawtucket, R. I. They have one child.
Helen Frances, born October 16, 1888.
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*William Anderson
Died May 28, 1884
William Anderson was born October 6, 1862, in Norwalk,
Conn., son of Rev. Joseph Anderson and Anna Sands (Gilder-
sleeve) Anderson, who were married January 24, 1859, and
had four other children : Mary Rose (married Dr. Carl E.
Munger and died November 25, 1889), Joseph (LL.B. Yale '95),
Anna Sands and Isabel Hoyt.
Joseph Anderson was born in the Highlands of Scotland,
December 16, 1836, but his parents moved to America six years
later and settled in New York State. A graduate of the Union
Theological School, he held pastorates in Stamford, Norwalk and
Waterbury, and has been a member of the Yale Corporation since
1884. He is also a member of many antiquarian societies and
well-known for his interest in the early history of New England.
Anna Sands (Gildersleeve) Anderson (born in New York
City, April 4, 1835, died Woodmont, Conn., April 6, 1914) was
the daughter of Thomas Jefferson Gildersleeve of New York,
and descended from early Dutch settlers of that State.
Anderson prepared at the Jennings Classical School, Water-
bury, but left college in sophomore year to go into business in
Bridgeport. He died in Waterbury, May 28, 1884, after a brief
illness.
Martin Andrews
Iron Founder
29 South La Salle Street. Chicago, 111.
Residence, 5700 Winthrop Avenue, Chicago
Martin Andrews was born in Steubenville, Ohio, August n,
1861, son of Martin Andrews and Caroline (Wolcott) Andrews,
who were married in 1851, and had three other children: John
Wolcott (Yale '76), died December 30, 1887; Lucy (Andrews)
King; and Caroline (Andrews) Fuller.
Martin Andrews, Sr. (born Columbus, Ohio, 1839, died
Chicago, July, 1881), a graduate of Kenyon College in 1848 and
of the Harvard Law School, was in the real estate business in
Columbus and Chicago. The family is descended from a Dutch
ancestor who came from Holland in 1750.
BIOGRAPHIES — FORMER MEMBERS 383
Caroline (Wolcott) Andrews was born in \\indsor, Vt, in
1841, and died in Milton, Mass., April, 1909.
Andrews prepared at Russell's Collegiate and Commercial
Institute in New Haven and in college was a im-mbcr of Kappa
Sigma Epsilon, and Delta Kappa Epsilon, and secretary and treas-
urer of our class baseball club in 1881 and 1882.
He left at the end of sophomore year and engaged in the hard-
ware business with Keith, Benham & Dezendorf of Chicago until
July, 1886, when he organized the Illinois Wire Nail Company of
Chicago, becoming its secretary and treasurer. He is now presi-
dent of the King £ Andrews Co., iron founders, of Chicago.
Andrews married in Camden, Maine, August 29, 1885, Edith
Sylvester Erskine, daughter of Freeman Parker Erskine of Wis-
casset, Maine. They have had four children : Erskine, born
March, 1887, died at Nipigon River, Ontario; Martin, born
April, 1889; Barbara Wolcott, born May, 1894; and Wolcott,
born May, 1903.
*John H. Arnot
Died May 25, 1899
John Hulett Arnot was born in Elmira, N. Y., July 7, 1860,
son of Hon. John A. Arnot and Anne Elizabeth (Hulett) Arnot,
who had one other son, Matthias C. Arnot (Yale '91), who died
July 31, 1901.
John A. Arnot (born March n, 1831, died November 20,
1886), at one time a member of Yale '54, was a prominent citizen
of Elmira, its first mayor, and a member of Congress from 1880
to 1884. His father, John Arnot, was a native of Perthshire and
settled in Elmira, where he founded the Chemung Canal Bank,
and became one of the leading men in that part of New York.
Anne E. (Hulett) Arnot was the daughter of Hon. Charles
Hulett of Horseheads, N. Y.
Arnot prepared at Williston Seminary and the Hopkins Gram-
mar School, in college was a member of Delta Kappa and the
Yale University Club. He left our class at the end of freshman
year, entered '85, and graduated with that class. He was (with
'85) a member of Skull and Bones.
After graduation he became clerk in the Chemung Canal Bank
of Elmira, and shortly after was made vice president and cashier,
384 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
holding- that position until his death of tuberculosis. May 25, 1899.
Ray Tompkins, of our class, writes in the '85 class record : "He
attended most faithfully to his duties up to within thirty days of
his death. He died of tuberculosis and was in very bad shape
for a year previous to his death, but showed the greatest exhibi-
tion of pluck I have ever seen; he stayed right at his work until
he was no longer able to stand on his feet. I don't know of
another human being in this world who could do what he did."
Abraham Asher
Manufacturer
48 Chauncey Street, Boston, Mass.
Residence, 1481 Beacon Street, Brookline, Mass.
Abraham Asher was born in New Haven, January 25, 1863,
son of Lewis Asher and Harriet (Strouse) Asher, who were
married in 1850 and had eight other children: Adolph (LL.B.
Yale '72), died September 25, 1884; Harry W. (LL.B. Yale '83),
Jennie, Fannie, Charles L., Celia, Isaac and Idalia L. (died
November 18, 1889).
BIOGRAIMI1KS— 1-uKMKK MEMBERS 385
I .ewis Asher (born ( iermany, December 26, 1824, died New
Haven, February 11, 1902) came to New Haven in 1848, one of
the earliest Jewish settlers. Me was a merchant and at <>ne time
town constable.
Harriet (Strouse) Asher was born in (iermany. January 28,
1823, and died in New Haven, October 30, 1890.
Asher prepared at the Hillhouse High School, and was a num-
ber of Kappa Sigma Kpsilon. hut left college at the end of fresh-
man year. He became general superintendent in the retail dry
goods house of L. T. Levy, Boston, Mass. On January i, 1891,
he became a member of the firm of Lehrburger & Asher, manu-
facturing furriers, with which he is still connected.
He is a member of the Temple Israel, Boston, and belongs to
the Zetland Lodge, F. & A. M., Brookline Lodge, B. P. O., and
the Elysium and Vale clubs of Boston.
He married March 12, 1902, Lilly Doretta Frank, graduate of
the West \Yinsted High School, and daughter of William Frank,
a merchant of New Haven. They have one son, Frank Lewis,
born January 19, 1904, in Brookline.
•
Francis P. Bacheler
Clergyman
Talcottville, Conn.
Francis Peck Bacheler was born in Lebanon, Conn., September
25, 1862, the son of Francis E. M. Bacheler and Frances A.
(Smith) Bacheler.
Francis Eben Merriam Bacheler (born July I, 1818, died April
i, 1887) came from Douglas, Mass., graduated from Brown I'ni-
versity, from the Union Theological Seminary in 1850, and held
pastorates in several towns of New York and Connecticut.
Frances Augusta (Smith) Bacheler (born 1828, died 1903)
was a native of Lebanon.
Bacheler prepared for college at home, stayed with us during
freshman year, and was a member of Delta Kappa. He ree'n-
tered Yale in the sophomore class of '85 and took his degree with
that class, graduated from the Yale Divinity School in 1887, and
then took a parish in Florida for the sake of his health. After
two years he returned to the Xorth, and became acting pastor of
the Congregational churches in Lebanon and Bozrahville, Conn.,
25
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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALK COLLEGE
holding that position until 1892, when he was called to East Hart-
ford. He remained there until 1909 and then took charge of the
Congregational Church of Talcottville. He further reports him-
self as a Free Mason, a Granger and chaplain of a military
company.
On April 10, 1888, he married Rebecca Hope Fuller, daughter
of James E. and Rebecca P. Fuller of Norwich, Conn. They
have seven children: Frances Hope, born June 16, 1889; Muriel,
born September 24, 1890; Theodore, born October 18, 1893;
Robert Shaw, born July 17, 1896; Isabel, born December 12,
1898; Christine, born April 24, 1902; and Clementine, born
March 20, 1907.
Louis W. Baldwin
62 Garden Street, New Haven, C'< nn.
Louis WhitlkT I'aldwin was horn in Xcw Uritain. Conn., April
3, 1860, the son of Charles L. Baldwin and Jennette Adelaide
(Sharpe) Baldwin, who were married in 1848, and had also a
daughter, Jessie W. Baldwin.
Charles L. Baldwin (born 1822, Meridcn, died March 15, 1906,
New Haven) was a manufacturer with Sar-vnt & Co. He was
BIOGRAPHIES — FORMER MEMBERS 387
at one time a member of the State legislature and held various city
offices. His ancestors were all New England people, the original
Baldwin coming from England in 1630.
Jennette A. (Sharpe) Baldwin (born January, 1825, died Feb-
ruary, 1897) was of New England stock on the mother's side and
English on the father's.
Baldwin prepared at the Hopkins Grammar School and entered
college with 'S^. but joined our class freshman year. He was a
member of Delta Kappa. At the end of sophomore year, he
entered the Yale Law School, from which he graduated in 1884,
but has never practiced, rinding occupation in the care of his
father's estate and the pursuit of health, which obliges him to
spend the greater part of the year in the Adirondacks.
He is a member of the Quinnipiack and Young Men's Repub-
lican clubs. He is unmarried.
Frederick McL. Barbour
Highland Springs, Va.
Frederick McLeod Barbour was born in Peabody, Mass., on
August 22, 1862, the second son of Rev. William McLeod
Barbour and Eliza Ann (Ransom) Barbour. Another son,
\Yilliam Ransom Barbour, graduated at Yale in 1880.
William McLeod Barbour (born Fochabers, Scotland, May 29,
iS_7. died Maiden, Mass., December 5, 1899) came to this
country in 1851, from Fochabers, and graduated from Oberlin in
1859. He was pastor and professor in the Bangor Theological
Seminary from 1869 to 1877, for ten years Chittenden Professor
of Divinity and College Pastor at Yale, and for ten more years
principal of the Congregational College in McGill University,
Montreal.
Eliza A. (Ransom) Barbour was born in LeRoy, N. Y., in
1831, and died in Winthrop, Mass., in 1908. Her ancestors wc-ix-
among the earliest settlers of central New York.
Barbour fitted at the Hopkins Grammar School and in college
was a member of Gamma Nu, Psi Upsilon, and the Yale lacrosse
association. In junior year he left our class to enter '85, and
graduated with that class.
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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Until 1889 he was in Kansas in the employ of the Missouri
and Kansas Telephone Company, and for another four years with
the General Electric Company, both in Lynn and Boston. From
1893 to 1902 he was head clerk with Herman Strater, brass and
copper works, Boston, but at last "got tired of getting up at
midnight" and became assistant treasurer of the Clark Manu-
facturing Company in Boston. In 1906 he removed to Highland
Springs, Henrico County, Va., where he holds a position with
the American Locomotive Company, takes an active part in the
development of the town, and as school trustee and chairman of
the board has an especial interest in education. He writes, ''I
have never so enjoyed living anywhere as I do here."
Barbour married in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 6, 1904, Laura
Edith Dunbar, daughter of John Dunbar, a packing-box manu-
facturer of New York. Their daughter, Katherine Dunbar. was
born in Winthrop, Mass., May 30, 1905.
-Charles S. Beck
Died September 2, 1895
Charles Seidles Beck was born October n, 1860, at Wilkes-
1'arrc, Pa. He joined <»ur class fn.m the ranks of '83, was with
BIOGKAI'll IKS — FORMER MEM1H.KS
us during our junior year, and played on the university football
team.
The following is taken from the 'S^ class book:
Beck studied at the Medical 1 )epartmcnt of the University of
Pennsylvania, maintaining there the reputation as an athlete
already won at Yale and being- graduated ( M.I ). iSSdj eighth in
a class of 120. He practiced in \\ 'ilkes-Uarre and Mill Mill.
Pennsylvania, and, from 1890, in West Superior, Wisconsin. He
was a member of the Wisconsin State Medical Society and \va>
president of the Douglas County (Wisconsin) Medical Society
and a censor of the Duluth Superior Academy of Medicine.
He married, June 14, 1892, May Hess of Lock Haven, Penn-
sylvania.
He had one child: Charles Seidles, born February 7, 1896;
he is at school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and expects to go to
Vale.
William H. Bentley
Manufacturer
95 Ninth Street, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Residence, 435 East 4th Street, Brooklyn
William Harmon Bentley was born in Ellenville, N. Y., Sep-
tember 25, 1861, son of Edward W. Bentley and Emily
(Humphrey) Bentley, who had other children: Caroline
Humphrey, born 1856, Edward M., born 1858 (Yale '80), Eve-
lyn McCurdy, born 1863, Annie Preston, born 1866. All but
Caroline are still living.
Edward Warren Bentley (born Coleshire, Mass., July 23, 1826,
died Canton Center, Conn., 1886) was a graduate of Yale, 1850,
and of the East Windsor Theological Seminary, from which he
was called to the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church at Ellen-
ville, N. Y., where he remained until his death. In 1877 he
received the degree of D.D. from the University of New York.
His ancestors were New England people and traced their line to
John Bentley, who came from England in 1720 and settled in
Rhode Island.
Emily (Humphrey) Bentley (born Canton Center, Conn., June
17, 1826, died September 2, 1907) was the daughter of Louis
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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Harmon Humphrey and Sophia (Chidsey) Humphrey. The
Humphreys came from Lyme Regis, England, to Windsor, and
later, in 1669, settled in Simsbury.
Bentley prepared at Williston Seminary, and in college was a
member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon, and substitute on the freshman
football team. He left early in 1881 to take employment with the
Davis Oil Company, and remained with that firm until 1889, when
his health required change of work and he went to Jersey City
as treasurer of the Windsor Trucking Company. From 1892
to 1895 he was in the patent business with his brother; from
1895 to 1903, manager of the Straight Manufacturing Company,
hardware specialties, of Jamestown, N. Y. ; 1903 to 1905,
manager of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of
America; 1906, employed in the Automobile Department of
Studebaker Brothers Company of New York; 1907 to date,
Miprrintendent of the Davis Oil Company.
He published an article on Animal Fats and Oils in the Scien-
tific American of April 24, 1909.
BIOGRAPHIES roKMl.K MK.MHKRS 391
On April 21, 1886, he married Cora Neafie, daughu-r «>f I Iniry
P. Neafie, United States Customs Inspector of Brooklyn. She
died December 21, 1892. They had two daughters: Emily
lldegerte, born September 2, 1887. and Ruth Sherman, born
l-Ylirnary 16, 1889.
He married (2) October 14, 1896, Annie Louise Gift of Wash-
ington, D. C.. wh«» died November, 1900. They had two
daughter^: Louise Clift, born November 13, 1897, and Marion,
born September 16, 1899, died November 7, i <;<><).
He man k-<] ( :> ) May 28, 1902, Hope Field of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Henry A. Bishop
Post Office Box 296, Bridgeport, Conn.
Residence, 179 Washington Avenue, Bridgeport
Henry Alfred Bishop was born in Bridgeport, Conn., Decem-
ber 4, 1860, son of William Darius Bishop and Julia Ann (Tom-
linson) Bishop, who were married October 21, 1850, and had five
other children: Mary Ferris, Alfred (died April 18, 1854),
Russell Tomlinson (Yale Medical School ^-'78 and '79) »
39 2 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, VALE COLLEGE
Ham Darius (Yale '8oj, died January 23. 1912, and Nathaniel
Wheeler (Yale ex-'Sg).
The family line goes back to Rev. John Bishop of Stamford.
Alfred Bishop, grandfather of Henry, was an active and suc-
cessful contractor, building the Morris Canal in New Jersey,
and afterwards the Hotisatonic and Naugatuck railroads in this
state.
\Yilliam Darius Bishop, the father (born Bloomfield, New
Jersey, September 14, 1827, died Bridgeport, February 4, 1904),
graduated from Yale in 1849, spent some years in the service of
the New York and New Haven and the Naugatuck railroads, of
both of which he later became president. In 1880 declining
health obliged him to resign from active railroad service, and he
was made president of the Eastern Railroads Association, an
organization for mutual protection against patent suits. In 1857
he was elected to Congress for a term, at the close of which he
was appointed commissioner of patents by President Buchanan.
Julia Ann (Tomlinson) Bishop (born Bridgeport, March 19,
1832, died Lenox, Mass., October 9, 1906) was a daughter of
the Hon. Russell Tomlinson, president of the Bridgeport Spring
and Axle Company, and a descendant of Governor Tomlinson of
Connecticut.
"Hen" Bishop attended the Hillside School in Bridgeport,
Hurlburt's School at Lyme Rock, Conn., and General Russell's
Collegiate and Commercial Institute in New Haven. He was
also tutored by Professor Olmstead of Wilton, and C. H. Kelsey
(Yale '78). In college he was captain and stroke of our fresh-
man crew, won prizes in single scull and bicycle races and in
tug-of-war contests, was a member of the executive committee
of the Yale Athletic Association, and of Delta Kappa, and He
Boule. Leaving our class at the end of freshman year, he
entered railway service September 21, 1881, since which he has
been to February i, 1886, general ticket agent Naugatuck Road;
February 21, 1883, to February I, 1886, also purchasing agent;
November I, 1885, to February i, 1886, also assistant superin-
tendent same road; February i, iXSn. appointed superintendent
rlousatonic Road, and after lease of Danbury Road to Hotisa-
tonic Road appointed general superintendent last-named road
and leased lines; April i, 1887, to March i. n>O2, purchaMng
agent New York, New Haven & Hartford Road; resigned last-
named position to become connected with the syndicate which
BIOGRAPHIES FOKMKK M KM IJKKS ^93
acquired control of the West Virginia (Vntral \ Pittsburgh and
Western Maryland roads, and \va- at lirst acting vice president
and afterwards vice president of both roads until December i.
1903. At the present time he is not engaged in active railway
service.
The list of institutions and business companies with which lie
is connected is a long one, including-:
Bridgeport Public Library, president and director; Bridgeport Hospital,
director; Bridgeport Protestant Orphan Asylum, trustee; Bridgeport
Boys' Club, vice president and director; Mountain Grove Cemetery Asso-
ciation, director; St. Vincent's Hospital, director; Brooklawn Corpora-
tion, director; Connecticut Humane Society, director; Connecticut
National Bank, director; Read Carpet Company, director; Western
Union Telegraph Company, director and member executive committee;
American District Telegraph Company of New Jersey, director and mem-
ber executive committee ; Herrick Complete Combustion Company, vice
president, director and member executive committee; Bridgeport Board
of Trade, vice president and ex-president; The Pacific Iron Works,
vice president, director and member executive committee; The Fire
Protection Development Co., president and director; American Grapho-
phone Company, director; The Brady Brass Co., vice president and
director; The Clapp Fire Resisting Paint Company, president, director
and member executive committee ; Kansas City, Mexico & Orient R. R.
Co., director; People's Savings Bank, trustee; Automatic Machine Co.,
director; Tuscarora Valley R. R. Co., director; Tuscarora R. R. Co.,
director; Tuscarora Terminal R. R. Co., director.
In politics he is a Democrat, was alderman in Bridgeport
1885-6, a member of the Connecticut legislature in 1886, ran for
state senator the same year, was delegate to the Democratic
National Convention in 1888, president of the Police Commis-
sioners of Bridgeport 1888-90, ran for secretary of state in 1888,
was paymaster-general of Connecticut on the staff of Governor
Morris, 1893-4, and ran for lieutenant governor in 1904. Bishop
is a member and vestryman of St. John's Episcopal Church,
belongs to a number of Masonic orders, and also to numerous
clubs and associations in Bridgeport, New York and other cities.
After this long list of activities, one would suppose that Bishop
could have found no time for college or class affairs, but he is
one of the most loyal and active of our class family, never miss-
ing an opportunity or failing in quick response to every call.
His enthusiasm is inspiring.
On February 6, 1883, he married Jessie Alvord Trubee (Hill-
side '82), daughter of William Edgar Trubee, a merchant of
394 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Bridgeport. They have had four children, all born in Bridge-
port: William Alfred, born July 25, 1885, died August 24, 1886;
Marguerite Alvord, born August 29, 1887; Henrietta, born
November 18, 1893; Henry Alfred, Jr., born April 20, 1902.
*Charles M. Boswell
Died December 20, 1881
Charles Miner Boswell was born December 20, 1862, in West
Hartford, Conn., the son of Charles Boswell of that town.
He was a graduate of the Hartford High School, and in col-
lege was a member of Gamma Nu, also took a prize for English
Composition in the first term of sophomore year. He was taken
ill during the Christmas holidays of sophomore year and died at
his home in West Hartford, after a brief illness, on December
20, 1 88 1. The resolutions passed by the class after his death
bear tribute to him as "distinguished for the energy with which
he entered into literary pursuits and all matters of class interest,
ever proving himself a true friend and genial companion."
Harrison C. Brown
Webster, Mass.
Harrison Clifford Brown was born in Webster, Mass., May 3,
1860, son of Dr. Frederick D. Brown of Webster.
He prepared at Phillips Academy. Andover, and in college
was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon. He left college at the
end of freshman year and is now in business in Webster.
He is married and has two sons.
Colin S. Buell
Teacher
190 Broad Street, New London, Conn.
Residence, 52 Vauxhall Street, New London
Colin Sherman Buell was born in Killingworth, Conn., January
3, 1861, son of Jeremiah Sherman Buell and Frances J. (Hull)
Buell, who had five other children: Ralph J., \Valter Hall
(Yale '80), Lewis Frank (Yale '85, B.D., '88, Syracuse D.D.),
died April 27, 1912, Gertrude F. (Smith '89). and Edith M.
BIOGRAPHIES F( >R M Kk M 1- M I'.KKS
395
Jeremiah Sherman Buell (born Killingworth, October 30. 1826,
died Madison, June 26, 1910) was a farmer, representative in the
legislature and held local town offices. He was seventh in descent
from William Buell, who came to Dorchester, Mass., from
England in 1630, and later moved to Windsor, Conn., whose son
Samuel went to Killingworth in 1664, where he became a large
landowner. Another member of the family was Abel Buell
(1742-1825), who was the first man in Connecticut to cast type,
and also to coin authorized Connecticut copper pennies.
Frances Jedidah (Hull) Buell (born Killingworth, Conn., June
21, 1828, died Madison, Conn., February 23, 1908) was the
daughter of Dr. Luther Hull, of Killingworth.
Buell prepared at the Morgan School, Clinton, Conn., and in
college was Commencement speaker of the Class of '85, and a
member of Psi Upsilon. He left our class at the end of sopho-
more year on account of ill health, later joined '85, and graduated
witli that class.
396 HISTORY ()!• TlIK CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Buell received the degree of ALA. from Yale in 1889. He is
at present principal of the Williams Memorial Institute, New
London, Conn., where he has been located since 1891. From 1896
to 1899 he was a member of the board of education of New
London, and is chairman of the Endowment Committee of the
Connecticut College for Women. In the summer of 1910 he
conducted a party of a dozen people on a trip to Europe.
He has published "Essentials of Psychology" (Ginn & Co.
1898) and various essays and addresses on literature and
education.
He is a member and president of the board of deacons of the
Second Congregational Church of New London, member of
several clubs and Master of Brainard Lodge, A. F. and A. M.
He married in Madison, Conn., July 3, 1888, Charlotte Amelia
Baldwin (Morgan School, '/8), daughter of Marcus L. Baldwin.
Charles T. Carll
Manufacturer
115 Chestnut Street, Newark, N. J.
Residence, 74 Oakland Avenue, Bloomfield, N. J.
Charles Tirrill Carll was born in New Haven, April 19, 1861.
son of Peter R. and Sarah Elizabeth Carll, who were married
May 25, 1852, and had three other children: William Tirrill.
John Tirrill, and Mary Ann Tirrill, wife of George E. Coney
(Yale '76).
Peter R. Carll (born October 10, 1830, died October 31, 1908)
came from Unity, Maine, to New Haven, and was the builder
and owner of Carll's Opera House, now known as the Hyperion,
and for many years was United States marshal for this district.
Sarah Elizabeth Carll was born in WTest Stuartstown, N. LI.,
September 21, 1828, and died January 15, 1911.
Carll prepared at the Hopkins Grammar School and in college
was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon, but left at the end of
freshman year. For two years he was on a horse ranch in
Kansas, and from 1886 to 1896 was first manager and then
superintendent of the Missouri and Kansas Telephone Company,
at Kansas City. In 1896 he becaim- manager of the
BIOGRAPHIES FORMER MEMBERS 397
Varnish Company, holding this position until Maivh i, 1908,
when he was made manager of the Cleveland Varnish Company
and Secretary of the Wilson Remover Company, having offices
in New York.
Carll married in Kansas City June I, 1897, Mary May Cosby,
daughter of Thomas H. Cosby, a graduate of Oxford and
resident of Quincy, 111. They have one son, George Eaton.
William M. Carswell
William Mearns Carswell was born in Matteawan, N. Y.,
August 19, 1857, the son of Mrs. Julia Carswell. At the time
he entered college the family were settled in Highland Falls,
X. Y.
He prepared at the Newburgh Institute and entered college
with '82, with whom he remained only one year. He joined our
class as a sophomore, but left at the end of junior year and
went into the lumber business in Ogdensburgh, N. Y., but his
present location is not known to the secretary.
Wilson Catherwood
Merchant
1708 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Wilson Cathenvood was born in Philadelphia, May 7, 1862,
the son of H. Wilson Catherwood, a wine dealer of that city.
He prepared at St. Paul's School and in college was a member
of Kappa Sigma Epsilon and the Yale University Club. He left
our class in freshman year and graduated with '86.
On leaving college he returned to Philadelphia, where he was
connected with his father's firm, H. & H. W. Catherwood,
dealers in wines. On his father's death a few years later, he
became a member of the firm.
He belongs to the Philadelphia, Rittenhouse and Country clubs
and a number of others.
398 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Clinton M. Chidsey
Collinsville, Conn.
Clinton Milo Chidsey was born in Collinsville, Conn., Septem-
ber 28, 1 86 1, the son of Milo Chidsey of that town.
Chidsey prepared at Phillips Academy, Andover, and remained
with our class during- freshman year, when he was a member of
Kappa Sigma Epsilon. He then entered '85, but left at the end
of one year.
He keeps his home in Collinsville, but has traveled consider-
ably, having no definite occupation. He has also written "by
no means few" verses for a Hartford newspaper.
*Poy Woo Chinn
Died November 4, 1906
Poy Woo Chinn was born May i, 1862, in Canton, China, his
father bein£ Chi Tong Chinn of Singapore. He was one of the
students sent to the United States by the Chinese Government
and was placed under the guardianship of Woo Tzse Tung of
Hartford and fitted for Yale at the Norwich Free Academy.
In college he was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon.
At the end of freshman year the Chinese Government recalled
its students, having heard from a prejudiced source that
"although the boys have not learned all the useful sciences, they
have adopted all the bad customs of America," and Chinn
returned to China, where he soon married.
Having an excellent knowledge of English he became inter-
preter for the United States Consulate in Hong Kong, holding
the position for many years. In January, 1906, he resigned.
Imping that a change of residence from Hong Kong to Canton
would restore his health, but in this he was disappointed. His
illness was of a very painful nature, and though he secured
temporary relief by an operation, his old trouble returned and
finally caused his death, November 4, 1906. He left a widow
with a son and daughter.
BIOGRAI'IIIKS FORMKR M KM I'.KKS 399
Frank A. Christian
Lawyer
132 Main Street, S. Canandui^u.-i. X. Y.
Residence, 105 Hubbell Street, Canandaiguu. X. Y.
Frank Ashury Christian was born in Canandaigua, N. Y.,
December 18, 1863, the son of Francis A. Christian and Kli/a
J. (Hutchins) Christian, who were married April 10, 1861, and
had one other child: Caroline E.
Francis A. Christian (born Canandaigua, October, 1839, died
May, 1864) was a lawyer of that city, and the son of Francis
Ashury Christian and Elizabeth M. (Sherwood) Christian.
Eliza J. (Hutchins) Christian (born Ogdensburg, N. Y., Feb-
ruary, 1842) is the daughter of Samuel B. Hutchins and Eliza
(Anderson) Hutchins.
Christian prepared at the Canandaigua Academy and in col-
lege was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon and Delta Kappa
Epsilon, and played on the freshman nine. He left our class
at the end of sophomore year and graduated with '86.
After graduation he read law at home, was admitted to the
bar in October, 1892, in 1893 was elected justice of the peace
on the Republican ticket, and has been a member of the firm of
Christian & Thompson since January i, 1900. He is clerk of
the First Congregational Church of Canandaigua.
He married October 3, 1896, Katharine Van Bur en, daughter
of Charles Van Buren, a wagon maker of Canandaigua. They
have two children: Elizabeth S. and Francis A., both born July
25, 1909, in Canandaigua.
William H. Cooper
Pharmacist. 3494 \Yest 38th Avenue, Denver, Colo.
Residence, 37/4 Lowell Boulevard, Denver
William Hamilton Cooper was born in Henderson, 111., Feb-
ruary 23, 1860, the son of Dr. K. S. Cooper. Before coming
to Yale he spent a year at Knox College, Galesburg, 111., and in
the year he spent with our class was a member of Kappa Sigma
Epsilon. He then reentered the Class of '83 at Knox College,
400 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLKC.K
and later graduated with the Class of '84 from the department of
pharmacy at Michigan University.
He was for a time in the employ of a dry goods firm at
\Vamega, Kans., and now for many years has been a successful
druggist. He writes : "I wish to be remembered to the boys
and extend to any and all of you an invitation to drink soda with
me when you next visit Denver."
He is married, and has two sons: Henry Sisson (B.A., M.D.
1914, Colorado State University) and William Hamilton, in the
Class of 1916 of the same college.
Albert H. Ely
Physician
47 West 56th Street, New York City
Albert Heman Klv was burn in Klyria, Ohio, November 22,
1860, son of Heman Ely and Mary Frances (Day) Kly, who were
married May, 1847, in Hartford, Conn.
Kly's half-brother, George H. Kly, was a member of Vale
'65.
BIOGRAPHIES FORMER MEMBERS 401
Heman Ely (born November 7, 1820, died July, 1894) was a
banker of Elyria and, as a member of the Ohio State Legislature,
drafted several laws relating to real estate and insurance. His
father, Heman Ely, in 1817 made the first settlement of a tract
of land twenty-five miles west of Cleveland in the Connecticut
Western Reserve, giving the name Lorain to the County and
Elyria to the town.
Mary Francis (Day) Ely (born May, 1827, died September
12, 1895) was a daughter of Thomas Day (Yale 1797), the well-
known lawyer and judge of Hartford, who was for twenty-five
years secretary of state of Connecticut. He was a brother of
Jeremiah Day, president of Yale.
Ely prepared at Andover, and in college was a member of
Delta Kappa, and (with '85) of the Yale University Club and
Wolf's Head. At the end of freshman year he left our class,
joined '85 and graduated with that class.
In 1888 he received the degree of M.D. from the College of
Physicians and Surgeons, studied in Vienna and Dublin during
1889 and 1890, was later attending physician at the New York
City Hospital, and has had a busy and successful professional
career.
He married in Rochester, N. Y., October 7, 1891, Maud Louise
Merchant, daughter of George E. and Frances Sherburne Mer-
chant. They have had four children: Reginald Day, born
August 10, 1892, died in infancy; Albert H., Jr., born March
19, 1894 (Yale '15 and a member of Psi Upsilon) ; Gerald
Day, born September 6, 1896, died December 30, 1900; Francis
Day, born November 7, 1901.
*Bryce Gray
Died November 1900
Bryce Gray was born in New York City, November 5, 1861,
son of Bryce Gray and Andrewetta Josephine (Mount) Gray,
who were married May 31, 1860.
Bryce Gray, Sr. (born Glasgow, Scotland, November 29, 1827,
died June 21, 1897), was the son of Robert Gray of Glasgow.
He was a merchant in New York City, in the firm of James F.
White & Co.
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402 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Andrewetta Josephine (Mount) Gray (born New York,
December 26, 1836) was the daughter of Andrew Mount and
Jane Perry Mount.
Gray prepared at St. John's School, Sing Sing, X. Y., and in
college was a member of Delta Kappa.
After leaving college he studied at the Columbia Law School
and then was engaged in work as a journalist until his death in
New Brighton, Staten Island, in November, 1900.
He married in New York, December 21, 1886, Ada Gwynn,
daughter of Nicholas Gwynn, deceased. They had two children :
Ada Bryce, born in the Adirondacks, July 14, 1891 ; Bryce, born
April 19, 1895 (University of Virginia).
*John P. Gray
Died June 25, 1912
John Purdue Gray was born in Utica, N. Y., May 27, 1860,
son of John Purdue Gray and Mary Buckminster (Wetmore)
Gray, who were married September 6, 1854. A second son is
William W. (B.S. Dickinson Seminary, '86, M.D. Bellevue Medi-
cal College, '90).
John P. Gray, Sr. (born Half Moon, Pa., August 6, 1825, died
Utica, November 29, 1886, A.M. Dickinson College, '45 ; M.D.
Pennsylvania, '49; LL.D. Hamilton), was superintendent of the
Utica Hospital for the Insane, professor of mental diseases at
the Bellevue and Albany Medical colleges, and at one time presi-
dent of the New York State Medical Association. He was the
son of Peter and Ann (Dorsey) Gray.
Mary B. (Wetmore) Gray (born Clinton, N. Y., September
2, 1830, died Utica, October I, 1907) was the daughter of
Edmund Wetmore and Mary Ann (Lothrop) Wetmore. Her
paternal ancestors came from Middletown, Conn.
Gray prepared at the Utica Free Academy and in college was a
member of Delta Kappa and secretary and treasurer of the '84
boat club in 1880. He left at the close of freshman year and
began the study of medicine, graduating from Bellevue Medical
College in March, 1885, at which time he was appointed assist-
ant physician in the State Asylum at Utica. He resigned that
charge in January, 1887, after his father's death, and removed to
Rochester, where he began general practice as a physician.
BIOGRAPHIES — FORMER MEMBERS 403
Three or four years later he gave this up to accept a position as
assistant physician at the Watkins Glen Sanatorium. Before his
death he had conducted sanatoria of his own for a number of
years in Camden, S. C., in Atlantic City and at Port Kent, N. Y.
In 1908 he had a serious breakdown in health and four years
later underwent an abdominal operation, from the results of
which he died June 25, 1912.
He married April 8, 1885, Mary Holle Mygatt, a graduate of
the Utica Seminary, and a daughter of George Mygatt of Cleve-
land, Ohio. She is not living. A daughter, Georgiana Mygatt,
was born in Rochester, May 30, 1889.
*Daniel H. Griffing
Died September 24, 1898
Daniel Havens Griffing joined our class in sophomore year
and left before the end of junior year. He came from New
Suffolk, Long Island, and before coming to Yale had attended
Williams College.
Particulars of his life are lacking, but it is known that while
acting as mail clerk on the Long Island Railroad he met with
an accident which necessitated the amputation of a leg.
The following is taken from an obituary notice published in
the Yale Alumni Weekly:
"Mr. Griffing pursued the study of law at Washington, and
then returned to Suffolk County, having secured a position in
the office of the surrogate at Riverhead. He remained in that
place until ill health compelled him to give up his work entirely
some months ago. He leaves a wife and one son."
Wilbur F. Hendrix
Banker
Rye, N. Y.
\Yilbur Fisk Hendrix was born in Fayette, Mo., August 31,
1 86 1, son of Adam Hendrix and Isabelle Jane (Murray) Hen-
drix, who were married September 19, 1844, and had four other
children: Fremont Murray (died June n, 1880), lieutenant in
the United States Navy; Eugene Russel (Wesleyan '69, A.M.,
404 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
D.D., LL.D.), Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Kansas City; Joseph Clifford (died November 9, 1904); and
Mary B. (Hendrix) Davis.
Adam Hendrix (born August 21, 1813, died May 31, 1876)
came from York County, Pa., and was a descendant of Hen-
drick Hendricks, who came from Holland in 1683. He was a
banker in Fayette, Mo., and at one time treasurer of Howard
County, Mo.
Isabelle J. (Murray) Hendrix was born December 18, 1820,
in Hampstead, Md., the daughter of John and Sarah Murray,
who were of Scotch descent. She died in Fayette, April n,
1909.
Hendrix prepared at Central College, Fayette, and in college
was a member of Delta Kappa.
"I left Yale," he writes, "March 22, 1882, expecting to return
after a rest, but entered business and in December, 1882, organ-
ized the Colorado National Bank, at Colorado, Texas, taking a
position as cashier. In 1883 I resigned and after traveling in
California, returned to Fayette, Mo., to serve as cashier of the
bank founded by my father. After returning to Texas for a few
months as secretary and treasurer of a cattle company operating
in Mexico, I moved to Kansas City, Mo., and began the study
of law. Then I removed to Chicago and after taking the full
course at the Northwestern University School of Law (B.L. '93)
began practice there, continuing until January, 1898, when I
removed to New York City, to become chief clerk in The National
Union Bank. On January 16, 1901, I assisted to organize the
Rye National Bank and have continued with that institution
to date."
On September 21, 1892, he married Mary Augusta Stafford, a
graduate of Bradford Academy, Mass., daughter of Pascal
George Stafford (Jefferson '60), of Sedalia, Mo. They have
two children: Stafford, born July 26, 1893, and Isabel Jane,
born July 19, 1899.
*Nelson Hersh
Died November 19, 1902
Nelson Hersh was born in Rock Island, 111., October 6, iShi.
the son of Nelson and Josephine (Warren) Hersh. His father
dk-d when he was only three years old.
BIOGRAPHIES — FORMER MEMBERS 4°5
He prepared for college at the public school, while with us
was a member of Delta Kappa, but remained with our class one
year only. He was with '85 for a short time, but was obliged
to leave college on account of limited means.
Returning to the West, he became telegraph operator on the
tiiizettc of Davenport, Iowa, but ambitious and restless, could
not stay long in one place, and in rapid succession served on
the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Minneapolis Journal, St. Paul
Iicspatch, Chicago Tribune, Omaha Herald and the Detroit
Tribune.
On January 5, 1885, he married Erminie Risley, daughter of
Henry S. and Anna M. Risley of Davenport, Iowa, and the
following year they settled permanently in New York. At first
he was city editor of the Commercial Advertiser. While with
the Herald, in 1890, he wrote an account of the abuses in the
Ludlow Street jail, which roused much feeling and induced the
reforms that were soon undertaken. Four years later he went
to the Times, then in 1896 to the World, and became editor of
the Sunday edition in 1900.
On the evening of November 19, 1902, as he was driving to
his home on Staten Island, his horse became frightened and
Hersh was thrown out and instantly killed.
In its editorial the next morning, the World said: "Mr. Hersh
was a remarkably effective and brilliant writer, though of late
years he had devoted himself exclusively to executive work. He
was a man of broad ideas with a marked creative capacity and a
wonderful grasp of details. His industry and his powers of
application especially distinguished him in his work. Although
a man of comparatively few friendships, the affection he inspired
in the members of his staff and those closely associated with
him was remarkable."
Mrs. Hersh is still living on Staten Island with her four
children: Russell, born July 9, 1888; Florence, born April 10,
1890; Josephine, born July 14, 1895; and Arthur Brisbane, born
September 22, 1900.
406 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Robert B. Kerr
Broker
74 Broadway, New York City
Robert Bage Kerr was born in New York City, June 18, 1863,
son of Thomas B. and Serena Bage Kerr. His father was a
distiller, and, now retired, is living in Englewood, N. J.
Kerr prepared at Exeter, was a member of Psi Upsilon and
the Yale University Club, and was coxswain of our class crew
in the fall of 1882. He left our class at the end of junior year
and graduated with '85.
On leaving college he became a clerk in the banking and
commission house of Charles C. Marsh & Co., New York City.
He has been engaged continuously in business in New York
City as a commission broker in bonds and stocks; from 1889
to 1893 in partnership with Thomas H. Kerr, with whom also
Wilfred J. Worcester (Yale '85) was later associated; more
recently with Louis S. Kerr, under the firm name, Kerr & Co.
He is a member of the University, Yale, and other clubs in
New York City.
BIOGRAPHIES - FORMER MEMBERS
He married, October 24, 1889, Grace Nichols, daughter of
Edward A. Nichols of New York City. They have three chil-
dren : Katharine, Robert Bage, and Edward A. N.
Yan Phou Lee
229 Park Row, New York City
Residence, Wood Ridge, N. J.
Van Phou Lee was born at Fragrant Hills, China, in 1861.
In 1873 ne was sent by tne Chinese Government to the United
States, where he prepared for college first in Springfield and then
at the Hopkins Grammar School. He was a member of Gamma
Nu and coxswain in our barge race with '83 S. in the fall regatta
of freshman year. In the fall of 1881 he was recalled to China,
but in 1884 returned, joining '87 and graduating with that class.
He is now a member of the firm of Lee & Co., merchants,
229 Park Row, New York City.
He married (first) Elizabeth Maud Jerome of New Haven,
July 6, 1887, from whom he was divorced in 1890. They had
two children: Jennie Jerome, born May 15, 1888 (Mt. Holyoke
'u) and Amos Gilbert Jerome, born November 13, 1889 (Yale
'10) ; (second) Sophie Florence Bolles, daughter of Frank Bolles
of Nashville, Tenn., November 3, 1897. They have two chil-
dren: Clarence Vaille, born July 29, 1898, and Louis Emerson,
born June 19, 1903.
Kia Chau Low
Low's Gardens, To Po Bridge
Western Suburbs, Canton, China
Kia Chau Low was born in Canton, China, January 24, 1861.
He came to this country with the students sent by the Chinese
Government in 1873, and prepared at Miss Carrington's in Cole-
brook, Conn., and at Williston Seminary. In college he was a
member of Delta Kappa.
At the end of freshman year he was recalled to China with the
other students and has held several positions there in the govern-
ment service. In 1908 he was private secretary to Gov. Tong
408 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Shoayi of Manchuria, was taotai of Mukden, and in 1908-9 was
attached to the special embassy sent to this country under Tong
Shoayi.
He married Miss Tong, whose father was connected with the
Chinese Merchants Steam Navigation Company. She died some
years ago.
William L. Marston
Manufacturer
Oconomowoc, Wis.
William Lane Marston was born in Chicago, 111., February
28, 1862, son of Thomas Marston (born September 26, 1830), a
native of Carlisle, England, who came to America in 1849, and
of Emma E. (Catherwood) Marston (born March 24, 1832),
a resident of New York, but of Irish and Scotch parentage.
His parents were married in 1852, and had five other children:
Angalina (Dearborn Seminary), Thomas B. (Yale '79, Ann
Arbor LL.B. 'Si), Robert H., Emma E., and Charles L. (died
September 26, 1896).
Marston prepared at the Chicago High School and in college
was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon, and of the college
choir, and president of the '84 glee club in 1881-1882.
He left college in 1882 and since then has "followed mercantile
pursuits with various degrees of success." He was for some
time in the wholesale woodenware and cordage business with
the firm of Felix & Marston, Chicago ; spent the years from 1900
to 1907 in Boston, and then returned to Chicago to go into the
Knickerbocker Ice Company, of which he is now assistant to the
vice president and general manager.
He is a vestryman in the Protestant Episcopal Church. He is
"democratic, of strong progressive ideas, but not Rooseveltian"
Marston was married in Chicago, December I, 1885, to Jennie
Maria Reid, daughter of William A. Reid of Sutton, Mass.
They had four children : Genevieve, born September 26, 1886,
died March 5, 1887; Lillian, born October 13, 1888; Robert
Lawrence, born July 3, 1891, and Margaret, born March 15,
1897. The first three were born in Chicago, the fourth in
Appleton, Wis.
BIOGRAPHIES — FORMER MEMBERS 409
Robert S. McCreery
112 West 42d Street, New York City
Residence, Wyckoff, N. J.
Robert Samuel McCreery was born in Paris, March 21, 1860,
son of James McCreery and Fanny Maria (Crawford)
McCreery.
James McCreery (born Omagh, Ireland, 1826, died February
26, 1903) came to New York and founded the widely known dry
goods firm of James McCreery & Co., also the James McCreery
Realty Corporation.
Fanny Maria (Crawford) McCreery was also born in Omagh,
Ireland, in 1826.
McCreery prepared at the Norwich Free Academy and in
college was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon. He left our
class at the end of freshman year and entered '85.
After leaving college he entered the office of James McCreery
& Co., and has since retained an interest in that business, as well
as in the James McCreery Realty Corporation. He is connected
with various other enterprises : The Nonpareil Consolidated Min-
ing Company; the General Electric Inspection Company, the
Flower Waste and Packing Company, and yet finds time for
yachting, motoring and hunting.
He married February 14, 1893, Clara J. S. Long, daughter of
Job and Martha (Seymour) Long. She died September 20,
1899.
He married in New York City, March 27, 1909, Madelon
Matthews, daughter of John H. Matthews, a manufacturer of
Xcw York.
*Oliver T. Morton
Died October 12, 1898
Oliver Throck Morton was born in Centerville, Ind., May 23,
1860, the son of Oliver Perry Throck Morton (born Wayne
County, Ind., 1823, died 1877), and descended from John Throck-
morton, one of the earliest settlers of Rhode Island.
Oliver, the father of our classmate, a lawyer by profession,
served as Governor of Indiana, 1861-7, being one of our great
war governors. He was United States Senator from 1867 to
410 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
1877, and known as one of the most forceful debaters in public
life.
Morton prepared in the public schools of Indianapolis, entered
with '82, was absent from college for two years after freshman
year, then joined our class, with which he remained until the end
of junior year. He afterwards studied two years at Oxford,
England, where he received his collegiate degree.
Returning to Indianapolis, he entered the office of Addison C.
Harris, an eminent lawyer and publicist, was admitted to the bar,
and practiced until the organization of the United States Circuit
Courts of Appeal in 1891, when he was appointed clerk of that
court for the seventh circuit. This office he held until his death,
in October, 1898.
He was unmarried.
An intimate friend of Morton's in '82 writes of him : ''Oliver
T. Morton's interests were in literature and political philosophy
rather than in the law, for which he had prepared himself. His
reading covered the whole range of literature, and his taste in
books was fastidious. He wrote well, the best of his work
being in the form of essays, of which he collected a volume under
the title "The Southern Empire and Other Papers." He was
deeply interested in politics and made political speeches occasion-
ally, though temperamentally he was unfitted for the strategy
of politics in which his distinguished father was so prominent.
He manifested his interest in civil service reform with pen and
voice. He was in the fullest sense a cultivated gentleman, with a
trained taste in music, the drama and art, as well as in literature.
He was a delightful companion, and when the company was to
his liking, he overcame his natural reserve and talked brilliantly
on many subjects."
John A. Myers
Architect
5343 Green Street, Germantown, Pa.
John Andrew Myers was born in Columbia, Pa., February
19, 1863. He fitted at the Hopkins Grammar School and
remained in our class for three years, during which he was a
member of Delta Kappa, Delta Kappa Epsilon, and the Yale
University Club. He then entered '85 and graduated with that
class.
BIOGRAPHIES — FORMER MEMBERS 411
The two following years he spent in foreign travel, and in
1891 reported that he "had done nothing interesting except to
change his residence/' as he ''prefers suburban ( Imnantown to
rural Columbia, Pa." There were two more long visits to
Europe before 1902, and then he entered the Architectural Course
in the University of Pennsylvania, obtaining the degree of B.S.
in 1906. At the same time he worked in the office of Cope &
Stewardson in Philadelphia.
On September i, 1906, he married Mrs. Jennie Carrick Gummy,
daughter of Samuel D. and Elizabeth J. (Carrick) Jordan of
Philadelphia.
William E. Nichols
Insurance
129 Church Street, New Haven, Conn.
Residence, 236 Crown Street, New Haven.
William Ebenezer Nichols was born in New York City, August
27, 1862, son of William E. Nichols and Catharine Tiffany
(Gillette) Nichols, who were married in 1860.
William Ebenezer Nichols, Sr. (born Clinton, Conn., August
15, 1810, died New York City, 1878), was a son of Ebenezer
Nichols, the first manufacturer of cotton twine, and continued
his father's business in Moodus, Conn.
Catharine T. (Gillette) Nichols was born in Lyme, Conn., the
daughter of Benjamin Franklin Gillette and Catharine Tiffany,
and died in Brooklyn in 1868.
Nichols prepared at the Seabury Institute, Saybrook, Conn.,
and the Hopkins Grammar School, and remained with our class
until January of junior year, when he left on account of ill
health. Two years later he reentered and graduated with '86.
He was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon and Delta Kappa
Epsilon, and in sophomore year took a first prize in English
composition.
After graduation he spent two years in travel and study in
Paris and Berlin, and then entered the twine business, in the firm
of W. E. Nichols & Co. Later he was made treasurer of the
South Florida Lumber Company, dealers in mahogany, and
spent half of each year in Florida. He began business as a
broker in bonds and curb securities in New York in 1895, formed
the firm of William E. Nichols & Company, in 1901, and con-
412 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
tinued the business until recently. In January, 1914, he left
New York and took up the business of insurance with offices
in New Haven. While in New York he was vice president of the
New York Net and Twine Company, of Moodus, Conn.; was
founder of the East Haddam Public Library; as a specialist in
bank stocks compiled the annual statistical tables and review of
New York bank stocks; was a director in the Columbia Trust
Company of Connecticut and the Empire Trust Company of
New York, and a member of the Lotos, Lawyers' and Crescent
Athletic clubs. He is a member of the Sons of the American
Revolution.
He married (first) at Des Moines, Iowa, October 16, 1889,
Florence Gillette, daughter of Hon. Edward Hooker Gillette of
Des Moines, and (second) on June 28, 1911, Mary Briscoe
Bredow, daughter of Henry Stockdale.
*Charles N. Peck
Died March 29, 1884
Charles Nichols Peck was born in New York City, October
2, 1862, the son of Rev. John L. Peck of Birmingham, Conn.
He prepared at the Hopkins Grammar School and in college
was a member of Delta Kappa, the Yale chess club, and rowed
on the class crew in the fall of 1880. After Christmas of sopho-
more year he had a slight stroke of paralysis and left college,
but recovered sufficiently to come back and enter the Class of
'85. After a few weeks, however, he had a second stroke and
had to leave permanently. His death occurred March 29, 1884.
at his home at Hempstead, L. I.
* Jacob Perkins
Died November 30, 1902
Jacob Perkins was born in Warren, Ohio, August 31, 1861,
son of Henry Bishop Perkins and Eliza Giddings (Baldwin)
Perkins, who were married October 10, 1855, and had three other
children: Mary (wife of Harry A. Lawton, Warren, Ohio),
Olive (wife of Samuel W. Smith, Cincinnati, Ohio), Henry
Bishop, Jr. (Yale '94), died in Warren, Ohio, October 19, 1900.
BIOGRAPHIES — FORMER MEMBERS 413
Henry Bishop Perkins (born Warren, March 19, 1824, died
March 2, 1902) was of Connecticut stock, the son of Simon
Perkins of Norwich, and Nancy Bishop, also of Norwich.
Simon Perkins was commissioned brigadier general in the War
of 1812, and settled in the Western Reserve of Ohio, where he
was successful and prominent. His son, Henry, Jacob's father,
inherited large means and was one of the best known citizens of
his section, interested in public affairs and institutions, and espe-
cially in the development of Warren. He served many years on
the Warren Board of Education, was especially interested in
agricultural organizations, laid out and maintained Monumental
Park in Wurren, gave generously to the Warren Library, was
for many years president of the oldest local bank, served four
years in the Ohio Senate and was a presidential elector at the
time of Harrison's election.
Eliza Giddings (Baldwin) Perkins (born Hudson, Ohio,
November 9, 1830, died Warren, Ohio, March 16, 1911) was
the daughter of Norman Collins Baldwin and Mary Harriet
(Palmer) Baldwin, both of Goshen, Conn.
Perkins prepared at "Greylock" in South Williamstown, Mass.,
and in college was a member of Delta Kappa and Psi Upsilon.
After leaving college he went into business in Warren, Ohio,
with his father, who had very extensive business interests, among
them large real estate holdings in Cleveland. His father gave
his affairs over largely to him, especially those in Cleveland.
On one of his visits there he was taken with pneumonia, and
died shortly after his return home.
He was trustee of the State Hospital, Newburg, Ohio, of the
Warren Library Association, and director of the Perkins Electric
Company, the Union National Bank and the Warren Gas Light
Company of Warren.
He was unmarried.
*George L. Plummer
Died March 2, 1907
George Lockwood Plummer was born in Glastonbury, Conn.,
January I, 1860, son of Isaac William Plummer and Abby Ann
(Morton) Plummer, who were married October 16, 1856, and
414 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
had four other children: Julia Morton (M.D. Boston Univer-
sity School of Medicine '87), Elizabeth Mills (married Charles
A. Harvey, died January, 1889), Anna Sturges (married Joseph
T. Duryea and is a lecturer of the World Race Foundation) and
Rev. Morton Woodbridge Plummer.
Isaac W. Plummer (born Glastonbury, Conn., September 19,
1813, died Norwich, Conn., July 27, 1882) was a graduate of
Yale College 1832, and of the Yale Theological School. On
account of his health he was unable to hold a pastorate, but was
always active in the educational and religious interests of the
community. He was a son of George Plummer (Yale 1804),
and Anne Lockwood.
Abby Ann (Morton) Plummer (born Boston, December 23,
1828, died Norwich, November 27, 1874) was a daughter of
Thomas and Abigail Morton.
Plummer prepared at the Charlestown (Mass.) High School
and the Norwich Free Academy, and in college was a member
of Delta Kappa and captain of the class baseball club in fresh-
man year. He left in the spring of junior year for family con-
siderations after his father's death, and took charge of the local
office of the National Fire Insurance Company of Hartford. He
died March 2, 1907, at Liberty, N. Y., of tuberculosis.
He married October 21, 1885, Sarah Sophia Tyler, daughter
of Edwin S. Tyler of Hartford. She died December 23, 1886,
leaving a daughter, Sarah Tyler, born Hartford, December 13,
1886, who married April 25, 1911, James Rathbone Reynolds of
Elmira, N. Y.
Edward L. Pollock
Manufacturer
Peoples Gas Building, Michigan Avenue, Chicago, 111.
Residence, 716 Rush Street, Chicago
Edward Learned Pollock was born in Pittsfield, Mass., Decem-
ber i, 1862, the son of William and Susan Learned Pollock.
Other children were George Edward (Yale c.v-'/S) William
(Yale '82), and Sarah Me Alpine (now Mrs. Edward McEvers
Livingston), and Charles M. (not living).
Pollock prepared at Phillips Academy, Exeter, and in college
was a member of Delta Kappa, Psi Upsilon, and the Yale Uni-
BIOGRAPHIES — FORMER MEMBERS 415
versity Club, and was president of our class baseball club in
1881. He left college in 1882.
Having spent some of the time intervening in business and
some in travel, in January, 1903, he was appointed purchasing
agent of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Com-
pany. This position he resigned in 1909 to become a vice presi-
dent of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company.
In 1910 he started the Hygienic Liquid Package Company in
Chicago and has very recently become connected with the National
Graphite Lubricator Company.
He married Katharine McAlpine, daughter of William Jarvis
McAlpine of Staten Island, N. Y., and has two sons: Edward
L., Jr., born Pittsfield, Mass., February 19, 1894, and Woolsey
McAlpine, born Pittsfield, January 8, 1896.
*Nelson G. Pringle
Died September 15, 1908
Nelson George Pringle was born in Kingston, Pa., on April 5,
1860. His father was Alexander Jameson Pringle (born Septem-
ber 3, 1824, Plymouth, Pa., died August 12, 1881, Kingston, Pa.),
a merchant of Kingston and son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Har-
vey) Pringle. His mother was Mary C. (Price) Pringle (born
October 4, 1833, died May 8, 1911), daughter of George and
Clarissa (Cooper) Price of Pittston, Pa.
Pringle prepared at the Wyoming Seminary in Kingston and
in college was a member of Kappa Sigma Epsilon. He left in
January, 1882, soon after his father's death, and having bought
out the surviving partners, continued his father's business in his
own name. In this he was engaged until his death, September
15, 1908, which was caused by pneumonia following a period of
general poor health.
He was a member of the Westmoreland Club of \Vilkes-Barre,
and the Secretary and Treasurer of the Yale Alumni Association
of Wyoming Valley.
He married January 3, 1884, in Royalton, Vt., Sarah Aldula
Copeland, daughter of Rev. David Copelancl (Wesleyan '551.
president of Wyoming Seminary 1872-1882. Their children are:
416 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Elizabeth Harvey, born January 14, 1891 (Wyoming Seminary
'09; Vassar '13), and Bertha Aldula, born October 30, 1893
(Wyoming Seminary '12).
*Robert G. Russell
Died August 21, 1881
Robert Gray Russell was born in New Haven, September 17,
1860, the son of William Huntington Russell and Mary E. (Hub-
bard) Russell, who were married August 29, 1836.
William H. Russell (born Middletown, Conn., August 12,
1809, died May 19, 1885), for about fifty years conducted in
New Haven the Collegiate and Commercial Institute, a military
school which furnished over a hundred officers to the Union
Army.
Mary Elizabeth (Hubbard) Russell (born May 23, 1816, died
December n, 1890) was a daughter of Dr. Thomas Hubbard of
New Haven.
Two older brothers of our classmate are now living in New
Haven: Talcott H. (Yale '69), a lawyer, and Thomas H.
(S. S. S. '72) a surgeon.
Russell prepared at the Collegiate and Commercial Institute and
in college was a member of Delta Kappa. In the summer fol-
lowing freshman year he was taken with acute dysentery, and
died on August 21, 1881.
At a meeting of our class held the following September, these
resolutions were passed.
WHEREAS, God in His all-wise Providence has seen fit to remove from
this life our former classmate, Robert Gray Russell, be it
Resolved, That we, the Sophomore Class of Yale College deeply deplore
his sudden and untimely death.
Resolved, That while with us he proved himself a staunch friend and
a sincere Christian.
Resolved, That we who have been called upon for the first time to
lament the loss of one of our members, extend our most sincere and
heartfelt sympathy to those to whom he was bound by still closer ties.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to his family
and a badge of mourning be worn by the class for thirty days.
BIOGRAPHIES — FORMER MEMBERS 4*7
Frederick P. Swezey
Clergyman
Christ Church Rectory, Shrewsbury, N. J.
Frederick Phillips Swezey was born December 26, 1859, m
Middle Island, L. L, son of Sylvester M. Swezey and Nancy
(Phillips) Swezey, who were married November 10, 1852, and
had four other children: Alice E., died October 15, 1899, Ellen
L, Georgia R. and Irving M.
Sylvester Maynard Swezey (born September 7, 1827, died
February 24, 1904) was a farmer of Middle Island, where his
immediate ancestors were rather large land holders. There is
also record of "some ministers of different sorts" in the family
line.
Nancy (Phillips) Swezey (born Yaphank, L. L, May 29, 1831,
died July 18, 1899) was a descendant of Rev. George Phillips,
who came to America in the Arabella in 1630, and settled in
Watertown, Mass. There is a succession of ministers among the
Phillips ancestry also.
Swezey prepared at the Centenary Collegiate Institute, of
Hackettstown, N. J., but his health, and especially a serious eye-
trouble, from which he has suffered ever since, prevented his
returning after freshman year. He traveled abroad for six
months and then worked for a little less than two years as special
reporter in Dun's Mercantile Agency, New York. From 1884
to 1887 he taught history and English in St. John's Military
Academy, Manlius, N. Y., after which he divided a year between
Florida and Middle Island, on account of his health. He then
taught in Selwyn Hall, Reading, Pa., until 1893, during which
time he did a good deal of voluntary mission work in con-
nection with school duties. In 1893, he was called as a layman
to take charge of Grace Chapel, Hartford; was ordained to the
diaconate in 1896 at Trinity Church, Hartford ; was curate in
St. Luke's Church, Brooklyn, from 1896 to 1900; was ordained
to the priesthood in Holy Trinity Church, New York City; was
curate in the latter church until 1903 ; and was rector of Trinity
Church, Collinsville, Conn., from 1903 until 1906, when he was
called to Christ Church, Shrewsbury, N. J.
In politics he describes himself as a Progressive.
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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLHCi:
On September 22, 1903, he married Pauline Elizabeth Smith
(Hillhouse High School '/S), daughter of Henry Murray Smith
of New Haven.
Arthur C. Thomson
23 Sumner Road, Brookline, Mass.
Arthur Cecil Thomson was born in New Haven, March 19,
1860, the only child of Charles Henry Thomson and Cecile
Maria (Lewis) Thomson, who were married in Farmington,
Conn., November 23, 1858.
Charles H. Thomson (born New Haven, December 5, 1836,
died Stockbridge, Mass., August 4, 1884) was descended from
Anthony Thompson of Lenham, England, who landed at Boston
from the ship Hector in 1637, and was among the first settlers
of New Haven.
Cecile M. (Lewis) Thomson (born Farmington, November 2,
1834, died New Haven, December 14, 1860) was the daughter of
Henry and Martha Graves (Nash) Lewis of Farmington.
BIOGRAPHIES FORMER MEMBERS 419
Iii college Thomson was a member of Delta Kappa and played
on our freshman eleven. He remained with our class only dur-
ing freshman year, when he entered '85, with whom he became
a member of Scroll and Key.
For several years he made New Haven his headquarters and
occupied himself in looking after real estate in Chicago and New
Haven, but in 1890 he moved to New York. He is now settled
in Brookline, Mass., is interested in investments in Chicago and
elsewhere, and as minor occupations, devotes considerable time
to tracing genealogies and to photography. He is one of the
donors of the land on which is being constructed the so-called
"Bowl" at the new Yale Field. He is also well-known as the
donor of the silver cups that are bestowed annually on the best
all-round graduates of Phillips Andover, Phillips Exeter and
Hotchkiss schools, intending to enter Yale. The influence of
these cups is highly commended by the principals of these schools.
October 24, 1889, he married Lillian Cornelia Rice, daughter
of George Rice, of New Haven. They have had four children:
Eliot Cecil, born New York, October 22, 1890 (Yale '13) ; Cecile
Lewis, born New York, February 7, 1892, married Orrin Grout
Wood of Brookline, March 29, 1913; Marian Carter, born New
York, March 29, 1893, and Allan Loring, born Brookline, January
17, 1896, died Brookline, February 23, 1898.
Mr. and Mrs. Wood have a daughter, Alice Grout, born April
7, I9M.
*Kwoh On Tong
Died August 22, 1913
Kwoh On Tong was born November 9, 1859, at Hsiangshan,
in the province of Kwangtung, China, and was the son of Tong
Tao Fu and Liang Ah Chun. His father died in Hsiangshan
in 1879, and his mother in 1885.
Tong, who was a Christian from boyhood, had eight years of
school in China, the last of which was devoted to the study of
English in Shanghai. In 1873 he came to the United States as
a student of the Chinese Educational Mission, and after a year
of tutoring under Miss M. D. Twitchell of Plantsville, Conn.,
he went to Northampton, entering the High School in 1876.
Having graduated as valedictorian in 1879 and passed the col-
420
HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
lege entrance examinations without conditions, he took a year of
extra studies at Phillips Academy, Exeter. In college he was
a member of Delta Kappa and took a second prize in Latin
composition.
In November, 1881, he was, with the other students here,
recalled by the Chinese Government. For one year after his
return to China he was a medical student in the Viceroy's
hospital, Tientsin. In 1883 he Avas clerk in the British firm of
Jardine, Mathewson & Co.; from 1884 to 1887, interpreter in
the office of the United States Consulate, first at Tientsin and
then at Chinkiang; in 1888 translator in the house of Russell
& Co., of New York City; in 1889, clerk in a British shipping
firm; then for nine years, the English Secretary of the Chinese
Engineering and Mining Company; 1899-1900 resident manager
of the Imperial Chinese Railroad, Newchwang; 1903-1906, chief
auditor of the Canton-Hankow Railroad, and English editor of
the South China Daily Journal in 1906-1907. He was English
secretary to Prince Cu Lun in his mission to Japan, and to Prince
BIOGRAPHIES — FORMER MEMBERS 421
Yu Lang- at the reception of the United States fleet at Amoy in
1908. In the same year he was also a commissioner to the
International Opium Conference at Shanghai and his speech
there was cabled to England by the Times and later widely cir»-
culated in England in pamphlet form. In 1909, he was appointed
one of a board of three directors in charge of the bureau for the
selection and sending of Chinese students to this country, and
also a member of the foreign office. In December of that year
he came to this country with fifty-two boys to be placed in
various schools and colleges. He had conferred upon him the
official degree of fifth rank with the crystal button.
Two articles from his pen, "History and Outcome of the
Chinese Educational Mission" and "Obstacles to the Progress of
Christian Missions in China/' were published in the Missionary
AYr/rzi' of the World.
At one of the winter dinners of '84, in New York, January,
1911, Tong was present and was the center of interest. All
who were present will remember the graceful speech and win-
ning smile with which he met his old classmates, answering some
questions and tactfully parrying others relating to the govern-
ment and internal affairs of China, which were then exciting
general interest.
In September, 1884, he married Yuen Kwai Kwan, daughter
of Yung Fa Kwan of Hong Kong. They had no children.
Tong died at the Hsingwha College, of which he was director,
and the funeral service in the old princely residence attached to
the college was attended by the American charge d'affaires and
many native and foreign friends.
*Charles A. Tuttle
Died, June 22, 1905
Charles Allen Tuttle was born in New Haven, November 30,
1860, the son of Charles F. Tuttle, grocer and wholesale liquor
dealer, and Mary C. (Sperry) Tuttle. He graduated from the
Episcopal Academy in Cheshire in 1878, but did not enter col-
lege until two years later, when he joined our class. He was a
member of Delta Kappa.
He entered '85 at the end of our freshman year, but shortly
after gave up his college career to become one of the founders
422 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
of the New Haven Morning News and a stockholder in the enter-
prise. In 1886 he left the News and entered the New Haven
office of W. T. Hatch & Sons, bankers and brokers, where he
remained until 1889. For three years he assisted his father,
then returned to journalism and was a reporter on the Evening
Register from 1895 to 1900. The last five years of his life he
was inactive on account of failing health, and died of tuberculosis
in New Haven on June 22, 1905.
When we came back to New Haven for our reunions Tuttle
never failed to extend a cordial and hospitable welcome to all
our members.
He married April i, 1890, Florence I. Graham of New Haven,
who died the same year, and again on October 15, 1903, Juliet
Vibbert Gibbons of Middletown, Conn., daughter of Henry and
Josephine (Cromwell) Gibbons.
George Urquhart
Box 472, Greensboro, N. C.
Residence, Sutherlin, Pittsylvania County, Va.
George Urquhart was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., December
31, 1 86 1, the son of George Urquhart and Mary Ann (Hodgdon)
Urquhart, who were married October 20, 1852, and had one other
child: Harriet (Urquhart) Thomas, of Ashland, W. Va.
George Urquhart, Sr. (born Lambertville, N. J., August 27,
1823, died Wilkes-Barre, December 22, 1896), graduated from
Jefferson College in 1850 as a physician. He was medical
examiner for the draft, Luzerne County, Pa., volunteer surgeon
at Gettysburg, and examiner for pensions in Luzerne County.
His grandfather, George Urquhart, younger son of a family
holding estates in Aberdeenshire, came to this country from
Scotland in 1786.
Mary Ann (Hodgdon) Urquhart (born Carbondale, Pa., in
1828, died Wilkes-Barre, December 22, 1890) was a daughter of
Samuel Hodgdon, an attorney of Wilkes-Barre, whose father,
General Samuel Hodgdon, was commissioner general and quarter-
master of the Continental Army, Philadelphia. On her mother's
side she was descended from Lady Agnes Norman of Exeter,
England, and from Deborah Hudson, sister of Sir Henry Hudson.
BIOGRAPHIES FORMER MEMBERS 423
Urquhart prepared in the public schools and at the Wilkes-
Barre Academy, and in college was a member of Kappa Sigma
Epsilon, and took a prize for English composition in sophomore
year. He left us in junior year, and later entered Princeton,
where he was an editor of the Princctonuin, and graduated in
'85-
For two years he studied law, was admitted to the Luzerne
County Bar in 1887, spent over a year in San Francisco, in 1889
returned to Wilkes-Barre, where he practiced and was one of
the examiners for admission to the Luzerne County Bar. In
September, 1898, he removed to Philadelphia. During these
years he wrote for both the American Law Review and the
Central Law Journal. In June, 1904, he gave up practice, set-
tled in Sutherlin, Va., and remained there until August, 1908,
since which time he has been connected with the International
Correspondence Schools of Scranton, Pa.
He has been active as a Republican in some political campaigns,
is an elder in the Mercy Seat Presbyterian Church of Sutherlin,
and a Mason.
He is unmarried.
424 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
*Albert C. Waite
Died January 12, 1893
Albert Clarke Waite was born in New York City, August
21, 1 86 1, son of Charles C. Waite and Julia (Burrett) Waite,
his father being1 at that time landlord of the Brevoort House.
During the three years Waite was with our class he was a member
of Delta Kappa and one of the board of governors of the Yale
University Club (1882, 1883). He entered '85 in January, 1884,
and remained with that class until the following June. He
was elected to Scroll and Key while with '85.
In the sketch of his life in the '85 Decennial Record, James
R. Joy writes : "Sudden and distressing changes of fortune
threw heavy financial burdens upon his unaccustomed shoulders,
and, though he made a manful struggle and kept up a show of
cheer, his work and worry for those dependent upon him finally
broke him down. In the summer of 1892 he had to give up his
position in the Department of Public Works of New York City.
For some months he was ill at Middletown, N. Y., where he died
January 12, 1893, being not yet thirty-two years old. The
funeral services took place a few days later in New York City
in the morning chapel of St. Agnes, in the presence of a few
of Ab's college friends. The burial was at Woodlawn."
*Daniel H. Wilcox
Died August 10, 1906
Daniel Hand Wilcox was born November 26, 1862, in Augusta,
Ga., son of Daniel Hand Wilcox and Frances Louisa (Ansley)
Wilcox, who were married in 1852 and had nine other children :
Eliza (wife of George P. Sawyer, Yale '72) ; Ansley (Yale '74) ;
Marrion (Yale '78) ; Elizabeth Hand (wife of Walter I. Badger,
Yale '82) ; Francis Urquhart (Yale e.v-'86) ; Ethel Ansley (wife
of Edward C. Fellowes, Yale '88); Mabel Urquhart (Yale
'96 S.) : and Katharine Mcigs (wife of Arthur E. Hedstrom).
Daniel Hand Wilcox, Sr. (born Madison, Conn., May 25, 1826,
died Colorado Springs, 1890), was a merchant of Augusta and
Savannah ; later he retired and settled in New Haven, where he
was well-known for his philanthropic interests, giving liberally to
BIOGRAPHIES — FORMER MEMBERS 425
educational and missionary work. His father was Colonel Jona-
than Samuel Wilcox of Madison, and his earlier ancestors came
from London and more remotely from Cornwall.
Frances L. (Ansley) Wilcox (born Augusta, December 21,
1830) is a daughter of Jesse Ansley and Catherine Urquhart, the
latter being of Scotch descent. Her ancestors settled in Georgia
and Virginia in the eighteenth century. Mrs. Wilcox is still
living.
Wilcox prepared at Hopkins Grammar School and Phillips
Academy, Andover, and in college was a member of Kappa Sigma
Epsilon and Delta Kappa, played on our freshman nine and in
1882 on the university nine, sang in our class glee club from
1882 to 1884, and was on the junior prom committee. In the
fall of junior year, he left college and went to Buffalo, where
he became connected with the Anchor Line Dock Company and
then with the Lake Superior Transit Company. After some
years he became interested in marine insurance, which was his
business at the time of his death, August 10, 1906.
On June 3, 1891, he married Elizabeth Hurd, a graduate of the
Buffalo Seminary, and daughter of Hiram Denis Hurd, a lumber
merchant of Buffalo. They had one child, Mary Adams, born
June 6, 1897, now living with her mother in Buffalo,
STATISTICS
YEAR OF BIRTH
(GRADUATES ONLY)
1855 Makuen, Jernberg.
1858 Hine, Jessup, McAndrew, Potter, Prouty.
1859 Allis, Connell, Fosdick, Havens, Jennings, Judson, Newton, Oak-
ford, F. Strong, C. M. Walker.
1860 S. A. Booth, Bowen, Cain, Dodge, Flowers, D. A. Jones, Merritt,
Osborn, Pavey, Penniman, Savery, D. Walker, Wolf.
1861 Allen, W. F. Booth, Botsford, Bristow, Carpenter, Cheney, E. H.
Coley, Colt, Cottle, Dawson, Doolittle, Fountain, Higbee, Holli-
day, Hughson, Hyndman, Kinley, Kwai, Lambert, E. A. Lawrence,
McClellan, McDowell, McKee, McMillan, Phelps, Pratt, Reynolds,
Ross, Ryder, W. H. Sanford, Sherwood, Seeley, Souther, Stevens,
Stevenson, Swift, Tompkins, Trowbridge, X. G. Williams, \Volcott.
1862 Ayres, Bigelow, Blodgett, Chapman, Claggett, W. B. Coley, Cohen,
Doringh, Eaton, Evarts, Gale, Hand, Holden, S. W. Hopkins,
Hovey, Jenks, F. S. Jones, Kimberly, Knight, Lay, T. G. Law-
ranee, Lincoln, S. P. McCalmont, McCormick, Mead, Pendleton,
Porter, Samson, E. I. Sanford, Shelton, Spencer, Stein. Taylor,
Twombly, Wagner, A. B. Wells, A. F. Welles, E. Wells, Whittlesey,
Wilder, W. Williams, Wood, Worcester, Wright.
1863 Armour, Bedell, Behrisch, Boyd, Buist, Castle, Carr, Copeland,
Cromwell, Curtis, Daggett, Dawes, Farwell, Foster, Gruener,
Hamill, Holmes, H. C. Hopkins, Lough, Nichols, Painter, Peck,
Scott, W. Strong, Tomlinson, Tuttle, Watrous.
1864 Burnam, Eliot, Halsey, Lyman, Mayer, J. O. McCalmont, Pardee,
Patterson, Scharps.
1865 Platt, Speer.
PLACE OF BIRTH
(GRADUATES ONLY)
ALABAMA — Lay.
CALIFORNIA — Castle.
CONNECTICUT— Allen, S. A. Booth, W. F. Booth, Cain, Carr, Chapman,
E. H. Coley, W. B. Coley, Daggett, Eaton, Fosdick, Gruener,
Hine, Holmes, Hovey, D. A. Jones, Judson, Kimberly, Osborn,
Painter, Pardee, Peck, Platt, Potter, Ryder, E. I. Sanford. \\ . H.
Sanford, Seeley, Slu-ltnn. Sherwood, Swift, Tomlinson, Trow-
bridge, Watrous, A. F. Welles, \Y. Williams. Wright.
ILLINOIS — Armour, Botsford, Farwdl. Hamill, E. A. Lawrence, Mayer,
Stein, A. B. Wdls. Wolf, Wolcott.
STATISTICS 427
INDIANA — Behrisch.
KENTUCKY — Bristow, Burnam, McDowell, C. M. Walker.
MAINE — Blodgett, Dodge, Lincoln, Wilder.
MASSACHUSETTS — Ayres, Cheney, Claggett, Dawes, Foster, Lyman. Savi-ry.
Souther, Whittlesey.
MICHIGAN— McMillan, N. G. Williams.
MINN ESOTA — Gale.
M ISSISSIPPI — Xewton.
MISSOURI — Holliday, F. S. Jones, Knight.
NEW HAMPSHIRE — Stevens.
NEW JERSEY— Bedell, Boyd, Tuttle.
NEW YORK — Bowen, Carpenter, Colt, Copeland, Cottle, Cromwell, Curtis,
Doolittle, Eliot, Evarts, Fountain, Halsey, Havens, Holden, H. C.
Hopkins, S. W. Hopkins, Hyndman, Jenks. Jennings, Lambert,
Lough, Makuen, McAndrew, McClellan, McKee, Mead, Merritt,
Patterson, Pratt, Reynolds, Ross, Scharps, Stevenson, F. Strong,
Taylor, Twombly, E. Wells, Wood, Worcester.
NORTH CAROLINA — Dawson.
OHIO — Higbee, Nichols, Pavey, Prouty, Samson.
PENNSYLVANIA — Cohen, Connell, Flowers, Hand, Jessup, T. G. Lavvrance,
J. O. McCalmont, S. P. McCalmont, McCormick, Oakford, Speer,
Spencer, W. Strong, Tompkins, Wagner.
RHODE ISLAND — Doringh.
SOUTH CAROLINA — Buist.
VERMONT — Allis, Phelps.
VIRGINIA — Penniman.
WEST VIRGINIA— Porter.
WISCONSIN — Bigelow.
CANADA — Hughson.
CHINA — Kwai, Pendleton.
INDIA — Scott.
NORWAY — Jernberg.
SCOTLAND — Kinley.
TURKEY — D. Walker.
WEST INDIES — Trowbridge.
PRESENT OCCUPATIONS OF LIVING GRADUATE MEMBERS AND OCCUPA-
TIONS AT TIME OF DEATH OF THOSE DECEASED
Architecture I Manufacturing .... 9
Education 21 Medicine 11
Engineering I Mercantile Business . . .10
Farming and Ranching . . 5 Ministry ..... 7
Finance 10 Science I
Government .... 4 Transportation .... 2
Journalism and Letters . 6 No present occupation . . 6
Law and Judiciary . . -52
428 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
MARRIAGES AND CHILDREN
(GRADUATES ONLY)
Married, 116.
Sons born, 116; of whom 15 have died.
Daughters born, 121 ; of whom 9 have died.
Total number of children, 237 ; of whom 24 have died.
Grandchildren, 5.
DEATHS
(ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY)
XAMES OF FORMER MEMBERS IN ITALICS
Robert Gray Russell August 21, 1881
Charles Miner Boswell December 20, 1881
Thomas Garner Lawrance October 16, 1883
Charles Nichols Peck March 29, 1884
William Anderson May 28, 1884
Edward Ashton Lawrence August 31, 1884
Ernest Buckingham Kimberly May i, 1887
James Martin Dawson 1888
Frederic William von Henig Doringh May 29, 1888
Charles Eugene Carr October 23, 1888
Harry Gilbert Samson January 28, 1890
Albert Clarke Waitc January 12, 1893
Charles Seidles Beck September 2, 1895
Henry Bowman Cromwell May I, 1896
Ward Webster Savery June 19, 1896
George Eugene Cohen October 9, 1896
James Milton Claggett January 7, 1897
George Reddington Blodgett December 4, 1897
Daniel Havens Griffing September 24, 1898
Oliver Throek Morton October 12, 1898
Samuel Albert Booth December 3, 1898
Charles Ansel Watrous January 20, 1899
John Hulctt Arnot May 25, 1899
Charles Edwin Bedell September 28, 1900
Bryce Gray November, 1900
Xelson Ilersh November 19, 1902
Jacob Perkins November 30, 1902
Charles Allen Tuttle June 22, 1905
Daniel Hand Wilco.v August 10, 1906
John Osborn McCalmont November 3, 1906
Poy Woo Chinn November 4, 1906
William Charles McMillan February 21, 1907
STATISTICS
429
George Lockwood Plummcr March j, 1907
Edwin Lewis Porter July 5, 1908
Edward Wells J uly 19, 1908
Henry Caleb Hopkins September 8, 1908
Nelson George Pringlc September 15, 1908
Frederick Connell January i, 1909
Charles Wilson Copeland November 13, 1909
Charles Jessup Jennings April 23, 1910
Henry Woodruff Prouty January 23, 1911
John Henry Stevenson November 23, 1911
Charles Pierpont Phelps January 13, 1912
John- rnninc Gray June 25, 1912
Tong Kzvoh On August 22, 1913
Maxwell Evarts October 7, 1913
Frank Dean Trowbridge November 5, 1913
AWARD OF SCHOLARSHIPS, PRIZES, APPOINTMENTS, members of
teams, officers of organizations and other similar data are given
in chronological sequence in another part of this book. See pp.
1-40.
SENIOR SOCIETIES
Blodgett
Booth, S. A.
Booth, W. F.
Evarts
Foster
SKULL AND BONES
Gruener
Jenks
Jones, F. S.
Lambert
Lawrance
McMillan
Painter
Tompkins
Twombly
Wilder
Armour
Bigelow
Doolittle
Farwell
Halsey
SCROLL AND KEY
Gale
Hopkins, H. C.
Jessup
Lawrence
Makuen
McClellan
McDowell
Oakford
San ford, E. I.
Taylor
WOLF'S HEAD
(See "Our Four Years at Yale," page 25.)
43° HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
JUNIOR SOCIETIES
PSI UPSILON
Allis
Hamill
Armour
Havens
Barbour
Higbee
Bigelow
Hine
Bristow
Holliday
Booth, S. A.
Holmes
Booth, W. F.
Hyndman
Boyd
Jenks
Buist
Jones, F. S.
Carpenter
Judson
Colt
Kerr
Cottle
Knight
Curtis
Lawrance
Daggett
Lawrence
Dawes
Lay
Dodge
Lough
Doolittle
Makuen
Evarts
McClellan
Farwell
McDowell
Gale
Nichols, W. T.
Gruener
Painter
DELTA KAPPA EPSILON
Andrews
Hopkins, S. W.
Ayres
Jernberg
Blodgett
Jessup
Botsford
Jones, D. A.
Bowen
Lambert
Castle
Lincoln
Christian
McCormick
Copeland
McMillan
Cromwell
Merritt
Dawson
Myers
Doringh
Nichols, W. E.
Foster
Oakford
Fountain
Phelps
Halsey
Pratt
Hand
Prouty
Hopkins, H C.
Ross
Pardee
Patterson
Perkins
Pollock
Porter
Reynolds
Sanford, E. I.
Sanford, W. H.
Shelton
Sherwood
Strong, F.
Strong, W. L.
Taylor
Tompkins
Twombly
Walker, C. M.
Walker, D. A.
Watrous
Wilder
Worcester
Samson
Scott
Souther
Spencer
Stevenson
Swift
Trowbridge
Tuttle
Wagner
Waite
Wells, E.
\Yilliams, N. G.
Williams, W.
Wolcott
Wood
Wright
SOPHOMORE SOCIETIES
(See "Our Four Years at Yale," page 7.)
STATISTICS
431
FRESHMAN SOCIETIES
KAPPA SIGMA EPSILON
Andrews Ely Oakford
Armour I -'a r well Pendleton
Asher Gruener Pringle
Behrisch Hamill Ryder
Bentley Hand Sanford, E. I.
Bigelow Holliday Shelton
Bristow Hopkins, S. W. Sherwood
Brown Hyndman Stein
Cain Jenks Strong, F.
Carll Kimberly Strong, W. L.
Carpenter Knight Taylor
Carr Kwai Urquhart
Catherwood Lawrence, E. A. Walker, C. M.
Chidsey Lough Watrous
Chinn McCreery Wells, E.
Christian McDowell Wilcox
Cohen Marston Wilder
Connell Mayer Wolcott
Cooper Nichols, W. E. Wolf
Arnot
Ayres
Bacheler
Baldwin
Bishop
Booth, S. A.
Booth, W. F.
Bowen
Boyd
Blodgett
Buist
Castle
Cheney
Colt
Copeland
Cottle
Cromwell
Curtis
Dawes
Dawson
Doolittle
Doringh
DELTA KAPPA
Eliot
Ely
Evarts
Foster
Fountain
Gray, B.
Gray, J. P.
Halsey
Hendrix
Hersh
Higbee
Holmes
Hopkins, H. C.
Hovey
Lambert
Lawrance, T. G.
Low
Lyman
McCalmont, J. O.
McCalmont, S. P.
McCormick
McMillan
Myers
Nichols, W. T.
Pardee
Peck. C. N.
Penniman
Perkins
Phelps
Plummer
Pollock
Reynolds
Ross
Russell
Samson
Scharps
Speer
Stevenson
Swift
Taylor
Thomson
Tompkins
Tong
Trowbridge
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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Tuttle, C. A.
Tuttle, J. N.
Twombly
Wagner
Allen
Barbour
Boswell
Claggett
Coley, E. H.
Coley, W. B.
Waite
Walker, D. A.
Wilcox
GAMMA NU
Jennings
Holden
Lee
Merritt, E. A.
Osborn
Porter
Williams, X. G.
Wood
Worcester
Peck, V. C.
Seeley
Spencer
Tomlinson
Wells, A. B.
W'hittlesey
DEGREES OTHER THAN B.A.
Allen, LL.B. Yale 1892.
W. F. Booth, LL.B. Yale 1888.
Boyd, M.A. and LL.B. Columbia 1886.
Bristow, LL.B. Columbia 1886.
Burnam, Ph.D. Yale 1886.
Cain, M.A. Yale 1893, LL.D. St. John's Coll. 1903.
Chapman, B.D. Yale 1890.
E. H. Coley, B.D. Berkeley Div. Sch. 1887, S.T.D. Syracuse Univ. 1912.
W. B. Coley, M.D. Harvard 1888, M.A. Yale 1910, M.A. Harvard 1911.
Colt, LL.B. Columbia 1886.
Curtis, LL.B. Columbia 1886.
Daggett, LL.B. Yale 1887.
Eaton, LL.B. Columbia 1886.
Eliot, M.D. Columbia 1887.
Foster, LL.B. Boston Univ. 1886.
Gale, M.A. Harvard 1887.
Gruener, Ph.D. Yale 1896, Litt.D. Washington Coll. 1909.
Higbee, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins 1895.
Holliday, LL.B. Washington Univ. 1886.
S. W. Hopkins, LL.B. Columbia 1886.
Hovey, Ph.D. Yale 1889.
Jernberg, B.D. Chicago Theol. Sem. 1887, D.D. 1910.
D. A. Jones, D.M.D. Harvard 1889, M.D. Yale 1892.
F. S. Jones, M.A. Yale 1896.
Judson, B.D. Yale 1887.
Kinley, Ph.D. Univ. Wisconsin 1893, LL.D. Univ. Illinois 1908.
Lambert, Ph.B. Yale 1885, M.D. Columbia
Lincoln, M.D. Bowdoin 1892.
McAndrew, M.A. Yale 1893.
McDowell, LL.B. Univ. Virginia 1885.
Makuen, M.D. Jefferson Med. Coll. 1889.
STATISTICS 433
Newton, B.D. Union Theol. Sem. 1887.
Osborn, M.D. Columbia 1887.
Painter, Ph.B. Yale 1885, M.D. Columbia 1888.
Pardee, Berkeley Div. Sch. 1887, D.D. Washington Coll. 1913.
Patterson, B.S. Mass. Inst. Tech. 1887, M.A. Yale 1891, Ph.D. Munich 1899.
Pavey, LL.B. Yale 1886, M.L. 1889.
Platt, M.D. N. Y. Homoeop. Med. Coll. 1888.
Prouty, LL.B. Albany 1885.
Reynolds, B.D. Yale 1888.
Ryder, LL.B. Yale 1886.
E. I. Sanford, LL.B. Yale 1887.
Scott, M.B. and C.M. Edinb. 1888, M.D. Edinb. 1893.
Shelton, LL.B. Yale 1886.
Souther, B.S. Worcester Poly. Inst. 1881.
Speer, LL.B. Albany 1887.
Spencer, LL.B. Washington Univ. 1886, M.L. Washington Univ. 1892, A.M.
Westminster Coll. 1892, Ph.D. Westminster Coll. 1896, Hon. M.D.
Missouri Med. Coll. 1896, LL.D. Westminster Coll. 1909.
Stevenson, LL.B. Columbia 1886.
F. Strong, M.D. Yale 1893, Ph.D. Yale 1897, LL.D. Baker Univ. and
Univ. Oregon and Kansas State Agr. Coll. 1909.
Swift, M.A. Yale 1900.
Wagner, LL.B. Yale 1886.
D. Walker, B.D. Yale 1889, M.A. Yale 1890, Ph.D. Univ. Chicago 1895.
A. B. Wells, M.A. Columbia 1886.
E. Wells, M.A. Columbia 1886.
Whittlesey, LL.B. Boston Univ. 1886.
Wilder, Ph.D. Yale 1892.
W. Williams, LL.B. Harvard 1889, M.A. Yale 1906.
Wood, LL.B. and M.A. Columbia 1886.
MEMBERS PRESENT AT REUNIONS
1887 1890 1894 1899 1901 1904 1909
Allen i I
Allis ii ill
Armour I
Asher i
Ayres I I I i
Baldwin I
Bedell i i i
Behrisch i i i I II
Bigelow ii i
Bentley I
Bishop ill ill
Blodgett i i
28
434 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
1887
1890 1894 1899 1901
1904
1909
Booth, S. A.
i
i
Booth, W. F.
i
i
I
I I
Botsford
I
I I
Bowen
i
I
Boyd
i
i
I
I I
Bristow
i
i
I I
I I
Buist
i
I I
I I
Burnam
I
I
Cain
i
I I
I I
Carpenter
I I
I I
Carr
i
Chapman
i
i
I
I I
I I
Cheney
I
Coley, E.
i
i
I
I
I I
Coley, W.
i
I
I
I I
Colt
i
i
I
I I
I I
Copeland
i
Cottle
i
I
I
I
Connell
i
Cromwell
i
i
I
Curtis
i
I
I
I I
Daggett
i
i
I
I I
I I
Dawes
i
I
I
I I
Dodge
i
I
I I
Doolittle
i
I
I
Doringh
i
Eaton
i
i
Eliot
i
i
I
I
I
Evarts
i
I
I
Farwell
i
I
I I
Flowers
I
Foster
i
I
I
I
Fountain
i
I
I I
Gale
i
T
I I
Gruener
i
I
I
I
I I
Halsey
i
I
I
I I
I I
Hamill
I
Hand
i
Havens
I
I
I
I
I
Hine
I
I
I
I
I
Holden
I
I
I I
Holliday
i
I
I
I
I
Holmes
I
Hopkins, H. C
I
I
I
Hopkins, S. W.
i
I I
I I
Hovey
i
I
I
I
I I
STATISTICS
435
1887 l8QO
i8g*
1899 IQOI 1904 IQO<)
Hughson
i
I
I I
Hyndman
I
I I I
Jenks
i i
I
Jennings
I
Jernberg
I
Jessup
I
I I
Jones, D.
I
I I 1
Jones, F.
I
Judson
I
I I I
Kerr
I
I
Knight
I
I
Kwai
T
I
Lambert
I
I
I I I
Lay
I
Lee
I
Lincoln
I
Lough
I I
I
I
Lyman
I I
I I I
McCalmont
I
McAndrew
I
McClellan
I
I
I I
McCormick
I I
I
I I I I
McKee
I I
McMillan
I
Makuen
I I
I
I I t
Mayer
I
I
Mead
I I
I
I II
Merritt
I I
I I
Nichols, W. E.
I I
T
Nichols, W. T.
I
I
j
Oakford
T
I
I I
Osborn
1
I
I
Painter
I
I
I
Pardee
I
I I I
Patterson
I
I I
Pavey
I
I
I
Peck
T
I
I I I I
Penniman
I I
I I
Phelps
I
I
Platt
I
I
Plummer
Pollock
j
Porter
1
I
I I
Potter
I
Pringle
T
I
Reynolds
I
I I
29
436
HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
1887 1890 1894 1899 1901
1904 igog
Ross
i i
Ryder
i
Sanford, E. I.
i i
I
Sanford, W. H.
Savery
Sharps
i
Scott
Seeley
i i i
I I
Shelton
i i i
I I
Sherwood
i
Souther
i
I I
Speer
iii
I
Spencer
i
I
Stevens
i
Stevenson
i i
Strong, F.
i
I
Strong, W.
i i i i
I I
Swift
i i
I
Swezey
i
Taylor
i i i i
I I
Thomson
I
Tomlinson
i
I
Tompkins
i i
I I
Trowbridge
i i i i i
I I
Tuttle
i i
I
Twombly
i i i
I I
Waite
i
Wagner
i i
I I
Walker
i i
Watrous
i i
Welles, A. F.
iii i
Wells, A. B.
i
Wells, E.
i
I
Whittlesey
i i
Wilder
i i i
Williams, X. G.
Williams, W.
i i i i i
I
Wolcott
i
Wolf
I
Wood
i i i i i
I
Worcester
i i i
I
Wright
ii ii
I
CLASS GIFTS TO UNIVERSITY 437
CLASS GIFTS TO UNIVERSITY
The Alumni University Fund had its origin in a resolution of
the Executive Committee of the Yale Alumni Association of
New York City, passed May 16, 1890.
In March, 1891, the secretary of the class sent a circular to our
members, calling their attention to the nature and purpose of
the fund, and calling for subscriptions to be turned over each
year by the secretary in the name of the class without disclosing
the names of donors and the amounts individually contributed.
A few years later the somewhat independent class plan thus
established was abandoned and we fell into line with the other
classes in support of the fund in accordance with the plan which
has become familiar to all, since which time the secretary has
been acting as class agent.
Our contributions 1891 to 1913 (exclusive of special reunion
gifts) have amounted to $12,086.11. In 1891, $138 was received
from eleven men; in 1913, $867.50 from forty-six men.
In connection with our twentieth-year reunion a special gift
to the fund was made, of $2,890.24.
The total of our gifts to this fund, therefore, amounts to
$14,976.35.
At the time of the Bicentennial, members of our class gave to
the fund raised for that occasion a total of $10,964.
At the time of our twenty-fifth-year reunion a special fund
was raised, from which the expenses of the reunion were met,
an appropriation for the publication of this record and for gen-
eral expenses amounting to $2,283.15 was made, a further
appropriation made of $610.74 to be held in reserve to apply for
benefit of "Sons of '84" until the fund yet to be referred to should
bear income, and the balance was in accordance with vote of the
class paid to the University on the terms stated in the following
paper :
CLASS OF '84
GIFT OF REUNION FUND
The undersigned, Leonard M. Daggett, Gustav Gruener and Frederick
S. Jones, duly appointed by the Class of '84 at its twenty-fifth year
reunion held June 29th, 1909, at New Haven, as will appear by a copy
of the resolution of the class passed on said date and hereto annexed,
hereby transfer to Yale University, on behalf of the Class of '84, sixteen
438
HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
thousand dollars ($16,000) and hereby, in pursuance of the powers given
to them by said resolution, define the conditions upon which said fund
shall be held and administered, as follows, namely :
1. The principal shall be kept properly invested, shall be added to
the academic funds, and no part thereof shall be expended.
2. At the request of the undersigned and their successors and suc-
cessor as committee, hereinafter called the "Committee," which request
shall be in writing, addressed to the treasurer of the University, said
University shall deliver to said Committee all or any part of the income
accruing in any academic year, provided such request shall have been
made prior to the expiration of such year, and all income so received by
the Committee shall be distributed by it amongst any sons of members
of the Academic Class of '84, including both graduate and non-graduate
members, prosecuting their studies in any department of the University, in
such amounts or proportions as to such Committee shall seem proper.
3. All income other than that so delivered to the Committee shall
belong to Yale University and be by it used solely for the benefit of the
Academic Department.
4. The money so distributed to any son of '84 shall be regarded as
loaned to him, and he shall, as soon as may be after leaving college,
repay it to the University, to be by it added to the principal sum herein-
before given.
5. The term Committee as hereinbefore used shall include the three
members hereinbefore mentioned, their survivors or survivor ; and upon
the death of all of them the person for the time holding the office of
Dean of the Academic Faculty shall constitute said Committee until a new
one shall be appointed by the class as hereinafter provided. At any
regular business meeting of the class held at any five-year reunion at
New Haven, the members of the class then present shall have power
to change the personnel of said Committee or to fill any vacancies occur-
ring through death of any of the three persons hereinbefore appointed
or of any one or more of their successors, written notice of any such
changes to be given forthwith to Yale University.
New Haven, Conn., November ist, 1909.
LEONARD M. DAGGETT
GUSTAV GRUENER
FRED'K S. JONES
On December 14, 1909, the following votes were passed b]
the Corporation :
"Voted, to accept with thanks the $16,000 reunion gift of the Class oi
1884 and to administer it for the next five years on the terms outlined
by the Class.
Voted, to suggest to the Committee having this fund in charge that
the Class at its next reunion in New Haven reconsider the question of the
best use of this fund.
Voted, that pending such final adjustment the fund be carried as a
special account on the Treasurer's books."
LOCALITY INDEX
439
LOCALITY INDEX
Arizona
Gruener
Elgin
Spring tfvUU
Jones, D.
Botsford
Pratt
Jones, F.
Nichols, W. E.
Urbana
California
Potter
Kinley
Anaheim
New London
Kansas
Buell
Hand
Lawrence
Berkeley
Noni'tch
A 11 •
Strong, T.
Allis
Wilder
San Francisco
Pendleton
Stamford
Fosdick
Maine
Bath
Talcottville
Lincoln
Colorado
Bacheler
Maryland
Denver
Cooper
Winstcd
Judson
Chestertown
Cain
Connecticut
Bridgeport
Woodstock
Bowen
Cumberland
Lough
Bishop
Osborn
I
Dist. of Columbia Massachusetts
Peck
Washington
Auburndale
Seeley
Kwai
Walker, D.
Shelton
Boston
Collinsville
Illinois
Asher
Chidsey
Chicago
Foster
Hartford
Wright
Lyme
Chapman
Andrews
Bigelow
Farwell
Hamill
Jernberg
Stevens
Whittlesey
Brooklinc
Thomson
Knight
Dedhinn
Naugatuck
Mayer
Hine
Pardee
Pollock
New Haven
Stein
Tomlinson
Pittsfield
Dawes
Ailing
Walker, C. M.
Baldwin
Wells, A. B.
Springfield
Daggett
Wolf
Allen
44° HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Soitthbridge
Shrewsbury
Holden
Cheney
Swezey
Hopkins
Hovey
Webster
New Mexico
Kerr
Brown
Las Vegas
Lambert
Lee
Michigan
Welles, A. F.
Lyman
Ann Arbor
New York
McCreery
McKee
Patterson
Albany
Painter
Hughson
Pavey
Minnesota
Minneapolis
Astoria
Reynolds
Sanford, E. I.
Booth
Platt
Sanford, W. H.
Gale
Binghaniton
Scharps
~D *^f<
Speer
Mississippi
KOSS
Brooklyn
Taylor
Turtle
Seminary
Behrisch
Twombly
Newton
Bentley
Wagner
Williams, W.
Missouri
Buffalo
Wood
St. Louis
Cottle
Potsdam
Holliday
Canandaigna
Merritt
Spencer
Christian
Rochester
New Hampshire
Concord
Elmira
Tompkins
Havens
Williams, N. G.
Lay
Mamaroncck
Rye
Manchester
McAndrew
Hendrix
Nichols, W. T.
Newburgh
Scarsdale
Hyndman
Ayres
New Jersey
New Rochellc
Fountain
Newark
Sherwood
Shekomeko
Carll
Carpenter
New Brunswick
New York
Armour
Utica
Dodge
Boyd
Coley, E. H.
Old Bridge
Bristow
Doolittle
Strong, W.
Coley, W. B.
Colt
North Carolina
Orange
Eliot
Eaton
Ely
Greensboro
Mead
Halsey
Urquhart
LOCALITY INDEX
441
Ohio
Lancaster
Lynchburg
Cincinnati
Ryder
McDowell
Burnam
Philadelphia
McLean
Worcester
Catherwood
Scott
Clci'chiud
Makuen
Higbee
Penniman
Wisconsin
Souther
Pittsburgh
Oconomowoc
Wolcott
Flowers
Marston
Columbus
Scranton
Holmes
Jessup
Alaska
Oakford
Castle
Pennsylvania
China
Franklin
South Carolina
Low
McCalmont
Charleston
Buist
England
German town
McClellan
Myers
Virginia
Japan
Harrisburg
Highland Springs
Jenks
McCormick
Barbour
Swift
442 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
ADDRESS LIST
Where two addresses are given, the first is the residence and the sec-
ond the business address.
F. Sturges Allen, 83 St. James Ave., Springfield, Mass.
G. & C. Merriam Co., Myrick Bldg., Springfield.
Wallace S. Allis, 14 Elm Ave., Norwich Town, Conn.
Law. 91 Alain St., Norwich.
Allison V. Armour, 83 Stockton St., Princeton, N. J.
Care of N. W. Brooks, 10 West 43d St., New York City.
Frank O. Ayres, Scarsdale, N. Y.
Vice President of Metropolitan Life Ins. Co., I Madison Ave., New
York City.
Gabriel I. Behrisch, 30 Sidney PL, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Law. Title Guarantee & Trust Co., 175 Remsen St.
Nelson P. Bigelow, Lake Forest, 111.
Lumber. Bigelow Bros. & Walker Co., 5 N. LaSalle St., Chicago.
Wilbur F. Booth, 69 South nth St., Minneapolis, Minn.
Judge. Court House.
Carl E. Botsford, 472 Division St., Elgin, 111.
Law. Botsford, Wayne & Botsford, 7-9 Cook Block.
Franklin D. Bowen, Woodstock, Conn.
Robert M. Boyd, Jr., 96 Prospect Ave., Montclair, N. J.
Law. 203 Broadway, New York City.
William B. Bristow, 149 West 57th St., New York City.
Law. 2 Rector St.
Henry Buist, 37 King St., Charleston, S. C.
Lawi Buist & Buist, 30 Broad St.
John M. Burnam, 3411 Clifton Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio.
Prof, of Latin. University of Cincinnati.
James W. Cain, Chestertown, Md.
President. Washington College.
Willson Carpenter, Shekomeko, N. Y.
Forming.
Neville H. Castle, Nome, Alaska (P. O. Box 176),
Law.
Rev. Edward M. Chapman, Old Lyme, Conn. (P. O. Lyme).
George M. Cheney, 8 Edwards St., Southbridge, Mass.
Treas. Litchfield Shuttle Co.
Rev. Edward H. Coley, 1103 Howard Ave., Utica, N. Y.
ADDRESS LIST 443
William B. Coley, M.D., 521 Park Ave.. Now York City.
40 East 41 st St.
Harris D. Colt, 515 Park Ave.. New V«>rk City.
Law. Curtis, Mallet-Prevost & Colt, 30 Broad St.
Edmund P. Cottle, iS; Xorth St., Buffalo, N. Y.
/.(/a-. 920 Ellicott Sq.
Leonard M. Daggett, 60 Wall St., New Haven, Conn.
Law. Bristol & W'hite, 42 Church St.
Henry L. Dawes, 107 South St., Pittsfield, Mass.
Law.
Fred H. Dodge, 116 Hamilton St., New Brunswick, N. J.
Rutgers College.
Julius T. A. Doolittle, 257 Genesee St., Utica, N. Y.
Law. Utica City National Bank Bldg.
Charles Edwin Eaton, 209 Park Ave., Orange, N. J.
Ellsworth Eliot, Jr., M.D., 34 East 67th St., New York City.
Arthur L. Farwell, Lake Forest, 111.
The John V. Farwell Co., 102 S. Market St., Chicago.
George W. Flowers, 737 Pennsylvania Ave., Irwin, Pa.
Law. 719 Frick Bldg., Pittsburgh, Pa.
William Fosdick, Stamford, Conn.
Reginald Foster, 48 The Fenway, Boston, Mass.
Law. Foster & Turner, 87 Milk St.
Gerard Fountain, Scarsdale, N. Y.
Architect. 103 Park Ave.
Edward C. Gale, 2115 Stevens Ave., Minneapolis, Minn.
Law. Snyder & Gale, Security Bank Bldg.
Gustav Gruener, 146 Lawrance Hall, New Haven, Conn.
Professor. Yale University.
John R. Halsey, 141 Clinton Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Law. Halsey, Kiernan & O'Keeffe, 141 Broadway, New York City.
Robert W. Hamill, Clarendon, 111.
The Lyon Co., 234 La Salle St., Chicago.
Horace E. Hand, Box 146, Anaheim, Cal.
James S. Havens, 490 East Ave., Rochester, N. Y.
Law. Havens & Havens, 1015 Insurance Bldg.
Howard H. Higbee, 2121 E. 96th St., Cleveland, Ohio.
Roderick W. Hine, 61 Dwight St., Dedham, Mass.
Superintendent of Schools.
John Holden, 8 Stephenson Blvd., New Rochelle, N. Y.
Law. 141 Broadway, New York City.
Joseph G. Holliday, 5137 Washington Ave., St. Louis, Mo.
Law'. 906 La Salle Bldg.
444 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Charles E. Holmes, Outlook Bldg., Columbus, Ohio.
District Manager. Mutual Life Ins. Co. of New York.
Sidney Wright Hopkins, Jr., 321 West 92d St., New York City.
Law. American Telephone & Telegraph Co., 15 Dey St.
Edmund Otis Hovey, 115 West 84th St., New York City.
Curator of Geol. Dept. Amer. Museum Xat. Hist., //th St., & Cen-
tral Park, West.
Frank C. Hughson, Loudonville, Albany Co., X. Y.
Lumber. Hughson & Co., I Lumber District, Albany, X. Y.
William H. Hyndman, 8 Liberty St., Xewburgh, X. Y.
Law. 56 Second St.
Paul E. Jenks, 3566 Negishimachi, Yokohama, Japan.
Secretary. Publishing Office of the London Times, 70 Yamashitacho.
Rev. Reinert A. Jernberg, 2027 Fowler St., Chicago, 111.
Professor. Chicago Theological Seminary, 20 X. Ashland Blvd.
William H. Jessup, 815 Madison Ave., Scranton, Pa.
Law. 423-4 Conn ell Bldg.
Daniel A. Jones, 629 Chapel St., Xew Haven, Conn.
Dentist. 746 Chapel St.
Frederick S. Jones, 671 Prospect St., New Haven, Conn.
Dean of Yale College, Connecticut Hall.
Rev. George W. Judson, 101 North Main St., Winsted, Conn.
David Kinley, 1101 West Oregon St., Urbana, 111.
Professor. University of Illinois.
Newell C. Knight, 1326 Asbury Ave., Evanston, 111.
Bond Broker. 308 New York Life Bldg., Chicago.
Yung Kwai, Watkins Ave., Bethesda, Md.
First Secretary of Chinese Legation. 2001 igth St., Washington, D. C
Alexander Lambert, M.D., 43 East 72d St., New York City.
Beirne Lay, St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H.
Teacher.
James Otis Lincoln, M.D., 330 Front St., Bath, Maine.
40 Front St.
Ernest St. George Lough, 51 Washington St., Cumberland, Md.
rianter. Trois Rivieres, Guadeloupe, F. W. I.
Robert H. Lyman, 204 West 7oth St., New York City.
Journalist. The World, Park Row.
George J. Me Andrew, 134 Prospect Ave., Mamaroneck, N. Y.
Superintendent of Schools.
Samuel P. McCalmont, 1532 Liberty St., Franklin, Pa.
Edwin McClellan, Cambridge, N. Y.
Foster-McClellan Co., 8 Wells St., Oxford St.. London, England.
ADDRESS LIST 445
Henry McCormick, Jr., 101 N. Front St., Harrisburg, Pa.
Cameron Bldg., 2d & Walnut sts.
Henry C. McDowell, 1314 Clay St., Lynchburg, Va.
Judge. U. S. Court, Government Bldg.
Oliver McKee, Whitredge PI., Summit, N. J.
Manager Encyclopedia Britannica Co., 35 West 32d St., Xew York
City.
G. Hudson Makuen, M.D., 1301 Potter St., Chester, Pa.
1627 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Isaac H. Mayer, 4417 Drexel Blvd., Chicago, 111.
Law. Mayer, Meyer, Austrian & Platt, 208 La Salle St.
Charles A. Mead, 425 William St., East Orange, N. J.
Head Master. Carteret Academy, 291 Essex Ave.
Edwin A. Merritt, Jr., Potsdam, N. Y.
Law and Public Service.
Alexander Newton, Seminary, Miss.
Teacher.
William T. Nichols, 141 Russell St., Manchester, N. H.
Literary Work. 30 Opera Block.
James W. Oakford, Waverly, Pa.
Law. Board of Trade Bldg., Scranton, Pa,
George W. Osborn, M.D., 888 Broad St., Bridgeport, Conn.
Henry McM. Painter, M.D., 62 West 55th St., New York City.
Rev. Charles L. Pardee, St. Michael's Rectory, Naugatuck, Conn.
George W. Patterson, 2101 Hill St., Ann Arbor, Mich.
Professor. University of Michigan.
Frank D. Pavey, 829 Park Ave., New York City.
Law. 32 Nassau St.
Vincent C. Peck, 836 Fairfield Ave., Bridgeport, Conn.
Head Master. The University School.
Benjamin H. Pendleton, 1308 Webster St., Oakland, Cal.
Merchant. 40 Drumm St., San Francisco.
James H. Penniman, 4326 Sansom St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Literary Work.
Charles N. Platt, M.D., 152 Franklin St., Astoria, N. Y.
Rev. Edward W. Potter, 723 Elm St., New Haven, Conn.
Albert H. Pratt Springerville, Arizona.
Agriculture. Summer residence, Rochester, Mass.
James B. Reynolds, 151 Central Park West, New York City.
Law. 105 West 4Oth St.
Clinton Ross, Binghamton, N. Y.
Henry J. Ryder, 620 N. Duke St., Lancaster, Pa.
Manufacturer. Cor. Prince & Lemon Sts.
446
HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Edward I. Sanford, University Club, New York City.
Munro et cie, Paris. (May to Nov.) Brown, Shipley & Co., London.
William H. Sanford, Yale Club, New York City.
Xewtown, Conn.
Benjamin Scharps, 340 West 86th St., New York City.
Law. Scharps & Scharps, 32 Broadway.
James Foster Scott, M.D., McLean, Fairfax Co., Va.
Charles S. Seeley, 181 Stratfield Road, Bridgeport, Conn.
Stenographer. 2084 Third Ave., New York City.
Henry T. Shelton, 241 Courtland St., Bridgeport, Conn.
Law. Sanford Bldg.
Oliver T. Sherwood, New Rochelle, N. Y.
John I. Souther, 1523 East Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio.
William McM. Speer, Sparkill, N. Y.
Law. 233 Broadway, New York City.
Selden P. Spencer, 4457 Washington Blvd., St. Louis, Mo.
Law. Spencer & Donnell, 300 Broadway.
Sydney Stein, 5522 East End Ave., Chicago, 111.
Law. Stein, Meyer, & Stein, First National Bank Bldg.
Frank B. Stevens, 19 Birch Hill Road, Newtonville, Mass.
45 Milk St., Boston, Mass.
Frank Strong, 1345 Louisiana St., Lawrence, Kans.
Chancellor of University of Kansas.
William L. Strong, 93 College Ave., New Brunswick, N. J.
Manufacturer. Old Bridge, N. J.
John T. Swift, 7 Fujimi-cho, Azabu, Tokio, Japan.
Professor. Imperial University.
William A. Taylor, 18 East 66th St., New York City.
Taylor, Clapp & Co., 109 Worth St.
Joseph Tomlinson, 1232 N. State St., Chicago, 111.
Gen. Mgr. Cox Multi-Mailer Co., 552 West Harrison St.
Ray Tompkins, 409 North Main St., Elmira, N. Y.
Chemung Canal Trust Co., 413 & 415 East Water St.
Joseph N. Tuttle, 349 Main St., Madison, N. J.
Law. 154 Nassau St., New York City.
Henry B. Twombly, Hobart Ave., Summit, N. J.
Law. Putney, Twombly & Putney, 2 Rector St., New York City.
Henry R. Wagner, The Engineers Club, 32 West 4Oth St., New York City.
American Smelting & Refining Co., 165 Broadway.
Charles M. Walker, 1128 N. La Salle St., Chicago, 111.
Judge. Circuit Court, Cook Co., 111., Court House.
Rev. Dean A. Walker, 105 Hancock St., Auburndale, Mass.
Albert F. Welles, The Mesa, Las Vegas, N. Mex.
ADDRESS LIST 447
Arthur B. Wells, 1334 N. State St., Chicago, 111.
Law. Wells & Blakeley, 19 S. La Salle St.
Henry L. Whittlesey, 10 Regent St., West Newton, Mass.
Law. Whittlesey & Wales, 743 Tremont Bldg., Boston.
Amos Parker Wilder, 2350 Prospect St., Berkeley, Cal.
Nathan G. Williams, 15 Buckingham St., Rochester, N. Y.
Pfaudler Co., 217 Cutler Bldg.
William Williams, University Club, I West 54th St., New York City.
Commissioner of Water Supply, Gas & Electricity, Municipal Bldg.
Herbert W. Wolcott, 5005 Carnegie Ave., Cleveland, Ohio.
Law. 822 Williamson Bldg.
Henry M. Wolf, 3914 Ellis Ave., Chicago, 111.
Law. Judah, Willard, Wolf & Reichmann, 134 S. La Salle St.
Joseph Wood, Sayville, Long Island, N. Y.
Law. 141 Broadway, New York City.
Harry A. Worcester, 1935 Madison Road, Cincinnati, Ohio.
C. C. C. & St. L. R. R. Offices.
Edward A. Wright, 17 Huntington St., Hartford, Conn.
State Civil Service Commissioner, Room 55 State Capitol.
FORMER MEMBERS
Arthur N. Ailing, M.D., 257 Church St., New Haven, Conn.
Martin Andrews, 5700 Winthrop Ave., Chicago, 111.
29 S. La Salle St.
Abraham Asher, 1481 Beacon St., Brookline, Mass.
Lehrburger & Asher, 48 Chauncy St., Boston.
Rev. Francis P. Bacheler, Talcottville, Conn.
Louis W. Baldwin, 62 Garden St., New Haven, Conn.
P. O. Box 826.
Frederick McL. Barbour, Highland Springs, Henrico Co., Va.
W. H. Bentley, 435 East Fourth St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Davis Oil Co., 95 Ninth St.
Henry A. Bishop, 179 Washington Ave., Bridgeport, Conn.
P. O. Box 296.
Harrison C. Brown, Webster, Mass.
Colin S. Buell, 52 Vauxhall St., New London, Conn.
Williams Memorial Institute, 190 Broad St.
Wilson Catherwood, 1708 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Charles T. Carll, 74 Oakland Ave., Bloomfield, N. J.
Cleveland Varnish Co., 115 Chestnut St., Newark, N. J.
Clinton M. Chidsey, Collinsville, Conn.
448 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1884, YALE COLLEGE
Frank A. Christian, 105 Hubbell St., Canandaigua, X. Y.
Christian & Thompson, 132 Main St., S.
\Yilliam H. Cooper, 3774 Lowell Blvd., Denver, Colo.
3494 West 38th Ave.
Albert H. Ely, M.D., 47 West 56th St., New York City.
Wilbur F. Hendrix, Milton Road, Rye, N. Y.
Rye National Bank.
Robert Bage Kerr, 74 Broadway, New York City.
Broker. Kerr & Co.
Yan Phou Lee, Wood Ridge, N. J.
Lee & Co., 229 Park Row, New York City.
Kia Chau Low, Low's Gardens, To Po Bridge, Western Suburbs, Canton,
China.
Robert S. McCreery, Wyckoff, N. J.
The James McCreery Realty Corp., 112 West 42d St., New York
City.
William L. Marston, Oconomowoc, Wis.
Manufacturer.
John A. Myers, 5343 Green St., Germantown, Pa.
William E. Nichols, 236 Crown St., New Haven, Conn.
^Etna Life Ins. Co., 129 Church St.
Edward L. Pollock, 716 Rush St., Chicago, 111.
Nat. Graphite Lubricator Co., Peoples Gas Bldg.
Rev. Frederick P. Swezey, Christ Church Rectory, Shrewsbury, N. J.
Arthur C. Thomson, 23 Sumner Road, Brookline, Mass.
George Urquhart, Sutherlin, Va.
Box 472, Greensboro, N. C.
ADDRESSES OF FAMILIES OF DECEASED MEMBERS
Bedell— Mrs. Charles E. Bedell, 26 James St., Montclair. N. J.
Blodgett— Mrs. George R. Blodgett, 145 Avenue B., New York City.
Evarts — Mrs. Maxwell Evarts, Windsor, Vt.
Cohen— Mrs. Lillian (Cohen) Feil, 678 Humboldt St., Denver, Colo.
Gray. J. P. — Miss Georgiana M. Gray, Care Dr. W. W. Gray. Bridgeport,
Conn.
Griffing — Mrs. Daniel H. Griffing, Riverhead, Long Island.
Hopkins— Mrs. Henry C. Hopkins, Bedford Hills, Mt. Kisco, P. O., N. Y.
Jennings — Mrs. Charles J. Jennings, 413 Hillside Ave., Jamaica. L. I.
McMillan — James Thayer McMillan, Union Trust Bldg., Detroit, Mich.
Phelps— Mrs. Charles P. Phclps. 47-' West End Ave.. Xew York City.
ADDRESS LIST 449
Porter— Mrs. Edwin L. Porter, Care Morgan Porter, Goodyear Rubber
Co., Akron, Ohio.
Plummcr— Mrs. James R. Reynolds, 408 East Church St., Elmira, N. Y.
Pringle— Mrs. Nelson Pringle, 245 College Ave., Kingston, Pa.
Stevenson — Mrs. John H. Stevenson, 520 Nostrand Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Trowbridge — Mrs. Frank D. Trowbridge, 230 Church St., New Haven,
Conn.
Tuttle— Mrs. Charles A. Tuttle, 1044 Chapel St., New Haven, Conn.
Wells— Miss Anna H. Wells, Peekskill, N. Y.
Wilcox— Mrs. Earnest Hill, 562 Delaware Ave., Buffalo, N. Y.
ADDENDA
Behrisch. A daughter, Helen Theodora, was born April 18, 1914.
Booth. W. F. Booth appointed by President and confirmed by Senate
May, 1914, a judge of the United States District Court for District of
Minnesota.
W. B. Coley. Horace Bradley Coley (father) died March i, 1913.
Recent publications of Coley are
"Injury as a Causative Factor in Cancer." Annals of Surgery, Decem-
ber. 1910.
"A Report of Recent Cases of Inoperable Sarcoma Treated with
Mixed Toxins of Erysipelas and Bacillus Prodigiosus." Surgery, Gyne-
cology & Obstetrics, August, 1911.
"Le Traitement conservateur du Sarcome des os Longs." Extrait des
Comptes Rendus du 24 Congres de 1'Association Francaise de Chir., 1911.
"Bullet Wound of the Spinal Cord Between the First and Second
Dorsal Vertebrae; Laminectomy ; Removal of the Bullet; Complete
Recovery." Annals of Surgery, July, 1912.
"Myositis Ossificans Traumatica." Annals of Surgery, March, 1913.
"Contribution to the Study of Sarcoma of the Femur." Annals of
Surgery, July. 1913.
Lambert. Add to publications
"The Treatment of Narcotic Addiction/' which appeared <m the
Journal of the American Medical Association, 1913.
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